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• Police: Urine-soaked baby found in car during heroin arrest

  29-05-2016 23:56 via salon.com
  
  HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (AP) — West Virginia state police say a baby was soaked in urine in the back seat of a parked vehicle where four adults allegedly were using heroin.
  The Herald-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1NXejlb) says the adults were arrested Friday along U.S. 60 in Huntington, about 52 miles east of Charleston.
  Trooper J.A. Roach says troopers saw a 1-year-old boy in the back seat. Roach says the baby’s urine formed a puddle in his car seat.
  According to a criminal complaint, charges
  
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• LEADING OFF: Harvey seeks fix, Royals rallying and rolling

  29-05-2016 23:49 via salon.com
  
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  Mets RHP Matt Harvey (3-7, 6.08 ERA) tries again to get back on track when he faces the White Sox in a Memorial Day matinee at Citi Field. Harvey has been throwing to batters between starts, attempting to fix flaws in his delivery. “I’m hoping that he relaxes. I’m hoping that he just goes out and pitches like he knows how and worry about making pitches, not so much about the mechanics,” manag
  
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• Czech Republic man dies while skiing on Alaska mountain

  29-05-2016 22:57 via salon.com
  TALKEETNA, Alaska (AP) — A mountaineer from the Czech Republic is dead after an estimated 1,500-foot fall on Denali Mountain.
  Pavel Michut, 45, was skiing Messner Couloir when he fell Saturday, the National Park Service said.
  Nearby climbers found his body within 10 minutes.
  The body will be flown by helicopter to the Alaska State Medical Examiner once the weather is safe.
  The park service says Messner Couloir is a steep 5,000-foot-long gully that connects the 14,000-foot basin and the upp
  
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• I was adopted at 41

  29-05-2016 22:30 via salon.com
  
  “Hello?” The voice at the other end was hushed, similar to Jeanne’s. “Anyone there?”
  “Yes. May I speak with Jeanne Kerr?” I crossed my fingers.
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  “Who’s asking?” the voice cracked.
  “Its Regina Louise, I think we may’ve met a—”
  “I don’t believe so,” the stranger interrupted, her voice turning a shade defensive.
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• Brexit could break up Britain: Why the EU vote could mean the end of Britain as we know it

  29-05-2016 21:30 via salon.com
  
  Britain's Queen Elizabeth attends a garden party at Buckingham Palace. (Credit: AP)
  Planning that dream trip to Britain? Better make it quick. If Brexit campaigners win the referendum on membership of the European Union on June 23, the country might not exist for much longer. At least not as we know it.
  Sounds unlikely? Not really.
  If a majority of Brits decide they want out of the European Union, all outcomes are possible. But there’s one very real possibility that Brits are largely ignor
  
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• A very much needed haircut ✂️ https://t.co/axEyuyNuph

  29-05-2016 21:19 via twitter.com
  
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• Florida deputies fatally shoot robbery suspect

  29-05-2016 21:12 via salon.com
  DELAND, Fla. (AP) — Three Florida sheriff’s deputies fatally shot an armed robbery suspect who they say refused to surrender and was holding a knife.
  Volusia County sheriff’s spokesman Andrew Grant said a gunman Sunday had robbed victims of their wallets at an Orange City park and ride. They provided a description of the suspect and his vehicle.
  Grant says deputies spotted the suspect and a woman driver in the car about 20 minutes later in DeLand, about 25 miles west of Daytona
  
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• Woman fails to save friend in Australian crocodile attack

  29-05-2016 20:59 via salon.com
  
  BRISBANE, Australia (AP) — Police say a woman struggled in vain to drag her friend from a crocodile’s jaws during a late night swim off a northeast Australian beach.
  Police Senior Constable Russell Parker said the pair were in waist-deep water at Thornton Beach in the World Heritage-listed Daintree National Park in Queensland state when the 46-year-old woman was taken by the crocodile at 10:30 p.m. local time on Sunday.
  Parker told Australian Broadcasting Corp. on Monday: “Her
  
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• Brazil’s Rousseff says impeachment aimed at corruption probe

  29-05-2016 20:54 via salon.com
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Suspended President Dilma Rousseff said in an interview published Sunday that leaked audio recordings of men backing her impeachment show the effort to oust her is meant to stop a wide-ranging corruption probe that has implicated numerous leading Brazilian politicians and businessmen.
  Rousseff told the newspaper Folha de S. Paulo the revelation of the recordings gives her hope of returning to office. She was suspended early this month pending a Senate impeachment tria
  
