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• The Latest: House passes $617 million Detroit schools plan

  02-06-2016 23:50 via salon.com
  
  LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The Latest on legislation to rescue Detroit’s school district (all times local):
  9:30 p.m.
  The Michigan House has narrowly approved compromise legislation to restructure the Detroit Public Schools and pay off $617 million in debt.
  The House approved a package of bills Thursday evening after hours of closed-door talks, voting 55-53 on the central bill in the package offering the $617 million. The package also includes a $150 million loan to help the new district
  
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• Silver: NBA needs progress by end of summer on NC law

  02-06-2016 23:34 via salon.com
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Commissioner Adam Silver says the NBA needs to see definitive progress toward changing a hotly debated North Carolina law by the end of summer to ensure that the 2017 All-Star Game will remain in Charlotte.
  Silver says he has been pleased by the direction of the discussions and would already be looking to move the game were that not the case. He remains optimistic that a solution will be reached to keep the game in Charlotte.
  The law excludes lesbian, gay and transge
  
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• New super PAC to help Trump, this time organized by a friend

  02-06-2016 23:28 via salon.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A close friend of Donald Trump has helped start a super PAC to support him, potentially giving the presumptive Republican presidential nominee his first big-donor help for the general election.
  Tom Barrack, a Los Angeles real estate investor, said in an interview with CNN on Thursday that the group has already received $32 million in financial commitments. The group is called Rebuilding America Now, according to documents filed Thursday with federal regulators.
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• Marlins LHP Wei-Yin Chen has no-hitter through 6 innings

  02-06-2016 23:08 via salon.com
  MIAMI (AP) — Marlins pitcher Wei-Yin Chen is working on a no-hitter through six innings against the Pittsburgh Pirates.
  Chen hit a batter with a pitch and walked two in the second inning Thursday night, but has since retired his last 13 hitters. The left-hander from Taiwan has five strikeouts and has thrown 61 of his 90 pitches for strikes.
  Miami center fielder Ichiro Suzuki has turned in two impressive defensive plays to prevent hits. Suzuki made a diving catch on pitcher Juan Nicasio&rsq
  
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• Colorado scrambles for solutions after latest health scare

  02-06-2016 22:58 via salon.com
  
  DENVER (AP) — The latest public health scare involving a Colorado surgical technician has revealed states have more work ahead in trying to prevent needle-stealing hospital workers from getting hired.
  Authorities say an HIV-positive surgical tech stole syringes with fentanyl and endangered patients at a suburban Denver hospital – the third incident of this type in the state in less than a decade. Colorado lawmakers, building off requirements put into place in 2011, are trying to tigh
  
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• Ooh look who I found... @G_Eazy https://t.co/4Xuk7x35wY

  02-06-2016 22:41 via twitter.com
  
  Ooh look who I found... @G_Eazy https://t.co/4Xuk7x35wY
  
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• How Saul Williams found courage: “Prince and Bowie liberated me as an artist to be queer”

  02-06-2016 22:30 via salon.com
  
  Saul Williams (Credit: Geordie Wood)
  Saul Williams is a rapper, spoken-word poet, actor and activist. A song from this year’s album, “MartyrLoserKing,” digs into complex issues of sexuality: “Think Like They Book Say” looks at the meeting of two characters, one dressed in “Purple satin bra and tights,” the other in “red and purple light.” As the song goes on, the ambiguity of the whole thing becomes clearer. The female character “was on
  
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• Japanese police say boy missing after parents left him in a forest has been found

  02-06-2016 22:28 via salon.com
  TOKYO (AP) — Japanese police say boy missing after parents left him in a forest has been found.
  
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• Kyrgios withdraws from Olympic consideration for Australia

  02-06-2016 22:27 via salon.com
  SYDNEY (AP) — Nick Kyrgios has withdrawn his name from consideration for Australia’s tennis team for the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, citing “unfair and unjust treatment” by national Olympic officials.
  Kyrgios and Bernard Tomic, who also withdrew from the Olympic tournament in August, were placed on notice by Australian team chef de mission Kitty Chiller last month after a number of behavioral issues on and off the court.
  Kyrgios, who later joked about the threat on social
  
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• F-16 fighter jet crashes during flyover performance following President Obama’s Air Force Academy commencement speech

