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• Lawyer: Rapper Gucci Mane released early from Indiana prison

  26-05-2016 23:07 via salon.com
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — A lawyer for rapper Gucci Mane says his client has been released a few months early from an Indiana prison where he was serving a federal firearms sentence.
  Attorney Drew Findling says the 36-year-old music artist, whose real name is Radric Davis, was released Thursday from the Federal Correctional Institution in Terre Haute, Indiana. Findling says Davis was released early after a filed motion said the rapper hadn’t received credit for previous time served.
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• I'll be watching & cheering you on, @jamielynnspears 💕 When The Lights Go Out premieres on 6/26 at 10/9c on @TLC britney.lk/jlswtlgo

  26-05-2016 23:04 via twitter.com
  I'll be watching & cheering you on, @jamielynnspears 💕 When The Lights Go Out premieres on 6/26 at 10/9c on @TLC britney.lk/jlswtlgo
  
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• Minnesota eagle, a symbol for wounded vets, dies at age 35

  26-05-2016 23:03 via salon.com
  WABASHA, Minn. (AP) — A Minnesota eagle that gained fame in national TV appearances and as a symbol for wounded veterans has died at the ripe old age of 35, the National Eagle Center announced Thursday.
  The eagle, Harriet, had lived at the center in the southeastern Minnesota city of Wabasha since 2000, a couple years after she suffered severe injuries in a collision with a vehicle that left her unable to fly and unable to return to the wild.
  She was a popular attraction at the center, and
  
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• Jury sides with Google in battle over Android software

  26-05-2016 22:54 via salon.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Google’s Android software just dodged a $9 billion bullet.
  A federal jury found Thursday that Google didn’t need permission to use a rival’s programming tools as it built Android — now the world’s leading smartphone operating software and a key part of Google’s multi-billion dollar Internet business.
  Software competitor Oracle claimed Google had stolen its intellectual property and reaped huge profits by copying pieces of an Oracle p
  
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• Police: 10-year-old boy playing with gun kills 11-year-old

  26-05-2016 22:53 via salon.com
  ROANOKE, Va. (AP) — Police say a 10-year-old fatally shot an 11-year-old after the boys found a handgun in a home in Virginia.
  Roanoke police said in a statement that the boys were playing with the gun about 12:20 p.m. Thursday when the younger boy shot the older. Police say the 10-year-old called 911.
  Police spokesman Scott Leamon tells The Roanoke Times that the 11-year-old was pronounced dead at the scene. He says no one else was in the house when the shooting occurred and the boys were
  
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• Panama initiates process to seek extradition of ex-president

  26-05-2016 22:51 via salon.com
  PANAMA CITY (AP) — Panama’s top court has initiated a process to seek the extradition of former President Ricardo Martinelli from the United States on charges related to illegal wiretaps against dozens of opponents while in office.
  Panama’s foreign ministry said Thursday that the Supreme Court had sent it documents requesting Martinelli’s extradition. The ministry will make sure they meet the requirements before pursuing the extradition.
  In December, the 63-year-old Marti
  
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• Towns in Texas, Arizona are battlegrounds in bathroom debate

  26-05-2016 22:33 via salon.com
  HARROLD, Texas (AP) — An unlikely battleground over whether public schools must allow transgender students to use the bathroom of their choice is taking shape in two tiny towns in Texas and Arizona, neither of which currently enrolls anyone who is transgender.
  Eleven states suing the Obama administration claim that a new federal directive about transgender students thrusts “seismic changes” upon 100,000 schools nationwide. But only two districts joined the lawsuit — Harro
  
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• Bill Clinton’s nemesis, Ken Starr, booted as Baylor University President amid shocking sexual assault scandal

  26-05-2016 22:25 via salon.com
  
  Baylor Bears president Ken Starr and Texas Governor Rick Perry prior to the start of the inaugural game between Baylor University and Southern Methodist University at McLane Stadium in Waco on Sunday, August 31, 2014.(Credit: Vernon Bryant/The Dallas Morning News)
  Just as the never-quite-dead Whitewater scandal is being forced into national political discourse again by Donald Trump, the former special prosecutor who spent three years chasing the right-wing ghost before become infamous for his do
  
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• The Latest: 2nd suspect arrested in student’s fatal shooting

