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• Xander Bogaerts’ hitting streak reaches 25 games for Red Sox

  01-06-2016 23:57 via salon.com
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Xander Bogaerts has extended his hitting streak to 25 games with a sixth-inning single for the Boston Red Sox.
  Bogaerts was hitless in three at-bats Wednesday night against the Baltimore Orioles before lining a single to center field off reliever Brad Brach.
  The 25-game hitting streak is a career high for the shortstop and the second-longest in the majors this season behind the 29-game run of teammate Jackie Bradley Jr. that ended last Thursday against Colorado.
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• Prosecutors: Gun buyer in massacre knew aspiring jihadists

  01-06-2016 23:57 via salon.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The friend who bought the high-powered rifles used in the San Bernardino terrorist attack had ties to a group of California jihadists arrested in 2012 as they tried to fly to Afghanistan to join al-Qaida, federal prosecutors said.
  The revelation in a court document filed Tuesday is the first time authorities have linked Enrique Marquez Jr. with other possible terrorists.
  Marquez, 24, has pleaded not guilty to conspiring with one of the San Bernardino shooters to provide
  
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• Back in business: Winslow working on sequel to ‘The Cartel’

  01-06-2016 23:44 via salon.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Crime writer Don Winslow just can’t leave the drug wars alone.
  A year after he swore there’d be no sequel to “The Cartel,” his acclaimed follow-up to “The Power of the Dog,” Winslow tweeted Wednesday he’s begun a third volume.
  His literary agent, Shane Salerno, confirmed the news to The Associated Press and said the book currently has no title or release date. The first two novels center on the drug trade in Mexico and feature maver
  
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• Kentucky police: Deputy wounded, suspect dead in shooting

  01-06-2016 23:36 via salon.com
  BEREA, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky State Police say a sheriff’s deputy has been wounded and a suspect killed in an exchange of gunfire.
  Trooper Robert Purdy says in a news release that Madison County Deputy Kevin Crutcher tried to stop a truck Wednesday afternoon on a road near Berea. Purdy says the vehicle pulled into a driveway and the driver began walking toward the house.
  The release says the man ignored Crutcher’s verbal commands and pulled a handgun and began shooting toward the
  
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• Some moving, others staying after latest Texas flooding

  01-06-2016 22:40 via salon.com
  
  Dustin Toll, left, and other family members use two boats on Wednesday, June 1, 2016, to remove furniture from the mobile home of his grandparents, which had been flooded by the Brazos River in Rosenberg, Texas. (AP Photo/Juan Lozano) (Credit: AP)
  SIMONTON, Texas (AP) — In 18 years, Southeast Texas resident Art Myrick says he’s been ordered or asked to evacuate his home near the Brazos River about 20 times, but he didn’t always do so and the house never flooded — until no
  
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• The Latest: Penguins’ Bryan Rust in Game 2 lineup

  01-06-2016 22:34 via salon.com
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Latest on Game 2 of the Stanley Cup Final between the San Jose Sharks and Pittsburgh Penguins (all times local):
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  8:30 p.m.
  The Pittsburgh Penguins got a boost in Game 2, getting winger Bryan Rust on the ice after saying his status would be a game-time decision. Rust was questionable after taking a hit from San Jose’s Patrick Marleau in the third period of Game 1. The NHL’s Department of Player Safety declined to call Marleau in for a hearing to discuss
  
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• Game 2 in Cup Final usually bodes well for victors

  01-06-2016 22:17 via salon.com
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Game 2s of the Stanley Cup Final have traditionally been pivotal, and lately three periods haven’t been enough.
  The team that has won the second game of the seven-game series has ended up hoisting the Cup nearly 74 percent of the time since 1939, when the Final expanded to the current format, and in nine of the past 13 Game 2s.
  Last year, both trends were not followed. Tampa Bay beat Chicago 4-3 in the only Game 2 since 2011 that wasn’t extended to overtime. A
  
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• SEC coaches welcome new replay, ‘want to get it right’

  01-06-2016 22:15 via salon.com
  DESTIN, Fla. (AP) — Steve Shaw has a busy week at the Southeastern Conference’s annual meetings.
  He’s already met with athletic directors. He’s already briefed football coaches. And he’s got a media session scheduled for Thursday.
  His presentation also might be the most important one of the week, at least in the short term.
  Shaw, the league’s coordinator of officials, is getting SEC coaches and administrators prepared for centralized replay, an experimental ef
  