  02-06-2016 22:19 via salon.com
  
  An F-16 fighter of the Air Force Thunderbirds flying team went down in a grassy area in southern Colorado Springs Thursday afternoon after a flyover performance for the Air Force Academy’s graduation.
  The plane went down in near Fontaine Boulevard, about five miles south of the Colorado Springs Airport, according to local reports. The pilot of jet No. 6 safely ejected about 1:15 p.m. and is reportedly uninjured, according to the Air Force Academy.
  No injuries on the ground w
  
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• Aerial demonstration team crashes throughout history

  02-06-2016 22:10 via salon.com
  
  AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (AP) — Two fighter jets from the military’s elite performance teams crashed within hours of each other Thursday. A U.S. Air Force Thunderbird jet crashed in Colorado Springs, Colorado, following the group’s traditional performance the Air Force Academy commencement. A Navy’s Blue Angels pilot was killed when his F/A-18 fighter jet crashed near Nashville, Tennessee, where the team was practicing for a scheduled performance this weekend.
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• Bisping gets 1st title shot after decade in the UFC octagon

  02-06-2016 22:05 via salon.com
  INGLEWOOD, Calif. (AP) — Michael Bisping fought for 10 years and 25 UFC bouts to get the opportunity that finally arrived in a rush last month.
  The 37-year-old middleweight has beaten stars, lost to drug cheats and made millions in mixed martial arts, but he had never fought for a UFC title. A flamboyant English bad boy who promotes as well as he fights, Bisping thrived for years as a villain before emerging as a grudging fan favorite for his verbal dexterity and sheer tenacity in a notori
  
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• Phoenix police: mother stabs, partially dismembers 3 sons

  02-06-2016 21:25 via salon.com
  
  Law enforcement officials stand outside a home, Thursday, June 2, 2016 in Phoenix where three boys were killed during a several hour period Wednesday night.The boy's mother was hospitalized in critical condition with self-inflicted stab wounds according to Phoenix police. (AP Photo/Matt York) (Credit: AP)
  PHOENIX (AP) — A Phoenix mother is suspected of stabbing her three young sons to death and stuffing their partially dismembered bodies in a closet before trying to kill herself at their h
  
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• Pike Place fish-throwers toss salmon to zoo bears

  02-06-2016 21:19 via salon.com
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Fishmongers from Seattle’s iconic Pike Place Market tossed salmon to grizzly bears at the Woodland Park Zoo to help raise awareness about the animals.
  The famous fish-throwers were on hand Thursday to feed the bears and promote the zoo’s upcoming Bear Affair conservation day Saturday and Washington state’s Bear Awareness Week, June 4-12.
  Grizzly bears have been listed as a threatened species since 1975, although they were briefly delisted in 2007 before a l
  
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• 4 sought in transgender man’s beating death at homeless camp

  02-06-2016 21:05 via salon.com
  
  BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Police say they’ve obtained murder arrest warrants for four people in the death of a transgender man beaten last month at a Vermont homeless encampment.
  The two men and two women charged Thursday in the death of Amos Beede (BEE’-dee) were last known to be in Roswell, New Mexico. One of the men was arrested there on May 31 on charges he assaulted one of the women but later was released.
  Beede was attacked on May 23 at a homeless encampment in Burlington. H
  
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• Judge: Firm tied to polygamous group used child labor

  02-06-2016 21:02 via salon.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Nearly 200 children from a polygamous sect had to work long hours in the cold, sometimes with little food, as they picked pecans for a Utah contracting company with ties to the group, a federal judge found in a decision that marks the latest blow to the group.
  U.S. District Judge Tena Campbell held Paragon Contractors in contempt of court, siding with federal labor lawyers who said kids as young as 6 were sent to the harvest.
  The government said the company had deep c
  
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• Brazil Congress looks to raise pay for government workers

  02-06-2016 18:58 via salon.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s Congress moved Thursday toward giving big pay raises to government workers just a week after announcing a multibillion-dollar deficit this year. The move also benefits the supreme court justices who are still to make decisions on the divisive fight over the president’s impeachment.
  The lower house, the Chamber of Deputies, voted to approve raises that range from 16 percent to 41 percent. The measure now goes to the Senate, where it’s expecte
  
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• The Latest: NY’s Collins applauds Ryan’s Trump endorsement

