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• Hillary Clinton to meet with Pelosi on Tuesday

  13-07-2015 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will meet with House of Representatives Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi on Tuesday in Washington, a Democratic source said. Clinton, the front-runner in the race for the Democratic nomination, will be in Washington to meet with Senate and House Democrats during their weekly caucus meetings but will first meet privately with Pelosi on Tuesday morning, the source told Reuters.
  
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• Iran, world powers push for Tuesday nuclear deal

  13-07-2015 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Parisa Hafezi, Louis Charbonneau, John Irish and Arshad Mohammed VIENNA (Reuters) - Nuclear negotiations between Tehran and six world powers were set to miss a midnight deadline on Monday to reach a final deal, but diplomats from all sides said they hoped for a breakthrough in the coming hours. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said an agreement was possible on Tuesday, but Western and Iranian officials warned that sticking points remain, including a U.N. arms embargo, and that th
  
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• Claims 'As Seen on TV' company scammed customers resolved

  13-07-2015 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A company known for its "As Seen on TV" products including the Pocket Hose has reached a settlement with state officials who said it used high-pressure sales tactics and made it difficult for customers to get refunds.
  
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• Photos: Zoe Kravitz Hits the Beach in a Black Bikini

  13-07-2015 23:42
  
  Stars heat up the beach and pool in their barely-there swimwear.
  
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• Bahrain rights campaigner released

  13-07-2015 23:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Bahraini human rights campaigner Nabeel Rajab is pardoned by King Hamad after serving three months of a six-month prison sentence, reports say.
  
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• Bush defends economic proposals in Iowa

  13-07-2015 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Jeb Bush says new economic proposals from Hillary Rodham Clinton would not grow the economy or boost wages.
  
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• Solar Paper is World's Thinnest Sun-Powered Charger

  13-07-2015 23:31
  
  Solar chargers are appealing, but they can also be bulky and heavy. Not the case with Solar Paper, a new project seeking funds on Kickstarter.
  
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• Pentagon announces plan aimed at lifting transgender ban

  13-07-2015 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Ash Carter says the Pentagon's current regulations banning transgender individuals from serving in the military are outdated, and anyone willing to serve the country should be able to do so.
  
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• Quebec man charged with murder in death of 82-year-old French tourist

  13-07-2015 23:27 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A Quebec City man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of an 82-year-old French tourist.
  
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• Stock market rout another blow to fading 'Chinese Dream'

  13-07-2015 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By John Ruwitch and Brenda Goh CHANGZHOU/WENZHOU, China (Reuters) - About a week after Shanghai's main stock index broke above 4,000 points in April, the leading newspaper of China's ruling Communist Party weighed in with patriotic glee. In the longer term, it continued, the "Chinese Dream" of rising prosperity and security championed by President Xi Jinping would be reflected in capital markets, creating "huge" investment opportunities. The stock market turmoil in
  
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• Concern over dwindling number of rare Indian polo ponies

  13-07-2015 23:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Why the 'original polo ponies' are under threat
  
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• New Comcast online video service for its Internet customers

  13-07-2015 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Comcast, the country's largest cable company, is offering its own online video alternative as people spend fewer hours watching live TV and more time using tablets and phones for entertainment.
  
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• Foreign firms compete in historic Mexico oil auction

  13-07-2015 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US, European and Asian energy firms will compete Wednesday in Mexico's first oil auction since a historic reform brought back private investors, nearly 80 years after they were kicked out. The government is offering 14 blocks in shallow waters of the Gulf of Mexico worth an estimated $17 billion in total, in a contest that includes seven consortiums and 18 individual companies. Foreign and new Mexican companies have been preparing for months for this moment, the climax of President Enrique
  
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• Cowboys' Bryant warns he won't play without long-term deal

  13-07-2015 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  IRVING, Texas (AP) — Dez Bryant is sending another signal that he won't play for the Dallas Cowboys without a long-term contract.
  
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• Microsoft plans celebratory debut of Windows 10

  13-07-2015 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Microsoft on Monday announced plans for a celebratory debut this month of Windows 10 operating software designed to spread the US software titan's offerings across a broad range of devices. Word that Windows 10 would be welcomed in grand style came less than a week after Microsoft said it will cut 7,800 jobs and write down the value of its struggling mobile phone division acquired last year from Nokia by some $7.6 billion. Microsoft will make the latest version of its Windows operating syst
  
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• Who's charging $2,500 to see Taylor Swift concert?

  13-07-2015 23:10 via edition.cnn.com
  
  There's plenty of bad blood between Republicans and Democrats in Congress, but for two nights this week, one woman will bring them together: Taylor Swift.
  
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• Son of Boston police captain charged in terror bomb plot

  13-07-2015 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The son of a Boston police captain has been arrested in an FBI sting and accused of plotting to commit terrorist acts in support of the Islamic State group, including the setting off of pressure-cooker bombs at an unidentified university and the slaughter of students live online.
  
