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• Selleck Accused of Stealing Water, but Cops Come Up Dry

  08-07-2015 23:57
  
  While a lawsuit accuses Tom Selleck of swiped precious water, California law enforcement officials told NBC News no crime has been committed.
  
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• Utah doctor convicted of killing cancer researcher ex-wife sentenced to 15 years to life

  08-07-2015 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Utah doctor convicted of killing cancer researcher ex-wife sentenced to 15 years to life.
  
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• Federal judge rules against 'disparaging' Redskins trademark

  08-07-2015 23:47
  
  A federal judge has agreed that the Washington Redskins should lose legal protection of their team name became the term is “disparaging” to Native Americans.
  
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• Utah teen sentenced to 30 years to life in crime spree that left 1 deputy dead, 1 wounded

  08-07-2015 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PROVO, Utah (AP) — Utah teen sentenced to 30 years to life in crime spree that left 1 deputy dead, 1 wounded.
  
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• Baltimore mayor sacks police chief

  08-07-2015 23:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The mayor of Baltimore axes the city's police chief months after the US city was rocked by riots following the death of a black man in custody.
  
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• Okafor off to good summer league start with assist from Noel

  08-07-2015 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Former Duke center Jahlil Okafor had a mentor parked next to him during his first two NBA games at the Utah Jazz Summer League — albeit one not much older than he is.
  
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• Photos: Michael Douglas and Catherine Zeta Jones Bring Their Kids to an 'Ant-Man' Premiere

  08-07-2015 23:39
  
  Meet the parents (and siblings, cousins and more!) of your favorite celebs.
  
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• VIDEO: Artists create music for masterpieces

  08-07-2015 23:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Musicians and composers have been given the chance to create music to works of art from the National Gallery
  
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• US hopes better data can fight segregation

  08-07-2015 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US housing department unveiled new rules Wednesday aimed at fighting segregation with the help of a database which will identify neighborhoods in need of transformation. "Unfortunately, too many Americans find their dreams limited by where they come from, and a ZIP code should never determine a child's future," Housing and Urban Development Secretary Julian Castro said in a statement. The new rules come two weeks after a sharply divided Supreme Court upheld a key tool used to
  
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• 14 years for man in Indian scam that cost taxpayers millions

  08-07-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A leader in an India-based scam that scared American taxpayers into sending millions of dollars because they thought the U.S. government was after them was sentenced Wednesday to more than 14 years in prison by a judge who said he wanted to send a message to others considering similar crimes.
  
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• Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi given three years in prison for bribing a senator - but he won't serve any of it

  08-07-2015 23:34
  Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been found guilty of bribing a senator, but will not serve his three year sentence as the statue of limitations on his crime will kick in before the appeals process can be completed.
  
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• Baltimore Mayor Fires Police Commissioner as Crime Spikes

  08-07-2015 23:25
  
  Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has fired Police Commissioner Anthony Batts.
  
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• Spike making series on computer pioneer McAfee

  08-07-2015 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Spike television network says it is making a six-part TV series based on the life of anti-virus software entrepreneur John McAfee, centered around interviews with him.
  
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• The Latest: Greek banks to stay closed until Monday

  08-07-2015 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — The latest on the Greek financial crisis (all times Athens local):
  
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• San Francisco defendant's immigration history is common

  08-07-2015 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Long before he was arrested in the shooting death of a woman at one of San Francisco's most popular tourist sites, Juan Francisco Lopez Sanchez was using the U.S.-Mexican border like a revolving door.
  
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• The Latest: Pope arrives in Bolivia on second leg of trip

  08-07-2015 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia (AP) — Here are the latest developments from Pope Francis' trip to South America:
  
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• Baltimore mayor fires police commissioner amid homicide rise

  08-07-2015 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — The Baltimore mayor fired the troubled city's police commissioner Wednesday, saying that a recent spike in homicide rates weeks after a black man died of injuries in police custody required a change in leadership.
  
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• The Latest: Baltimore mayor, citing crime, fires police head

  08-07-2015 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — The latest on the firing of Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts (all times Eastern):
  
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• Officials catch young alligator in suburban New Jersey river

  08-07-2015 23:08
  
  It created something of a stir, to say the very least.
  
