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• Snoop Dogg sues beer-maker Pabst over sale profits

  08-06-2015 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rapper Snoop Dogg is suing Pabst Brewing Co. over a deal he says entitles him a portion of the proceeds from the company's sale to Oasis Beverages.
  
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• Attorney: Judge dismisses defamation lawsuit by former 49er

  08-06-2015 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — An attorney says a California judge has dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by former San Francisco 49er Ray McDonald against a woman who accused him of rape.
  
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• UN presents Libyans with latest draft proposal for unity

  08-06-2015 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SKHIRAT, Morocco (AP) — The United Nations representative to Libya has presented the latest draft agreement for a unity government to delegations from the rival governments of the chaotic North African country.
  
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• Apple muscles into streaming music market

  08-06-2015 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Julia Love and Yasmeen Abutaleb SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple launched Apple Music on Monday, a $9.99-a-month streaming music service that may not differ dramatically from competitors but comes with Apple's deep music roots, global brand and hundreds of millions of iTunes customers. Apple's push into the streaming business will likely alter the dynamics of how consumers listen to music as the music industry grapples with declines in downloaded songs and tries to figure out new way
  
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• CNN crew takes cover as ISIS fires

  08-06-2015 23:52 via edition.cnn.com
  
  CNN's Nick Paton Walsh and his team had rare access to Shia and Sunni fighters on the front lines as they prepare to retake Ramadi from Isis.
  
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• US man held as teen at Rikers without trial kills himself

  08-06-2015 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An American man held for nearly three years as a teenager without trial at a notorious New York prison who later inspired efforts to reform the complex has committed suicide, officials said Monday. Kalief Browder died at his home in the Bronx on Saturday. Browder was arrested in 2010 and taken to Rikers Island as a 16-year-old for allegedly stealing a backpack, a crime he said he did not commit.
  
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• Bettors for historic American Pharoah victory have $315,000 in uncashed tickets

  08-06-2015 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Thoroughbred racing fans wanting a historical keepsake or possibly a cash windfall from American Pharoah's Triple Crown-clinching Belmont Stakes victory have not cashed $315,829 worth of $2 win tickets, track officials said on Monday. There were 94,128 $2 tickets purchased on Friday and Saturday at Belmont Park and Aqueduct Racetrack, both run by the New York Racing Association, said Belmont Stakes spokesman John Durso Jr. But after American Pharoah's 5-1/2-length victory o
  
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• U.S. Army site 'hacked by Syrians'

  08-06-2015 23:44 via edition.cnn.com
  
  The Syrian Electronic Army is taking credit for hacking the U.S. Army's public website.
  
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• Peru truck crash: 17 dead and 54 injured after vehicle carrying school children falls off cliff

  08-06-2015 23:36
  
  A tipper truck carrying dozens of school children has fallen from a cliff in the Peruvian Andes, killing 17 people and injuring 54.
  
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• Peru truck crash: 17 dead and 54 injured after vehicle carrying dozens of school children falls off cliff

  08-06-2015 23:36
  
  A tipper truck carrying dozens of school children has fallen from a cliff in the Peruvian Andes, killing 17 people and injuring 54.
  
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• Video of officer who drew gun on black teens raises tension

  08-06-2015 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — A black teenager in a swimsuit repeatedly cried out, "Call my momma!" as a white police officer pinned her to the ground, only moments after drawing his handgun on other black teens.
  
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• FIFA-financed movie nets only $900 in limited US release

  08-06-2015 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The FIFA-financed movie "United Passions" made only about $900 over the weekend, according to person who has seen box-office data from the 10 theaters the film played in, but who was granted anonymity because he wasn't authorized to release the figures.
  
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• Box office top 20: 'Spy' cracks 'San Andreas' with $29.1M

  08-06-2015 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Melissa McCarthy's globe-trotting comedy "Spy" cracked The Rock's disaster movie "San Andreas" at the weekend box office, taking the top spot with a $29.1 million debut.
  
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• Kansas police officer caught feeding baby as mother allegedly recovered from a seizure

  08-06-2015 23:18
  
  A Kansas police officer responded to call about a woman having a seizure at a shopping mall and upon arriving was caught in a photograph that has since gone viral.
  
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• New York town stands by its prison after brazen escape

  08-06-2015 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) — The northern New York town of Dannemora remained in a sort of lockdown Monday with troopers and corrections officers manning roadblocks.
  
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• Bullets fly on ISIS frontline as Iraqis prepare for battle

  08-06-2015 23:15 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Machine guns fire across the river separating ISIS and Iraqi fighters. Iraqis tell CNN they are ready for the coming battle -- but they say they need more air support.
  
