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• Guatemala gets new attorney general after resignation

  30-05-2016 23:44 via salon.com
  
  GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Guatemalan President Jimmy Morales has named a new attorney general after the previous chief prosecutor resigned due to threats.
  Lawyer Anabela Morfin will now be the country’s top legal officer, replacing Maria Eugenia Villagran. Villagran told a local radio station on Monday that she will leave Guatemala due to the threats.
  She attributed the threats received by her staff to the cases handled by her office, which include high-profile corruption cases.
  One of t
  
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• Australia to sell bitcoins confiscated as proceeds of crime

  30-05-2016 23:32 via salon.com
  CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — An official says about $13 million in bitcoins will be auctioned in Sydney in June after Australian police confiscated the digital currency as proceeds of crime.
  Ernst & Young transaction partner Adam Nikitins said Tuesday that the accountancy firm is running the process, which is only the second such bitcoin auction in the world after the U.S. Marshals Service sold 144,000 bitcoins over two years ending in 2015 that had been confiscated from Ross Ulbricht, w
  
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• South Korea says North Korea missile launch likely failed

  30-05-2016 23:21 via salon.com
  
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — A North Korean missile launch likely failed on Tuesday, according to South Korea’s military, the latest in a string of high-profile failures that tempers somewhat recent worries that Pyongyang was pushing quickly toward its goal of a nuclear-tipped missile that can reach America’s mainland.
  South Korea’s Yonhap news agency said in an unsourced report that the missile was a powerful mid-range Musudan, which, if true, would make it the fourth failu
  
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• FBI agent’s gun stolen from car in San Francisco

  30-05-2016 23:19 via salon.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco police say an FBI agent’s gun and badge were stolen after his car was broken into in the city’s popular Alamo Square.
  San Francisco Police Officer Carlos Manfredi says the FBI agent reported to police that his vehicle was broken into Sunday afternoon.
  Manfredi says the agent’s .40-caliber Glock handgun was stolen, along with his I.D. Badge and credentials. He says no other information was available Monday.
  The theft follows a series of b
  
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• Premier says return to Fort McMurray delayed for some

  30-05-2016 23:04 via salon.com
  
  EDMONTON, Alberta (AP) — Alberta Premier Rachel Notley says concerns about environmental contamination will delay the return of up to 2,000 evacuees hoping to move back to their homes in fire-damaged Canadian oil sands city of Fort McMurray until as late as September.
  Notley said Monday that more than 500 homes and about a dozen apartment complexes that escaped a massive wildfire earlier this month in three otherwise heavily damaged neighborhoods are not safe to be lived in yet following t
  
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• South Florida officers find 2 alligators eating human body

  30-05-2016 22:55 via salon.com
  
  SOUTHWEST RANCHES, Fla. (AP) — Police in South Florida were called to a gruesome scene: a pair of alligators eating a human body.
  The Sun Sentinel (http://bit.ly/25v4Shf ) reports that Davie Police Capt. Dale Engle says the body found Sunday in Southwest Ranches, about 20 miles west of Fort Lauderdale, appears to have been at the location for a long time.
  Engle says officers were able to scare the alligators away from the body but the two lingered as officers tried to recover the body.
  He
  
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• Authorities identify man killed in Houston shooting

  30-05-2016 22:44 via salon.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — Authorities have identified a 56-year-old man as the victim of a shooting at a Houston auto detail shop that also left several people injured.
  The Harris County medical examiner’s office said Monday that Eugene Linscomb was killed in the shooting a day earlier.
  Police have said the victim who was fatally shot was known to be a customer at the shop and had arrived shortly before a man entered and started shooting. The gunman, whom authorities have not identified, was ki
  
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• Chicago gets some pension relief as Rauner veto overridden

  30-05-2016 22:37 via salon.com
  
  FILE - In this May 26, 2016, file photo, Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner meets with local community leaders in Springfield, Ill. The Illinois Senate turned back Gov Rauner's veto of a five-year pension-savings plan for Chicago Monday, May 31, 2016, bucking the conservative governor on protests that Democrats are broadening the pension abyss. (AP Photo/Seth Perlman File) (Credit: AP)
  SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Chicago taxpayers will save $1 billion on police and fire pension costs in the short ter
  
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• Japan factory output, consumer spending weak in April

