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• North Carolina teachers staging rallies to protest low pay

  15-05-2018 23:52 via yahoo.com
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The recent wave of teacher activism sweeping through conservative, tax-cutting states has washed into North Carolina, where educators have pledged to fill the streets and bring their demands for better pay and school resources to legislators' doorstep.
  
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• Incoming Hearthstone balance changes hit Warlock and Paladin hard (and address Wild's Enemy Number One)

  15-05-2018 23:43 via gamesradar.com
  Hearthstone's most recent expansion, The Witchwood, has been live for just over a month now - but it seemed like the massive playerbase only needed a few days to figure out the meta and zero in on which decks were the strongest
  
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• Search ends for grenade launcher ammo lost in North Dakota

  15-05-2018 23:39 via yahoo.com
  PARSHALL, N.D. (AP) — Airmen have called off the search for military explosives that recently fell off a vehicle on a Native American reservation in North Dakota.
  
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• U.S. imposes sanctions on Iran central bank governor

  15-05-2018 23:37 via yahoo.com
  By Lesley WroughtonWASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions on Iran's central bank governor and an Iraq-based bank for "moving millions of dollars" for Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard, as Washington seeks to cut off funding it says Tehran is using to fund militant activities overseas.U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin accused bank chief Valiollah Seif of covertly funneling money on behalf of the revolutionary guard's external arm, Quds Force (IRGC-QF), through A
  
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• Ex-Russian officer asks for new hearing on US forces attack

  15-05-2018 23:34 via yahoo.com
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A former Russian military officer serving a life sentence for leading a 2009 Taliban attack on U.S. forces in Afghanistan has asked a federal appeals court to reconsider its finding that he's not entitled to protections given to prisoners of war.
  
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• Elizabeth Warren Pledges Big Money To ‘Turn Up The Heat On Gerrymandering’

  15-05-2018 23:30 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) announced Tuesday that she would
  
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• This Nintendo Labo / Ariana Grande performance makes up for Wii Music

  15-05-2018 23:20 via gamesradar.com
  A pop princess, a talk show host, and Nintendo walk into a bar...
  
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• You Like Han Solo Because He’s A Scoundrel. 'Solo: A Star Wars Story' Forgot That.

  15-05-2018 23:05 via yahoo.com
  What's in a name? For Han Solo, everything and nothing. The skilled pilot and
  
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• Putin: New weapons will maintain Russia's might for decades

  15-05-2018 22:54 via yahoo.com
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's new weapons, including an array of new nuclear systems, will ensure the country's security for decades to come, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday at a meeting with top military brass.
  
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• Hawaii braced for more volcanic eruptions as lava spews from 20 new fissures after Kilauea eruption

  15-05-2018 22:53 via yahoo.com
  Hawaii is braced for potentially violent eruptions from the Kilauea volcano this week as nearly 20 new fissures have opened.Lava could be seen spewing out of the seventeenth fissure after two weeks of eruptions led to a major health hazard for the island's residents.The activity from Kilauea has hit the tourism industry hard, with at least $5m (£3.7m) of cancellations for the three months to July.
  
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• Wisconsin police released new surveillance video of an arrest that went viral

  15-05-2018 22:40 via yahoo.com
  Police in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, released new surveillance video of an arrest which stirred outrage when cellphone video first emerged.
  
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• Maduro vows economic change for Venezuela's 'rebirth' before vote

  15-05-2018 22:35 via yahoo.com
  By Vivian SequeraCARACAS (Reuters) - Widely blamed for Venezuela's unprecedented economic crisis, President Nicolas Maduro vowed on Tuesday to make "great changes" in the OPEC nation reeling from hyperinflation and shortages if re-elected this weekend.The 55-year-old leftist, however, gave no specifics about how he would turn around Venezuela's economy, mired in the fifth year of a grueling recession under his rule since 2013.Despite pressure from political opponents and angst among millions of
  
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• Blake Farenthold Says He Won't Repay $84,000 Sexual Harassment Settlement

  15-05-2018 22:26 via yahoo.com
  A day after announcing he had secured a new, six-figure lobbying job, former
  
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• Bad day for Manafort as judge points out his deep Russia ties

  15-05-2018 22:15 via yahoo.com
  Rachel Maddow catches up on the day's news, including a ruling by a judge who not only rejected former Donald Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort's bid to have charges dismissed, but also pointed out just how deep and long Manafort's ties to Russia run.
  
