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• This is how we handle pain: A father, a son, a boy with cancer and one hospital room

  21-05-2016 23:30 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: effe45 via Shutterstock)
  Apparently the way an implantable cardioverter-defibrillator works is that it’s programmed to detect cardiac arrhythmia (specifically, the irregular heartbeat that can lead to cardiac arrest) and correct it with a jolt of electricity. I have my own discomforting sensations—numbness, tingling, itchiness, phantom pain—but won’t even hazard a guess as to what it must feel like to experience a sudden and unexpected jolt of eight hundred volts
  
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• Clinton calls Trump’s gun policies “dangerous”

  21-05-2016 23:26 via salon.com
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — Hillary Clinton says Donald Trump’s gun policies are “not just way out there” but “dangerous” and would make America less safe.
  Clinton said “This is someone running to be president of the United States of America — a country facing a gun violence epidemic — and he’s talking about more guns in our schools, he’s talking about more hatred and division in our streets.”
  She delivered her remarks Satu
  
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• Justin Bieber fans march in Argentina in support of pop idol

  21-05-2016 23:17 via salon.com
  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Hundreds of “Beliebers” are marching in Argentina’s capital to ask that authorities let the Canadian pop idol perform in the South American country.
  Justin Bieber said Monday on his Twitter account that he would like to play in Argentine on his Purpose Tour but “until the legal conditions change there I can’t.”
  The singer, whose fans are called “Beliebers,” is embroiled in a judicial case here, accused of allege
  
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• This is how the strongman wins: Donald Trump’s single greatest weapon is America’s hatred for its press

  21-05-2016 22:30 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Charles Rex Arbogast)
  As the political pundits keep reminding us, this might be called the “hate” election. Both major parties’ presumptive nominees, Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, have historically high net unfavorable ratings – so high that voters are said to be casting their ballots against a candidate rather than in favor of one. The question seems to be: Who do you hate less?
  But this narrative, which threatens to be the dominant one of th
  
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• Nyquist loses for 1st time, finishing 3rd in Preakness

  21-05-2016 22:24 via salon.com
  
  Nyquist with Mario Gutierrez aboard, third from left, lags behind Exaggerator with Kent Desormeaux aboard during the 141st Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 21, 2016, in Baltimore. Exaggerator won the race. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) (Credit: AP)
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Doug O’Neill was clapping feverishly as Nyquist charged to the finish line, a Triple Crown still within striking distance.
  Finally, when it became apparent that Exaggerator had finally gotten the
  
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• Israel is “infected by the seeds of fascism” and has been taken over by “extremists,” warn ex-prime minister and defense ministers

  21-05-2016 22:15 via salon.com
  
  Former Israeli Prime Minister and then-Defense Minister Ehud Barak speaking in Tel Aviv on November 26, 2012(Credit: Reuters/Nir Elias)
  Israel’s ex-prime minister has warned that his country is “infected by the seeds of fascism.”
  Ehud Barak, the former Israeli prime minister and defense minister, said in an interview on Israeli TV on Friday night that fascistic, extreme right-wing politics are on the rise in his country, Israeli newspaper Haaretz reported.
  “What has happe
  
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• Transit agency settles excessive-force lawsuit with woman

  21-05-2016 22:04 via salon.com
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Bay Area Rapid Transit agreed to pay a San Francisco woman $1.35 million to settle a lawsuit alleging a transit officer broke bones in her face and left her bloody and unconscious.
  BART says in a statement it settled the lawsuit earlier this month and accepted full responsibility for the injuries Megan Sheehan received after an officer slammed her face-first onto the floor, the East Bay Times reported Saturday (http://bit.ly/1RfVWm8).
  Sheehan filed the lawsuit last y
  
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• No kidding: Exaggerator beats Nyquist in Preakness

  21-05-2016 21:23 via salon.com
  
  Exaggerator, right, with Kent Desormeaux aboard wins the 141st Preakness Stakes horse race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 21, 2016, in Baltimore. Cherry Wine, left, with Corey Lanerie aboard places second. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky) (Credit: AP)
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Finally, Exaggerator has beaten Nyquist, and it came in the Preakness on Saturday to end any chance of another Triple Crown.
  Seizing the lead at the top of the stretch, Exaggerator splashed past a tiring Nyquist and went on
  
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• Hinchcliffe takes top seed in Indy qualifying with late push

