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• 'Not Going to Stop': Hope Remains as Body Found in Flood

  27-05-2015 23:59 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The body of Michelle Carey-Charba, 43, was found Wednesday as rescue crews continued looking for other family and friends still missing.
  
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• Dodgers send 3B Juan Uribe to Braves in 6-player trade

  27-05-2015 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Los Angeles Dodgers dealt third baseman Juan Uribe to the Atlanta Braves on Wednesday in a six-player trade that was initially blocked.
  
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• THE LATEST: Nike says it is cooperating in FIFA probe

  27-05-2015 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ZURICH (AP) — The Latest on FIFA developments:
  
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• American Soccer Boss Sold His World Cup Vote for $1M

  27-05-2015 23:48 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Former American FIFA official Charles "Chuck" Blazer pleaded guilty to a raft of corruption charges in November 2013, the Department of Justice revealed.
  
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• Obama raises money in Miami for Democratic Party

  27-05-2015 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — President Barack Obama is in South Florida to raise money for the Democratic Party for the 2016 presidential race.
  
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• Germany orders mass evacuation after unexploded WW2 bomb is discovered in Cologne

  27-05-2015 23:34
  
  Authorities in Germany ordered one of the biggest evacuations since the Second World War after a 200kg bomb dropped by US forces during the conflict was discovered in Cologne.
  
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• US military accidentally shipped live anthrax sample to lab

  27-05-2015 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US military accidentally shipped at least one live anthrax sample across the country to a commercial lab in Maryland but there was no public health threat from the mishap, officials said Wednesday. A Defense Department laboratory in Utah had "inadvertently" transferred the live anthrax sample to a commercial lab and government health authorities were still testing other samples that had been shipped to laboratories in nine other states, a defense official told reporters. The live a
  
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• Greece, creditors have converged in talks but still room to cover: minister

  27-05-2015 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Greece and its international creditors have converged on key points on a cash-for-reforms deal but talks still have some room to cover before an agreement is clinched, the country's economy minister said on Thursday. "Right now negotiations are continuing, ... there have been big points of convergence," George Stathakis told Mega TV's On Line show. Greece's leftist-led government on Wednesday said it is starting to draft an agreement with its euro zone partners and the International Monetary Fun
  
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• US high court: California county drug disposal law stands

  27-05-2015 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court let stand a Northern California county's drug disposal law, paving the way for similar ordinances.
  
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• People are criticising Fifa World Cup sponsors with corrupt corporate logos

  27-05-2015 23:19
  
  Activists are creating "anti-logos" to shame corporate sponsors of the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar
  
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• Analysis: Against IS, airstrikes may not suffice

  27-05-2015 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BAGHDAD (AP) — It is the modern era's military strategy of choice: overwhelming air power delivering precision-guided punishment backed by intelligence on the ground, with minimal exposure for soldiers of the striking side.
  
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• THE LATEST: Former FIFA vice president Warner surrenders

  27-05-2015 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ZURICH (AP) — The Latest on FIFA developments:
  
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• APNewsBreak: Records dispute claim in St. Louis baby case

  27-05-2015 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri adoption records dispute a St. Louis woman's claim that her baby was stolen at Homer G. Phillips Hospital in 1965 after she was told the newborn had died.
  
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• Nebraska is the first conservative state to repeal the death penalty in 40 years

  27-05-2015 23:14
  
  Capital punishment in the state of Nebraska has been put to death after lawmakers voted to override the governor's veto and repeal the death penalty.
  
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• Bacca double helps Sevilla retain Europa League

  27-05-2015 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sevilla became the first side to win the Europa League four times with a thrilling 3-2 win over Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk on Wednesday. Carlos Bacca was the hero for the Spaniards as he struck the winner 17 minutes from time to ensure Sevilla also qualify for the group stages of next season's Champions League. Nikola Kalinic had given Dnipro a dream start to the Ukrainian side's first ever European final as he headed home the opener after just seven minutes.
  
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• Football's top sponsors pressure FIFA to clean up

  27-05-2015 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Top football sponsors Coca-Cola, Adidas and McDonald's pressed FIFA on Wednesday to clean itself up as the newest corruption scandal threatened efforts to market their products via the "beautiful game". The companies that pay hundreds of millions of dollars to place their ads around World Cup and other global football venues said FIFA needed stronger ethical standards, after seven of its officials were arrested in Switzerland for bribery. Coca-Cola, which pays an estimated $30 mil
  
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• Memphis pays final tribute to blues legend B.B. King

  27-05-2015 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Beale Street -- the downtown strip famous for its blues clubs and source of King's showbiz name. "He's going back home, to this place where, back then, black musicians had a hard time thriving," said Carver Randle, a longtime friend of King, who died May 14 in Las Vegas at the age of 89. King would move on to become a living legend the world over, with the stature of a Memphis local named Elvis Presley.
  