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• US boy scouts end ban on gay adults

  13-07-2015 23:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Boy Scouts of America unanimously approves a resolution to end the organisation's ban on gay adults working as leaders.
  
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• Exclusive: Philippines reinforcing rusting ship on Spratly reef outpost - sources

  13-07-2015 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Manuel Mogato MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippine navy is quietly reinforcing the hull and deck of a rusting ship it ran aground on a disputed South China Sea reef in 1999 to stop it breaking apart, determined to hold the shoal as Beijing creates a string of man-made islands nearby. Using wooden fishing boats and other small craft, the navy has run the gauntlet of the Chinese coastguard to move cement, steel, cabling and welding equipment to the BRP Sierra Madre since late last year, two navy o
  
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• O'Meara, Davies part of class inducted into Hall

  13-07-2015 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ST. ANDREWS, Scotland (AP) — Laura Davies was inducted into the World Golf Hall of Fame on Monday, even though she wasn't around to enjoy all of it.
  
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• Obama commutes sentences for 46; presses for justice changes

  13-07-2015 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Calling America "a nation of second chances," President Barack Obama cut the prison sentences of 46 non-violent drug offenders on Monday in what the White House hopes will be just one prong of a broader push to make the criminal justice system fairer while saving the government money.
  
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• Man charged in kidnapping that police originally called hoax

  13-07-2015 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The case of a Northern California woman who said she was kidnapped for ransom only to have it called a hoax by local police took another bizarre twist Monday when federal prosecutors announced they charged a man with her abduction.
  
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• Clinton gets tough on Wall Street, vows to tighten oversight

  13-07-2015 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Luciana Lopez and Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. presidential candidate Hillary Clinton toughened her stance against Wall Street on Monday, vowing to tighten oversight of the financial industry and warning of serious risks in the "shadow banking" industry. In her first major economic speech of the 2016 election campaign, Clinton assailed financial institutions in detailed terms as she pledged to cut the income gap and spur wage growth for ordinary Americans. The Democratic
  
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• 2 women who testified against Cosby seek transcript release

  13-07-2015 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Two of Bill Cosby's accusers have joined a court bid to have his full testimony from a 2005 sexual-battery lawsuit unsealed.
  
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• Greek PM Tspiras faces party revolt over bailout deal

  13-07-2015 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS/ATHENS (Reuters) - Greece's leftwing Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras faces a showdown with rebels in his own party on Tuesday furious at his capitulation to German demands for one of the most sweeping austerity packages ever demanded of a euro zone government. Just hours after a deal that saw Greece surrender much of its sovereignty to outside supervision in return for agreeing to talks on an 86 billion euro ($95 billion) bailout, doubts were already emerging about whether Tsipras wo
  
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• Iran nuclear talks photo-op at 0000 GMT unlikely: officials

  13-07-2015 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It is unlikely there will be a 2 a.m. (0000 GMT/8 p.m. EDT) Tuesday photo opportunity of ministers at the nuclear talks between Iran and major powers, several officials close to the talks said late on Monday. Earlier a Western official said there would be a photo opportunity at that time, possibly followed by a news conference. All of the officials spoke on condition of anonymity.
  
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• Diplomats: Iran nuclear agreement likely Tuesday

  13-07-2015 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  VIENNA (AP) — An Iran nuclear agreement appeared likely within hours, diplomats said late Monday after a day in which American and Iranian negotiators appeared to be struggling to clear final obstacles and looking like they'd miss their fourth deadline in less than two weeks.
  
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• Stocks end higher after Greece lines up a new bailout deal

  13-07-2015 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A new agreement between Greece and its lenders helped lift the stock market on Monday, extending the market's winning streak to a third day. The deal for a new loan package is aimed at keeping the country in the euro, but many hurdles remain.
  
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• VIDEO: Pluto 'little larger than anticipated'

  13-07-2015 22:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scientists say that the dwarf planet Pluto is "a little larger than we anticipated".
  
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• The Latest: 1M pounds of popcorn, rain letting up

  13-07-2015 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — Here are the latest developments from baseball's All-Star Game festivities in Cincinnati, where sluggers will compete in a home run derby Monday night before Tuesday's game to decide home field advantage in the World Series (all times local):
  
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• Greeks angry at deal

  13-07-2015 22:36 via edition.cnn.com
  
  CNN's Isa Soares reports on reaction on the streets of Athens after a much despised deal is reached with Europe.
  
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• US stocks surge on Greece deal

  13-07-2015 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - US stocks powered higher Monday, joining a global equity rally after Greece reached a tentative new bailout deal that would avoid the country dropping out of the eurozone.
  
