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• Latest on police-custody death: Curfew looms for city

  28-04-2015 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Indonesia executes 2 of Bali 9

  28-04-2015 23:54 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott condemns the "senseless" execution of two Australian drug smugglers -- part of the Bali 9 convictions -- and says it's is withdrawing its ambassador to Indonesia.
  
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• From drunk to radical, how a Boston bomber was born

  28-04-2015 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Boston bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a flashy dresser who smoked pot and drank alcohol before his dreams of becoming a boxing champion were crushed, witnesses told the trial of his younger brother Tuesday. Defense lawyers, working to save Dzhokhar Tsarnaev from the death penalty after he was convicted of carrying out the 2013 Boston bombings, is portraying his elder brother as the real culprit. The double bombing at the Boston Marathon finish line killed three people and wounded 264 others on Apr
  
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• Australia recalls ambassador to Indonesia after executions

  28-04-2015 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott said on Wednesday he was recalling nation's ambassador to Indonesia in protest against the execution of two Australian drug smugglers. "We respect Indonesia's sovereignty but we do deplore what's been done and this cannot be simply business as usual," Abbott told reporters in Canberra. "I want to stress that this is a very important relationship between Australia and Indonesia but it has suffered as a result of what's been done over the last few hours." Aust
  
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• Memo Warned Oklahoma Sheriff About Deputy Training Concerns

  28-04-2015 23:51 via abcnews.go.com
  Memo to Tulsa County sheriff in 2009 raised concerns about volunteer deputy's training records
  
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• Defense denied as survivors tell gruesome shooting details

  28-04-2015 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Katie Medley, nine months pregnant and crouching between the seats of a movie theater filling with tear gas, gunfire and screams, looked at her husband Caleb's bloody face and told a friend, "He's dead, he's dead."
  
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• Nigerian Army Rescues 293 Females From Boko Haram

  28-04-2015 23:38 via abcnews.go.com
  Nigerian army says it has rescued 200 girls, 93 women from Boko Haram but not the Chibok girls
  
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• Nigeria claims rescue of nearly 300 women, girls from Boko Haram stronghold

  28-04-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nigeria's military on Tuesday claimed the rescue of 200 girls and 93 women from a notorious Boko Haram stronghold, but said there was no confirmation the hostages were those kidnapped from Chibok a year ago. "It is not yet confirmed if the girls are the Chibok girls. Boko Haram claimed the abduction of 276 girls from a secondary school in Chibok, also in Borno, on April 14 of last year.
  
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• The Latest: State dinner list includes Star Trek's Takei

  28-04-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Jet With Engine Fire Makes Emergency Landing in Philadelphia

  28-04-2015 23:35 via abcnews.go.com
  Plane with engine fire makes emergency landing in Philadelphia after diverting from New Jersey
  
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• Cavaliers face up to Love-less post-season

  28-04-2015 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Cleveland star Kevin Love may miss the entire NBA post-season after dislocating his shoulder in the first-round series-clinching playoff win over Boston, Cavaliers general manager David Griffin warned Tuesday.
  
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• 'Louie Louie' singer Jack Ely dies at 71

  28-04-2015 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — "Louie Louie" singer Jack Ely has died at age 71.
  
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• Oscar-winning Australian dies

  28-04-2015 23:27 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Andrew Lesnie, the Oscar-winning cinematographer who spent more than a decade collaborating with director Peter Jackson on the six "Lord of the Rings"and "Hobbit" films, has died. He was 59.
  
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• US Supreme Court to consider challenge to execution drug

  28-04-2015 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Exactly one year after a botched lethal injection, attorneys for other Oklahoma death row inmates were set to ask the U.S. Supreme Court Wednesday to outlaw a sedative used in the procedure — a ruling that could force several states to either find new execution drugs or change the way they put prisoners to death.
  
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• Baseball fans locked out as riots rock Baltimore

  28-04-2015 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Baltimore Orioles will face the Chicago White Sox in an empty stadium on Wednesday after riots prompted officials to take what is believed to be the unprecedented step of ordering the game played behind closed doors. Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred said Tuesday the decision to shut fans out of the game was taken after discussions with the Orioles and city officials. While European football clubs are often forced to play behind closed doors as punishment for crowd trouble, the
  
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• High court protester has history of disrupting public events

  28-04-2015 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The protester who interrupted the Supreme Court's historic argument over gay marriage is an anti-abortion activist with a history of disrupting public events.
  
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• Bernie Sanders: Socialist from Vermont set to announce campaign to be US President and challenge Hillary Clinton

  28-04-2015 23:23
  It is not yet quite official, but it seems that at least one self-declared socialist will be contesting the US presidency.
  
