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• Argentina’s Macri hospitalized for irregular heartbeart

  03-06-2016 23:58 via salon.com
  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Argentine President Mauricio Macri has been hospitalized for an irregular heartbeart.
  The presidency said in a statement Friday that Macri suffered from a “light arrhythmia” at around 3 p.m. local time, but he carried on working normally at the presidential residence in the outskirts of Buenos Aires.
  Macri was later checked into a hospital at around 7:30 p.m. for precautionary studies. He had not been released by 11 p.m. but the presidential press
  
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• US defense secretary offers closer security ties to China

  03-06-2016 23:36 via salon.com
  
  SINGAPORE (AP) — Striking a notably positive tone, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Saturday offered closer U.S. cooperation with China in pursuit of a deeper and broader Asian security network. He said he intends to visit Beijing this year.
  In a speech to an international security conference in Singapore, Carter repeated frequent U.S. complaints about China unnerving its neighbors with expansive moves to build up reefs, islets and other land features in the disputed South China Sea. B
  
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• Knighten’s 3-run homer in 8th leads Oklahoma past Alabama

  03-06-2016 23:32 via salon.com
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Shay Knighten hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the eighth inning to give Oklahoma a 3-0 victory over Alabama on Friday night in the Women’s College World Series.
  Oklahoma’s Paige Parker pitched a complete game shutout for the Sooners (53-7) in their 28th straight victory.
  Alabama (51-13) threatened in the top of the fifth when Reagan Dykes led off with a double and advanced to third on a fielder’s choice.
  Alabama’s Alexis Osorio had a no-h
  
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• Fox News’ Tucker Carlson: Trump University no bigger “scam” than Yale, Princeton

  03-06-2016 22:56 via salon.com
  
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  Conceding that Trump’s for-profit “educational program,” Trump University, “isn’t wholly legitimate,” Fox News’ Tucker Carlson has gone on a multi-day campaign to downplay the presumptive Republican presidential nominee’s long-festering scandal just as the foul stench of corruption begins to arise.
  “I don’t think there’s a single person that says, ‘Trump U, I hope my son graduates from Trump U,'&rdquo
  
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• Tropical Storm Bonnie moving away from East Coast

  03-06-2016 22:28 via salon.com
  MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Bonnie is moving away from the U.S. East Coast on Friday, a day after re-forming into a tropical system.
  Bonnie’s maximum sustained winds Friday were near 40 mph (65 kph). The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Bonnie has strengthened again into a tropical storm but does not threaten land.
  But weakening is expected again Saturday.
  The storm is centered about 285 miles (460 kilometers) east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina, and is moving east at 13 mph (20
  
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• Argentines protest violence against women

  03-06-2016 22:23 via salon.com
  
  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Thousands of people marched in Buenos Aires on Friday to condemn violence against women, the latest public outcry following the recent killings of three 12-year-old girls in Argentina and the gang rape of a teenage girl in Brazil.
  The rally was organized on social media by women’s groups under the slogan #NiUnaMenos, meaning “Not one less.” Demonstrators wearing the purple wigs that represent the movement flooded the streets in front of the
  
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• Trump University was a “scam from beginning to end”: The most damning allegations against the “school”

  03-06-2016 22:20 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: Reuters/Christopher Aluka Berry)
  Trump University promised to turn students into successful real estate investors, but according to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the for-profit school was nothing but a “scam from beginning to end.”
  For years, allegations of fraud and deception have dogged Trump University, the now-defunct seminar program founded by Donald Trump that is the subject of several ongoing lawsuits, including a $40 millio
  
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• More charges against ex-pharmaceutical executive Shkreli

  03-06-2016 21:57 via salon.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Federal prosecutors in New York have filed additional criminal charges against a pharmaceutical executive who separately was heavily criticized for raising the price of a lifesaving malaria medication.
  A new indictment filed Friday in Brooklyn says Martin Shkreli (SHKREL’-ee) and his former attorney Evan Greebel schemed to defrauded potential investors of his former drug company Retrophin Inc., based in San Diego. They say the two allocated company stock to seven empl
  
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• Michelle Obama takes a swing at Trump during final commencement address as first lady: He “is not what this country stands for”