  26-05-2016 22:14 via salon.com
  
  In this photo taken Wednesday, May 25, 2016, Marin County Sheriff and Novato police members gather at a command post to form a massive manhunt following at attack on two students in Novato, Calif. Attackers shot two students near a San Francisco Bay Area high school, killing one and sending another to a hospital in an incident that prompted the closing of the campus, authorities said Thursday. Both victims were students at Novato High School. (Robert Tong/Marin Independent Journal via AP) (Credi
  
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• AP Source: Rockets, D’Antoni agree on 4-year deal

  26-05-2016 22:13 via salon.com
  A person with knowledge of the situation tells The Associated Press that the Houston Rockets have agreed to terms with Mike D’Antoni on a four-year deal to make him their new head coach.
  The two sides came to agreement on Thursday. The person spoke on condition of anonymity because the team has not announced the hiring.
  The 65-year-old D’Antoni has long been thought of as one of the most innovative offensive minds in basketball. He led the Phoenix Suns to two Western Conference final
  
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• Journalists blast NY Times for “grotesque” pro-Israel bias and distortion of illegal occupation of Palestine

  26-05-2016 22:10 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: Reuters/Shannon Stapleton/Salon)
  Advocates for Palestinian human rights, journalists and progressive media watchdogs have long accused the New York Times of biased, pro-Israel coverage.
  The Times regularly fails to mention that the Palestinian territories have been illegally occupied by Israel since 1967. It often uses euphemistic language to describe Israel’s illegal activity, dubbing lands unlawfully seized by Israel in violation of international law “disputed” terri
  
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• Bryce Molder shoots 64 to take lead at Colonial

  26-05-2016 22:08 via salon.com
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Bryce Molder birdied six of his last nine holes for a 6-under 64 and a one-stroke lead Thursday after the first round of the Dean & Deluca Invitational at Colonial.
  Molder was in the first group of the day off the 10th tee, and was on the 16th green when play was stopped for 75 minutes because of rain and lightning. He completed his seventh of nine consecutive pars when play resumed, then had all of those birdies on the front nine.
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• Obama ready to face historic, haunted ground of Hiroshima

  26-05-2016 22:06 via salon.com
  HIROSHIMA, Japan (AP) — Convinced that the time for this moment is right at last, President Barack Obama on Friday will become the first American president to confront the historic and haunted ground of Hiroshima.
  Here, at this place of so much suffering, where U.S. forces dropped the atomic bomb that gave birth to the nuclear age, Obama will pay tribute to the 140,000 people who died from the attack seven decades ago.
  He will not apologize. He will not second-guess President Harry Truman&
  
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• Dark musical ‘American Psycho’ feels the knife

  26-05-2016 21:53 via salon.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The life of the Broadway musical “American Psycho” has been cut short, a victim of vicious box office numbers.
  Producers of the adaptation of the novel by Bret Easton Ellis said Thursday the show will close June 5 after 81 performances. The musical struggled with attracting ticket sales and got only two technical Tony nominations.
  It centers on an investment banker obsessed with high-end clothes and beauty products who slashes his way through yuppie 1989 Manhatt
  
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• “Now hiring class of 2016″: Outrage over Michigan strip club’s casting call

  26-05-2016 21:52 via salon.com
  
  This strip club's sign has drawn outrage in Michigan and on the internet (Credit: WNEM TV 5)
  Miceli’s Corner, a strip club in Harrison, Michigan, further freaked out the neighborhood when it updated its street sign to say, “Now hiring class of 2016,” according to a local CBS affiliate report.
  “Children fresh out of high school shouldn’t be taking their clothes off for money,” said outraged Harrison resident, Lisa Dickerson. “I think it’s sickening.
  
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• Stamkos returns for Lightning in Game 7 against Penguins

  26-05-2016 21:51 via salon.com
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Tampa Bay Lightning captain Steven Stamkos picked an interesting time to make his 2016 playoff debut.
  Stamkos returned to Tampa Bay’s lineup on Thursday night for Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals against Pittsburgh. Stamkos last played on March 31 before undergoing surgery on April 4 to treat a blood clot near his right collarbone. Stamkos will play on the third line between Ondrej Palat and Ryan Callahan.
  Stamkos has skated with his teammates in practice the
  
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• Sanders’ DNC platform team pushes for Palestinian rights, blasts Israeli war crimes

