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• 9-year-old boy fatally shot in head in Indianapolis area

  27-05-2016 22:40 via salon.com
  CUMBERLAND, Ind. (AP) — Police say a 9-year-old boy has died after being shot in the head in the Indianapolis area.
  Police in Cumberland say the shooting occurred Friday afternoon at an apartment complex in the community on the far east side of Indianapolis.
  Officers say the boy was found with a gunshot wound to the head in the kitchen of an apartment. Other people were in the apartment, and neighbors tried to offer aid.
  The boy was pronounced dead on the scene. His name hasn’t been
  
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• Small plane crashes in Hudson River; may be WWII-era model

  27-05-2016 22:11 via salon.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Police say a small plane has crashed in the Hudson River between New York and New Jersey, and aviation authorities say it may be a World War II-era plane.
  The Federal Aviation Administration say it received a report a World War II vintage P-47 Thunderbolt aircraft may have gone down in the river 2 miles south of the George Washington Bridge.
  The New York Police Department says the plane crashed Friday night in the river closer to the New Jersey side. The NYPD says it’
  
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• A look at the Operation Condor conspiracy in South America

  27-05-2016 22:09 via salon.com
  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s last dictator and 14 other former military officials were sentenced Friday to prison for human rights crimes committed during the Operation Condor conspiracy to hunt down dissidents across the region. Here is a look at the main features of Operation Condor:
  WHAT WAS OPERATION CONDOR?
  It was a secret conspiracy coordinated and carried out by the military dictatorships in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay, Bolivia, Uruguay and Brazil, to eliminate di
  
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• Official asked utility if it wanted help to quash order

  27-05-2016 22:08 via salon.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Newly released documents show a California oil and gas official offered to help a utility get an air pollution abatement order quashed by the governor’s office.
  Emails obtained by The Associated Press say the governor’s staff discussed the matter, though spokesmen said no action was taken.
  The documents were released Thursday under a California Public Records Act request related to the nearly four-month gas leak that drove thousands of families from their Los
  
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• Argentine court sentences ex-dictator for Operation Condor

  27-05-2016 21:45 via salon.com
  
  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentina’s last dictator and 14 other former military officials were sentenced Friday to prison for human rights crimes committed during the Operation Condor conspiracy to hunt down dissidents across South America and beyond.
  Operation Condor was launched in the 1970s by six South American dictators who used their secret police networks in a coordinated effort to track down their opponents across borders and eliminate them. Some leftist dissidents had
  
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• Now Gawker has its own billionaire backer, sort of

  27-05-2016 21:43 via salon.com
  
  File - In this May 21, 1999 file photo, eBay chief executive officer Meg Whitman, left, and Pierre Omidyar, eBay's chairman of the board, leaf through a magazine at the company's headquarters in San Jose, Calif. The courtroom fight between former pro wrestler Hulk Hogan and news-and-gossip site Gawker is becoming a battleground for Silicon Valley tycoons as well. First Look Media, a news organization financed by Omidyar, philanthropist and the co-founder of eBay, is reaching out to other media o
  
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• Sanders condemns pro-austerity “colonial takeover” of Puerto Rico; Clinton supports it

  27-05-2016 21:38 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton (Credit: Reuters/Mary Schwalm/Mark Kauzlarich/Photo montage by Salon)
  Journalists and activists warn that Puerto Rico faces a “colonial-style takeover” by the U.S. government amid the country’s crippling debt crisis.
  Bernie Sanders has condemned the proposed takeover, characterizing it as a form of colonialism. Hillary Clinton supports it.
  A House committee approved the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Act on Wednesday. Th
  
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• Porcupine sculpture stolen from Maine airport is replaced

  27-05-2016 21:36 via salon.com
  
  PORTLAND, Maine (AP) — A prickly steel-and-nails sculpture of a mama porcupine and its baby has replaced a statue that was stolen from an airport in Maine.
  And thieves, beware: As a security measure, the new porcupines at the Portland International Jetport are firmly affixed to a large granite slab.
  A woman from nearby Pownal donated the new porcupines to replace a statute reported missing in April.
  The only clues left by thieves were some broken quills and a hunk of rusty steel. Unknown d
  
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• “It was f**ing ridiculous”: One House Republican’s anti-LGBT Bible-thumping causes colleagues to storm out of meeting