  03-06-2016 21:49 via salon.com
  
  First Lady Michelle Obama speaks to members of the class of 2016 in her final commencement speech as first lady, Friday June 3, 2016, during commencement at CCNY in New York. (AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews) (Credit: AP)
  Michelle Obama kept up her tradition of delivering graduation speeches that tackle America’s struggle with discrimination, using her final commencement address as first lady to warn against Donald Trump and his campaign of intolerance.
  While the first lady did not mention Trump
  
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• Livingston, close-knit band of backups bring best in Game 1

  03-06-2016 21:47 via salon.com
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Shaun Livingston put up nearly 100 free throws at the end of Friday’s NBA Finals practice, and that is somewhere around his norm.
  Cleveland might have built the most expensive roster in the NBA. Way out West, Golden State developed arguably the league’s deepest and best bench with a group of hard-nosed guys like Livingston eager to take the pressure off starters Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and Draymond Green whenever their names are called.
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• Ex-Air Force colonel held hostage in Iran dies in Arizona

  03-06-2016 21:40 via salon.com
  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Thomas E. Schaefer, a retired Air Force colonel who was the ranking military officer among the 52 Americans held hostage in Iran for 444 days before being released in 1981, has died in Arizona. He was 85.
  David Schaefer said Friday that his father died of congestive heart failure Tuesday at a hospice in Scottsdale.
  Schaefer was a military attache at the U.S. embassy in Tehran when militants seized the compound on Nov. 4, 1979, and 66 people were taken hostage.
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• Sharks hope return home turns tide in final vs. Penguins

  03-06-2016 21:36 via salon.com
  
  San Jose Sharks goalie Martin Jones skates back to the net after a timeout during the second period in Game 2 of the NHL hockey Stanley Cup Finals against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Wednesday, June 1, 2016, in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar) (Credit: AP)
  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The San Jose Sharks can take at least one positive out of losing the first two games of the Stanley Cup Final in Pittsburgh.
  Despite being severely outplayed for almost the entire two games, the Sharks still m
  
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• Kuchar, Steele tied for lead at Memorial

  03-06-2016 21:16 via salon.com
  DUBLIN, Ohio (AP) — Two matches at home against Phil Mickelson made Brendan Steele feel inadequate. Two rounds at the Memorial gave him a share of the lead.
  Steele put in a little more work and it paid off over two days in soft conditions at Muirfield Village. He had a 5-under 67 on Friday and was tied for the lead with past Memorial champion Matt Kuchar (66) going into a wide-open weekend.
  Steele, whose only PGA Tour victory was in his rookie season five years ago, took the last two weeks
  
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• Washington urges Albania’s opposition to approve reforms

  03-06-2016 21:14 via salon.com
  TIRANA, Albania (AP) — The United States on Friday increased its pressure on Albania’s main opposition party to approve a package of judicial reforms needed to convince the European Union to start membership talks.
  Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland told Democratic Party leader Lulzim Basha that the package was “a top priority in U.S.-Albanian relations and for Albania’s progress toward the EU,” according to a statement from the U.S. embassy in Tirana.
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• Obama signs bill protecting children in tribal foster care

  03-06-2016 21:11 via salon.com
  SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (AP) — President Barack Obama on Friday signed into law a measure meant to bolster protections for Native American children placed into the tribal foster care system.
  The law, which comes years after serious flaws were uncovered in the child welfare system of a Native American tribe in North Dakota, requires background checks before foster care placements are made by tribal social services agencies. The measure requires that agencies review national criminal records and c
  
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• Sony names Sanford Panitch president of Columbia Pictures

  03-06-2016 21:09 via salon.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Sony Pictures Entertainment has named Sanford Panitch president of Columbia Pictures, replacing Doug Belgrad.
  The announcement was made Friday by Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group chairman Tom Rothman, who took over as studio chief from Amy Pascal last year following the computer hack of Sony. Panitch has overseen international production at the studio since last June.
  Rothman praises Panitch’s film background and says his international expertise fits e
  
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• Raul Castrol spends 85th birthday preparing for summit

  03-06-2016 20:56 via salon.com
  HAVANA (AP) — Cuban President Raul Castro spent his 85th birthday preparing to host leaders of Caribbean countries who are meeting in Havana, although he did take a congratulatory phone call from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
  Castro generally doesn’t make much of his birthdays and made no comment on his latest milestone Friday. He was looking ahead to a nighttime banquet that welcomes heads of state and government leaders attending the Caribbean summit.
  The Russian state news age
  