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• US prosecutors allege 'World Cup' of soccer fraud

  27-05-2015 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States charged soccer officials Wednesday with corrupting a sport loved by billions, warning an investigation has just begun and seeking the extradition of suspects arrested in Switzerland. Attorney General Loretta Lynch unveiled the complex international investigation spanning years, after seven soccer officials were arrested in Zurich in dawn raids by Swiss police acting at US request. The 47-count US indictment charges 14 soccer officials and marketing executives with racketeering,
  
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• All at sea: Australia's search for MH370 under scrutiny

  27-05-2015 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Swati Pandey and Jane Wardell SYDNEY (Reuters) - Nearly a year after embarking on a multi-million dollar quest to solve one of aviation's greatest unsolved mysteries, authorities and search teams are being criticised over their approach to finding Flight MH370 in the remote southern Indian Ocean. The Australian-led search, already the most expensive in aviation history, has found no trace of the Malaysia Airlines jet or its 239 passengers and crew, prompting calls for a rethink into the
  
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• Nebraska abolishes death penalty in landmark override vote

  27-05-2015 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska abolished the death penalty on Wednesday in a landmark veto-override vote backed by an unusual coalition of conservatives who oppose capital punishment.
  
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• Natalie Portman urges new Harvard graduates to take chances

  27-05-2015 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CAMBRIDGE, Mass. (AP) — Natalie Portman is advising graduating Harvard seniors to use their inexperience to their advantage.
  
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• Ex-LAPD officer wanted in killing was lying low in Mexico

  27-05-2015 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The fugitive former Los Angeles police officer charged with killing a man during an off-duty fight moved between family members' homes in Mexico, avoiding cellphones and social media in an effort evade authorities, the FBI said Wednesday.
  
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• AP source: Sabres interviewing ex-Penguins coach Dan Bylsma

  27-05-2015 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — A person familiar with the discussions tells The Associated Press the Buffalo Sabres are interviewing former Pittsburgh Penguins coach Dan Bylsma for their head-coaching vacancy.
  
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• Player collapses in Europa final

  27-05-2015 22:56 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Sevilla made European football history Wednesday by becoming the first club to win the continent's second-tier competition four times, beating Dnipro 3-2 in a final marred by the late collapse of one of the Ukrainian's side's players.
  
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• SC officer indicted on felony charge in fatal shooting

  27-05-2015 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina police officer was indicted Wednesday on a lesser felony charge nine months after a grand jury refused to indict him for voluntary manslaughter in the fatal shooting of a 68-year-old man following a long car chase.
  
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• U.S. IRS tax data hack traced to Russia: CNN

  27-05-2015 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Internal Revenue Service believes the theft of about 100,000 taxpayers' personal data from its computer system originated in Russia, CNN reported on Wednesday. The tax agency's criminal unit is leading an investigation into the cyber attack, in which criminals stole information through an online IRS application over the course of four months, and the Treasury Department's inspector general and the Department of Homeland Security are also looking into the breach, CNN said.
  
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• THE LATEST: NASL suspends chairman after indictment

  27-05-2015 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ZURICH (AP) — The Latest on FIFA developments:
  
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• Hillary's 'everyday pantsuit tee'

  27-05-2015 22:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Campaign-themed products aren't limited to bumper stickers and yard signs any more. But is there a secret strategy behind Rand Paul's "filibuster starter pack" and Hillary Clinton's pantsuit t-shirt?
  
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• US won't seek high court review in immigration case

  27-05-2015 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The government says it won't ask the Supreme Court to review a judge's decision that put on hold President Barack Obama's executive action on immigration.
  
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• Hundreds evacuated in Texas after storms leave at least 15 dead

  27-05-2015 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jon Herskovitz AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Hundreds of people were ordered to evacuate flood-threatened areas of Texas on Wednesday as storms bringing torrential rains battered the state, where at least 15 people have been killed in weather-related incidents this week, including six in Houston. People were told to stay away from more than 200 homes in Parker County where the Brazos River was poised to spill its banks about 30 miles (50 kms) west of Fort Worth on Wednesday night, county official
  
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• Latest on flooding: Residents told Houston-area river rising

  27-05-2015 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Hernandez gets 8th win, Mariners beat Rays 3-0

  27-05-2015 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — Seattle manager Lloyd McClendon need just one word to describe another great start by Felix Hernandez.
  
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• AP sources: IRS believes identity thieves from Russia

  27-05-2015 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials tell The Associated Press that the IRS believes the identity thieves who stole personal tax information from an agency website are from Russia.
  
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• Police: Steven Tyler not really doing a strawberry farm show

  27-05-2015 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WEST WINDSOR, N.J. (AP) — Police have alerted residents of a New Jersey township that Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler will not be performing at a small pick-your-own strawberry farm.
  