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• Debbie Wasserman Schultz: The NRA Is 'Just Shy Of A Terrorist Organization'

  15-05-2018 21:32 via yahoo.com
  Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) had stern words for the National Rifle
  
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• This Sea of Thieves update makes 3 big changes ahead of the first free DLC

  15-05-2018 21:27 via gamesradar.com
  See what's new in Sea of Thieves update 1.07
  
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• New Trailer Shows Off Adventure Mode, Demo Announced

  15-05-2018 21:26
  Mario Tennis Aces is shaping up to be a solid offering in the series, and if you're looking try it out for yourself, you're in luck.
  Nintendo has announced the arcadey sports game will be getting a free demo from June 1 through 3. The demo consists of both offline and multiplayer modes, with a nice little incentive for online players: A small tournament between demo players in which the winners unlock more characters to play as by earning points.The four starting characters in the demo are Mari
  
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• Taliban battle into west Afghan city in new crisis for government

  15-05-2018 21:09 via yahoo.com
  By Storay Karimi and Mohammad StanekzaiHERAT, Afghanistan (Reuters) - Taliban fighters with heavy weapons and night-vision equipment fought their way close to the center of the western city of Farah on Tuesday, as Afghan forces with U.S. air support battled to force them back, officials and residents said.Residents of the city, capital of Farah province on the border with Iran, have warned for months the city was vulnerable and the attack threatened a repeat of the Taliban's capture of the north
  
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• Pfizer's biosimilar of Amgen, J&J's anemia treatments gets FDA nod

  15-05-2018 20:15 via yahoo.com
  Pfizer Inc's Retacrit was approved by U.S. health regulators as a biosimilar to current anemia treatments from Amgen Inc and Johnson & Johnson on Tuesday, setting it up to compete against more established brands.A year ago the U.S. Food and Drug Administration rejected Retacrit as a copy of Amgen's Epogen and Johnson & Johnson's Procrit, citing https://investors.pfizer.com/investor-news/press-release-details/2017/Pfizer-Provides-Update-on-Proposed-Epoetin-Alfa-Biosimilar/default.aspx iss
  
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• US Ambassador Nikki Haley tells UN 'no country in this chamber would act with more restraint than Israel has'

  15-05-2018 20:12 via yahoo.com
  The US Ambassador to the UN has claimed “no country would act with greater restraint than Israel”, as the death toll of Palestinians killed by Israeli troops passed 60 and officials said 2,700 had been wounded.While the shooting of mostly unarmed Palestinian protesters at the Gaza border fence received widespread international condemnation, criticism within the US was muted.Nikki Haley repeated a claim made the day before by the White House, and said Hamas, the militant group that co
  
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• US, Afghanistan launch air strikes as Taliban attack western city

  15-05-2018 20:05 via yahoo.com
  US and Afghan aircraft Tuesday bombed Taliban positions in the western city of Farah after the insurgents launched a major attempt to capture the provincial capital, with fearful residents seeking shelter from explosions and gunfire.Special forces from Kandahar and Herat were rushed to the city to take part in the fighting, which residents said began around midnight.Sporadic clashes were still ongoing late Tuesday, provincial council member Dadullah Qani told AFP.
  
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• Parents of Paris knife attacker let out of custody

  15-05-2018 20:05 via yahoo.com
  French authorities released the parents of Paris knife attacker Khamzat Azimov from custody on Tuesday, while keeping his closest friend in detention, a judicial source said.Azimov, a naturalised French citizen of Chechen origin who had lived in Strasbourg, was shot dead by police on Saturday night after stabbing a 29-year-old man to death in the Opera district of Paris and wounding four others in an assault claimed by the Islamic State group.Azimov's parents were detained on Sunday morning.
  
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• I Was Denied Entry To A County Courthouse Because I Am A Muslim Woman

  15-05-2018 20:03 via yahoo.com
  What should have been a great day became one of the worst days of my life.
  
