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• Rates fall at weekly US Treasury auction

  31-05-2016 21:06 via salon.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Interest rates on short-term Treasury bills fell in Tuesday’s auction to their lowest levels in two weeks.
  The Treasury Department auctioned $31 billion in three-month bills at a discount rate of 0.340 percent, down from 0.350 percent last week. Another $26 billion in six-month bills was auctioned at a discount rate of 0.475 percent, down from 0.480 percent last week.
  The three-month rate was the lowest since those bills averaged 0.275 percent on May 16. The six-mon
  
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• Blue Jays acquire former closer Grilli from Braves

  31-05-2016 21:01 via salon.com
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Former closer Jason Grilli has been acquired by the Toronto Blue Jays from the Atlanta Braves for a pitching prospect.
  The 39-year-old right-hander is 1-2 with a 5.29 ERA and two saves in his comeback from a career-threatening injury. Grilli’s 2015 season ended when tore his left Achilles tendon on July 11. He had 24 saves and a 2.94 ERA in 36 games before the injury.
  Hard-throwing Arodys Vizcaino has six saves and a 1.66 ERA in his emergence as the Braves’ new c
  
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• Family’s purchase of Salt Lake paper closes; lawsuit dropped

  31-05-2016 20:54 via salon.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Salt Lake Tribune officially belongs to the wealthy and influential Huntsman family.
  Paul Huntsman’s purchase of the Tribune from Digital First Media closed Tuesday, the same day a group that sued over altered terms of a joint operating agreement between the Tribune and Deseret News dropped its lawsuit. The group said it is confident the terms of the Tribune’s sale leave the newspaper on solid ground.
  The Tribune will get 40 percent of profits under am
  
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• Seattle’s ‘man in tree’ sent to psychiatric hospital

  31-05-2016 20:49 via salon.com
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — A man who spent 25 hours high atop a sequoia tree in downtown Seattle in March has been found incompetent to stand trial on a malicious mischief charge.
  Cody Lee Miller has been held on $50,000 bail since he climbed the tree March 22 and ignored police efforts to coax him down, throwing branches and apples at responders, before climbing down.
  KOMO-TV reports (http://goo.gl/o6F5LT ) Miller will be sent to the state’s largest psychiatric hospital for a 45-day evaluation
  
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• Appeals court refuses to rehear transgender restroom case

  31-05-2016 20:45 via salon.com
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The debate over whether transgender students should be able to use the bathrooms that match their gender identity is likely headed to the U.S. Supreme Court after a federal appeals court refused Tuesday to reconsider a three-judge panel’s ruling on the matter.
  The Gloucester County School Board had asked for a review by the full 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals after a three-judge panel said in a 2-1 decision last month that a Virginia high school discriminated
  
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• Rockies shortstop Jose Reyes set for return from suspension

  31-05-2016 20:44 via salon.com
  
  DENVER (AP) — Colorado Rockies manager Walt Weiss says Jose Reyes will report to Triple-A Albuquerque for an injury rehabilitation assignment on Wednesday, the day after the former All-Star shortstop completes his suspension for violating Major League Baseball’s new domestic violence policy.
  Reyes did not participate in spring training and was suspended through May 31 after being charged with domestic violence for an altercation with his wife in Hawaii last October. Prosecutors dropp
  
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• The Latest: Ex-Oklahoma reserve deputy gets 4 years in death

  31-05-2016 20:42 via salon.com
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The Latest on the case of a former Oklahoma volunteer sheriff’s deputy who was convicted in the shooting death of an unarmed suspect (all times local):
  5:20 p.m.
  A former Oklahoma volunteer sheriff’s deputy who said he mistook his handgun for his stun gun when he fatally shot an unarmed suspect last year has been sentenced to four years in prison.
  A judge on Tuesday gave 74-year-old Robert Bates the maximum penalty recommended by jurors. The wealthy insuranc
  
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• The Latest: Arizona sheriff could see more contempt hearings

  31-05-2016 20:38 via salon.com
  PHOENIX (AP) — The Latest on a hearing for contempt-of-court violations for Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio (all times local):
  3:25 p.m.
  A judge presiding over a racial profiling case against Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio has raised the possibility of holding a second round of contempt-of-court hearings against the lawman.
  U.S. District Judge Murray Snow said Tuesday that additional hearings could force the sheriff’s office to do more to comply with a court-ordered overhaul of its policies a
  
