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• Judge orders release of documents in Trump University suit

  28-05-2016 23:42 via salon.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge is ordering the release of Trump University internal documents in a class-action lawsuit against the now-defunct real estate school owned by presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump.
  The order by U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel in San Diego came Friday in response to a request by The Washington Post. The order calls for the documents to be released by Thursday.
  Trump University has been cited in anti-Trump political ads during the primar
  
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• Crime scene declared after looting at Virginia battlefield

  28-05-2016 23:15 via salon.com
  PETERSBURG, Va. (AP) — Virginia’s National Park Service says a portion of the Petersburg National Battlefield has been declared a crime scene after looting.
  Chief of interpretation Chris Bryce said Saturday that park officials are in the process of assessing the damage. He said there were a number of places where the ground had been dug up earlier this week. Bryce said often times people will illegally excavate areas in national parks and battlefields to dig up relics to sell online.
  
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• The Pentagon’s dark money: Billions of federal dollars are vanishing into thin air

  28-05-2016 22:30 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: Wikimedia/Deptartment of Defense)
  Now you see it, now you don’t. Think of it as the Department of Defense’s version of the street con game, three-card monte, or maybe simply as the Pentagon shuffle.  In any case, the Pentagon’s budget is as close to a work of art as you’re likely to find in the U.S. government — if, that is, by work of art you mean scam.
  The United States is on track to spend more than $600 billion on the military this year &
  
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• Mets’ Syndergaard ejected after throwing behind Utley

  28-05-2016 22:28 via salon.com
  
  New York Mets manager Terry Collins (10) argues with umpire Tom Hallion after being ejected during the third inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers, Saturday, May 28, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II) (Credit: AP)
  NEW YORK (AP) — In a scene that has seemed inevitable since October, New York Mets pitcher Noah Syndergaard has been ejected for throwing a 99 mph fastball behind Chase Utley of the Los Angeles Dodgers.
  Utley is playing at Citi Field this weekend
  
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• Obamas take a night out at Mexican restaurant in Washington

  28-05-2016 22:22 via salon.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — It’s date night for President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle.
  Obama is treating the first lady to a Mexican meal at the restaurant Oyamel in Washington’s Penn Quarter neighborhood.
  The Obamas have dined several times at the establishment owned by celebrity chef and Obama supporter Jose Andres.
  Obama returned late Friday from a weeklong visit to Vietnam and Japan.
  
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• Police: Man drives through Kentucky memorial cross display

  28-05-2016 22:13 via salon.com
  HENDERSON, Ky. (AP) — Residents of a Kentucky county are rallying and working frantically to repair and replace a Memorial Day cross display that was damaged by a driver accused of plowing through the crosses.
  The cross display in Central Park in Henderson, which is about 130 miles west of Louisville, honors the names of more than 5,000 who served in conflicts dating back to the Revolutionary War.
  “It has really upset the entire community,” said Jennifer Richmond, a spokeswoman
  
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• Justin Gatlin wins 100 at Prefontaine Classic

  28-05-2016 21:33 via salon.com
  EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — Justin Gatlin considers himself an antsy person, finding it hard to wait early in the season for the fast times he hopes to have later in the year.
  “Worry about those later when they count the most,” he said.
  The 34-year-old American sprinter had no time goal coming into 100 meters Saturday in the Prefontaine Classic and came away with the victory in 9.88 seconds at Hayward Field.
  Jamaica’s Asafa Powell was second in 9.94, and American Tyson Gay third
  
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• “The forces that are driving inequality are pretty powerful right now”: Paul Tough talks race, poverty and how we really fix our schools

  28-05-2016 21:30 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: Mary McIlvaine Photography)
  Salon: Your new book “Helping Children Learn” is subtitled “What Works and Why.” But if I may, I’d like to suggest a different subtitle: “Just About Everything We’re Doing to Low-Income Kids in School is Wrong and Here’s the Neuro-Biological Research to Explain Why.” Was it just me or does the research you write about upend some pretty fundamental assumptions?
  Paul Tough: I was struck by that too
  
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• 2 dead in plane crash in Southern California orchard

  28-05-2016 21:19 via salon.com
  SANTA PAULA, Calif. (AP) — Two people have been killed in the fiery crash of a small plane in a Southern California orchard.
  Ventura County fire Capt. Mike Lindbery says the crash was reported at 3:17 p.m. Saturday and arriving units found it engulfed in flames. The victims were deceased at the scene.
  The site is in the agricultural Aliso Canyon area between the cities of Ventura and Santa Paula.
  There’s no immediate information about those who were aboard, the type of plane or its f
  