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• B.B. King estate fight looms for family group, longtime aide

  08-06-2015 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A battle over B.B. King's estate is moving from the headlines to the courthouse in Las Vegas.
  
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• NTSB: Collision avoidance systems should be standard in cars

  08-06-2015 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Automakers should include as standard equipment in all new cars and light trucks systems that automatically brake or warn drivers to avoid rear-end collisions, the National Transportation Safety Board said in a report released Monday.
  
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• US man pleads guilty to airport attack plot

  08-06-2015 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Terry Loewen utilized his privileged airport access to attempt a terrorist attack in Wichita," Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Carlin said in a statement. Loewen, 59, was arrested in December 2013 when he tried to use his access pass to drive a van filled with what he believed to be explosives on to the grounds of the Wichita Mid-Continent Airport. An undercover agent began communicating with him and offered to help when Loewen "expressed his desire to engag
  
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• Staffer quizzed in killers' prison break

  08-06-2015 23:10 via edition.cnn.com
  
  As a massive manhunt continues for two convicted killers who escaped a New York prison, a female worker at the facility is being questioned as a possible accomplice, a law enforcement source tells CNN.
  
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• U.S. Army public website 'hacked'

  08-06-2015 23:09 via edition.cnn.com
  
  The Syrian Electronic Army is taking credit for hacking the U.S. Army's public website.
  
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• Beyond Lyme, new illnesses, more reason to watch for ticks

  08-06-2015 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Lyme disease makes the headlines but there are plenty of additional reasons to avoid tick bites. New research highlights the latest in a growing list of tick-borne threats — a distant relative of Lyme that's easy to confuse with other illnesses.
  
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• Aging MDs prompt call for competency tests at AMA meeting

  08-06-2015 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — With one out of four U.S. doctors older than 65, the American Medical Association adopted a plan Monday to help decide when it's time for aging senior physicians to hang up the stethoscope.
  
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• Pakistan stays execution for fourth time of man whose family says was just 14 when convicted

  08-06-2015 23:05 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A jail official says the scheduled execution of a Pakistani death-row prisoner whose family says was 14 years old when he was convicted has been stayed for a fourth time.
  
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• Bush fundraising machine preparing for campaign's launch

  08-06-2015 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican Jeb Bush's political fundraising machine is quietly rolling out an ambitious plan to generate campaign cash in the days after he steps into the 2016 presidential contest.
  
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• Iraqi forces prepare to retake Ramadi from ISIS

  08-06-2015 23:00 via edition.cnn.com
  
  CNN's Nick Paton Walsh and his team had rare access to Shia and Sunni fighters on the front lines as they prepare to retake Ramadi from Isis.
  
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• George RR Martin overseeing 'Game of Thrones' coloring book

  08-06-2015 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — George R.R. Martin is joining the adult coloring book game.
  
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• NCAA approves 30-second shot clock in men's basketball

  08-06-2015 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Men's basketball teams will play with a quicker shot clock and fewer timeouts next season.
  
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• Man admits plotting suicide bomb attack at Kansas airport

  08-06-2015 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A former avionics technician who authorities said wanted to cause "maximum carnage" during the holiday season admitted Monday to plotting a suicide bomb attack at a Wichita airport.
  
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• AP News Guide for Hastert's arraignment, legal issues

  08-06-2015 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — The federal indictment of former U.S. House Speaker Dennis Hastert has raised a long list of puzzling legal questions, including why prosecutors filed banking charges in a case that, at its core, appears to involve extortion and child abuse. No defense attorney came forward promptly to rebut the charges, and Hastert might have avoided some embarrassing details becoming public had he negotiated a plea agreement.
  
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• US jailbreak probe focuses on inside help

  08-06-2015 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two convicted killers who cut their way out of a US maximum security jail near the Canadian border probably had help from prison staff in a Hollywood-style conspiracy, New York's governor said Monday. Richard Matt, 49, and David Sweat, 35, used power tools to cut through walls at the Clinton Correctional Facility in the small town of Dannemora in New York state before dawn on Saturday.
  
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• NYC libraries use big-name writers to pitch for more funding

  08-06-2015 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York City public libraries are calling up some literary heavyweights in their fight for a bigger budget.
  
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• Dannemora prison escape: Police question female employee of maximum security jail as break-out prisoners remain at large

  08-06-2015 22:53
  Authorities are questioning a woman who worked at an upstate New York prison where two convicted killers escaped over the weekend as a manhunt ended its third day.
  
