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• Illinois House enacts FY 2018 budget, ending record impasse

  06-07-2017 23:58 via yahoo.com
  
  By Karen Pierog and Dave McKinneyCHICAGO (Reuters) - Illinois' first full-year budget since 2015 became law on Thursday after the House of Representatives overrode the governor's vetoes of a $36 billion fiscal 2018 spending plan and $5 billion tax hike.The Democratic-controlled House was able to muster enough bipartisan votes to enact a trio of budget and revenue bills into law over Republican Governor Bruce Rauner's objection.The House's action, which was delayed by a hazardous material situati
  
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• The Latest: Closing arguments at Arpaio's trial completed

  06-07-2017 23:51 via yahoo.com
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The Latest on former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio's criminal trial (all times local):
  
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• A step-by-step guide to utterly botching a simple handshake photo op, by Donald Trump and Angela Merkel

  06-07-2017 23:45 via yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel are two of the most powerful human beings on the planet. Their influence alone has the potential to topple economies, start and end wars — to alter the very course of our species' existence. Anyway, the two figures met in Hamburg ahead of the G20 summit on July 6 and engaged in one of the worst handshake photo ops I've ever seen. SEE ALSO: 8 executive orders Trump would sign if an aide forwarded him chain letters from my grandmothe
  
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• IS on 'last legs' in Mosul: Canadian general

  06-07-2017 23:30 via yahoo.com
  
  The Islamic State group is on the verge of defeat in its former Iraqi stronghold of Mosul, where the jihadists will be fully ousted by next week, a coalition general said Thursday.Canadian Brigadier General Dave Anderson, who oversees the training of local forces for the US-led coalition, said Iraqi security forces have pushed IS into a final, small pocket of Mosul's Old City by the Tigris River."Iraq forces are within sight of the Tigris River from the west, and are facing an enemy on its absol
  
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• United Apologizes After Toddler Bumped From Flight Has to Sit on Mom's Lap for 3-Hour Journey

  06-07-2017 23:26 via yahoo.com
  
  She didn't want to speak out in fear of getting knocked out like Dr. David Dao on a flight in April.
  
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• Trump weighs 'severe' response to N. Korea ICBM test

  06-07-2017 23:24 via yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump said Thursday he was considering a "pretty severe" response to North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile test, even as his defense secretary said the United States is still seeking a diplomatic solution to the standoff.International divisions on how to contain the North Korean threat continued to sharpen, meanwhile, as Russia blocked a UN Security Council statement calling for fresh sanctions and China appealed for a scaling down of rhetoric.Washington has led the p
  
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• Activists challenge 'unsafe' US-Canada pact that prompts refugees to flee by foot

  06-07-2017 23:23 via yahoo.com
  
  Refugee advocates are taking legal action in the hope of striking down a longstanding pact between Canada and the US that has prompted thousands of asylum seekers to brave freezing temperatures, fields of waist-deep snow and icy rivers to cross into Canada by foot.Since the start of the year, more than 3,000 people in the US – many of whom are anxiously fleeing Donald Trump’s crackdown on immigrants – have entered Canada at remote, unguarded locations along the border. By doing
  
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• Trump administration sued by 18 U.S. states over student loan relief

  06-07-2017 23:22 via yahoo.com
  
  By Lisa LambertWASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than one-third of U.S. states on Thursday sued the U.S. Education Department and Secretary Betsy DeVos over the recent suspension of rules that would have swiftly canceled the student-loan debt of people defrauded by Corinthian Colleges Inc and other for-profit schools.Last month DeVos pressed pause on the rules, due to take effect on July 1, saying they needed to be reset.Massachusetts, 17 other states and the District of Columbia said in a filing in U
  
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• Twitter schools Rick Perry on basic economics after he speaks at a coal plant

  06-07-2017 23:15 via yahoo.com
  
  If Econ 101 taught us anything, it's that supply follows demand. But U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry interpreted the basic principle a little differently while at a coal plant in West Virginia Thursday. SEE ALSO: Rick Perry denies the reality that CO2 is the main climate change driver, and here we go again According toMarket Intelligence energy reporter Taylor Kuykendall, Perry offered up some wisdom at a tour of the Longview Power Plant. "Here's a little economics lesson: supply and demand.
  
