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• Bird flu losses likely to top 20M with new cases in Iowa

  30-04-2015 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Agriculture officials say five more farms likely have been affected by the deadly H5N2 bird flu virus, including an egg-laying operation with 5.5 million chickens.
  
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• Officials: 2 elementary school pupils took guns to school

  30-04-2015 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A first-grader and his brother in kindergarten took two handguns, one of them loaded, on a bus to a Kentucky elementary school Thursday morning after apparently thinking they were toys, authorities said. They said no one was hurt and the firearms were seized when the boys reached school.
  
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• Baltimore police detail route after picking up Freddie Gray - video

  30-04-2015 23:55 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  A preliminary investigation found Freddie Gray's fatal injury was caused when he was slammed into back of the police transport van and apparently broke his neck, a local ABC affiliate reported on Thursday, citing sources briefed on the police report and on findings made by the medical examiner.Law enforcement sources also said Gray sustained a head injury that matches a bolt in the back of the police van Continue reading...
  
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• Mary Jane Veloso: Why was she spared in the Indonesian executions?

  30-04-2015 23:51 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  A migrant worker subjected to domestic abuse and possibly duped into trafficking, Mary Jane Veloso’s story may have struck a chord with IndonesiansContinue reading...
  
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• Sixth-grader leads town hall, puts Obama through the paces

  30-04-2015 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Put President Barack Obama in the hands of a precocious sixth-grader and you a get a fast-paced, revelatory Q&A specially tailored to an audience more concerned about homework assignments than homeland security.
  
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• Nets try to take force No. 1 seed Hawks to go the distance

  30-04-2015 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — They were separated by 22 victories in the regular season and a mere nine points so far in the playoffs.
  
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• Moments of joy in Nepal as 2 are rescued 5 days after quake

  30-04-2015 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — The 15-year-old boy had been buried alive under the rubble of this quake-stricken capital for five days, listening to bulldozers clearing mountains of debris, fearful the incessant aftershocks might finally collapse the darkened crevice he was trapped in.
  
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• Scores more women, girls freed in Nigeria from Boko Haram

  30-04-2015 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — Scores more women and children have been rescued from Islamic extremists in the remote Sambisa Forest, Nigeria's military said amid reports that some of the women fought their rescuers fiercely.
  
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• Pacquiao has grand design for Mayweather

  30-04-2015 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Freddie Roach said Thursday he has devised an elaborate strategy that will deliver a decisive victory for Filipino icon Manny Pacquiao in his 'Fight of the Century' against Floyd Mayweather. Pacquiao set up his training camp for the richest fight in boxing history in a private facility built underneath Roach's Wild Card Gym in Los Angeles. They gutted the old laundromat that was there and replaced it with a de facto war room where Roach and Pacquiao have been crafting the plan the
  
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• Colombian police will not arrest former Real Madrid midfielder for drug charges

  30-04-2015 23:47 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  • Freddy Rincón wanted in Panama by Interpol
  • ‘We can’t extradite to Panama and there are no warrants for him here’ Continue reading...
  
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• Medicare figures show generic, brand prescribing

  30-04-2015 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare figures released by the government show the program's most-prescribed drugs for seniors are generics — but the program spends the most on brand-name medications, led by the heartburn drug Nexium.
  
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• Supreme court urges investigation of Colombia's ex-president over spying ring

  30-04-2015 23:39 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Alvaro Uribe, now a senator, denies any knowledge of the spying ring that illegally intercepted the communications of his opponents Continue reading...
  
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• Timberwolves' Andrew Wiggins voted NBA's top rookie

  30-04-2015 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Dressed in a Navy blue tuxedo with shiny black lapels, Andrew Wiggins certainly looked the part while collecting his NBA rookie of the year award Thursday.
  
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• Visa 2Q profits fall 3 percent on strong dollar, gas sales

  30-04-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Payment processing giant Visa Inc. said Thursday that its profits dropped slightly in the first three months of the year, hurt by the strengthening dollar and lower gas prices.
  
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• Researchers breed Arctic cod; species vulnerable to warming

  30-04-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Federal scientists say they have successfully grown Arctic cod in a laboratory, giving them hope that they can learn more about a key Arctic species vulnerable to warming ocean waters.
  
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• Ten miles north, and a world away, from Baltimore's troubles

  30-04-2015 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Scott Malone TOWSON, Md. (Reuters) - As a jazz band played outside the courthouse and people enjoyed an outdoor lunch, the leafy suburb of Towson, Maryland, felt a world away on Thursday from the tension in Baltimore after a black man died of injuries sustained in police custody. The latest outburst of racially tinged rioting to hit the United States over the past year happened on Monday night 10 miles (16 km) south of Towson in West Baltimore, where some burned-out lots from riots in 1968 st
  
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• Chile's Calbuco volcano erupts for third time

  30-04-2015 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Southern Chile's Calbuco volcano erupted again Thursday, releasing a large column of smoke in a towering arc, just over a week after it spectacularly roared to life following half a century of inactivity. "As predicted, the third eruptive pulse at the Calbuco volcano has arrived. Red alert," the National Geology and Mines Service wrote on its official Twitter account, with experts warning that the volcano may not be done just yet. TV images showed thousands of people rushing to sc
  
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• Church of England ends investments in heavily polluting fossil fuels

  30-04-2015 23:30 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Move by church’s £9bn fund to divest £12m from tar sands oil and thermal coal reflects more interventionist stance and sets lead for other institutional investors Continue reading...
  