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• Arizona man rescued after being trapped in car for 3 days

  28-05-2016 21:03 via salon.com
  JEROME, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say a man trapped in his crashed vehicle on a central Arizona mountain for three days was rescued thanks to a couple taking sightseeing photos.
  Jerome Police Chief Allen Muma says the 50-year-old man’s purple SUV was spotted Friday afternoon by a couple who had pulled over on a road on Mingus Mountain, about 10 miles south of Jerome.
  The pair immediately called 911.
  Muma says it took multiple fire and police agencies more than an hour to get to the ma
  
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• Oregon schools shut off water fountains after lead found

  28-05-2016 20:36 via salon.com
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Portland Public Schools has shut down drinking fountains at all of its schools and will use bottled water for the remaining school year after tests at two schools found high levels of lead in water from sinks and fountains.
  Oregon’s largest school district said in a statement late Friday that it is working with Multnomah County to provide on-site blood lead level screening next month for students at Creston and Rose City Park. Officials plan to test every founta
  
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• Teen removed from graduation for wearing African cloth

  28-05-2016 20:29 via salon.com
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A black teenager says he was escorted out of his high school graduation ceremony in Sacramento by three deputies for refusing to remove his kente cloth, a traditional Ghanaian silk and cotton fabric.
  Nyree Holmes said Saturday that he wore the decorative cloth atop his graduation robes to have something with him that represented his culture during the ceremony at Sacramento’s Sleep Train Arena on Tuesday.
  “The kente represents my culture that I have no
  
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• Veterans memorials in California, Kentucky suffer vandalism

  28-05-2016 20:20 via salon.com
  
  This Friday, May 27, 2016 image from video provided by KCBS-TV/KCAL-TV shows graffiti on a Vietnam War memorial in the Venice area of Los Angeles. The homespun memorial painted on a block-long wall on Pacific Avenue lists the names of American service members missing in action or unaccounted for in Southeast Asia, painted by a Vietnam veteran and dedicated in 1992. The wall has been tagged previously but the latest vandalism - within the past week - covers the bottom half of the memorial for muc
  
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• Royals score 7 in 9th to beat White Sox 8-7; Perez hurt

  28-05-2016 20:12 via salon.com
  
  Chicago White Sox's Austin Jackson is forced out by Kansas City Royals third baseman Cheslor Cuthbert as he tried to advance to third after hitting a double during the seventh inning of a baseball game Saturday, May 28, 2016, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel) (Credit: AP)
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Brett Eibner’s single capped the biggest ninth-inning comeback in Kansas City Royals history, a seven-run rally off David Robertson and Tommy Kahnle that lifted the World Series c
  
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• The Defense Department is ruining America: Big budgets, militarization and the real story behind our Asia pivot

  28-05-2016 20:00 via salon.com
  
  FILE - In this Friday Dec. 5, 2014 file photo, Ashton Carter, President Barack Obama's choice to head the Defense Department, listens as the president announces Carter as his nominee for defense secretary Friday, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington. Carter says he would consider changing the current plans for withdrawing all U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of next year if security conditions worsen. Carter also says he is aware of reports that Islamic State militants m
  
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• Sicilian doc hopes baby who lost mom at sea inspires others

  28-05-2016 19:39 via salon.com
  LAMPEDUSA, Sicily (AP) — A doctor on a tiny island off Sicily is hoping a 9-month-old Nigerian girl, who lost her mom at sea, will change opinions regarding migrants.
  Dr. Pietro Bartolo cared for the baby girl, named Favour, last Thursday in the first hours after she and other migrants were rescued from a smugglers’ boat. Authorities say the girl’s pregnant mother suffered burns on the boat and died at sea.
  Bartolo told the AP on Saturday that “thousands of requests&rdquo
  
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• 3 arraigned on charges related to Detroit girl’s shooting

  28-05-2016 19:37 via salon.com
  DETROIT (AP) — Three men have been arraigned on charges connected to the shooting of a 2-year-old Detroit girl, who suffered serious head injuries.
  The men arraigned by video Saturday were 30-year-old Cleveland Smelley, 21-year-old Deonta Bennett and 32-year-old Antoine Smelley. They have been charged with assault with intent to murder and other crimes. They were denied bond and are scheduled to return to court June 9.
  Wayne County prosecutor spokeswoman Maria Miller says her office hasn&r
  