  27-05-2016 21:24 via salon.com
  
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  House Republicans were subjected to a lecture from a colleague who read Bible verses calling for the death of homosexuals to argue that a vote in favor of an anti-discrimination amendment was akin to a sin.
  According to multiple reports, freshman Georgia Congressman Rick Allen read aloud Bible verses to his fellow House Republicans during a closed door meeting led by House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday. The GOP caucus has unraveled in chaos twice in one week over p
  
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• What general election?! Koch Brothers drop $3 million against Democrat Katie McGinty in Pennsylvania senate race

  27-05-2016 21:23 via salon.com
  
  Absent a backable presidential candidate, traditionally libertarian-leaning Freedom Partners Action Fund — run by the infamous Koch Brothers — is looking down-ballot to find state races to throw money at.
  The PAC recently dropped $3 million on a single ad campaign aimed at Pennsylvania Democrat Katie McGinty, who’s in the midst of a contested senatorial race with incumbent Republican Pat Toomey.
  “The ad, titled ‘Whose Job,’ charges that McGinty,
  
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• Agency probes arrest of husband of Chattanooga mayor’s aide

  27-05-2016 21:14 via salon.com
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is probing the domestic violence arrest involving the husband of a top aide to Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke.
  Exactly what led to the alleged domestic incident is unclear, but it resulted in the mayor and the city’s police chief taking the unusual step of offering statements denying unspecified involvement with the aide.
  The TBI said in a statement Friday that Hamilton County District Attorney Neal Pinkston asked it to inve
  
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• Man with reported ties to Montreal Mafia gunned down

  27-05-2016 21:12 via salon.com
  
  MONTREAL (AP) — A man with high-level ties to organized crime in Montreal was shot dead north of the city, Quebec provincial police said Friday.
  Surete du Quebec Sgt. Claude Denis confirmed the victim’s identity as 67-year-old Rocco Sollecito. Denis said Surete’s major crimes unit has taken over the investigation because the murder has possible links to organized crime, and they will work in collaboration with police in Laval, where Sollecito was shot.
  Sollecito was pronounced
  
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• Autopsies reveal details of San Bernardino terror attack

  27-05-2016 21:12 via salon.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Autopsies released Friday of the 14 victims of the San Bernardino terror attack confirm that all died quickly after being shot at least twice but also reveal chilling details of the carnage.
  San Bernardino County released the heavily redacted autopsies as part of a public records request by The Associated Press.
  Victims of the Dec. 2 attack were San Bernardino County public health workers attending an annual training inside a vast conference room that had been decked out
  
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• Amber Heard presses domestic violence charges against Johnny Depp, report says

  27-05-2016 21:11 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi, File)
  Days after filing for divorce from “Pirates of the Caribbean” star Johnny Depp, actress Amber Heard appeared at L.A. County Superior Court to press domestic violence charges against Depp, according to a TMZ report.
  “She claims Depp smashed his iPhone on her face,” the report says. “Amber claims during the alleged attack, Johnny shattered various objects in the apartment. She says she was on the phone with a f
  
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• Odor’s suspension reduced to 7 games, starts Friday

  27-05-2016 21:08 via salon.com
  ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Rangers second baseman Rougned Odor started serving his suspension Friday for punching Toronto’s Jose Bautista after the penalty was reduced from eight to seven games.
  Odor was out of the lineup for the series opener against Pittsburgh. He will be eligible to return June 4 when Texas is home against Seattle.
  Bautista was suspended one game, and he was serving that Friday, when the penalty was upheld a day after his appeal was heard.
  The Rangers promoted former
  
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• Soler, Ross, Bryant hit long HRs as Cubs pound Phillies 6-2

  27-05-2016 21:06 via salon.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — Jorge Soler, David Ross and Kris Bryant hit long home runs to back Jon Lester and lead the Chicago Cubs to a 6-2 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on a rainy Friday afternoon.
  The big drives helped the Cubs win their third straight after dropping eight of 12, and they came before two late delays — for 56 minutes in the top of the seventh inning and for 37 minutes at the start of the ninth.
  Soler broke a 1-1 tie with his shot halfway up the video board in left lead
  
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• Drew Peterson’s defense rests after calling 3 witnesses

  27-05-2016 20:52 via salon.com
  
  CHESTER, Ill. (AP) — Drew Peterson’s attorneys rested their case Friday in the former suburban Chicago police officer’s murder-for-hire trial after calling three inmates who testified that the prosecution’s key witness cannot be believed.
  Peterson is accused of trying to hire someone while in prison to kill Will County State’s Attorney James Glasgow, who helped convict Peterson in 2012 of killing Peterson’s third wife, Kathleen Savio, eight years earlier. Pros
  
