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• Dannemora prison break search extends to Vermont: Escape has become longest prison break in New York history

  10-06-2015 23:59
  
  Five days after they escaped from a maximum security prison in upstate New York, officials have revealed they still have little idea where they may be.
  
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• Dannemora prison break: Escape has become longest prison break in New York history

  10-06-2015 23:59
  
  Five days after they escaped from a maximum security prison in upstate New York, officials have revealed they still have little idea where they may be.
  
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• VIDEO: Inside US anti-IS command centre

  10-06-2015 23:58 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The United States confirms it is sending an additional 450 troops to Iraq to help boost the training of government forces.
  
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• Blue Bell: Listeria source likely ID'd at Oklahoma plant

  10-06-2015 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Blue Bell Creameries believes the listeria found at its Oklahoma facility is likely linked to a non-sanitary room, though the company has not been able to pinpoint a single source for the contamination at its Texas plant, according to a report released Wednesday.
  
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• The Latest on pool incident: Teen's lawyer considers options

  10-06-2015 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  McKINNEY, Texas (AP) — 4:45 p.m. (CDT)
  
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• Polish ministers quit over leak row

  10-06-2015 23:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Three Polish government ministers and the country's parliamentary Speaker resign amid a growing row over leaked tapes.
  
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• Family forced to flee -- three times

  10-06-2015 23:47 via edition.cnn.com
  
  The journey for a better life European migrants must undergo is one fraught with peril, persecution and death. CNN's Isa Soares reports.
  
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• Latino named US poet laureate for the first time

  10-06-2015 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A writer of Latino descent was named US poet laureate on Wednesday -- a first for the country's booming Hispanic community. Juan Felipe Herrera, a Californian of Mexican descent, got the prestigious nod from the Library of Congress, America's oldest and the world's biggest. In announcing the honor, Librarian of Congress James Billington compared Herrera's work to "Leaves of Grass" by Walt Whitman.
  
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• Christie faults GOP for sounding unwelcoming to Latinos

  10-06-2015 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is faulting his party for taking an unwelcoming tone at times toward minority voters.
  
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• Why Americans are getting new credit cards

  10-06-2015 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A big change is happening inside your wallet.
  
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• Surprise signatures hidden in special Corvette

  10-06-2015 23:39 via edition.cnn.com
  
  For Corvette lovers it's sort of like a painter being asked to touch up the "Mona Lisa."
  
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• NY killer fugitives 'now in Vermont'

  10-06-2015 23:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Two convicted murderers who have been on the run for five days after breaking out of prison may have fled to Vermont, police believe.
  
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• Over half of Greeks disapprove of government stance in lender talks: poll

  10-06-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than half of Greeks are dissatisfied with their government's performance in negotiating with the country's international lenders, an opinion poll showed on Thursday. The Marc poll, which was carried out June 7-10 for Alpha television, showed that 53.4 percent were not satisfied with the negotiating stance of the leftist government led by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, against 45.5 percent who were satisfied. In a previous Marc poll in April, 50.5 percent approved of the government's negotia
  
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• Silence over UN emissions targets

  10-06-2015 23:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Politicians at a UN climate conference in Bonn, Germany are refusing to discuss whether their polices will actually protect the climate.
  
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• S&P downgrades Greece after IMF repayment delayed

  10-06-2015 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a statement, S&P said it had lowered the rating by one notch to CCC from CCC+, saying that as Athens delayed the debt repayment last Friday, the government appeared to be prioritizing pension payments and domestic spending over its debt-service obligations. S&P also said that given the risk of a further worsening of liquidity for the government, its banks, and the economy, its credit outlook for Greece is negative. In the absence of deal between Greece and its EU/IMF creditors, S&P said "the
  
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• After son's death, Biden balances grief with public duties

  10-06-2015 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden is facing the daunting decision of how and when to re-enter public life after burying his 46-year-old son, Beau Biden, whose death has put a somber pause on the vice president's usually frenetic schedule.
  
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• Study: Rape prevention training works, cuts sex assault risk

  10-06-2015 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A program that taught college women ways to prevent sexual assault cut in half the chances they would be raped over the next year, a Canadian study found. It was the first large, scientific test of resistance training, and the strong results should spur more universities to offer it, experts say.
  
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• Lawyer: Prior calls took 'emotional toll' on Texas officer

  10-06-2015 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — A Texas police officer had answered back-to-back suicide calls and was fraught with emotion when he responded to a report of a fight at a pool party where he wrestled a black teenage girl to the ground, his lawyer said Wednesday, hours after activists called for prosecutors to charge him.
  
