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• This string may help you live to be 100

  20-04-2015 23:59 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Dr. Sanjay Gupta tells us how flossing regularly not only helps prevent heart disease but can also help you live to 100.
  
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• The secrets to staying creative

  20-04-2015 23:59 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Have you ever found the creative inspiration you were seeking at the most unexpected time, or thought you were having that long-awaited problem-solving epiphany just as you nodded off to sleep?
  
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• Clinton defends family foundation from charges of favoritism

  20-04-2015 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KEENE, N.H. (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton dismissed swirling questions about her family foundation Monday as little more than political attacks from Republicans eager to gain an early advantage in the 2016 presidential contest.
  
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• Why missing a night of sleep can damage your IQ

  20-04-2015 23:55 via edition.cnn.com
  
  From Napoleon Bonaparte and Margaret Thatcher to Twitter founder and Square, Inc. CEO Jack Dorsey and Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer, many successful leaders have claimed they only need 4-5 hours of precious sleep a night. They seem wired differently and shame the rest of us for craving eight hours of shut eye every night.
  
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• Quickest weight loss habits for busy day

  20-04-2015 23:52 via edition.cnn.com
  
  If packing your lunch, cooking dinner every night, and getting to the gym regularly sound like things you'll be able to do half past never, you may think that real weight loss just isn't in the cards for you right now. It's true: healthy weight loss can be a time commitment, especially if you're overweight thanks to a job that keeps you sedentary for much of the day or a schedule that lends itself to fast food and unhealthy snacking.
  
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• Heartbreaking Testimony From Son of Caramel Apple Listeria Victim

  20-04-2015 23:52
  
  81-year-old Shirley Frey died after eating her favorite treat: a caramel apple.
  
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• Little 9: Cavaliers bench players boosting team's "Big 3"

  20-04-2015 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) — For all their talent and celebrity, the Cavaliers' "Big 3" can't win an NBA title by themselves.
  
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• Bird flu confirmed at Iowa farm with 5.3 million chickens

  20-04-2015 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture says the bird flu virus has been found at a farm holding nearly 10 percent of Iowa's egg-laying chickens.
  
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• Hormel says bird flu outbreak will hurt turkey sales

  20-04-2015 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Hormel says it will sell less turkey this year because of a spreading bird flu outbreak.
  
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• New York Times wins Pulitzers for West Africa Ebola coverage

  20-04-2015 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Reuters) - The New York Times won two prestigious Pulitzer prizes on Monday for coverage of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, described by the Pulitzer board as courageous and vivid journalism that engaged the public and held authorities accountable. The Pulitzer for Public Service, announced at Columbia University, went to Charleston, South Carolina's Post and Courier for its series on domestic violence. "Till Death Do Us Part" by the Post and Courie
  
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• Box Office Top 20: 'Furious 7' nears $300 million

  20-04-2015 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Newcomers "Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2" and "Unfriended" were still no match for "Furious 7" in its third week in release. Universal's high-octane movie took in $29.2 million, bringing its domestic total to a stunning $294.5 million. With $1.15 billion in worldwide receipts, "Furious 7" has become the seventh highest-grossing film of all time, behind "Iron Man 3."
  
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• IBM earnings dip as sales fall again

  20-04-2015 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - Technology heavyweight IBM reported Monday lower profits in the first quarter following another drop in revenues, this time partly due to the strong dollar.
  
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• U.S. says might talk to Iran about regional stability, cites Syria

  20-04-2015 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said on Monday it might talk with Iran about promoting regional stability, noting it had been open to including Iran in past efforts to achieve a Syrian peace deal if Tehran had altered its policy. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf made the comments when asked about a call by Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif in a New York Times opinion piece for regional dialogue to address the crises in countries such as Iraq
  
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• U.S. monitors ships from Iran

  20-04-2015 23:35 via edition.cnn.com
  
  U.S. officials tell CNN that in addition to reassuring allies in the region, U.S. warships are being deployed to Yemen to monitor ships in the area traveling from Iran and suspected of trafficking arms to Houthi rebels.
  
