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• Adult dating site investigating breach of user data

  22-05-2015 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — The operator of a popular adult dating website said Friday it's investigating a data security breach following reports that hackers stole names, email addresses and information about the sexual orientation or habits of up to 4 million members.
  
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• Yellen: 1st rate hike likely by year end if economy improves

  22-05-2015 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Friday she expects to begin raising interest rates later this year — if the job market improves and the Fed is confident inflation will climb closer toward its target rate.
  
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• Polls Closed After Historic Irish Gay Marriage Vote

  22-05-2015 23:53 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Voters went to the polls in Ireland Friday in a referendum on whether to allow gay marriage. Results will be officially declared Saturday.
  
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• IS suicide bomber attacks Saudi Shiite mosque, killing 21

  22-05-2015 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An Islamic State group suicide bomber attacked a Shiite mosque in Sunni-ruled Saudi Arabia on Friday, killing 21 people and wounding 81 in an assault that threatens to fan sectarian tensions. The bomber struck during the main weekly prayers in Eastern Province, where assailants linked to the Sunni extremist IS killed seven members of the minority Shiite community in November. The interior ministry said a suicide bomber detonated a bomb at the mosque in Kudeih, in the Shiite-majority city of Qati
  
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• Gunfight in western Mexico kills at least 42: officials

  22-05-2015 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least 42 people were killed on Friday in western Mexico in a gunfight between suspected gang members and security forces, two government officials said, the latest bloodshed in an area that has been plagued by violent drug gangs. The officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said at least two federal police died in the morning clash near Tanhuato in the state of Michoacan, near the border with Jalisco, a region home to Mexico's second-biggest city, Guadalajara. The vast majority of those
  
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• Ex-Honduran President's Son Charged in Coke Smuggle

  22-05-2015 23:43 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Fabio Lobo was arrested in Haiti and brought to New York to face charges.
  
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• US stocks fall slightly on lower oil, mixed earnings news

  22-05-2015 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market capped a quiet week of trading on a down note.
  
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• Bush, Christie rise in defense of Patriot Act

  22-05-2015 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Republican presidential contenders Jeb Bush and Chris Christie are heartily endorsing the Patriot Act and mocking those who say the intelligence overhaul encroaches on civil liberties.
  
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• China says U.S. South China Sea actions 'irresponsible, dangerous'

  22-05-2015 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Sui-Lee Wee and David Brunnstrom BEIJING/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - China said on Friday it was "strongly dissatisfied" after a U.S. spy plane flew over part of the South China Sea this week near where China is building artificial islands, and called on the United States to stop such action or risk causing an accident. The U.S. flight on Wednesday was highlighted by the unusual Pentagon decision to invite a CNN team aboard the Poseidon surveillance plane.
  
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• US stocks mostly up despite valuation worries

  22-05-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wall Street stocks moved mostly higher this week despite mixed earnings from big retailers and caution about swelling equity valuations. The Dow and S&P 500 both notched record closes during the week before retreating a bit, while the Nasdaq ended less than three points away from its all-time high. Hugh Johnson of Hugh Johnson Advisors said stocks would probably stall given current valuations and the prospect of higher interest rates.
  
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• Georgia Trooper Shoots Traveler After I-75 Speeding Stop

  22-05-2015 23:35
  Authorities: Georgia state trooper shoots traveler in confrontation after traffic stop on I-75
  
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• Unpublished Orson Welles draft memoir obtained by university

  22-05-2015 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ANN ARBOR, Mich. (AP) — The University of Michigan says a "very raw draft" of an unpublished Orson Welles memoir has joined its archives on the trailblazing filmmaker.
  
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• TLC pulls Duggar family series amid misconduct reports

  22-05-2015 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — TLC pulled the reality series "19 Kids and Counting" from its schedule on Friday, a move that follows reports of sexual misconduct allegations against one of the stars, Josh Duggar, stemming from when he was a juvenile.
  
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• State Department Releases Hundreds of Clinton's Emails

  22-05-2015 23:32 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The documents span a two year period from January 2011 to December 2012
  
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• 21 killed, 81 wounded in IS attack on Saudi Shiite mosque: ministry

  22-05-2015 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Riyadh (AFP) - Twenty-one people were killed and 81 wounded in an attack by an Islamic State group suicide bomber on a Shiite mosque in Saudi Arabia Friday, the health ministry said.
  
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• Timeline of a Mystery: How Police Tracked Accused Mansion Killer

  22-05-2015 23:31 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Here's how the chase unfolded, and ended with the capture of Daron Dylon Wint.
  
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• Ride Along With SpaceX Crew Dragon

  22-05-2015 23:28
  
  SpaceX released new point of view video today showing what it was like to be on board its Crew Dragon vessel, which took its first test flight earlier this month.
  