  30-05-2016 22:14 via salon.com
  TOKYO (AP) — Japan reports that its factory output fell 3.5 percent in April from the same month a year earlier, while consumer spending also edged lower.
  While the declines reported Tuesday were more moderate than the month before, suggesting a slight improvement, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe may point to such trends as reasons for the widely expected postponement of a sales tax hike next year.
  Consumer spending fell 0.4 percent in April from a year earlier, while unemployment remained flat
  
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• Haiti panel recommends throwing out results of disputed vote

  30-05-2016 22:05 via salon.com
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A special verification commission in Haiti is recommending throwing out the disputed results of last year’s first-round presidential election and holding a new vote.
  Commission President Pierre Francois Benoit says there were far too many of what he calls “zombie votes” and other problems in the October presidential balloting to be considered legitimate.
  Commissioners say they audited a random sample of 25 percent of the roughly 13,000 tally s
  
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• Activists say air strikes pummel rebel-held city

  30-05-2016 22:04 via salon.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — Activists say a wave of air strikes on the rebel-held city of Idlib in northwestern Syria have killed at least 10 people and damaged one or more hospitals.
  The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group counted 10 strikes on Idlib on Monday night, which it said killed at least 14 civilians, including 3 children. The group says it believes Russian jets carried out the attacks.
  The Local Coordination Committees, an activist network, said 10 people were killed when the
  
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• A Haiti commission is recommending throwing out the disputed results of last year’s first-round presidential election and holding a new vote

  30-05-2016 22:00 via salon.com
  
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — A Haiti commission is recommending throwing out the disputed results of last year’s first-round presidential election and holding a new vote.
  
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• Cubs ‘pen perfect for 7 innings in 1-hit win over Dodgers

  30-05-2016 21:58 via salon.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Travis Wood and three other relievers combined for seven perfect innings after starter Jason Hammel left with cramps, and the Chicago Cubs held the Los Angeles Dodgers to one hit in a 2-0 victory Monday.
  Hammel exited after his right hamstring cramped while warming up for the third inning. Wood (3-0) pitched four perfect innings in his longest stint of the season.
  Justin Grimm, Pedro Strop and Hector Rondon pitched one inning each for the Cubs, with Rondon getting his ninth
  
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• The Latest: Murray, Jones leads their teams onto ice

  30-05-2016 21:57 via salon.com
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Latest on Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final between the San Jose Sharks and Pittsburgh Penguins (all times local):
  7:50 p.m. EDT
  Goaltenders Matt Murray of Pittsburgh and Martin Jones of San Jose led their teams onto the ice at Consol Energy Center for warmups prior to Game 1 of the Stanley Cup Final.
  The 22-year-old Murray and 26-year-old Jones are starting in the final for the first time. Jones backed up Jonathan Quick with the Los Angeles Kings when they won it all i
  
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• Fire erupts during Memorial Day banquet at American Legion

  30-05-2016 21:49 via salon.com
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Authorities say a blaze erupted during an annual Memorial Day banquet at an American Legion post in Philadelphia and required more than 100 firefighters to get it under control.
  Banquet attendee George Mondschein tells The Philadelphia Inquirer (http://bit.ly/1THBb59 ) that dinner was finishing up Monday when the commander announced that there was a fire in the dumbwaiter.
  Fire Commissioner Adam Thiel says firefighters worked 2½ hours to get the blaze under contr
  
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• The consequences of disposable fashion: The year I quit shopping to help the environment

  30-05-2016 21:30 via salon.com
  
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  Last January, I met with a friend who volunteered regularly at a clothing donation center. Kari learned the cheap clothing that many people donate – the Forever 21 skirt that cost less than your breakfast, the H&M blouses that never fit quite right, the Zara pants that pilled after one wash – all comes at a devastating cost to the environment. And while you’re clearing out your closet for donation bragging to your friends (and tax accou
  
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• Physicist Stephen Hawking baffled by Donald Trump’s rise

  30-05-2016 21:23 via salon.com
  LONDON (AP) — Renowned theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking may have a good grasp of the workings of the universe, but he says he can’t understand Donald Trump’s popularity.
  Hawking tells ITV’s “Good Morning Britain” show Tuesday that he has no explanation for the success of the presumptive Republican Party presidential nominee.
  “He is a demagogue who seems to appeal to the lowest common denominator,” Hawking says in prerecorded comments to be bro
  
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• Brazil’s transparency chief quits over corruption probe tape