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• Round 2: LeBron, Curry square off again in NBA Finals

  01-06-2016 22:11 via salon.com
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — LeBron versus Steph. King James versus the Baby-faced Assassin. Nike versus UnderArmour.
  Any way you slice it, it’s a dream matchup for the league in the NBA Finals. Again.
  A second straight championship showdown between LeBron James and the Cleveland Cavaliers and Stephen Curry and the Golden State Warriors puts the league’s two brightest stars on its biggest stage.
  It could also mark the beginnings of a new rivalry between the long-time face of the leag
  
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• Parents sue elite prep school over teen sexual assault case

  01-06-2016 22:08 via salon.com
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The parents of an elite New Hampshire prep school student who says she was sexually assaulted as part of a game of sexual conquest are suing the school.
  The parents’ lawyers say St. Paul’s School failed to stop a tradition known as Senior Salute, in which upperclassmen kept score of how many younger students they had sex with.
  Graduate Owen Labrie (lah-BREE’) was convicted last year of misdemeanor sex assault charges. The Tunbridge, Vermont, resident
  
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• UCLA students struggled with unlocked doors during shooting

  01-06-2016 22:06 via salon.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — In the minutes after a fatal shooting at a UCLA engineering building, panicked students seeking a safe place to hide used belts, cords and other items to try to secure doors they said did not lock.
  With rumors swirling that there could be as many as four shooters, senior Daphne Ying, 21, and others struggled to secure a door that swings out into a hallway of the building.
  They tied one end of a long cord to the doorknob and the other end to a chair bolted to the floor. T
  
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• Order extended blocking detention center child-care license

  01-06-2016 22:06 via salon.com
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A judge extended her order Wednesday that at least temporarily blocks a residential child-care license for one of the nation’s largest detention centers for families caught crossing the southern U.S. border illegally.
  State District Judge Karin Crump issued a temporary injunction Wednesday in Austin, blocking the state from licensing the privately owned and managed, 2,400-bed South Texas Family Residential Center in Dilley until a full hearing scheduled for Septe
  
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• Albers’ 1st hit since 2007 leads ChiSox over Mets 2-1 in 13

  01-06-2016 22:06 via salon.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Told he was going to hit in the 13th inning, Matt Albers scrambled.
  The Chicago White Sox reliever had not batted since 2009, had not gotten a hit since he was a rookie in 2007.
  Since he pitches right-handed but bats from the other side, Albers needed an elbow pad. Dioner Navarro found Brett Lawrie’s on the bat rack and strapped it on the 33-year-old pitcher.
  Fellow pitcher Mat Latos handed him a bat.
  “It’s too big,” Albers said.
  So Navarro gave him
  
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• Strong earthquake hits western Indonesia

  01-06-2016 21:55 via salon.com
  JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — The U.S. Geological Survey reports that a strong undersea earthquake has hit western Indonesia, but there were no immediate reports of damage or casualties.
  The magnitude-6.5 quake early Thursday was centered 91 kilometers (56 miles) west of Sungaipenuh, a district town in Jambi province in Sumatra or 141 kilometers (88 miles) south of Padang, provincial capital of West Sumatra, the USGS said. It said the quake had a depth of 50.8 kilometers (31.5 miles).
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• Ex-Florida cop charged in shooting of armed black musician

  01-06-2016 21:51 via salon.com
  
  FILE- In this Oct. 20, 2015, file photo, friends and family of Corey Jones attend a news conference led by Bishop Sylvester Banks, Sr., grandfather of Jones, outside Bible Church of God in Boynton Beach, Fla. A T-shirt honoring Jones was worn by some in attendance. Nouman Raja, a fired Florida police officer, was charged Wednesday, June 1, 2016, in the fatal shooting of Jones, a legally armed black musician who had apparently thrown his weapon and was running away when the lethal shot was fired,
  
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• Police: Passer-by, wife killed in Arizona domestic dispute

  01-06-2016 21:48 via salon.com
  MESA, Ariz. (AP) — A domestic dispute erupted into a double slaying after a possible good Samaritan stopped by a crashed SUV in a Phoenix suburb, police said Wednesday.
  Police in Mesa, Arizona, said in a court document that 38-year-old Christopher Glen Wright told them he shot a man who pulled up in a pickup early Tuesday morning next to where Wright had intentionally crashed.
  Police later identified the man who was killed as 49-year-old Tomas Olivas Ornelas.
  According to the court documen
  
