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• Theater shooting defense lawyer clashes with psychiatrist

  18-06-2015 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — James Holmes' lawyers are pointedly questioning whether a psychiatrist did enough to diagnose and treat Holmes before he carried out a deadly attack on a Colorado movie theater.
  
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• Johnson and Stenson set pace in US Open

  18-06-2015 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dustin Johnson and Henrik Stenson both produced brilliant first rounds of 65 to take the joint early clubhouse lead in the US Open at Chambers Bay on Thursday. The 30-year-old American Johnson had six birdies against one bogey in a round that made a mockery of fears that the 7,526-yard monster links-style course south of Seattle would be impossible to tame. Stenson, like Johnson also seeking his first major title after several near misses, then joined him on 65 with a monster putt at the last in
  
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• Judge rules Saints, Pelicans owner Benson is competent

  18-06-2015 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — New Orleans Saints and Pelicans owner Tom Benson remains competent to run his business empire, a civil judge ruled Thursday as he dismissed accusations by Benson's estranged heirs who've been ousted from ownership positions with the clubs.
  
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• Most kangaroos are 'left-handed'

  18-06-2015 23:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists report that wild kangaroos tend to favour their left hands in common tasks - the first example of non-human, species-wide "handedness".
  
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• Teen sensation near tears opening at U.S. Open

  18-06-2015 23:43 via edition.cnn.com
  
  He's been living the dream alongside his heroes all week but teenager Cole Hammer looked like he was fighting back the tears on the first tee of the U.S. Open Thursday.
  
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• 'Teminator's' new job -- in your car

  18-06-2015 23:42 via edition.cnn.com
  
  If you've ever wished you could liven up the monotone GPS voices that direct you while driving, the traffic app Waze has a new option for you: Terminate them.
  
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• US church shooting suspect arrested

  18-06-2015 23:42 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police arrest a 21-year-old suspect in the shooting at a church in Charleston, South Carolina, that killed nine people.
  
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• Church shooting one of deadliest US hate crimes

  18-06-2015 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thousands of hate crimes are reported in the United States every year, but rarely do they involve the carnage seen at a black church in South Carolina where nine people were gunned down during a Bible study meeting. Wednesday's attack provoked comparisons to the 1963 bombing of a Birmingham church, which killed four little girls and wounded more than 20 congregants in one of the deadliest attacks carried out during the civil rights movement. "The fact that this took place in a black ch
  
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• Pastor killed in church shooting bridged faith, politics

  18-06-2015 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — When Clementa Pinckney stepped to the well of the South Carolina Senate chamber in April, fellow legislators expected him to lobby for funding of police body cameras. But the charcoal-suited Pinckney, speaking in the rich, deliberate tone that was his calling card, set aside almost any mention of politics or policing, in favor of a biblical story.
  
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• McIlroy seven off early US Open pace

  18-06-2015 23:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  World number one Rory McIlroy is seven shots behind early leader Dustin Johnson on day one of the US Open.
  
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• Marine seeks leniency for killing Iraqi civilian

  18-06-2015 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) — A Marine sergeant appealed to military jurors Thursday to spare him from being sent back to the brig for killing an Iraqi civilian nearly a decade ago, saying that he had "ice in my veins" during the thick of war and that he now regrets what he did.
  
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• How Singapore is taking off

  18-06-2015 23:32 via edition.cnn.com
  
  It already contains a butterfly garden, swimming pool and cinema, but for Changi airport in Singapore the sky appears to be the limit -- with new terminals and complexes in construction and planning for the next decade.
  
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• Estimated 6,500 injured in deck collapses since 2003

  18-06-2015 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Rotting wood and other issues can cause balcony collapses, sometimes with terrible consequences.
  
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• Clinton says US must face 'hard truths' about guns, race

  18-06-2015 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton said Thursday the country has to face "hard truths" about guns and race in the wake of a shooting at a historically black church in South Carolina that left nine dead.
  
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• The Latest: Bubba Watson: 'I'm not going to pout'

  18-06-2015 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. (AP) — The latest from the U.S. Open (all times local):
  
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• US stocks rise sharply on Fed relief; Nasdaq sets record

  18-06-2015 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. stocks notched their biggest gains in a week Thursday, pushing the Nasdaq composite index to an all-time high.
  