  02-06-2016 18:54 via salon.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on House Speaker Paul Ryan’s endorsement of presumptive GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump (all times Eastern Daylight Time):
  4:32 p.m.
  One of Donald Trump’s top House backers is applauding Speaker Paul Ryan’s decision to throw his support behind the presumptive GOP nominee.
  Congressman Chris Collins of New York says in a statement that Ryan’s endorsement “reinforces the fact that Republicans are united in our fight to defeat
  
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• New York bill extends time for medical malpractice lawsuits

  02-06-2016 18:44 via salon.com
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Legislation before state lawmakers in New York would significantly change medical malpractice law by allowing patients to sue years after an alleged misdiagnosis or mistreatment.
  Patients currently must file lawsuits within 2½ years after the alleged malpractice.
  The bill would amend the statute of limitations on such cases to start the clock when a patient first realizes they were possibly misdiagnosed or harmed by a medical professional — as long as the l
  
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• Gap says key sales measure slides 6 percent in May

  02-06-2016 18:44 via salon.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Gap says sales at established stores fell 6 percent in May. That was better than the 7 percent decline forecast by Thomson Reuters.
  Sales in stores open at least a year is a key metric of a retailer’s health.
  By division, same-store sales fell 3 percent at Gap stores, 11 percent at Banana Republic and 7 percent at Old Navy.
  The San Francisco-based retailer said Thursday that the entire month was challenging, but its performance improved toward the Memorial Day weekend
  
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• Oklahoma sheriff accused of swapping employment for sex

  02-06-2016 18:42 via salon.com
  ARDMORE, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma sheriff requested a sexual relationship with one of his female employees in exchange for hiring her husband, investigators said Thursday.
  Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation agents arrested Carter County Sheriff Milton Anthony at his office about 9:30 p.m. Wednesday. He was booked into the county jail on a felony bribery charge and released after posting a $20,000 bond.
  Anthony, 65, who has been sheriff of the southern Oklahoma county since January 2014
  
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• Nats’ Murphy exceeding expectations and flirting with .400

  02-06-2016 18:30 via salon.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A player batting almost .400 is the driving force behind the Washington Nationals’ offense. And his name isn’t Bryce Harper.
  Second baseman Daniel Murphy is the guy swinging the hot bat. He has picked up where he left off during the New York Mets’ run to the World Series and taken his game to another level.
  Murphy is hitting a major league-best .394 two months into the season and has nine home runs and 34 RBIs.
  “He’s been great all over,&rdqu
  
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• Garrison Keillor suffers brain seizure, but show goes on

  02-06-2016 18:24 via salon.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — “Prairie Home Companion” radio show host Garrison Keillor says he has suffered a brain seizure but that this week’s show apparently will go on.
  The 73-year-old Keillor posted on Facebook on Thursday that he had what he called a “whirlwind weekend,” doing two shows at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in Virginia and suffering a “nocturnal brain seizure.”
  He said he flew to Mayo Clinic in Minnesota where he underwent
  
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• Supergroup Dead & Company to donate $100K from NC show

  02-06-2016 18:19 via salon.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The supergroup Dead & Company says it will perform a concert in North Carolina this month, but will also donate $100,000 to organizations that fight against discrimination.
  Bruce Springsteen, Pearl Jam, Maroon 5 and others have canceled concerts in North Carolina because of the state’s law passed in March addressing LGBT rights and bathroom use by transgender people. Dead & Company said in a statement Thursday that they “had hoped that by now this abhorr
  
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• Extinct otter species named after Grateful Dead guitarist

  02-06-2016 18:17 via salon.com
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — A U.S. National Park Service paleontologist and Grateful Dead fan has been credited with identifying an extinct species of otter found in south-central Idaho and named it after the band’s guitarist.
  Self-described Deadhead Kari Prassack says traveling the country to see Bob Weir and the band gave her confidence to pursue her career.
  When fellow scientists in April credited her with properly identifying the new species from a jaw bone found in the late 1980s at Hag
  
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• Palestinian reality TV show shines light on democracy woes

  02-06-2016 18:15 via salon.com
  
  RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The winner of this “election” for Palestinian president was a 24-year-old lawyer from east Jerusalem, who defeated a woman and a Christian from Bethlehem. But this was reality television — not real life — and the vote came on a TV show called “The President” that is meant to educate young Palestinians about politics.
  In reality, Palestinians haven’t had a chance to cast an actual ballot for president in over a decade.
  The
  
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• 2 accused of chaining girl in basement plead not guilty