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• Vietnam War by Associated Press photographers

  28-04-2015 23:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  AP photographers mark 40th anniversary of fall of Saigon
  
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• Seized ship being escorted to Iran's Bandar Abbas - charterer

  28-04-2015 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A cargo ship seized by Iran's Revolutionary Guards forces is being escorted to the Iranian port of Bandar Abbas after it was approached in international waters, the shipping line which is hiring the vessel said on Tuesday. "According to our information the vessel is currently being escorted towards Bandar Abbas in Iran by Iranian patrol boats," Maersk Line spokesman Michael Christian Storgaard said.
  
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• The families revealing everything they've ever bought online

  28-04-2015 23:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Huang Qingjun has photographed people across China with all the things they have bought online.
  
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• After Decades, NFL Decides to Give up Tax-Exempt Status

  28-04-2015 23:07 via abcnews.go.com
  
  NFL voluntarily drops tax-exempt status; Goodell's compensation no longer must be made public
  
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• In tense Baltimore, mayor's response to rioting comes under scrutiny

  28-04-2015 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ian Simpson and Warren Strobel BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Baltimore's mayor came under criticism on Tuesday for a slow police response to some of the worst urban rioting in the United States in years with shops looted, buildings burned to the ground and 20 officers injured. Maryland Governor Larry Hogan said he had called Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake repeatedly Monday but that she held off requesting the National Guard until three hours after violence first erupted following the funeral of
  
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• A look at families' reactions to police-related deaths

  28-04-2015 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Families who lost loved ones following interactions with police have often done some of their grieving in public and called for peaceful protests of law enforcement activity in black communities. Here's a closer look at how some relatives reacted in notable cases involving black and biracial men and boys.
  
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• AP sources: Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders to run for president

  28-04-2015 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is going to run for president as a Democrat.
  
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• Sen. Bernie Sanders to Announce 2016 Bid

  28-04-2015 23:00 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The Vermont senator is set to announce his candidacy on Thursday.
  
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• Iran intercepts U.S. ship

  28-04-2015 23:00 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Iran Revolutionary Guard patrol boats fired shots across the bow of and later intercepted a commercial cargo ship, the M/V Maersk Tigris, which was crossing the Strait of Hormuz Tuesday morning, according to a senior U.S. military official.
  
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• U.S. lawmakers seek to end spies' mass collection of phone data

  28-04-2015 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. lawmakers introduced legislation on Tuesday to end spy agencies' bulk collection of Americans' telephone data, setting up a potential showdown over the program, which expires on June 1. Republican U.S. Representatives Bob Goodlatte and Jim Sensenbrenner and Democrats John Conyers and Jerry Nadler introduced the "USA Freedom Act" in the House of Representatives, seeking to tighten control of a program publicly exposed two years ago by former National Security Agency contr
  
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• The Latest: Before the big dinner, first comes the big lunch

  28-04-2015 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Following Nepal quake, climbers say Everest season is over

  28-04-2015 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — All climbers on the Nepal side of Mount Everest have left the mountain and the climbing season is over following a deadly earthquake that left thousands dead in Nepal and dozens of climbers killed or injured after an avalanche swept across the basecamp area, according to guiding companies and individual climbers.
  
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• Baltimore Rioters Not Just ???Thugs??? and ???Criminals???

  28-04-2015 22:55 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Former FBI agent Steve Gomez calls the rioters "opportunists."
  
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• Philippine woman drug convict's execution delayed

  28-04-2015 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CILICAP, Indonesia (AP) — A woman Philippine convict — one of nine people due to face a firing squad — has won a stay of execution, Indonesia's attorney general said Wednesday.
  
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• Baltimore Orioles vs. White Sox Game Closed to Public

  28-04-2015 22:52 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The two postponed games will be played as a doubleheader on May 28.
  
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• Bernie Sanders to launch Democratic presidential bid: Vermont radio

  28-04-2015 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the longest-serving independent member of the U.S. Congress, will announce his candidacy for the Democratic presidential nomination on Thursday, Vermont Public Radio reported on Tuesday. He will release a short statement and hold a campaign kickoff event in subsequent weeks, VPR said, citing several sources. With former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton looming as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, few other candidates have
  
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• Corinthian students face difficult choices after shutdown

  28-04-2015 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  INDUSTRY, Calif. (AP) — Students lining up at now-closed Corinthian Colleges are being told that if their credits are transferred to another school, they won't qualify to have their loans discharged.
  
