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• Former assistant accuses Salazar of encouraging doping

  03-06-2015 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Long-distance running coach Alberto Salazar's former assistant is among those accusing the American of violating anti-doping rules and encouraging doping by one of his top runners, Olympic silver medalist Galen Rupp.
  
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• Bill allows reporters to refuse gov't demand to name sources

  03-06-2015 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The GOP-controlled House has voted to block the government from forcing reporters to testify about their sources or where they got information.
  
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• USDA: Bird flu vaccine not good enough for outbreak

  03-06-2015 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture says a bird flu vaccine doesn't work well enough to approve it for emergency use against the current outbreak that's shaken the Midwest poultry industry.
  
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• Yahoo lands rights to show NFL game on Internet this fall

  03-06-2015 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL is teaming up with Yahoo to show a game live on the Internet this fall.
  
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• Dead Boston suspect planned to behead police: prosecutors

  03-06-2015 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A 26-year-old security guard shot dead by police and the FBI in Boston planned to behead American police officers at random to wage violent jihad, court papers said Wednesday. An alleged associate, David Wright, 25, appeared in court Wednesday charged with conspiring to obstruct a federal investigation. Court papers said Rahim, who lived in Boston, had been "planning to engage in a violent attack in the United States" since May 26 -- little over a week before his death.
  
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• Man Defends Carrying Loaded Rifle Through Airport

  03-06-2015 23:47
  
  A man roamed the Hartsfield-Jackson Atlantaairport last week with a rifle in hand and it was perfectly legal, according to police.
  
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• A tumultuous week ends as Blatter gets standing ovation

  03-06-2015 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ZURICH (AP) — In one tumultuous week, world soccer's governing body was plunged into a corruption scandal, top officials were arrested, new investigations were launched, and Sepp Blatter was re-elected as president, only to stun everyone by saying he was quitting.
  
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• High School Graduate Strikes Back at School Dress Code With Yearbook Quote

  03-06-2015 23:47
  She apologized to those who were "too distracted by my midriff and consequently failed all of their classes!"
  
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• Family who 'fled home because it was infested with snakes' launch $2m lawsuit against estate agent and prior owner

  03-06-2015 23:46
  A couple in the US state of Maryland have launched a $2million (£1.3m) lawsuit against an estate agent, claiming the firm knowing sold them a home crawling with snakes.
  
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• Former Rhode Island Governor Chafee joins Democratic presidential race

  03-06-2015 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee formally announced his bid for the 2016 Democratic presidential nomination on Wednesday, becoming the third candidate to challenge party front-runner Hillary Clinton. Chafee, 62, a former Republican U.S. senator as well as an independent for a short time, announced his campaign in a speech at George Mason University in Virginia, just outside Washington. (Reporting by Peter Cooney; Editing by Sandra Maler)
  
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• Michelle Obama boosts pollinating insects at garden harvest

  03-06-2015 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama said Wednesday that it's important to help bees, butterflies and other creatures that spread the pollen that helps food grow.
  
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• Police conclude murder-suicide in deaths of Alaska family

  03-06-2015 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska man shot and killed his girlfriend, her two young daughters and the family dog in 2014 before turning a gun on himself in the woods near the family's home, authorities said Wednesday.
  
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• A$AP Rocky latest rapper to top chart with early release

  03-06-2015 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A$AP Rocky's new album opened at number one Wednesday on the US charts as he became the latest rapper to score big with a surprise early release. The album sold 146,000 copies or the equivalent in downloads and streaming in the week through Sunday, topping Taylor Swift's still-blockbuster "1989" on the Billboard chart, tracking service Nielsen Music said. Two of the biggest names in hip-hop, Kendrick Lamar and Drake, also released albums early or unexpectedly this year and wo
  
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• Rhode Island's Chafee enters 2016 Democratic contest

  03-06-2015 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton has a third longshot challenger for the Democratic presidential nomination.
  
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• Tamir Rice case heading toward grand jury

  03-06-2015 23:32
  
  The investigation into the shooting death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice has been handed over to Cuyahoga County prosecutors, who expect to convene a grand jury soon, according to ABC News.
  
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• White House asks New Hampshire 4th-graders to name its hawk

  03-06-2015 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Some New Hampshire fourth-graders whose effort to name the red-tailed hawk the official state raptor was defeated at the statehouse are aiming a little higher: the White House.
  
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• Clinton wants voting rights overhaul, more early voting

  03-06-2015 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton plans to call for an early voting period of at least 20 days in every state in an effort to expand access to voting across the nation.
  
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• Native American wins right to wear feather at graduation

  03-06-2015 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A native American student has won the right to wear an eagle feather at his US school graduation, after a last-minute deal was reached to curtail court action, officials said Wednesday. Christian Titman had repeatedly asked his school in California to let him display the feather, presented by his father as a mark of his academic achievements, at his graduation Thursday. On Tuesday the 18-year-old, a member of the Pit River Tribe, launched an emergency court motion backed by the American Civil Li
  
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• After splashy debut, bureaucracy awaits Caitlyn Jenner

  03-06-2015 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A glamorous Vanity Fair cover served as Caitlyn Jenner's introduction to the world, but far more mundane matters await the Olympic champion before she can legally assume her new identity.
  