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• SpaceX lands another rocket after satellite delivery

  27-05-2016 20:42 via salon.com
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — SpaceX pulled off another rocket landing Friday, the third in just under two months.
  The first-stage booster of the unmanned Falcon rocket settled vertically onto a barge 400 miles off Florida’s east coast, eight minutes after the late afternoon liftoff. Cameras on the barge provided stunning, real-time video.
  “Falcon 9 has landed!” said a SpaceX flight commentator.
  The touchdown occurred after the rocket launched an Asian communications satell
  
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• Venezuelan boy’s death sparks anger over health care crisis

  27-05-2016 20:36 via salon.com
  
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelans are expressing dismay over the death of an 8-year-old boy with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma who had become a symbol of the crisis-wracked nation’s collapsed health care system.
  Oliver Sanchez gained fame in February when he appeared with his mother at a demonstration to protest medicine shortages wearing a mask and holding up a homemade sign reading, “I want a cure, peace and health.”
  Sanchez died Tuesday, sparking outrage on social m
  
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• Couple’s killings are latest blow to town rocked by mudslide

  27-05-2016 20:23 via salon.com
  
  OSO, Wash. (AP) — In a clearing 10 miles up a gravel logging road, freshly cut hemlock branches cover the root well of a wind-toppled fir. Atop the boughs, a bouquet of red, white and blue carnations left by detectives marks the grim discovery they made here: the shallow grave of a local couple shot to death six weeks ago, apparently in a feud with a former neighbor who remains at large.
  The killings of Patrick Shunn and Monique Patenaude were a knife-twist of heartache in Oso, a tiny, rur
  
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• Penguins’ Phil Kessel fails to make USA World Cup roster cut

  27-05-2016 20:14 via salon.com
  Two-time Olympic forward Phil Kessel failed to make the final cut for the United States’ World Cup of Hockey roster Friday, a day after helping the Pittsburgh Penguins reach the Stanley Cup Final.
  In passing over the 10-year NHL veteran, Team USA officials filled the final four forward spots with Columbus’ Brandon Dubinsky, Toronto’s James van Riemsdyk, Tampa Bay’s Ryan Callahan and St. Louis captain David Backes. The remaining defense spots went to Colorado’s Erik
  
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• Oklahoma fails to make doctor-performed abortions a felony

  27-05-2016 17:59 via salon.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Doctors who perform abortions in Oklahoma won’t be guilty of a felony after the state Senate adjourned for the year without trying to override Republican Gov. Mary Fallin’s veto of a bill to make it a felony crime.
  The Senate ended the session Friday before state Sen. Nathan Dahm tried an override on his bill to remove an exemption from the law for licensed doctors . Anti-abortion Republicans in the GOP-controlled Legislature wanted Dahm to try for the two-
  
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• Suit blames Baton Rouge jail conditions for prisoner’s death

  27-05-2016 17:55 via salon.com
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Poor medical care and dangerous conditions at a Louisiana jail led to the death of a prisoner who hanged himself in his cell last year, a federal lawsuit says.
  Relatives of Lamar Alexander Johnson sued East Baton Rouge Parish and its sheriff on Thursday, blaming the 27-year-old’s death on a “culture of violence and indifference to prisoner welfare” at the parish jail.
  The suit claims Johnson is one of at least four people who have died at the jail
  
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• Governor signs financial rescue package for Atlantic City

  27-05-2016 17:54 via salon.com
  SEASIDE HEIGHTS, N.J. (AP) — Republican Gov. Chris Christie has signed a package of bills to keep financially troubled Atlantic City from running out of cash.
  The Democratic-led Assembly and Senate approved the measures by wide margins Thursday just as the state’s 127 miles of beaches prepared for Memorial Day, the unofficial start of summer. Christie said the bills give him the authority he needs.
  Christie said the new laws will give him the authority to reform Atlantic City’s
  
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• Education Department replaces career college chain monitor

  27-05-2016 17:54 via salon.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department on Friday appointed a new lawyer to oversee the turnaround of schools once owned by Corinthian Colleges Inc., following an Associated Press review that found trouble at the schools and questioned the previous monitor’s independence.
  Corinthian Colleges was one of the largest chains of for-profit colleges when it collapsed in 2015 amid allegations of fraud. The episode raised questions about whether the government should set higher standards
  