  26-05-2016 21:50 via salon.com
  
  Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders, Benjamin Netanyahu (Credit: Reuters/Brian Snyder/Katherine Taylor/Nir Elias/Photo montage by Salon)
  The Bernie Sanders camp continues its push for Palestinian rights.
  Two of the members of the Democratic Party’s platform drafting committee who were appointed by Sen. Sanders have criticized Israel and called for a more even-handed approach to the Israel-Palestine conflict, The New York Times reported.
  Cornel West, the renowned scholar and activist, and James
  
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• Boggs ‘back home’ as his No. 26 is retired at Fenway Park

  26-05-2016 21:50 via salon.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The ‘chicken man’ has lost a little of the shimmer from his trademark mustache over the years, but every pilgrimage Wade Boggs makes to Fenway Park still feels like old times for the Red Sox legend.
  “I’ve come back home,” Boggs said.
  On Thursday night Boggs added to his cache of memories when the Red Sox retired his No. 26.
  “Today is the final piece of my baseball puzzle,” he said during the pregame ceremony.
  Boggs became the 10th for
  
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• Mom charged with murder after driving into lake with son

  26-05-2016 21:44 via salon.com
  
  CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) — A woman who drove into a lake with her 6-year-old son in the car has been charged with attempted 1st-degree murder.
  State Bureau of Investigation spokesman Shannon O’Toole said Leonora Cillay was taken into custody and charged Thursday shortly after she was released from a hospital in Chapel Hill. O’Toole said he didn’t know the condition of Cillay’s son.
  A report from the state Division of Parks and Recreation said Cillay told park rangers
  
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• “It is now inevitable”: Conservatives, pundits react to Trump securing enough delegates for GOP nomination

  26-05-2016 21:35 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Steve Helber)
  There’s no getting around it now. As of Thursday, Donald Trump has secured the delegates necessary to clinch the Republican presidential nomination, the AP reports.
  Reactions within the conservative Twittersphere ran the gamut from delight to depression:
  It is now inevitable that Donald Trump will be President of the United States.
  — Milo Yiannopoulos ✘ (@Nero) May 26, 2016
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  — Bill Mitchell
  
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• Khloe Kardashian files to divorce Lamar Odom – again

  26-05-2016 21:31 via salon.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Khloe Kardashian is once again seeking to end her marriage to former NBA player Lamar Odom.
  Court records in Los Angeles show Kardashian filed for divorce Thursday, citing irreconcilable differences.
  The reality TV star and Odom married in September 2009, and she filed to divorce him in December 2013, which she still lists as their date of separation. The divorce was never finalized and Kardashian withdrew the petition after Odom was found unconscious at a Nevada brothel
  
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• Feds: 2016 hurricane season in Pacific will be about average

  26-05-2016 21:27 via salon.com
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — After a record-setting hurricane season fueled by a strong El Nino in 2015, federal forecasters said Thursday the 2016 central Pacific hurricane season will likely be only slightly above average as La Nina conditions take over.
  Forecasters with the National Weather Service’s Central Pacific Hurricane Center predict between four and seven tropical cyclones to form in the region this season, which runs from June 1 through the end of November. They said there is about a
  
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• Britney's BBMAs Performance is now on Vevo!

  26-05-2016 19:58
  Watch Britney perform her greatest hits at the 2016 Billboard Music Awards NOW on Vevo!From www.britneyspears.com
  
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• The Daily Caller loses it over Obama family mansion that’s (gasp!) 1,096 feet from a mosque

  26-05-2016 19:43 via salon.com
  
  President Barack Obama (Credit: CNN)
  After it was announced that President Obama would be moving into a mansion in the Kalorama neighborhood of Washington, D.C., following his two-term tenure, conservative publication The Daily Caller is making a stink about the house’s proximity to a mosque.
  “The mammoth, multi-million-dollar mansion … is located 1,096 feet from the Islamic Center of Washington — one of the largest mosques in the Western Hemisphere,” writes D
  
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• News Guide: Review finds Baylor disregarded sexual assault

  26-05-2016 18:36 via salon.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — After months of silence, Baylor University on Thursday responded to mounting criticism of its handling of accusations of sexual assaults and other attacks by football players by demoting its president, Ken Starr, and firing its football coach, Art Briles.
  Baylor also released the main findings of a withering report by a law firm that reviewed the school’s handling of such cases and found, among other things, that administrators denied that the university had a sexual vi
  
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• Trump agrees to debate Sanders; Fox News is ‘interested’