  21-05-2016 21:15 via salon.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — James Hinchcliffe posted the fastest four-lap average in Indianapolis 500 qualifying Saturday to take the top seed into the pole shootout Sunday.
  The Canadian driver for Schmidt Peterson Motorsports hung on after moving past three-time race winner Helio Castroneves in the final 40 minutes. Hinchcliffe finished at 230.946 mph.
  Ryan Hunter-Reay, the 2014 Indy winner, moved into second on the second-to-last run of the day at 230.805. Team Penske’s Will Power was thir
  
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• Lady Gaga’s childhood piano doesn’t sell at auction

  21-05-2016 21:11 via salon.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Lady Gaga’s childhood piano, which she used to write her first song at age 5, didn’t hit a note at an auction in New York.
  The upright piano failed to meet its reserve price Saturday when Los Angeles-based Julien’s Auctions offered it as part of the “Music Icons” memorabilia sale at the Hard Rock Cafe New York.
  The piano had a pre-sale estimate of $100,000 to $200,000.
  A spokeswoman for the auction house wouldn’t disclose the reserve, the
  
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• Harper says his jersey being auctioned is not as advertised

  21-05-2016 21:06 via salon.com
  MIAMI (AP) — An auction house says it is offering the jersey Bryce Harper wore during his memorable dugout fight with a teammate. The Washington Nationals star says they’ve got the wrong shirt.
  “That’s my MVP jersey, and I have it,” Harper said Saturday.
  The website Lelands.com says it’s taking bids for the jersey the reigning NL MVP wore during his fight last September with closer Jonathan Papelbon, who drew a four-game suspension for grabbing Harper by the t
  
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• Tampa Bay CF Kiermaier breaks hand trying to make catch

  21-05-2016 20:28 via salon.com
  DETROIT (AP) — Tampa Bay Rays center fielder Kevin Kiermaier has broken his left hand trying to make a catch.
  Kiermaier was hurt in the fifth inning of Saturday’s game at Detroit. He broke his glove hand and will be evaluated again on Monday to see how long he might be sidelined.
  Kiermaier, one of the top defensive outfielders in the majors, made a diving attempt to catch James McCann’s shallow flyball, but he was unable to make the play. He then immediately headed back to the
  
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• The Latest: Man shot outside White House remains critical

  21-05-2016 20:06 via salon.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the shooting of a man outside the White House (all times local):
  5:30 p.m.
  A hospital spokeswoman says the gunman shot by a U.S. Secret Service officer outside the White House remains in critical condition.
  George Washington University Hospital spokeswoman Susan Griffiths provided the update Saturday evening about the man investigators have identified as Jesse Oliveri of Ashland, Pennsylvania.
  Secret Service spokesman Robert Hoback declined to comment Saturd
  
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• Koepka overcomes early bogeys, Spieth for lead at Nelson

  21-05-2016 20:06 via salon.com
  IRVING, Texas (AP) — Brooks Koepka overcame two early bogeys and the huge shadow of being in the same group with Jordan Spieth at home, shooting a 5-under 65 on Saturday to take the lead into the final round of the Byron Nelson.
  Kopeka was at 16-under 194 to match the best 54-hole score at the Nelson and put him two strokes ahead of Spieth.
  Koepka took the lead with a 20-foot birdie putt at No. 14. That was the same hole where Spieth hit his drive into the water, had to punch into the fair
  
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• Boston’s Kelly has no-hitter through 6 innings vs Indians

  21-05-2016 20:04 via salon.com
  
  Boston Red Sox's Joe Kelly pitches during the first inning of a baseball game against the Cleveland Indians in Boston, Saturday, May 21, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer) (Credit: AP)
  BOSTON (AP) — Joe Kelly of the Boston Red Sox is pitching a no-hitter through six innings against the Cleveland Indians.
  Kelly came off the disabled list before the game Saturday at Fenway Park. He had been sidelined since April 20 with an impingement in his right shoulder.
  The right-hander has three walks and s
  
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• Sanders says he is backing DNC chair’s opponent

  21-05-2016 20:03 via salon.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders says he plans to support the opponent of Democratic National Committee chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz in her Florida primary contest Aug. 30 for her congressional seat.
  Sanders, a Democratic presidential candidate who has been feuding with Wasserman Schultz and the DNC, told CNN he favors Tim Canova in Florida’s 23rd congressional district. Canova is supporting Sanders.
  Sanders says in an interview to be broadcast Sunday on CNN&rsquo
  
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• Biotech firm to pay $3.5M fine to settle animal-abuse case