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• Blue Jays walk off Red Sox, 10-9, as Travis scores Martin

  28-05-2016 19:35 via salon.com
  TORONTO (AP) — Devon Travis drove home Russell Martin with two out in the bottom of the ninth as the Toronto Blue Jays rallied to beat the Boston Red Sox 10-9 on Saturday.
  With the Blue Jays trailing 9-8 on a David Ortiz home run in the top of the inning, Boston closer Craig Kimbrel retired Edwin Encarnacion and Michael Saunders. But Justin Smoak singled on a line drive to center, and with Ezequiel Carrera pinch running for Smoak, Martin drove in his third run of the day on a double to tie
  
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• The Latest: Tropical storm forms off South Carolina’s coast

  28-05-2016 19:34 via salon.com
  
  The Latest on severe weather and flooding around the U.S. (all times local):
  5 p.m. EDT
  Tropical Storm Bonnie has formed more than 100 miles off South Carolina’s Atlantic coast.
  The National Weather Hurricane Center in Miami said Bonnie has top sustained winds of 40 mph by Saturday afternoon. It’s the season’s second-named tropical storm, emerging four days before the official start of the Atlantic hurricane season.
  Forecasters said Bonnie was about 125 miles south-southeast of
  
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• Small child falls into gorilla enclosure at zoo

  28-05-2016 19:11 via salon.com
  CINCINNATI (AP) — Police say a young child fell into the gorilla enclosure at the Cincinnati Zoo and has been taken to the hospital.
  Cincinnati Police Lt. Steve Saunders said the child is about 3 years old and fell on Saturday afternoon. The child isn’t believed to have life-threatening injuries. Saunders says zookeepers reportedly used a tranquilizer on a gorilla as the child was rescued.
  He referred all questions to zoo officials, who didn’t immediately respond to messages.
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• The Latest: Tropical Storm Bonnie forms near the Carolinas

  28-05-2016 18:49 via salon.com
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on a tropical disturbance off the coast of South Carolina (all times local):
  4:45 p.m.
  The National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Bonnie has formed off South Carolina, strengthening from a tropical depression.
  Forecasters detected 40 mph winds in the storm Saturday afternoon, making it the season’s second-named tropical storm, four days before the official start of hurricane season in the Atlantic Ocean.
  The storm was about 125 miles from Cha
  
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• Police: Pelicans guard Dejean-Jones fatally shot in Dallas

  28-05-2016 18:21 via salon.com
  DALLAS (AP) — Police say New Orleans Pelicans guard Bryce Dejean-Jones was fatally shot after breaking down the door to a Dallas apartment.
  Sr. Cpl. DeMarquis Black said in a statement that officers were called early Saturday morning and found the 23-year-old player collapsed in an outdoor passageway. He was taken to a hospital where he died.
  Black says a person living at the apartment was sleeping when he heard his door kicked open. The man retrieved a handgun and fired when Dejean-Jones
  
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• Are animals “persons”? Or just cute objects capitalism can save? Animal rights enter a strange new era

  28-05-2016 18:00 via salon.com
  
  A captive chimpanzee in a roadside zoo, as seen in "Unlocking the Cage" (Credit: Pennebaker Hegedus Films)
  That human beings are exceptional among the animal species found on our planet seems beyond dispute. Other animals may use implements, build things and alter the landscape, but not even remotely close to the same extent. Whether or not we are unique, on some spiritual or epistemological level — as human civilization has long taken for granted — increasingly seems to be in doubt.
  
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• This is why people don’t trust Hillary Clinton: Email scandal is a reminder that her guardedness is ultimately self-defeating

  28-05-2016 17:59 via salon.com
  
  Hillary Clinton (Credit: Reuters/Randall Hill)
  Perhaps it’s because she’s been in public life for so long, but Hillary Clinton’s mania for secrecy is maddening. She guards her image and her talking points with near-heroic attention. Every statement, every speech, and every gesture feels contrived. Every decision appears driven by an excessive concern for blowback. If given an option, she conceals. When caught, she digs in and denies, denies, denies. Even when the truth is plain
  
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• The Latest: Search for missing teen resumes

  28-05-2016 17:51 via salon.com
  VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the search for a Northern California girl abducted at gunpoint (all times local):
  1 p.m.
  Authorities say they are again searching a remote Northern California area for a teenage girl who was last seen being dragged by an armed acquaintance.
  The Solano County Sheriff’s Office says more than 65 people from several law enforcement agencies and search and rescue groups resumed their search Saturday morning for 15-year-old Pearl Pinson in the Willow Cr
  