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• Latest on police-custody death: Librarian talks about riot

  28-04-2015 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Jeni's to Destroy 265 Tons of Ice Cream After Listeria Found

  28-04-2015 22:47 via abcnews.go.com
  Jeni's plans to destroy 265 tons of ice cream after listeria found in facility, in products
  
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• Judge: Oregon bakery should pay gay couple $135,000 over wedding cake

  28-04-2015 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Shelby Sebens PORTLAND, Ore. (Reuters) - An Oregon judge has ruled that the owners of a Portland-area bakery who refused to bake a wedding cake for a gay couple should pay the couple $135,000 in damages, state officials said Tuesday. Administrative Law Judge Alan McCullough issued a proposed order last week that could mean Sweet Cakes by Melissa bakery owners Aaron and Melissa Klein will have to pay $60,000 in damages to Laurel Bowman-Cryer, and $75,000 in damages to Rachel Bowman-Cryer, for
  
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• Drug convicts executed in Indonesia, but Filipina spared

  28-04-2015 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Kanupriya Kapoor CILACAP, Indonesia (Reuters) - Eight drug-trafficking convicts from several countries were executed by an Indonesian firing squad shortly after midnight on Wednesday, local media said, but a Filipina who was on death row with them was unexpectedly spared at the last minute. There was no immediate official confirmation from Indonesia that the eight men had been executed, though a lawyer for two Australians among the group said they had both been shot dead. The Brazilian govern
  
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• Obama administration names 2nd group of 'Promise Zones'

  28-04-2015 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is out with its second round of "Promise Zones," singling out eight economically struggling communities for special attention from the government.
  
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• Near Nepal quake epicenter, desperate villagers await help

  28-04-2015 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PASLANG, Nepal (AP) — There is almost nothing left of this village but enormous piles of broken red bricks and heaps of mud and dust.
  
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• The Latest: Big dinner question: what will first lady wear?

  28-04-2015 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Police flood Baltimore as Obama questions race relations

  28-04-2015 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  National Guard troops deployed to prevent Baltimore spiralling into mayhem on Tuesday as President Barack Obama warned that recent incidents "raise troubling questions" about the policing of black communities. Violence and looting erupted in Baltimore on Monday after the funeral of 25-year-old African-American man Freddie Gray, who died after suffering severe spinal injuries during a police arrest. "Since Ferguson... we have seen too many instances of what appears to be police off
  
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• U.S. shares rebound; oil pares gains after Iran ship seizure

  28-04-2015 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Sam Forgione NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two of three major U.S. stock indexes rose modestly on Tuesday as Merck posted strong earnings and IBM raised its dividend, while European stocks slid on weak corporate results and oil prices were flat to lower on expectations that U.S. crude stockpiles have reached record highs. Brent crude fell 19 cents in U.S. trading to settle at $64.64 a barrel.
  
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• AeroFarms: Work starts to build world's largest vertical urban farm in Newark

  28-04-2015 22:41
  
  Right now, the site of the former Grammer, Dempsey and Hudson steel plant in the city of Newark is a place in motion.
  
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• Univ. of Florida Frat Closed Over Veteran-Abuse Accusations

  28-04-2015 22:37 via abcnews.go.com
  University of Florida closes fraternity after members accused of abusing wounded veterans
  
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• Bilingual Bush talks immigration in Puerto Rico

  28-04-2015 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — Jeb Bush confronted one of the Republican Party's touchiest debates head-on Tuesday, telling Puerto Ricans that conservatives should be proud that America is "an immigrant nation" and value the contribution immigrants make to the country.
  
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• US stocks end higher but Twitter, Apple stifle gains

  28-04-2015 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - US stocks finished mostly higher Thursday but Apple's selloff left the Nasdaq in the red and NYSE-traded Twitter's unintentional early earnings release held back overall gains.
  
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• Stocks end mostly higher as company earnings reports pour in

  28-04-2015 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks posted modest gains Tuesday as investors worked through another large batch of earnings reports.
  
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• Indonesia executions: Amnesty International condemns 'theatre of cruelty' as firing squad deaths go ahead

  28-04-2015 22:31
  
  Amnesty International has issued a strong statement on the executions of eight convicted drug traffickers on Nusakambangan Island, off Java, following its lengthy campaign to halt their deaths by firing squad.
  
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• Indonesia executions: Amnesty International condemns 'theatre of cruelty' as deaths by firing squad go ahead

  28-04-2015 22:31
  
  Amnesty International has issued a strong statement on the executions of eight convicted drug traffickers on Nusakambangan Island, off Java, following its lengthy campaign to halt their deaths by firing squad.
  
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