  02-06-2016 18:14 via salon.com
  
  TOLEDO, Ohio (AP) — Two Ohio men accused of chaining a teenage girl in a basement as punishment have pleaded not guilty to kidnapping and child endangering.
  Fifty-three-year-old Timothy Ciboro (SIH’-bohr-oh) entered his plea Thursday, a day after his 27-year-old son, Esten Ciboro, also pleaded not guilty.
  Timothy Ciboro has said the girl, a relative, wasn’t mistreated. His attorney said he hopes that the public will give Ciboro the presumption of innocence.
  A message was left f
  
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• Markets Right Now: S&P 500 closes at high for the year

  02-06-2016 18:13 via salon.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on developments in global financial markets (all times local):
  4:00 p.m.
  U.S. stock indexes overcame an early wobble and ended slightly higher, giving the Standard & Poor’s 500 index its highest close of the year.
  Health care companies led the rebound Thursday. Energy stocks lagged the rest of the market after a meeting of OPEC ministers failed to results in an agreement to curtail output.
  Johnson & Johnson rose about 2 percent on news the company h
  
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• No criminal charges after boarding school sex investigation

  02-06-2016 18:12 via salon.com
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Rhode Island state police say an investigation into dozens of sexual abuse allegations at a prestigious boarding school has resulted in no criminal charges.
  Police on Thursday said they looked at allegations of abuse of students by seven former faculty members, one current employee and three former students and allegations that current and prior administrators did not properly report abuse at St. George’s School in Middletown.
  Authorities determined they canno
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Trumped-up charge on “Obamacare” premiums

  02-06-2016 18:09 via salon.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump says the Obama administration plans to keep consumers in the dark about premium increases for 2017 under the president’s health care law — for political reasons. But the administration says next year’s sign-up season is going forward on schedule, and insurers say they’ve seen no indication of a delay.
  “The numbers are coming out, right now, the numbers are scheduled to come out on November 1. The increases are going to be so larg
  
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• US looks to build World Cup buzz at home in Copa America

  02-06-2016 18:05 via salon.com
  SANTA CLARA, Calif. (AP) — U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsmann realizes full well that a strong Copa America run on home soil could mean much to this country hosting another World Cup.
  The biggest soccer showcase in the United States since the 1994 World Cup kicks off when the 31st-ranked Americans take on No. 3 Colombia on Friday night at Levi’s Stadium.
  “We want to do well, we want to get as far as we can in the tournament but we also want to showcase our game to the rest of the worl
  
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• Tennis star Kuerten’s advice to nervous athletes: Go to Rio

  02-06-2016 17:58 via salon.com
  PARIS (AP) — Three-time French Open champion and former No. 1-ranked tennis player Gustavo Kuerten has some simple advice for athletes considering skipping the Rio de Janeiro Olympics in his home country.
  “Go spend a weekend in Brazil,” Kuerten said. “They’ll change their mind.”
  And as for concerns about the Zika virus, Kuerten called it “a serious thing” that his countrymen have been dealing with. He said he expects authorities to “try to do
  
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• Police: UCLA shooter intended to kill second professor

  02-06-2016 17:58 via salon.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The investigation into a murder-suicide on the UCLA campus took a more sinister turn Thursday when police announced they suspected the shooter earlier killed a woman in Minnesota then drove to Los Angeles to confront a professor he believed had stolen his work.
  Detectives also believe that Mainak Sarkar, a 38-year-old former engineering graduate student, intended to kill a second professor Wednesday morning, but he could not find him on campus, Los Angeles police Chief C
  
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• PUBLISHERS WEEKLY BEST-SELLERS

  02-06-2016 16:44 via salon.com
  
  Copyright 5/8/2016 Publishers Weekly. Week ending 5/29/2016, powered by Nielsen Bookscan 5/8/2016 The Nielsen Company.
  HARDCOVER FICTION
  1. “The City of Mirrors” by Justin Cronin (Ballantine)
  2. “15th Affair” by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro (Little, Brown)
  3. “The Last Mile” by David Baldacci (Grand Central Publishing)
  4. “The Apartment” by Danielle Steel (Delacorte)
  5. “The Weekenders” by Mary Kay Andrews (St. Martin’s Press
  
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• Tourists in Africa get close, but not too close, to gorillas

