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• Nationals' Scherzer pitching perfect game thru 7 vs Pirates

  20-06-2015 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nationals ace Max Scherzer is pitching a perfect game through seven innings against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Nationals Park.
  
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• The Latest: The Great One watching Dustin Johnson at US Open

  20-06-2015 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. (AP) — The latest from the U.S. Open (all times local):
  
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• Obama blames gun lobby 'grip' on Congress for lax U.S. gun laws

  20-06-2015 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Roberta Rampton RANCHO MIRAGE, Calif. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama blamed public apathy combined with the tight "grip" on Congress of the National Rifle Association, the powerful U.S. gun lobby, for blocking stricter gun laws. Speaking during an interview recorded on Friday, just two days after the mass shooting at a black church in South Carolina, Obama said he did not foresee any quick changes to gun laws. "Unfortunately, the grip of the NRA on Congress is extremely str
  
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• South Carolina's Haley walks a fine line after church shootings

  20-06-2015 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Haley, now in her second term and, at 43, still the youngest governor in the nation, has garnered wide praise for her bearing after Wednesday's shooting rampage at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston that killed nine African-Americans. "South Carolinians see themselves in her." But then, the following day, Haley flashed a different side when she forcefully called for the death penalty if the suspected gunman in custody, Dylann Roof, is convicted of the murders.
  
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• Joseph hits go-ahead single in 9th, Orioles top Jays 5-3

  20-06-2015 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TORONTO (AP) — Darren O'Day kept his cool in a critical moment, and gave the Baltimore Orioles a big boost.
  
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• Mermaids, aquatic creatures turn out for Coney Island parade

  20-06-2015 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Tens of thousands of revelers turned out Saturday for Coney Island's 33rd annual Mermaid Parade despite gray skies and steady drizzle.
  
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• Mali's Tuareg rebels sign peace deal

  20-06-2015 23:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rebels in Mali sign a peace deal with the government that will give partial autonomy to the north of the country.
  
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• 'Possible sighting' in US hunt for escaped killers

  20-06-2015 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York state police were investigating Saturday a possible sighting of two killers who escaped a maximum-security jail two weeks ago in an elaborate prison break that has been likened to a Hollywood movie. "The state police in Steuben County are currently following up leads of a possible sighting of the two escaped inmates from the Clinton County Correctional Facility in Dannemora, NY," Major Craig Hanesworth said in a statement. "David Sweat and Richard Matt escaped June 6th an
  
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• Supremacist Site Appears to Belong to Charleston Shooter

  20-06-2015 23:40 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The site shows a stone-faced Dylann Roof holding weapons, visiting a cemetery for Confederate soldiers, and burning an American flag.
  
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• Disbelief, defiance in South Carolina town once home to shooting suspect

  20-06-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At Dooley's Bait shop in Lexington, South Carolina, the talk around the worm bins and minnow tanks was dominated by one subject: Dylann Roof, a previously unremarkable local young man now accused of one of most shocking murders in state history. Roof, a 21-year-old white man who went to high school in this Southern town near the state capital, has been charged with murdering nine African-Americans in cold blood on Wednesday at a landmark church in Charleston, about 100 miles (160 km) away. Many
  
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• Nationals' Scherzer pitching perfect game thru 6 vs Pirates

  20-06-2015 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nationals ace Max Scherzer is pitching a perfect game through six innings against the Pittsburgh Pirates at Nationals Park.
  
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• Battle of Waterloo: How I played a part in Napoleon's downfall

  20-06-2015 23:32
  
  So, here I sit, on my grey horse overlooking the battlefield at Waterloo. My mount, Champagne, is full of fizz and won’t stand still. This Lipizzaner from Hungary is gouging at the ground with one hoof, apparently keen to join the fray that is slowly unfolding below. She looks every inch the war horse. I probably also look the part in the red jacket and tall bearskin cap of the Scots Greys, except for one detail; my sword fell off on the way to the battlefield.
  
