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• The Latest: Tropical Storm Bill begins to weaken in Texas

  16-06-2015 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• 2 siblings found dead in gas-filled home are laid to rest

  16-06-2015 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW HAVEN, Conn. (AP) — A pastor cited "evilness" in the world as nearly 200 people gathered Tuesday for the funeral of two young siblings who authorities say were killed by their mother and found dead in a home filled with natural gas.
  
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• Forecast has crews battling Alaska wildfires on high alert

  16-06-2015 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Two wildfires burning north and south of Anchorage stretched Alaska firefighting resources Tuesday as crews scrambled to protect rural homes and cabins.
  
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• Congress says hacked federal agency 'failed utterly and totally' to protect data

  16-06-2015 23:55 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Personal information of almost every government employee was stolen from the Office of Personnel Management, which neglected basic cybersecurity practicesThe agency that allowed hackers linked to China to steal private information about nearly every US government employee and detailed personal histories of military and intelligence workers with security clearances failed for years to take basic steps to secure its computer networks, officials acknowledged to Congress on Tuesday. Related: OPM hac
  
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• 36-0 defeat: Or a goal every 2.5 mins

  16-06-2015 23:50 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Imagine watching your team concede a goal every two and a half minutes.
  
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• Records: Man shot near base reported 'spy devices' at home

  16-06-2015 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JACKSONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — The armed man who was shot and critically wounded while trying to get into Little Rock Air Force Base had suffered financial problems and hallucinations, and believed "spy devices" were planted at his home by base officials, according to documents released Tuesday.
  
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• Indonesian police show off alleged 'people smuggler bribes' from Australia

  16-06-2015 23:45 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Indonesian police provide photos of cash allegedly paid to people smugglers and urge journalists ‘to demand an answer from the Australian government’Indonesian police have provided photos of cash allegedly paid to people smugglers amid reports an Australian spy facilitated the payment.General Endang Sunjaya, police chief of Nusa Tenggara Timur province, provided photos of the cash to Fairfax Media, which he said was given to six crew members by an Australian official. Continue reading...
  
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• Juncker: Greece 'misleading' voters

  16-06-2015 23:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jean-Claude Juncker has accused the Greek government of misleading voters as Alexis Tsipras said its creditors were trying to "humiliate" the country.
  
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• Manfred says MLB can expand fan netting without bargaining

  16-06-2015 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Major League Commissioner Rob Manfred says management can order expanded netting to protect fans without bargaining over the matter with the players' association.
  
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• Fox says Rupert Murdoch's sons to take new posts July 1

  16-06-2015 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Twenty-First Century Fox said Tuesday that Rupert Murdoch will turn over more power to his sons James and Lachlan on July 1.
  
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• Senate GOP bill combats Obama environmental agenda

  16-06-2015 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A GOP-controlled Senate panel on Tuesday approved a $31 billion spending bill slashing the Environmental Protection Agency's budget by more than $500 million and seeking to block the agency on clean air and water regulations, global warming, and hydraulic fracturing to extract oil and gas from federal lands.
  
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• Millions flock to Final Fantasy remake

  16-06-2015 23:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  More than 3.5 million people have watched the online trailer for the remake of Final Fantasy VII since it was unveiled at E3 last night.
  
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• The Latest: Irish consul: Balcony fall is national tragedy

  16-06-2015 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Stanley Cup begins its own celebration around Chicago

  16-06-2015 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — This time, the Stanley Cup didn't have to catch a flight before hitting Chicago hot spots for a victory tour.
  
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• Walker's travels as 2016 hopeful raise eyebrows at home

  16-06-2015 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — While Scott Walker's fellow Republicans were grousing about his budget plan and part of his proposal to overhaul higher education, the governor was more than 1,000 miles away, gripping the wheel of the Mt. Washington cruise boat on New Hampshire's Lake Winnipesaukee.
  
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• Paramedics called to 2nd shark attack minutes after 1st

  16-06-2015 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OAK ISLAND, N.C. (AP) — Paramedics Peter Joyce and Jack Baker had just returned from treating their first-ever shark attack victim when the radio crackled: A second person had just been attacked.
  
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• Choosing your own: Definition of race becoming fluid

  16-06-2015 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Rachel Dolezal, born to white parents, self-identifies as black — a decision that illustrates how fluid identity can be in a diversifying America, as the rigid racial structures that have defined most of this country's history seem, for some, to be softening.
  
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• AP source: Cardinals allegedly hacked Astros player database

  16-06-2015 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Federal law enforcement authorities are investigating whether the St. Louis Cardinals illegally hacked into a computer database of the Houston Astros to obtain information on players, a person familiar with the situation said Tuesday in an unusual case involving two former division rivals in Major League Baseball.
  
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• Six people killed and seven injured in balcony collapse at party in California

  16-06-2015 23:20 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Dublin’s foreign minister confirmed five of the dead were Irish and had been at a birthday gathering in an area of Berkeley popular with Irish studentsSix people have been killed and seven others injured after a balcony collapsed in Berkeley, California, authorities said.Five of the dead were Irish students, Dublin’s foreign minister confirmed.Continue reading...
  