  02-06-2016 16:09 via salon.com
  
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — In some parts of Africa, tourists and researchers routinely trek into the undergrowth to see gorillas in their natural habitat. There are no barriers and no enclosures, and the apes, many of whom are accustomed to people, sometimes move past first-time visitors frozen in place, their awe mingling with apprehension.
  This delicate interaction usually happens without incident, overseen by guides who brief trekkers on rules designed as much to protect infection-prone gorill
  
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• Watch New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman destroy Donald Trump: Trump U was “fraud — it was straight up fraud”

  02-06-2016 15:49 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: Reuters/Jim Bourg)
  On Morning Joe Thursday, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman minced no words in declaring what the problem with Donald Trump’s vanity university was.
  MSNBC’s Willie Geist began by saying that while “a lot of [the university’s actions and policies] look slimy and sleazy to a lot of people — bilking people out of money, making false promises — what is the specific crime, as you see it?”
  Schneiderman replied,
  
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• Mass exodus of minorities: Donald Trump is running Black and Latino leaders out of the RNC

  02-06-2016 15:45 via salon.com
  
  (Credit: AP)
  The woman in charge of carrying the Republican Party’s message to Hispanic voters is resigning after reportedly telling colleagues that she was “uncomfortable” working for the presumptive nominee Donald Trump, becoming the latest in a long list of prominent Republicans of color fleeing the official party aparatus. 
  The Republican National Committee’s director of Hispanic outreach quit the Reince Priebus-led organization on Wednesday to joi
  
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• “#TryBeatingMeLightly, I’ll break that hand you raised”: Pakistani women fight horrific new bill with a trending hashtag

  02-06-2016 15:00 via salon.com
  
  In response to a recently proposed bill in Pakistan, which would allow husbands to “lightly beat” their wives, Pakistani women are using the hashtag #TryBeatingMeLightly to let their husbands know that they will do in response to violence in their homes.The bill was created by the Chairman of the Council of Islamic Ideology, which is a constitutional body in Pakistan and will permit husbands to beat their wives when they talk too loudly or refuse sexual intercourse. The bill includes
  
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• WATCH: Newt Gingrich tells Fox News that “there’s no model for the unique, extraordinary Donald Trump experience — you just have to relax and take it”

  02-06-2016 14:54 via salon.com
  
  Newt Gingrich (Credit: Reuters/Eduardo Munoz)
  Newt Gingrich appeared on Hannity last night to continue his three decade long crusade against the Clintons, in this case claiming that Hillary essentially amounts to “Obama plus corruption” — which, at the very least, implies that he doesn’t believe the current occupant of the White House to be corrupt.
  Gingrich began by saying that there’s no model for “the Donald Trump unique, extraordinary experience, not Ronal
  
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• Black women are now the most educated group in the United States

  02-06-2016 13:00 via salon.com
  
  Black women are now the most educated group in the United States, according to reports by the National Center for Education Statistics.By both race and gender there is a higher percentage of black women (9.7 percent) enrolled in college than any other group including Asian women (8.7 percent), white women (7.1 percent) and white men (6.1 percent).
  Also black women earned 66 percent of bachelor’s degrees, 71 percent of master’s degrees, and 65 percent of all doctorate degrees awarded
  
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• Zombie time at campaign Hillary: Camille Paglia on Trump’s real strength and Clinton’s fatal sleepwalking

  02-06-2016 12:00 via salon.com
  
  Hillary Clinton sits with her husband former President Bill Clinton as they attend a ceremony after walking in a Memorial Day parade (Credit: AP)
  It’s zombie time at campaign Hillary. Behold the dead men walking! It was with strangely slow, narcotized numbness that the candidate and her phalanx of minions and mouthpieces responded to last week’s punishing report by the State Department’s Inspector General about her email security lapses. Do they truly believe, in the rosy alter
  
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• Don’t rule it out: Bernie Sanders (slightly) leaves door open for Green Party run with Jill Stein

  02-06-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  Bernie Sanders, Jill Stein (Credit: Reuters/Lucas Jackson/Jonathan Ernst/Photo montage by Salon)
  The election may be about to take another unpredicted turn that could result in the election of President Sanders, completing his 2016 political revolution.
  Before a rally in Santa Monica, Senator Bernie Sanders was asked by Live Satellite News about the offer by Jill Stein, the Green Party’s presumptive presidential nominee, for him to run with the Green Party. Sanders response left open
  