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• Residents return to fire-damaged western Canadian oil city

  01-06-2016 20:59 via salon.com
  
  FORT MCMURRAY, Alberta (AP) — Residents of the Canadian oil sands city of Fort McMurray began cleaning up their homes and property Wednesday as people who fled a massive wildfire at the start of May returned to see what’s left.
  The fire destroyed 2,400 structures, or about 10 percent of the city, when it ripped through last month, forcing more than 80,000 residents to flee. Officials expected thousands of evacuees to return to the city Wednesday — the first day of a staged re-e
  
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• More proof he’s unfiit for office: Trump’s combustible insecurity was in full bloom at his latest news conference

  01-06-2016 20:59 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: Reuters/Brian Snyder)
  Every time Donald Trump performs in front of the cameras, we catch a glimpse of the kind of president he’d be. The chauvinism, the vulgarity, the bullying, the bigotry – that’s who Trump is. He’s also a score-settling narcissist, a man who will use his power and influence to punish as many people as possible.
  Trump’s combustible insecurity animates his entire public life. Whether on the set of a reality show or a debate stage, he&rsquo
  
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• Another campus shooting: 2 dead at UCLA, school on lockdown

  01-06-2016 20:57 via salon.com
  
  Police work at the scene of a shooting at the University of California, Los Angeles, Wednesday, June 1, 2016, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ringo H.W. Chiu) (Credit: AP)
  The campus of another American school is on lockdown after a gunman opened fire Wednesday.
  According to the Los Angeles police department, two people were killed in a shooting at the University of California Los Angeles’ campus in Westwood Wednesday afternoon. The University announced it remains on lockdown for an active shoot
  
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• Clinton raises $27M for primary campaign in May

  01-06-2016 20:54 via salon.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton’s campaign raised more than $27 million for her primary campaign in May and more than $13.5 million for the Democratic National Committee and state parties.
  Clinton’s campaign says it enters June with more than $42 million in the bank as it nears the end of the primaries against Democratic rival Bernie Sanders.
  Clinton has raised more than $240 million during the primaries and more than $62 million for the DNC and state parties through a joint
  
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• Column: Pros fighting in Rio a lousy idea on many levels

  01-06-2016 20:50 via salon.com
  
  FILE - In this Oct. 2, 1988, file photo, South Korea's Park Si-hun, left, delivers a left jab to America's Roy Jones, and goes on to win the gold medal in the gold medal bout of the light middleweight division at the summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. Allowing pro boxers in the Olympics is a lousy idea on a number of levels, though that should come as no surprise. Boxing in the Olympics has been pretty much a farce since Roy Jones Jr. was robbed of a gold medal by a hometown decision in Seou
  
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• Thanks, “Game of Thrones”: It’s not your imagination—TV shows are killing off your favorites to stand out from the crowd

  01-06-2016 20:48 via salon.com
  
  Sean Bean as Ned Stark in "Game of Thrones" (Credit: HBO)
  TV isn’t just killing off lesbian characters—it’s killing off everyone.In recent months, there’s been an outbreak of queer and bisexual characters meeting their demise on shows like “Empire,” “The Catch,” “Blindspot, and “The 100.” The fan outcry drew attention to the fact that this pretty much always happens: Since CBS’s “Executive Suite” became the first
  
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• Prosecutor puts former Haiti officials on travel ban list

  01-06-2016 20:34 via salon.com
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Nine former Haitian electoral officials and 11 Cabinet ministers in former President Michel Martelly’s administration have been forbidden to leave the country.
  The order from Prosecutor Danton Leger was issued shortly after the release of a commission’s report calling for the presidential election to be redone due to the appearance of significant electoral fraud.
  On Wednesday, former Prime Minister Evans Paul and ministers who served under him confi
  
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• St. Catharine College in Kentucky closing at end of July

  01-06-2016 20:33 via salon.com
  Financially strapped St. Catharine College has decided to shut down, blaming a dispute over federal education funding for its “unsurmountable” challenges posed by shrinking enrollment and debt.
  The small Catholic school in central Kentucky announced Wednesday that faculty and staff were informed at a campus-wide meeting that the school will shut down at the end of July.
  St. Catherine faced a $5 million deficit in its operating budget amid declining enrollment and faced mounting debt
  
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• Sanders did the right thing: Actually, Bernie might have made a big mistake after all if he attacked Hillary Clinton on her emails

