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• Nevada stays with caucus system

  02-06-2015 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DENVER (AP) — Nevada is keeping its caucuses for selecting presidential nominees, disappointing supporters of several Republican presidential contenders who had hoped to shift the early-voting state to a system of primaries.
  
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• NSA reform: USA Freedom Act passes first surveillance reform in decade – as it happened

  02-06-2015 23:58 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Senate expected to end debate on USA Freedom ActFinal vote on bill set for Tuesday afternoonBill would restore modified versions of lapsed NSA and FBI toolsVote arrives nearly two full years after Snowden revelations Continue reading...
  
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• 1 of Pentagon's own labs may have received suspect anthrax

  02-06-2015 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A laboratory on the grounds of the Pentagon compound is among dozens of facilities that may have mistakenly received live anthrax, officials said Tuesday.
  
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• Caitlyn Jenner says she decided against 'K' for new name

  02-06-2015 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Choosing between a "C'' and a "K'' for her new name was no small task for Caitlyn Jenner, considering his famous K-heavy family of Kardashians.
  
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• U.S. Senate passes NSA measure

  02-06-2015 23:38 via edition.cnn.com
  
  The Senate approved on Tuesday a bill to reform National Security Agency domestic surveillance programs, ending a drawn-out showdown on Capitol Hill that saw counterterrorism provisions expire.
  
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• The Latest: State to use satellites to eye unplanted fields

  02-06-2015 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Shonda Rhimes writing book on a year of accepting challenges

  02-06-2015 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Shonda Rhimes' first book will have a positive message.
  
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• Iraq War veteran charged with murder in deaths of relatives

  02-06-2015 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) — A decorated Iraq War veteran charged in the deaths of his estranged wife's mother, stepfather and brother has been charged with three counts of premeditated first-degree murder with aggravating circumstances.
  
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• Coca-Cola calls Blatter resignation positive

  02-06-2015 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Anjali Athavaley NEW YORK (Reuters) - Coca-Cola Co said on Tuesday it respected FIFA president Sepp Blatter's decision to resign, calling it a positive step. Blatter, 79, announced the decision at a hastily arranged news conference in Zurich, six days after police raided a hotel in the city and arrested several FIFA officials, and just four days after he was re-elected to a fifth term as president. "Our expectation remains that FIFA will continue to act with urgency to take concrete actions t
  
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• Jim Thorpe's sons ask Supreme Court to allow reburial

  02-06-2015 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jim Thorpe's surviving sons asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday to allow them to pursue reburial of the famed athlete on American Indian land in Oklahoma.
  
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• Clerks: Mixed turnout for US House runoff in Mississippi

  02-06-2015 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Turnout for a vacant congressional seat in north Mississippi is sparse in some counties, but strong in others, including that of the longshot Democratic candidate.
  
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• Californians reduced water use by 13.5 percent in April

  02-06-2015 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Californians are using less water, but they'll have to conserve a lot more to achieve the mandatory cuts taking effect this month, according to the latest numbers released Tuesday.
  
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• American Pharoah owner paved path of bold bets

  02-06-2015 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Ahmed Zayat spends big money buying and betting on horses, and brags about how successful he's been at everything he's set out to accomplish.
  
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• Obama says will sign domestic surveillance bill 'as soon as I get it'

  02-06-2015 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Barack Obama said on Tuesday he would sign a bill reforming a government domestic spying program "as soon as I get it." "Glad the Senate finally passed the USA Freedom Act. It protects civil liberties and our national security," Obama said on Twitter.
  
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• Rohingya huddled in Bangladesh camps fear plan to move them on

  02-06-2015 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Sanjeev Miglani KUTUPALONG, Bangladesh (Reuters) - More than 20 years after the first wave of Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar, fear is spreading through the sweltering camps of mud houses where they found shelter in southern Bangladesh that they will soon be on the move again. The refugees worry the Bangladesh government wants them out of sight, perhaps to one of its islands in the Bay of Bengal, as the two countries row over what to do with a stateless minority whose search for security is dri
  
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• Jordan seeks to get Prince Ali installed as FIFA president

  02-06-2015 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - The Jordanian FA has begun legal inquiries into whether defeated FIFA presidential candidate Prince Ali bin Al Hussein could replace Sepp Blatter without the need for a second election, it said on Tuesday. Blatter unexpectedly announced on Tuesday that he was quitting as FIFA chief, just four days after he was re-elected to a fifth term of office. Jordan's Prince Ali stood against Blatter but withdrew after gaining 73 votes to Blatter's 133 in the first round of Friday's vote.
  
