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• Meet America's Newest Millionaire: Woman Wins $758M Powerball Jackpot After Mix-Up

  24-08-2017 23:44 via yahoo.com
  Mavis Wanczyk now has a higher net worth than Taylor Swift and Beyonce.
  
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• Mystery Havana embassy attacks hurt 16 US staff

  24-08-2017 23:41 via yahoo.com
  No fewer than 16 Americans were hurt in what has previously been dubbed an acoustic attack on the US mission in Cuba, the State Department said Thursday.The "unprecedented" attacks came to light last month when Washington warned Cuba it would be held responsible for the safety of US personnel in Havana.US officials have said those hurt appeared to have been targeted by some form of previously unknown acoustic assault, but have not blamed Cuba directly.
  
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• Florida executes racist killer inmate using unproven drug

  24-08-2017 23:32 via yahoo.com
  The state of Florida on Thursday executed its first death row inmate in nearly two years, using a lethal injection cocktail that had never been tried before in the United States. Mark Asay, 53, was sentenced to death in 1988 for a racially motivated double murder in Jacksonville, Florida a year earlier. The execution was carried out at 6:22 pm (2222 GMT), the Florida Department of Corrections said. For his last meal, Asay ordered fried pork chops, fried ham, fries, vanilla swirl ice cream and Co
  
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• Whitehouse.gov petition to label antifa as a 'terror group' generates more than 290,000 signatures

  24-08-2017 23:26 via yahoo.com
  The Trump administration has yet to respond to any petitions that have crossed the 100,000-signature threshold meant to trigger an official response.
  
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• Hedge fund Madava hires Soylemez from JPMorgan to trade energy

  24-08-2017 23:24
  BOSTON (Reuters) - Commodity oriented hedge fund firm Madava Asset Management has hired industry veteran Nedim Soylemez to trade natural gas, oil and energy, a person familiar with the hire said on...
  
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• Couple Says Jesus Appeared in Their Baby's Sonogram: 'We Were So Relieved'

  24-08-2017 23:24 via yahoo.com
  Alicia Zeek and Zac Smith claim Jesus popped up in their child's sonogram.
  
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• Calif. Dad Who Murdered Son After Disneyland Trip Is Confronted at Sentencing by Boy’s Mom

  24-08-2017 23:07 via yahoo.com
  A California man who recently pleaded guilty to murdering his 5-year-old son three months ago following a trip to Disneyland has been sentenced to 25 years to life, PEOPLE confirms.
  
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• Dad Warns Parents After He Says Daughter, 7, Is Asked to Send Photos 'Without T-Shirt' on Music Video App

  24-08-2017 23:03 via yahoo.com
  "We thought we did all we could to protect her from those types of things and unfortunately, they got through to us," said her dad, Brad Summer.
  
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• US: At least 16 Americans affected by health attacks in Cuba

  24-08-2017 22:55 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — At least 16 Americans associated with the U.S. Embassy in Havana suffered symptoms from attacks on their health in Cuba that have still not been explained, the United States said Thursday.
  
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• Florida Executes White Man For Killing Black Victim For First Time Ever

  24-08-2017 22:52 via yahoo.com
  The state of Florida is about to do something it hasn’t done since reinstating the death penalty in 1976: Execute a white man for killing a black man.
  
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• Lourenco to take power in Angola as MPLA wins election

  24-08-2017 22:48 via yahoo.com
  Angola's ruling MPLA won this week's election, a poll official announced Thursday, with party candidate Joao Lourenco now set to succeed President Jose Eduardo Dos Santos who has ruled for 38 years.An election commission official in Luanda said the People's Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA) had won just over 64 percent of the ballot.The party, which has ruled since Angola's hard-fought independence from Portugal in 1975, had predicted an easy victory, but the outcome indicated a fall
  
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• White House to follow 'standard process' in any Arpaio pardon

  24-08-2017 22:38 via yahoo.com
  The "standard process" would be followed in considering whether President Donald Trump pardons Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff convicted last month of criminal contempt in a racial profiling case, the White House said on Thursday.Trump hinted during an appearance in Phoenix on Tuesday that he would issue a pardon for Arpaio, who was sheriff of Maricopa County for 24 years before losing a re-election bid last year.CNN reported on Wednesday that the White House had prepared paperwork for th
  
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• Collapse at salmon farm renews debate about fish farming

  24-08-2017 22:36 via yahoo.com
  SEATTLE (AP) — A marine net pen holding 305,000 farmed Atlantic salmon collapsed recently, releasing thousands of fish into Puget Sound and renewing concerns that a new proposed salmon farm could harm wild salmon stock and cause other environmental damage.
  