  21-05-2016 19:36 via salon.com
  SANTA CRUZ, Calif. (AP) — One of the world’s largest suppliers of antibodies used in research has agreed to pay a $3.5 million fine and cancel its research registration in order to settle government allegations that it mistreated goats and rabbits at its Santa Cruz, California, facility.
  The settlement between Santa Cruz Biotechnology Inc. and the U.S. Department of Agriculture also revokes the company’s license to sell, buy, trade or import animals.
  The settlement announced Fr
  
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• 5-year-old girl playing with gun fatally shoots herself

  21-05-2016 19:35 via salon.com
  
  LAPLACE, La. (AP) — Authorities say a 5-year-old girl shot and killed herself with a handgun at a Louisiana home.
  The St. John the Baptist Parish Sheriff’s Office said in a statement that the girl’s father told investigators his daughter was playing with the gun when she shot herself inside a LaPlace home on Saturday morning.
  Paramedics took the girl to a hospital, where she later died.
  Detectives said the gun hadn’t been securely stored in the home before the shooting oc
  
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• NYPD captures man seen leaving woman’s corpse on lawn

  21-05-2016 19:31 via salon.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Police have captured a man they say was seen wheeling a woman’s dead body on a dolly and leaving it on the front lawn of a New York City home.
  The suspect, 31-year-old Anthony Lopez, was apprehended Saturday following a manhunt using helicopters and dogs.
  The NYPD says Lopez fled on Friday morning after an off-duty detective saw him wheeling the corpse, covered with a sheet, on Staten Island and tried to question him.
  Police say that acting on a tip, officers located
  
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• Bone cement company accused of experimenting on humans

  21-05-2016 19:11 via salon.com
  
  In this Aug. 16, 2007, photo provided by Cynthia Wilson, Reba Golden stands outside Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. Golden died on the operating table there the next day during what should have been a routine spinal surgery. Like several other spinal surgery patients before her, Golden died after her surgeon injected bone cement into her spine and some of the material leaked into her blood stream, causing massive clotting. Also like the other patients, Golden was never told that the bone c
  
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• Pentagon: US airstrike targets Taliban leader Mullah Mansour

  21-05-2016 19:09 via salon.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Pentagon has announced that the U.S. has conducted an airstrike targeting Taliban leader Mullah Mansour. One American official says the U.S. believes Mansour was killed in a drone strike authorized by President Barack Obama.
  Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said the attack occurred in a remote region along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border. He said the U.S. was still studying the results of the attack, leaving Mansour’s fate unclear.
  But a U.S. official who was
  
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• 4 charged in Paris police car attack; officer honored

  21-05-2016 19:09 via salon.com
  PARIS (AP) — Preliminary charges have been filed against four men for torching and violently attacking a Paris police car with two officers inside.
  The Paris prosecutor’s office said the four, whose ages ranged from 18 to 32, face charges of armed violence after Wednesday’s attack. The incident has drawn nationwide attention after weeks of tense labor protests.
  The officer at the wheel, Kevin Philippy, received a special award Saturday from Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve.
  
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• Pentagon says US airstrike has targeted Taliban leader Mullah Mansour

  21-05-2016 18:49 via salon.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Pentagon says US airstrike has targeted Taliban leader Mullah Mansour.
  
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• Alabama teenager breaks Florida flathead catfish record

  21-05-2016 18:48 via salon.com
  ATLANTA (AP) — An Alabama teenager has set a Florida state record for catching the biggest flathead catfish.
  Multiple news media reports that the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission says 13-year-old Charles Patchen of Gordon, Alabama, caught a 63.8-pound flathead. Patchen pulled in the enormous catfish on a Zebco 33 reel with a 14-pound test line on May 15 in the Chattahoochee River in Jackson County.
  It took Patchen nearly two hours to land the big fish. The fish needed to b
  
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• Bystander shot during police gunfight with robbery suspect

  21-05-2016 18:43 via salon.com
  SPRINGFIELD, Va. (AP) — Police say they’re looking for an armed robber who exchanged gunfire with an officer, leaving a bystander seriously hurt, in the Washington suburb of Springfield, Virginia.
  Fairfax County Police said in a statement the bystander was driving by Saturday and was hit by a bullet apparently fired by the robbery suspect. They called the injury life-threatening.
  Police were called shortly after noon to a jewelry store at the Brookfield Plaza shopping center. Police
  
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• Man mauled after entering Chile zoo’s lion pen, 2 cats slain