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• The spiritual guru to China's corrupt officials

  16-06-2015 23:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The spiritual guru to China's corrupt officials
  
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• Focus on talk of company deals sends US stock indexes higher

  16-06-2015 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Signs of more corporate dealmaking sent U.S. stocks higher on Tuesday, allowing investors to take their mind off Greece's debt troubles.
  
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• 36-0 defeat: That's a goal every 2.5 minutes

  16-06-2015 23:14 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Imagine watching your team concede a goal every two and a half minutes.
  
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• Trump enters presidential race

  16-06-2015 23:13 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Is Trump serious? | Who's running for President | Can Jeb Bush win?
  
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• City putting oil back in the ground

  16-06-2015 23:13 via edition.cnn.com
  
  The Jurong rock caverns in Singapore are solving the city-state's challenge of limited space by taking its storing its oil reserves deep underground -- the first of its kind in South-East Asia
  
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• Nasa scientists: 'Life outside of Earth is probably going to be really hard to find'

  16-06-2015 23:08 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  In previewing missions in the search for life and discussing its challenges, the scientists confess they ‘can’t even agree on a definition of what life detection is’Nasa scientists previewed several missions in the search for life off Earth on Tuesday, including a plan to scoop up minerals from an asteroid and one to drill into the surface of Mars.The missions described by researchers included satellites, spacecraft, landers and work concentrated on Mars, Jupiter moons, an asteroid and on
  
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• News guide: A look at Greece's financial troubles

  16-06-2015 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greece is struggling to get a deal with its financial rescue creditors to get more loans. Without one, it could default on its debts, which could be the first step in a chain reaction that sees the country fall out of the euro currency union.
  
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• Democrats: GOP trying to 'move the goalposts' on Benghazi

  16-06-2015 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican chairman of a House panel investigating the deadly attacks in Benghazi, Libya, complained Tuesday about delays in receiving emails between Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton and a longtime confidant.
  
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• Passions run high ahead of Hong Kong debate on China-vetted democracy blueprint

  16-06-2015 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thousands of police and protesters are expected to converge on Hong Kong's Legislative Council on Wednesday when lawmakers debate a Beijing-backed electoral reform plan that could trigger fresh pro-democracy protests in the Chinese-controlled city. The former British colony has reinforced security after mass protests crippled parts of the Asian financial hub late last year and presented China's ruling Communist Party with one of its biggest political challenges in decades.
  
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• Saad's new deal key part of Blackhawks' offseason

  16-06-2015 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Fresh off their third Stanley Cup title in six seasons, the Chicago Blackhawks have to make some big decisions in a short period of time.
  
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• Husbands of missing Bradford women: please come home - video

  16-06-2015 23:05 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  The husbands of two Bradford women who are missing, along with 10 other members of the same family, hold an emotional press conference on Tuesday, pleading for their return. Three women, Khadija, Sugra and Zohra Dawood, all sisters, along with nine children, were reported missing last Thursday after failing to return on a flight from Saudi Arabia. It is feared the group are travelling to Syria Continue reading...
  
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• Texas braces for Tropical Storm Bill as it makes landfall – in pictures

  16-06-2015 23:04 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  The storm reached the Texas Gulf coast near Matagorda Bay on Tuesday, south-west of Houston, which was recently deluged by heavy rains, as forecasters warned of ‘potentially catastrophic flooding’Tropical Storm Bill threatens more severe weather in Texas after floodsContinue reading...
  
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• Oklahoma teen who fatally shot Australian student gets life sentence

  16-06-2015 23:02 via feeds.theguardian.com
  
  Chauncey Allen Luna, 18, killed Christopher Lane, 22, in August 2013Lane, who was from Melbourne, in state on college baseball scholarship An Oklahoma teenager charged with killing an Australian college baseball player has been sentenced to life in prison without parole.District court judge Ken Graham on Tuesday handed down the punishment to 18-year-old Chancey Allen Luna. A Stephens County jury convicted Luna of first-degree murder in the August 2013 shooting death of 22-year-old Christopher La
  
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• Cool, rainy weather hinders hunt for loose killers on Day 11

  16-06-2015 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DANNEMORA, N.Y. (AP) — Search teams hindered by cool, rainy weather combed through woods in far northern New York for an 11th day trying to track down two escaped murderers as one official raised doubts Tuesday that they relied solely on a now-jailed prison worker to help them get away after their breakout.
  
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• Las Vegas mogul Kirk Kerkorian dead at 98

  16-06-2015 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kirk Kerkorian, a billionaire school dropout credited with helping transform Las Vegas into a gambler's paradise, has died aged 98. Kerkorian, who also amassed major stakes in movie and auto companies, passed away in Los Angeles of undisclosed causes late Monday, according to MGM Resorts International, the casino giant he founded. Born into an Armenian family in Fresno, California, Kerkorian rolled the dice throughout his life, almost always to great riches.
  
