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• Saudis: Yemen objective achieved

  21-04-2015 23:58 via edition.cnn.com
  
  A spokesman for the Saudi military says they are ending operations against Houthi rebels and beginning a new mission. CNN's Nima Elbagir explains.
  
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• Justice Dept. opens Baltimore police probe; hundreds protest

  21-04-2015 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Hundreds of people are marching in Baltimore after a black man who was arrested died when he suffered a fatal spinal-cord injury under mysterious circumstances.
  
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• How ISIS controls every aspect of life

  21-04-2015 23:57 via edition.cnn.com
  
  ISIS is known for brutal takeovers and medieval justice, but it sees itself as a state controlling matters like vaccination schedules, rent disputes and birth certificates.
  
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• What does ISIS want?

  21-04-2015 23:54 via edition.cnn.com
  
  The aim of the ISIS militant group is to create an Islamic state across Sunni areas of Iraq and Syria.
  
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• ISIS' surprisingly advanced bureaucracy

  21-04-2015 23:53 via edition.cnn.com
  
  CNN's Atika Shubert explains how the terrorist group ISIS functions as a state.
  
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• ISIS targets the minds of young children

  21-04-2015 23:53 via edition.cnn.com
  
  CNN's Nick Paton Walsh looks at how ISIS tries to spread their ideas through the generations by cramming them into the minds of young children.
  
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• World Trade Centre: New York's history unfolds in front of visitors' eyes in incredible time-lapse elevator video

  21-04-2015 23:53
  
  Visitors to the new 1 World Trade Centre building will soon have the chance to experience an immersive animation in the building’s lifts, which showcases the development of Manhattan over 515 years.
  
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• Injuries again playing prominent role in NBA playoffs

  21-04-2015 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Teams' luck on the health front hasn't improved now that the NBA playoffs have started following one of the league's most exciting regular seasons in recent memory was partially marred by a rash of injuries.
  
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• Opening arguments set in US Batman shooting trial

  21-04-2015 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Opening arguments will take place next week in the trial of James Holmes, the gunman accused of killing 12 US cinema-goers at a 2012 screening of a Batman movie. The long-awaited trial will finally get under way in earnest on Monday, three months after the process of jury selection began, officials said Tuesday. Holmes has been in custody since the night of July 20, 2012 in Aurora, Colorado, and faces 166 counts of aggravated murder, attempted murder and possession of explosives.
  
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• DEA chief to retire from agency amid pressure from lawmakers

  21-04-2015 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration, Michele Leonhart, announced her retirement Tuesday afternoon, Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement.
  
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• Little Rock weighs expanding anti-discrimination protections

  21-04-2015 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Little Rock officials planned to vote Tuesday on whether to prohibit vendors from discriminating based on sexual orientation and gender identity, challenging a new Arkansas law criticized as anti-gay.
  
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• APNewsBreak: No US protection for sage grouse near Sierra

  21-04-2015 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RENO, Nev. (AP) — Interior Secretary Sally Jewell says her reversal of proposed federal protection for a type of sage grouse specific to California and Nevada shows it's still possible to head off a bigger, looming listing decision for sage grouse across 11 western states.
  
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• Japan's maglev train breaks own world speed record

  21-04-2015 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Japan's state-of-the-art maglev train clocked a new world speed record Tuesday in a test run near Mount Fuji, smashing through the 600 kilometre (373 miles) per hour mark, as Tokyo races to sell the technology abroad. The seven- maglev train -- short for "magnetic levitation" -- hit a top speed of 603 kilometres an hour, and managed nearly 11 seconds at over 600kph, operator Central Japan Railway said. The new record came less than a week after the company recorded a top speed of
  
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• Naval Academy grad Harris called up to majors by Cardinals

  21-04-2015 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — During his stint in the Person Gulf on a Navy carrier, Mitch Harris kept his pitching arm — and his hopes of eventually making it to the majors — in shape by tossing a baseball on the flight deck.
  
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• Yahoo's profit, revenue miss Street forecasts as costs rise

  21-04-2015 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Yahoo Chief Executive Marissa Mayer has revamped products and acquired a string of companies in the past two years, without reviving revenue growth. Yahoo said display advertising revenue rose 2.3 percent to $463.7 million in the quarter, accounting for roughly 40 percent of its total revenue.
  
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• Philippines, U.S.: Drills not about China

  21-04-2015 23:41 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Tensions are rising around the South China Sea as the Philippines and its American allies carry out war drills. CNN's Lynda Kinkade reports.
  
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• Blue Bell says it's still trying to pinpoint listeria cause

  21-04-2015 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Blue Bell Creameries says it's getting closer to identifying how listeria got into its facilities, after the century-old Texas ice cream maker issued a massive recall because its products were linked to a deadly string of illnesses.
  