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• Ariya Jutanugarn wins 3rd straight LPGA Tour title

  29-05-2016 20:49 via salon.com
  
  ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Ariya Jutanugarn became the first player to win three straight LPGA Tour events in three years, closing with a 5-under 67 for a five-stroke victory Sunday in the Volvik Championship.
  The 20-year-old Jutanugarn is the first player since Inbee Park in 2013 to win three consecutive tournaments and the first ever to make their first three career victories consecutive.
  Jutanugarn finished at 15-under 273 at Travis Pointe after starting the day with a one-shot edge thanks
  
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• Long road to Cup Final ends for rebuilt Sharks and Penguins

  29-05-2016 20:44 via salon.com
  
  Pittsburgh Penguins' Chris Kunitz, left, Evgeni Malkin (71) and Sidney Crosby (87) wait to run a drill during hockey practice at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, Sunday May 29, 2016. The Penguins are preparing for Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals against the San Jose Sharks on Monday, May 30, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) (Credit: AP)
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — It wasn’t supposed to take the San Jose Sharks this long to reach their first Stanley Cup Final. It wasn’t su
  
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• Police: Off-duty officer shoots armed suspected shoplifter

  29-05-2016 20:40 via salon.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Police in Washington say an off-duty officer shot a man suspected of shoplifting after the man produced a gun and failed to comply with the officer’s orders.
  Police said in a statement that the shooting happened Sunday near Union Station. Police say an off-duty officer saw a man carrying objects in his arms and backpack and the officer attempted to stop the individual for shoplifting. It was not immediately known what items the suspect had taken.
  Police say the susp
  
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• Warriors know Game 7 back home for Finals trip won’t be easy

  29-05-2016 20:38 via salon.com
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — After a record 73 wins and a memorable Game 6 comeback on the road, the Golden State Warriors’ goal of getting back to the NBA Finals and defending their title comes down to Game 7 at home against the powerful Oklahoma City Thunder.
  All along, the Warriors have said the numerous team milestones and personal accomplishments they set during this special season won’t matter a bit unless they repeat as champions.
  They need one more victory to become the 10th
  
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• Treasure hunters to gather for celebration in New Mexico

  29-05-2016 20:33 via salon.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Searchers fixated with finding a treasure hidden in the mountains north of Santa Fe will converge in the city.
  The Santa Fe New Mexican reports (http://bit.ly/1TGVEHj) that people are expected to gather Saturday for “Fennboree” and a screening of the documentary, “Fenn’s Searchers.”
  The annual gathering is inspired by author Forrest Fenn, who stated in his 2010 memoir that he had hidden a chest containing nearly $2 million in coins.
  The t
  
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• Man shot to death in Omaha was acquitted of Iowa slaying

  29-05-2016 20:29 via salon.com
  
  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A man who was shot to death in Omaha had been acquitted of first-degree murder in the 2001 death of his girlfriend.
  The Omaha World-Herald reports (http://bit.ly/20Q9iMv ) 40-year-old Carlos A. Alonzo, who was killed early Saturday, was acquitted in 2005 in the death several years earlier of his girlfriend, Teresa Windham.
  The 17-year-old Windham disappeared from a Council Bluffs motel where she was staying with Alonzo. Her body was later found near Fremont.
  Prosecutors
  
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• Lone Star: Spieth’s 8th PGA win is 1st in Texas, at Colonial

  29-05-2016 20:19 via salon.com
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Jordan Spieth birdied his final three holes, chipping in from behind the 17th green and closing with a 34-foot putt, and shot a 5-under 65 on Sunday to win at Colonial for his first home state victory.
  It was the eighth career win for Spieth, the world’s No. 2-ranked player, and came in his third tournament since blowing a five-stroke lead on the back nine last month when trying to win the Masters for the second year in a row. He will try to defend his U.S. O
  
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• Rocco Mediate wins Senior PGA Championship

  29-05-2016 20:14 via salon.com
  
  Rocco Mediate smokes a cigar as he looks down the second fairway during the final round of the Senior PGA Championship golf tournament at Harbor Shores Golf Club in Benton Harbor, Mich., Sunday, May 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Robert Franklin) (Credit: AP)
  BENTON HARBOR, Mich. (AP) — Rocco Mediate holed out from a greenside bunker for birdie on the par-3 17th to wrap up a record-setting, wire-to-wire victory Sunday in the Senior PGA Championship.
  Smoking cigars during the round, the 53-year-old Me
  
