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• Latest on police shooting: Unidentified passenger in car

  08-04-2015 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Iran sends navy vessels to waters off Yemen, raising stakes

  08-04-2015 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Iran dispatched a destroyer and another naval ship to waters off Yemen on Wednesday, raising the stakes amid a Saudi-led air campaign targeting Iranian-backed Shiite rebels fighting forces loyal to the country's embattled president.
  
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• No more playing nice: California names, shames water wasters

  08-04-2015 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California is done with gentle nudges and polite reminders to deal with its devastating drought.
  
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• Boston bomber: What next?

  08-04-2015 23:51 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Guilty across the board. But will he face death?
  
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• Rose set to make return from latest knee injury

  08-04-2015 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Chicago Bulls point guard Derrick Rose is returning from his latest knee injury.
  
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• Paul mixes up New Hampshire history in invoking state motto

  08-04-2015 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Sen. Rand Paul opened his first New Hampshire speech as a declared Republican presidential candidate with a misstep about the state's history.
  
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• Obama lobbies Congress on Iran; Dems seek changes to bill

  08-04-2015 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic senators are intent on changing a bill that would give Congress a say in an emerging nuclear deal with Iran — tweaks that could make it more palatable to President Barack Obama, who called two key senators on Wednesday to lobby against undermining diplomatic efforts to end a standoff with Tehran.
  
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• Alcoa earnings rise despite large restructuring costs

  08-04-2015 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Alcoa Wednesday reported stronger first-quarter earnings on growing demand from its aerospace and automotive operations, even as restructuring costs again weighed on results. The metals giant, the first large industrial company to report quarterly results, notched net income of $195 million for the quarter ending March 31, compared with a loss of $178 million in the year-ago period. Alcoa said more low-performing properties could be shuttered in the quarters ahead. Alcoa said earnings were boost
  
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• Outrage spreads with bystander video of police shooting

  08-04-2015 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A white South Carolina police officer who claimed he killed an unarmed black man in self-defense has been fired after being charged with murder, the city's mayor announced Wednesday after a video exposed him firing eight shots from a safe distance at the fleeing 50-year-old man.
  
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• Tax break on election frontline

  08-04-2015 23:41 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Labour leader Ed Miliband has announced plans to scrap Britain's non-domicile status if he wins the May 7 election. Max Foster explains what the rule is, who benefits from it and how it compares to other countries.
  
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• Puppy rescued after falling 50 feet into old well casing

  08-04-2015 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A puppy in California apparently is doing OK after he fell about 50 feet down an old well casing and was rescued by firefighters.
  
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• Brazil to decide on whether to approve world's first GM eucalyptus trees

  08-04-2015 23:35
  
  The world’s first commercially planted genetically-modified trees may be approved in Brazil, when officials rule on the safety of a newly engineered variety of eucalyptus.
  
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• Birth control harms fish

  08-04-2015 23:34 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey have discovered that a chemical in birth control pills causes reproductive problems in fish. CNN's Amara Walker reports.
  
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• Wall Street ends with modest gains after Fed minutes

  08-04-2015 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ryan Vlastelica NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks ended a volatile session with modest gains on Wednesday after minutes from a U.S. Federal Reserve meeting indicated that the central bank remained on track for a interest rate hike this year. After the market closed, Alcoa Inc reported first-quarter revenue that was below expectations.
  
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• NCAA Tourney head says refs should have been more patient

  08-04-2015 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — NCAA vice president of men's basketball Dan Gavitt says the referees Monday night in the national championship game had access to television replays on a crucial play in the last 2 minutes but had already decided to give the ball to Duke when CBS showed a magnified view of the play.
  
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• Iran deal shadows Rand Paul's presidential announcement

  08-04-2015 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Andy Sullivan MILFORD, N.H. (Reuters) - When Kentucky Senator Rand Paul travels across the country this week as a newly minted presidential candidate, he will be greeted by $1 million worth of attack ads accusing him of being "wrong and dangerous" on Iran. It is an early sign that the unorthodox Republican is likely to encounter fierce resistance within his party when he argues that its limited-government ideals should apply to foreign policy as well as within the United States. In
  
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• Coutinho fires Liverpool into FA Cup semis

  08-04-2015 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Philippe Coutinho produced a moment of magic to earn Liverpool a much-needed 1-0 victory at second-tier Blackburn Rovers in their FA Cup quarter-final replay on Wednesday. The Brazilian fired in an accurate low drive in the 70th minute at Ewood Park to earn Brendan Rodgers's side an FA Cup semi-final date with Aston Villa at Wembley on April 19. "Over the two games it was a difficult tie," said Liverpool manager Rodgers.
  