  30-05-2016 21:23 via salon.com
  
  Ministerial staff use brooms to scrub the office door of the Transparency Minister Fabiano Silveira demanding his resignation, in Brasilia, Brazil, Monday, May 30, 2016. A recording TV Globo broadcast late Sunday shows Silveira criticizing Operation Car Wash, a wide-ranging corruption probe of the state oil company Petrobras that has implicated numerous leading Brazilian politicians and businessmen. Protesters in Brazil use brooms as a representation to sweep away corruption. (AP Photo/Eraldo Pe
  
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• Nigeria: Security forces kill oil militants, separatists

  30-05-2016 21:09 via salon.com
  
  WARRI, Nigeria (AP) — Nigerian security forces clashed with oil militants and Biafran secessionists in separate bloody confrontations Monday that killed at least 20 civilians and two police officers, officials and witnesses. The violence erupted in Nigeria’s restive south as the military mounted an offensive in the oil rich south-central Niger Delta and separatists protested in the southeast.
  Over the weekend, soldiers fired on speedboats believed to be carrying Niger Delta militants
  
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• Plugged in and stressed out: Technology is killing the work-life balance

  30-05-2016 20:00 via salon.com
  
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  In February 2015, YouTube user “Where’s Stu” posted an eye-opening look into his life as a Tokyo salaryman. The British-born office worker documented a week of his life through short clips showing him going to and from his middle management job in a large Japanese corporation.
  Typically, his work day began at 9:30 am, and he can be seen starting his commute home at 11:30 p.m., often only getting five to seven hours of sleep a night. In t
  
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• Yemen rebels launch missile into Saudi Arabia

  30-05-2016 17:59 via salon.com
  
  SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Yemen’s Houthi rebels have launched a missile over the border into Saudi Arabia for the first time in weeks in the latest violation of a shaky truce between the insurgents and the Saudi-backed Yemeni government.
  Pro-Houthi television channel al-Masirah said Monday that the rebels had launched a long-range missile into Saudi territory.
  Saudi Arabia’s military said in a statement that several missiles had hit the Jizan border region, the first such strike in o
  
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• AP Source: Baylor will hire former Wake coach Grobe

  30-05-2016 17:58 via salon.com
  A person involved in the decision tells The Associated Press that Baylor will hire former Wake Forest coach Jim Grobe to lead its football program this season.
  The person spoke on condition of anonymity Monday because a deal between Grobe and the school was still being finalized.
  Baylor is scrambling to replace Art Briles, who was let go last week after the release of a report commissioned by the school that accused the successful coach of not responding to or inappropriately handling allegation
  
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• Harvey rediscovers form, leads Mets over White Sox 1-0

  30-05-2016 17:56 via salon.com
  
  New York Mets starting pitcher Matt Harvey reacts during the seventh inning of a baseball game against the Chicago White Sox at Citi Field, Monday, May 30, 2016 in New York. (AP Photo/Seth Wenig) (Credit: AP)
  NEW YORK (AP) — Matt Harvey rediscovered his form with seven dominant innings of two-hit ball, Neil Walker homered off Jose Quintana, and the New York Mets beat Chicago 1-0 Monday to send the reeling White Sox to their seventh straight loss.
  Harvey (4-7) has been one of baseball&rsquo
  
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• Small plane lands on Interstate 10 in Mississippi

  30-05-2016 17:40 via salon.com
  
  PASCAGOULA, Miss. (AP) — A single-engine airplane has made an emergency landing on Interstate 10 in south Mississippi’s Jackson County.
  Mississippi Highway Patrol Capt. Johnny Poulos tells The Associated Press the landing is believed to have occurred around 12:30 p.m. Monday in the eastbound lanes of I-10, near Biloxi. No injuries were reported.
  The landing happened near Mile Marker 48 between the heavily traveled D’Iberville and Ocean Springs exits. Poulos said troopers were d
  
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• Holder: Snowden did ‘service,’ but should still be punished

  30-05-2016 17:13 via salon.com
  
  FILE - In this March 4, 2015, file photo, then-Attorney General Eric Holder speaks at the Justice Department in Washington. Holder says Edward Snowden performed a "public service" in stoking a national debate about secret domestic surveillance programs, but that he should still return to the U.S. to stand trial. Holder spoke with CNN political commentator David Axelrod in a podcast released May 30, 2016. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster) (Credit: AP)
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Edward Snowden performed a &l
  
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• The Latest: France commits funds to run migrant camp

  30-05-2016 17:10 via salon.com
  
  In this photo taken Sunday, May 29, 2016 migrants attend to disembark from the Italian Navy Vega vessel, in Reggio Calabria, southern Italy, after being rescued in the Mediterranean Sea off the coasts of Libya. 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. (AP Photo/Adriana Sapone) (Credit: AP)
  POZZALLO, Sicily (AP) — The
  
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• Common infections could become untreatable: Dangerous new antibiotic-resistant bacteria reach U.S.