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• Drug lord ‘Chapo’ Guzman’s lawyers split on extradition case

  28-05-2016 17:40 via salon.com
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman’s fight to stave off extradition to the United States has led to a schism between his own lawyers.
  After two of Guzman’s attorneys filed an appeal against the extradition request, a third lawyer is quickly disavowing it.
  Attorney Jose Refugio Rodriguez tells The Associated Press that the move was not authorized by Guzman and “hinders our defense.” He says his client will not sign off on the a
  
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• Lightning hits children’s soccer match in Germany

  28-05-2016 17:26 via salon.com
  BERLIN (AP) — More than 30 people were taken to the hospital after lighting struck Saturday at the end of a children’s soccer match in western Germany, police said.
  Three adults were seriously injured in the incident in the town of Hoppstaedten, police said — including the 45-year-old referee, who suffered a cardiac arrest after being hit directly by lightning and had to be revived by onlookers and a doctor.
  All 29 of the children, ages 9 to 11, who had taken part in the match
  
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• Iran arrest 8 people for making ‘obscene’ music videos

  28-05-2016 17:26 via salon.com
  
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — An online report in Iran says authorities have arrested eight people for producing allegedly “obscene” music videos.
  The report by mizanonline.ir, a news outlet of the hard-line Iranian judiciary, is quoting Tehran prosecutor Abbas Jafari Dowlatabadi on Saturday as saying that the eight were arrested last week in Tehran. They were not identified by name.
  The report says the videos they produced were broadcast on an anti-revolutionary TV channel — a lik
  
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• Militants blow up Shell, Agip pipelines in Nigeria

  28-05-2016 17:11 via salon.com
  
  WARRI, Nigeria (AP) — Residents say militants have blown up strategic gas and crude pipelines belonging to Shell and Agip in the third attack in three days in an increasingly fierce campaign that has chopped Nigeria’s oil production in half.
  Community leader Eke-Spiff Erempagamo confirmed the militants’ report on social media that they had dynamited the trunkline linking Shell’s Bonny terminal to Agip’s Brass export terminal early Saturday.
  Nigeria’s governmen
  
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• Navy aviators involved in jet crash released from hospital

  28-05-2016 17:01 via salon.com
  NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — The Navy says all four aviators injured in a crash involving two fighter jets have been released from the hospital.
  Media outlets report that the crew members were released Friday from Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, where they were treated for minor injuries.
  The aviators ejected from their F/A-18 Super Hornets after what the Navy is calling an “in-flight mishap” during a training exercise Thursday off the coast of North Carolina. They were rescued in the
  
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• The Latest: Champs Lg final Madrid, Atletico resume rivalry

  28-05-2016 16:14 via salon.com
  
  MILAN (AP) — The Latest on the Champions League final (all times local):
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  Both teams are unchanged from their last league fixtures.
  Real Madrid: Keylor Navas, Dani Carvajal, Pepe, Sergio Ramos, Marcelo, Toni Kroos, Casemiro, Luka Modric, Gareth Bale, Cristiano Ronaldo, Karim Benzema. Subs: Kiko Casilla, Nacho, James Rodriguez, Lucas Vazquez, Jese, Isco, Danilo.
  Atletico Madrid: Jan Oblak, Filipe Luis, Diego Godin, Stefan Savic, Juanfran, Gabi, Augusto Fernandez, Koke, Saul Niguez,
  
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• Sanders fails to oust Clinton backers from convention roles

  28-05-2016 15:41 via salon.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic officials have rejected Bernie Sanders’ request to remove two high-profile Hillary Clinton supporters from leadership positions at the party’s summer convention.
  Sanders’ presidential campaign said in a letter Friday to the Democratic National Committee that Dannel Malloy, Connecticut’s governor, and Barney Frank, a former Massachusetts congressman, couldn’t be relied upon to perform their roles “fairly and capably while labo
  
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• Champions League final: Real Madrid, Atletico resume rivalry

  28-05-2016 15:41 via salon.com
  
  Atletico Madrid fans chant prior to the Champions League final soccer match between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid at the San Siro stadium in Milan, Italy, Saturday, May 28, 2016.(AP Photo/Andrew Medichini) (Credit: AP)
  MILAN (AP) — Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid are resuming their intense city rivalry in the Champions League final on a hot and humid Saturday evening at San Siro Stadium.
  Two years after Real Madrid won a record-extending 10th European title against Atletico, the teams pl
  
