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• NBC latest to dump Trump over Mexican immigrant comments

  29-06-2015 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NBC severed business ties Monday with Donald Trump, joining a chorus of protests over the mogul turned US presidential hopeful's remarks about Mexican immigrants. This means the Miss USA and Miss Universe beauty pageants -- Trump owns the broadcast rights -- will not be aired on NBC, which is a unit of Comcast. The NBC television network's announcement came four days after Univision, the leading broadcaster in the US Spanish-language TV market, also broke with the Miss Universe Organiz
  
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• Union sues feds over hack, says agency had ample warning

  29-06-2015 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The largest federal employee union has filed a class action lawsuit against the federal personnel office and its leaders for failing to safeguard personal files from computer hackers.
  
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• Photos: Jamie Dornan Sports a New Mustache

  29-06-2015 23:50
  
  Mustaches, beards and more -- these celebs love sporting scruff.
  
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• First lady: More foreign travel to promote girls' education

  29-06-2015 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Michelle Obama says she'll do more foreign travel to promote education for girls in developing countries.
  
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• The month that changed America?

  29-06-2015 23:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Does history change all at once? June 2015 certainly had its singular historic moments - but almost all were the outcome of long-term forces and long-fought battles, says Nick Bryant.
  
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• Chobani selected as Greek yogurt provider for school lunches

  29-06-2015 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Public schools across America will soon offer Greek yogurt as a meat substitute in school lunches beginning this fall.
  
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• How Greeks Are Dealing With the Economic Meltdown

  29-06-2015 23:42
  
  On the brink of a major default on its loans before a deadline tomorrow, Greece shut down its banks and created financial chaos among its citizens.
  
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• 1st Look at Hideout Hints at How Escapees Survived

  29-06-2015 23:41
  
  Matt and Sweat may have used pepper shakers to throw dogs off their scents.
  
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• Lightning Rod: Man called Rod is hit by lightning for a second time

  29-06-2015 23:40
  
  It is hard to see why a man hit twice by lightning in one lifetime should be told he is lucky by his friends. But that was what happened to Rod Wolfe, after the lightning Rod was struck for the second time
  
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• Anti-austerity protests in Greece as bank shutdown bites

  29-06-2015 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With a popular referendum on the bailout planned for Sunday, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras put his own position on the line, saying he would respect the result of the vote but would not lead a government to administer "austerity in perpetuity." "If the Greek people want to have a humiliated prime minister, there are a lot of them out there. It won't be me," he said in an interview on Greek state television as one of the biggest rallies seen in Athens in years was taking
  
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• Some Supreme Court justices' views on death penalty change

  29-06-2015 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justices Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg declared for the first time Monday that they believe it is "highly likely" that the death penalty is unconstitutional.
  
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• Robert Redford sees 'last chance' to fix climate

  29-06-2015 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Robert Redford told the United Nations on Monday that negotiations on a global deal to tackle climate change could be the world's "last chance" to save the planet. World governments will try to forge a new global accord to address climate change at a UN climate conference in Paris in December, with both developed and developing countries committing to cutting greenhouse gas emissions. The landmark agreement would limit global warming to 3.6 degrees Fahrenheit (two degrees Celsius)
  
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• The activist who won't give up

  29-06-2015 23:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Uzbek protester who refuses to give up
  
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• US resuming aid to Bahrain military, ally against IS

  29-06-2015 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department says it is resuming aid to the military in Bahrain, which has been withheld since Bahrain cracked down on demonstrations in 2011.
  
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• Survey: South Carolina Legislature has enough votes to remove Confederate flag from Statehouse

  29-06-2015 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Survey: South Carolina Legislature has enough votes to remove Confederate flag from Statehouse.
  
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• UK slams Argentine plan to seize Falklands oil driller assets

  29-06-2015 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Andrew Osborn and William James LONDON (Reuters) - Britain on Monday accused Argentina of a politically motivated and illegal attack on the nascent oil industry around the disputed Falkland Islands, after Buenos Aires said it would seek to seize the assets of drillers operating in region. On Saturday, a federal judge in Tierra del Fuego ordered the seizure of $156 million (£99.17 million) in bank accounts, boats and other property belonging to six European and U.S. oil companies operating in
  
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• Cruz's new book ignites spat with GOP strategist Karl Rove

  29-06-2015 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Though it's not even out yet, Ted Cruz's new book is already irking at least one member of the Republican establishment: Karl Rove.
  
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• 5 Royals lead in All-Star voting, balloting ends Thursday

  29-06-2015 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Toronto third baseman Josh Donaldson and Seattle designated hitter Nelson Cruz have moved ahead in fan voting for starting spots in the All-Star Game, leaving five Kansas City Royals still in the lead.
  