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• Ex-Seattle FB Derrick Coleman charged with vehicular assault

  03-06-2016 20:46 via salon.com
  SEATTLE (AP) — Former Seattle Seahawks fullback Derrick Coleman was charged Friday with felony hit and run and vehicular assault for a car crash last October.
  Coleman is scheduled to be arraigned June 16. He could face 12 to 16 months behind bars if convicted of both charges. Prosecutors received the case from the Bellevue Police Department in January and after months of review and further investigation announced the charges Friday.
  During the investigation, Coleman told police he had smok
  
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• Mets 3B Wright out at least 6 weeks with neck injury

  03-06-2016 20:37 via salon.com
  MIAMI (AP) — New York Mets third baseman David Wright will be out at least six weeks and perhaps a lot longer with a herniated disk in his neck, and the team didn’t try to minimize the loss Friday.
  “It’s going to be tough,” manager Terry Collins said. “It’s pretty shocking to hear about the length of time.”
  Wright had been sidelined since Monday, and the Mets initially hoped the injury was minor. He planned to fly to California to see Dr. Robert Wa
  
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• Military: Precision flying teams are worth the risk, cost

  03-06-2016 20:33 via salon.com
  
  DENVER (AP) — The U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds and the Navy Blue Angels both suffered crashes on the same day this week, but the military says the high-drama, high-dollar flying teams are worth the money and the risk.
  The Defense Department and supporters say the two squadrons help citizens feel good about their military and give a boost to recruitment.
  A Blue Angels F/A-18 jet crashed Thursday near Nashville, Tennessee, killing the pilot, Marine Capt. Jeff Kuss.
  Also Thursday, a Thunderbir
  
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• Fatal Fort Hood accident raises questions about training

  03-06-2016 20:29 via salon.com
  FORT HOOD, Texas (AP) — The U.S. Army has said the five Fort Hood soldiers who died when a rain-swollen creek swept their vehicle into rushing waters were in the right place for their intended training.
  Yet the tragedy is prompting multiple investigations into the circumstances of the deaths and how the military may handle risky training conditions in the future.
  The lead Army agency on safety and occupational health dispatched a team to Fort Hood on Friday to investigate the circumstances
  
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• Colombia seeks end to farmers’ strike after 2 deaths

  03-06-2016 20:29 via salon.com
  
  BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Members of Colombia’s government are meeting with indigenous leaders to try and negotiate an end to a nationwide strike by farmers now in its fifth day.
  The meeting in the southwestern province of Cauca on Friday comes a day after two protesters were killed and dozens more injured in clashes with police.
  Farmers in 20 of Colombia’s 32 provinces are demanding the government honor rural spending commitments dating from a much longer and deadlier strike in
  
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• Sumner Redstone asks court to reject lawsuit by Viacom CEO

  03-06-2016 20:25 via salon.com
  BOSTON (AP) — Media mogul Sumner Redstone, fighting back against charges that he’s mentally incapacitated, said Friday that not only is he competent but he was backed by a majority of trustees when he stripped Viacom’s CEO of key positions last month.
  The 93-year-old Redstone, through his lawyers, responded in a written filing to a lawsuit filed last month by Viacom chief executive Philippe Dauman and board member George Abrams.
  Dauman and Abrams sued in Norfolk Probate Court i
  
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• Moose running loose at Utah Capitol

  03-06-2016 20:22 via salon.com
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A moose that darted across the lawn of Utah’s State Capitol and evaded wildlife officers for hours will be relocated to a canyon about 60 miles south of Salt Lake City.
  Mike Roach with Utah’s Division of Wildlife Resources said the young female moose emerged from a canyon Friday and ended up in a city park north of downtown Salt Lake City.
  The animal was spooked by passers-by and climbed a nearby hill to the grounds of the Capitol. She ran across lawns bef
  
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• Grobe: Winning not at expense of character at hurting Baylor

  03-06-2016 20:15 via salon.com
  
  WACO, Texas (AP) — Acting Baylor coach Jim Grobe says winning is very important but won’t come at the expense of character and integrity.
  The former Wake Forest coach is taking over a program reeling from a report that determined school leadership inappropriately handled allegations of sexual violence made by students, some against football players.Grobe said Friday that there will be no tolerance for egregious acts like sexual assault and bullying.
  Four days after being brought in t
  
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• A timeline of recent oil train crashes in the US and Canada

  03-06-2016 19:15 via salon.com
  
  The derailment of an oil train in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge follows a string of fiery accidents in the U.S. and Canada as shipments of crude by rail have increased with more domestic oil production:
  — July 5, 2013: A runaway Montreal, Maine & Atlantic Railway train that had been left unattended derailed, spilling oil and catching fire inside the town of Lac-Megantic in Quebec. Forty-seven people were killed and 30 buildings burned in the town’s center. About 1.6 million
  
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• Gabby Douglas: “I don’t care about no stupid bugs.”