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• Indonesia grapples with weak rupiah

  20-04-2015 23:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Indonesia wants tourists to boost its weak currency
  
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• IBM sales fall for 12th quarter, currency weighs

  20-04-2015 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp reported a 12 percent fall in first-quarter revenue as the technology company continues to shed unprofitable businesses to focus on cloud-computing initiatives. It was the 12th straight quarter that the Armonk, New York-based company reported a drop in quarterly revenue, including the effects of currency. IBM's revenue has been shrinking for three years now as the company sheds low-profit businesses such as cash registers, low-end servers and
  
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• Six Somali-Americans arrested trying to join IS group

  20-04-2015 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Six Somali-American men who planned to travel to Syria to fight as jihadists have been arrested and were to appear in court Monday on charges of conspiring to support a terrorist organization. The case was the latest in a series in recent months concerning Americans who have been accused of or stopped from traveling to the Middle East to join extremist groups. Federal prosecutor Andrew Luger told a press conference that the latest six suspects were from the northern state of Minnesota. He said t
  
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• Lawyers question training of volunteer deputy to killed man

  20-04-2015 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Lawyers say the Tulsa County sheriff's office violated internal policies related to the training of a volunteer deputy who fatally shot a man during a sting operation.
  
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• Running out of time: Limited-time deals can be limiting

  20-04-2015 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Target shoppers found out this weekend that when stores make deals to carry merchandise from high-end designers for a limited time, it can be, well, really limiting.
  
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• U.S. monitor ships from Iran

  20-04-2015 23:12 via edition.cnn.com
  
  U.S. officials tell CNN that in addition to reassuring allies in the region, U.S. warships are being deployed to Yemen to monitor ships in the area traveling from Iran and suspected of trafficking arms to Houthi rebels.
  
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• VIDEO: Thailand seizes four tonnes of ivory

  20-04-2015 23:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Customs officials in Thailand say they have made the biggest seizure of smuggled ivory in the country's history, as Jonathan Head reports.
  
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• Bucs GM: Team has front-runner for NFL draft, mum on pick

  20-04-2015 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The Tampa Bay Buccaneers reiterated that while "there is a leader in the clubhouse" about who they'll take with the first overall pick in the NFL draft, they are in no hurry to say who that may be.
  
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• Task force: Mammograms in 40s a choice, but don't skip at 50

  20-04-2015 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Women should get a mammogram every two years starting at age 50 — and while routine screening brings little benefit in the 40s, beginning it that early should be a personal choice, a government task force said Monday.
  
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• Okla. Sheriff: 'We Are Sorry Eric Was Taken From You'

  20-04-2015 23:01 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Robert Bates, a reserve sheriff's deputy in Tulsa, Oklahoma, shot and killed Eric Harris on April 2.
  
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• Utah woman gets up to life in prison in deaths of 6 newborns

  20-04-2015 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PROVO, Utah (AP) — A Utah woman who pleaded guilty to killing six of her newborns and hiding their bodies in her garage has been sentenced to up to life in prison.
  
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• US writer who fled Austria to escape Holocaust dead at 90

  20-04-2015 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  VIENNA (AP) — U.S. writer Frederic Morton, who became internationally recognized in part through books on the Austrian homeland that he was forced to flee because of the Holocaust, has died, his Austrian publishers said Monday. He was 90.
  
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• Cops Find Unattended Child's Parents 'Thanks to Facebook'

  20-04-2015 22:56
  
  A small child was found alone at an Aurora, Colorado, restaurant.
  
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• US Carrier Moved Closer to Yemeni Waters

  20-04-2015 22:55
  
  See why the ship is being moved closer to the country.
  
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• Protesters Demand 'Justice' in Freddie Gray's Death

  20-04-2015 22:55 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Dozens of protesters took to the streets on Monday to decry the death of a 25-year-old Baltimore man who died Sunday.
  
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• Utah woman gets up to life in prison in deaths of 6 newborns whose bodies were found in garage

  20-04-2015 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah woman gets up to life in prison in deaths of 6 newborns whose bodies were found in garage.
  
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• Kraft Mac & Cheese Shedding the Dyes

  20-04-2015 22:53
  
  With Americans tiring of process, Kraft dumping dyes and preservatives in Mac & Cheese
  
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• Cop Charged in Beating of Man During Traffic Stop

  20-04-2015 22:53 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  William Melendez, who punched Dent 16 times while keeping him in a choke hold during an arrest, will be charged with three felony counts.
  
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• Trucking group urges government to move on speed limiters

  20-04-2015 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — The nation's largest trucking industry group wants the government to get moving on a rule requiring speed-limiters on big rigs.
  