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• Vive la France! Good day for Monfils, Tsonga at French Open

  27-05-2015 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — Gael Monfils delivered one final ace, his 21st, and closed out his latest raucous, five-set victory on Court Philippe Chatrier to the delight of roaring, partisan spectators.
  
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• Nike says cooperating with authorities on FIFA allegations

  27-05-2015 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Anjali Athavaley NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nike Inc on Wednesday said that it was cooperating with authorities on alleged bribery and corruption at soccer's governing body FIFA. U.S. authorities said nine soccer officials and five sports media and promotions executives faced corruption charges involving more than $150 million in bribes. Swiss police arrested seven FIFA officials who are now awaiting extradition to the United States.
  
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• Horace Mann School: Dozens of students sexually abused across three decades at elite New York school

  27-05-2015 22:38
  
  As many as 64 students were sexually abused at one of New York City’s most elite private schools between the 1960s and 1990s at the hands of 24 members of staff, according to a report released today.
  
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• Photos: Allison Janney Dazzles on the Red Carpet

  27-05-2015 22:36
  
  Some celebrities never seem to age.
  
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• Homeowners clean up in Texas; death toll climbs to 19

  27-05-2015 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Homeowners dragged soggy carpet to the curb and mopped up coffee-colored muck Wednesday after a barrage of storms and floods in Texas and Oklahoma left at least 19 people dead and a dozen others missing.
  
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• Fifa arrests: Is it the final whistle for corruption in world football?

  27-05-2015 22:31
  
  There can be few people, except the seven raised so peremptorily from their beds at the Baur au Lac hotel in Zurich, who did not feel at very least a frisson of vindication. Here were the super-smart Swiss police mounting a dawn raid on a five-star hotel at the request of the US Justice Department, and hauling away some of the most powerful individuals in global sport.
  
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• Clinton urges making middle class 'mean something again'

  27-05-2015 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton says pay equity between men and women, more generous parental leave policies and a higher minimum wage are not issues of importance merely to women but concerns that go to the heart of why it's "hard to get ahead and stay ahead in America."
  
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• Argentina soccer great Maradona delights in FIFA graft probe

  27-05-2015 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Maximilian Heath BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Diego Maradona, one of soccer's most gifted players, said he was "enjoying" the spectacle of several of the world governing body's top officials charged with corruption after U.S. and Swiss authorities announced investigations on Wednesday. Maradona, a World Cup winner in 1986 with Argentina and whose career was blighted by drug addiction and alcoholism, said it was time for FIFA to stop peddling lies and confront the truth. U.S. authorities announced
  
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• Factbox: U.S. charges against FIFA officials, possible sentences

  27-05-2015 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Justice Department has charged five executives and nine officials of soccer's global governing body, FIFA, with racketeering. U.S. code defines racketeering as any criminal activity performed to benefit an organization, including extortion, money laundering and bribery. In a 166-page indictment, the Justice Department accused the defendants of engaging in such activities.
  
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• Oil market extends losses under stronger dollar

  27-05-2015 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  World oil prices finished lower in choppy trade on Wednesday as the strong dollar weighed and a potential rise in Iraq exports heightened global oversupply worries. US benchmark West Texas Intermediate for delivery in July fell 52 cents to $57.51 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Brent North Sea crude for July, the global benchmark, tumbled to $62.06 a barrel in London trade, down $1.66 from Tuesday's settlement.
  
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• Ex-LAPD officer wanted in killing was laying low in Mexico

  27-05-2015 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EL PASO, Texas (AP) — The FBI says a fugitive ex-Los Angeles police officer charged with killing a man during an off-duty fight in California was shuffled between family members' homes in Mexico to avoid detection.
  
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• Theater gunman's writings alternate between ramblings, plans

  27-05-2015 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Colorado theater shooting gunman James Holmes' notebook full of scrawled writings and stick-figure drawings was made public Wednesday, a day after it was introduced as evidence in his trial.
  
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• APNewsBreak: Feds probing powerful union for NYC jail guards

  27-05-2015 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Federal investigators are looking into the financial records and other documents of the powerful union representing New York City's 9,000 jail guards, the union's president and its law firm confirmed Wednesday to The Associated Press.
  
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• US stocks recover from a slump the day before

  27-05-2015 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks ended higher Wednesday, recovering the most of their losses from the day before, as Greece appeared closer to resolving its latest debt issues.
  
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• Nasdaq closes at new all-time high  

  27-05-2015 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - The Nasdaq bolted to a fresh record peak Wednesday in a broad-based Wall Street rally that largely reversed sharp losses in the prior session.
  
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• U2 tour manager dies in hotel room

  27-05-2015 22:21 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Longtime U2 tour manager Dennis Sheehan died Wednesday, the band said on its website.
  
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