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• G-7 in sync with Japanese Prime Minister Abe’s own agenda

  25-05-2016 23:26 via salon.com
  
  German Chancellor Angela Merkel, front left, is greeted by officials on her arrival at Chubu Centrair International Airport in Tokoname, Aichi prefecture, central Japan Thursday, May 26, 2016. Merkel will attend the Group of Seven meetings in the Ise-Shima region on May 26 and 27.(Takuya Inaba/Kyodo News via AP) JAPAN OUT, MANDATORY CREDIT (Credit: AP)
  ISE, Japan (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and fellow leaders of the Group of Seven advanced economies will begin their summit Th
  
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• 500-pound actor known for low-budget movies dies in NY at 62

  25-05-2016 23:26 via salon.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Joe Fleishaker (FLY’-shay-kur), a 500-pound actor known for his work in low-budget horror films, has died. He was 62.
  Dr. Haskel Fleishaker says his brother died Monday at Montefiore Medical Center in New York City.
  He says his brother had been in rehab facilities for several years after being diagnosed with congestive heart failure. He says Fleishaker was hospitalized last Friday and died unexpectedly Monday. The precise cause of death was not immediately known.
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• Man arrested for dragging dog behind truck in Washington

  25-05-2016 23:13 via salon.com
  VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Police have arrested a man for dragging a dog behind his truck in Vancouver.
  Vancouver police said in a Wednesday news release that police went to a home on Sunday on a report of a dog being dragged by a truck to that location. Witnesses told police they had heard a dog yelping and crying loudly and saw a dog hanging by a leash on the side of a truck.
  Police say they weren’t able to make contact with the residents initially and returned with search warrants. O
  
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• Microsoft’s Windows 10 push comes to shove for some users

  25-05-2016 23:06 via salon.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft really, REALLY wants you to upgrade to Windows 10.
  Since last summer, the tech giant has pushed and prodded PC owners to upgrade their machines to its latest Windows version. While the upgrade is currently free for most consumers with Windows PCs, critics say the company’s heavy-handed nudging amounts to an “offer you can’t refuse.”
  Microsoft initially offered Windows 10 as an optional upgrade — that is, one that users had to cho
  
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• LEADING OFF: Harper slumping, Fernandez rolling in NL East

  25-05-2016 22:54 via salon.com
  
  A look at what’s happening all around the majors Thursday:
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  Struggling Bryce Harper hopes to get some pitches to hit when the Nationals host the Cardinals for a four-game set. Harper sat Wednesday before grounding out as a pinch-hitter in the eighth inning in a 2-0 loss to the Mets. The NL MVP has had a tough month, with opponents consistently pitching around him. He’s hitting .197 with two homers in May but also has a .458 on-base percentage thanks to 31 walks.
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• The Latest: Report: Black drivers more likely to be searched

  25-05-2016 22:42 via salon.com
  SOUTH ROYALTON, Vt. (AP) — The Latest on a report on five years of traffic-stop data collected by Vermont State Police (all times local):
  7:30 p.m.
  Officials say five years of traffic-stop data show black drivers stopped by Vermont State Police were five times more likely to be searched than white drivers, even though contraband was more likely to be found when white motorists were searched.
  The Institute on Race and Justice at Boston’s Northeastern University found the percentage of
  
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• Australian lawmaker links trade dispute with asylum seekers

  25-05-2016 22:38 via salon.com
  CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Australia’s deputy prime minister has come under fire for suggesting that a temporary ban on cattle exports to Indonesia five years ago hindered ties with Jakarta that contributed to an influx of asylum seekers reaching Australian shores by boats from Indonesian ports.
  Deputy Prime Minister Barnaby Joyce linked the 2011 events during a campaign debate on agricultural policies Wednesday night ahead of elections on July 2.
  The Indonesian Embassy denied any li
  
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• Church slaying families accept pursuit of death penalty

  25-05-2016 22:28 via salon.com
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The husband of a woman gunned down at a historic black church in Charleston with eight other people said Wednesday he won’t be at peace until the man charged in the slayings is put to death.
  Arthur Hurd, whose wife, Cynthia, was among those killed June 17 during Bible study, is one of several family members of victims who want to see Dylann Roof die if he is convicted.
  “What would give me full closure would be if I were the one who pushed the plunger on th
  
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• ‘Lost my way': Murray pushed to 5 sets again at French Open