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• Dallas sues US as fight over local airport escalates

  18-06-2015 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — The city of Dallas has asked a federal court to settle a long-running fight over which airlines can operate at its airport.
  
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• Actor and comedian Rick Ducommun dies at age 62

  18-06-2015 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TORONTO (AP) — Actor and comedian Rick Ducommun, known for his role in the 1989 film "The 'Burbs," has died. He was 62.
  
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• The Latest: Searchers find body of boy swept away in storm

  18-06-2015 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Friend says church shooting suspect ranted about race

  18-06-2015 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LEXINGTON, S.C. (AP) — In recent weeks, Dylann Storm Roof reconnected with a childhood buddy he hadn't seen in five years and started railing about the Trayvon Martin case, about black people "taking over the world" and about the need for something to be done for "the white race," the friend said Thursday.
  
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• Danish opposition 'in election lead'

  18-06-2015 23:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Danes have voted in a general election, with exit polls suggesting that an opposition coalition is in the lead.
  
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• Review shows deaths seldom occur in balcony collapses

  18-06-2015 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — 2 p.m. PDT
  
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• The latest on church shooting: Suspect waives extradition

  18-06-2015 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• The Latest: Major Oklahoma highway partly reopened

  18-06-2015 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  4:10 p.m. CDT
  
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• Joy as slave fisherman finally makes it home

  18-06-2015 23:05 via edition.cnn.com
  
  The ramshackle house is full of the symbols of time passing.
  
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• The Latest: Dustin Johnson shoots opening 65 at US Open

  18-06-2015 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. (AP) — The latest from the U.S. Open (all times local):
  
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• Heroine should on the $10 bill

  18-06-2015 23:04 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Honor a woman who was instrumental in the causes of fighting slavery and getting woman the right to vote.
  
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• ECB to hold emergency call on Greek bank funding Friday: sources

  18-06-2015 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The European Central Bank governing council will hold an telephone conference call on Friday to discuss extending emergency liquidity assistance to Greek banks, two sources familiar with the situation said on Thursday. Earlier this week the governing council, which includes the euro zone's 19 central bank chiefs and members of the ECB's executive, extended emergency funding to Greek lenders to 84.1 billion euros. Emergency funding has been rising steadily in recent weeks as Greek savers withdraw
  
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• Partial results: Danish opposition poised for election win

  18-06-2015 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Denmark's center-right opposition appeared set to win the country's parliamentary election Thursday, with partial results showing it in a clear lead over the left-leaning governing coalition.
  
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• Obama to guest on 'WTF' podcast

  18-06-2015 22:57 via edition.cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama is traveling to the West Coast Wednesday, and is scheduled to take part in multiple DNC fundraisers, including one at famous actor/director/media mogul Tyler Perry's home in Los Angeles.
  
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• Presidential candidate Rand Paul plans to 'blow up' tax code

  18-06-2015 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Rand Paul is calling for a "fair and flat tax" that he says would "blow up" the nation's tax code.
  
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• Bill's remnants flood Oklahoma along path to US midsection

  18-06-2015 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — The remnants of a tropical storm that moved in from the Gulf of Mexico earlier this week focused most of its fury on Oklahoma and Arkansas on Thursday, pushing rivers to record-high water levels and causing flooding as it crawled northward through the nation's midsection.
  
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• Pope challenges world to clean up its filth

  18-06-2015 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — With a poet's lyricism, a former chemist's precision and a pontiff's moral thunder, Pope Francis recast humanity's relationship with nature in stark ethical terms, hoping to spur a warming, filthy world to clean up its act "before it's too late."
  
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• House revives Obama's trade agenda, struggle moves to Senate

  18-06-2015 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House dramatically rescued President Barack Obama's trade agenda from near oblivion Thursday, and supporters urged the Senate to finish the job and give him a signature achievement in his final years in office.
  
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• Elephant poaching hotspots identified

  18-06-2015 22:54 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Most illegally poached African elephant ivory can be traced back to just two areas of Africa, research shows.
  
