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• Mystery Havana embassy attacks hurt 16 US staff

  24-08-2017 23:41 via yahoo.com
  No fewer than 16 Americans were hurt in what has previously been dubbed an acoustic attack on the US mission in Cuba, the State Department said Thursday.The "unprecedented" attacks came to light last month when Washington warned Cuba it would be held responsible for the safety of US personnel in Havana.US officials have said those hurt appeared to have been targeted by some form of previously unknown acoustic assault, but have not blamed Cuba directly.
  
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• Whitehouse.gov petition to label antifa as a 'terror group' generates more than 290,000 signatures

  24-08-2017 23:26 via yahoo.com
  The Trump administration has yet to respond to any petitions that have crossed the 100,000-signature threshold meant to trigger an official response.
  
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• Couple Says Jesus Appeared in Their Baby's Sonogram: 'We Were So Relieved'

  24-08-2017 23:24 via yahoo.com
  Alicia Zeek and Zac Smith claim Jesus popped up in their child's sonogram.
  
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• Gold is doing better than U.S. stocks this year

  24-08-2017 23:15 via rocketnews.com
  Everyone knows the stock market is having a banner year. But so is gold, which is surprising because it’s supposed to be a safe haven during times of fear.
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• BRIEF-RPM International says CEO Frank Sullivan’s 2017 total compensation $4.7 mln

  24-08-2017 23:15 via rocketnews.com
  * Says CEO Frank C. Sullivan’s FY 2017 total compensationwas $4.7 million versus $12.5 million in FY 2016 – SEC filing‍​
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• BRIEF-RAIT Financial Trust says co terminated​ employment of Paul W. Kopsky, Jr. as CFO

  24-08-2017 23:15 via rocketnews.com
  * RAIT Financial Trust says ‍on August 20, co terminated​employment of Paul W. Kopsky, Jr., as chief financial officerand treasurer of RAIT – SEC filing
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• BRIEF-Qualcomm announces president, Derek Aberle, to leave company as of Dec 31 2017

  24-08-2017 23:15 via rocketnews.com
  * Qualcomm announces president, Derek Aberle, to leavecompany as of December 31st 2017
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• BRIEF-‍Dell Technologies says co and its affiliates entered into purchase commitment supplement to stock purchase agreement with VMWare

  24-08-2017 23:15 via rocketnews.com
  * ‍Dell Technologies Inc​ – on Aug 23, co and its affiliatesentered into purchase commitment supplement to stock purchaseagreement with VMWare – SEC filing
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• BRIEF-Avis Budget Holdings, Avis Budget Car Rental enter amendment

  24-08-2017 23:15 via rocketnews.com
  * Avis Budget – Avis Budget Holdings, Llc and Avis BudgetCar Rental, Llc entered amendment to 4th amended and restatedcredit agreement, dated Oct 7, 2016​
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• UPDATE 1-AirAsia CEO says leasing unit sale is ‘imminent’

  24-08-2017 23:14 via rocketnews.com
  MONTREAL, Aug 24 (Reuters) – AirAsia Bhd ChiefExecutive Tony Fernandes said on Thursday that theMalaysia-based carrier’s expected sale of its leasing unit to aSouth Korean group was “imminent,” with no roadblocks to thetransaction.
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• BRIEF-Tiffany files for mixed shelf

  24-08-2017 23:14 via rocketnews.com
  * Tiffany & Co files for mixed shelf; size undisclosed – SECfiling‍​Source text: (http://bit.ly/2iumv2u)Further company coverage:
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• BRIEF-Savaria Corp agrees to acquire the assets of Visilift, LLC

  24-08-2017 23:14 via rocketnews.com
  * Savaria Corp – expects acquired business to generateUS$3.0 million in sales in 2018 and US$10 million in sales in2019​
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• BRIEF-Pennymac Financial Services enters master repurchase agreement

  24-08-2017 23:14 via rocketnews.com
  * Pennymac Financial Services -on Aug 21, cothroughindirect subsidiary, Pennymac Loan Services, Llc, entered masterrepurchase agreement – SEC filing​
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• Calif. Dad Who Murdered Son After Disneyland Trip Is Confronted at Sentencing by Boy’s Mom

  24-08-2017 23:07 via yahoo.com
  A California man who recently pleaded guilty to murdering his 5-year-old son three months ago following a trip to Disneyland has been sentenced to 25 years to life, PEOPLE confirms.
  