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• NY Democrat: Trump should return money to 9/11 recovery fund

  27-05-2016 17:43 via salon.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic New York congressman says Donald Trump is “a small man” for accepting $150,000 from a federal fund for small businesses hurt by the Sept. 11 attacks. Congressman Jerrold Nadler says Trump should return the money.
  Nadler says the presumptive Republican presidential nominee received the funds for one of his companies, even though Trump later told an interviewer that none of his properties was damaged in the attacks.
  Nadler accuses the New York real
  
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• Brazil police identify 4 of 30-plus men wanted in gang rape

  27-05-2016 17:43 via salon.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Police said Friday that they have identified and are searching for four of the more than 30 men suspected in the gang rape of a 16-year-old girl, a case that has rocked Latin America’s largest nation and highlighted its endemic problem of violence against women.
  The announcement came as acting President Michel Temer called an emergency meeting of the security ministers for each of Brazil’s states to consider gender-related crimes.
  “It’s absurd
  
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• Police react as Chicago gun violence spills onto expressways

  27-05-2016 17:42 via salon.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — The violence gripping many Chicago neighborhoods is apparently spilling onto its roads, and police will be out in force over Memorial Day weekend amid a spike in expressway shootings.
  There have already been 20 shootings on area expressways this year, compared with 12 over the same period of 2015. Illinois State Police Director Leo Schmitz said at a news conference Thursday that he would be sending out more troopers in marked and unmarked vehicles over the holiday weekend an
  
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• ‘Full House’ property for sale if new family can swing $4M

  27-05-2016 17:40 via salon.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The San Francisco Victorian that served as the exterior of the iconic 1980s’ sitcom “Full House” is for sale, and the price tag for any would-be Tanner family is $4.15 million.
  The San Francisco Chronicle reported Friday that 1708 Broderick in the wealthy Pacific Heights neighborhood is on the market (http://bit.ly/22rezLX ).
  The 1883 home appears in “Full House” and its recent Netflix sequel, “Fuller House,” as the home of Dan
  
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• Teen cancer survivor’s wish to walk at graduation denied

  27-05-2016 17:29 via salon.com
  MESA, Ariz. (AP) — A suburban Phoenix high school didn’t allow a student who was diagnosed with cancer but worked to keep up with classes through treatment to walk with his graduating class.
  Stephen Dwyer withdrew from school his junior year to receive a life-saving bone marrow transplant for leukemia. He is 2 ½ credits short of graduating and will finish in December.
  He led seniors at Dobson High School in Mesa onto the field for commencement Thursday but then sat in the stan
  
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• US stocks rise, led by banks and phone companies

  27-05-2016 17:28 via salon.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are making small gains Friday in a quiet end to a strong week on the market. Banks are rising after Fed Chair Janet Yellen confirmed that the central bank intends to keep raising interest rates provided the economy keeps improving. Verizon reportedly agreed in principle to a new contract with striking employees, and telecom stocks edged higher.
  KEEPING SCORE: The Dow Jones industrial average rose 22 points, or 0.1 percent, to 17,850 as of 3:20 p.m. Eastern time.
  
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• Guest lineups for the Sunday news shows

  27-05-2016 17:24 via salon.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Guest lineups for the Sunday TV news shows:
  ABC’s “This Week” — Paul Manafort, adviser to Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump; Sens. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., and Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif.
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  NBC’s “Meet the Press” — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders; former Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, R-Calif.
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  CBS’ “Face the Nation” — Sanders; Sen. Ron Johnson R-Wis.; Gov. John Hickenloop
  
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• The Latest: Police testing bullets in T.I. concert shooting

  27-05-2016 17:22 via salon.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on a fatal shooting inside a New York City concert venue where hip-hop artist T.I. was getting ready to perform (all times local):
  3:20 p.m.
  Police are conducting ballistic tests to determine how many guns were involved in a fatal shooting inside a rap concert.
  Police say Friday those include an examination of a bullet removed from rapper Roland Collins’ leg.
  The 30-year-old Brooklyn performer goes by the stage name Troy Ave. He was arrested on attempted mu
  
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• US orders troops in Syria to remove Kurdish insignia