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• White House downplays Trump’s campaign promise on border wall funding

  24-08-2017 22:35 via yahoo.com
  The White House sought to downplay President Trump's campaign promise that Mexico would pay for it.
  
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• Armed police shoot suspected gunman ending restaurant siege in Charleston, South Carolina

  24-08-2017 22:31 via yahoo.com
   A fired dishwasher shot and killed a chef and held a "small number" of people hostage for about three hours before he was shot by police at a crowded restaurant in a tourist-heavy area of downtown Charleston, South Carolina, on Thursday, authorities and one of the restaurant's owners said.  The hostages were freed with no injuries, Mayor John Tecklenburg said. The shooting took place at Virginia's restaurant on the usually crowded King Street, a line of shops and nice dining that cate
  
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• Supreme Court won't halt Florida man's execution

  24-08-2017 22:28 via yahoo.com
  STARKE, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday refused to block the state's first execution in 18 months, one that also will mark the first use of the drug etomidate in a U.S. lethal injection.
  
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• Cop Charged in Hot Car Death of K-9 Officer Left in Vehicle in 88-Degree Heat

  24-08-2017 22:26 via yahoo.com
  Sebastian Police Officer Eric Antosia is accused of leaving his partner, German shepherd Diesel, inside their patrol vehicle outside a court house.
  
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• Hedge fund managers not optimistic about second half of 2017: industry survey

  24-08-2017 22:22
  BOSTON (Reuters) - Hedge fund managers have a dim view of the second half of 2017 after a solid start to the year, an industry survey released on Thursday showed.
  
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• Hezbollah seizes much of IS enclave on Syrian-Lebanese border: Nasrallah

  24-08-2017 22:21 via yahoo.com
  Hezbollah has captured much of an Islamic State pocket on Syria's side of the border with Lebanon in a joint offensive with the Syrian army, its leader said on Thursday.In parallel with the fighting, talks on a truce have begun with Islamic State but a military victory is more likely, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised speech.Syrian troops and Iran-backed Hezbollah have been fighting to oust Islamic State from Syria's western Qalamoun region.
  
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• Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio Claims He Never Asked Trump for Pardon - but Is Happy to Get One

  24-08-2017 22:20 via yahoo.com
  The controversial sheriff faces a six-month prison sentence for ignoring a court order to end racial profiling.
  
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• Remains Found in Aruba Found to Be Woman of Eastern European Descent, Just Like Natalee Holloway

  24-08-2017 22:18 via yahoo.com
  Aruban authorities claim the remains are not human at all.
  
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• Amazon to cut Whole Foods prices amid intense grocery turf war

  24-08-2017 22:14 via yahoo.com
  Amazon.com Incsaid on Thursday it will cut prices on a range of popular goods as it completes its acquisition of Whole Foods Market Inc , sending shares of rival grocers tumbling over fears of even more brutal market share battles.Amazon's $13.7 billion purchase of Whole Foods, which won antitrust approval from U.S. regulators on Wednesday, has been a shadow hanging over an ailing brick-and-mortar retail sector unsure of how to respond to the world's biggest online retailer.Shares in Kroger Coan
  
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• The Latest: White House slams Corker for criticizing Trump

  24-08-2017 22:07 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump (all times EDT):
  
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• Gov. Cuomo formally introduces bridge named for late father

  24-08-2017 22:03 via yahoo.com
  TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday formally introduced a new $4 billion bridge named for his late father that will carry 50 million cars a year across the Hudson River in the New York City suburbs.
  
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• Ethics Group Wants To Know If Steve Mnuchin And Louise Linton Used Government Plane To See The Eclipse

  24-08-2017 22:02 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― An ethics watchdog group is investigating whether Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his wife, actress Louise Linton, planned a government trip to view the solar eclipse on Monday, the same trip on which Linton created controversy after flouting the couple’s extravagant lifestyle on social media.
  