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• US experts urge approval of another new cholesterol drug

  10-06-2015 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US experts urged regulators Wednesday to approve a second new anti-cholesterol drug, a day after recommending they bring to market the first in a new class of medications to lower the risk of heart attack. The advisory panel to the US Food and Drug Administration voted 11-4 that the benefits of Amgen's drug evolocumab outweighed the risks, and was unanimous in its decision that the drug should be approved. The same group voted 13-3 in favor of alirocumab by Sanofi and Regeneron Pharmaceutic
  
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• Virginia woman faces 2nd charge of leaving kids in hot car

  10-06-2015 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Police say a Virginia woman left her two children in a hot car while being booked on a charge of committing the same crime days earlier.
  
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• Jawbone files second lawsuit against rival Fitbit

  10-06-2015 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Fitness tracker maker Jawbone has filed its second lawsuit in two weeks against competitor Fitbit.
  
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• Correction: Waco Shooting story

  10-06-2015 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WACO, Texas (AP) — In a story June 6 about a shootout involving bikers in Waco, The Associated Press reported erroneously that witnesses said the sound of semi-automatic gunfire dominated the shootout. They said the shootout was dominated by what sounded like short bursts of automatic gunfire. The AP also erroneously reported that a semi-automatic weapon can shoot more bullets in less time than a small-caliber weapon. The story should have said that an automatic weapon can fire multiple rounds
  
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• Chancellor announces RBS sell-off

  10-06-2015 23:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The government plans to sell its stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland, Chancellor George Osborne announces in his annual Mansion House speech.
  
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• Texas pool party cop did not target blacks: lawyer

  10-06-2015 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A white policeman filmed pulling a gun at a Texas pool party attended mainly by black teenagers acted out of stress rather than racism, his lawyer said Wednesday, a day after he quit. Eric Casebolt is in hiding because of death threats, according to his lawyer, who said the policeman resigned from the McKinney force in hopes of easing tensions in the Dallas suburb after the video went viral and provoked outrage. The footage -- which has been seen 11 million times on YouTube -- shows Casebolt pin
  
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• Amanda Knox to be tried for slander by Italian court

  10-06-2015 23:17
  
  Months after Italy’s highest court acquitted Amanda Knox of the murder of Meredith Kercher, the writer is facing a new trial after being charged with slandering police.
  
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• Klinsmann's USA stun world champions Germany

  10-06-2015 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jurgen Klinsmann's USA shocked Germany with a 2-1 victory in Wednesday's friendly as the Stars and Stripes followed up their win over the Netherlands by beating the world champions. Bobby Wood, who plays for Germany's third division side Erzgebirge Aue, scored the winner just before the final whistle to seal the Americans' deserved victory. Again the USA fought back from a goal down to cap a strong display as Germany suffered their third defeat since winning the World Cup las
  
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• Police widen search for escaped US killers

  10-06-2015 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hundreds of US police officers Wednesday expanded across state lines an exhaustive search for two "extremely dangerous" killers who escaped from one of New York's toughest jails five days ago. The public was warned that Richard Matt, 49, and David Sweat, 35, could kill again after using power tools to cut through walls at the Clinton Correctional Facility in Dannemora on Saturday. There is no reason to believe they wouldn't do it again," New York Governor Andrew Cuomo sa
  
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• Baffert planning to get Triple Crown winner to Breeders' Cup

  10-06-2015 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ARCADIA, Calif. (AP) — Bob Baffert's phone is ringing with calls from racetracks eager to have the trainer bring Triple Crown winner American Pharoah to their places.
  
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• Germany 1-2 USA

  10-06-2015 23:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Bobby Wood's late strike gives Jurgen Klinsmann's USA victory over Germany in a friendly in Cologne.
  
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• Greece's Tsipras in last-ditch talks with Merkel, Hollande

  10-06-2015 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras held last-ditch talks with the German and French leaders in Brussels Wednesday as Athens showed signs of concessions on a deal that could stop the country going bankrupt. Tsipras held a three-way meeting with Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande on the sidelines of an EU-Latin American summit, hours after holding fresh talks with European Commission chief Jean-Claude Juncker. Greece's new anti-austerity government has been locked in a five-month standoff w
  
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• 4 B.B. King daughters raise possibility of 'missing' will

  10-06-2015 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Four of B.B. King's daughters are raising the possibility that he has a second will, and they're again accusing the blues legend's longtime business manager of stealing his wealth and endangering his health in the days before he died.
  
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• Former Brazil star Zico running for FIFA president

  10-06-2015 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Former Brazil star Zico says he wants to run for the presidency of FIFA.
  
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• Sexy ads promote water saving with a wink in San Francisco

  10-06-2015 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco Bay Area water officials are urging residents to go "full-frontal" and take short, steamy showers.
  