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• 4 ways the press can fight back against Trump: He’s declared war against the media — they can’t let him win

  02-06-2016 11:59 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: Reuters/Jonathan Ernst)
  The 2016 election will be perhaps the U.S. news media’s biggest test, and one which it will very likely fail. The chief topic of the test is, naturally, Donald Trump and his well-known brand of whiny-diaper-baby tantrums coupled with his fatuous bullying and packaged in obvious mendacity.
  This week alone has so far represented a major chunk of the test. Trump remains ahead of the game while the news media continues to cover his trifecta of scan
  
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• #NeverTrump’s final gasp: William Kristol completes the anti-Trump movement’s downfall by pushing David French for prez

  02-06-2016 11:58 via salon.com
  
  David French, Donald Trump, Bill Kristol (Credit: Fox News/Reuters/Kamil Krzaczynski/AP/Janet Van Ham)
  We must now bid a final adieu to the ad-hoc collective of conservative pundits and Twitter users known as the #NeverTrump movement. I hesitate to say that the movement has “died,” as that would unfairly imply that once enjoyed life, but we can no longer pretend that the #NeverTrump campaign carries any real hope of success. And it was Bill Kristol who delivered the final blow.
  For w
  
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• Nezet-Seguin to become Met Opera music director in 2020-21

  02-06-2016 11:44 via salon.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Yannick Nezet-Seguin will succeed James Levine as music director of the Metropolitan Opera but will not take over until the 2020-21 season.
  Nezet-Seguin will become music director designate in 2017-18 and start to collaborate on planning the company’s schedule, often done five years in advance or more. He will conduct two operas per season as music director designate and five operas per season once he assumes the role.
  The 41-year-old Canadian, considered the favorite
  
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• Exelon says it will close 2 Illinois nuclear plants

  02-06-2016 11:43 via salon.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — Exelon Corp. says it will shut two Illinois nuclear plants after the Illinois Legislature declined to act on its request for financial support.
  The company said Thursday it will close the Clinton Power Station in Clinton on June 1, 2017, and the Quad Cities Generating Station in Cordova on June 1, 2018.
  Exelon says the locations are its best-performing plants, but they have lost $800 million over the last seven years. About 1,500 people work at the plants.
  The company backs
  
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• A look at Group B at Euro 2016

  02-06-2016 11:42 via salon.com
  
  A look at the teams and their key players and coach in Group B at the European Championship:
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  ENGLAND
  A perfect 10 wins in qualifying and the emergence of new talent: Since the woeful World Cup in 2014, England seems to be on the up. Roy Hodgson’s team will not, though, be traveling to France in June as a favorite as the national team looks to end its 50-year wait to win a major trophy. Doubts persist over the team’s defense and captain Wayne Rooney’s position in the team, b
  
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• Indiana man accused in 3 deaths modeled on ‘The Purge’ movie

  02-06-2016 11:15 via salon.com
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A 19-year-old Indiana man is accused of killing three people over four days, in a series of attacks modeled after the movie “The Purge.”
  According to court documents, a witness told police Jonathan Cruz told her he was “purging,” in reference to the 2013 movie starring Ethan Hawke in which crimes can be committed without fear of prosecution over a 12-hour period.
  Cruz’s initial hearing on murder, robbery and other felony counts is scheduled
  
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• A look at Group A at Euro 2016

  02-06-2016 11:12 via salon.com
  
  A look at the teams and their key players and coach in Group A at the European Championship:
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  FRANCE
  France’s preparations to win the Euros for the third time have been overshadowed by off-field matters, with top striker Karim Benzema not making the squad due to his involvement in an extortion scam over a sex tape, but its squad is deep and rich with talent. Playing at home will be a huge factor, as has been shown in the past — France won Euro 84 and the 1998 World Cup in front of
  
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• Lawsuit blames death on Dole plant salad, listeria outbreak

  02-06-2016 11:10 via salon.com
  SPRINGFIELD, Ohio (AP) — A new wrongful death lawsuit alleges an Ohio woman died because she ate salad processed at a Dole plant linked to a listeria outbreak.
  The Springfield News-Sun (http://bit.ly/1r3Ahbi ) reports the lawsuit says a 79-year-old Franklin County woman died in February after eating salad from Dole’s Springfield plant.
  The food processor is accused of failing to prevent contamination. The Westlake Village, California-based Dole declined to comment on the litigation.
  
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