  25-05-2016 22:24 via salon.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — As if ordering room service, Andy Murray’s latest unheralded French Open tormenter requested that a can of Coke and a Mars bar be brought to him right there on Court Philippe Chatrier for sustenance during their five-setter.
  Truth is, it was Murray who appeared in need of a jolt of some sort, especially while he was losing 16 points in a row during one stretch.
  “I lost my way on the court today,” Murray said, “for quite a while.”
  For now, Murray i
  
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• District accused of demoting employee for maternity leave

  25-05-2016 22:11 via salon.com
  
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Federal officials are suing a South Florida school district, claiming an assistant principal was demoted for taking maternity leave.
  The Department of Justice filed a complaint Wednesday against the School District of Palm Beach County. It says the former Turning Points Academy administrator, Anne Williams Dorsey, was subjected to unlawful changes to her work hours and pay after taking maternity leave, a violation of the Civil Rights Act.
  The suit says the form
  
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• Strange bedfellows: Karl Rove, Tea Party Express “endorse” Debbie Wasserman Schultz in Democratic primary fight

  25-05-2016 21:59 via salon.com
  
  Democratic National Committee Chairwoman Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz(Credit: AP/Alex Brandon)
  Like it or not, trolling appears to be a feature of modern American politics that is here to stay.
  Expert Republican troll Karl Rove, who duped conservative voters to re-elect George W. Bush with promises of a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage and convinced Fox News to air his bitter rambling about an impending Mitt Romney win in Ohio until the bitter end of the 2012 election, has fin
  
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• Baltimore officers charged in prisoner death sue state

  25-05-2016 21:58 via salon.com
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Two Baltimore police officers facing criminal charges in the death of a young black man whose neck was broken in the back of a police van have sued the city’s top prosecutor and an official in the sheriff’s office for defamation.
  Officer William Porter and Sgt. Alicia White filed the suit against Baltimore State’s Attorney Marilyn Mosby and Maj. Sam Cogen in Baltimore Circuit Court on May 2.
  Porter and White are among six officers charged in the death of
  
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• Report: Vermont troopers more likely to search black drivers

  25-05-2016 21:41 via salon.com
  
  SOUTH ROYALTON, Vt. (AP) — Five years of traffic-stop data collected by Vermont State Police show a black motorist who is pulled over is nearly five times more likely to be searched than a white driver, while contraband is more likely to be found when a white driver is searched.
  The data were collected by state troopers on traffic details between July 2010 and December 2015 and analyzed by the Institute on Race and Justice at Boston’s Northeastern University. The findings were presen
  
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• Flooded homeowners sue Houston, alleging negligence

  25-05-2016 21:39 via salon.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — A citizen’s group and homeowners who have recently suffered repeat flood damage have sued Houston for negligence, alleging the city backed improvements at a commercial development they say were made without putting in adequate drainage.
  Residents Against Flooding and five individuals filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against Houston and two quasi-governmental authorities created at the turn of the century to better infrastructure around the Memorial City complex.
  The p
  
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• Man given 26-year sentence for dismembering girlfriend

  25-05-2016 21:32 via salon.com
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a California man to 26 years in prison for killing his girlfriend in Panama, dismembering her body with a machete and disposing of her remains in the jungle.
  Brian Brimager was sentenced Wednesday in federal court in San Diego in the death of 42-year-old Yvonne Lee Baldelli.
  Brimager had entered a guilty plea to second-degree murder, saying he stabbed Baldelli in the back before disposing of her remains on a Panamanian island where the couple
  
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• Hunting trip shooting prompts Portland chief’s removal

  25-05-2016 21:32 via salon.com
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland’s top police officer was placed on paid administrative leave this week after authorities learned he may have lied about accidentally shooting a friend in the back during a hunting trip last month in eastern Oregon.
  Portland Police Chief Larry O’Dea was placed on leave Tuesday by Mayor Charlie Hales after a series of agency investigations were launched last week into the April 21 incident.
  The controversy stems from the fact that O’Dea told a
  
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• Recordings put pressure on allies of Brazil’s acting leader

  25-05-2016 21:28 via salon.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Secretly recorded conversations hit two more key allies of Brazil’s acting president Wednesday, leaving the country wondering if there are more taps that could affect the interim government after only 13 days in office.
  The audios involve prominent members of the fractious Brazilian Democratic Movement Party led by Michel Temer, who took over the presidency after the Senate suspended President Dilma Rousseff pending an impeachment trial.
  The first recording has
  