  21-05-2016 18:41 via salon.com
  SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Authorities at a Chilean zoo say two lions were killed after they severely mauled a man who stripped naked and entered their enclosure in an apparent attempt at suicide.
  The man was taken to a nearby hospital for treatment and was said to be in grave condition.
  Director Alejandra Montalba of Santiago’s Metropolitan Zoo told local media the park was crowded with visitors at the time of the incident Saturday morning.
  The 20-year-old man broke into the enclosure,
  
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• Man charged with butt injections that killed patient

  21-05-2016 18:36 via salon.com
  MIAMI (AP) — A Venezuelan man was charged with administering buttocks-enhancement injections that killed a Miami woman in 2013.
  Jose Robusto, 43, was booked Saturday with manslaughter and practicing unlicensed medicine resulting in death.
  He is accused of giving the injections that killed Suyima Torres, 28. The medical examiner’s office ruled she died of an embolism.
  The Miami Herald (http://tinyurl.com/zg57dqe ) reports Robusto is accused of performing the injections at a clinic tha
  
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• Top US commander makes secret visit to Syria

  21-05-2016 18:29 via salon.com
  NORTHERN SYRIA (AP) — The top U.S. commander for the Middle East secretly visited Syria on Saturday for a first-hand look at efforts to build cohesive alliances of Arab, Kurd and other local fighters to defeat the Islamic State.
  Army Gen. Joseph Votel, who is head of U.S. Central Command, became the highest-ranking U.S. military officer known to have entered Syria since the U.S. began its campaign to counter the Islamic State in 2014.
  Votel flew into northern Syria and spent nearly 11 hour
  
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• Top US general for Middle East makes secret visit to Syria

  21-05-2016 18:04 via salon.com
  NORTHERN SYRIA (AP) — Top US general for Middle East makes secret visit to Syria.
  
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• Anthony Weiner’s downfall and Donald Trump’s rise: Everything that’s bad and stupid about politics in one lesson

  21-05-2016 18:00 via salon.com
  
  Anthony Weiner (Credit: Reuters/Mike Segar)
  Do the “superficial and transactional” nature of his political relationships make it difficult for him to connect with real people in his personal life, Anthony Weiner wonders aloud? Or is it the other way around: Was he drawn to politics in the first place because he has some kind of narcissistic personality disorder that demands constant attention? And did the very technology that ended his political career — what we now call &ldquo
  
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• Warriors’ big men must come up big in Game 3 against Thunder

  21-05-2016 17:59 via salon.com
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Warriors’ big men might be just as important as the Splash Brothers right now.
  “When the shot goes up, you can’t be watching, looking for the rebound,” Golden State forward Draymond Green said.
  The Thunder won the battle of the boards by eight in Game 1 of the Western Conference finals and seized home-court advantage with a 108-102 win. Golden State bounced back in Game 2 and outrebounded Oklahoma City by nine in a 118-91 victory. The series
  
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• Donald Trump, human dog-whistle: The 2016 election, the left and the place where language ends

  21-05-2016 17:59 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: Reuters/Mike Carlson)
  Faith is a double-edged virtue. On one hand, it gives the world a narrative logic that allows us to connect to the mysteries of life. On the other hand, faith means I believe God not only created Donald Trump, but prefers him to me. He’s a billionaire despite never successfully selling anything but his name. Although he looks like a beach ball made of decomposing chicken-anus, he has a gorgeous wife, a loving family and a daughter he and I both f
  
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• DJ-producer Calvin Harris resting after car accident

  21-05-2016 17:40 via salon.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Popular DJ-producer Calvin Harris is resting after he was involved in a car accident Friday night and sustained minor injuries.
  His publicist said Saturday that Harris was a passenger in a vehicle that was struck “in a collision” in Los Angeles. Further details were not provided.
  Harris canceled a performance in Las Vegas and a Saturday performance at the Hangout Festival in Gulf Shores, Alabama.?
  Born Adam Richard Wiles, Harris is known for the electronic dance
  
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• Bondholders sue over Puerto Rico debt-moratorium law

  21-05-2016 17:35 via salon.com
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Holders of bonds from Puerto Rico’s Government Development Bank are suing to challenge aspects of a debt-moratorium law that island officials say is crucial to maintaining essential services as the U.S. territory struggles under a nearly $70 billion debt load.
  The amended federal lawsuit filed late Friday in the U.S. District Court in San Juan names Puerto Rico’s governor and treasury secretary as well as an unidentified bank receiver. It argues tha
  