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• Powerball jackpot winner claims $758m and immediately quits job

  24-08-2017 21:55 via yahoo.com
  The woman who won the second-largest lottery prize in US history says she isn’t going back to work, and kind of wants to spend some alone.Mavis Wanczyk was the only winner this week, and said that she was initially shocked to realise she’d won.Ms Wanczyk has worked for Mercy Medical Centre in Massachusetts for 32 years, and was hoping to retire early.
  
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• Gunman shot at Charleston, S.C., restaurant; hostage rescued

  24-08-2017 21:54 via yahoo.com
  A disgruntled employee who fatally shot one person and held another hostage on Thursday at a restaurant in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, was shot by police, the city's mayor said.Witnesses said the gunman brandished a pistol and said "There's a new boss in town" as he entered Virginia's On Kingin the heart of the city's commercial district, while about 15 to 20 people were having lunch.The gunman was transported to a local hospital in critical condition and the hostage was rescued, said C
  
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• White House blasts Republican senator's 'outrageous' criticism of Trump

  24-08-2017 21:53 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Bob Corker told reporters last week that Trump “has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability, nor some of the competence, he needs to … be successful.”
  
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• 4 resign from Illinois governor's office after cartoon flap

  24-08-2017 21:47 via yahoo.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — Just weeks after being hired, four key members of Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner's communications team have resigned in the wake of the Republican's confusing response to a political cartoon depicting a black child begging a white man for money.
  
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• Qatar defies Saudi Arabia by restoring diplomatic ties with Iran

  24-08-2017 21:32 via yahoo.com
  Qatar has defied Saudi Arabia by strengthening its diplomatic ties with Iran - rather than cutting them back as Saudi Arabia and its allies have demanded. Saudi Arabia and three other Arab states have been blockading Qatar since early June and have demanded that Qatar curb its ties with Iran, as well as shut down its al-Jazeera television network and expel extremists from its territory.  Rather than give in to the blockading countries’ demands, Qatar announced on Thursday that it
  
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• Donald Trump 'Embarrassed' Over Border Wall

  24-08-2017 21:31 via yahoo.com
  Lawrence O'Donnell looks at just how much trouble the Trump White House had today answering questions about Donald Trump’s very simple promise: Mexico will pay to build the border wall.
  
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• Keep Confederate statues, but tell the other side of the story? Richmond tries — with mixed results.

  24-08-2017 21:29 via yahoo.com
  Cities and towns across the South seek solutions to the thorny questions of history and public memory raised by the removal of Confederate memorials.
  
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• Russian nuclear bombers fly near North Korea in rare show of force

  24-08-2017 21:24 via yahoo.com
  Russian nuclear bombers fly near North Korea in rare show of force
  
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• Trump W.H. Pressed on 'Pardon Philosophy' Amid Russia Probe

  24-08-2017 21:20 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump hints that he's preparing to pardon convicted ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio — after the Washington Post reported Trump was asking about pardon powers for himself and his family. Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks joins Lawrence O'Donnell.
  
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• Trump focus on Afghanistan minerals hurts US

  24-08-2017 20:46 via yahoo.com
  Laurel Miller, former State Department special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, talks with Rachel Maddow about why Donald Trump's interest in looting Afghanistan's mineral wealth is harmful to the U.S. mission there.
  
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• Father Of Florida Boy Lost At Sea Battling Lawsuit

  24-08-2017 20:45 via yahoo.com
  Perry Cohen's parents filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the parents of Austin Stephanos after the boys were lost at sea.
  
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• Ambassador to Sudan becomes eighth Russian diplomat to die suddenly in 10 months 

  24-08-2017 20:44 via yahoo.com
  Russia's ambassador to Sudan has reportedly died of a heart attack, becoming the eighth Russian diplomat to pass away unexpectedly in the past 10 months. Mirgayas Shirinsky, 62, was found dead on Wednesday at his Khartoum residence.  Maria Zakharova, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman, told journalists on Thursday that the ambassador had been “found with signs of an acute heart attack”. “Embassy employees called a doctor, but unfortunately he was unab
  
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• House Speaker Ryan says rates must be permanent in tax reform

  24-08-2017 20:38 via yahoo.com
  U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday rejected speculation that future tax legislation could include temporary tax cuts for businesses, saying macro-economic elements of tax reform including rates must be permanent.- That stuff’s got to be permanent,” Ryan said in an interview with CNBC television."We recognize, acknowledge and believe you need to maintain the mortgage interest deduction.
  