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• San Francisco bans performances by exotic animals

  21-04-2015 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco supervisors have approved a prohibition on performances using bears, lions, elephants and other wild animals.
  
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• A primer on the bird flu affecting Midwest poultry flocks

  21-04-2015 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Scientists believe 70-degree temperatures will kill the deadly bird flu virus — and the change in weather can't come fast enough for producers in some Midwestern states struggling to contain a virulent strain that has doomed nearly 6.7 million turkeys and chickens since March. Here are some questions and answers about the outbreak:
  
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• Police: Indiana slaying part of elaborate scheme to get baby

  21-04-2015 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Samantha Fleming was asleep in the Indiana apartment she shared with her boyfriend and newborn daughter when the doorbell rang April 6. On the other side, police say, was a professionally dressed woman carrying a binder who introduced herself to Fleming's boyfriend as a Department of Child Services worker on a surprise visit.
  
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• Sales at Taco Bell, KFC help Yum top 1Q profit forecast

  21-04-2015 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Yum Brands Inc.'s first-quarter profit fell but still topped Wall Street expectations as global sales jumped at its Taco Bell and KFC brands.
  
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• Drug Enforcement Administration head Leonhart to retire: Justice Department

  21-04-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The embattled head of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration, Michele Leonhart, will retire from the agency in mid-May, the U.S. Justice Department said on Tuesday. "I want to express my appreciation to Michele, not only for her leadership of the DEA since 2007, but also for her 35 years of extraordinary service to the DEA," Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement.
  
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• Queen Elizabeth's 89th birthday

  21-04-2015 23:30 via edition.cnn.com
  
  It has been 63 years since Queen Elizabeth II ascended the British throne. Look back at moments from her life so far.
  
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• Obama again avoids calling 1915 Armenian killings 'genocide'

  21-04-2015 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is again stopping short of calling the 1915 massacre of Armenians a genocide.
  
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• Two arrests in 'reckless shipwreck'

  21-04-2015 23:16 via edition.cnn.com
  
  The boat that sank in the Mediterranean over the weekend with hundreds of migrants on board may have capsized after being touched or swamped by a cargo ship that came to its aid, a U.N. official says.
  
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• Judge OKs Bahamas holiday for US deputy who shot unarmed black man

  21-04-2015 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A reserve deputy sheriff in Oklahoma pleaded not guilty Tuesday in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man -- and won a judge's consent to go on holiday in the Bahamas. Robert Bates, 73, appeared briefly in court in Tulsa district court charged with manslaughter in the death of Eric Harris, 44, during an undercover gun-sale operation on April 2. Local news media said Bates entered a not guilty plea Tuesday before Special Judge Deborrah Ludi-Leitch, who set a preliminary hearing for July
  
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• Ruling forces California water districts to review rates

  21-04-2015 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California appeals court decision striking down punitive water pricing intended to encourage conservation has water agencies reviewing rates and some residents exploring whether to file similar lawsuits.
  
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• Freddie Gray: US Justice Department launches civil-rights investigation for man who died in custody of Baltimore police

  21-04-2015 23:12
  The US Justice Department has starting investigating the death of a man who died while in custody of Baltimore police to see if it needs to bring civil-rights charges, the Associated Press reported.
  
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• AP PHOTOS: Desperate migrants meeting death in Mediterranean

  21-04-2015 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Migrants — desperate to leave their home countries for better lives in western Europe, and willing to risk the dangerous crossing in tightly packed, leaking smugglers' ships — are dying in startling numbers in the Mediterranean.
  
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• VA chief calls House budget proposal 'inadequate'

  21-04-2015 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald says a House subcommittee's plan to cut the VA's budget by more than $1.4 billion next year will "cause veterans to suffer."
  
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• Conservationists turn tiny New Zealand island into bold wildlife experiment

  21-04-2015 23:00 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Big things are happening on Rotoroa, a new sanctuary for endangered species that aims to create a whole new ecosystem
  Rotoroa Island, off the coast of New Zealand is tiny, at just 82 hectares (200 acres), but don’t let its diminutiveness fool you: big things are happening here. Over the past few years the island has become the site of a quiet, but grand, conservation experiment. What would happen if you populated an island with a whole suite of endangered species, some of which were never foun
  
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• Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio in court over profiling case

  21-04-2015 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — A hearing began Tuesday to decide whether an Arizona sheriff should be held in contempt of court for violating a judge's orders in a racial profiling lawsuit that stemmed from his aggressive immigration patrols in Hispanic neighborhoods in metro Phoenix.
  
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• Yahoo's 1Q shows company remains mired in revenue rut

  21-04-2015 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo is still struggling to boost revenue nearly three years into CEO Marissa Mayer's tenure, magnifying concerns that the Internet company holds little value beyond its lucrative Asian investments.
  