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• Ukraine raids Kiev offices of Russian state media

  15-05-2018 19:52 via yahoo.com
  Ukraine's security service raided the Kiev offices of Russia's state-run RIA Novosti news agency on Tuesday, detaining one journalist who was accused of treason.The searches took place with relations between Moscow and Kiev already extremely strained over Russia's 2014 seizure of Crimea and accusations that it fuelled a rebel conflict in eastern Ukraine that has cost some 10,000 lives.The raids and arrest came on the day that Russian President Vladimir Putin opened a bridge providing the first d
  
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• The Latest: Child safe, mom arrested in Tulsa stabbing case

  15-05-2018 19:50 via yahoo.com
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The Latest on the search for an Oklahoma woman who police say stabbed one child and fled with another (all times local):
  
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• Adam Rippon Honors His Mom With Stunning 'Dancing With The Stars' Performance

  15-05-2018 19:50 via yahoo.com
  Adam Rippon continued his winning streak with an impeccably graceful
  
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• Students Stage Fake Car Wreck for Their Senior Prank

  15-05-2018 19:49 via yahoo.com
  It looked pretty real!
  
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• White nationalist jailed for violating Kentucky probation

  15-05-2018 19:39 via yahoo.com
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A white nationalist on probation for harassing a protester at a Donald Trump campaign rally in Kentucky in 2016 is going to jail after a domestic abuse incident in Indiana.
  
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• Republican senator says EPA chief must slow refinery waivers or resign

  15-05-2018 19:38 via yahoo.com
  By Jarrett Renshaw and Chris PrenticeNEW YORK (Reuters) - Republican Senator Chuck Grassley on Tuesday said Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt must scale back the use of biofuels waivers for small refineries, or else he will join other lawmakers calling for Pruitt's resignation.The demand ramps up pressure on the embattled EPA administrator, who is already under pressure from mostly Democratic lawmakers to step down over controversies that include high spending on travel and secu
  
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• Chile archbishop defends himself as pope's summit opens

  15-05-2018 19:38 via yahoo.com
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The retired archbishop of Santiago is denying he covered-up for an abusive priest in Chile, but is acknowledging the priest's popularity and ability to produce seminarians weighed on his decision-making.
  
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• The Royal Wedding Drama Around Meghan Markle's Dad, Explained

  15-05-2018 19:29 via yahoo.com
  With just days to go before the royal wedding, Meghan Markle's father, Thomas
  
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• Russian opposition leader Navalny sentenced to month for protests

  15-05-2018 19:18 via yahoo.com
  Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was on Tuesday sentenced to 30 days behind bars for organising protests ahead of President Vladimir Putin's fourth inauguration.Judge Dmitry Gordeyev of Moscow's Tverskoi district court found Navalny guilty of arranging the "unauthorised" demonstrations.Navalny was also found guilty of disobeying police orders in separate charges later in the day.
  
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• Republican gubernatorial candidate drives 'deportation bus’ around Georgia

  15-05-2018 19:14 via yahoo.com
  A Republican candidate for governor of Georgia is driving a “deportation bus” around the state, promising to fill it with undocumented immigrants and “send them back to where they came from”.Michael Williams –a Georgia state senator and, according to his website, the first elected official in the state to endorse Donald Trump – announced this week that he would drive a bus around the state to raise awareness of the “overwhelming problem of illegal immigr
  
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• Mid-Engined Chevy Corvette Spied Waiting At A Red Light

  15-05-2018 19:14 via yahoo.com
  Just another prototype caught in the wild.
  
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• 'Lava Bombs' Launched From Hawaii Volcano Are Latest Danger on the Big Island

  15-05-2018 19:09 via yahoo.com
  A lava bomb is molten rock that's thrown into the air by a volcanic eruption.
  
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• Core Values: 2018 Jeep Wrangler Sport V-6 Manual

  15-05-2018 18:58 via yahoo.com
  Ain’t nothing like the real thing, baby.
  
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• Tomi Lahren Hits Back At Genealogist Who Researched Her Family, Misses The Point

  15-05-2018 18:57 via yahoo.com
  Tomi Lahren responded to the genealogist who researched her family history
  
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• Here’s 23 things you missed in the Rage 2 trailer

  15-05-2018 18:52 via gamesradar.com
  Take a look at these 23 details from the first Rage 2 Trailer.
  