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• AP Source: Grizzlies offer coaching job to David Fizdale

  25-05-2016 21:21 via salon.com
  
  A person with knowledge of the negotiations says the Memphis Grizzlies have offered their head coaching job to Miami Heat assistant David Fizdale.
  The person says Fizdale met with Grizzlies controlling owner Robert Pera on Wednesday in California and that the job had been offered. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity because the Grizzlies are not commenting on specific candidates in their coaching search.
  Yahoo! Sports first reported the offer.
  Fizdale would replace
  
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• Man charged with posing as football player to extort woman

  25-05-2016 21:14 via salon.com
  
  KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee man has been arrested on charges that he attempted to extort a woman by posing as a University of Tennessee football player on Snapchat.
  Brandon Douglas Shanahan, a 22-year-old from Sweetwater, pleaded not guilty Wednesday before U.S. Magistrate Judge Dennis Inman and was released on bond.
  The U.S. attorney’s office issued a news release saying Shanahan was arrested Tuesday and charged with intending to extort money “and other things of value
  
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• Coach Steve Kerr: Warriors on brink but ready to rally

  25-05-2016 21:01 via salon.com
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Steve Kerr gave his Golden State players a much-needed mental day off with time to rest their weary bodies, and he got back to work trying to figure out how to save the season against a powerful Thunder team that shows no signs of slowing down.
  Back to the basics, back to doing the little things that got the Warriors this far.
  After a record 73 wins in the regular season, the Warriors are on the brink as they go into Game 5 of the Western Conference finals Thursday n
  
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• UN envoy says radically more must be done for Mideast peace

  25-05-2016 20:47 via salon.com
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N.’s top Mideast envoy says Palestinians in Gaza are growing ever more desperate and unless “radically more” is done to address the situation, it is only a matter of time before there is another escalation of violence.
  Nickolay Mladenov told the Security Council on Wednesday that May saw the biggest escalation of violence in Gaza since 2014 and that those incidents threaten the current ceasefire.
  He said the Quartet of Mideast mediators —
  
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• Under bill, engineers can’t operate trains if license pulled

  25-05-2016 18:44 via salon.com
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A top state lawmaker said Wednesday he will push for a vote this week on legislation that would prevent engineers from operating trains if their driver’s licenses are revoked or suspended for drunken driving violations.
  The move came after a TV station’s investigation revealed that New Jersey Transit engineer Thomas Broschart has been operating commuter trains despite losing his license to drive a car for 10 years for repeated drunken driving.
  WABC-TV in New
  
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• UK looks into Italian claims that WWII sub has been found

  25-05-2016 18:44 via salon.com
  ROME (AP) — Britain’s Royal Navy says it’s looking into claims by an Italian diver that he located the long-lost wreck of the HMS P311 submarine, which was downed off Sardinia during World War II.
  Diver Massimo Bondone told the La Nuova Sardegna daily he found the P311 at a depth of 80 meters (262 feet) off the isle of Tavolara during a dive last weekend.
  Paola Pegoraro of the Orso diving club, which provided logistics for the dive, told The Associated Press the sub was positiv
  
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• 1st US firefighters head to Canada to help attack huge blaze

  25-05-2016 18:42 via salon.com
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — For the first time, U.S. officials have sent firefighters to help battle a giant blaze in Canada that has destroyed parts of Fort McMurray in Alberta.
  The National Interagency Fire Center says 100 firefighters flew out of in Boise, Idaho, on Wednesday morning and another 100 left from Missoula, Montana.
  Officials say the firefighters are from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management, Forest Service, and Fish and Wildlife Service.
  The blaze has forced tens of thousands of peop
  
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• The Latest: Michigan man faces murder charge in 2014 death

  25-05-2016 18:22 via salon.com
  
  MUSKEGON, Mich. (AP) — The Latest on charges filed against a Michigan man in the 2014 fatal shooting of a 36-year-old woman (all times local):
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  A man charged with killing a jogger in western Michigan in 2014 has appeared in court to hear the accusations against him.
  Jeffrey Willis appeared in court Wednesday without an attorney, which is typical at arraignments. The Muskegon County judge entered not guilty pleas on Willis’ behalf. He will get a court-appointed attorney.
  