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• Qualcomm goes nuclear, seeks total ban on iPhone imports

  06-07-2017 23:14 via yahoo.com
  
  Qualcomm has ratcheted its legal war with Apple up way past 11. The chipmaker has asked the US International Trade Commission to ban imports of some iPhone and iPad models from the US, on the grounds that they violate six Qualcomm patents.
  A related lawsuit was also filed in a California court Thursday seeking monetary damages, in addition to the import ban.Qualcomm is specifically seeking a ban on an Apple products that use baseband modems -- the chips that connect to cell networks -- that are
  
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• Sen. Moran gets tough health care questions in Trump country

  06-07-2017 23:08 via yahoo.com
  
  PALCO, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran faced tough questions Thursday at a town hall meeting in his home county packed with critics of Republican efforts to overhaul health care, showing that even a tiny town deep in Trump territory in a Republican state isn't isolated from the political discontent in Washington.
  
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• Pentagon: A War Against North Korea Would Be 'Catastrophic'

  06-07-2017 23:08 via yahoo.com
  
  Even a so-called surgical strike
  
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• Shirtless Man Threatens to Kill Nun Praying in Catholic Church: Cops

  06-07-2017 22:56 via yahoo.com
  
  The man was wearing only khaki shorts when he cornered the frightened nun.
  
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• Puppy Found With Heartbreaking Letter in Airport Bathroom: 'My Ex-Boyfriend Kicked My Dog'

  06-07-2017 22:41 via yahoo.com
  
  3-month-old Chewy was found in a bag with a handwritten note about the owner's domestic abuse in a women's restroom in a Las Vegas Airport.
  
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• 'I Didn't Expect Donald Trump to Win.' Republican Senator Explains the Struggle Over Health Care Bill

  06-07-2017 22:41 via yahoo.com
  
  "We didn’t expect to be in this situation"
  
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• No Room at the Inn for President Trump as All Luxury Hotels in Hamburg Are Booked

  06-07-2017 22:40 via yahoo.com
  
  The president is in town for the G20 Summit.
  
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• Casket switch behind discovery of infant's partial remains

  06-07-2017 22:38 via yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Police have solved part of the mystery of the child's casket found on a Philadelphia sidewalk: A funeral home worker dumped it there, apparently unaware it contained some of the remains of an infant who had been transferred to another coffin for a funeral in New Jersey.
  
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• How Opioid Prescriptions Have Changed Recently: New Report

  06-07-2017 22:33 via yahoo.com
  
  Too many Americans are prescribed too many opioids for too long, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).Though the rates of doctors prescribing opioids have decreased since 2010, they still remained high in 2015 in the U.S., according to the report.In addition, the amount of opioids prescribed to Americans remained high in 2015, though that also decreased since its peak in 2010.
  
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• Summer's here: Time for people to get weird about sleeveless dresses in Congress

  06-07-2017 22:22 via yahoo.com
  
  In the brutal throes of the Washington, D.C. summer, female reporters are reportedly getting barred from the Speaker's lobby for — wait for it — wearing sleeveless dresses. According to a CBS News report, one "young, female" reporter even tried to craft makeshift sleeves out of notebook paper to avoid being ejected. (It didn't work.) On Twitter, CQ Roll Call reporter Kellie Mejdrich said she was told she'd be removed from the Speaker's lobby if she wore a sleeveless dress again. SEE
  
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• Leading Amelia Earhart Researcher Blasts New Evidence: 'This Photo Is Absurd'

  06-07-2017 22:22 via yahoo.com
  
  Mike Campbell claims nobody in the newly-revealed photo remotely resembles the legendary aviator.
  
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• Virginia governor will not halt inmate's execution

  06-07-2017 22:21 via yahoo.com
  
  Morva's death sentence, for killing an unarmed security guard and a sheriff's deputy in a 2006 escape from custody, hastriggered renewed debate about capital punishment for the mentally ill.Governor Terry McAuliffe said examinations by prison doctors since Morva's 2008 conviction had shown no sign that hesuffered from severe mental illness or delusional disorder, an ailment akin to schizophrenia, as his lawyers have argued.
  
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• Woman Arrested After Leaving Kids in Hot Car as Temperatures Reached Above 100 Degrees: Cops

  06-07-2017 22:19 via yahoo.com
  
  The children - a 3-year-old girl, two 2-year-old girls and a 1-year-old boy - were in the back seat of the car, police said.
  