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• Palestinians clash with Israeli forces on 70th anniversary of the Nakba (“catastrophe”)

  15-05-2018 18:18 via yahoo.com
  Palestinians clashed with Israeli security forces in the occupied West Bank and at the Israeli-Gaza border in the Gaza Strip, during protests marking the anniversary of the Nakba, or “catastrophe,” when more than 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled in the 1948 war surrounding Israel’s creation. The protests were also a response to the United States’ relocation of its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. (Getty Images)
  
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• Lawsuit challenges location of Obama presidential center

  15-05-2018 17:55 via yahoo.com
  A federal lawsuit is seeking to block the construction of the Obama presidential center on Chicago parkland, posing a challenge for the future library and museum dedicated to the nation's first African-American president.The lawsuit by a local park preservation group objects to the transfer of a historic public park for use by Barack Obama's foundation to build a complex in the Midwestern city -- one of a network of presidential libraries throughout the country.Chicago has a system of public par
  
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• Windsor amping up security for Royal Wedding

  15-05-2018 17:50 via yahoo.com
  New technology will be in place to spot terrorist drones and take them down, but Prince Harry and Meghan’s open-air carriage during the procession could lead to additional complications.
  
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• Soros foundation quits Hungary over govt's 'repressive' policies

  15-05-2018 17:47 via yahoo.com
  The foundation run by US-Hungarian billionaire George Soros said Tuesday it was closing operations in Hungary and relocating to Germany in response to the "repressive" policies of Prime Minister Viktor Orban's government."Faced with an increasingly repressive political and legal environment in Hungary, the Open Society Foundations (OSF) are moving their Budapest-based international operations and staff to the German capital, Berlin," the network said in a statement.Orban, re-elected last month f
  
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• Man accused of torturing his 10 children fires back from jail

  15-05-2018 17:45 via yahoo.com
  “I'm not perfect. No one is perfect. But I am not an animal. I am not a torturer. And I'm not a monster,” Jonathan Allen says. He and his wife Ina Rogers are being accused of abusing and neglecting their ten children.
  
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• Willow Smith Tells A Shocked Jada Pinkett Smith She Self-Harmed As A Preteen

  15-05-2018 17:43 via yahoo.com
  Jada Pinkett Smith and her kin are confronting real issues on the web series
  
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• CDC Map Shows Every State Affected by the Salmonella Egg Outbreak

  15-05-2018 17:42 via yahoo.com
  Fortunately, the outbreak has slowed way down.
  
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• Sally Yates warns of Trump 'tearing down the legitimacy' of the Justice Department

  15-05-2018 17:41 via yahoo.com
  Former acting Attorney General Sally Yates said she had something to get off her chest about President Trump at the 2018 Ideas Conference hosted by the Center for American Progress on Tuesday: Don’t ignore his attacks on the rule of law.
  
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• Lawsuit filed to block Obama Center in Chicago park

  15-05-2018 17:37 via yahoo.com
  Public park advocates have filed a lawsuit against the city of Chicago seeking to stop construction of the Obama Presidential Center.
  
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• North Korea to join efforts for total nuclear weapons test ban

  15-05-2018 17:34 via yahoo.com
  North Korea plans to join international efforts to implement a total ban on nuclear weapons tests, it told the United Nations disarmament body Tuesday."DPRK will join international desires and efforts for a total ban on nuclear tests," North Korea's ambassador to the UN in Geneva Han Tae-song said in an address to the Conference on Disarmament, using North Korea's official acronym.
  
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• Death Of Keeven Robinson, Black Louisiana Man In Police Custody, Ruled Homicide

  15-05-2018 17:33 via yahoo.com
  The death of a black man in police custody in Louisiana has been ruled a
  
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• Navy Aircraft Carriers Might Just Be Unsinkable. Here's Why.

  15-05-2018 17:10 via yahoo.com
  The bottom line on aircraft carrier survivability is that only a handful of countries can credibly pose a threat to America's most valuable warships, and short of using nuclear weapons none of those is likely to sink one.  Although the Navy has changed it tactics to deal with the proliferation of fast anti-ship missiles and the growing military power of China in the Western Pacific, large-deck aircraft carriers remain among the most secure and useful combat systems
  
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