  30-05-2016 17:00 via salon.com
  
  A dangerous new form of antibiotic resistance has spread to the United States, according to a report published Thursday. Researchers at the Department of Defense announced that a Pennsylvania woman developed a urinary tract infection (UTI) with bacteria that fought off an antibiotic of last resort called colistin, and had  15 genes for resistance to other antibiotics. Until now, many bacteria have been vulnerable to colistin, even if they have been able to survive other medications. Since
  
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• Vigil held at Cincinnati Zoo in tribute to slain gorilla

  30-05-2016 16:52 via salon.com
  CINCINNATI (AP) — Dozens of animal rights advocates and others held a Memorial Day vigil at the Cincinnati Zoo in remembrance of a gorilla that was fatally shot to protect a 4-year-old boy who entered its exhibit.
  The male western lowland gorilla named Harambe was killed Saturday by a special zoo response team that feared the boy’s life was in danger. Video taken by zoo visitors showed the gorilla at times appeared to be protective of the boy but also dragged him through the shallow
  
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• Our military justice oxymoron: Why we need to be more honest and realistic about the wars we fight — and the soldiers we send

  30-05-2016 16:30 via salon.com
  
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  In a recent New York Times story detailing efforts to challenge the current court-martial process for U.S. soldiers whose crimes may have been influenced by their mental health, reporter Dave Phillips interviews members of politically diverse coalition of law students and former soldiers who are ‘waging a joint campaign for one of the most unlikely causes: clemency for troops convicted of killing civilians in Iraq and Afghanistan.’ Their argumen
  
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• Hillary Clinton marches in hometown Memorial Day parade

  30-05-2016 16:18 via salon.com
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton waves as she walks in a Memotial Day parade Monday, May 30, 2016, in Chappaqua, N.Y. (AP Photo/Mel Evans) (Credit: AP)
  CHAPPAQUA, N.Y. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton has marched in her hometown Memorial Day parade in a New York City suburb.
  Clinton waved and smiled from the procession in Chappaqua (CHAP’-uh-kwah), accompanied by husband Bill Clinton and New York’s Democratic governor, Andrew Cuomo.
  A fr
  
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• Libyan forces advance in push on Islamic State strongholds

  30-05-2016 16:14 via salon.com
  CAIRO (AP) — Libyan forces loyal to the U.N.-brokered government advanced on Monday against two key Islamic State strongholds, with several officials saying the troops had taken a town from the extremists.
  The forces entered Bin Jawad, 160 kilometers (99 miles) from the central city of Sirte, the main IS bastion in Libya. Salem Jedran, mayor of the nearby town of Ajdabiya, said troops with the so-called Petroleum Facilities Guards had advanced on Bin Jawad, which fell to IS in January.
  The
  
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• Tusk comes out against too much EU integration

  30-05-2016 16:09 via salon.com
  
  LUXEMBOURG (AP) — European Union President Donald Tusk says that those who believe in “instant and total integration” of the EU have missed what many people really want and raised the prospect of having an open and big debate among member states on where the EU should be heading.
  Less than a month before the June 23 referendum on EU membership in Britain, where the EU is often depicted as a hulking super state, Tusk said in frank words that today’s generation of EU politi
  
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• Israeli ultranationalist sworn in as defense minister

  30-05-2016 16:01 via salon.com
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli ultranationalist Avigdor Lieberman has been sworn in as defense minister after his appointment was confirmed by parliament.
  Lieberman, one of Israel’s most polarizing politicians, assumed the office on Monday. The post was previously held by former military chief Moshe Yaalon, who resigned last week following talks to expand the government by adding Lieberman’s Yisrael Beiteinu party.
  The move solidifies Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s parliam
  
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• “True Love”: The Victorian (re)discovery that transformed our understanding of black women’s literature