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• '19 Kids and Counting' Pulled From Schedule

  22-05-2015 23:19
  
  "19 Kids and Counting" was pulled today, just days after Josh Duggar responded to reports and admitted that he inappropriately touched minors several years ago.
  
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• Cancer Can't Keep Graduate From Passing Test

  22-05-2015 23:10 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  As millions of young men and women reach the milestone of high school graduation, some stories of perseverance and success rise above the rest. Genesis Perozo's is one of them.
  
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• Senators sing blues over impasse; GOP hopefuls stuck in DC

  22-05-2015 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators are singing the blues over an impasse that's keeping some of them off the presidential campaign trail, away from overseas trips and waiting for the Memorial Day break to begin.
  
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• Two California men charged with supporting IS jihadists

  22-05-2015 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two California men were charged Friday with allegedly providing support to the Islamic State group, with one accused of trying to travel to the Middle East to join the jihadists. Anaheim residents Muhanad Badawi and Nader Elhuzayel, both 24, were charged after investigators tracked their communications on social media and found messages claiming their support for IS. On May 3, Elhuzayel tweeted his support for a failed attack by two gunmen on an exhibit of caricatures of the Prophet Mohammed in
  
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• Mike Huckabee Defends Josh Duggar

  22-05-2015 23:01
  
  "19 Kids and Counting" star Josh Duggar responded to allegations of child molestation by calling his actions "inexcusable." Now, Mike Huckabee is standing up for him.
  
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• Drug cartel's surveillance cameras tapped electricity, Internet in Mexican border city

  22-05-2015 22:51 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Authorities in the northern Mexican state of Tamaulipas have seized 39 surveillance cameras set up by a drug cartel in the city of Reynosa across the border from Texas.
  
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• US stocks dip as Yellen reaffirms 2015 rate hike

  22-05-2015 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - Wall Street stocks finished lower Friday in light pre-holiday trade after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the plan to raise interest rates this year was on track.
  
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• Clinton emails on Benghazi attack released to public

  22-05-2015 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hundreds of emails by former top US diplomat Hillary Clinton were released by the State Department Friday, seeking to quell a lingering political row about a deadly 2012 attack on a US mission in Libya. The emails have stoked fresh controversy since Clinton -- who is now running for president -- admitted to using a private server and email address during her tenure as secretary of state from 2009 to early 2013. This is something that I've asked to be done as you know for a long time,"
  
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• Magnitude 5.3 quake hits Nevada, close to Las Vegas

  22-05-2015 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck Nevada on Friday close to the small town of Caliente, northeast of the tourist hub of Las Vegas, and was followed by a series of smaller aftershocks, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It said the epicenter of the initial quake, which was very shallow at a depth of only 2.5 miles(4 km), was 24 miles (39 km)from Caliente, a town of just over 1,000 people, close to the border with Utah. A dispatcher with the Lincoln County Sheriff's Department, near the epicenter, s
  
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• More Than 1 Person 'Required' in Mansion Murders: Affidavit

  22-05-2015 22:44
  
  This comes a day after a suspect was taken into custory.
  
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• California OKs Offer of Voluntary Water Cuts by Farmers

  22-05-2015 22:41 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  California regulators on Friday accepted a historic offer by farmers to make a 25 percent voluntary water cut to avoid deeper mandatory losses.
  
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• Venice officials shut down mosque-inside-church art exhibit

  22-05-2015 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MILAN (AP) — Authorities in Venice on Friday closed a working mosque in an ex-church that was Iceland's contribution to the 56th Venice Biennale contemporary art fair on the grounds that it was being improperly used as a place of worship.
  
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• Rohingya migrant boat crisis: The boat people of Arakan and Burma’s fear of an ethnic meltdown

  22-05-2015 22:38
  
  Burma will not bow to pressure to use the “Rohingya” name because they are not a genuine ethnic minority, U Ye Htut, the country’s Minister of Information and spokesman for Burmese President Thein Sein, has said.
  
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• Hero volunteers saving lives

  22-05-2015 22:35 via edition.cnn.com
  
  In the last five years, life expectancy has dropped by nearly 20 years in Syria. It is an astonishing figure.
  
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• 2nd Avenue Subway: See rare photos of New York subway construction

  22-05-2015 22:31
  
  New York City has the most extensive subway system in the world, running 24 hours a day, seven days a week. And it's about to grow.
  
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• Rohingya migrant boat crisis: America points finger at Burma as search is stepped up

  22-05-2015 22:30
  
  Navy ships from two countries have scoured South-east Asian waters for boats believed to be carrying thousands of migrants with little food or water, and a top US diplomat said Burma needs to shoulder some responsibility for the crisis. That’s something it has been reluctant to do.
  