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• Puerto Rico says it is being crushed by debt, low growth

  29-06-2015 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Alejandro Garcia Padilla's admission in an interview with the New York Times rattled stock markets and quickly knocked 10 percent off prices of Puerto Rican bonds. "The debt is not payable," Garcia Padilla told the paper. On Monday the government released a study by ex-officials of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank that says Puerto Rico's debt load is unsustainable and needs to be rescheduled.
  
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• In pictures: Spanish town soaked with wine in the annual 'Batalla de Vino' - or 'wine battle'

  29-06-2015 23:15
  
  The Spanish wine-making town of Haro, La Rioja, has played host to its annual 'wine fight', where thousands of locals and tourists celebrate St Peter's feast day by throwing thousands of litres of wine over each other.
  
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• Supreme Court rules Texas abortion clinics can remain open

  29-06-2015 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court acted Monday to keep Texas' 19 abortion clinics open, amid a legal fight that threatens to close more than half of them.
  
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• US poised to end Jamaican sprint stranglehold

  29-06-2015 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Veterans Justin Gatlin and Tyson Gay will lead a strong US sprint contingent to the World Championships aiming to wrest the coveted 100m crown from Jamaica's grasp. "I think a lot of (American) sprinters are waking up and understanding that it's time to fight back," said Gatlin, who has a bye into the World Championships 100m as the 2014 Diamond League winner. The 33-year-old Gatlin, who has served two doping bans, became the fifth-fastest man ever at the distance, and he hol
  
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• Political opposition groups gain money for 2016 race

  29-06-2015 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — It was the perfect loop: The Republican opposition research group America Rising finds footage of Democratic Senate candidate Bruce Braley in agriculture-loving Iowa, seeming to put down the intelligence of farmers. That footage becomes part of a 30-second TV ad, by the super PAC American Crossroads, boosting the Republican candidate, Joni Ernst.
  
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• Stocks tumble, yields drop as Greece veers toward default

  29-06-2015 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Greece will not pay a 1.6 billon euro loan installment due the International Monetary Fund on Tuesday, a Greek government official told Reuters, and the European Central Bank froze funding to Greek banks, forcing Athens to shut them for a week to prevent them from collapsing. Talks between Athens and its creditors broke down over the weekend after Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras called the surprise referendum. Until late last week, investors were hopeful that an 11th-hour deal would prevent a Gree
  
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• Wade elects to become free agent, may leave Heat

  29-06-2015 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Dwyane Wade will become a free agent Wednesday, and his 12-year stay with the Miami Heat could be ending.
  
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• Transgender immigration detainees may be housed by gender

  29-06-2015 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Immigration authorities will consider housing transgender detainees based on the gender they identify with in the wake of criticism about detention conditions for the population, officials said on Monday.
  
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• Recent spike in shark attacks reported off Carolinas coast

  29-06-2015 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Shark experts have a not-so-reassuring explanation for a recent spate of attacks along on the coast of the Carolinas: It's mainly because so many people are getting in the water.
  
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• Palestinian striker to be freed, Israelis injured in attacks

  29-06-2015 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A Palestinian held by Israel for the past year is ending a 55-day hunger strike and in exchange will be released in two weeks, his wife and an advocacy group for prisoners said Monday.
  
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• OPM Suspends Background Check System in Wake of Hack

  29-06-2015 22:54 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The Electronic Questionnaires for Investigations Processing system will be offline for four to six weeks.
  
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• 7 Things You Need to Know About the Greek Crisis

  29-06-2015 22:53 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  With Greece nearly certain to default on a 1.6-billion-euro bond payment due Tuesday, the long-feared prospect of Hellenic financial chaos is here.
  
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• Kim Jong-un shows off airport designed by architect he likely had executed

  29-06-2015 22:53
  
  North Korean leader Kim Jong-un toured Pyongyang Airport’s new terminal ahead of its opening, but reports claim Kim ordered the architect to be executed after he was unhappy with its design.
  
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• Serena Williams' Wimbledon starts slow; Venus wins 6-0, 6-0

  29-06-2015 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — As has become customary for Serena Williams of late, she got off to a rocky start.
  
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• Bomb kills Egypt's top prosecutor as he drives to work

  29-06-2015 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CAIRO (AP) — A car bomb killed Egypt's chief prosecutor Monday in the country's first assassination of a senior official in 25 years, marking what could be an escalation in a campaign by Islamic militants toward targeting leaders of a crackdown on the Muslim Brotherhood.
  