  27-05-2016 17:09 via salon.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — American special operations troops were not authorized to wear the patches of Kurdish forces while advising them in Syria and have been told to remove them, the U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad said Friday, after Turkish leaders protested.
  Army Col. Steve Warren said that while U.S. special operations forces have historically and routinely worn the insignia of foreign troops they are working with, this case was not appropriate due largely to political sensitivities.
  Tur
  
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• In Iraq’s battle for Fallujah, residents gird for long fight

  27-05-2016 17:07 via salon.com
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — Five days into an Iraqi military operation to push Islamic State fighters out of Fallujah, residents still inside the city are preparing for a long battle, with some saying they fear being trapped between two forces they don’t fully trust.
  More than 50,000 people remain in the center of the Sunni majority city, which has been under control of the extremist group for more than two years. Those who want to leave describe deteriorating humanitarian conditions, but they al
  
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• Trump vows to solve California’s water crisis

  27-05-2016 16:59 via salon.com
  
  FRESNO, California (AP) — Republican Donald Trump is telling California voters that he can solve their water crisis.
  Trump told supports at a rally in Fresno Friday afternoon that water is in short supply because officials are sending it out to the ocean in order to save fish.
  He said that farmers need more water so they can survive.
  Politically influential rural water districts and well-off corporate farmers in and around California’s Central Valley say federal efforts to make sure
  
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• The Latest: Actor’s attorney seeks manslaughter conviction

  27-05-2016 16:31 via salon.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on the murder trial of an actor from TV series “The Shield” (all times local):
  11:35 a.m.
  An attorney for a TV actor accused of killing his wife says a prosecutor is overselling her case and a first-degree murder conviction isn’t warranted.
  Defense lawyer Jamon Hicks told a Los Angeles jury Friday that Michael Jace acknowledges he killed his wife, but there isn’t enough evidence that the actor planned the killing. Jace played a police o
  
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• Cenk Uygur: I’ll donate $1 million to charity for a Sanders vs. Trump debate

  27-05-2016 15:55 via salon.com
  
  Young Turks host Cenk Uygur really wants to get Bernie Sanders on a national debate stage at least one more time this year, offering to host a debate between the Vermont senator and Donald Trump.
  “We are now offering $1 million to charity in order to have that debate,”  Uygur, an outspoken Sanders supporter, reportedly said at a dinner at the National Press Club in Washington on Thursday night, according to The Hill.
  “This is a very real offer,” the host of the
  
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• WATCH: Bernie tells Jimmy Kimmel he really wants to debate to Trump one-on-one

  27-05-2016 15:48 via salon.com
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders guested on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” Thursday night.
  On his buzzed-about (hopefully) forthcoming debate with GOP nominee Donald Trump, Sanders said Americans will have the opportunity to witness “a very interesting debate about two guys who look at the world very, very differently.”
  The impetus for this Trump/Sanders heavyweight showdown was Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s backing out of an agreed to debate with Sa
  
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• “Trump is getting speech ideas from a pervert’s Tinder profile”: Trevor Noah on Trump’s problem with women

  27-05-2016 15:38 via salon.com
  
  “Daily Show” host Trevor Noah last night examined GOP nominee Donald Trump’s un-favorability among women voters.
  At a campaign rally in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Trump bragged that he’s “setting records with men” but said he’d prefer to “set records with women.”
  “It sounds like Trump is getting speech ideas from a pervert’s Tinder profile,” Noah said. “But Trump is keeping a positive attitude about his woman problem by
  
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• Seth Meyers keeps hitting them out of the park: Watch him perfectly break down Hillary’s email flap

  27-05-2016 15:29 via salon.com
  
  “Late Night” host Seth Meyers last night took a “Closer Look” at Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s much talked about email scandal.
  “The email saga hasn’t just resulted in the investigation,” Meyers explained. “It’s also produced a very steady stream of very repetitive apologies from Hillary, who is now clearly doing her best not to scream, ‘What more do you people want from me?'”
  A recent State Department investigati
  
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• Arizona sheriff urges Memorial Day hikers to carry firearms, be ready for gun battles with Mexican assassins

  27-05-2016 15:04 via salon.com
  
  Paul Babeu (Credit: Fox News)
  On Hannity Thursday evening, Arizona Sheriff Paul Babeu warned Memorial Day hikers in his state to be on the lookout for Mexican assassins and, if possible, include firearms in their camping equipment in case they find themselves in a gun battle with cartel “sicarios.”
  According to Babeu, Mexican drug cartels are sending assassins in order to combat “rip-crews,” i.e. members of rival cartels who ambush drug runners and steal their shipments.H
  