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• Garland gives commencement address at old high school

  29-05-2016 20:14 via salon.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland delivered the commencement speech Sunday at the Chicago-area high school where he graduated as valedictorian 46 years ago, though he didn’t address the partisan divide over his nomination.
  The U.S. appeals court judge in Washington, D.C., instead used his 15-minute address to the Niles West High School graduating class to touch on common commencement themes such as life’s unexpected “twists and turns.” He also urg
  
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• The Latest: Governor: Prison guard seriously burned by blast

  29-05-2016 20:12 via salon.com
  FLOYD, N.Y. (AP) — The Latest on the investigation into an exploding package that burned a New York prison guard after he picked it up near his home (all times local):
  5:15 p.m.
  New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says a prison guard suffered serious burns when he opened an exploding package he found outside his home.
  The Democratic governor says the corrections officer was severely injured when the item blew up Sunday morning in Floyd, a town near Utica. Neighbors say they heard a loud boom, follo
  
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• Why turnout matters, even in true-blue districts: Large margins of victory make politicians more responsive to progressive goals

  29-05-2016 20:00 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: AP/David Goldman)
  Though in the popular imagination a revolutionary is a bearded Che Guevara with a cigar, a more accurate picture might be a union organizer registering immigrant households. A new study shows that turnout affects how Democratic politicians vote, which strengthens the case that turnout matters.Rain And RepresentationThe study, by political scientists John Henderson and John Brooks, is focused on the question of how politicians use election outcomes to gauge voter opinio
  
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• Campers in national forests worried about target shooting

  29-05-2016 19:53 via salon.com
  GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — Campers in Montana’s national forests are getting skittish as more sportsmen take advantage of rules that allow target shooting, even though they comply with the rules.
  The rules bar target shooting 150 yards of a residence, a building, or campsite or developed recreation site. But for some campers, that’s way too close.
  Campers point to trees that have been shredded with bullets not far from group campsites.
  “If they shoot this way, we’re
  
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• Cancer survivor stunned by attention over graduation denial

  29-05-2016 19:44 via salon.com
  PHOENIX (AP) — Overwhelming public support is outweighing any lingering bitterness for a suburban Phoenix high school student who kept up with classes through cancer treatments but wasn’t allowed to walk at graduation.
  “Having people tell me that I’m being a voice for them is so much more powerful than these people denying me my request,” Stephen Dwyer said.
  The 18-year-old on Sunday, just a few days after having to watch his Mesa high school’s graduation cere
  
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• Expired radio beacon sends distress call after being dropped

  29-05-2016 19:39 via salon.com
  BOSTON (AP) — The Coast Guard says rescuers needlessly searched a Rhode Island bay after receiving a distress call from an expired radio beacon that had been improperly discarded.
  The Coast Guard says in a statement that a command center received a transmission Sunday afternoon that indicated a boat was in distress. The transmission came from an electronic position-indicating radio beacon.
  Helicopter and boat crews were dispatched to Mount Hope Bay to search for the vessel.
  But about two h
  
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• Girl shot in head while in father’s car in Detroit has died

  29-05-2016 19:27 via salon.com
  DETROIT (AP) — A 2-year-old girl who was shot in the head in Detroit during a dispute between two groups has died.
  St. John Hospital spokesman Brian Taylor said Makanzee Oldham died Sunday. She was shot Wednesday while in a car with her father after a fight erupted and someone poured juice on a woman getting ready for prom.
  Thirty-year-old Cleveland Smelley, 21-year-old Deonta Bennett and 32-year-old Antoine Smelley were arraigned Saturday on eight counts each of assault with intent to mur
  
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• A veteran’s race against time to return WWI Purple Hearts

  29-05-2016 19:25 via salon.com
  ST. ALBANS, Vt. (AP) — A group that seeks to reunite lost Purple Hearts with service members or their descendants is embarking on an ambitious project: to return 100 such medals or certificates earned in World War I before the 100th anniversary next April of the United States’ entry into the conflict.
  Zachariah Fike, of the Vermont-based Purple Hearts Reunited, began the project after noticing he had in his collection of memorabilia a total of exactly 100 Purple Hearts or equivalent
  