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• Maturing Crosby back on top of his game for Penguins

  31-05-2016 20:29 via salon.com
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Sidney Crosby does not have an off switch. If there was one, Patric Hornqvist believes he would have found it by now.
  Not once over the last two years while playing alongside one of the NHL’s most popular players has Hornqvist seen an exasperated sigh, a roll of the eyes or so much as a smirk from the superstar who has dutifully served as one of the faces from the league from the moment the Pittsburgh Penguins drafted him No. 1 overall in 2005 and he became tasked w
  
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• Plea deal done in Las Vegas for ‘Pawn Stars’ star Chumlee

  31-05-2016 20:25 via salon.com
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A star of the reality TV show “Pawn Stars” has sealed a plea deal sparing him jail time in the discovery of guns, marijuana and other drugs at his Las Vegas home.
  Austin Lee Russell, who’s known on the show as “Chumlee,” pleaded guilty May 25 to felony weapon and misdemeanor attempted drug possession charges.
  The unannounced appearance last week before Clark County District Court Judge Jessie Walsh made a scheduled Wednesday court date unneces
  
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• Ex-Oklahoma reserve deputy sentenced to four years in death

  31-05-2016 20:24 via salon.com
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A former Oklahoma volunteer sheriff’s deputy who said he mistook his handgun for his stun gun when he fatally shot an unarmed suspect last year was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison.
  A judge gave Robert Bates, 74, the maximum penalty recommended by jurors who last month convicted the wealthy insurance executive of second-degree manslaughter.
  Bates fatally shot Eric Harris while working with Tulsa County sheriff’s deputies last year during an illegal
  
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• 2 teen students charged in fatal shooting of classmate

  31-05-2016 20:24 via salon.com
  SAN RAFAEL, Calif. (AP) — Two Northern California high school students have been charged as adults with murder for the shooting death of a classmate.
  The Marin County district attorney’s office also charged 17-year-old Juan Carlos Martinez Henriquez and 16-year-old Edwin Guevara Tuesday with attempted murder for the gunshot and stabbing injuries another classmate sustained on a Marin County hiking trail last week. All four students attended Novato High School, about 20 miles north of
  
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• Florida company makes synthetic canine cadavers for research

  31-05-2016 20:14 via salon.com
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Alberta the dog doesn’t bark or bite, and she’s skinless and hairless, although she does bleed. Frankly, she is frightening to look at.
  But she apparently makes an excellent cadaver.
  Alberta is a canine made entirely of synthetic material, created to provide veterinary students with anatomically correct bodies for surgical practice. And while she looks like she belongs in a Halloween horror display, all bulging eyes and bared teeth, this product is designed t
  
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• The Latest: California pension fund CEO sentenced to prison

  31-05-2016 20:11 via salon.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing of former California pension fund CEO (all times local):
  3:15 p.m.
  A federal judge has sentenced the former head of the nation’s largest public pension fund to four and 1/2 years in prison in a case in which he acknowledged accepting bribes and trying to steer investments to help an associate.
  Senior U.S. District Court Judge Charles Breyer called the case against Federico Buenrostro seriously troubling before sentencing the former ch
  
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• Virginia AP reporter Steve Szkotak dies at age 65

  31-05-2016 20:10 via salon.com
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Steve Szkotak, a reporter for The Associated Press in Richmond, has died. He was 65.
  Mandy Szkotak says her husband died of cancer Tuesday afternoon at his home with family at his side.
  The Syracuse native worked as an editor and reporter at the AP for 14 years, covering the environment and a host of other issues. Steve McMillan, the AP’s news editor for the Richmond bureau, said Szkotak was “a gifted storyteller who elevated the level of journalism here in
  
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• Obama urges public to get ready for hurricane season

  31-05-2016 20:07 via salon.com
  
  President Barack Obama, accompanied Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate, listens during his visit to FEMA Headquarters in Washington, Tuesday, May 31, 2016, to receive a hurricane preparedness briefing. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (Credit: AP)
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is urging the public to prepare for the coming hurricane season and warning against what he says is a growing “complacency” when it comes to dangerous weat
  
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• “Game of Thrones” fans freak out: Was Jason Momoa dropping acid on Instagram!?