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• Former Ravens star Ray Lewis hits Baltimore streets to spread peace - video

  30-04-2015 23:29 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Ex-Baltimore Ravens linebacker Ray Lewis visits the streets to spread messages of peace after a wave of protests over Freddie Gray's death. Lewis greeted fans and residents on Thursday, 30 April, days after he released a video saying that 'violence is not the answer' Continue reading...
  
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• Texas takes aim at telemedicine care for patients

  30-04-2015 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — The state of Texas and telemedicine advocates are in a legal tussle over patients who receive doctor consultations through video.
  
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• U.S. Navy escorts ships after Iran seizure

  30-04-2015 23:26 via edition.cnn.com
  
  U.S. Navy warships will accompany U.S.-flagged commercial vessels passing through the strategic Strait of Hormuz after Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps navy seized a cargo ship, CNN learns.
  
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• Obama under pressure to beef up Democratic support for trade

  30-04-2015 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican leaders say GOP votes alone won't pass trade legislation sought by President Barack Obama and are urging the White House to put more pressure on reluctant Democrats to lend their support.
  
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• Iran accuses seized ship of 'peculiar' activity

  30-04-2015 23:24 via edition.cnn.com
  
  A top Iranian official said Wednesday that a foreign cargo ship had been seized in the Persian Gulf because it had a history of "peculiar" activity.
  
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• Iran intercepts U.S.-flagged ship

  30-04-2015 23:24 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Iran's Revolutionary Guard intercepted a U.S.-flagged ship, the U.S. Navy reports. CNN's Fred Pleitgen has the details.
  
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• 16 co-workers at New York company split $58M lottery jackpot

  30-04-2015 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Sixteen co-workers at a New York City biopharmaceuticals company have won a $58 million Mega Millions jackpot.
  
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• Top NFL prospect Marcus Mariota flaunts his Beats on YouTube

  30-04-2015 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Just hours before the NFL draft, top prospect Marcus Mariota flaunted his Beats by Dre in a promotional YouTube video for the competitor of league-sponsor Bose.
  
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• Agony grows among Nepalese in US as quake death toll rises

  30-04-2015 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Days after the Nepal earthquake, thousands of Nepalese-Americans still are not sure if their loved ones are alive or dead. They hope that if some are buried under rubble they're breathing.
  
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• Miliband - I'd pass on PM job rather than do deal with Scots nationalists

  30-04-2015 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  British Labour Party leader Ed Miliband said on Thursday he'd rather stay in opposition than do a deal with Scottish nationalists after a close national election next week in which no party is expected to win a majority. Opinion polls show the pro-independence Scottish National Party (SNP) is on track to wipe out Labour in Scotland making it harder for the left-wing party to secure an overall majority in the 650-seat Westminster Parliament. The SNP has offered to support a minority Labour g
  
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• U.S. aircraft carrier enters Persian Gulf

  30-04-2015 23:19 via edition.cnn.com
  
  The USS Theodore Roosevelt entered the Persian Gulf Saturday to conduct what a U.S. defense official called routine maritime security operations, days after U.S. warships were deployed to the Yemeni coast to counter an Iranian convoy.
  
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• Amateur's Baltimore Photo Makes Time Cover

  30-04-2015 23:19 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The amateur photographer whose image from Baltimore's protests is Time magazine's latest cover says he's sad for the city but excited for himself.
  
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• Woman rescued in Nepal quake hotel

  30-04-2015 23:18 via edition.cnn.com
  
  A worker trapped by Saturday's deadly earthquake in Nepal has been rescued after spending five days in the quake-damaged hotel in which she worked.
  
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• LinkedIn shares tumble on weak 2Q outlook

  30-04-2015 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Shares of LinkedIn Corp. are diving Thursday after the professional networking service gave a disappointing second-quarter outlook.
  
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• Cameron wins last TV contest of election campaign - poll

  30-04-2015 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron won the last major TV contest of Britain's election campaign, a snap Guardian/ICM poll showed on Thursday, with 44 percent of viewers saying he had performed best on the night. Conservative Party leader Cameron, up for re-election on Thursday next week, was subjected to 30 minutes of questions from a BBC TV audience. Labour leader Ed Miliband and Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg were then - in turn - questioned by the same audience. The poll
  
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• Baby in Nepal rubble back with mom

  30-04-2015 23:17 via edition.cnn.com
  
  A photo of dust-covered baby Sonies being lifted from the rubble has become a defining image of a disaster that has devastated Nepal and given hope to a nation. Now he's back with his mom who said: "He just started smiling." FULL STORY | INTERACTIVE: TALES OF SURVIVAL
  
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• Ex-FBI agent pleads not guilty to lying during Bulger trial

  30-04-2015 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — A former FBI agent lied to jurors during mobster James "Whitey" Bulger's trial and overstated his professional accomplishments, including falsely claiming to be the first officer who recovered the rifle used to assassinate Martin Luther King Jr., federal officials said Thursday in announcing a perjury case against him.
  