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• Man convicted on terrorism charge in synagogue firebombings

  28-05-2016 15:40 via salon.com
  HACKENSACK, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey man charged with vandalizing and firebombing Jewish temples and a rabbi’s home has been convicted of terrorism.
  Anthony Graziano was found guilty Friday on 20 counts overall and faces up to life in prison when he’s sentenced in July. But the Bergen County jury acquitted the 24-year-old Lodi man of aggravated arson and attempted murder charges.
  Graziano was charged along with longtime friend Aakash Dalal for the 2012 attacks.
  The attack in Ru
  
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• Results of probe into inappropriate emails to be released

  28-05-2016 15:26 via salon.com
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania Attorney General Kathleen Kane has announced that preliminary results of an investigation into inappropriate emails found on state servers will be released Tuesday.
  Kane in December ordered the review by former Maryland Attorney General Douglas Gansler of offensive, sometimes raunchy and sometimes pornographic material shared among judges, prosecutors and others in the criminal justice system.
  Gansler said in March that it was unlikely that the probe wou
  
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• 14-year-old boy charged in Albuquerque man’s dragging death

  28-05-2016 14:32 via salon.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A 14-year-old Albuquerque boy has been charged with running over a man before dragging him to his death.
  Police spokesman Tanner Tixier says an investigation into the Wednesday shooting death of a 15-year-old boy yielded information that led to the arrest.
  The 14-year-old was arrested Wednesday for murder, unlawful taking of a motor vehicle and evidence tampering.
  He is being held in a juvenile detention center on $75,000 bond.
  The Associated Press is not identifyi
  
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• For NY lawyer, a 45-year-old surveillance case is her legacy

  28-05-2016 14:29 via salon.com
  
  In this March 19, 2016 photo, Barbara Handschu talks to a reporters at her apartment in New York. Handschu barely gave it a thought 45 years ago when she was listed first among plaintiffs in a Vietnam-era lawsuit challenging how New York City police officers conducted surveillance of political activities. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) (Credit: AP)
  NEW YORK (AP) — Barbara Handschu is synonymous in New York City with the police guidelines about handling surveillance activities that bear her name.
  An
  
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• The Latest: Kids fighting to live after lightning hits Paris

  28-05-2016 14:07 via salon.com
  PARIS (AP) — The Latest on the lightning strike that electrocuted 11 people at a park in Paris. (all times local):
  6:05 p.m.
  A Paris fire service spokesman says an off-duty fireman ran immediately to the scene after a lightning strike disrupted a child’s birthday party in a park.
  Eric Moulin says the fireman saw nine of the 11 victims prone on the ground under a tree at Park Monceau, a popular weekend hangout for well-to-do families in Paris. He said the fireman administered first ai
  
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• This is an American tragedy: Republicans must step up and defeat Donald Trump

  28-05-2016 14:00 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: Reuters/Lucas Jackson)
  As a Democrat, part of me delights in the opportunities provided by the coming elections. With Trump at the top of the Republican ticket, Democrats might – just might – find themselves not only with the presidency, but in control of the Senate. But the state of our politics is so grave that it’s difficult to derive much joy out of the situation. Like others on both sides of the aisle, I already feel tainted by Trump’s rank trib
  
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• Taxpayers to foot bill for Arpaio’s defiance of court order

  28-05-2016 13:56 via salon.com
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Taxpayers already on the hook for $54 million in a racial profiling case against the longtime sheriff of metro Phoenix are about to get walloped with another worrisome cost.
  Hundreds of Latinos will be able to seek money from the government for being illegally detained when Sheriff Joe Arpaio disobeyed a judge’s order to stop his immigration patrols.
  A judge concluded two weeks ago that Arpaio knowingly ignored the 2011 order because he believed continuing his immigrat
  
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• Sea Shepherd founder Paul Watson rams whalers for a living

  28-05-2016 13:55 via salon.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — He’s a fugitive on Interpol’s Red List and a marine vigilante who’s done jail time for extradition requests. Yet to many, he’s also a heroic marine conservationist who risks his life and those of his crew to save countless endangered whales, turtles, dolphins and sharks from slaughter.
  Love him or loathe him, Paul Watson, the 65-year-old, silver-haired founder of Sea Shepherd and co-founder of Greenpeace is now a celebrity because of his job: ramming wh
  
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• Piller, Simpson share lead after 2nd round at Colonial