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• Dad Warns Parents After He Says Daughter, 7, Is Asked to Send Photos 'Without T-Shirt' on Music Video App

  24-08-2017 23:03 via yahoo.com
  "We thought we did all we could to protect her from those types of things and unfortunately, they got through to us," said her dad, Brad Summer.
  
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• Florida Executes White Man For Killing Black Victim For First Time Ever

  24-08-2017 22:52 via yahoo.com
  The state of Florida is about to do something it hasn’t done since reinstating the death penalty in 1976: Execute a white man for killing a black man.
  
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• Collapse at salmon farm renews debate about fish farming

  24-08-2017 22:36 via yahoo.com
  SEATTLE (AP) — A marine net pen holding 305,000 farmed Atlantic salmon collapsed recently, releasing thousands of fish into Puget Sound and renewing concerns that a new proposed salmon farm could harm wild salmon stock and cause other environmental damage.
  
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• White House downplays Trump’s campaign promise on border wall funding

  24-08-2017 22:35 via yahoo.com
  The White House sought to downplay President Trump's campaign promise that Mexico would pay for it.
  
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• Armed police shoot suspected gunman ending restaurant siege in Charleston, South Carolina

  24-08-2017 22:31 via yahoo.com
   A fired dishwasher shot and killed a chef and held a "small number" of people hostage for about three hours before he was shot by police at a crowded restaurant in a tourist-heavy area of downtown Charleston, South Carolina, on Thursday, authorities and one of the restaurant's owners said.  The hostages were freed with no injuries, Mayor John Tecklenburg said. The shooting took place at Virginia's restaurant on the usually crowded King Street, a line of shops and nice dining that cate
  
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• Cop Charged in Hot Car Death of K-9 Officer Left in Vehicle in 88-Degree Heat

  24-08-2017 22:26 via yahoo.com
  Sebastian Police Officer Eric Antosia is accused of leaving his partner, German shepherd Diesel, inside their patrol vehicle outside a court house.
  
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• Hezbollah seizes much of IS enclave on Syrian-Lebanese border: Nasrallah

  24-08-2017 22:21 via yahoo.com
  Hezbollah has captured much of an Islamic State pocket on Syria's side of the border with Lebanon in a joint offensive with the Syrian army, its leader said on Thursday.In parallel with the fighting, talks on a truce have begun with Islamic State but a military victory is more likely, Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said in a televised speech.Syrian troops and Iran-backed Hezbollah have been fighting to oust Islamic State from Syria's western Qalamoun region.
  
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• Remains Found in Aruba Found to Be Woman of Eastern European Descent, Just Like Natalee Holloway

  24-08-2017 22:18 via yahoo.com
  Aruban authorities claim the remains are not human at all.
  
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• Petition calls for Missy Elliott statue to replace Confederate monument in Virginia

  24-08-2017 22:11 via yahoo.com
  A change.org petition is seeking to have a statue of rapper Missy Elliott replace a Confederate monument in Virgina.
  
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• Gov. Cuomo formally introduces bridge named for late father

  24-08-2017 22:03 via yahoo.com
  TARRYTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday formally introduced a new $4 billion bridge named for his late father that will carry 50 million cars a year across the Hudson River in the New York City suburbs.
  
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• Ethics Group Wants To Know If Steve Mnuchin And Louise Linton Used Government Plane To See The Eclipse

  24-08-2017 22:02 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON ― An ethics watchdog group is investigating whether Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and his wife, actress Louise Linton, planned a government trip to view the solar eclipse on Monday, the same trip on which Linton created controversy after flouting the couple’s extravagant lifestyle on social media.
  