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• Virginia Democrats to appeal decision to uphold voter ID law

  27-05-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Democrats in Virginia will appeal a court decision to uphold the state’s voter ID law.
  The Daily Press (http://bit.ly/1WptNRN) reports that the group filed a notice of appeal Wednesday. Attorney Marc Elias says the group will ask for an expedited review by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals.
  State Democrats had previously filed a lawsuit challenging Virginia’s voter ID law, which requires voters to bring a photo ID to the polls. Democrats argue the law target
  
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• IS grabs territory from Syrian rebels near Turkish border

  27-05-2016 11:57 via salon.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Militants of the Islamic State group on Friday seized a string of villages from Syrian rebels near the Turkish border in rapid advances that forced the evacuation of a hospital and trapped tens of thousands of people amid heavy fighting, Syrian opposition activists and an international medical organization said.
  The advances in the northern Aleppo province brought the militants to within three 3 kilometers(2 miles) of the rebel-held town of Azaz and cut off supplies to Marea
  
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• Russian riot police halt wrestling brawl over Rio 2016 spot

  27-05-2016 11:48 via salon.com
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian riot police had to be sent into the wrestling ring Friday when a scuffle erupted after a championship bout.
  Viktor Lebedev of Russia’s northern region of Yakutia beat Ismail Musukayev of Dagestan in an under-57 kilogram semifinal Friday at the competition that decides who represents Russia at the Rio Olympics this summer. The championship was held in Yakutsk, the province’s capital.
  Russian state television showed that Musukayev pushed the Yakut wrestler a
  
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• Spain: Model found guilty of murdering British millionaire

  27-05-2016 11:44 via salon.com
  
  MADRID (AP) — A Spanish jury has found a Slovakian model guilty of murdering her millionaire ex-boyfriend by shooting the Briton twice in the head at his home near Marbella on the Costa del Sol two years ago.
  The verdict against 26-year-old Maria Kukucova was handed down Friday after a trial this week in the southern city of Malaga.
  Kukucova told the court she “never meant to hurt” Andrew Bush, saying that the former jewelry store owner died during a violent struggle.
  Prosecuto
  
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• Cyprus president ready for peace talks after UN spat over

  27-05-2016 11:41 via salon.com
  
  NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) — Talks to reunify the ethnically divided island of Cyprus appeared to be back on track Friday when its president said he’s ready to pick up where things left off following a halt after a perceived attempt to diplomatically upgrade the island’s breakaway Turkish Cypriot north.
  A statement said President Nicos Anastasiades is pleased that the United Nations has clarified there’s no change to its policy of recognizing only the government of the Cyprus R
  
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• UK policeman gets 7 years in prison for hoax terror alert

  27-05-2016 11:34 via salon.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — A British policeman who phoned in a hoax terrorism alert has been jailed for seven years.
  West Midlands policeman Amar Tasaddiq Hussain was sentenced Friday in Stafford Crown Court. He had been convicted for conspiracy to pervert the course of justice earlier this month along with two accomplices.
  He made the hoax call on Dec. 8, 2014, and prosecutors said the three plotters were trying to discredit an official at an Islamic community group they belonged to.
  The judge said th
  
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• Text of Obama’s speech at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park

  27-05-2016 11:28 via salon.com
  
  Text of President Barack Obama’s remarks Friday at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park about the U.S. atomic bombing, the legacy of World War II and nuclear weapons, as delivered:
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  Seventy one years ago, on a bright, cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed. The flash of light and a wall of fire destroyed a city and demonstrated that mankind possessed the means to destroy itself
  Why do we come to this place, to Hiroshima? We come to ponder a terrible force unleashe
  
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• 96-year-old Heimlich uses namesake maneuver on choking woman

  27-05-2016 11:19 via salon.com
  CINCINNATI (AP) — The 96-year-old Cincinnati surgeon credited with developing his namesake Heimlich maneuver recently used the emergency technique for the first time himself to save a woman choking on food at his senior living center.
  Dr. Henry Heimlich told The Cincinnati Enquirer (http://cin.ci/1U0lAx2) in an interview Thursday he has demonstrated the well-known maneuver many times through the years but had never before used it on a person who was choking.
  An employee at the Deupree Hous
  
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