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• O'Malley calls death penalty 'ineffective'

  15-05-2015 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley says he respects the verdict of the jury in the Boston Marathon bombing case but remains opposed to the death penalty and considers it "ineffective."
  
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• Baltimore prosecutors in Freddie Gray case seek gag order

  15-05-2015 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Baltimore prosecutors are seeking a gag order as they pursue a criminal case against six city officers in the case of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old man who died a week after suffering a spinal injury while in police custody.
  
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• No fatigue, illness, train engineer tells U.S. crash investigators

  15-05-2015 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - The engineer of the Amtrak train that crashed in Philadelphia told investigators that he did not feel fatigued or have any illness before the accident, a National Transportation Safety Board official said on Friday. The official, Robert Sumwalt, told a news conference that the engineer, Brandon Bostian, was "extremely cooperative" during a 1 -1/2 hour interview but that he did not remember anything of Tuesday's crash that killed eight people. (Editing by Grant McCool)
  
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• 'Boys Don't Cry' Mom: Keep Nebraska's Death Penalty

  15-05-2015 23:54 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  A bill to repeal capital punishment cleared another hurdle on Friday.
  
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• Obama renews authority for US sanctions on Myanmar

  15-05-2015 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama has renewed for a year his authority to maintain U.S. sanctions against Myanmar.
  
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• Nadal beaten by Wawrinka for 5th loss on clay this year

  15-05-2015 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ROME (AP) — Rafael Nadal has lost on clay for the fifth time this season.
  
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• The Latest on Amtrak crash: Was train hit by an object?

  15-05-2015 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• US stocks gain despite stingy consumer spending

  15-05-2015 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wall Street took a benign view of surprisingly poor consumer spending trends this week, bidding stocks higher despite downcast government and corporate reports on the retail sector. "We're range-bound, we just happen to be ending the week on the higher end of that range," said Art Hogan, chief market strategist at Wunderlich Securities. The week's most scrutinized data point, April retail sales, came in at $436.8 billion in April, essentially unchanged from March.
  
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• Mexican court returns long-missing teenage girl to Houston mom, concluding 8-year search

  15-05-2015 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexican court returns long-missing teenage girl to Houston mom, concluding 8-year search.
  
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• Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sentenced to death for Boston Marathon bombing – as it happened

  15-05-2015 23:44
  
  Jurors sentence Tsarnaev to death on some counts for his role in the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013. Follow live updates Continue reading...
  
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• Olympic 2012 relay medals shake-up after Gay ban: IOC

  15-05-2015 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Trinidad and Tobago are to be awarded silver and France bronze medals for the 4x100m relay at the 2012 Olympics after the United States were disqualified due to Tyson Gay's doping ban. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed the news to AFP on Friday, but said it would be making a formal declaration shortly. The US Olympic Committee (USOC) confirmed on Wednesday that it had been stripped of their silver medals from the 4x100m relay after they had originally come second behind Us
  
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• WNBA stars suspended after domestic dispute

  15-05-2015 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Women's basketball power couple Brittney Griner and Glory Johnson were suspended seven games each on Friday in the wake of a domestic dispute at their Arizona home last month. The married pair, who play for different teams in the WNBA, were still engaged when they were arrested on April 22 on charges of disorderly conduct, fighting and assault with intent to injure. The WNBA's investigation into the matter found that a shoving match between the two escalated into a fight in which punch
  
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• Blues great B.B. King leaves legacy in native Mississippi

  15-05-2015 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  INDIANOLA, Miss. (AP) — Blues legend B.B. King grew up as poor as could be, alone and in debt at 14, living in primitive cabins and sharecropping cotton in Mississippi.
  
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• Transportation safety board: Amtrak engineer cooperative in interview but can't recall crash

  15-05-2015 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Transportation safety board: Amtrak engineer cooperative in interview but can't recall crash.
  
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• Police: couple, son, housekeeper killed in house fire; 3 had stab wounds, blunt force injuries

  15-05-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Police: couple, son, housekeeper killed in house fire; 3 had stab wounds, blunt force injuries.
  
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• Is There a Safe Place to Sit on a Train?

  15-05-2015 23:34 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  One expert explains why where you choose to sit on a train can affect your odds of survival in the event of a crash.
  
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• Coroner, doctor: B.B. King died after series of mini strokes

  15-05-2015 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — B.B. King's physician and the coroner in Las Vegas say the 89-year-old blues legend died of a series of small strokes attributable to his longstanding battle with type 2 diabetes.
  
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• Muscle Up: Meet the New Chevy Camaro

  15-05-2015 23:31 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  CNBC's Phil LeBeau and GM President Dan Ammann discuss how General Motors has changed and then hop inside GM's' newest model to test how it handles. And Walter Isaacson, Aspen Institute CEO, shares his thoughts on Mary Barra's leadership.
  