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• Powerball jackpot winner claims $758m and immediately quits job

  24-08-2017 21:55 via yahoo.com
  The woman who won the second-largest lottery prize in US history says she isn’t going back to work, and kind of wants to spend some alone.Mavis Wanczyk was the only winner this week, and said that she was initially shocked to realise she’d won.Ms Wanczyk has worked for Mercy Medical Centre in Massachusetts for 32 years, and was hoping to retire early.
  
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• White House blasts Republican senator's 'outrageous' criticism of Trump

  24-08-2017 21:53 via yahoo.com
  Sen. Bob Corker told reporters last week that Trump “has not yet been able to demonstrate the stability, nor some of the competence, he needs to … be successful.”
  
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• Trump confuses 't-o' and 't-o-o' during Thursday tweet storm

  24-08-2017 21:53 via yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Should President Donald Trump thumb through a dictionary before putting his thumbs to work on tweets?
  
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• 4 resign from Illinois governor's office after cartoon flap

  24-08-2017 21:47 via yahoo.com
  CHICAGO (AP) — Just weeks after being hired, four key members of Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner's communications team have resigned in the wake of the Republican's confusing response to a political cartoon depicting a black child begging a white man for money.
  
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• Qatar defies Saudi Arabia by restoring diplomatic ties with Iran

  24-08-2017 21:32 via yahoo.com
  Qatar has defied Saudi Arabia by strengthening its diplomatic ties with Iran - rather than cutting them back as Saudi Arabia and its allies have demanded. Saudi Arabia and three other Arab states have been blockading Qatar since early June and have demanded that Qatar curb its ties with Iran, as well as shut down its al-Jazeera television network and expel extremists from its territory.  Rather than give in to the blockading countries’ demands, Qatar announced on Thursday that it
  
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• Keep Confederate statues, but tell the other side of the story? Richmond tries — with mixed results.

  24-08-2017 21:29 via yahoo.com
  Cities and towns across the South seek solutions to the thorny questions of history and public memory raised by the removal of Confederate memorials.
  
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• America Is Building a New, Stealthy Nuclear Cruise Missile

  24-08-2017 21:25 via yahoo.com
  Long Range Stand Off Weapon is meant to fight a nuclear war. Critics charge it could start one.
  
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• Trump W.H. Pressed on 'Pardon Philosophy' Amid Russia Probe

  24-08-2017 21:20 via yahoo.com
  Donald Trump hints that he's preparing to pardon convicted ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio — after the Washington Post reported Trump was asking about pardon powers for himself and his family. Watergate prosecutor Jill Wine-Banks joins Lawrence O'Donnell.
  
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• UPDATE 1-Brazil lower house approves main text of BNDES benchmark bill

  24-08-2017 21:15 via rocketnews.com
  BRASILIA, Aug 24 (Reuters) – Brazil’s lower house ofCongress on Thursday approved the main text of a bill creating amarket-based benchmark interest rate for state lender BNDES, ina victory for President Michel Temer.
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• UPDATE 1-Amazon to complete acquisition of Whole Foods on Monday, cut some prices

  24-08-2017 21:15 via rocketnews.com
  Aug 24 (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc said on Thursdayit plans to complete its $13.7 billion acquisition of WholeFoods Market Inc on Monday after winning antitrustapproval from U.S. regulators on Wednesday.
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• BRIEF-QV Investors reports a 5.33 pct passive stake in Varex Imaging‍​

  24-08-2017 21:15 via rocketnews.com
  * QV Investors Inc reports a 5.33 pct passive stake in VarexImaging Corp as of August 15 – SEC filing ‍​Source text: (https://goo.gl/NtGLnU)Further company coverage:
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• Brazil colleges seek softer cuts to state loan subsidies plan

  24-08-2017 21:15 via rocketnews.com
  SAO PAULO, Aug 24 (Reuters) – Brazilian for-profit educationcompanies are asking lawmakers to soften planned cuts andrestrictions in a government program for student loan subsidiesthat has helped widen the federal budget deficit in recentyears.
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• SoftBank invests additional $3 bln in shared-office startup WeWork

  24-08-2017 21:14 via rocketnews.com
  Aug 24 (Reuters) – WeWork Cos said on Thursday it receivedan additional $3 billion investment from Japan’s SoftBank Groupand its Vision Fund, helping the shared-office startupramp up its expansion globally.
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• In wake of Foxconn deal, Wisconsin and Illinois vie for jobs