  31-05-2016 18:27 via salon.com
  
  Former “Game of Thrones” star Jason Momoa, a.k.a Khal Drogo, caused a stir on Instagram this Memorial Day with a post that, sans context, would appear to show him and director Ana Lily Amirpour dropping acid.Looping with lily @lilyinapad #imbadbatchbitch can’t wait for u all to see it. “Buy the ticket, take the ride” HS. Gettin weird j
  A photo posted by Jason Momoa (@prideofgypsies) on May 30, 2016 at 12:15pm PDT
  In the accompanying caption, Momoa wrote that he&rsqu
  
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• “I didn’t want the credit”: Trump says media “should be ashamed” for investigating his delayed donations to veterans’ groups

  31-05-2016 18:19 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian)
  Donald Trump spent most of the time during a press conference meant to address allegations that he failed to donate funds to veterans charities railing against the media for daring to investigate.
  During a late-morning remarks at Trump Tower on Tuesday, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee slammed the gathered journalists, complaining that he’s actually raised $5.6 million for various veterans groups despite failing to provide any evidence fo
  
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• Good riddance to the “Devil Wears Prada” economy: It’s not just exploitative, it’s a diversity killer

  31-05-2016 18:13 via salon.com
  
  Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep in "The Devil Wears Prada" (Credit: Twentieth Century Fox)
  Is the “Devil Wears Prada” economy coming to a close? Will the sort-of-abusive, round-the-clock, sadistic-boss culture of entry-level jobs in Hollywood, book publishing, fashion magazines, and Washington politics find itself done in by the new overtime rules?
  A colorful story in the New York Times describes the custom, linking it to the movie based on life at Anna Wintour’s “Vog
  
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• Veteran who basely shills for Donald Trump accuses Hillary Clinton of using veterans as political pawns

  31-05-2016 18:02 via salon.com
  
  At a Donald Trump campaign event Tuesday, one of his supporters — a veteran, whose integrity cannot by current political definition be impugned — claimed that “the liberal media” is the “only one who has been calling [Trump] out” for very likely lying about the amount of money he’s contributed to veterans and their associated causes.“Stop using veterans as liberal pawns,” Al Baldasaro, a New Hampshire representative and Marine veteran, said.&
  
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• Just getting some relaxation in Malibu before the next round of #PieceOfMe shows, courtesy of @Airbnb! 💙 https://t.co/vnjV510Icp

  31-05-2016 17:58 via twitter.com
  
  Just getting some relaxation in Malibu before the next round of #PieceOfMe shows, courtesy of @Airbnb! 💙 https://t.co/vnjV510Icp
  
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• Losing the airtime battle to Trump: Why Hillary Clinton can’t attack an unconventional candidate conventionally

  31-05-2016 17:16 via salon.com
  
  Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump (Credit: Reuters/Lucy Nicholson/AP/Steve Helber/Photo montage by Salon)
  One of the more frustrating aspects of Hillary Clinton is her conventionality. She’s been in the political cross-hairs of Republicans for decades, and the result is a candidate who clings obsessively to the script. She avoids any situation that might produce an unengineered moment. That’s often smart politics, but the play-it-safe approach won’t work this year.
  Donald Trump is
  
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• Cops investigate boy’s entry into exhibit, gorilla’s killing

  31-05-2016 14:59 via salon.com
  CINCINNATI (AP) — Police said Tuesday they were investigating the circumstances surrounding a 4-year-old boy entering a gorilla’s exhibit at the Cincinnati Zoo and the animal being shot to death to protect the child. A federal investigation is also planned.
  A federal inspection less than two months ago found no problems with the zoo’s Gorilla World exhibit, but earlier zoo inspections reported issues including the potential danger to the public from a March incident involving w
  
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• Stowaway found aboard Emirates flight from China to Dubai

  31-05-2016 14:43 via salon.com
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A teenage boy sneaked into the cargo hold of an Emirates passenger plane in China and made it all the way to Dubai before being apprehended, the airline and Chinese media said Tuesday.
  The Dubai-based airline, the Middle East’s biggest, said the stowaway was found in the cargo hold of Flight EK303 from Shanghai on Friday, May 27.
  “We are cooperating fully with authorities in Dubai and as this is a police matter we are unable to comment further
  
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• Spotify’s Top 10 most viral tracks

  31-05-2016 14:28 via salon.com
  
  The following list represents the most viral tracks on Spotify, based on the number of people who shared it divided by the number who listened to it, from Friday May 20, to Thursday May 26, via Facebook, Tumblr, Twitter and Spotify.
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  1. Jamala, “1944” (Enjoy Records)
  2. Cobi, “Don’t You Cry For Me” (300 Entertainment)
  3. Smija, “Paper Pools” (588532 Records DK)
  4. Moglebaum, “Raindrops” (Cosmonostro)
  5. Kurt Vile and the Violator
  