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• Boston Marathon bomber Tsarnaev sentenced to death for 2013 attack

  15-05-2015 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Scott Malone and Elizabeth Barber BOSTON (Reuters) - Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death by a U.S. jury on Friday for helping carry out the 2013 attack that killed three people and wounded 264 others in the crowds at the race's finish line. After deliberating for 15 hours, the federal jury chose death by lethal injection for Tsarnaev, 21, over its only other option: life in prison without possibility of release. The same jury found Tsarnaev guilty last month o
  
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• The Latest on Boston Marathon trial: 'The jury has spoken'

  15-05-2015 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Brady, union threaten Goodell with lawsuit in 'Deflategate'

  15-05-2015 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FOXBOROUGH, Mass. (AP) — Tom Brady's lawyers demanded that NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell recuse himself from the Super Bowl MVP's "Deflategate" appeal and threatened to go to court unless the four-game suspension is overturned.
  
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• U.S. attorney says Boston bombing trial verdict 'fair and just'

  15-05-2015 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - The Boston Marathon bombing trial jury reached a "fair and just" verdict on Friday when they sentenced Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for helping carry out the 2013 attack that killed three people and wounded 264, the U.S. attorney for Massachusetts said. U.S. Attorney Carmen Ortiz commended the jurors, who she said had a "really difficult" job to do, and she told reporters the 21-year-old Tsarnaev will pay with his life for what she called a particularly heinous crime and an "act of ter
  
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• Photos: This Week in Pictures: May 9 - 15, 2015

  15-05-2015 23:20 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Find this week's top photos from around the globe in ABC News' This Week in Pictures slideshow
  
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• Dzhokhar Tsarnaev execution may take years with appeals process

  15-05-2015 23:20
  
  Although a jury took very little time both to find Dzhokhar Tsarnaev guilty and to decide he should get the death penalty, it is likely to be many years before he is executed – as lawyers embark on a series of appeals.
  
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• Blue Bell to Lay Off Third of Its Staff After Listeria Outbreak

  15-05-2015 23:20 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Ice cream giant haunted by listeria to let go of 1,450 employees.
  
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• Toys R Us says it will close FAO Schwarz store in July

  15-05-2015 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Toys R Us is closing its iconic FAO Schwarz store, citing the high and rising costs of running the retail space on New York City's pricey Fifth Avenue.
  
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• Gay leader of Catholic Luxembourg marries partner

  15-05-2015 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LUXEMBOURG (AP) — The prime minister of Luxembourg married his partner on Friday, a year after the tiny Roman Catholic nation approved a law allowing same-sex marriage.
  
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• Death -- but only on some of the charges

  15-05-2015 23:16 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Jurors announce their decision in the penalty phase of the Boston Marathon bombing trial, sentencing Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to the death penalty.
  
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• White House: Obama assets between $1.9M and $6.9M

  15-05-2015 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House has released financial disclosure reports showing that President Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle, held assets last year that were worth about $1.9 million to about $6.9 million.
  
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• Fla. woman who fled to avoid son's circumcision still jailed

  15-05-2015 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A Florida woman remains behind bars after she fled to avoid the circumcision of her son.
  
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• Rulings require feds to consider carbon impact of coal mines

  15-05-2015 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DENVER (AP) — Beset by power plant closures, growing regulatory scrutiny and proposed changes in how they pay royalties, coal mines are facing a new obstacle — a review of how coal extracted and burned will impact the air and global warming.
  
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• Missouri Senate quits early with deadly force bill in limbo

  15-05-2015 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Conceding they were hopelessly at odds, Missouri senators quit early on their final day of session Friday, effectively killing a bill to rewrite the state's deadly force standards for police in response to last summer's fatal shooting in Ferguson.
  
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• Boston bomber: an American dream gone awry

  15-05-2015 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Boston bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, sentenced to death on Friday, appeared to be on course for a normal American life before he launched his attack on crowds watching a marathon. He liked to party, narrated his exploits on Twitter and occasionally smoked marijuana. He became a naturalized US citizen a year before the April 15, 2013 attacks and was studying at the University of Massachusetts. Two bombs planted in backpacks at the finish line of the Boston marathon killed three people and wounded mor
  
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• GOP wrestling with too many '16 prospects for a TV debate

  15-05-2015 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Never have more than 10 candidates taken the stage for a televised Republican presidential debate. Wish the GOP luck in trying to keep it that way.
  
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• Iran prepared for all scenarios in nuclear talks: negotiator

  15-05-2015 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iran is prepared for "all scenarios" in talks with world powers about curbing its nuclear programme in exchange for sanctions relief, its top nuclear negotiator said on Friday when asked what would happen if no final deal was reached by July. The current talks, led by U.S. Under Secretary of State Wendy Sherman, concluded on Friday, a diplomatic source said. All parties want a good deal, and for Iran it's only a good deal if our legitimate rights are respected and sanctions are fi
  
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• Texas Mom Reunited With Missing Daughter After 8 Years

  15-05-2015 23:05 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  DNA tests have confirmed that a girl in Mexico is indeed the daughter of a Houston, Texas mother who has been searching for her for 8 years.
  