  28-05-2016 13:54 via salon.com
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Martin Piller made a short birdie putt on the 18th hole Saturday morning to finish the suspended second round at Colonial in a tie with Webb Simpson for the lead.
  Piller and Simpson were at 8-under 132. They were a stroke ahead of world’s No. 2-ranked player Jordan Spieth, Colonial member Ryan Palmer, Bryce Molder and Kyle Reifers.
  Simpson finished his round at 67 and was at 8-under 132 before the Dean & Deluca Invitational was stopped Friday night becaus
  
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• Fire official: 6 of the 11 people electrocuted at a Paris park are seriously injured, including 4 children

  28-05-2016 13:50 via salon.com
  PARIS (AP) — Fire official: 6 of the 11 people electrocuted at a Paris park are seriously injured, including 4 children.
  
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• Pakistan arrest 2 officials for helping slain Taliban chief

  28-05-2016 13:36 via salon.com
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — A Pakistani spokesman says federal investigators have arrested two officials involved in issuing Pakistani documents to the slain Taliban chief, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, and his family.
  Mansour was killed in a U.S. drone strike a week ago in southwestern Baluchistan province. A Pakistani passport found near the destroyed car identified him as Wali Mohammad.
  Interior Ministry’s spokesman Sarfaraz Hussain says Aziz Ahmed, an official in Baluchistan’s capital of Que
  
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• Ex-presidents meet with Venezuela government, opposition

  28-05-2016 13:28 via salon.com
  
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — A group of former presidents has held secret meetings with members of Venezuela’s opposition and government representatives in the Dominican Republic in an attempt at mediating the South American nation’s political standoff.
  Opposition alliance leader Jesus Torrealba confirms that the meetings took place under the auspices of the Union of South American Nations.
  But he said Saturday that there was no face-to-face encounter. Instead the two sides exchan
  
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• Officials: Man charged 9 years after bomb left in NC Walmart

  28-05-2016 13:26 via salon.com
  SYLVA, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say a fingerprint has led them to a man who placed a pipe bomb near small propane tanks in a Walmart in the North Carolina mountains.
  Officials say there were no serious injuries at the store in Sylva when the bomb exploded in September 2007.
  Federal court records say Larry Bowlsby’s fingerprint was found on a shopping cart after the explosion. Initially, it didn’t match any prints in the federal system, but agents ran it again this year.
  He was a
  
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• A state divided: Do you call it Taylor ham or pork roll?

  28-05-2016 13:26 via salon.com
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — It’s one of the most divisive issues in New Jersey, one that inflames regional rivalries and spurs fierce debate among residents and lawmakers.
  Is the meat in the state’s favorite breakfast sandwich called Taylor ham or pork roll?
  The debate has raged for years in homes, diners and restaurants, and recently found its way to the Legislature, where one member has introduced legislation that would designate the meat, egg and cheese combination as the official
  
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• Palestinian leader wants time cap for any talks with Israel

  28-05-2016 13:21 via salon.com
  
  CAIRO (AP) — The Palestinian president says if any Palestinian-Israeli negotiations are relaunched by a conference due in Paris next month, they should have a time cap and a mechanism to implement their resolutions.
  Mahmoud Abbas told a meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo on Saturday that the Paris gathering should also set up a committee to monitor the implementation of whatever is agreed upon.
  The conference, aimed at reviving long stalled Palestinian-Israeli peace negotiations, i
  
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• 11 hit by lightning in a Paris park, many at child’s party

  28-05-2016 13:21 via salon.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — A Paris city councilor says at least half a dozen children have been hit by lightning in a Paris park after a sudden storm overtook their birthday party.
  Councilor Karen Taieb says 11 people in all were hit by lightning Saturday after seeking shelter under a tree at the Park Monceau, a popular weekend hangout for well-to-do families. Taieb says the precise breakdown of victims is unclear but that most were children.
  She said three had been taken to a Parisian hospital. Their c
  
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• FIFA: ‘Ludicrous’ to claim Infantino plot to remove Scala

  28-05-2016 13:19 via salon.com
  
  MILAN (AP) — An alleged plot by FIFA President Gianni Infantino to oust the official who oversaw the salary offer he refused to accept has been dismissed as “ludicrous” by world soccer’s governing body.
  FIFA responded to reports in Saturday’s edition of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung which the German daily said were based on leaked details of FIFA Council meetings held this month.
  Infantino told council members a proposed salary of 2 million Swiss francs ($2 million
  
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