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• Steeper penalties keep drowsy teens awake at the wheel: study

  08-06-2015 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sleep-deprived teens are at the wheel during most fatigue-related crashes, according to experts, and car accidents are the leading cause of death in adolescents. Using data from police accidents reports, the study focused on crashes between March 2006 and March 2012 with property damage of more than $1,000, or which involved personal injury. Beginning in 2007, Massachusetts sharply increased the penalty for drowsy driving during nighttime hours, from $35 for a first offense to a 60-day driver�
  
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• Chinese armpit hair competition triggers online debate

  08-06-2015 22:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The competition that sparked an armpit hair debate in China
  
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• Winners and losers: 5 takeaways from Mexico midterm vote

  08-06-2015 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Here are five things to know about Mexico's midterm elections, seen as a referendum on President Enrique Pena Nieto's government halfway through his six-year term.
  
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• Winners and losers: 5 takeaways from Mexico midterm elections

  08-06-2015 22:40 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Here are five things to know about Mexico's midterm elections, seen as a referendum on President Enrique Pena Nieto's government halfway through his six-year term.
  
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• Trying to make sense of Kim Jong-un

  08-06-2015 22:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Why it's so hard to make sense of Kim Jong-un, North Korea's Supreme Leader.
  
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• Studies: Widely used diabetes drugs seem safe for the heart

  08-06-2015 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Some widely used diabetes medicines help control blood sugar without the heart risks suggested by earlier research, new studies find.
  
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• Erdogan's ambitions dashed after ruling party loses majority

  08-06-2015 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — In normal times, you can't escape President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Turkey. His voice booms from television screens, his hands wave at campaign rallies and his face smiles from billboards.
  
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• Apple aims to become online music powerhouse

  08-06-2015 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Apple made its play to shake up online music Monday with a new subscription service allowing users to stream songs, listen to playlists and connect with performers. The new Apple Music, which could be a powerful rival to online services such as Spotify and Pandora, will launch June 30 in 100 countries. It will initially be available to consumers with Apple devices and later this year to those using Android -- a shift for Apple, which aims to attract customers from the rival mobile system which i
  
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• Italian businessman wanted in Albania fraud probe into unbuilt hydroelectric plant

  08-06-2015 22:28 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Albanian authorities have issued arrest warrants for an Italian businessman, his mother, and two associates, accused of fraud-related offenses and money laundering over a failed hydroelectric scheme that allegedly cost the government tens of millions of euros in grants and unpaid taxes.
  
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• G7 climate vision requires gargantuan economic shift

  08-06-2015 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — When leaders of the Group of Seven wealthy countries pledge to "decarbonize" the global economy they're talking about a shift so dramatic that one analyst described it as a new Apollo mission.
  
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• Greece talks of compromise as Merkel warns time is short

  08-06-2015 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Renee Maltezou and Noah Barkin ATHENS/KRUEN, Germany (Reuters) - Greece proclaimed a new willingness to compromise with its international creditors on Monday, as German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned that time was running out for a reform-for-aid deal to keep the country in the euro. Three days after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras told his parliament the latest proposal from the EU and IMF was "absurd", the Greek government said it was ready to negotiate a settlement acceptable to b
  
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• Apple reveals its Spotify rival

  08-06-2015 22:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Apple reveals a new music streaming service and reveals that its Apple Pay digital wallet system will launch in the UK in July.
  
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• Oscar Pistorius to be released from prison on Aug 21

  08-06-2015 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Oscar Pistorius will be released from prison for good behavior on Aug. 21 and go under house arrest after serving just 10 months for killing girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, South Africa's department of corrections said Monday.
  
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• Tech shares, airlines lead US stocks lower

  08-06-2015 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - US stocks dropped Monday, as the week kicked off with especially large declines in tech shares and airline stocks.
  
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• Attorney: House explosion stupid, selfish plan gone awry

  08-06-2015 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — An attorney for a man charged in a deadly house explosion that damaged or destroyed more than 80 homes in an Indianapolis neighborhood says he never meant to cause so much damage.
  
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• Mexican soccer star Cuauhtemoc Blanco apparent winner of Cuernavaca mayoral race

  08-06-2015 22:11 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Mexican soccer star Cuauhtemoc Blanco has apparently won election as mayor of Cuernavaca, just south of Mexico City.
  
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• US stocks end lower, pushing Dow into the red for the year

  08-06-2015 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are closing lower, putting the Dow Jones industrial average into the red for the year.
  
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