  03-06-2016 19:06 via salon.com
  
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Olympic champion Gabby Douglas says the Zika virus won’t affect her plans to pursue more gold in Rio de Janeiro.
  “It’s the Olympics,” Douglas said Friday. “Mosquitoes?Like, whatever.I’m going. This is my shot. I don’t care about no stupid bugs.”
  The 20-year-old Douglas and other Olympic hopefuls are in Hartford for the Secret U.S. Classic on Saturday. The meet is the final tune-up for the national championships in St. L
  
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• The end of Hollywood: “Alice Through the Looking Glass” is yet another big-budget flop — and that could mean a disastrous year for studios

  03-06-2016 19:01 via salon.com
  
  Johnny Depp and Mia Wasikowska in "Alice Through the Looking Glass" (Credit: Walt Disney Studios)
  Don’t let the “record” numbers fool you: Hollywood is in major trouble.2016 is seemingly off to a stellar start, with box office revenue up 3.4 percent from last year (at the time of writing). That early success has been boosted by expected money-printing machines (“Captain America: Civil War”) and breakout hits that were much bigger than originally anticipated (“
  
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• Oregon train derailment spills oil, sparks fire

  03-06-2016 18:57 via salon.com
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A train towing cars full of oil derailed Friday in Oregon’s scenic Columbia River Gorge, sparking a fire that sent a plume of black smoke high into the sky.
  The accident happened just after noon near the town of Mosier, about 70 miles east of Portland. It involved eight cars filled with oil, and one was burning, said Ken Armstrong, state Forestry Department spokesman.
  Highway 84 was closed for a quarter-mile near the site, and the radius for evacuations was a ha
  
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• Wal-Mart’s CEO urges employees to reimagine company’s future

  03-06-2016 18:56 via salon.com
  FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Wal-Mart’s CEO urged employees on Friday to reimagine its future in a fast-shifting retail landscape.
  The company is at a crossroads, as its long-held dominance in pricing has been chipped away at by Amazon and dollar stores. But it’s fighting back on multiple fronts, growing more aggressive with prices and going after Amazon, both online and on the doorstep, by expanding delivery services.
  “We want to make every day easier for busy families. We&
  
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• Trump’s personal attacks on judge spark GOP concerns

  03-06-2016 18:47 via salon.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The federal judge who’s hearing a Trump University lawsuit is “a hater of Donald Trump” and ought to be removed from the case. So says Donald Trump, in just one of the recent comments by the presumptive Republican presidential nominee that have legal experts worrying about his commitment to an independent judiciary and his views on presidential powers.
  In the midst of a heated presidential campaign, Trump has expressed unusually personal criticism &mdash
  
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• Train towing cars full of oil derails in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge, sparking fire

  03-06-2016 18:43 via salon.com
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Train towing cars full of oil derails in Oregon’s Columbia River Gorge, sparking fire .
  
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• Dick Morris gets the axe: The Hill cans columnist over National Enquirer gig

  03-06-2016 18:42 via salon.com
  
  Dick Morris(Credit: AP/Whitney Curtis)
  D.C.-focused publication, The Hill, is cutting ties with columnist Dick Morris, according to a MediaMatters report.
  Once an influential adviser to and campaign manager for former-President Bill Clinton, Morris is best known for his “erroneous political forecasts,” which drew the attention of the right-leaning National Enquirer, which announced Friday it was making him its chief political correspondent.
  “In light of Dick Morris’ new p
  
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• Susan Sarandon: Hillary Clinton “more dangerous” than Donald Trump

  03-06-2016 18:38 via salon.com
  
  Susan Sarandon (Credit: Reuters/Mark Kauzlarich)
  Outspoken Bernie Sanders supporter Susan Sarandon, who previously made clear that although she may not vote for Hillary Clinton, she is not a Donald Trump supporter, is again making provocative statements about the state of race. This time, insisting that Clinton will soon be criminally indicted and that if she isn’t, then she will surely prove more of a danger on foreign policy than Trump.
  During a couple of recent interviews whil
  