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• Tesla boss downplays government subsidy as 'pittance'

  02-06-2015 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tesla Motors boss Elon Musk says his companies don't need an estimated $4.9 billion in government support they receive, but justified the aid in the cause of creating clean energy. The billionaire eco-entrepreneur added that the amount was a "pittance" compared to what the oil and gas industries receive. "If I cared about subsidies, I would have entered the oil and gas industry," the chief executive of Tesla Motors and SpaceX and the chairman of SolarCity told the LA Tim
  
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• Majid Khan: Guantanamo Bay detainee alleges CIA sexual abuse beyond original torture report

  02-06-2015 23:09
  
  A Guantanamo Bay inmate has alleged that the Central Intelligence Agency has used sexual abuse and more forms of torture than what were previously disclosed.
  
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• Congress sends NSA phone-records bill to president

  02-06-2015 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress approved sweeping changes Tuesday to surveillance laws enacted after the Sept. 11 attacks, eliminating the National Security Agency's disputed bulk phone-records collection program and replacing it with a more restrictive measure to keep the records in phone companies' hands.
  
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• AP Source: Panthers-Newton 5-year deal worth $103.8 million

  02-06-2015 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Quarterback Cam Newton has agreed to a five-year contract extension with the Carolina Panthers and a person close to the negotiations says the deal is worth $103.8 million.
  
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• Sepp Blatter quits: World Cup sponsors Coca-Cola and McDonald's react to outgoing Fifa president's resignation

  02-06-2015 23:01
  Coca Cola, one of the major sponsors of the Fifa World Cup, has welcomed Sepp Blatter’s resignation, which has come amid a widening corruption scandal.
  
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• Sponsors say Blatter resignation one step in FIFA reform

  02-06-2015 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Adidas, Coca-Cola and other top sponsors called the resignation of FIFA's president a welcome change, but said soccer's governing body still must work to regain fans' trust following a corruption scandal.
  
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• Venezuela seeks allies outside OPEC to steady oil prices

  02-06-2015 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Latin American crude producer Venezuela, struggling to cope with sharply lower oil prices, is seeking support outside OPEC to stabilise the market, it said Tuesday before this week's cartel output meeting. Venezuelan Oil Minister Asdrubal Chavez is currently in the Austrian capital to participate in Friday's meeting of the 12-nation Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). Caracas proposes to establish a "technical working group" of both OPEC and non-OPEC nations
  
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• THE LATEST: Bush on NSA surveillance lapse

  02-06-2015 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. (AP) — The latest from an economic conference in Florida where some of the leading Republican presidential candidates and likely candidates spoke Tuesday:
  
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• Sepp Blatter finally lets go of Fifa as FBI noose tightens

  02-06-2015 22:58 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  After 17 years as virtual head of state, addicted to the power from ruling football’s top body, he accepted the inevitable and resigned – but he’s not going quite yet Continue reading...
  
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• New Hampshire governor blocks baby pictures on beer bottles

  02-06-2015 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Sorry, baby, your picture isn't going to be on the front of any beer bottles in New Hampshire.
  
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• IRS irks casinos with pitch to cut jackpot tax threshold

  02-06-2015 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The IRS says a $600 slot machine or bingo jackpot might get its attention in the future, and the prospect has riled gamblers and the casino industry.
  
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• Column: Blatter's departure is a start, but not a revolution

  02-06-2015 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — "I only want to do the best for football," said the sport's most disliked man. Yeah, yeah, Sepp Blatter. Heard that one before. It was only when he then said he would be quitting as president of FIFA that Blatter's supposed good intentions for soccer could finally be believed.
  
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• Nielsen's top programs for May 25-31

  02-06-2015 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for May 25-31. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
  
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• Bill to limit domestic spy programs passes U.S. Congress

  02-06-2015 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Patricia Zengerle and Warren Strobel WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed a bill reforming a government domestic spying program that swept up millions of Americans' telephone records, sending the bill to the White House for President Barack Obama to sign into law. Reversing U.S. security policy that had been in place since shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, the bill would end a system exposed by former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden in 2013
  
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• US auto sales hit best pace since 2005

  02-06-2015 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Total industry sales rose 1.6 percent compared with May 2014 while the sales pace came in at an adjusted, annualized rate of 17.9 million vehicles, according to Autodata. While the sales pace was slightly inflated by a quirk of the calendar -- there were five weekends this May along with the Memorial Day holiday -- analysts said it remains good news for automakers and the economy as a whole.
  
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• Stocks drop as energy gains are offset by utilities slump

  02-06-2015 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The stock market remains stuck in a rut.
  
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• Report: Schools for Canada First Nations 'cultural genocide'

  02-06-2015 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TORONTO (AP) — A long-awaited report released Tuesday into Canada's decades-long government policy requiring Canadian First Nation children to attend state-funded church schools called it "nothing less than cultural genocide."
  