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• Charlottesville mayor says he was shut out of security talks

  24-08-2017 20:31 via yahoo.com
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Charlottesville officials met privately Thursday to discuss "personnel matters" in the wake of a deadly white nationalist rally, the city's mayor said in a statement in which he also asserted he'd been largely shut out of security preparations for the event.
  
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• Mayor: Angry worker shoots 1, holds hostages in restaurant

  24-08-2017 20:29 via yahoo.com
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — An angry employee shot one person Thursday and was holding "a couple" of others hostage at a crowded restaurant during lunchtime in downtown Charleston, South Carolina, authorities said.
  
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• Mueller Mandate Could be Crisis for Kushner

  24-08-2017 20:21 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow reviews the litany of sketchy deals that have come to light around Jared Kushner, and talks with former U.S. Attorney Barbara McQuade about how Special Counsel Robert Mueller would likely build a file on Trump campaign associates.
  
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• Washington Just Punished Russia — and Helped Putin

  24-08-2017 20:13 via yahoo.com
  Washington just made it harder for Russians to enter the United States -- and gave Putin exactly what he wanted.
  
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• Brazil ferry capsizes, at least 22 dead in second accident this week

  24-08-2017 20:09 via yahoo.com
  A ferry carrying roughly 130 passengers capsized in Brazil's coastal state of Bahia on Thursday, killing at least 22 people, the country's second fatal maritime accident this week, port authorities told Reuters.Local authorities said 21 others had been rescued by the navy after the ferry capsized on an early morning trip between Ilha de Itaparica and state capital Salvador."Others were rescued by their own means, since the location was not far from the coast and also not so deep," said Flá
  
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• Hostage Situation in Charleston Restaurant Ends as Gunman Is Shot by Police

  24-08-2017 20:07 via yahoo.com
  Charleston's mayor says the restaurant employee shot by the gunman has died
  
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• Massachusetts woman named as $759 million Powerball winner

  24-08-2017 20:04 via yahoo.com
  Massachusetts lottery officials on Thursday identified a 53-year-old health care worker who lives in Chicopee as the winner of more than $750 million in a Powerball drawing, the largest prize for a single ticket-holder in the contest's history.The woman, Mavis Wanczyk, appeared at an afternoon news conference to claim her prize.
  
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• Winner of $758 million US lottery Powerball says she plans to celebrate by hiding in bed

  24-08-2017 20:01 via yahoo.com
  The single biggest lottery jackpot winner in history has received her cheque for $758 million (£591m), and told of her shock at her new-found fortune. Mavis Wanczyck, 53, was asked how she would celebrate, and replied, laughing: “I’m going to go and hide in my bed.” Ms Wanczyck, who has worked in the same medical centre in Massachusetts for 32 years, said that she had already resigned from her job on fulfilling her “pipe dream”. “Actually I just happened
  
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• 3,700-year-old Babylonian tablet rewrites the history of maths - and shows the Greeks did not develop trigonometry

  24-08-2017 20:00 via yahoo.com
  A 3,700-year-old clay tablet has proven that the Babylonians developed trigonometry 1,500 years before the Greeks and were using a sophisticated method of mathematics which could change how we calculate today. The tablet, known as Plimpton 332, was discovered in the early 1900s in Southern Iraq by the American archaeologist and diplomat Edgar Banks, who was the inspiration for Indiana Jones. The true meaning of the tablet has eluded experts until now but new research by the University of New Sou
  
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• With military ban looming, first openly transgender West Point graduate looks for other work

  24-08-2017 19:42 via yahoo.com
  Riley Dosh invested her hopes in a military career. The country invested time and money in giving her a West Point education. But with Trump’s transgender ban looming, Dosh is now looking for another line of work.
  
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• 'Disgruntled Employee' Shoots 1 Dead, Takes Hostages In Charleston

  24-08-2017 19:42 via yahoo.com
  Police were responding to an active shooter situation in Charleston, South Carolina, on Thursday.
  
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• Massachusetts Woman, 53, Wins Massive Powerball Jackpot And Promptly Quits Job

  24-08-2017 19:40 via yahoo.com
  The winner of the $758.7 million Powerball lottery came forward on Thursday.Wanczyk said she’s already informed her employer of 32 years, Mercy Medical Center in Springfield, Massachusetts, that she won’t be coming back to work.It is the largest grand prize won by a single lottery ticket in U.S. history, according to Powerball Product Group Chair Charlie McIntyre.
  
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