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• NYSE suffers lengthy outage as US stocks slump

  08-07-2015 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The New York Stock Exchange halted trading Wednesday for more than three hours due to technical problems that it said were not caused by hacking. The outage was due to "an internal technical issue" and "was not the result of a cyber breach," NYSE said on Twitter. The exchange, the leading US platform for buying and selling the stocks of many of the world's largest companies, resumed trade at about 1910 GMT after having frozen all equity trading just after 1530 GMT.
  
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• Root century galvanises England

  08-07-2015 23:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Joe Root's century steers England to a strong position against Australia after they make a shaky start to the first Ashes Test.
  
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• The Latest: Philadelphia mural featuring Cosby faces removal

  08-07-2015 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Here are the latest developments from the release of court documents indicating Bill Cosby admitted in 2005 that he obtained quaaludes with the intent of giving them to women with whom he wanted to have sex (all times local):
  
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• Gov't to require cameras in train cabs after Amtrak crash

  08-07-2015 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration says it's drafting rules to require that railroads install video cameras inside locomotive cabs to record the actions of engineers.
  
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• House GOP opposes bankruptcy protections for Puerto Rico

  08-07-2015 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Leading House Republicans are declaring their opposition to allowing debt-ridden Puerto Rico access to Chapter 9 bankruptcy protections.
  
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• Medicare to cover end-of-life counseling

  08-07-2015 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Medicare said Wednesday it plans to pay doctors to counsel patients about end-of-life care, the same idea that sparked accusations of "death panels" and fanned a political furor around President Barack Obama's health care law six years ago.
  
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• Injured McIlroy to miss British Open

  08-07-2015 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rory McIlroy has withdrawn from next week's British Open at St Andrews after failing to recover from an ankle injury he sustained playing football. "After much consideration, I have decided not to play in the Open Championship at St. Andrews," the world number one said Wednesday on his Twitter and Instagram accounts. The 26-year-old Northern Irishman had revealed the extent of the injury on his Twitter and Instagram accounts on Monday.
  
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• Charleston Families Call for Gun Policy Reform

  08-07-2015 23:01
  
  Family members of people who were killed by gun violence stood next to top Democrats as part of a call for stricter gun control measures on Wednesday.
  
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• Embattled Baltimore police commissioner fired

  08-07-2015 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Donna Owens BALTIMORE (Reuters) - Embattled Baltimore Police Commissioner Anthony Batts was fired on Wednesday following criticism of his handling of rioting triggered by the death of a black man from injuries suffered in police custody and a subsequent surge in homicides. Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake said in a brief statement that she was replacing Batts as head of the 2,500-officer department. Batts, who came to the Baltimore force from California in September 2012, received sharp critici
  
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• Federer, Murray in Wimbledon showdown; Djokovic gets Gasquet

  08-07-2015 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Roger Federer and Andy Murray ran into each other Wednesday morning in the champions' locker room at the All England Club, then walked together over to the practice area to prepare — on adjacent courts — for their respective quarterfinals later in the day.
  
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• Global powers to up pressure on Iran for nuclear deal

  08-07-2015 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  European ministers were flying back to Vienna late Wednesday aiming to up the pressure on Iran to end a standoff over a nuclear deal in time to send it to US lawmakers. German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier arrived ahead of his French and British counterparts, Laurent Fabius and Philip Hammond, who were also due to return to the Austrian capital during the night. In a high-stakes game of diplomatic brinkmanship, global powers are chasing a deal curbing Tehran's nuclear ambitions a
  
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• Nielsen's top programs for June 29-July 5

  08-07-2015 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for June 29-July 5. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
  
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• Rerun season isn't so repeatable

  08-07-2015 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — One thing in shorter supply during what has always been known as broadcast television's rerun season is reruns.
  
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• Can she be Spider-Man's aunt?

  08-07-2015 22:50 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Now that Sony and Marvel have found their new Peter Parker in Tom Holland and booked Jon Watts to direct the reboot, it's time to start filling out the rest of Spider-Man's world.
  