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• Tropical Storm Bill: Three teens rescued from high water in San Antonio

  18-06-2015 22:49
  
  Three teenagers have been rescued after they were swept away when a flash flood gushed through a park in Texas, as parts of the US attempt to cope with Tropical Storm Bill.
  
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• Republican lawmakers shrug off Pope Francis' climate message

  18-06-2015 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Pope Francis' call for dramatic action on climate change drew a round of shrugs from congressional Republicans on Thursday, while many of the party's presidential candidates ignored it entirely.
  
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• Western wildfires: Blazes burn in 4 states amid hot weather

  18-06-2015 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wildfires are chewing through parched parts of the West, where temperatures are rising Thursday. Here's a look at the latest hotspots and what crews are doing to control them.
  
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• NYC jail digs up apparent escape plot involving 64 bedsheets

  18-06-2015 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Investigators sweeping a jail after breaking up a drug smuggling ring uncovered an inmate's apparent escape plot using 64 neatly tied together bedsheets, enough for him to shimmy down 11 stories from his cellblock to the street, city officials said Thursday.
  
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• Justin Bieber, Usher ordered to face copyright lawsuit

  18-06-2015 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Justin Bieber and Usher were ordered by a U.S. appeals court on Thursday to face a $10 million lawsuit claiming the singers illegally copied parts of a song composed by two Virginia songwriters. By a 3-0 vote, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond revived a May 2013 lawsuit by Devin Copeland, an R&B singer known as De Rico, and his songwriting partner Mareio Overton, saying a lower court judge was wrong to dismiss it. The plaintiffs claimed that three versions of the song "S
  
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• Ex-president anger at balcony report

  18-06-2015 22:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The New York Times "should be hanging its head in shame" over a report on the California balcony collapse, says former Irish President Mary McAleese.
  
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• Lawyer: Man 'blown away' by wife's role in prison plot

  18-06-2015 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A man was "blown away" by word that his wife discussed having two inmates kill him as she helped them plot their successful escape from the maximum-security prison in northern New York, his lawyer said Thursday.
  
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• England U21 v Portugal U21

  18-06-2015 22:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  England fail to score for the first time in 18 matches as they lose 1-0 to Portugal in their European Under-21 Championship opener.
  
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• VIDEO: Winehouse documentary angers family

  18-06-2015 22:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A documentary about the life of the late award-winning singer, Amy Winehouse has its UK premiere at the Edinburgh International Film Festival.
  
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• Fitbit shares soar on market debut

  18-06-2015 22:32 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Shares in the wearable technology maker Fitbit soar on its first day of trading on the New York Stock Exchange.
  
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• Polar bears use DIY freezer

  18-06-2015 22:32 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Roaming an ever-shrinking habitat, polar bears have been observed using an extraordinary survival technique.
  
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• Mickelson in the mix as US Open starts

  18-06-2015 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Veteran Phil Mickelson hogged the early spotlight as the US Open got off to a US-dominated start at Chambers Bay on Thursday. Seeking a first US Open title after a record six second-place finishes, the 45-year-old American shot a one-under 69, proving that low scores were possible on the links-style layout stretching to a punishing 7,526 yards for the opener.
  
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• Obama to guest on 'WTF'

  18-06-2015 22:30 via edition.cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama is traveling to the West Coast Wednesday, and is scheduled to take part in multiple DNC fundraisers, including one at famous actor/director/media mogul Tyler Perry's home in Los Angeles.
  
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• When America puts a woman on its $10 bill, who will be the best symbol of democracy?

  18-06-2015 22:30
  
  Will it be Susan B Anthony or Harriet Tubman? Eleanor Roosevelt or Rosa Parks? Following the Obama administration's announcement that a woman will be featured on the $10 bill, this is the first time in well over a century that a female portrait will grace the United States' paper money.
  
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• EU calls Greek crisis summit as talks end without deal

  18-06-2015 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The EU called an emergency eurozone summit next week after Greek debt talks ended Thursday without a deal, sparking warnings of an "accident" that could push Athens out of the euro if there is no breakthrough by the end of the month. Finance ministers meeting in Luxembourg failed to break the five-month-old standoff between the anti-austerity government in Athens and its EU-IMF creditors, who have demanded tough reforms. "It is still possible to find an agreement and extend the cu
  
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