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• US warns summer’s Europe-bound Americans about terror risks

  31-05-2016 14:23 via salon.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department is warning Americans visiting Europe this summer about the potential for terrorist attacks.
  Tuesday’s travel alert says major sporting events, tourist sites, restaurants and shopping centers are possible targets.
  France is hosting soccer’s European Championship and cycling’s Tour de France, while under an extended state of emergency. Two-and-a-half million visitors are expected in Krakow, Poland, for the Catholic Church’s World
  
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• Denmark plans to delist transgender identity as mental issue

  31-05-2016 14:16 via salon.com
  
  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark is preparing to change the law so that being transgender will no longer be considered a mental disorder.
  Flemming Moeller Mortensen, deputy chairman of Parliament’s Health Committee, says all nine parties in the assembly have agreed to change the law by Jan. 1 next year.
  Tuesday’s agreement clears the way for the government to submit a formal proposal to change the Health Ministry’s guidelines.
  Moeller Mortensen said Denmark has lost pat
  
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• Lawyers say Johnny Depp’s wife gave statement to police

  31-05-2016 14:06 via salon.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Johnny Depp’s estranged wife has given Los Angeles police a statement to support her account of an alleged domestic violence incident involving the actor, her lawyers said Tuesday.
  Attorneys Samantha Spector and Joseph P. Koenig wrote in a statement that model-actress Amber Heard had spoken to Los Angeles police. The statement did not indicate when Heard gave the statement, and the Los Angeles Police Department says it has no information about Heard speaking with o
  
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• AP sources: NFL moving Pro Bowl to Orlando in 2017

  31-05-2016 13:59 via salon.com
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Three people with knowledge of the negotiations have told The Associated Press that the NFL is moving the Pro Bowl from Honolulu to Orlando this season.
  They spoke on condition of anonymity because the announcement will not be made until Wednesday. The NFL and ESPN have scheduled the news conference at ESPN Wide World of Sports at the Disney complex.
  The game will be played at Camping World Stadium, formerly the Citrus Bowl. Orlando beat out Honolulu, Houston and Sydne
  
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• Scientists say Flint water quality OK for bathing, showering

  31-05-2016 13:57 via salon.com
  
  Scientists say municipal water in Flint, Michigan, has gotten much better in recent months and is safe for handwashing, showering and bathing.
  A team led by engineering professor Marc Edwards of Virginia Tech provided an update Tuesday on results of sampling from homes and buildings in the city, where the water became tainted with lead and other pollutants after officials switched the source from Detroit’s system to the Flint River in 2014. Flint resumed using Detroit water last October.
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• Marcus Rashford earns an England spot at Euro 2016

  31-05-2016 13:55 via salon.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Three months ago, Marcus Rashford hadn’t even played a senior game in professional soccer. Now, the 18-year-old Manchester United forward is going to the European Championship for England.
  By including Rashford in his 23-man squad on Tuesday, England coach Roy Hodgson countered critics who accuse him of being a conservative coach. He can’t be accused of just going with the safe choices any more.
  When England qualified for the European Championship in September, Ra
  
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• Finland to seek EU aid to cope with Microsoft, Nokia layoffs

  31-05-2016 13:55 via salon.com
  
  HELSINKI (AP) — Finland says it will apply for EU help to deal with recent redundancies, particularly among workers at Microsoft and Nokia.
  Justice and Employment Minister Jari Lindstrom says the Nordic country has previously had a “good experience” of EU support — financial and otherwise — for large numbers of laid off personnel in the technology sector, which has been hurt by competition from Apple, Samsung and others.
  Last week, Microsoft announced 1,350 job cuts
  
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• Great Plains Energy to buy Westar for about $8.6 billion

  31-05-2016 13:54 via salon.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Great Plains Energy is buying rival Westar for about $8.6 billion, creating one large power provider in Kansas and Missouri with more than 1.5 million customers in.
  The two companies say the combination will lower their costs and help reduce rate increases for customers.
  Great Plains Energy owns Kansas City Power & Light, which provides power in Kansas and Missouri. Westar’s customers are in Kansas.
  Kansas City, Missouri-based Great Plains Energy is offering $60 i
  