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• Blood in the Water: Drone Video Films Whale-Hunting Orcas

  06-07-2017 22:15 via yahoo.com
  
  A pod of orcas recently pursued and killed a minke whale off the coast of Kamchatka, Russia, and a member of a marine expedition captured the bloody scene on video from above, using a drone.Researchers with the Far East Russia Orca Project (FEROP) spotted the whale-hunting orcas while on a scientific expedition in Avacha Gulf, southeast of Kamchatka.The scientists spied a group of orcas in pursuit of a minke whale — an unusual sight, because orcas that hunt mammals are few in number and ar
  
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• 2016 Nissan Titan XD Diesel

  06-07-2017 22:15 via yahoo.com
  
  The big rig shakes our confidence.
  
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• Woman pleads guilty to killing social worker, 3 relatives

  06-07-2017 21:51 via yahoo.com
  
  BARRE, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont woman pleaded guilty Thursday to killing a social worker and three relatives she believed played a role in her losing custody of her 9-year-old daughter.
  
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• Virginia set for 1st execution under more secretive protocol

  06-07-2017 21:46 via yahoo.com
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Virginia is set to carry out its first execution Thursday under a new, more secretive protocol after the state's Democratic governor declined to intervene in the case of a man who killed two people during a 2006 escape.
  
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• Did Amelia Earhart Survive Crash? New Photo May Offer Tantalizing Clue

  06-07-2017 21:23 via yahoo.com
  
  A newly found back-and-white photo taken on the Marshall Islands may help solve the mystery of Amelia Earhart's disappearance, but not everyone is convinced that the famous aviator is in the photo.The 80-year-old photo shows what may be Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, surrounded by a group of people on a dock on Jaluit Atoll in the Marshall Islands in 1937, according to History channel researchers, NBC reported today (July 6).The researchers suggest that Earhart was taken hostage by the
  
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• Reward offered as police investigate inmate's 2nd escape

  06-07-2017 21:19 via yahoo.com
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — An inmate who has escaped twice from maximum-security prisons in South Carolina remained on the run Thursday as authorities sought the public's help in their manhunt by offering a reward.
  
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• The World Is on the Brink of an Electric Car Revolution

  06-07-2017 21:04 via yahoo.com
  
  The internal combustion engine had a good run.A quick recap: On Monday, Tesla announced that the Model 3, its mass-market electric car, would start rolling off production lines this week with the first handful delivered to customers later this month.All this news dropped just in time for Bloomberg New Energy Finance's latest electric car report, which lays out why electric cars are the way of the future and when they’re projected to take over the market.
  
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• Trump’s history of Putin statements: Lots of praise and one clear contradiction

  06-07-2017 21:03 via yahoo.com
  
  Ahead of their high-stakes encounter at the G-20 summit, a look back at the many comments President Trump has made about Russian President Vladimir Putin.
  
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• DoJ Pushes States On Voter Roll Purge

  06-07-2017 20:58 via yahoo.com
  
  Rachel Maddow reports on a letter from the Department of Justice to states about a review of voter registration maintenance procedures, which many are seeing as a precursor to a nationwide voter purge.
  
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• Alaskans may hold key to health care bill, and they have … issues

  06-07-2017 20:58 via yahoo.com
  
  Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan of Alaska leave the chamber after a vote on Capitol Hill on May 10.ANCHORAGE — After a bruising and tiring fight in D.C. over health care legislation, both of Alaska’s Republican senators returned to the land of the midnight sun to celebrate Independence Day with parades and other activities, including a chainsawing competition.Both of Alaska’s senators have played pivotal roles in the debate and could be deciding votes if the bill finally reache
  
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• 4 children, father stabbed to death; mother in custody

  06-07-2017 20:57 via yahoo.com
  
  4 children, father stabbed to death; mother in custody.
  
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• Iraqi commanders say IS families have joined Mosul fight

  06-07-2017 20:41 via yahoo.com
  
  MOSUL, Iraq (AP) — Iraqi commanders say female Islamic State militants are firing on their forces and using children as human shields as the extremist group defends its last sliver of Mosul's Old City.
  
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• Trump Uses Natural Gas to Challenge Putin on European Trip

  06-07-2017 20:33 via yahoo.com
  
  'We are committed to securing your access to alternate sources of energy'
  
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• Another 'Oops' Moment? Rick Perry Quote on Supply and Demand Mocked

  06-07-2017 20:33 via yahoo.com
  
  "You put the supply out there and the demand will follow"
  
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• Dad Charged After Baby Found With Hypodermic Needle in Leg Suffers Near-Fatal Overdose: Cops

  06-07-2017 20:28 via yahoo.com
  
  The baby got a life-saving dose of Narcan.
  