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• Indy 500 champions choose the greatest rivalries of the race

  25-05-2016 18:21 via salon.com
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Mario Andretti silently stewed as Bobby Unser celebrated winning the 1981 Indianapolis 500.
  Andretti had finished second that day as Unser took over the lead when Gordon Johncock blew an engine with less than 10 laps to go. Unser went on to win for a third time with a margin of victory of 5.18 seconds over Andretti, who wasn’t done by a long shot, not afterUnser exited pit road under caution and passed 14 cars.
  Adamant that no passing under yellow was allowed, And
  
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• Protesters rally ahead of McDonald’s shareholders’ meeting

  25-05-2016 18:14 via salon.com
  
  OAK BROOK, Ill. (AP) — Protesters rallied outside a McDonald’s for higher wage, and the company says employees at its headquarters were working from home Wednesday ahead of more planned demonstrations tied to its annual shareholders’ meeting.
  The world’s biggest burger chain also told employees to work from home last year, when protesters calling for pay of $15 an hour and a union gathered outside its buildings.
  This year, the protests began Wednesday with a strike at the
  
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• Ex-husband charged with murder of missing Florida woman

  25-05-2016 18:11 via salon.com
  HOBE SOUND, Fla. (AP) — The ex-husband of a missing Florida woman has been arrested on second-degree murder and child neglect charges.
  During a news conference Wednesday morning, Martin County Sheriff William Snyder said 30-year-old Steven Williams confessed to killing Tricia Todd in April. The Air Force airman was arrested Tuesday in North Carolina.
  She was last seen at a Publix supermarket on April 26 and reported missing the next day.
  Snyder wouldn’t say how Todd died. Her body ha
  
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• The Latest: Man accused of killing heating oil worker dies

  25-05-2016 18:01 via salon.com
  LONDONDERRY, N.H. (AP) — The Latest on the fatal shooting of an heating oil company worker in New Hampshire (all times local):
  3:45 p.m.
  Authorities say a man who killed a heating oil company worker during a service call at his New Hampshire home has died.
  The attorney general’s office says Richard Verville shot and killed Daniel Rabideau on Tuesday while Rabideau was working on Verville’s heating system in Londonderry. Authorities say Verville then shot himself. Verville survi
  
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• Teen sues in locker room rape, alleges lengthy racist abuse

  25-05-2016 18:00 via salon.com
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A black teenager who prosecutors say was sexually assaulted by three white football players in the locker room of a Idaho high school has sued the school district, alleging the rape was the culmination of months of racist taunts and physical abuse.
  The federal lawsuit filed May 13 says the school failed to prevent bullying and attacks despite many incidents happening in front of football coaches and other officials at Dietrich High School, which serves a rural town of 3
  
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• North Carolina inmate says officers beat him for no reason

  25-05-2016 17:59 via salon.com
  LUMBERTON, N.C. (AP) — A 65-year-old prisoner says he was handcuffed when officers attacked him, causing him to be hospitalized for four days, but a prison spokesman disputes the account.
  Citing hospital records, the Charlotte Observer (http://bit.ly/1YYn7I8 ) reports that inmate Morlai Sesay suffered fractures to bones following a Feb. 21 incident at Lumberton Correctional Institution, a medium security prison.
  Officials said officers were merely trying to subdue Sesay after he pushed a s
  
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• South Carolina Gov. signs 20-week abortion ban

  25-05-2016 17:58 via salon.com
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has signed legislation outlawing most abortions at 20 weeks beyond fertilization.
  The law took effect Wednesday with the Republican governor’s signature. The only exceptions are if the mother’s life is in jeopardy or a doctor determines the fetus can’t survive outside the womb.
  These bans are now in effect in 13 states and blocked by court challenges in three other. South Dakota’s ban takes effect July 1.
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• Florida 6th-grader wins National Geographic Bee

  25-05-2016 17:53 via salon.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Florida sixth-grader has won the 2016 National Geographic Bee.
  Twelve-year-old Rishi Nair of Seffner, Florida, won the top honors Wednesday at the 28th annual Bee in Washington.
  Nair clinched the win by correctly answering “Galapagos Islands” to the question: “A new marine sanctuary will protect sharks and other wildlife around Isla Wolf in which archipelago in the Pacific Ocean?”
  Nair gets a $50,000 scholarship, a trip to Alaska and Glacier Bay
  
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• The Greatest Spectacle in Racing remains an American icon