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• Florida man runs over motorcycle during road-rage incident

  31-05-2016 13:43 via salon.com
  LUTZ, Fla. (AP) — A 31-year-old habitual traffic offender is accused of running over a man and woman on a motorcycle during an apparent road-rage incident that another motorist captured on cellphone video near Tampa, Florida.
  According to Florida Highway Patrol incident reports, witnesses said Robert Paul Vance and 46-year-old Joseph Calderazzo exchanged “choice words” on Monday evening just before the vehicle changed lanes and drove into the bike. Calderazzo and his female pas
  
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• UN renews South Sudan sanctions

  31-05-2016 13:40 via salon.com
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council has voted to renew sanctions on a number of individuals allegedly obstructing a peace agreement in South Sudan, where tens of thousands of people have been killed and millions displaced by over two years of fighting between the government and rebels.
  The resolution, approved Tuesday, extends sanctions for a year and welcomes the formation of a coalition government between South Sudanese President Salva Kiir and his rival, Vice President Riek
  
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• Puerto Rico taxi, tourist bus system hit by Uber protest

  31-05-2016 13:39 via salon.com
  
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Puerto Rico’s capital is being hit by a protest against the anticipated arrival of ride-booking service Uber.
  Taxi drivers, tourism operators and others say they’re joining a one-day protest in San Juan. Organizers are demanding that Uber drivers pay the same fees and meet the same government requirements as they do.
  Protesters also say they will lose money with Uber’s arrival amid a worsening 10-year economic crisis in the U.S. territory.
  Tax
  
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• Justice Dept. pushes back against Texas judge’s sanctions

  31-05-2016 13:13 via salon.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is pushing back against a Texas judge’s demand that its lawyers attend an ethics course, saying the sanction is inappropriate.
  Andrew Hanen, a federal judge who has blocked President Barack Obama’s immigration executive action, gave the order earlier this month. He said he was misled by Justice Department attorneys about whether the government had begun implementing one of the proposals.
  In a response Tuesday, the department said it &ldq
  
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• Big CAT scan: LSU mascot Mike the Tiger in cancer treatment

  31-05-2016 07:42 via salon.com
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Call it a big CAT scan.
  Louisiana State University’s live tiger mascot was sedated this past weekend and brought to a human cancer center near campus where he’ll be treated for a rare cancer.
  At the hospital, Mike VI received a CT scan and a radiation simulation. During the simulation, doctors set up devices that will keep the 420-pound tiger in position for precisely targeted radiotherapy to treat a tumor on his face.
  The LSU veterinary school says in a
  
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• From Ike to Obama, CIA has briefed presidential candidates

  31-05-2016 07:21 via salon.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — After the political convention confetti is swept away, a more sobering tradition of the presidential election begins: The regular, top-secret intelligence briefings for Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton, the likely Democratic nominee.
  Started by President Harry S. Truman, the briefings are designed to get the candidates, before they walk into the Oval Office, up to speed on problems around the globe. Truman, who was Franklin D. Roosevelt’s vice president for almost t
  
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• EU drug agency: ecstasy is making a comeback among the young

  31-05-2016 07:11 via salon.com
  
  LISBON, Portugal (AP) — The European Union’s drug agency says ecstasy is becoming popular again, with online sales and targeted marketing helping to drive the revival among a new generation of users.
  The agency said in a report published Tuesday that MDMA, also known as ecstasy, has returned as “a common stimulant of choice for young people.”
  Ecstasy established itself in the illegal drug market in the 1990s, but its use declined at the end of the last decade amid poor dr
  
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• Polish justice minister revives Polanski extradition drive

  31-05-2016 07:07 via salon.com
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland’s justice minister is reviving an effort to have filmmaker Roman Polanski extradited to the U.S., where he is wanted in a nearly 40-year-old case.
  Zbigniew Ziobro’s office said Tuesday he asked Poland’s Supreme Court to annul a ruling in October by a court in Krakow that Polish law forbids Polanski’s extradition.
  Ziobro, who took office late last year as part of a new conservative government, argues that celebrity status is shielding Pol
  
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• The Latest: Tarps back on all courts at French Open

  31-05-2016 07:06 via salon.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — The Latest on French Open (all times local):
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  11:00 a.m.
  Play is again being delayed at the French Open.
  After stadium workers swept rain off the covers to make the courts ready for play, the tarps are back and organizers say there will be no match before 11:30 a.m.
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  10:45 a.m.
  With more bad weather expected Tuesday, French Open organizers are trying to get as many matches as possible out of the way before the rain.
  After Monday’s complete washout at the clay-court
  