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• No surprise, Dez Bryant no-show for Cowboys minicamp

  16-06-2015 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  IRVING, Texas (AP) — As expected, Dez Bryant was a no-show for the start of the Dallas Cowboys mandatory offseason minicamp.
  
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• MLB, union put Alex Rodriguez grievance deadline on hold

  16-06-2015 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball and the players' association have stopped the clock on the deadline for Alex Rodriguez to file a grievance against the New York Yankees for not making a $6 million payment when he hit his 660th home run.
  
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• Tracking down FIFA's 'most wanted'

  16-06-2015 22:58 via edition.cnn.com
  
  As we passed the fourth industrial complex en route from Port of Spain airport to the hotel, I was shaking my head. This just couldn't be right.
  
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• Chris Evans is new Top Gear presenter

  16-06-2015 22:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  TV and radio personality Chris Evans will replace Jeremy Clarkson as the lead presenter of an all-new Top Gear line-up, the BBC announces.
  
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• 'Top Gear' gets new driver

  16-06-2015 22:56 via edition.cnn.com
  
  For the millions of loyal "Top Gear" viewers around the world, the wait is over.
  
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• Eric Garner death: Appeals court could decide to release grand jury records

  16-06-2015 22:54
  
  A New York appeals court is considering whether to release the grand jury records in the controversial case of Eric Garner, the Staten Island man who was died last year after being put in a headlock by a New York police officer.
  
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• The Latest: Fatal balcony collapse victims identified

  16-06-2015 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Golf guru's frank advice to Tiger Woods

  16-06-2015 22:42 via edition.cnn.com
  
  If Tiger Woods ends his long wait for another major title at this week's U.S. Open, it'll be the greatest achievement of his glittering career, says leading golf coach David Leadbetter.
  
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• Fox says transition will take effect July 1

  16-06-2015 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Twenty-First Century Fox says Rupert Murdoch will turn over more power to his sons on July 1, as James Murdoch will become CEO and Lachlan Murdoch will become executive co-chairman of the company that day.
  
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• Greek debt burden can be eased if they 'give something': Irish minister

  16-06-2015 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Greece has scope to secure a deal to make its debt more sustainable by extending maturities and lowering interest rates but only in exchange for reforms, Ireland's finance minister said on Tuesday. The European Commission has said it will only resume talks if Greece put forward new proposals, while Athens is sticking to its rejection of wage and pension cuts and higher taxes on basic goods, while also insisting debt relief be part of any deal. "The issue is that he (Greek Finance Minister Yanis
  
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• Jhené Aiko pays tribute to Tupac Shakur with photoshoot and performance

  16-06-2015 22:39
  
  Jhené Aiko paid tribute to late rapper Tupac Shakur by recreating his most iconic photoshoots.
  
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• Rupert Murdoch hands Fox CEO job to son James

  16-06-2015 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox said Tuesday its board approved a shakeup that puts the 84-year-old tycoon's son James in the chief executive job effective July 1. The board of the media-entertainment conglomerate approved the plan in which the Australian-born magnate would step out of his CEO role and become co-executive chairman with his other son Lachlan, a company statement said. The succession plan, which was leaked last week by sources close to the company, allows Rupert Murdoc
  
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• Sony fails to dismiss lawsuit over 'Interview' data hacking

  16-06-2015 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  A U.S. judge rejected Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc's bid to dismiss a lawsuit by nine former employees who claimed their personal data was stolen in a 2014 hacking tied to the studio's release of a comedy set in North Korea, "The Interview." U.S. District Judge Gary Klausner said the plaintiffs could pursue claims that the Sony Corp unit was negligent and violated a California confidentiality law by spurning security measures to stop the theft of employees' salary and
  
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• Chris Evans to replace Jeremy Clarkson as Top Gear host: BBC

  16-06-2015 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Television and radio presenter Chris Evans will host motoring show Top Gear, replacing Jeremy Clarkson, who was dropped in March after he physically attacked a producer, the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) said on Tuesday. Evans has signed a three-year deal and will begin filming in a few weeks time without Clarkson's co-hosts Richard Hammond and James May, the BBC said. Evans, a car enthusiast, said he was thrilled to get the job in his "favorite program of all time
  
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• Greek PM tears into lenders as euro zone prepares for 'Grexit'

  16-06-2015 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Lefteris Papadimas and Erik Kirschbaum ATHENS/BERLIN (Reuters) - Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras accused Greece's creditors on Tuesday of trying to "humiliate" Greeks with more cuts as he defied a growing drumbeat of warnings that Europe was preparing for his country to leave the euro. The unrepentant address to lawmakers after the collapse of talks with European and IMF lenders at the weekend was the clearest sign yet that the leftist leader has no intention of making a last-min
  
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• Trump elbows into 2016 race

  16-06-2015 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Donald is running for president — for real this time.
  
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