  01-06-2016 20:30 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton (Credit: Reuters/Lucas Jackson/Brendan McDermid/Photo montage by Salon)
  “The American people are sick and tired of hearing about your damn emails,” said Bernie Sanders at the October CNN debate, after moderator Anderson Cooper questioned Hillary Clinton on her use of a personal server to conduct State Department business. And so, according to many observers, went Sanders’s big chance to hit Clinton where it hurt—something now made all the m
  
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• Feds seek 7-year term for Appalachian Trail-hiking fugitive

  01-06-2016 20:28 via salon.com
  CINCINNATI (AP) — Federal prosecutors said Wednesday they want a prison term of more than seven years for an embezzling accountant from Kentucky who spent six years as a fugitive, much of it hiking the Appalachian Trail.
  James T. Hammes will be sentenced June 22 after pleading guilty last year to wire fraud and agreeing to pay back millions diverted from his employer, a Cincinnati-based Pepsi-Cola bottler. U.S. District Judge Susan J. Dlott warned Hammes she could impose the maximum of 20
  
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• Bekele says ‘unjust’ that he was left off Olympic team

  01-06-2016 20:25 via salon.com
  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Kenenisa Bekele took a swipe at the Ethiopian Athletics Federation on Wednesday after he was left off the marathon team for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, calling his exclusion “unjust” and claiming the selection criteria is “biased.”
  In an interview with The Associated Press after the EAF confirmed Bekele wasn’t part of the four-man team for Rio, Bekele said athletes were informed way too late that they must run in at least two m
  
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• UN strongly condemns failed North Korea missiles launches

  01-06-2016 20:24 via salon.com
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. Security Council on Wednesday strongly condemned three recent North Korean missile launches which failed, calling them “a grave violation” of a ban on all ballistic missile activity that contributed to the country’s nuclear weapons program.
  The council reiterated its demand that North Korea end its “flagrant” violations, halt all nuclear tests and ballistic missile activity, and comply with five sanctions resolutions imposed sinc
  
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• Study: More Americans than ever are having same-sex encounters, driven by a rise in bisexuality

  01-06-2016 20:19 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: Reuters/Andres Stapff)
  It’s no secret at this point that Americans have grown more accepting of homosexual behavior in the past few decades, but a new study shows a sharp rise in the number of Americans who report having had same-sex encounters themselves.
  The number of adults who say they’ve had a same-sex partner increased dramatically from 1990 to 2014 — from 3.6 to 8.7 percent for women and from 4.5 to 8.2 percent for men,&nb
  
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• The new Big 3 on a big roll going into Memorial

  01-06-2016 20:11 via salon.com
  DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — The top three players in the world are on top of their games going into the Memorial.
  Jason Day hasn’t played since he won The Players Championship three weeks ago to tighten his grip on No. 1 in the world. During his time away, Rory McIlroy went home and won the Irish Open with two of the best fairway metals he has ever hit.
  The following week, Jordan Spieth won at Colonial.
  Day believes his latest run has inspired Spieth and McIlroy to raise their games.
  Spieth
  
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• Some Paralympic athletes more at risk in Rio than Olympians

  01-06-2016 20:07 via salon.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Some Paralympians face more risks than Olympic athletes from the Zika virus and filthy water in Rio de Janeiro, the medical and scientific director of the International Paralympic Committee told The Associated Press in an interview on Wednesday.
  Peter Van de Vliet said he had not heard of any Paralympic athletes pulling out of Rio, but acknowledged the threat.
  “Having said that, we do have a certain athlete population that might be a bit more vulnerable to infec
  
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• Boy, 5, calls 911 to report ‘Daddy went through a red light’

  01-06-2016 20:04 via salon.com
  
  QUINCY, Mass. (AP) — A 5-year-old Massachusetts boy may have a future in law enforcement.
  The Quincy Police Department on Wednesday posted to Facebook a recording of a 911 call the boy placed to report his father had run a red light.
  The boy tells a dispatcher: “Daddy went through a red light.” He then describes the vehicle and says it was “in the brand-new car, my mummy’s car.” He doesn’t identify himself.
  When the dispatcher asks the boy what happened
  
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• Branded a racist, lawmaker scales back tuition-cut proposal