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• Britain to sign up to 1954 Hague Convention on protecting world's ancient cultural sites

  20-06-2015 23:32
  
  The Government is to sign up to the 1954 Hague Convention on protecting the world’s ancient cultural sites and create a fund to help with the recovery of monuments at risk from destruction and looting by Islamic State.
  
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• We need to make contact with isolated Amazon tribes, say academics

  20-06-2015 23:32
  
  Making contact with indigenous tribes who have remained isolated from the modern world should be encouraged rather than forbidden, according to two anthropologists who have challenged official policy towards “uncontacted” people.
  
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• Spieth and Reed hold firm at US Open

  20-06-2015 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US Open joint leaders Jordan Spieth and Patrick Reed were primed to launch their third rounds at the US Open on Saturday after a morning when the chasing pack failed to reel them in. The two young Texans were tied at five under for the tournament, one clear of the field, at the start of the day. World number one Rory McIlroy was among the first on the day to have a go at climbing up the leaderboard to get to Spieth and Reed.
  
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• Possible Sighting: Cops Investigate Prison Escape Lead

  20-06-2015 23:19 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  A heavy police presence has descended on Allegany County, New York, two weeks after the men executed a brazen prison break.
  
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• Germany arrests al-Jazeera reporter

  20-06-2015 23:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Qatar-owned TV news network al-Jazeera says one of its journalists has been arrested in Germany at the request of Egypt.
  
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• Racist manifesto linked to Charleston shooting suspect

  20-06-2015 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Edward McAllister, Luciana Lopez and Alana Wise CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Dylann Roof, the suspect in Wednesday's church massacre in Charleston, appears to have written a racist manifesto and posed in photographs with a handgun and standing in front of a Confederate military museum and plantation slave houses. An FBI spokesman in Columbia, South Carolina, declined to comment on the website or its contents. Many of the local landmarks shown in the photos on the website appeared chosen
  
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• The Latest: Jason Day plays on after bout with vertigo

  20-06-2015 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. (AP) — The latest from the U.S. Open (all times local):
  
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• NY Police Searching for Escaped Prisoners After Possible Sighting

  20-06-2015 23:07
  
  Men fitting their description were seen near Pennsylvania border.
  
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• Day tees off in 3rd round of US Open; bothered by dizziness

  20-06-2015 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. (AP) — Australian Jason Day has teed off in the third round of the U.S. Open about 24 hours after collapsing at the end of his second round due to vertigo.
  
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• Charleston shooting: What is the Council of Conservative Citizens - group said to have inspired writer of racist 'manifesto'

  20-06-2015 23:02
  The writer of the ‘online manifesto’ being probed by federal investigators said his opinions were shaped after reading the website of the right-wing, white supremacist political organisation many have denounced as a hate group
  
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• The Latest: USGA exec Mike Davis defends Chambers Bay

  20-06-2015 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. (AP) — The latest from the U.S. Open (all times local):
  
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• France's Fabius to meet Iran's Zarif on nuclear talks

  20-06-2015 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  France's Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said on Saturday he would meet his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif on Monday to assess where Iran stands ahead of the final round of talks on its nuclear program, beginning later that week. The bilateral meeting, on the sidelines of an EU foreign ministers' summit in Luxembourg, will be followed by a meeting between Zarif and all the European parties negotiating with Iran. "Toward the end of next week the ministers will go (to the
  
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• Italian Prosecutors Seek to Indict Bank of China, 297 People

  20-06-2015 22:59
  Italian prosecutors seek to indict Bank of China and 297 people in money laundering case
  
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• Hunt after man fatally shoots US officer in police car

  20-06-2015 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New Orleans police launched a major hunt for a man who shot dead a veteran officer while being transported in a police car on Saturday and then fled, authorities said. Officer Daryle Holloway, 45, was driving a suspect to jail who had been arrested the previous night on an aggravated assault charge when the incident happened. Holloway was rushed to a hospital but died from his injuries, police chief Michael Harrison told reporters, saying that the search was on for Travis Boys, 33.
  