  26-05-2016 18:26 via salon.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is welcoming Bernie Sanders’ proposal that they meet in a debate but is setting a high price for participating. His condition: The hosting TV network would have to put up millions of dollars for charity.
  Representatives for Fox News and ABC News say the networks are “interested” in hosting such a showdown. The Fox News spokeswoman added that the network had proposed a Trump-Sanders debate in February and while Sanders agreed, Trump backed ou
  
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• Penske the standard of excellence at Indy after 50 years

  26-05-2016 18:25 via salon.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — It was 1951 when Jay Penske scored a pair of tickets to the Indianapolis 500. He was an executive for a metal fabrication company in Cleveland that was sponsoring a few laps in the race, so he brought his 14-year-old son to Indianapolis Motor Speedway.
  Roger Penske, already a car lover, was instantly hooked. He had listened to previous Indy 500s on the radio, but was now seeing it in person for the first time.
  “We drove here from Cleveland and got here late and we
  
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• Markets Right Now: Stocks close mixed on Wall Street

  26-05-2016 18:15 via salon.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in global financial markets (all times local):
  4:00 p.m.
  U.S. stocks closed mixed Thursday after two straight days of gains. Chemical makers and banks slid while utilities and phone companies gained.
  Monsanto fell nearly 2 percent and Dow Chemical fell 1.7 percent. The chemical sector had gotten a boost earlier in the week on news of a potential sale of Monsanto to Germany’s Bayer.
  Discount retailer Dollar Tree rose 13 percent after it raise
  
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• Louisiana adds police protections to hate-crime laws

  26-05-2016 18:12 via salon.com
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Louisiana has become the first state in the nation to expand its hate-crime laws to protect police, firefighters and emergency medical crews.
  Democratic Gov. John Bel Edwards, whose family includes four generations of sheriffs, signed the law on Thursday. He said it protects “men and women who put their lives on the line every day.”
  Prosecutors can now seek stronger penalties when first responders are intentionally targeted becauise of their professions.
  
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• What to watch Friday at French Open: Murray vs Karlovic

  26-05-2016 18:06 via salon.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — It’s hard to say who will be in better shape Friday when Andy Murray plays Ivo Karlovic in the third round of the French Open.
  The second-seeded Murray already has been pushed to five sets twice in Paris. Karlovic, seeded No. 27, needed 41 aces to win his second-round match in five sets. He became, at 37, the oldest man to reach the third round of a major since Jimmy Connors at the 1991 U.S. Open. Karlovic spent 4 hours, 31 minutes on the red clay to set up his match wit
  
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• The Latest: University critic says victims date to 1970s

  26-05-2016 17:59 via salon.com
  
  WACO, Texas (AP) — The Latest on Baylor University’s demotion of its president and firing of its football coach amid criticism of the school’s handling of sexual assault complaints involving players (all times local):
  3 p.m.
  An outspoken critic of the Baylor University’s response to sexual assault claims says she’s spoken with women who criticized the Baptist school’s handling of such claims when they were students there in the 1970s.
  Laura Seay (‘see),
  
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• 2 long series wins might have exhausted Blues

  26-05-2016 17:54 via salon.com
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — A pair of seven-game series wins might have taken a toll on the St. Louis Blues.
  St. Louis who will have to settle for its first appearance in the Western Conference final since 2001.
  The Blues had trouble putting away the defending Stanley Cup champion Chicago Blackhawks in the first round after taking a 3-1 series lead. They missed a chance to close out the second round at home in Game 6 against the Dallas Stars.
  And home ice never really was an advantage for a team that
  
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• Kansas man admits to chase-related shooting death of girl

  26-05-2016 17:49 via salon.com
  
  KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A northeast Kansas man faces life in prison after admitting in federal court Thursday that he kidnapped his girlfriend’s 5-year-old daughter and shot the child to death during a 2014 police chase.
  Marcas McGowan, 32, pleaded guilty to charges of kidnapping resulting in death and discharging a firearm during a crime of violence. He will be sentenced Sept. 6, and prosecutors and his attorneys have agreed to recommend a life prison term for the kidnapping count
  
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• Federal grand jury indicts suspect in Navajo girl’s slaying