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• Officers in Baltimore arrest revealed

  21-04-2015 22:57 via edition.cnn.com
  
  The Baltimore Police Department released the names of six police officers suspended with pay after the arrest of Freddie Gray, who died of a spinal injury on Sunday, as the mayor promised answers.
  
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• Facebook shifts News Feed, gives priority to friends

  21-04-2015 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "The goal of News Feed is to show you the content that matters to you," said a blog post by Facebook's Max Eulenstein and Lauren Scissors. One of the key changes aims "to ensure that content posted directly by the friends you care about, such as photos, videos, status updates or links, will be higher up in News Feed so you are less likely to miss it," the blog said. To make room, Facebook will push down items such as commentary on a news story or another person's po
  
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• DEA chief to resign in wake of agency's Colombian sex scandal

  21-04-2015 22:56 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Government investigation revealed several DEA agents had engaged in sex parties with Colombian prostitutes on the tab of drug cartels Continue reading...
  
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• Oklahoma geology group links earthquakes to oil waste wells

  21-04-2015 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Oklahoma Geological Society said Tuesday it is "very likely" that most of the state's recent earthquakes were triggered by the subsurface injection of wastewater from oil and natural gas drilling operations.
  
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• In pictures: Stairway to Heaven

  21-04-2015 22:51 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Finding a final resting places in a crowded city
  
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• Porto blown away by Bayern Munich

  21-04-2015 22:50 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Bayern Munich were sweating. Coach Pep Guardiola was a man under pressure.
  
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• Proposed NYPD training: No racial profiling

  21-04-2015 22:50 via edition.cnn.com
  If newly revised NYPD training materials are approved by a federal judge, new cadets could be taking courses reminding them "not to engage in racial profiling."
  
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• Pope accepts resignation of bishop who didn't report abuse

  21-04-2015 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Pope Francis accepted the resignation Tuesday of a U.S. bishop who pleaded guilty to failing to report a suspected child abuser, answering calls by victims to take action against bishops who cover up for pedophile priests.
  
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• Bayern Munich and Barcelona cruise into semi-finals

  21-04-2015 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Doubles from Robert Lewandowski and Neymar inspired Bayern Munich and Barcelona respectively into the Champions League semi-finals on Tuesday. Lewandowski's brace came in a crazy first half where Bayern rattled five goals past a demoralised Porto side, who had come into the game leading 3-1 after the first leg and with real hopes of reaching their first semi-final since they won the trophy in 2004. The game ended 6-1 and a 7-4 aggregate victory for Bayern and extending their coach Pep Guard
  
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• Astronaut watches and lunar probes: the space history sale – in pictures

  21-04-2015 22:43 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Items from the history of space and aviation went under the hammer at Bonhams, New York – including the first robotic probe to land on the moon Continue reading...
  
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• Pulitzer-winning music a tribute to Pennsylvania coal miners

  21-04-2015 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Julia Wolfe descended hundreds of feet underground, into a dank, dark cavern with gleaming black walls: a Pennsylvania coal mine.
  
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• Wall Street's two major indexes drop; oil falls

  21-04-2015 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Sinead Carew NEW YORK (Reuters) - Major U.S. stock indexes lost ground on lackluster earnings reports on Tuesday, while oil fell on concerns about U.S. crude stockpiles and Saudi Arabia's announcement that it ended its military campaign in Yemen. The Nasdaq composite index was the brightest spot in U.S. stock markets. "We haven't seen much change in forecasts for the remainder of the year." Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. made an unsolicited bid to buy smaller rival My
  
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• Amgen tops estimates with 51 percent spike in 1Q profit

  21-04-2015 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Amgen Inc. boosted first-quarter profit by 51 percent, thanks to surging sales of its top prescription drugs and ongoing cost cuts designed to free up cash to mount an unprecedented spurt of new product launches.
  
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• Steven Seagal or Vladimir Putin: who said it? – quiz

  21-04-2015 22:40 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Vladimir Putin, aware of his tense relationship with Barack Obama, reportedly came up with a novel solution in 2013: send in Steven Seagal as an intermediary between the US and Russia. The actor and pugilist, star of such films as Under Siege and Under Siege 2, has become close friends with Putin, himself a keen martial artsman, over recent years. So who said what? Continue reading...
  
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• Saudi Arabia-led coalition declares end to Yemen airstrike campaign

  21-04-2015 22:38 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Four weeks after airstrikes began, coalition says threat to Saudi Arabia has ended – but a new phase of operation against Houthi rebels is to begin Continue reading...
  
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• Saudi Arabia-led coalition declares end to Yemen air strike campaign

  21-04-2015 22:38 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Four weeks after air strikes began, coalition says threat to Saudi Arabia has ended – but a new phase of operation against Houthi rebels is to begin Continue reading...
  
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• Ortiz suspended 1 game by MLB for making contact with umpire

  21-04-2015 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Boston designated hitter David Ortiz was suspended for one game and fined by Major League Baseball on Tuesday.
  
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