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• Bomber faces 'Everest' battle

  08-04-2015 23:31 via edition.cnn.com
  
  CNN Legal Analyst Paul Callan says Dzhokhar Tsarnaev's attorney Judy Clarke faces an uphill battle as she prepares to fight for the convicted Boston bomber's life.
  
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• Tikrit families too scared to return

  08-04-2015 23:30 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Many Sunni families who fled their homes in Tikrit wonder if they'll ever return and what they'll find if they ever do. CNN's Arwa Damon reports.
  
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• Latest on Boston bombing trial: Feds 'gratified' by verdict

  08-04-2015 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Study: Short people's genes may confer higher heart risks

  08-04-2015 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Short people have more risk for heart disease, and now researchers may know why: Genes that govern height also seem to affect cholesterol, especially in men.
  
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• Victim was Coast Guard veteran and a dad

  08-04-2015 23:25 via edition.cnn.com
  
  The world learned his name after he was killed by a South Carolina police officer.
  
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• Timeline of the shooting

  08-04-2015 23:20 via edition.cnn.com
  
  The stark video of a South Carolina officer gunning down an apparently unarmed black man as he ran away with his back to police has prompted an equally fast-moving reaction by officials and the public alike.
  
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• Opinion End stonewalling on shootings by cops

  08-04-2015 23:20 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Without a video as proof, how many shootings-- like the South Carolins killing of Walter Scott--do we never hear about?
  
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• Graphic content: Officer fires eight shots at unarmed man

  08-04-2015 23:19 via edition.cnn.com
  
  A video shows Officer Michael Slager, who is white, shooting 50-year-old Walter Scott eight times as Scott has his back to him and is running away.
  
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• Tsarnaev convicted in Boston bombing, may face death sentence

  08-04-2015 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Scott Malone, Elizabeth Barber and Richard Valdmanis BOSTON (Reuters) - Dzokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty on Wednesday of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing that killed three people and injured 264 others, and the jury will now decide whether to sentence him to death. Tsarnaev, 21, is the surviving member of pair of ethnic Chechen brothers who planted the homemade pressure-cooker bombs that tore though the crowd at the famed race's finish line in one of the most shocking attacks on U.S. so
  
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• Latest on South Carolina police shooting: Body cameras

  08-04-2015 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Photos: Morgan Fairchild Grabs a Cup of Coffee

  08-04-2015 23:14
  
  Some celebrities never seem to age.
  
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• Tigers putting closer Nathan on DL with elbow strain

  08-04-2015 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Joe Nathan is headed to the disabled list with a strained right elbow.
  
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• Kiruna: The Swedish town which must move or disappear into the ground

  08-04-2015 23:12
  
  A mining town in Sweden has been forced to make a tough and unusual choice: move two miles or be destroyed.
  
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• South Carolina officer dismissed after shooting man in back

  08-04-2015 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Harriet McLeod NORTH CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - A white South Carolina police officer has been fired from his job after being charged with murder for shooting an apparently unarmed black man in the back as he fled, but questions remained Wednesday about some details of the killing that was filmed by a witness. The shooting on Saturday in North Charleston, a town of about 100,000 people, nearly half of whom are black, was the latest death from police use of lethal force in the United States
  
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• Video of fatal SC police shooting may have major impact

  08-04-2015 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Graphic videos have surfaced previously that kindled outrage over police use of force — the Rodney King beating in Los Angeles, last year's chokehold death in New York City. The new video from South Carolina is perhaps the most striking yet — its depiction of a fleeing, unarmed black man being shot in the back by a white policeman so vivid that a murder charge came swiftly.
  
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• French Resistance hero Cremieux-Brilhac dies aged 98

  08-04-2015 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  French World War II hero Jean-Louis Cremieux-Brilhac, one of the first to condemn the Nazi gas chambers, died on Wednesday aged 98, President Francois Hollande announced. A towering figure in the French Resistance, Cremieux-Brilhac also drew up the D-Day orders telling his countrymen how to react to the liberation of their country. "A hero of the French campaign, he escaped his prisoners' camp to rally in London in 1941" alongside Charles de Gaulle's Free French army, Holland
  
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• Will Masters boast world's most beautiful parking lot, too?

  08-04-2015 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  AUGUSTA, Ga. (AP) — Owning what is arguably the most beautiful golf course in the world apparently isn't enough for members of Augusta National. Soon they may lay claim to the world's most beautiful parking lot, too.
  