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• Exclusive: Greek banks face closures, bailout or not - sources

  08-07-2015 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By John O'Donnell FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Some large Greek banks may have to be shut and taken over by stronger rivals as part of a restructuring of the sector that would follow any bailout of the country, European officials have told Reuters. One official said that Greece's four big banks - National Bank of Greece , Eurobank , Piraeus and Alpha Bank - could be reduced to just two, a measure that would doubtless encounter fierce resistance in Athens. "Cyprus could be a role model.&q
  
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• NYSE technical issues halt exchange for more than three hours

  08-07-2015 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A technical glitch forced the New York Stock Exchange to suspend trading for more than three hours on Wednesday in the biggest outage to strike a U.S. financial market in nearly two years, unnerving investors already rattled by the meltdown in Chinese stocks and the Greek debt crisis. The exchange, a unit of Intercontinental Exchange Inc , said the halt, which occurred shortly after 11:30 a.m. EDT and lasted until 3:10 p.m., was not the result of a cyberattack. "It's not a good day, an
  
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• Super PAC backing Rubio raised more than $16 million since April

  08-07-2015 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A super Pac backing Marco Rubio in the crowded contest for the Republican nomination for U.S. president has raised more than $16 million since April, the outside fundraising group said on Wednesday. "We've definitely benefited from the strong response to Marco Rubio's first few months on the campaign trail, allowing us to exceed all our goals for the first half of the year," Warren Tompkins of the Conservative Solutions PAC said in a statement. Conservative Solutions, as a su
  
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• House panel subpoenas Kerry on Keystone XL documents

  08-07-2015 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A House panel has issued a subpoena to Secretary of State John Kerry for department documents, reports and letters related to the contentious push to build the Keystone XL pipeline.
  
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• Dying dog gets his own bucket list

  08-07-2015 22:47 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Nicole Elliott was browsing a Georgia animal shelter's Facebook page two weeks ago when she saw him: a scruffy charcoal-gray dog with sad eyes.
  
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• NY Stock Exchange trading restarts

  08-07-2015 22:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Trading on the New York Stock Exchange restarts after being suspended for almost four hours due to a technical fault.
  
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• Baltimore Mayor Fires Police Commissioner

  08-07-2015 22:42
  
  Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has fired Police Commissioner Anthony Batts.
  
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• Plane collision marks 2nd fatal tragedy for family in a week

  08-07-2015 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MONCKS CORNER, S.C. (AP) — A collision between a small plane and an F-16 fighter jet that killed a father and son was the second fatal tragedy to strike their family in just four days, a relative told The Associated Press.
  
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• The Latest: Governor makes plea to GOP House members

  08-07-2015 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The latest on the Confederate flag debate in the South Carolina (all times local):
  
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• Wall St. sharply lower on China fears; NYSE suffers outage

  08-07-2015 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fears that a rout in Chinese stocks could seriously harm the country's economy and spread beyond its borders pushed the S&P 500 below its 200-day moving average for the first time since October and into negative territory for 2015. The NYSE, a unit of Intercontinental Exchange Inc , resumed trade late in the session after a technical problem forced a suspension for more than three hours in the biggest outage to strike a U.S. financial market in nearly two years. Chinese shares have fall
  
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• Obama administration takes aim at segregation in housing

  08-07-2015 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — The nation's head of urban housing policy announced new regulations Wednesday aimed at fulfilling promises of the 1968 Fair Housing Act by promoting racially integrated neighborhoods.
  
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• Ohio Mom Sues YMCA For Excluding Son With Down Syndrome

  08-07-2015 22:37
  
  Ironically, the 6-year-old has been featured "as a poster child" for YMCA programs with the tag lines 'Providing Opportunities for Everyone,'" the suit says.
  
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• Army troop cuts could grow if budget impasse persists

  08-07-2015 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In the midst of a war against the Islamic State that the Obama administration says will last many years, the Army is moving ahead with big troop cuts. And they could grow even larger unless Congress and the White House find a way to stop further across-the-board spending reductions this fall.
  
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• Greek banks to remain closed all week: government

  08-07-2015 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Greek banks will remain closed until July 13 and a 60-euro per day ATM withdrawal limit will remain in force, the Greek finance ministry said on Wednesday. The government ordered the banks to close their doors on Monday, June 29, after the collapse of negotiations on an international aid deal. Euro zone leaders on Tuesday set Greece a deadline of the end of the week to come up with far-reaching reform proposals to unlock an aid package, which a full summit of the European Union would approve on
  
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• Baltimore mayor fires police chief as murders continue to spike

  08-07-2015 22:20
  
  Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake has fired the city's police commissioner as murders continue to climb in the troubled town.
  
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• How Twitter reacted to NYSE 'glitch'

  08-07-2015 22:14 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How Twitter reacted to NY stock exchange 'glitch'
  
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• Will coca save the Pope?

  08-07-2015 22:02 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Concerns over altitude sickness in Bolivia may force the Pope to turn to a local remedy. CNN's Shasta Darlington reports.
  
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