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• City set to vote on cancelling arena deal with Coyotes

  10-06-2015 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — The city of Glendale issued a statement Wednesday saying it would be open to renegotiating an arena lease deal with the Arizona Coyotes, hours before the City Council was scheduled to vote on cancelling the existing deal.
  
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• Prison break: The woman thought to have helped

  10-06-2015 23:02 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Almost as soon as guards discovered that two convicted murderers had broken out of a maximum-security prison in upstate New York, the talk began that someone must have helped them. The tools they used, the knowledge they had and the intricacy of their plan left many convinced that Richard Matt and David Sweat couldn't have done it alone.
  
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• Wood's 87th-minute goal lifts US to 2-1 win at Germany

  10-06-2015 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COLOGNE, Germany (AP) — Bobby Wood scored a late goal for the second time in six days to give the United States its first victory at a European soccer power, lifting the Americans to a 2-1 win at World Cup champion Germany in an exhibition game Wednesday.
  
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• UK Treasury chief announces plans to sell RBS bank shares

  10-06-2015 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — The U.K.'s Treasury chief announced Wednesday that the government will start selling its stake in the Royal Bank of Scotland in coming months, the first step in the country's attempt to recover money from its costliest bank rescue operation ever.
  
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• Texas pool party officer 'not racist'

  10-06-2015 22:53 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The police officer filmed in a confrontation with black teenagers at a pool party in Texas was acting out of stress, not racism, says his lawyer.
  
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• Pope moves on sex abuse bishops

  10-06-2015 22:49 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Pope Francis has created a church tribunal to judge bishops who fail to protect children from sexually abusive priests, the Vatican announced Wednesday, a move long sought by abuse victims and their advocates.
  
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• Hunt for killers expands to Vermont; staffer under suspicion

  10-06-2015 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) — The manhunt for two escaped killers expanded to campsites and boat slips in Vermont on Wednesday, and State Police said a female prison staff member being questioned may have had a role in helping the men.
  
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• Standard & Poor's downgrades Greece's credit rating 1 notch further into junk territory

  10-06-2015 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Standard & Poor's downgrades Greece's credit rating 1 notch further into junk territory.
  
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• Surprise signatures hidden in sinkhole Corvette

  10-06-2015 22:48 via edition.cnn.com
  
  For Corvette lovers it's sort of like a painter being asked to touch up the "Mona Lisa."
  
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• Obama orders more troops to Iraq to guide fightback against Islamic State

  10-06-2015 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Matt Spetalnick and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama on Wednesday ordered the deployment of 450 more U.S. troops to Iraq's Sunni heartland to advise and assist fragile Iraqi forces being built up to try to retake territory lost to Islamic State. The plan to expand the 3,100-strong U.S. contingent in Iraq and open a new operations centre closer to the fighting in Anbar province marks an adjustment in strategy for Obama, who has faced mounting pressure to do mo
  
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• Killers on the run: Hunt expands

  10-06-2015 22:45 via edition.cnn.com
  
  After all the meticulous planning Richard Matt and David Sweat put into breaking out of prison, their plan on the run may be much less sophisticated.
  
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• Warriors confident of another comeback in the NBA Finals

  10-06-2015 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — All things considered, the Golden State Warriors would rather have been golfing.
  
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• Apple dispatches fleet of cars to get map service data

  10-06-2015 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Apple said Wednesday that it is cruising streets in specially equipped cars to gather pictures and other data for its free online mapping service. For years, a Street View team has been ranging the world for Google Maps. Following in its tracks, Apple promised to safeguard privacy while gathering mapping data on the road.
  
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• US stocks surge as tech, banking sectors lead

  10-06-2015 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - The Dow jumped more than 1.3 percent Wednesday as a broad-based rally led by technology and banking shares snapped a week of anemic trade in US equity markets.
  
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• Celebrity hack: FBI raids home

  10-06-2015 22:42 via edition.cnn.com
  
  FBI agents stormed a home in Chicago last fall and seized several computers, cell phones and storage drives in connection with the investigation into the hacking and leaking of dozens of celebrities' private nude photos, according to a warrant unsealed this week.
  
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• Brazil legend Zico wants Fifa role

  10-06-2015 22:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Brazil legend Zico says he intends to stand for the presidency of crisis-hit Fifa as it is his "duty".
  
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• Daughter of 'Honey Boo Boo' mom sues over payments

  10-06-2015 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MCDONOUGH, Ga. (AP) — The daughter of the reality TV show mother on "Here Comes Honey Boo Boo" is suing, saying she hasn't been fully paid for her appearances.
  
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