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• Greenwood proud to add voice to Charlotte, NASCAR salute

  29-05-2016 19:06 via salon.com
  CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Lee Greenwood’s patriotic anthem was almost lost to bad timing.
  Greenwood was at Charlotte Motor Speedway to sing his anthem, “God Bless The USA” before the start of the Coca-Cola 600 on Sunday night. He said that when the song was out its first year on the “You’ve Got A Good Love Comin'” album, its release missed a natural tie in with July 4 and the Independence Day celebrations.
  “It wasn’t necessarily on the shelf,&rdqu
  
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• Package explodes at New York prison guard’s home, burns him

  29-05-2016 19:05 via salon.com
  FLOYD, N.Y. (AP) — An exploding package burned a prison guard who found it outside his central New York home, authorities said Sunday as they worked to determine who sent it and why.
  It’s not yet clear whether the explosion in the small town of Floyd was related to the victim’s work, Oneida County Sheriff Robert Maciol said as local, state and federal agencies worked on the case. The victim, 52, was hospitalized with burns on his hands and arms.
  “There are a lot of unansw
  
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• Party Around the World: Great sports, great spots to party

  29-05-2016 19:04 via salon.com
  
  FILE - In this July 22, 2011, file photo, Bauke Mollema of The Netherlands climbs Alpe d'Huez during the 19th stage of the Tour de France cycling race in Alpe d'Huez, Alps region, France. The Alpe d'Huez ski station is a combination of Woodstock, Munich beer festival and orange-clad Dutch fans in costumes, aAs exhausted riders in crazy-colored suits carefully weave their way through inebriated fans who have camped out for days waiting for this moment. (AP Photo/Christophe Ena, File) (Credit: AP)
  
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• The Latest: Union: 2 officers shot in Houston should be OK

  29-05-2016 18:52 via salon.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on shootings Sunday in a Houston neighborhood (all times local):
  3:45 p.m.
  Houston Police Union President Ray Hunt says an officer who was hit several times in the chest during a shooting was wearing both a metal breastplate and a bulletproof vest.
  Hunt says both officers hurt during the neighborhood shootings Sunday should be OK. The second officer was shot in the hand.
  Police have said there were two armed suspects involved, one of whom was killed. The other was
  
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• American charged in Paris police car attack amid protests

  29-05-2016 18:42 via salon.com
  PARIS (AP) — The Paris prosecutor’s office says a 27-year-old American man has been given preliminary charges of attempted murder in an exceptionally violent attack on police in their patrol car that drew national attention.
  The suspect is among five people given preliminary charges in the incident, in which masked protesters were caught on video smashing and torching the car while two officers were inside. It symbolized tensions between police and protesters amid months of demonstra
  
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• Man shoots himself to death inside New Jersey firing range

  29-05-2016 18:41 via salon.com
  WOODLAND PARK, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say a man has shot himself to death at a firing range in New Jersey.
  Woodland Park police say the 30-year-old Garfield man had gone to the Gun For Hire indoor shooting range with a friend Saturday night. They say he shot himself in the head a short time later.
  The man was taken to a hospital, where he died a short time later. His name has not been released.
  Authorities say the death appears to be a suicide, but a formal ruling has not been issued.
  
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• The Latest: Final service held in church after long protest

  29-05-2016 18:15 via salon.com
  
  Parishioners carry quilts made to commemorate a vigil at the St. Frances X. Cabrini Church at the conclusion of a planned final service at the church, Sunday, May 29, 2016, in Scituate, Mass. For more than 11 years, a core group of about 100 die-hard parishioners at the church have kept their parish open by maintaining an around-the-clock vigil in protest of a decision by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston to close it following the clergy sex abuse crisis. (AP Photo/Steven Senne) (Credit:
  
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• More than 700 feared dead in recent Mediterranean crossings

  29-05-2016 18:14 via salon.com
  
  POZZALLO, Sicily (AP) — Survivor accounts have pushed to more than 700 the number of migrants feared dead in Mediterranean Sea shipwrecks over three days in the past week, even as rescue ships saved thousands of others in daring operations.
  The shipwrecks appear to account for the largest loss of life reported in the Mediterranean since April 2015, when a single ship sank with an estimated 800 people trapped inside. Humanitarian organizations say that many migrant boats sink without a trac
  
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• Alexander Rossi pulls off stunning upset in 100th Indy 500