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• 'America's Got Talent' returns to top of ratings

  02-06-2015 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Memorial Day isn't the only sign of summer. The return of "America's Got Talent" to television screens, along with a liberal dose of reality shows and reruns, are just as reliable as thermometers.
  
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• Senate approves block on NSA bulk collection of phone records

  02-06-2015 22:48
  
  The US Senate has approved a bill that will curb the bulk collection of phone records by the National Security Agency. The vote came after the chamber earlier rejected amendments to the bill that would have slowed its passage.
  
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• FBI flying surveillance aircraft over US cities

  02-06-2015 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The FBI is operating a small fleet of aircraft to conduct warantless surveillance for criminal or counterterrorism operations, a spokesman said Tuesday. Although the Federal Bureau of Investigation was previously known to conduct surveillance, the program is being shown to be more widespread than previously known. "The FBI routinely uses aviation assets in support of predicated investigations targeting specific individuals," spokesman Christopher Allen told AFP.
  
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• Congress passes bill to limit domestic surveillance

  02-06-2015 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Senate passed a bill on Tuesday that ends spy agencies' bulk collection of Americans' telephone records, a vote that reversed national security policy that had been in place since shortly after the September 11, 2001, attacks. After weeks of often angry debate over how to balance concerns about privacy with worries about terrorist attacks, the Senate passed the USA Freedom Act by a vote of 67-32, with support from both Democrats and Republicans. Because the House of Representa
  
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• Where Caitlyn Jenner found her Vanity Fair style inspiration

  02-06-2015 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The stealth Caitlyn Jenner cover shoot for Vanity Fair sprang from her chats with the magazine's fashion and style director, Jessica Diehl, about inspirations ranging from Lauren Bacall to "The Thomas Crown Affair."
  
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• Pinterest to unveil 'buyable pins' in next few weeks

  02-06-2015 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Users of Pinterest will soon be able to buy items directly through the company's app using a new type of pin.
  
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• Jim Bailey, impersonator of female show biz legends, dies

  02-06-2015 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A singer-actor who transformed himself into such show biz legends as Judy Garland, Barbra Streisand and Peggy Lee during a career that spanned decades has died. Jim Bailey was 77.
  
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• Goodell makes it official: He will hear Brady's appeal

  02-06-2015 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell made it official Tuesday: He will hear Tom Brady's appeal of his four-game suspension.
  
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• Clint Eastwood to make biopic of pilot 'Sully' Sullenberger

  02-06-2015 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Clint Eastwood will follow up on his box-office sensation "American Sniper" with a biopic of pilot Chesley "Sully" Sullenberger.
  
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• Congress sends NSA phone collection bill to president

  02-06-2015 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress has sent legislation to the president reviving and remaking a disputed post-9/11 surveillance program two days after letting it temporarily expire.
  
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• National Lampoon to pay $3M to settle suit over transfers

  02-06-2015 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — National Lampoon Inc. has agreed to pay $3 million to settle a lawsuit alleging that a financier convicted of swindling investors in an Ohio company fraudulently transferred millions of dollars from those investors to the entertainment company known for movies such as "Animal House."
  
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• Star RB Adrian Peterson returns to Minnesota Vikings

  02-06-2015 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Adrian Peterson put on his Minnesota Vikings jersey for the first time in nine months on Tuesday. The star running back says he has learned a lot from the mistake he made when he struck his 4-year-old son with a wooden switch.
  
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• 'Dangerous' terror suspect shot dead in Boston

  02-06-2015 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A 26-year-old terror suspect under FBI surveillance was shot dead outside a pharmacy in Boston on Tuesday after brandishing a knife at police and federal agents, officials said. The FBI refused to comment on any possible allegations against Usaama Rahim, but police said he refused multiple orders to drop his military-style knife before being shot outside a CVS pharmacy store. Boston Police Commissioner William Evans said the suspect was wanted "for terrorist-related information" but re
  
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• US Congress curbs NSA surveillance, sends bill to Obama

  02-06-2015 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Washington (AFP) - The US Senate passed landmark legislation Tuesday that ends the government's bulk telephone data dragnet, reining in the most controversial surveillance program since the 9/11 attacks of 2001.
  
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• Kentucky folksinger, dulcimer player Jean Ritchie dies at 92

  02-06-2015 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Jean Ritchie, the Kentucky-born folksinger who brought the centuries-old ballads she grew up with to a wide audience from the 1950s onward, died Monday evening. She was 92. Ritchie died in her home in Berea, Kentucky, with family around her, her niece Judy Hudson said.
  
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• Shonds Rhomes writing book on a year of accepting challenges

  02-06-2015 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Shonda Rhimes' first book will have a positive message.
  
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• Whatever happened to Psy?

  02-06-2015 22:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  K-pop's plans to conquer the world
  
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