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• Usaamah Abdullah Rahim: Man shot dead by police discussed 'beheading officers' with knife, claims FBI

  03-06-2015 23:23
  
  A Massachusetts man shot dead by police had discussed plans to behead police officers with an associate arrested the same day, according to papers filed in a Boston court.
  
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• Civil Liberties a 'Thorny Policy Challenge' While Thwarting US Terror

  03-06-2015 23:22
  
  The White House acknowledged that tracking Americans inspired by ISIS without compromising civil liberties is ???among the most difficult challenges" the president faces.
  
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• Bomb rocks city as Nigeria takes command of Boko Haram fight

  03-06-2015 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MAIDUGURI, Nigeria (AP) — An explosion that thundered across the city killed at least 11 people in Nigeria's northeastern city of Maiduguri on Wednesday, as a Nigerian general took command of a multinational force fighting the extremist group Boko Haram.
  
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• Pentagon admits wider problem with anthrax shipments

  03-06-2015 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US military admitted Wednesday a problem involving mistaken shipments of live anthrax is much worse than previously reported, with samples of the lethal bacteria sent to more than 50 laboratories. Pentagon officials insisted there was no threat to public health but the latest numbers showed small concentrations of suspected live anthrax were shipped to 51 labs in 17 states and the US capital Washington, as well as to Australia, Canada and a US base in South Korea. When the Pentagon first ack
  
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• Plaintiff in 'gay conversion' suit tells of therapy methods

  03-06-2015 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JERSEY CITY, N.J. (AP) — A plaintiff suing a New Jersey nonprofit over so-called 'gay conversion' therapy says he cut off contact with his mother after being told she was the cause of his same-sex attractions.
  
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• Expert panel: Mammograms are most worth it for women 50-69

  03-06-2015 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A new, international panel of experts has studied the most recent evidence on mammograms to screen for breast cancer and says they do the most good for women in their 50s and 60s.
  
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• Bear cub badly burned in Washington blaze is back in wild

  03-06-2015 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — A bear cub found badly burned last summer in the largest wildfire in Washington state history has endured a long recovery but is now back in the wild.
  
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• Ex-FIFA executive detailed bribes in 2013 secret guilty plea

  03-06-2015 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former executive committee member of soccer’s global governing body FIFA told a U.S. judge in November 2013 that he took bribes in connection with the 1998 and 2010 World Cups, among other major tournaments. Charles Blazer, a U.S. citizen who spent two decades as a powerful soccer official, secretly pleaded guilty to 10 criminal counts in federal court in New York as part of an agreement with U.S. prosecutors, according to a partially blacked out transcript
  
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• LeBron a favorite in Vegas even if Cavaliers are not

  03-06-2015 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — LeBron James will do more than just make a lot of people in Cleveland happy if he can find a way to lead the Cavaliers over Golden State in the NBA Finals.
  
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• Sac and Fox launch campaign for return of Jim Thorpe

  03-06-2015 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The Sac and Fox Nation on Wednesday launched a campaign seeking to move the remains of renowned athlete Jim Thorpe from Pennsylvania to Oklahoma.
  
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• Leaders: Video shows knife-wielding suspect not shot in back

  03-06-2015 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — A knife-wielding man killed by the terror investigators who had him under surveillance was confronted because he had purchased knives and talked of an imminent attack on "boys in blue," the FBI said Wednesday.
  
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• Fifa corruption: Former executive committee member Chuck Blazer lifts lid on decades of bribery and back handers in explosive testimony

  03-06-2015 23:00
  With Fifa’s President gone and its key executives still languishing in detention centres all around Zurich, the FBI’s key informant in the investigation that has ripped the heart out of football’s corrupt governing body has laid bare the decades long schemes of bribery and back handers that stretch all the way from France 1998 to South Africa 2010 and, probably, beyond.
  
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• Big drop in Pakistan polio cases

  03-06-2015 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Polio cases in Pakistan have dropped by 70% this year as troops advance against militants opposed to vaccination programmes, officials tell the BBC.
  
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• French presidency backs tie-up of EDF-Areva reactor businesses

  03-06-2015 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The French presidency on Wednesday gave its backing to a tie-up between state-owned electricity group EDF and Areva's reactor-building unit, adding that the government would spend "as much as necessary" to recapitalise the troubled nuclear group. The Elysee said EDF was set to become "a majority shareholder" in Areva's reactor subsidiary, Areva NP, in what could signal a considerable restructuring of the nation's energy sector. "From now on, the activities
  
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• Dead Boston terror suspect planned to kill US police: prosecutors

  03-06-2015 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A 26-year-old security guard shot dead by police and the FBI in Boston plotted to behead American police officers at random to wage violent jihad, court papers said Wednesday. Usaamah Rahim purchased three military-style knives and a sharpener from Amazon.com in the days leading up to his alleged plan to "go after" the "boys in blue" this week. An alleged associate David Wright, 25, appeared in court Wednesday charged with conspiring to obstruct a federal investigation.
  