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• Yemen crisis: Shortage of water and medical supplies threatens civilians caught up in devastating civil war

  08-04-2015 22:51
  Millions of Yemeni families attempting to survive the bloody civil war that has drawn in larger Middle Eastern powers face danger from another worsening threat: disruption to the water supply in one of the world’s driest countries.
  
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• Jury ends 2nd day of deliberations in Aaron Hernandez trial

  08-04-2015 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FALL RIVER, Mass. (AP) — A jury ended deliberations for a second day Wednesday in the murder trial of former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez, who is charged in the shooting death of another man.
  
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• He's back: Mark Pincus returns to Zynga as CEO

  08-04-2015 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Mark Pincus is back as CEO of Zynga, the struggling online game company he founded.
  
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• SC video of fatal police shooting may have major impact

  08-04-2015 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Graphic videos have surfaced previously that kindled outrage over police use of force — the Rodney King beating in Los Angeles, last year's chokehold death in New York City. The new video from South Carolina is perhaps the most striking yet, its depiction of an unarmed black man being shot in the back by a white policeman so vivid that a murder charge came swiftly.
  
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• 4 terror plot suspects plead not guilty in NYC

  08-04-2015 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Four men accused of plotting to send U.S. residents overseas to fight for the Islamic State group appeared in court together for the first time Wednesday to face federal terrorism charges.
  
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• Michael Slager GoFundMe page set up to raise money for police officer who shot dead Walter Scott is taken down

  08-04-2015 22:46
  
  The popular crowd-funding service GoFundMe has removed a page seeking to raise money for the white South Carolina police officer charged with murdering after shooting an unarmed black man - only for campaigners to move it to another site.
  
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• GoFundMe removes campaign supporting South Carolina police officer charged with murdering unarmed black man

  08-04-2015 22:46
  
  The popular crowd-funding service GoFundMe removed a page Wednesday seeking to raise money for a white South Carolina police officer charged with fatally shooting an unarmed black man.
  
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• GoFundMe Removes Campaign Supporting South Carolina Officer Charged with Murdering Unarmed Black Man

  08-04-2015 22:46
  
  The popular crowd-funding service GoFundMe removed a page Wednesday seeking to raise money for a white South Carolina police officer charged with fatally shooting an unarmed black man.
  
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• US authorities announce arrest of 976 gang members

  08-04-2015 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Miami (AFP) - Nearly 1,000 gang members were arrested in the US after a major operation, federal authorities said Wednesday.
  
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• Obama congratulates winning NCAA basketball teams

  08-04-2015 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has congratulated the Duke men's and University of Connecticut women's teams on winning the NCAA basketball championships.
  
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• Obama telephones senators to discuss Iran nuke agreement

  08-04-2015 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Wednesday called the chairman and the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to further discuss a framework agreement aimed at keeping Iran from being able to develop a nuclear weapon.
  
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• Tsarnaev Guilty on All Counts; Could Get Death Penalty

  08-04-2015 22:36 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was convicted in the Boston Marathon bombings.. A second trial phase will determine whether he gets the death penalty.
  
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• Suffering rises as militants take over refugee camp in Syria

  08-04-2015 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — When hundreds of Islamic State militants muscled into the Yarmouk refugee camp last week and planted their black flags amid the charred, blown-out buildings, it was the latest trial for the remaining Palestinians who for two years have endured a suffocating government siege, starvation and disease.
  
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• Observers, new council members optimistic in Ferguson

  08-04-2015 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — A surge of voters helped alter the racial makeup of the Ferguson City Council, and observers said Wednesday that the change creates a new energy in a community trying to find its way after months of turmoil following the fatal shooting of Michael Brown.
  
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• Tsarnaev guilty on 30 counts over 2013 Boston bombings

  08-04-2015 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev faces the death penalty after a jury unanimously convicted him Wednesday of carrying out the worst attack in the United States since the 9/11 hijackings. He now faces life in prison without parole or even the death penalty when he is sentenced by the same jury at the second phase of the trial, which could start early next week, Judge George O'Toole told the court. Survivors, including the parents of eight-year-old Martin Richard who was killed in the attacks,
  
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• Terrorists offer 20kg of gold reward

  08-04-2015 22:25 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Al Qaeda says it is offering 20 kilograms of gold to anyone who kills or captures two prominent Shia Muslim opponents -- including the leader of the rebels who overtook Yemen's capital.
  
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