  25-05-2016 17:48 via salon.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — The Indianapolis 500 has outlasted two world wars, the decline of the automobile industry, a bitter split in open-wheel racing and more death than anyone cares to recall.
  The Greatest Spectacle in Racing might as well be called the Greatest Survivor in Sports.
  Through it all, though, this iconic event in America’s heartland has endured. And after another round of pageantry, another rendition of “Back Home Again in Indiana,” it will run Sunday for the 1
  
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• Warriors could join list of teams that flopped in playoffs

  25-05-2016 17:41 via salon.com
  Despite finishing the regular season with a record-breaking 73 wins, the Golden State Warriors find themselves one game away from playoff elimination. Down 3-1 against the Oklahoma City Thunder in the Western finals after a 118-94 road loss Tuesday night, the defending NBA champions will have to win three straight games to advance. Golden State would join a list of dominant regular season teams that were eliminated without reaching the finals. Teams like the undefeated 2007 Patriots, lost after
  
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• Ukrainian who posed as student faces federal fraud charges

  25-05-2016 17:41 via salon.com
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — A Ukrainian man accused of faking his name and age while attending a central Pennsylvania high school and having sex with an underage girl is now facing federal passport fraud and social security fraud charges.
  Artur Samarin applied for a passport at the Harrisburg post office in December using a false identity and earlier submitted false and misleading information to the Social Security Administration to obtain a social security card, federal prosecutors alleged in
  
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• State Department audit finds Hillary Clinton broke agency rules with private email server

  25-05-2016 17:35 via salon.com
  
  In this May 16, 2016 photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waits to speak at a get out the vote event at La Gala in Bowling Green, Ky.Hillary Clinton has a message for Donald Trump: Bring it on. As Clinton's path to the Democratic nomination seems all-but-assured, friends, aides and supporters describe a candidate who is not only prepared to tune out Trump's increasingly direct attacks on her husband's personal indiscretions but believes they will eventually benefit her presid
  
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• A wrestler, a website and maybe a billionaire go to the mat

  25-05-2016 17:29 via salon.com
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Is Hulk Hogan’s courtroom cage match with Gawker being bankrolled by a high-tech billionaire with a grudge against the news-and-gossip site?
  Two months after Hogan won a $140 million invasion-of-privacy verdict against Gawker for posting a sex tape of him, news reports say the pro wrestler is secretly backed by Silicon Valley venture capitalist Peter Thiel.
  Thiel, who co-founded PayPal and was an early investor in Facebook, was outed as gay by a Gawker-own
  
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• Zimbabwe: Thousands march for Mugabe

  25-05-2016 17:26 via salon.com
  HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Thousands gathered in Zimbabwe on Wednesday to support President Robert Mugabe, with speakers calling for him to rule for life.
  On buses, trains, trucks and by foot, Mugabe’s supporters traveled to the capital, Harare, for the rally.
  Speakers said 92-year-old Mugabe should rule until he dies. His wife, Grace, went a step further and described how she would like to see him rule from the grave, prompting wild cheers from the crowd.
  “He is irreplaceable,&rd
  
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• New lava vents open on active Hawaii volcano

  25-05-2016 17:26 via salon.com
  HAWAII NATIONAL PARK, Hawaii (AP) — Two new lava flows have broken out at Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano, but neither is threatening nearby communities.
  Kilauea is one of the world’s most active volcanoes and in 2014 lava from one of its vents crept into the town of Pahoa, smothering part of a cemetery and burning down a home.
  The Hawaiian Volcano Observatory says the new lava flows broke out Tuesday morning from one of Kilauea’s cones.
  The U.S. Geological Survey released video
  
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• It’s not funny, Osbournes: Slut-shaming and facilitating harassment aren’t laughing matters

  25-05-2016 17:02 via salon.com
  
  Sharon Osbourne and Kelly Osbourne (Credit: Fred Prouser/Reuters)
  There are myriad ways to be dramatic and dysfunctional and make a career out of it, as any reality TV veteran knows. But, Kelly Osbourne, I promise there are better ways to get attention than doxxing and slut shaming.
  On Monday, the former “Fashion Police” host — whose famous parents have been the subject of recent breakup rumors — not so cryptically tweeted to her more than four million followers, &ld
  
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• Patriots ask appeals court to rehear ‘Deflategate’ case

  25-05-2016 16:44 via salon.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The New England Patriots have asked a federal appeals court in New York City to rehear the “Deflategate” case.
  The team said in court papers filed Wednesday in Manhattan that it has a “strong interest” in sparing quarterback Tom Brady from starting the season with a four-game suspension.
  The papers say the Patriots “strongly believe” nobody tampered with footballs at the 2015 AFC Championship game. New England defeated the Indianapolis Co
  