  30-05-2016 16:00 via salon.com
  
  Two years ago, I was in the United Kingdom working on a follow-up project for my books “Black London” and “Black Victorians/Black Victoriana.” While looking through old British newspapers, I was astonished to read an 1893 announcement in The Daily Telegraph proclaiming Sarah E. Farro to be “the first negro novelist” with the publication of her novel “True Love.”
  I wondered: who was this woman? And why didn’t we know about this reportedly grou
  
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• Few Memorial Day travel headaches, most wait times bearable

  30-05-2016 15:58 via salon.com
  MIAMI (AP) — Travelers who had braced for long lines and long waits have instead been moving through most U.S. airports fairly quickly, as the busy Memorial Day travel weekend draws to close.
  However, the airlines weren’t ready to say “mission accomplished” yet, as it’s just the beginning of the busy summer travel season.
  American Airlines spokesman Ross Feinstein said they are working hard to avoid “a repeat of what we saw in Chicago.” He was referring
  
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• White House placed on lockdown after object thrown over gate

  30-05-2016 15:50 via salon.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has been placed on lockdown after a woman threw something over the north fence along Pennsylvania Avenue.
  Reporters were not allowed to venture out of the White House press room and a call to the Secret Service was not immediately returned.
  However, a woman was detained. She was placed in handcuffs. Fire trucks and a hazardous materials response unit were called to the scene. It is common for officers to sweep the grounds after such incidents to ensure not
  
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• Britney Spears Documents Memorial Day Weekend with Her Sons By the Pool!

  30-05-2016 15:50
  
  Britney Spears is sharing some fun family photos from her Memorial Day Weekend with her sons Sean Preston, 10, and Jayden James, 9 on Instagram.
  “Chillin in the bu,” the 34-year-old entertainer captioned one photo of her doing the “dab” with her sons and one of their friends.
  Britney then shared another video of her chilling in the pool while wearing a bikini. Another video features Sean Preston and Jayden James jumping in the pool.
  Brit also documented her haircut with a
  
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• Rape allegation, race, glare of national media divide town

  30-05-2016 15:46 via salon.com
  
  DIETRICH, Idaho (AP) — Teaching her children how to peacefully respond to racist comments in a tiny Idaho town was not new for the mother of 20 adopted children, many of whom are black. She often found herself echoing the virtues taught in Dietrich’s only church.
  Kindness and patience can overcome ignorance in the mostly white, rural community, she told her kids. Forgive. Turn the other cheek.
  Then her black teenage son joined the football team. Within months, three of his teammates
  
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• Officials: 2 survive crash of small plane in New Hampshire

  30-05-2016 15:43 via salon.com
  WARNER, N.H. (AP) — Two people who survived the crash of their small plane in a forest are “extremely lucky,” state officials said.
  Warner officials say the man and woman onboard were taken to Concord Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries Sunday night. Their names have not been released.
  The American Champion Aircraft crashed Sunday evening near Stewart’s Peak in Harriman Chandler State Forest.
  About 70 fire and rescue personnel responded to the call for help that c
  
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• Food Lion co-founder Ketner dies at age 95

  30-05-2016 15:40 via salon.com
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The man who helped turned $50 investments in a North Carolina grocery store into the Food Lion chain with more than 1,100 stores across the Southeast has died.
  Ralph Ketner, 95, died Sunday, according to a news release from the grocery store chain. No cause of death was given by Food Lion officials or the funeral home handling his arrangements.
  Ketner successfully gambled that bigger sales by lowering prices to where profit margins were razor thin were the best path
  
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• Dead whale found on bow of cruise ship entering Alaska port

  30-05-2016 15:38 via salon.com
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A cruise ship arrived at an Alaska port carrying a dead whale on its bow.
  The Zaandam, a Holland America Line cruise ship, was preparing to dock in Seward just after 5 a.m. Sunday when the juvenile fin whale was spotted on top of the ship’s bulbous bow, the part of the bow under the water line.
  Company spokeswoman Sally Andrews says in an email that the whale wasn’t there a half-hour earlier. She says an officer had been preparing the ship for arrival j
  
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• Augie Garrido, star college baseball coach, out at Texas