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• Portuguese PM says no country immune to Greek fallout

  29-06-2015 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The euro zone needs to strengthen cooperation to avoid contagion in financial markets as no country is immune to the consequences of a potential Greek exit from the single currency, Portuguese Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho said on Monday. "Nobody can say they are immune to what might happen," Passos Coelho told journalists in televised comments. Passos Coelho said he did not know if Greece would leave the euro or not.
  
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• Ex-French interior minister Charles Pasqua dies aged 88

  29-06-2015 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former French interior minister Charles Pasqua, a hardline politician who was a close ally of former president Jacques Chirac, died Monday aged 88, political sources said. Pasqua, a veteran of the Gaullist movement, spent more than half a century at the heart of French politics in a career punctuated by no-nonsense policies targeting terrorism but overshadowed by funding scandals. "It is with very great sadness and with huge emotion that I learned of the passing of Charles Pasqua," Sar
  
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• The Latest: Hundreds in London rally for unity with Greece

  29-06-2015 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The latest news on Greece's financial woes as it closes its banks and limits money withdrawals (all times local):
  
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• Golf's Peter Oosterhuis says he has early onset Alzheimer's

  29-06-2015 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former British golfer and CBS analyst Peter Oosterhuis says he has early onset Alzheimer's disease.
  
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• McConnell: Export-Import Bank supporters have the votes

  29-06-2015 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell says the supporters of the federal Export-Import Bank have the votes to revive it, and he'll give them the opportunity to so.
  
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• A first: New guidelines back device for treating strokes

  29-06-2015 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Many stroke patients have a new treatment option — if they seek help fast enough to get it. New guidelines endorse using a removable stent to open clogged arteries causing a stroke.
  
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• LeBron, Aldridge hot topics as free agency looms

  29-06-2015 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Free agency for eligible NBA players begins Wednesday, with Cleveland's LeBron James and Kevin Love drawing plenty of attention but LaMarcus Aldridge and Marc Gasol more likely to make a move. Several media reports citing unnamed sources say that James, the superstar playmaker who powered the Cavaliers into the NBA Finals, has told the team he will opt out of his contract, as Love also reportedly has done. James is a free agent for the third time in five years after leaving Cleveland for Mi
  
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• Transgender immigration detainees may be housed by identity

  29-06-2015 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Immigration authorities may start housing transgender detainees based on the gender they identify with following criticism about detention conditions for the population.
  
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• ECB's Coeure says Grexit now a possibility: Les Echos

  29-06-2015 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (Reuters) - European Central Bank executive board member Benoit Coeure said on Monday it was now possible that Greece may end up exiting the euro zone although this was not what the ECB wanted.
  
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• Jeb Bush Says Confederate Flag a 'Racist' Symbol

  29-06-2015 22:31 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Jeb Bush said Monday that the Confederate flag has become a "racist" symbol and applauded efforts to remove the flag outside the South Carolina State Capitol after a racially motivated church shooting.
  
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• The Latest: Guard charged in connection with escape in court

  29-06-2015 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — The latest on the capture of one convicted murderer from a maximum-security prison and the killing of the other. (all times local):
  
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• WikiLeaks says NSA spied on French business

  29-06-2015 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — WikiLeaks has released documents that it says show that the U.S. National Security Agency eavesdropped on France's top finance officials and high-stakes French export bids over a decade in what the group called targeted economic espionage.
  
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• Exonerated Death Row Inmate Dies of Cancer in New Orleans

  29-06-2015 22:27 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Glenn Ford, a former death row inmate who served 30 years in a Louisiana prison for a murder he didn't commit, died early Monday morning.
  
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• U.S. pressing Greece, creditors to stay at table on debt talks

  29-06-2015 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration is urging Greece and its international creditors to keep negotiating a bailout deal as Athens prepares to hold a referendum over lenders' demands, a senior Treasury official said on Monday. The official, who asked not to be named, was speaking by telephone with reporters. U.S. officials have been pressing Greece and its European partners to strike a compromise between lender demands for economic reforms and Greece's need for measures that would mak
  
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• US stocks fall sharply on looming Greek debt default  

  29-06-2015 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The broad-based S&P 500 sank 43.85 (2.09 percent) to 2,057.64, while the tech-rich Nasdaq Composite Index dropped 122.04 (2.40 percent) to 4,958.47. "I believe markets outside of Greece have responded in a relatively calm way given the surprise nature" of Greece's announcements, he said.
  
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• One day at a time, Cardinals adding to best record in majors

  29-06-2015 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Mike Matheny has zero interest in scanning the daily statistics that show just how efficiently the St. Louis Cardinals are dealing with the opposition.
  
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• The Latest: Tsipras says 'No' vote will help Greece bargain

  29-06-2015 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The latest news on Greece's financial woes as it closes its banks and limits money withdrawals (all times local):
  
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