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• Trump’s corrupt racism: The GOP nominee’s attacks on a Hispanic judge cross many lines

  03-06-2016 18:24 via salon.com
  
  Donald Trump (Credit: AP/Jae C. Hong)
  Donald Trump’s ongoing assault on federal judge Gonzalo Curiel is a critical and clarifying event in the 2016 presidential race. Curiel, if you haven’t been following the story, is the judge assigned to handle two class-action lawsuits against Trump University, which plaintiffs claim was scam operation designed to bilk them out of money they didn’t have. Trump has been on the offensive against Curiel, arguing at campaign rallies that h
  
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• Obama cuts prison sentences for 42 drug offenders

  03-06-2016 18:24 via salon.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama shortened the sentences Friday of 42 people serving time for drug-related offenses, continuing a push for clemency that has ramped up in the final year of his administration.
  Roughly half of the 42 receiving commutations Friday were serving life sentences. Most are nonviolent offenders, although a few were also charged with firearms violations. The White House said many of them would have already finished their sentences if they had been sentenced u
  
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• The Latest: Military personnel flown off Colorado peak

  03-06-2016 18:15 via salon.com
  
  ROCKY MOUNTAIN NATIONAL PARK, Colo. (AP) — The Latest on the rescue of military personnel on a training mission in Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park (all times local):
  2:10 p.m.
  Military personnel are being flown off one of Colorado’s high peaks after running into trouble on a training mission.
  Rocky Mountain National Park spokeswoman Kyle Patterson says 10 people from Fort Carson in Colorado Springs planned to climb 14,259-foot Longs Peak on Thursday, but a few of them h
  
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• Woman charged after body found in freezer sold at yard sale

  03-06-2016 18:12 via salon.com
  GOLDSBORO, N.C. (AP) — Police in North Carolina are looking for a woman after authorities say her mother’s body was found in a freezer that she sold in a yard sale.
  Marcella Jean Lee, 56, of Goldsboro is being sought on a charge of failure to report the death, media outlets reported. An autopsy revealed no signs of foul play in the death of 75-year-old Arma Ann Roush, who lived with her daughter. Roush was last seen in August.
  Police said a neighbor bought the freezer from Lee for $3
  
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• Prince autopsy report hints at puzzling painkiller mystery

  03-06-2016 18:02 via salon.com
  The report from the medical examiner who conducted Prince’s autopsy is tantalizing for what it doesn’t say.
  The single-page document lists a fentanyl overdose as the cause of death, but it offers few clues to indicate whether the musician was a chronic pain patient desperately seeking relief, a longtime opioid user whose habit became an addiction or a combination of both.
  Blanks for contributing causes are marked “na,” and it’s unclear whether that acronym stands fo
  
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• Turkey ends security operations near Iraq, Syria border

  03-06-2016 17:59 via salon.com
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey’s state-run news agency says security operations have ended in two flashpoint districts of the southeast.
  Anadolu Agency said Friday counter-terrorism operations have ended in the mainly Kurdish towns of Sirnak and Nusaybin.
  Turkey’s southeast has witnessed some of the worst violence in years since the collapse of a truce between Kurdish rebels and the state last summer.
  The agency said 496 members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK we
  
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• Air Force secretary supports draft registration for women

  03-06-2016 17:55 via salon.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force’s top civilian official said Friday she supports requiring young women to register for a potential military draft as Congress heads toward a divisive debate over whether to erase gender restrictions from Selective Service.
  Air Force Secretary Deborah James said there’s no reason women shouldn’t have to sign up just as men between the ages of 18 and 25 do. Women have never before been required to register in the United States and including t
  
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• Portrait of US economy looks cloudier after poor jobs report

  03-06-2016 17:45 via salon.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — An unexpectedly bleak May jobs report has suddenly muddied the outlook for the U.S. economy.
  Until this week, the Federal Reserve had seemed poised to raise interest rates perhaps as soon as June 15 — a sign of confidence that the economy was strengthening after struggling just to grow early this year.
  Any such certainty vanished at 8:30 a.m. Eastern time Friday.
  That was when the government reported that employers added a scant 38,000 jobs in May — the fewest
  