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• Occupy Wall Street is back — and it might actually succeed this time

  25-05-2016 16:38 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: AP/Diane Bondareff)
  What the hell happened to Occupy Wall Street?
  After the Great Recession of 2008, the climate was ripe for populism. Americans were pissed off. The same people who wrecked the economy were, once again, rewarded for their recklessness. The logic of “too big to fail” made sense, but the reality was that these institutions were too big for justice. Necessary or not, the bailouts were an affront to the people whose livelihoods were plundered by the banks.
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• US stocks climb for the second day as energy companies jump

  25-05-2016 13:44 via salon.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are continuing to climb Wednesday as energy companies, banks and mining and chemicals companies all trade higher. Hewlett Packard Enterprise agreed to sell a business to Computer Sciences, and both stocks are jumping. European stocks are rising after a deal to get Greece more rescue loans.
  KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial average advanced 158 points, or 0.9 percent, to 17,864 as of 11:33 a.m. Eastern time. The Standard & Poor’s 500 index rose 14
  
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• A pup named Potato? 15 were registered in NYC last year

  25-05-2016 13:44 via salon.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Bella and Max are top dogs in New York City.
  The city Health Department announced Wednesday that it registered 1,127 dogs named Bella and 1,073 named Max in 2015.
  Bella has been the city’s most popular dog name since 2008. That’s when the last of Stephenie Meyer’s vampire-themed “Twilight” novels featuring heroine Bella Swan was published.
  But some dog owners took their inspiration from the pantry and the garden.
  The Health Department says it l
  
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• Senate votes to scrap catfish inspection program

  25-05-2016 13:43 via salon.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate has voted to scrap a new catfish inspection program that critics have argued is wasteful and unnecessary.
  The vote Wednesday came just after President Barack Obama visited Vietnam, a major exporter of catfish to the United States that has criticized the program. The Senate has approved by 55-43 a resolution that would void the regulations, if the House agrees and Obama signs on.
  The inspection program was first created by Congress in the 2008 farm law and is ch
  
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• The Latest: Slovakia not a place for Muslims, premier says

  25-05-2016 13:40 via salon.com
  
  From left, German Minister for Economic Affairs and Energy, Sigmar Gabriel, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Peter Altmaier, Head of the Federal Chancellery and Federal Minister for Special Tasks chat at the beginning of a cabinet meeting as part of a two-day retreat of the German government in Meseberg north of Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, May 25, 2016. (AP Photo/Michael Sohn) (Credit: AP)
  BERLIN (AP) — The Latest on the influx of migrants into Europe (all times local):
  3:40 p.m.
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• North Carolina woman charged in death of 4-day old child

  25-05-2016 13:40 via salon.com
  
  TAYLORSVILLE, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina woman has been arrested in the death of her 4-day-old infant.
  The Alexander County Sheriff’s Office told local media outlets that 22-year-old Aishia Marie Pacheco has been charged with second-degree murder and is being held on $1 million bail.
  Sheriff Chris Bowman said the baby was suffocated because he was crying.
  The sheriff’s office said someone called 911 shortly after 6 a.m. Tuesday to report an unresponsive infant in the home.
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• Thais upset that ‘fresh’ orange juice is not what it seems

  25-05-2016 13:29 via salon.com
  
  BANGKOK (AP) — Thai health officials are conducting surprise inspections of fresh orange juice vendors around the country after photos posted on Facebook showed producers adulterating the juice in big plastic tubs.
  Thailand’s Food and Drug Administration announced the crackdown Wednesday in response to an uproar over the pictures, which showed a couple diluting orange juice with water streamed from a garden hose, and then adding sugar and orange food coloring.
  Small plastic bottles,
  
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• The Latest: Expert: Orleans jail staff has ‘no clue’

  25-05-2016 13:23 via salon.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — The Latest on a move to have a federal court appoint a third party to run the New Orleans jail (all times local):
  10 a.m.
  A court-appointed prison monitor says staffers at the New Orleans jail that opened last September “just have no clue” of how to run it.
  Susan McCampbell’s remarks came on opening day of a federal court hearing on whether an independent third party should be placed in charge of the jail instead of Sheriff Marlin Gusman. McCampbell des
  
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