  29-05-2016 18:03 via salon.com
  
  Alexander Rossi, center, celebrates with car owner Michael Andretti, left, after winning the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500 auto race at Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, Sunday, May 29, 2016. (AP Photo/Darron Cummings) (Credit: AP)
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — An American took the Andretti family to victory lane in the 100th running of the Indianapolis 500.
  It just wasn’t the driver anyone expected.
  Alexander Rossi was the surprising winner of “The Greatest Spectacle
  
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• Donald Trump’s not-so-silent majority: His backers — extreme and embodying violence — are everything Nixon deplored

  29-05-2016 18:00 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump, Richard Nixon (Credit: AP/Reuters/Rick Wilking/Photo montage by Salon)
  A few weeks ago, I went to a Donald Trump rally in suburban Philadelphia. Boisterous supporters lined the sidewalks, chanting “USA” and “Build That Wall.” Many of them also wore hats and T-shirts bearing an incongruous message, especially for such a noisy afternoon: “The Silent Majority Stands With Trump.”
  That’s been a recurring theme in the campaign since last August,
  
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• The right’s bathroom privacy lie: Their new “bathroom bill” approach misreads the Constitution — and decency

  29-05-2016 17:59 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: ChameleonsEye via Shutterstock)
  Privacy has some new devotees. These converts, while historically opposing privacy rights for young women attempting to exercise reproductive freedom, now claim that the right to privacy stands guard over the girls of America, protecting them from the imagined threat of other girls. Girls who happen to be transgender.
  In lawsuits challenging reasonable and humane efforts to recognize transgender people for who they are — people — groups such a
  
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• Shortstop in 1st women’s pro baseball league dies at 90

  29-05-2016 17:51 via salon.com
  BUZZARDS BAY, Mass. (AP) — A member of the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League that was immortalized in the 1992 film “A League of Their Own” has died. Lucille “Lou” Richards was 90.
  Jon Richards tells The Associated Press that his mother died May 20 at the Cape Royal Nursing and Rehab Facility in Buzzards Bay, Massachusetts. He says she died of complications from hydrocephalus.
  She was a shortstop for the Racine Belles and the South Bend Blue Sox in 194
  
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• Driver’s family press charges over US drone hit on Pakistan

  29-05-2016 17:44 via salon.com
  QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — The family of a driver who was killed alongside Taliban chief Mullah Akhtar Mansour in a U.S. drone strike in Pakistan has filed a case against U.S. officials, seeking to press murder charges, police said Sunday.
  Mansour had entered Pakistan from Iran using a false name and fake Pakistani identity documents on May 21, when his car was targeted by a U.S. drone. The driver, who was also killed, was later identified as Mohammed Azam.
  The police filed a case on behalf o
  
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• Saudi Arabia slams Iran’s role in Iraq as ‘unacceptable’

  29-05-2016 17:39 via salon.com
  
  In this Sunday May 29, 2016 photo released by the Saudi Press Agency, SPA, King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, right, receives British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond in Jiddah, Saudi Arabia. (Saudi Press Agency via AP) (Credit: AP)
  RIYADH (AP) — Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir said Sunday that Iran must stop meddling in Iraq and that the presence of Iranian military units there is “unacceptable.”
  His comments come as thousands of Iraqi Shiite militiamen, s
  
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• Conductor dies after fall from train along scenic route

  29-05-2016 17:36 via salon.com
  
  CANON CITY, Colo. (AP) — A train that travels along one of the nation’s most scenic routes is suspending service while investigators look into the death of a conductor.
  Authorities said it is unclear how Leslie Cacy, 28, may have fallen from a moving train car of the Royal Gorge train Saturday night near Canon City.
  The Royal Gorge is about 10 miles long, with the Arkansas River running through it and the railroad running along its banks. Its granite walls soar over 1,000 feet. The g
  
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• Mexican governor confirms armed men seized soccer player Alan Pulido

  29-05-2016 17:14 via salon.com
  
  CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — Mexican governor confirms armed men seized soccer player Alan Pulido.
  