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• Milan struggles to cope as Latin American gang violence starts afflicting general public

  20-06-2015 22:57
  
  Catching fare-dodgers is all in a day’s work for ticket inspectors on Milan’s suburban trains. But in retrospect Carlo Di Napoli is probably telling himself he might have known there’d be trouble laying down the law to a group of Latin-American kids.
  
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• Welcome to Chitral: Where Pakistan’s elite goes to play

  20-06-2015 22:55
  
  Siraj Ul-Mulk’s friends thought he was mad when he started building a hotel in the early 1990s, off the beaten track and carved out of a mountainside.
  
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• Fake NHL Gear Worth $180,000 Seized Around Stanley Cup Final

  20-06-2015 22:54
  Authorities seize $180,000 worth of counterfeit NHL merchandise around Stanley Cup final
  
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• The Latest: Oosthuizen climbing into US Open contention

  20-06-2015 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. (AP) — The latest from the U.S. Open (all times local):
  
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• Greece crisis: Senior minister to offer new proposals to creditors ahead of EU summit

  20-06-2015 22:40
  
  A senior Greek minister has said that new proposals will be put to the country’s creditors ahead of an emergency EU summit set for 22 June. However, he warned that these are still unlikely to satisfy Athens’ creditors.
  
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• Confederate Flag Sets off Debate in GOP 2016 Class

  20-06-2015 22:37
  Romney's call for SC Confederate flag removal sets off debate in GOP 2016 class
  
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• Lesvos: Visiting the tiny Greek island receiving tens of thousands of refugees

  20-06-2015 22:35
  
  The overcrowded makeshift camp, lacking bathrooms, food and blankets, is not how the refugees imagined Europe. But Greece is struggling to cope with the tide of boats arriving on its islands from neighbouring Turkey. Amid an economic crisis, the country has received more than 55,000 refugees since January, an almost tenfold increase on the 6,500 arrivals in the first five months of last year.
  
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• The Latest: Mickelson struggling at difficult Chambers Bay

  20-06-2015 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. (AP) — The latest from the U.S. Open (all times local):
  
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• Revealed: The Herefordshire hotel used for 'diabolical' experiments on US military students

  20-06-2015 22:25
  
  Behind the façade of a peaceful Georgian country manor hotel, nestling in 18 acres of rolling Herefordshire grassland, lay a dark secret involving a former medical director of the FBI which last week came to light at a medical board hearing in the US state of Virginia.
  
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• Joseph hits go-ahead single in 9th, Orioles beat Blue Jays

  20-06-2015 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TORONTO (AP) — Caleb Joseph singled home the go-ahead run with two outs in the ninth inning and the Baltimore Orioles beat the Blue Jays 5-3 Saturday, ending Toronto's home winning streak at nine games.
  
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• Clinton: race a 'deep fault line' in America

  20-06-2015 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton said on Saturday the deadly mass shooting at a historic black church in South Carolina is a violent reminder of continued institutionalized racism in the United States. "It's tempting to dismiss a tragedy like this as an isolated incident, to believe that in today's America bigotry is largely behind us, that institutionalized racism no longer exists," Clinton said. "Race remains a deep fault line in America
  
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• Obama golfs in drought-stricken California desert

  20-06-2015 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US President Barack Obama played golf near the desert city of Palm Springs, California Saturday, shrugging off criticism that ambling around thirsty, lush greens was unseemly during a historic drought. First Lady Michelle Obama and the couple’s two daughters are in Europe. The Coachella Valley, with dozens of world-class courses, would be a natural getaway for Obama, who has played golf more than 200 times while in office -- something that has not been lost on his critics.
  
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• Cousins killed in Berkeley balcony collapse had a twins bond

  20-06-2015 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COTATI, Calif. (AP) — Two cousins who were among the victims killed when a balcony collapsed in Berkeley, California, are being remembered as kind, fun-loving young women who shared a bond of twins even though they grew up an ocean apart — one in California and the other in Ireland.
  