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• Treasury yields fall, dollar slips after soft U.S. data

  15-05-2015 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) - Treasury yields dropped and the dollar eased on Friday following a stabilization in European government bonds and another batch of weak U.S. data that raised expectations the Federal Reserve will need to wait longer to hike interest rates. U.S. stocks finished near flat, though the S&P 500 eked out another record closing high and major indexes posted gains for the week. The MSCI World equity index gained 0.26 percent and was up for the week as we
  
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• U.S. House committee will hold hearing on Amtrak crash

  15-05-2015 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives Transportation Committee will hold a hearing on the Amtrak passenger train accident in Philadelphia on Tuesday in which eight people were killed, the panel's chairman said on Friday. Republican congressman Bill Shuster of Pennsylvania said the date for the hearing will be announced in the future. (Reporting by Eric Beech)
  
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• Reactions to death sentence for Boston Marathon bomber

  15-05-2015 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was sentenced to death by a U.S. jury on Friday for helping to carry out the 2013 attack that killed three people and wounded 264 others at the race finish line. Sydney Corcoran, who was injured in the bombing and whose mother lost both her legs "My mother and I think that NOW he will go away and we will be able to move on.
  
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• US stock indexes end mostly higher; S&P hits new high

  15-05-2015 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. stock indexes spent Friday mostly drifting between tiny gains and losses, but the small moves were enough to nudge the Standard & Poor's 500 index to its second record high in two days.
  
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• Mass. Governor Says Tsarnaev Verdict Provides 'Closure'

  15-05-2015 22:57 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker said he hopes the death penalty sentence for Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev will bring closure.
  
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• Gatlin off to flying start in Doha

  15-05-2015 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  American Justin Gatlin stormed to victory at the Diamond League opener in Doha on Friday winning the 100m to serve notice to Usain Bolt ahead of the world athletics championships in Beijing in August. The 33-year-old Gatlin, who has served two doping bans, clocked 9.74 seconds -- a world best for this year -- making him the fifth fastest man ever. World record holder Bolt (9.58sec) was absent in Doha but the message from Gatlin, who in 2014 also recorded six of the seven fastest times, was loud
  
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• Schumer: House Speaker Boehner ignorant about rail safety

  15-05-2015 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer accused House Speaker John Boehner of "massive ignorance" about rail safety on Friday and announced another push to get Congress to pay for train safety technology and infrastructure improvements in the wake of Amtrak's deadly derailment.
  
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• US plays down IS militants' gains in Iraq

  15-05-2015 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Despite major new setbacks in Iraq, the U.S. military command leading the fight against Islamic State militants insists its strategy is working.
  
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• Why death might not mean death

  15-05-2015 22:52 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Now that a death sentence was given Friday to convicted Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, many Americans may be surprised to know he could live a relatively long time on federal death row.
  
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• Tsarnaev Sentenced to Death for Boston Marathon Bombing

  15-05-2015 22:50 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  A Boston jury voted to sentence Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death by lethal injection, with some jurors weeping as the verdict was announced.
  
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• Deadly Amtrak wreck shows safety still dependent on engineer

  15-05-2015 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The deadly Amtrak wreck has made it clear that despite the train industry's widespread use of electronic signals, sensors and warning systems, safety still sometimes comes down to the knowledge and experience of the engineer at the controls.
  
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• Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev sentenced to death – video

  15-05-2015 22:45
  
  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev has been sentenced to death for his role in the 2013 bombing on the Boston Marathon – an attack that killed three people and left more than 260 wounded. As for almost the whole trial, Tsarnaev's face registered little or no emotion as the jury handed down their unanimous sentence of death Continue reading...
  
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• Colombia suspends spraying illegal coca fields with herbicide over cancer link

  15-05-2015 22:44
  
  Move marks end of decades-long strategy to counter drug trafficking after a number of studies suggest glyphosate is probably carcinogenic to humansColombia will suspend aerial fumigation of illegal coca plants in light of a number of studies linking the herbicide it has used to cancer, a move which marks the end of a decades-long strategy in the country’s fight against drug trafficking. Related: Last flight looms for US-funded air war on drugs as Colombia counts health costContinue reading...
  
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• Boston bomber death sentence: Who is Dzhokhar Tsarnaev?

  15-05-2015 22:44
  
  Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and his brother Tamerlan had been in the US for a decade before setting on the path that would see them carry out what many have described the deadliest act of terrorism on American soil since the attacks of September 11 2001.
  
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