  26-05-2016 17:43 via salon.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A federal grand jury has returned a six-count indictment against a man accused of killing an 11-year-old Navajo girl who was abducted as she and her younger brother played on the way home from school.
  Federal prosecutors announced Thursday that the indictment charges Tom Begaye Jr. with murder, aggravated sexual abuse, kidnapping resulting in death and kidnapping of a minor.
  The 27-year-old Navajo man has been in federal custody since his arrest May 4. An arraignme
  
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• APNewsBreak: Poor suburb softens on merger with Cleveland

  26-05-2016 17:43 via salon.com
  EAST CLEVELAND, Ohio (AP) — Leaders of one of Ohio’s poorest cities have dropped their opposition to being annexed by neighboring Cleveland, a shift East Cleveland residents hope could provide basic services the city hasn’t been able to afford for years.
  Mayor Gary Norton has been pushing for a merger with Cleveland for several years but was stymied by a City Council that believed the city could survive on its own. But City Council President Thomas Wheeler said this week in an
  
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• Slain Phoenix officer is remembered as ‘larger than life’

  26-05-2016 17:29 via salon.com
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A Phoenix police officer who was shot and killed in the line of duty was remembered Thursday as a devoted family man whose imposing build was only overshadowed by his propensity to help others.
  Mourners packed a church in the Phoenix suburb of Peoria as colleagues and friends recalled how Officer David Glasser was a warrior who was not afraid to go after the bad guy.
  Police Chief Joseph Yahner called Glasser “larger than life,” with a 6-foot-5 frame that epitomiz
  
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• Cheapskates, you’re doing it right. At least in investing.

  26-05-2016 17:28 via salon.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Stay cheap.
  Research keeps piling up to show that one of the best predictors for the success of a mutual fund is if it has low fees. Whether the fund specializes in stocks, bonds or other investments, having low costs tends to lead to higher future returns.
  The latest piece of support comes from Russ Kinnel, director of manager research at Morningstar. He recently looked at returns for several categories of funds through 2015, from foreign-stock to municipal-bond offerings.
  
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• ‘Affluenza’ mom indicted on charges she helped son flee

  26-05-2016 17:28 via salon.com
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — The mother of a Texas teenager who used an “affluenza” defense in a fatal drunken-driving wreck has been indicted on charges accusing her of helping her son flee to Mexico.
  The Tarrant County district attorney’s office said Thursday that Tonya Couch was indicted on charges of hindering apprehension of a felon and money laundering.
  Attorney Don Carter said he had no comment on the indictments because he’d just started representing Couch.
  Auth
  
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• FDA approves first drug-oozing implant to control addiction

  26-05-2016 17:26 via salon.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials have approved an innovative new option for Americans addicted to heroin and painkillers: a drug-oozing implant that curbs craving and withdrawal symptoms for six months at a time.
  The first-of-a-kind device, Probuphine, arrives as communities across the U.S. grapple with a wave of addiction tied to opioids, highly-addictive drugs that include legal medications like OxyContin and illegal narcotics like heroin.
  The implant is essentially a new deliv
  
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• Greatest drivers at Indy? Try Foyt and Mears amid debate

  26-05-2016 15:58 via salon.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — To win the Indianapolis 500, a driver must weather months of preparation then two stressful weeks of hype leading into “The Greatest Spectacle In Racing.” When the race actually begins, every driver is tested on skill, talent, luck, strategy, endurance and perseverance.
  It’s one of the hardest races in the world to win, and those who have sipped the milk in victory lane treasure the Indy 500 more than any other event.
  Three drivers managed to win the r
  
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• Judge hears arguments on US women’s team strike rights

  26-05-2016 15:54 via salon.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge in Chicago has heard arguments whether the world champion U.S. women’s soccer team has the right to strike for improved conditions and wages before this year’s Olympics.
  Lawyers for the U.S. Soccer Federation told Judge Sharon Johnson Coleman at a Thursday hearing that a no-strike clause is implied in a still-valid 2013 memorandum with players.
  But a lawyer for the U.S. Women’s National Soccer Team Players Association balked at that claim. J
  
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• Republican hopes to unseat Senate’s longest-serving member

  26-05-2016 15:52 via salon.com
  
  MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Republican Scott Milne (mihln) has made it official: He’s looking to unseat the U.S. Senate’s longest-serving member, Vermont Democrat Patrick Leahy (LAY’-hee).
  The travel company owner was a political newcomer in 2014 when he ran a surprisingly strong but ultimately unsuccessful race against incumbent Democratic Gov. Peter Shumlin.
  The 57-year-old Milne issued a statement Thursday saying he would file papers at the secretary of state’s office
  
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• Man convicted of killing lawmaker’s 2 sisters gets life term

  26-05-2016 15:45 via salon.com
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — A judge has imposed a life sentence on a Pittsburgh man convicted of killing two of his next-door neighbors, the sisters of an Iowa state lawmaker.
  Jurors had told the Allegheny County judge they were deadlocked on whether to impose the death penalty against 45-year-old Allen Wade. The judge told the jury Thursday to formalize their deadlocked status in writing.
  In Pennsylvania, a jury must unanimously recommend a death penalty or a life sentence is automatically imposed.
  