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• The Red Cross is its own disaster: Relief agency stumbles again after Mississippi flood

  21-05-2016 17:00 via salon.com
  
  A member of the Red Cross distributes food to residents of Coney Island affected by Superstorm Sandy, Nov. 9, 2012. (Credit: AP/John Minchillo)When record-high floodwaters hit counties across Mississippi in March, over 650 homes sustained major damage or were destroyed entirely. People fled for shelters, and roadways were washed out. State officials told the press the damage was the most widespread they’d seen since Hurricane Katrina.
  The American Red Cross quickly dispatched volunteers. T
  
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• Robots will rule us all: The future of American policing is the stuff of dystopian science fiction

  21-05-2016 16:00 via salon.com
  
  Arnold Schwarzenegger in "Terminator Genisys" (Credit: Paramount Pictures)
  Can’t you see the writing on the touchscreen? A techno-utopia is upon us. We’ve gone from smartphones at the turn of the twenty-first century to smart fridges and smart cars. The revolutionary changes to our everyday life will no doubt keep barreling along. By 2018, so predicts Gartner, an information technology research and advisory company, more than three million employees will work for “robo-bosses&r
  
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• Donald Trump gets away with every lie: Ronald Reagan, Fox News and how the right slowly gutted the truth

  21-05-2016 15:30 via salon.com
  
  Ronald Reagan, Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Doug Mills/Andrew Harnik/Photo montage by Salon)
  With Donald Trump’s ascension as the GOP’s presidential nominee, we’ve clearly entered a new stage, and as usual this election cycle, it’s happening much more rapidly and in ways that have caught media and political elites by surprise. But how we got here and what lies ahead share much more in common than most are willing to admit, most pointedly, the extent to which the media and the
  
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• 3 more bikers file suit over Waco shooting involving police

  21-05-2016 15:30 via salon.com
  WACO, Texas (AP) — Three bikers arrested after a shooting involving police outside a Waco restaurant have filed lawsuits against local officials, alleging civil rights violations.
  The Waco Tribune-Herald reports (http://bit.ly/1U6pioL ) that Bradley Terwilliger, Benjamin Matcek and Jimmy Dan Smith filed suit Friday in a Travis County federal court seeking unspecified damages.
  The suits name McLennan County District Attorney Abel Reyna, Waco Police Chief Brent Stroman, Waco police officer M
  
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• This is a Democratic civil war: The Hillary/Bernie rift cuts to the essence of the party’s soul

  21-05-2016 15:29 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton (Credit: AP/Mary Altaffer/Reuters/Jim Bourg/Photo montage by Salon)
  Trying in vain to derail the Donald Trump locomotive, his Republican Party opponents tarred him with the most toxic political metaphor of the last half century: he was, they claimed, a limousine liberal.
  Hillary Clinton has borne that stigma through a good part of her political career. She will undoubtedly confront that charge again in the fall should she be the Democratic nominee. Even socialist
  
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• Nadal back in Paris, no title to defend, no Federer to face

  21-05-2016 15:02 via salon.com
  PARIS (AP) — Through the years, Rafael Nadal grew accustomed to a couple of givens at the French Open: He would arrive as the defending champion, and Roger Federer would be somewhere in the draw, often awaiting a showdown in the final.
  This time around, neither is the case.
  Federer withdrew a few days before Sunday’s start of the clay-court Grand Slam tournament, ending his record run of 65 consecutive major appearances.
  “For the fans, for the tournament, for the world (of) ten
  
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• Funerals held for 2 killed in Friday protests

  21-05-2016 15:01 via salon.com
  BAGHDAD (AP) — Hundreds gathered in Baghdad’s Sadr City Saturday as families held funerals for two people killed in protests a day earlier. The coffins for the two men were hoisted above the crowds of mourners before being driven to the holy city of Najaf for burial.
  The men — Hussein Hasab, 21, and Haider Hassan, 43 — died of gunshot wounds Friday after thousands, mostly supporters of powerful Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, surged up to the walls of Baghdad’s highl
  
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• Brother of Brussels bomber wins European taekwondo gold

  21-05-2016 14:58 via salon.com
  MONTREUX, Switzerland (AP) — Mourad Laachraoui, the brother of one of the Brussels airport suicide bombers, keeps enhancing his Olympic taekwondo medal prospects after winning his third gold medal this year.
  Laachraoui earned his biggest title yet in the European taekwondo championships, when he beat Jesus Tortosa Cabrera of Spain 6-3 in the under-54 kilogram final this week. That was after he defeated Stanislav Denisov of Russia, a world championship bronze medalist last year, in the semi
  