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• New Orleans Police Officer Killed While Transporting Suspect

  20-06-2015 22:10
  New Orleans police officer killed while transporting suspect who fled; manhunt underway
  
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• Racist 'manifesto' sets out Charleston motive

  20-06-2015 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A website apparently created by Dylann Roof emerged Saturday in which the accused Charleston church shooter rails against African Americans and appears in photographs with guns and burning the US flag. It came to light as a mournful vigil Friday for nine black worshippers killed at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church gave way to anger and scheduled protests in Charleston and the state capital Columbia. "I chose Charleston because it is most historic city in my state, and at one time
  
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• Police check out new lead on escaped New York prisoners

  20-06-2015 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FRIENDSHIP, N.Y. (AP) — State police are investigating a possible sighting of two convicted killers in New York's southern tier, about 350 miles from the prison where they escaped two weeks ago.
  
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• Belgium to unblock frozen Russian diplomatic accounts

  20-06-2015 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Belgium will unblock Russian embassy accounts that had been frozen over legal claims by shareholders of former oil company Yukos, the EU country's foreign minister said Saturday, after Moscow vowed retaliation. "A solution has been found to unblock as a priority accounts for the running of the embassies, and the rest will follow," a ministry spokesman told AFP, quoting Foreign Minister Didier Reynders. Accounts held at ING Bank by Russia's embassy to Belgium as well as the co
  
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• US Supreme Court on trial: Has it become too powerful for the good of the country?

  20-06-2015 22:00
  
  This is the season of the United States Supreme Court. Its spell in the media sun doesn’t last long – just the two or three weeks before its judicial term ends on 30 June. But over that short period, on Mondays and Thursdays, the justices hand down their most keenly awaited rulings.
  
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• Three dead, 34 injured as car rams crowd in Austrian city of Graz

  20-06-2015 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Three people including a four-year-old boy were killed and 34 others injured Saturday when a "mentally unbalanced" man drove a 4x4 into a pedestrian street thronging with shoppers in the southern Austrian city of Graz, police said. The 26-year-old Austrian driver has been detained and described as a "mentally unbalanced" man, according to governor Hermann Schuetzenhoefer. During his rampage, the driver briefly got out of the vehicle wielding a knife and wounded two people bef
  
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• The Latest: Condition of greens still focus of US Open

  20-06-2015 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  UNIVERSITY PLACE, Wash. (AP) — The latest from the U.S. Open (all times local):
  
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• Website with racist manifesto appears linked to Charleston shooting suspect

  20-06-2015 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Edward McAllister, Luciana Lopez and Alana Wise CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - Dylann Roof, the suspect in Wednesday's church massacre in Charleston, appears to have written a racist manifesto and posed in photographs with a handgun and standing in front of a Confederate military museum and plantation slave houses. An FBI spokesman in Columbia, South Carolina, declined to comment on the website or its contents. Many of the local landmarks shown in the photos on the website appeared chosen
  
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• Stand-in Bairstow seals England's series win over New Zealand

  20-06-2015 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jonny Bairstow proved an ideal stand-in as his unbeaten 83 saw England to a 3-2 series-clinching win over New Zealand in the fifth one-day international at the Riverside on Saturday. England, chasing a revised target of 192 in 26 overs collapsed to 45 for five, with left-arm spinner Mitchell Santner took three wickets for four runs in seven balls. Bairstow, only playing after first-choice keeper Jos Buttler suffered a hand injury on Friday, faced 60 balls including 11 fours, as during his maiden
  
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• Hillary Clinton Calls for 'Common Sense' Gun Control After Charleston Shooting

  20-06-2015 21:35
  
  In the wake of the shooting in Charleston, South Carolina, Hillary Clinton today made a passionate plea for ???common sense??? gun control.
  
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• Scarred church to hold Sunday service; FBI reviews manifesto

  20-06-2015 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The historic black church where nine people were killed will re-open for a Sunday service, and the FBI said it was reviewing a manifesto purportedly written by the suspected gunman.
  
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