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• Officers: Theater gunman seemed interested in aftermath

  30-04-2015 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — James Holmes seemed keenly interested in the aftermath of his attack on a Colorado theater, peering out the window of a squad car as badly injured victims were being treated nearby, police officers testified Thursday.
  
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• Airbnb hosts return to find home trashed after 'drug-induced orgy'

  30-04-2015 23:08 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Star King and her husband Mark found revelers had left puddles of alcohol and urine, broken glass, toilets plugged with condoms and ‘chicken meat in my shoes’ Continue reading...
  
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• Freddie Gray died from injuries sustained in police van, report says

  30-04-2015 23:06
  
  Freddie Gray’s fatal injury was sustained inside the police van when his head hit a bolt in the back of the paddy wagon, according to a Baltimore local news station claiming to have been briefed on the police report and the medical examiner’s findings.
  
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• Baltimore: Freddie Gray died from injuries sustained in police van, says report

  30-04-2015 23:06
  
  Freddie Gray’s fatal injury was sustained inside the police van when his head hit a bolt in the back of the paddy wagon, according to a Baltimore local news station claiming to have been briefed on the police report and the medical examiner’s findings.
  
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• Baltimore: Freddie Gray died from injuries sustained in police van, report says

  30-04-2015 23:06
  
  Freddie Gray’s fatal injury was sustained inside the police van when his head hit a bolt in the back of the paddy wagon, according to a Baltimore local news station claiming to have been briefed on the police report and the medical examiner’s findings.
  
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• Baltimore: Freddie Gray died 'from bolt to head' in police van, says report

  30-04-2015 23:06
  
  Freddie Gray’s fatal injury was sustained inside the police van when his head hit a bolt in the back of the paddy wagon, according to a Baltimore local news station claiming to have been briefed on the police report and the medical examiner’s findings.
  
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• 'Roots' is getting a remake

  30-04-2015 23:05 via edition.cnn.com
  
  One of the biggest TV events of all time is being reimagined for new audiences.
  
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• Jailed rap mogul eyes $10 mn Mayweather bail 'rescue'

  30-04-2015 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fallen rap mogul Marion "Suge" Knight will be rooting for Floyd Mayweather from behind bars this weekend -- hoping his old friend can help pay his $10 million bail bill, his lawyer said Thursday. Speaking shortly after his latest court hearing, attorney Matthew Fletcher said Knight -- who denies murder, attempted murder and hit-and-run charges -- is counting on the unbeaten Mayweather to beat Filipino great Manny Pacquiao in Las Vegas on Saturday night. Knight, who remains in custody i
  
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• Latest on police-custody death: Protesters again on street

  30-04-2015 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• The Latest: Only a few hours left before NFL draft

  30-04-2015 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — 3:51 p.m. (4:51 EDT)
  
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• One in six species faces extinction from climate change: study

  30-04-2015 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One out of six species faces extinction as a result of climate change and urgent action must be taken to save large numbers of animals from being wiped out, an analysis said Thursday. The study, published in the US journal Science, found that a global temperature rise of four degrees Celsius could spell disaster for a huge number of species around the world. "We urgently need to adopt strategies that limit further climate change if we are to avoid an acceleration of global extinction,"
  
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• Iowa reports more 'probable' bird flu cases

  30-04-2015 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (Reuters) - Bird flu has been identified at five new sites in Iowa, including a commercial egg-laying operation in Buena Vista County that houses an estimated 5.5 million birds, the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship said on Thursday. If highly pathogenic avian influenza is confirmed at the egg-laying site by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the total number of U.S. cases would surpass 20 million birds, the most in U.S. history. (Reporting by Julie Ingwersen; Editing
  
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• Walter Cronkite's grandson, voice of Dennis the Menace, dies

  30-04-2015 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WATERVILLE, Maine (AP) — Late CBS news anchor Walter Cronkite's grandson and the voice of Dennis the Menace has died.
  
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• Global shares fall on weak results; dollar ends worst month in four years

  30-04-2015 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Sam Forgione NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stock markets worldwide posted a second straight session of losses on Thursday after more weak earnings reports, with all three major U.S. indexes plunging more than 1 percent. The dollar fell on Thursday, to close out April as the greenback's worst month in four years, as measured against a basket of six major currencies. Celgene led a fall in U.S. biotech stocks, while shares of Harman International Industries fell 7 percent after the maker of audio sy
  
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• From 'Jillaroo' to Green Party leader

  30-04-2015 22:52 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Green Party leader Natalie Bennett's Aussie tones have become a familiar sound at the UK general election - but how did she get to where she is today?
  
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