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• UN health agency trumpets ‘plain packaging’ for tobacco

  31-05-2016 07:02 via salon.com
  
  GENEVA (AP) — The UN health agency says “plain packaging” on tobacco products has shown to be an effective complement to health warnings, advertising restrictions, and curbs on misleading packaging to help save lives.
  The World Health Organization released Tuesday an 86-page report on “plain packaging,” hoping to decrease the lure of smoking on “World No Tobacco Day.”
  WHO Director General Dr. Margaret Chan said plain packaging “kills the glamour, w
  
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• Activists say at least 23 died in overnight Syria airstrikes

  31-05-2016 07:02 via salon.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian activists have raised the death toll from the late night airstrikes on the northwestern city of Idlib, saying at least 23 people were killed.
  The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Tuesday that Russian aircraft carried out the strikes, which pummeled the city.
  Idlib is held by several militant groups, including al-Qaida’s branch in Syria known as the Nusra Front. Another activist group, the Local Coordination Committees, gave a higher toll, sa
  
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• Eurozone inflation remains negative in May

  31-05-2016 07:01 via salon.com
  
  BRUSSELS (AP) — Official figures show that consumer prices across the 19-country eurozone fell in May for the third month in the last four.
  Eurostat, the European Union’s statistics agency, says Tuesday that inflation in the year to May was minus 0.1 percent, up slightly from the previous month’s minus 0.2 percent.
  May’s rate was anticipated and is unlikely to alter expectations that the European Central Bank will refrain from announcing further stimulus measures at its n
  
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• 4 Bangladeshi men convicted of terror financing in Singapore

  31-05-2016 07:01 via salon.com
  
  SINGAPORE (AP) — Four Bangladeshi workers held on suspicion of planning attacks linked to the Islamic State group in their own country were convicted of financing terrorism by a court in Singapore on Tuesday.
  Prosecutors said the men, who pleaded guilty, had raised money to buy firearms to launch attacks in Bangladesh. They will be sentenced on June 21 and face a maximum sentence of 10 years in jail and a fine of 500,000 Singapore dollars ($362,260).
  Two other workers have pleaded not guil
  
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• Djokovic on center court at French Open after washout

  31-05-2016 06:45 via salon.com
  PARIS (AP) — With more bad weather expected Tuesday, French Open organizers are trying to get as many matches as possible out of the way before the rain.
  After Monday’s complete washout at the clay-court Grand Slam, matches will start at 11:00 a.m. — three hours earlier than initially planned — and be spread over more courts.
  Top-ranked Novak Djokovic takes on 14th-seeded Roberto Bautista Agut in the first match on Court Philippe Chatrier, playing for a place in the quart
  
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• US naval, air maneuvers become ‘new normal’ in Asia Pacific

  31-05-2016 06:41 via salon.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — American ships and fighter jets maneuvering across the South China Sea and the Sea of Japan represent the “new normal” in U.S.-Pacific relations despite rising tensions with China and Moscow.
  U.S. moves in recent months have led to angry protests from China and Russia, which contend the Obama administration is fueling unrest in the Asia Pacific and conducting illegal and unsafe transit in the region. U.S. military leaders defend the operations and say they wil
  
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• Dior in return to Blenheim Palace for Cruise show

  31-05-2016 06:37 via salon.com
  LONDON (AP) — Dior is returning to England’s historic Blenheim Palace to unveil its Cruise collection.
  The show Tuesday brings Dior back to the site of earlier triumphs in 1954 and 1958.
  The first was spearheaded by Christian Dior and the second by his protege, Yves Saint Laurent. Both were attended by Princess Margaret.
  Blenheim, traditionally the residence of the Duke of Marlborough, is one of England’s grandest palaces and was the birthplace of wartime leader Winston Churchi
  
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• AP-NORC Poll: Voters in 2016 feeling disconnected, helpless

  31-05-2016 06:26 via salon.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans and Democrats feel a massive disconnect with their political parties and helpless about the presidential election.
  That’s according to a new poll by the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research, which helps explain the rise of outsider candidates Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders and suggests challenges ahead for fractured parties that must come together to win this fall.
  “It feels like the state of politics is generally broken,&rdquo
  
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