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• Lady Gaga lays down her latest track at Indy speedway

  29-05-2016 17:11 via salon.com
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Already a regular singing partner with Tony Bennett, Lady Gaga found another golden oldie chart topper to pair with: Mario Andretti.
  Gaga was at Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the 100th running of the Indy 500 on Sunday, though she kept a fairly low profile, dressed down in jean shorts with her hair pulled back in a tight ponytail.
  Gaga and 1969 Indy 500 winner Andretti rolled onto the track with the field of 33 drivers before Sunday’s race in a custom-built, two
  
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• Storm safe rooms as a wedding gift? Sure, in Tornado Alley

  29-05-2016 16:42 via salon.com
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Never mind toasters, blenders and slow cookers. Joplin, Missouri, tornado survivors Kayla and Ricky Smith had a more practical request for a wedding gift — shelter from the next big storm.
  The Smiths were on the leading edge of an odd trend in Tornado Alley: Engaged couples using bridal registries or word of mouth to request donations so they can purchase safe rooms, which are strong, pre-fabricated shelters typically installed in houses or garages.
  Several tornadoes
  
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• The Latest: Authorities ask for tips in missing teen case

  29-05-2016 16:37 via salon.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on the search for a Northern California girl abducted at gunpoint (all times local):
  11:15 am
  Authorities are asking people who may have seen a teenage girl abducted by an armed acquaintance to call them after finding no evidence the girl was in a Northern California creek searched since Friday.
  Officials late Saturday called off a two-day search by sheriff’s divers, canine units and search and rescue teams for 15-year-old Pearl Pinson in the Willow Cr
  
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• Donald Trump exposes the GOP’s dirty secret: They build everything by nurturing white rage

  29-05-2016 16:30 via salon.com
  
  Paul Ryan, Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Richard Drew/Andrew Harnik/Photo montage by Salon)
  Paul Ryan is angry with Donald Trump, not so much for failing to espouse conservative values, as for exposing America’s dirty little secret — white rage: that deep-seated determination to block black progress in this country. For years, conservative politicians have relied upon the cover of high-minded principles and slogans – “protecting the integrity of the ballot box,” or wagin
  
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• Fighting in central Yemen kills 69

  29-05-2016 16:28 via salon.com
  SANAA, Yemen (AP) — At least 69 people have been killed and dozens injured in two days of fighting in central Yemen between rebels and forces loyal to the internationally recognized government, Yemeni security officials said on Sunday.
  The officials said government-allied forces have taken control of several areas previously controlled by the rebels, known as the Houthis, between the central provinces of Marib and Shabwa. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren&rsq
  
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• No likes for Salt Lake City complex’s Facebook requirement

  29-05-2016 16:24 via salon.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Tenants at a Salt Lake City apartment complex are not giving “likes” to a Facebook-centric condition to their lease.
  KSL-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1XH25il) that tenants at City Park Apartments received a notice on their doors late last week about a contractual add-on involving Facebook.
  According to the document, a new lease agreement mandates that residents “friend” the complex on Facebook within five days of signing or be found in violation.
  
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• Cops: Lost couple cuts chain to enter nuclear plant property

  29-05-2016 16:21 via salon.com
  DELTA, Pa. (AP) — A couple who got lost in Pennsylvania while driving to New York entered the property of a nuclear plant by cutting a chain at a gate, apparently in a quest to get back on the right road, authorities said.
  The Chesapeake, Virginia, couple were driving from Baltimore on Friday night when they got onto an access road at the Peach Bottom Atomic Power Station, owned by Exelon. The driver told police he didn’t see two “No trespassing” signs when he cut the cha
  
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• Trump focusing on veterans in Rolling Thunder appearance

  29-05-2016 16:06 via salon.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump was focusing on veterans Sunday at the annual Rolling Thunder motorcycle rally, hoping to find a receptive audience despite some missteps in his presidential campaign.
  Trump angered veterans early on when he criticized the military record of John McCain, the Arizona senator who was the Republican presidential nominee in 2008. McCain was a Navy pilot during the Vietnam War and was held for more than five years as a prisoner of war after his plane was shot down
  
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• Turkey president raps US, Russia, Iran for presence in Syria

  29-05-2016 16:01 via salon.com
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s president has criticized the United States, Russia and Iran for their presence in Syria and said their unwillingness to depose Syrian President Bashar Assad was contributing to Syrians’ pain.
  Recep Tayyip Erdogan was addressing a rally on Sunday marking the 563rd anniversary of the Ottoman conquest of Constantinople — present-day Istanbul.
  Erdogan said: “What business have Russia and Iran (in Syria)? What business do the U.S. soldiers dresse
  
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