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• The Latest: Space shuttle tank treks to Los Angeles museum

  21-05-2016 14:34 via salon.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on a space shuttle fuel tank heading to a Los Angeles museum (all times local):
  9:20 a.m.
  A gigantic space shuttle fuel tank is creeping through streets near Los Angeles on its way to a science museum.
  The 33-ton, 154-foot-long external propellant tank began moving at 12:01 a.m. Saturday from coastal Marina del Rey to the California Science Center in downtown Los Angeles.
  The orange-brown, sausage-shaped tank is being trucked at 5 mph. By early morning, it was
  
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• Winner of 1st race on Preakness day collapses, dies

  21-05-2016 14:30 via salon.com
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — In a tragic start to Preakness day, the winner of the first race at Pimlico Race Course has died on his walk back to the barn.
  Homeboykris had rallied to win the race by a half-length on a rainy Saturday. But after having his picture taken in the winner’s circle, he collapsed and died. Track officials believe the 9-year-old gelding suffered cardiovascular collapse.
  The horse will be taken to New Bolton Center in Pennsylvania for an autopsy.
  Homeboykris won the Champa
  
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• Turning 29, Novak Djokovic still chasing elusive French Open

  21-05-2016 14:24 via salon.com
  
  Serbia's Novak Djokovic wear a beret and a as he plays petanque before a training session of the French Open tennis tournament at the Roland Garros stadium, in Paris Saturday, May 21, 2016 . The French Open starts Sunday May 22. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena) (Credit: AP)
  PARIS (AP) — Novak Djokovic will be celebrating his 29th birthday when the French Open starts on Sunday. If nothing else, it underlines just how frustrating it has become for the top-ranked Serb to win the only major to elude
  
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• Sports power couple: Eatons gearing up for Rio Olympics

  21-05-2016 14:21 via salon.com
  
  Ashton Eaton crouched in the dirt and concentrated on conquering his latest rival — weeds overwhelming his backyard.
  The Olympic decathlon champion and world-record holder dominated those pesky intruders, with his wife posting his handiwork on social media.
  Just a snapshot into the life of the Eatons — your ordinary neighbors in Eugene, Oregon. Ashton frequently toils in the yard while Brianne Theisen-Eaton does the grocery shopping and cooking.
  “There it is for you: She hunts
  
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• Russian military shows off its elite aerobatic flying teams

  21-05-2016 14:17 via salon.com
  
  KUBINKA AIR BASE, Russia (AP) — The Russian military’s elite aerobatic squadrons have marked their 25-year jubilee with an air show outside Moscow.
  The Strizhi (the Swifts) aerobatic team flying MiG-29 jets and the Russkiye Vityazi (the Russian Knights) operating the heavier Su-27 fighters performed Saturday before enthusiastic crowds at their home base west of the Russian capital.
  The show included spectacular low passes and synchronous maneuvers showing off the jets’ high thr
  
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• Russia arrests 4 people suspected of ties to Islamic State

  21-05-2016 14:04 via salon.com
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia’s anti-terrorism agency says its officers have arrested four people it says are connected with the Islamic State group and are suspected of planning attacks.
  The National Anti-Terrorism Committee said in a statement Saturday the four were arrested in a raid in the southern republic of Ingushetia that also turned up three self-made explosive devices, grenades and firearms.
  Ingushetia is one of the republics in Russia’s restive Caucasus region, which is facin
  
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• Activists: Suspected coalition airstrike kills Syrian family

  21-05-2016 13:56 via salon.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Activists say seven members of the same family were killed in an airstrike by the U.S.-led international coalition against the Islamic State group on the northern Syrian village of Arshaf.
  The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based group that monitors the Syria conflict through local observers, says warplanes seen to cross into Syrian airspace from Turkey bombed the IS-held village, killing the seven family members, among them five women and a child.
  The Local C
  
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• Indiana court to hear woman’s appeal of feticide conviction

  21-05-2016 13:53 via salon.com
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Attorneys for an Indiana woman found guilty of killing the premature infant she delivered after ingesting abortion-inducing drugs will soon ask an appeals court to throw out the convictions that led to her 20-year prison sentence.
  At issue is Indiana’s feticide statute, which the defense says was “passed to protect pregnant women from violence” that could harm their developing fetus, not to prosecute women for their own abortions. The state says that l
  
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