  30-05-2016 15:30 via salon.com
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Augie Garrido, the winningest coach in college baseball history, is out after 20 seasons at Texas.
  The decision Monday comes after the Longhorns’ first losing season since 1998. Texas will miss the NCAA postseason for the third time in five years.
  The university said in a statement the 77-year-old Garrido will become special assistant to athletic director Mike Perrin. The school said he was “relinquishing his duties” as coach.
  Garrido had one year lef
  
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• Saudi human rights activist sentenced to 8 years in prison

  30-05-2016 13:45 via salon.com
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Rights group Amnesty International says a court in Saudi Arabia has sentenced a member of an independent human rights organization to eight years prison in the latest guilty verdict to be issued against the group’s members.
  Abdulaziz al-Shubaily is the only founding member of the Saudi Association for Civil and Political Rights, known by its Arabic acronym HASEM, not behind bars. Amnesty says he was tried Sunday by the Specialized Criminal Court &md
  
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• Column: NFL version of three-card monte: the Super Bowl Scam

  30-05-2016 13:41 via salon.com
  ATLANTA (AP) — The NFL has its own version of three-card Monte.
  We’ll call it the Super Bowl Scam.
  It goes something like this: Hey, if you’ll dole out hundreds of millions of dollars to build a new football stadium, we’ll give you a shot at hosting our biggest game and reaping an outlandish economic impact for your city.
  Only thing is, there’s no chance of finding the right card.
  It doesn’t exist.
  Atlanta was the latest mark in this hugely profitable shell ga
  
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• It’s raining men! Sweden sees historic gender balance shift

  30-05-2016 13:25 via salon.com
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — Famous for its efforts to put women on an equal footing with men, Sweden is experiencing a gender balance shift that has caught the country by surprise: For the first time since record-keeping began in 1749, it now has more men than women.
  Swedes don’t quite know what to make of this sudden male surplus, which is highly unusual in the West, where women historically have been in the majority in almost every country. But it may be a sign of things to come in Europe as
  
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• Libyan American father and son acquitted in UAE trial

  30-05-2016 13:13 via salon.com
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Two Libyan Americans detained in the United Arab Emirates for nearly two years were acquitted on Monday of charges they illegally raised funds for a foreign entity and took hostile actions against a foreign country.
  The family of Kamal Eldarat, 59, and his son Mohammed, 34, said after the verdict that the cast was “tainted with due process and human rights violations.”
  The Eldarats, who are successful businessmen and longtime residents of the
  
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• On cutting-edge voter data, Trump critically behind Clinton

  30-05-2016 13:07 via salon.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Data scientists working with the Republican Party say Donald Trump trails Hillary Clinton in using digital campaigning to win over voters.
  The science defines 21st century political campaigns, but Trump has dismissed it. President Barack Obama used data to win two terms, and the Clinton campaign has worked on its own data operation for nearly a year.
  It’s too early to tell whether the late start signals trouble for Trump, but it does illustrate the difference betw
  
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• Obama marks Memorial Day at Arlington National Cemetery

  30-05-2016 13:02 via salon.com
  
  ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — President Barack Obama has laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns to honor members of the military who died serving their country.
  Obama’s appearance at Arlington National Cemetery carries on a longstanding presidential tradition and comes as the U.S. struggles to end various conflicts in the Middle East.
  Special operations forces continue to serve in dangerous missions in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan, even as the U.S. military presence in the latter two count
  
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• New York man who drowned in Cape Cod lake was star swimmer

  30-05-2016 13:02 via salon.com
  ORLEANS, Mass. (AP) — A New York man who drowned during lifeguard tryouts in a Cape Cod lake was a collegiate swimmer who planned to become an assistant swim coach at his alma mater.
  Rescue crews pulled Jack Jakubek, of Newburgh, from Pilgrim Lake around 9:30 a.m. Saturday. The 22-year-old was pronounced dead at Cape Cod Hospital.
  Police say Jakubek was trying out for a summer lifeguard position at Nauset Beach. Jakubek had previously worked as a lifeguard in Orleans.
  Jakubek had graduated
  
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• How the AP-NORC poll on parties and voters was conducted

  30-05-2016 12:58 via salon.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research poll on responsiveness of the political parties to voters was conducted by NORC May 12-15. It is based on online and telephone interviews of 1,060 adults who are members of NORC’s nationally representative AmeriSpeak panel.
  The original sample was drawn from respondents selected randomly from NORC’s National Frame based on address-based sampling and recruited by mail, email, telephone and face-to-fac
  
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