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• News Guide: Prince died of overdose, but questions linger

  03-06-2016 17:44 via salon.com
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Autopsy results showing that Prince died of a fentanyl overdose cleared up some of the mystery surrounding his sudden death, but the findings also vaulted the investigation into new territory and raised the possibility of criminal charges for anyone who improperly supplied him with the drug. Here’s a recap of where the case stands:
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  Six weeks after Prince’s body was discovered in an elevator at his Paisley Park compound, a Minnesota medical exam
  
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• Attack on Iraqi civilians fleeing IS in Fallujah kills 2

  03-06-2016 17:43 via salon.com
  CAMP TARIQ, Iraq (AP) — A bomb attack on a group of civilians fleeing the Islamic State group-held city of Fallujah on Friday killed two people and wounded three, Iraqi federal police and eye witnesses said.
  The explosion struck a group of dozens of civilians who were attempting to flee the city through an agricultural neighborhood on its northern edge.
  An Iraqi federal police official said the Islamic State group was responsible for carrying out the attack, but that it was unclear if it w
  
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• Big 12 to bring back football championship in 2017

  03-06-2016 17:32 via salon.com
  IRVING, Texas (AP) — The Big 12 is bringing back its football championship game in 2017.
  Commissioner Bob Bowlsby says the conference’s presidents and chancellors voted Friday to approve “in concept the re-implementation of a championship football game.”
  How the 10-team conference will decide which teams play in the championship is still to be determined. The Big 12 currently plays a nine-game, round-robin schedule, with no divisions, but that could change even if the con
  
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• Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski rails against “pathetic, weak, sell-out” Paul Ryan for endorsing Trump: “He’s not going to pay you back!”

  03-06-2016 16:11 via salon.com
  
  Mika Brzezinski (Credit: MSNBC)
  Morning Joe co-host Mika Brzezinski had what can only be called “harsh words” for House Speaker Paul Ryan after he endorsed Republican front-runner Donald Trump earlier this week.
  Ryan claimed that he “didn’t know [Trump] before this process began, had never sat down with him and talked about the country, and principles and policies,” but he was and is sure that “Hillary Clinton isn’t going to be advancing our principles a
  
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• Trump University scandal beginning to look more like corruption? Trump made political donations to attorneys general who quietly dropped investigations

  03-06-2016 16:08 via salon.com
  
  Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump smiles while speaking during a rally Thursday, June 2, 2016, in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong) (Credit: AP)
  During the first Republican primary debate last August, Donald Trump outlined his model of success as a businessman and real estate mogul dealing with political bureaucracies, in an effort to explain away his past political donations to Democrats — including Hillary Clinton — and call out American campaign finance as corru
  
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• Britney Spears Films Music Video For New Single 'Make Me (Oooh)'!

  03-06-2016 15:50
  
  Britney Spears flashes a big smile alongside G-Eazy in this behind the scenes pic from the music video set of their new single “Make Me (Oooh)“!
  “Ooh look who I found… @g_eazy,” the 34-year-old entertainer captioned with one photo from day one of the shoot.
  PHOTOS: Check out the latest pics of Britney Spears
  “It’s very exciting,” Britney told E! News. “I’ve been working on this project for a year and a half now, almost two years so it
  
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• Charles Krauthammer: Hillary Clinton’s anti-Trump speech was “rather devastating,” but she’s the “worst” person the Democrats could’ve chosen to give it

  03-06-2016 15:46 via salon.com
  
  Charles Krauthammer (Credit: Fox News)
  Paleo-conservative Charles Krauthammer endorsed Hillary Clinton’s harsh criticism of the “dangerously incoherent” Donald Trump on Thursday, but cautioned Democrats who think she can beat the GOP front-runner that they have chosen the worst person possible to deliver this message.Clinton’s speech was, Krauthammer told Fox News’ Bret Baier, “rather devastating — the accumulation of months of opposition research,&rdquo
  
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• Pakistan increases defense spending by 11 percent

  03-06-2016 15:15 via salon.com
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s finance minister has announced an 11 per cent increase in the country’s defense budget next year.
  In his televised speech before parliament Friday, Ishaq Dar outlined Pakistan’s budget for 2016-17. He praised the army for its success in eliminating militant hideouts in Pakistan’s tribal regions, where the Taliban until recently maintained a strong presence, but said the country continued to face a militant threat.
  Pakistan’s economy
  
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