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• Mister 1,237: North Dakota delegate puts Trump over the top

  26-05-2016 15:40 via salon.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — John Trandem wanted to be the delegate who would put Donald Trump over the top, giving him enough delegates to clinch the Republican presidential nomination.
  But when he was contacted by an Associated Press reporter, the AP delegate count stood at 1,235 — two delegates short.
  “I’m happy to be No. 1,237,” said Trandem, a small business owner from North Dakota. “But I won’t commit until you’re at 1,236.”
  Trandem is an unbound
  
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• Last call for owners to claim cars left in 1974 Cyprus war

  26-05-2016 15:36 via salon.com
  
  EPISKOPI, Cyprus (AP) — It’s last call for the owner to reclaim a late 1950s Dodge Coronet, shades of sky-blue paint still visible on its tailfins, that’s been rusting on a British military base for over four decades.
  The lone Dodge sits among some 400 vehicles — including Land Rovers, Fiats, Lambretta mopeds and Bedford trucks — that were abandoned by the Turkish Cypriot owners inside the Episkopi Garrison amid the confusion of a 1974 war that cleaved Cyprus along
  
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• Obama defends his nuclear record on eve of Hiroshima visit

  26-05-2016 15:27 via salon.com
  
  SHIMA, Japan (AP) — On the eve of his historic trip to Hiroshima, President Barack Obama is defending the vigor of his efforts to rid the world of nuclear weapons. He says he will use his visit to the Japanese memorial site on Friday to underscore “the sense of urgency that we all should have.”
  Obama, who began his administration with an audacious call for a nuclear-free world, acknowledged there still is much to be done. In fact, some critics maintain the world is further away
  
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• Congo police fire tear gas at opposition demonstrators

  26-05-2016 15:24 via salon.com
  
  KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — Police in Congo’s capital have fired tear gas to break up an opposition march, while one person died and dozens were injured in chaos surrounding similar marches around the country.
  Thousands of opposition supporters rallied Thursday to denounce a decision by the constitutional court to allow the president to remain in power beyond his mandate. The election commission has asked to postpone November elections.
  Head commissioner Mwana Mputu said 35 police were in
  
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• The Latest: Navy says jet fighters on training mission

  26-05-2016 15:20 via salon.com
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on the collision of two Navy fighter jets off the coast of North Carolina (all times local):
  1:15 p.m.
  Navy spokesman Ensign Mark Rockwellpate says two Navy F/A-18 Super Hornet jet fighters were on a routine training mission when they collided about 10:40 a.m. Thursday off Cape Hatteras, North Carolina.
  Rockwellpate says four crew members were taken to the hospital in Norfolk, but he didn’t have information about the extent of their injuries.
  He says a
  
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• Court: New Jersey can’t give $11M to religious schools

  26-05-2016 15:00 via salon.com
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A court has ruled New Jersey cannot give $11 million in grants to two religious schools.
  The state appeals court ruled Thursday the $10.6 million grant to Beth Medrash Govoha yeshiva in Lakewood and $645,323 to the Princeton Theological Seminary are unconstitutional.
  The American Civil Liberties Union and Americans United for Separation of Church and State had challenged the grants, part of $1.3 billion in grants in April 2013.
  New Jersey officials argued the grants we
  
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• Norway subjects viewers to 2-day stream of app terms of use

  26-05-2016 14:59 via salon.com
  HELSINKI (AP) — A Norwegian consumers’ group took inspiration from “slow television” to produce a marathon webcast of a team of readers going through the fine print of terms and conditions when downloading apps.
  Finn Myrstad from the Norwegian Consumer Council said Thursday that the idea was to point out the “absurdity” and even illegality of some of the conditions. The Runkeeper app apologized to 45 million users after the council revealed that it was sending
  
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