  01-06-2016 19:53 via salon.com
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A North Carolina lawmaker who proposed to slash tuition to just $500 a semester at five public universities that serve mostly blacks, American Indians and the poor announced Wednesday that he is scaling back on the bill after running into mistrust so fierce that he was branded a racist.
  Republican Sen. Tom Apodaca said he plans to drop the three historically black colleges from the bill. Apodaca is Hispanic.
  The move came after North Carolina’s NAACP called the p
  
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• Uber raises $3.5 billion from Saudi investment fund

  01-06-2016 19:49 via salon.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Uber said Wednesday it is getting a massive cash infusion from Saudi Arabia.
  The oil-rich nation’s sovereign investment fund is putting $3.5 billion into the global transportation company, and will get a seat on Uber’s board of directors.
  Funding for new tech companies has been slowing down in recent months amid concerns that many startups have been over-valued. But San Francisco-based Uber has been able to raise billions of dollars as it pursues ambitious
  
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• Regulator warns of long, costly cleanup at Los Alamos lab

  01-06-2016 19:49 via salon.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico’s top environmental regulator says it could take the federal government another decade and more than $4 billion to clean up the hazardous waste and contamination remaining at one of the nation’s premier nuclear weapons laboratories.
  Environment Secretary Ryan Flynn provided the estimate Wednesday to state lawmakers as he outlined proposed changes to a consent order that guides cleanup at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
  It’s been more th
  
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• Could Gary Johnson end the drug war? Libertarian candidate’s presidential bid could put sane drug policy in our grasp

  01-06-2016 17:34 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: AP/Joe Burbank)
  A recent survey found that Gary Johnson, the former New Mexico governor who was just nominated to be the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate, does surprisingly well against Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and Republican candidate Donald Trump. Although his 10 percent is nothing compared to Clinton’s 38 percent and Trump’s 35 percent, it’s enough to make his candidacy relevant to our national conversation.
  This is where Johnson’s
  
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• White America’s sad last stand: This is why Donald Trump attacks “Mexican” judge

  01-06-2016 17:20 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Mel Evans)
  Donald Trump was born 70 years ago this month, at the very beginning of the baby boom. At that time, America was, in every sense, an unambiguously white country.
  First, in demographic terms, nearly 90 percent of the population was categorized as white. Groups that in the not-too-distant past had been considered only partially or imperfectly or not really white – such as Irish and German Catholics, Italians, and Jews – had by now been largely grante
  
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• What’s a Brexit? Who’s Peter Thiel again? Trump’s cluelessness of current events and other revelations from his Hollywood Reporter interview

  01-06-2016 17:17 via salon.com
  
  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reads from a list of donations to veteran's groups, during a news conference in New York, Tuesday, May 31, 2016. (AP Photo/Richard Drew) (Credit: AP)
  Donald Trump is well-known as a voracious reader (and self-styled critic) of press coverage of himself, but a new profile of Trump in The Hollywood Reporter shows that the presumptive GOP presidential nominee doesn’t seem to be reading much news without “Trump” in the h
  
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• The Latest: French firm gets signal from crashed Egypt plane

  01-06-2016 16:59 via salon.com
  
  CAIRO (AP) — The Latest on the search for an EgyptAir plane that crashed last month, killing all 66 people on board (all times local):
  6:15 p.m.
  A French company says its equipment aboard a French naval ship has detected signals from one of the black box flight recorders on the EgyptAir flight that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea last month.
  Alseamar said in a statement Wednesday that the Laplace ship started searching for the signals midday Tuesday, and “less than 24 hours were n
  
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• Indians’ Marlon Byrd suspended 162 games for drug violation

  01-06-2016 16:58 via salon.com
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland Indians outfielder Marlon Byrd has been suspended 162 games for testing positive a second time for a performance-enhancing drug.
  MLB officials said Wednesday that Byrd tested positive for Ipamorelin, a growth hormone releasing peptide.
  Byrd was suspended for 50 games in 2012 shortly after he was released by Boston. Major League Baseball increased its penalty for a second offense in 2014 from 100 games to a full season.
  Byrd’s lawyer Jay Reisinger said in a
  
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• UCLA police chief says it’s possible one of two killed in campus shooting was the gunman

  01-06-2016 16:44 via salon.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — UCLA police chief says it’s possible one of two killed in campus shooting was the gunman.
  