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• Only Tillerson to Join Trump at Putin Meeting

  06-07-2017 20:25 via yahoo.com
  
  Rachel Maddow reports on the protests in Hamburg, Germany on the first day of the G20 summit and points out that Donald Trump's only chaperone for his Friday meeting with Vladimir Putin will be former Exxon CEO, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson.
  
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• German police disperse G20 protest with water cannon before summit

  06-07-2017 20:25 via yahoo.com
  
  German police used water cannon to disperse around 500 anti-capitalist protesters overnight in the port city of Hamburg where Chancellor Angela Merkel will host leaders of the G20 leading economies in a two-day summit starting on Friday.Tens of thousands of protesters are expected to march in the city this week against globalization and what they say is corporate greed and a failure to tackle climate change.German authorities believe around 8,000 demonstrators were prepared to use violence, the
  
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• 6 more New Jersey couples charged in benefits fraud probe

  06-07-2017 20:25 via yahoo.com
  
  LAKEWOOD, N.J. (AP) — Six more couples were charged with theft Thursday as part of an investigation that has uncovered more than $2 million in public welfare benefits going to New Jersey families that made too much to receive them.
  
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• Riot police clash with G-20 protesters in Hamburg, Germany

  06-07-2017 20:17 via yahoo.com
  
  German police fired water cannon and pepper spray at protesters gathered to demonstrate against a G20 summit in Hamburg after a group of black-clad demonstrators threw bottles and other objects at riot police.
  
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• Dog Rescued From Hot Car in Florida as Cop Breaks Window: 'It Was Easily 110 Degrees'

  06-07-2017 20:13 via yahoo.com
  
  A dog was rescued in a Florida parking lot after it was locked in a car that had the windows up with no air conditioning.
  
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• Magnitude 5.8 earthquake rouses slumbering Montana residents

  06-07-2017 20:09 via yahoo.com
  
  LINCOLN, Mont. (AP) — The strongest earthquake to hit Montana in more than half a century sent bartenders jumping over bars, food falling off grocery store shelves and awakened residents and dogs more than 30 miles (48 kilometers) from its epicenter.
  
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• Torrential rains cause severe flooding in Japan

  06-07-2017 20:06 via yahoo.com
  
  Troops worked to rescue hundreds of people stranded by flooding in southern Japan. Several death and nearly 20 people were still unaccounted for in flooding that wrecked homes, roads and rice terraces.
  
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• Maddow to News Orgs: Heads up for Hoaxes!

  06-07-2017 20:01 via yahoo.com
  
  Rachel Maddow explains how an ostensible top secret NSA document submitted through the show's inbox is likely a fake, and points out the perils of such forgeries to news organizations trying to report out important stories like the Trump Russia story.
  
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• US isolated over climate: G20 host Merkel

  06-07-2017 20:00 via yahoo.com
  
  US President Donald Trump faces isolation at Friday's G20 summit over his climate sceptic stance, Chancellor Angela Merkel said, noting that many countries are determined to honour the landmark Paris accord.Trump may have vowed to pull the US out of the 2015 climate protection deal, but "many many other countries want to go on implementing" it, Merkel told journalists.Efforts to halt climate change is a key issue that world leaders gathering from Friday in the German port city of Hamburg are str
  
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• Father, 4 Children Dead After Mother Fatally Stabs Them in Home Bloodbath: Cops

  06-07-2017 19:58 via yahoo.com
  
  The horror unfolded outside Atlanta on Thursday morning.
  
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• The Latest: Not-guilty pleas in Phoenix serial killing case

  06-07-2017 19:53 via yahoo.com
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The Latest on the arraignment of a man charged with serial killings in Phoenix (all times local):
  
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• Five inmates killed in Mexico prison brawl: officials

  06-07-2017 19:39 via yahoo.com
  
  Brawling inmates at a Mexican prison beheaded and mutilated their rivals Thursday, leaving five dead and one wounded, officials said.The pre-dawn brawl erupted in the maximum-security wing at the CERESO federal prison in Acapulco, a resort town on Mexico's Pacific coast that has been hit by grisly violence between warring drug cartels in recent years.The victims were stabbed and beaten to death, said Roberto Alvarez, security spokesman for the state of Guerrero.
  
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• An Emergency Plan for Starting Your Retirement Savings at Age 50

  06-07-2017 19:30 via yahoo.com
  
  Experts agree everyone should start saving for retirement as early as possible, but those approaching age 50 without saving for their golden years are facing a full-fledged financial emergency.The good news is it's never too late to get your retirement on track -- even at 50.
  
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