  24-08-2017 21:14 via rocketnews.com
  CHICAGO, Aug 24 (Reuters) – The pledge by Taiwan’s Foxconnto build a $10 billion factory in southern Wisconsin has ignitedcross-border competition with Illinois over which state’sresidents will get the jobs created by the project.
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• Distressed U.S. cities seek to sell water systems -Aqua America CEO

  24-08-2017 21:14 via rocketnews.com
  NEW YORK, Aug 24 (Reuters) – Official interest inprivatizing water utilities in cash-strapped U.S. cities isextremely high, Aqua America Inc’s CEO ChristopherFranklin told Reuters in an interview on Thursday.
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• BRIEF-Copperstone Resources has secured a loan of 5 mln kronor

  24-08-2017 21:14 via rocketnews.com
  * Copperstone resources ab says has secured a loan of 5million kronor from a qualified investorSource text for Eikon:Further company coverage:
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• BRIEF-ALTRIA INCREASES QUARTERLY DIVIDEND BY 8.2 PCT TO $0.66 PER COMMON SHARE

  24-08-2017 21:14 via rocketnews.com
  * ALTRIA INCREASES QUARTERLY DIVIDEND BY 8.2% TO $0.66 PERCOMMON SHARESource text for Eikon:Further company coverage:
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• Trump focus on Afghanistan minerals hurts US

  24-08-2017 20:46 via yahoo.com
  Laurel Miller, former State Department special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, talks with Rachel Maddow about why Donald Trump's interest in looting Afghanistan's mineral wealth is harmful to the U.S. mission there.
  
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• Father Of Florida Boy Lost At Sea Battling Lawsuit

  24-08-2017 20:45 via yahoo.com
  Perry Cohen's parents filed a wrongful death lawsuit against the parents of Austin Stephanos after the boys were lost at sea.
  
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• Ambassador to Sudan becomes eighth Russian diplomat to die suddenly in 10 months 

  24-08-2017 20:44 via yahoo.com
  Russia's ambassador to Sudan has reportedly died of a heart attack, becoming the eighth Russian diplomat to pass away unexpectedly in the past 10 months. Mirgayas Shirinsky, 62, was found dead on Wednesday at his Khartoum residence.  Maria Zakharova, Russian foreign ministry spokeswoman, told journalists on Thursday that the ambassador had been “found with signs of an acute heart attack”. “Embassy employees called a doctor, but unfortunately he was unab
  
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• House Speaker Ryan says rates must be permanent in tax reform

  24-08-2017 20:38 via yahoo.com
  U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday rejected speculation that future tax legislation could include temporary tax cuts for businesses, saying macro-economic elements of tax reform including rates must be permanent.- That stuff’s got to be permanent,” Ryan said in an interview with CNBC television."We recognize, acknowledge and believe you need to maintain the mortgage interest deduction.
  
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• Charlottesville mayor says he was shut out of security talks

  24-08-2017 20:31 via yahoo.com
  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — Charlottesville officials met privately Thursday to discuss "personnel matters" in the wake of a deadly white nationalist rally, the city's mayor said in a statement in which he also asserted he'd been largely shut out of security preparations for the event.
  
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• Washington Just Punished Russia — and Helped Putin

  24-08-2017 20:13 via yahoo.com
  The Trump administration just made it harder for Russians to enter the United States ... and gave the Kremlin an easy win.
  
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• Hostage Situation in Charleston Restaurant Ends as Gunman Is Shot by Police

  24-08-2017 20:07 via yahoo.com
  Charleston's mayor says the restaurant employee shot by the gunman has died
  
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• Massachusetts woman named as $759 million Powerball winner

  24-08-2017 20:04 via yahoo.com
  Massachusetts lottery officials on Thursday identified a 53-year-old health care worker who lives in Chicopee as the winner of more than $750 million in a Powerball drawing, the largest prize for a single ticket-holder in the contest's history.The woman, Mavis Wanczyk, appeared at an afternoon news conference to claim her prize.
  
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