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• More than 20,000 rally for education reform in Croatia

  01-06-2016 16:44 via salon.com
  
  ZAGREB, Croatia (AP) — More than 20,000 people have rallied in Croatia to call for reform of the education system in the European Union’s newest member country.
  Rallies under the slogan “Croatia Can Do Better” were held Wednesday in the capital, Zagreb, and around a dozen other towns.
  Croatia has long planned an overhaul of its education system to bring it into line with the standards of other EU countries but has made little progress although the country joined the bloc
  
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• Hundreds of toads hop free, offering hope for at-risk animal

  01-06-2016 16:43 via salon.com
  
  CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Wildlife officials are releasing more than 900 toads in Wyoming, saying they could help researchers find ways for the endangered species and other amphibians to resist a devastating fungus.
  The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are freeing the toads Wednesday at three places, including the Mortenson Lake National Wildlife Refuge. The toads were raised in a national facility.
  Some of the toads will be temporarily confined to cages to keep them safe from predators.
  The goa
  
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• US death rate rose slightly last year _ first time in decade

  01-06-2016 16:41 via salon.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. death rate rose slightly last year — the first increase in a decade, health officials reported Wednesday.
  Researchers think the increase is due to a combination of factors. The death rate from heart disease — the nation’s leading killer — leveled off, instead of dropping the way it usually does. Meanwhile, deaths rates for accidental injuries, stroke, and some other causes increased.
  The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention posted the
  
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• Minnesota wrestling coach on paid leave, pending drug probe

  01-06-2016 16:37 via salon.com
  FILE - In this March 15, 2006, file photo, Minnesota wrestling coach J Robinson speaks to the media during a press conference in Oklahoma City. Robinson has been placed on paid administrative leave by his new boss, pending conclusion of a university investigation into his handling of an alleged prescription drug ring run by team members.(AP Photo/Ty Russell, File) (Credit: AP)
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minnesota wrestling coach J Robinson has been placed on paid administrative leave by his new bo
  
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• The Latest: Police say 2 people killed in UCLA shooting

  01-06-2016 16:28 via salon.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on a shooting at the University of California, Los Angeles (all times local):
  11:20 a.m.
  A Los Angeles police spokesman says two people were killed in a shooting on the UCLA campus.
  Officer Aareon Jefferson at police headquarters confirmed the two fatalities in the Wednesday morning shooting.
  UCLA media relations officer Rebecca Kendall says the campus is on lockdown.
  Numerous officers have responded, some with weapons drawn.
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  A campus official s
  
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• Texas teacher impregnated by student, 13, turns self in

  01-06-2016 16:28 via salon.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston-area teacher accused of having a sexual relationship with a 13-year-old boy who impregnated her has surrendered at a suburban jail.
  Harris County authorities had issued an arrest warrant for 24-year-old Alexandria Vera, an English teacher in the Aldine School District. The boy was an eighth-grader she met last summer.
  She appeared Wednesday at the jail in adjacent Montgomery County. Sheriff’s spokesman Brady Fitzgerald says Vera posted a $100,000 bond and was
  
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• Fed survey finds modest growth in many regions

  01-06-2016 16:28 via salon.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve said Wednesday that the economy grew at a modest pace in much of the country from April to mid-May, despite headwinds ranging from slower consumer spending to ongoing weakness in the manufacturing and the energy sectors.
  The Fed’s latest survey of business conditions found that half of its 12 regions described growth as modest, while Dallas said economic activity had increased “marginally.” Two districts — Chicago and Kansas Cit
  
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• Timeline of events in Minneapolis police shooting

  01-06-2016 16:26 via salon.com
  
  A timeline of events surrounding the death of Jamar Clark, 24, of Minneapolis, in a confrontation with police.
  — Nov. 15, 2015: Officers respond at 12:45 a.m. to a report of an assault in north Minneapolis. One officer shoots 24-year-old Jamar Clark in the head. Police say a struggle preceded the shooting; people who say they saw the confrontation dispute that and say Clark was handcuffed.
  — Nov. 15: Police Chief Janee Harteau asks the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension to inv
  
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• Clinton: Donald Trump is a “fraud”

  01-06-2016 16:25 via salon.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton is calling Donald Trump a fraud, claiming he’s trying to scam Americans the way he scammed students who enrolled in his university.
  Newly released documents about the now-defunct business owned by Trump revealed that he tried to trick people into enrolling who couldn’t afford the tuition.
  Clinton is seizing on those reports, saying Trump used the “fraudulent scheme” to enrich himself on behalf of hardworking Americans.
  She says: &ld
  
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