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• Agency proposes lifting protections for most humpback whales

  20-04-2015 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — The federal government on Monday proposed removing most of the world's humpback whales from the endangered species list, saying the massive mammals have rebounded after 45 years of protections.
  
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• Shares gain on China stimulus; Greece worries weigh on euro

  20-04-2015 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Equity markets rebounded on Monday after China took steps to stimulate its economy and Wall Street also rose on corporate earnings, while the euro weakened further on worries about Greece. "It's primarily a snap-back rally from the very bad day Friday," said Peter Tuz, president of Chase Investment Counsel in Charlottesville, Virginia, citing the news out of China and U.S. corporate earnings. The European Central Bank's vice president said on Monday that a country that defaul
  
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• Labor group seeks rehiring of workers at 5 Wal-Mart stores

  20-04-2015 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A union is asking labor regulators to go to court to force Wal-Mart to rehire all 2,200 employees affected by the abrupt temporary closing of five stores a week ago.
  
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• US stocks gain, rebounding from Friday's slump; Hasbro jumps

  20-04-2015 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market bounced back from a big loss on Friday after getting a boost from some good first-quarter earnings reports.
  
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• Police: Video didn't capture suspect's fatal spine injury

  20-04-2015 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore police have released videos showing the arrest of a man who died after his spine was nearly severed while in police custody.
  
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• IBM revenue falls for the 12th straight quarter

  20-04-2015 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp reported an about 12 percent fall in first-quarter revenue as the technology company continues to shed unprofitable businesses to focus on cloud-computing initiatives. It was the 12th straight quarter that the Armonk, New York-based company reported a drop in quarterly revenue, including the effects of currency.
  
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• SC paper wins Pulitzer for reporting on domestic violence

  20-04-2015 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Post and Courier of Charleston, South Carolina, won the Pulitzer Prize for public service Monday for an examination of the deadly toll of domestic violence, while The New York Times collected three awards and the Los Angeles Times two.
  
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• Sentencing begins for Utah woman in deaths of her 6 newborns

  20-04-2015 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Prosecutors are taking the unusual step of bringing a detective to the stand before the sentencing of a woman who pleaded guilty to killing six of her newborn babies.
  
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• South Carolina paper wins Pulitzer prize for domestic violence coverage

  20-04-2015 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ellen Wulfhorst NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Post and Courier newspaper of Charleston, South Carolina, on Monday won the prestigious Pulitzer prize for Public Service for its series on domestic violence against women, "Till Death Do Us Part." The New York Times won Pulitzer prizes for international reporting on the front lines of the Ebola outbreak in West Africa and for feature photography documenting the spread of Ebola in Africa. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch received the Pulitzer priz
  
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• List of Pulitzer Prize winners

  20-04-2015 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - The following is a list of the winners of the 2015 Pulitzer Prizes, announced Monday in New York:
  
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• Migrants locked behind doors in boat

  20-04-2015 22:29 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Three more migrant boats maybe in peril in international waters after hundreds were feared drowned at the weekend -- and as the Maltese PM warns of the criminal gangs trafficking refugees.
  
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• Willie Nelson Rolls Out His Own Brand of Pot

  20-04-2015 22:28
  
  Willie Nelson enters marijuana business with 'Willie's Reserve.'
  
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• Why are so many Americans criminals?

  20-04-2015 22:27 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Criminal justice reform is rapidly becoming one of the few bipartisan issues of our time. It's about time.
  
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• U.S. Warships Prepared to Intercept Iranian Convoy

  20-04-2015 22:27 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  An Iranian convoy, escorted by warships from the Iranian military and Revolutionary Guard forces, appears headed for Yemen, officials said.
  
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• ISIS recruiter lures U.S. friends

  20-04-2015 22:24 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Federal prosecutors alleged Monday that six Minneapolis men repeatedly tried to travel to Syria to join ISIS, a case law enforcement officials called the clearest window yet into a peer-to-peer ISIS recruitment network in the U.S.
  
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• Kansas cuts taxes forecast by $187M through June 2016, forcing look at larger tax increases

  20-04-2015 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas cuts taxes forecast by $187M through June 2016, forcing look at larger tax increases.
  
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• Proposal would let tribes gather plants in national parks

  20-04-2015 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Members of the Hualapai Tribe in northwestern Arizona occupied the Grand Canyon long before it became a national park. They collected fruit from cacti and pine nuts for food, cedar and mesquite to weave baskets, and materials to fashion cradleboards for their children.
  
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