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• ISIS forces out 2 armies in 1 week

  22-05-2015 22:27 via edition.cnn.com
  
  After making strong gains against 2 enemy armies in 1 week, some are calling this ISIS' best week in a year. CNN's Nic Robertson reports.
  
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• ISIS pushes towards Baghdad as thousands flee

  22-05-2015 22:25 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Iraqis fleeing the advancing ISIS force are stopped from crossing a key bridge -- the only safe crossing point into Baghdad province - and leaving them with nowhere to run.
  
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• Series of stabbings near Rio de Janeiro's tourist and Olympic areas has city on edge

  22-05-2015 22:22 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Rio de Janeiro police are reinforcing patrols in areas popular with tourists and near venues that will host Olympic events next year after a series of knife attacks on locals and foreigners.
  
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• Vacation plans collide with must-do agenda for Senate

  22-05-2015 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — With President Barack Obama's high-profile agenda at risk, the White House cajoled the Senate in public and private Thursday to pass trade legislation and prevent a lapse in the anti-terrorism Patriot Act before lawmakers rushed off for a weeklong vacation.
  
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• Fire on oil rig in Gulf of Mexico

  22-05-2015 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US Coast Guard rescued 28 oil workers from an offshore platform in the Gulf Of Mexico on Friday after a fire broke out. No one was reported hurt in the incident, but pilots noted a 1.4 nautical mile (2.6 kilometer) "rainbow sheen" on the water. "The well was shut in and production has ceased," a Coast Guard statement said.
  
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• US egg prices soar as avian flu batters poultry industry

  22-05-2015 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US farmers have been forced to kill almost 40 million chickens and other birds, causing egg prices to soar as a deadly version of the avian flu attacks the poultry industry. An outbreak of a particularly infectious version of the bird flu, believed to come initially from wild ducks and geese, has spread into 15 US states and two Canadian provinces, requiring the mass slaughter of egg-laying chickens and turkeys in particular. The state has declared a state of emergency against the disease, and a
  
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• US stocks dip as Yellen sees 2015 rate hike

  22-05-2015 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - Wall Street stocks finished lower Friday in light pre-holiday trade after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the plan to raise interest rates this year was on track.
  
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• Mexican gunfight kills 43 as police and drug cartels battle on ranch

  22-05-2015 22:07
  
  More than 40 people have been killed in a three-hour gun battle between government forces and a drug cartel at a ranch in the western Mexican state of Michoacan.
  
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• Gunfight in Mexico kills at least 39

  22-05-2015 22:07
  
  At least 39 people have been killed in a gun battle between government forces and armed civilians in the western Mexican state of Michoacan, according to a report from Reuters.
  
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• Gunfight between drug cartel and police in Mexico leaves 43 dead

  22-05-2015 22:07
  
  More than 40 people have been killed in a three-hour gun battle between government forces and a drug cartel at a ranch in the western Mexican state of Michoacan.
  
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• Biker gang poses 'car bomb threat'

  22-05-2015 22:04 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Texas law enforcement officials are investigating what they say are new threats against officers from biker gangs in the wake of a recent shootout in Waco.
  
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• Clinton emails show concern about image after Benghazi

  22-05-2015 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Mark Hosenball and Alistair Bell WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top aides to former U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton fretted over how she would be portrayed after the 2012 Benghazi attacks that killed the U.S. ambassador to Libya and three other Americans, emails released on Friday showed. The emails from Clinton's personal email account made public by the State Department do not appear to contain any revelations that could badly damage her bid for the presidency in 2016 or provide fodder
  
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• ISIS Recruits Nabbed Near L.A.: 'Blessing' to Fight for Allah

  22-05-2015 22:02 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  According to phone records, the two men "discussed how it would be a blessing to fight for the cause of Allah, and to die in the battlefield."
  
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• Restaurant 'Extremely Apologetic' for N-Word Receipt

  22-05-2015 21:58 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The unidentified employee allegedly gave a customer a receipt with the N-word on it and "100 % Dislike" printed underneath.
  
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• Christian reality star's dark secret

  22-05-2015 21:56 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Reality TV star Josh Duggar issued an apology Thursday after reports surfaced that he allegedly molested girls as a teenager, saying:
  
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• Forecasters Warn of Flood Risk for Holiday Weekend

  22-05-2015 21:56 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Some cities have already set records for the wettest month on record.
  
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• D.C. Mansion Murder Suspect Had Help: Cops

  22-05-2015 21:56 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Acting U.S. Attorney Vincent Cohen delivers a statement Friday after charging Daron Dylon Wint with first-degree murder in the killings of a wealthy Washington, D.C., family.
  
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