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• The Latest: Blazer's plea included admission of bribes

  03-06-2015 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Chief: Wisconsin officer cleared in shooting will patrol

  03-06-2015 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A white Wisconsin police officer was exonerated Wednesday by an internal investigation of his fatal shooting of an unarmed 19-year-old biracial man, a move that follows prosecutors declining to file charges and clears the way for him to get his job back.
  
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• NH fugitive wanted in deaths of parents caught in Florida

  03-06-2015 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — A man who made the U.S. Marshals Service's most-wanted list after being charged with killing his parents and setting their New Hampshire house on fire last year was captured Wednesday at a Florida hotel where he was living and working, authorities said.
  
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• Blazer details corruption in 1998, 2010 World Cup host bids

  03-06-2015 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chuck Blazer admitted in court testimony released Wednesday he conspired with fellow FIFA executives to accept bribes during the process to choose hosts for the 1998 and 2010 World Cups. The bearded multimillionaire, the face of North American soccer for two decades, pleaded guilty to racketeering, part of a massive US corruption case targeting world football's governing body.
  
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• Ali Smith wins Baileys Prize for fiction by women

  03-06-2015 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Scottish writer Ali Smith has won the Baileys Prize for fiction with her double-narrative novel "How To Be Both."
  
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• Taiwan president candidate seeks stable relations with China

  03-06-2015 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Taiwan's opposition presidential candidate says if she comes to power in January elections, her government would have a responsibility to contribute to peace and stability in relations with mainland China.
  
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• Bomb blast rocks northeast Nigerian city of Maiduguri

  03-06-2015 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Witnesses say an explosion has rocked a busy commercial area in the city Maiduguri in Nigeria's northeast, the latest of daily attacks blamed on Boko Haram extremists.
  
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• Shareholders endorse Google's course

  03-06-2015 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Google shareholders on Wednesday endorsed the course set by the Internet titan, rejecting proposals to dilute its power structure and scrutinize investments in renewable energy. Voting at the California-based company's annual shareholders meeting ended with the recommended slate of board members elected and passage of a company proposal to increase the potential number of C Class shares issued. Investor proposals opposed by the board and shot down by shareholders included re-configuring sha
  
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• Bull free after falling into metro Atlanta well, taking nap

  03-06-2015 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FAIRBURN, Ga. (AP) — A bull that fell into a metro Atlanta well has been freed after taking a nap during the rescue effort.
  
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• FBI extends FIFA scrutiny to World Cup host bids of Russia, Qatar

  03-06-2015 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Mark Hosenball and Katharina Bart NEW YORK/ZURICH (Reuters) - The FBI's investigation of bribery and corruption at FIFA includes scrutiny of how soccer's governing body awarded World Cup hosting rights to Russia and Qatar, a U.S. law enforcement official said. Russia and Qatar have denied wrongdoing in the conduct of their bids for the 2018 and 2022 tournaments, which were not the subject of charges announced by U.S. prosecutors a week ago against FIFA officials that stunned world s
  
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• Tamir Rice Police Shooting Case Given to Prosecutors

  03-06-2015 22:33
  
  The move in the case of Tamir Rice comes more than six months after the 12-year-old boy was fatally shot.
  
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• Ex-FIFA executive detailed bribe-taking in 2013 secret guilty plea

  03-06-2015 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A former executive committee member of soccer’s global governing body FIFA told a U.S. judge in November 2013 that he took bribes in connection with the 1998 and 2010 World Cups, among other major events. Charles Blazer, a U.S. citizen who spent two decades as one of the world’s most powerful soccer officials, secretly pleaded guilty to 10 criminal counts in New York as part of an agreement with U.S. prosecutors, according to a partially redacted transcript of the hearing released on Wednesd
  
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• Strike levels huge Iraq car bomb factory in blow to IS

  03-06-2015 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An air strike in the Iraqi town of Hawijah completely levelled one of the Islamic State group's largest car bomb factories, causing heavy casualties and extensive destruction, officials said. The blast caused by the strike and the destruction of explosive material was heard as far as Kirkuk, a city under Kurdish control that lies 55 kilometres (34 miles) away. Iraqi officials said the strike was carried out by a US-led coalition, which has defended its 10-month air campaign against IS despi
  
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• North Carolina OKs bill for 72-hour wait period for abortion

  03-06-2015 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The North Carolina General Assembly has passed a bill that would make the state one of several with a 72-hour waiting period for abortions.
  
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• Christie: Will actively vie in South Carolina _ if he runs

  03-06-2015 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SPARTANBURG, S.C. (AP) — Potential Republican presidential contender Chris Christie says he intends to compete actively in South Carolina if he chooses to run, despite some perceptions that his brash style and record on issues like gun control won't appeal to voters in the South's first 2016 primary.
  
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• U.S. Tourist Killed by Lion Worked on 'Game of Thrones'

  03-06-2015 22:28 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The family of an American tourist who was attacked and killed by a lion in South Africa has posted a moving tribute to her online.
  
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