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• Man who threw banana peel at Dave Chappelle appears in court

  13-07-2015 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The attorney for the man accused of throwing a banana peel at comedian Dave Chappelle during a performance in Santa Fe said Monday his client isn't a racist and that Chappelle should have to testify in the case or drop it.
  
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• VA says it may shut down hospitals to close $2.5B budget gap

  13-07-2015 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Department of Veterans Affairs says it may have to shut down some hospitals next month if Congress does not address a $2.5 billion shortfall for the current budget year.
  
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• Son of US police officer arrested in terror case

  13-07-2015 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The son of a US police officer, who has a history of mental illness and was on probation for drinking, has been charged in connection with an alleged terror plot, officials said Monday. Alexander Ciccolo, 23, also known as Ali al-Amriki, was arrested on Independence Day in the northeastern state of Massachusetts and is due to appear in court to answer firearms charges on Tuesday. Partially made Molotov cocktails were found in his apartment and he was monitored buying a pressure cooker similar to
  
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• Scientists: Sun's 'heartbeat' could mean future freeze

  13-07-2015 22:32 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Scientists have made a discovery about the sun's "heartbeat" that they say indicates that Earth's Northern Hemisphere will experience a deep freeze in 15 years.
  
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• Cop turns in ISIS bomb plot son

  13-07-2015 22:27 via edition.cnn.com
  
  A Massachusetts man was arrested and charged in a plot to engage in terrorism on behalf of ISIS, according to a criminal complaint unsealed Monday in federal court.
  
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• Moving past Vermont, Sanders tries to woo minority voters

  13-07-2015 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is trying to expand his liberal coalition, intensifying his appeals to the minority voters who twice powered President Barack Obama to the White House.
  
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• Clinton outlines economic vision

  13-07-2015 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton promised Monday to raise incomes of hardworking Americans and rein in Wall Street excesses in the first major policy address of her 2016 campaign. The speech, her second in New York City in the past month, comes at a time of surging support for her Democratic challenger on the left, Senator Bernie Sanders, and his populist message against inequality. "The defining economic challenge of our time is clear, we must raise incomes for hard-work
  
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• Here's How Climate Change Might Kill People

  13-07-2015 22:26
  
  Temperature swings over the first eight years of this century changed the death rates in New England, researchers report.
  
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• Puerto Rico officials hold 1st meeting with creditors to discuss restructuring island's debt

  13-07-2015 22:26 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Puerto Rican officials and advisers are holding the first of what they say are several meetings with creditors to explain why they believe it is necessary to restructure the U.S. territory's public debt.
  
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• Greece debt crisis: Greek government faces massive austerity package amid popular backlash at Germany's €50bn 'coup'

  13-07-2015 22:24
  Greece’s leaders face the challenge of pushing a massive austerity package through their parliament, agreed after 17 hours of negotiations in Brussels, amid angry talk of a German “coup” and the first signs of a popular backlash on the streets of Athens.
  
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• Greece debt crisis: Greek government faced with massive austerity package amid popular backlash at Germany's €50bn 'coup'

  13-07-2015 22:24
  Greece’s leaders face the challenge of pushing a massive austerity package through their parliament, agreed after 17 hours of negotiations in Brussels, amid angry talk of a German “coup” and the first signs of a popular backlash on the streets of Athens.
  
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• Boy Scouts executive committee OKs ending ban on gay leaders

  13-07-2015 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The executive committee of the Boy Scouts of America has unanimously approved a resolution that would end the organization's blanket ban on gay adult leaders and let individual scout units set their own policy on the long-divisive issue.
  
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• Iran, big powers due to have photo-op, possibly news conference

  13-07-2015 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Iran and major powers seeking to hammer out a nuclear agreement are tentatively scheduled to have a photo opportunity of all foreign ministers at the talks at 2:00 a.m. (0000 GMT) on Tuesday, possibly followed by a news conference, a Western official said late on Monday. The plan is for the ministerial photo to be held at the United Nations complex in Vienna, the official added. Iran and the major powers have been negotiating for more than two weeks in Vienna in an effort to strike a deal under
  
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• General: US considers expanding Ukraine training to army

  13-07-2015 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is considering a plan to expand its military training of Ukrainian forces to include army soldiers, the commander of the U.S. Army in Europe said on Monday, describing a potential move that risks heightening tensions with Russia.
  
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• How young Chinese are coming out to their parents

  13-07-2015 22:17 via bbc.co.uk
  
  How young Chinese are having that difficult conversation
  
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• California man charged in kidnapping police called a hoax

  13-07-2015 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal prosecutors charged a man with kidnapping a woman for ransom earlier this year that Northern California police called a hoax.
  
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• Study: Silent cancer in moms a rare result in prenatal tests

  13-07-2015 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — For pregnant women, abnormal results from certain prenatal tests may signal that something is wrong — with the moms-to-be, not the fetus, a preliminary study suggests.
  
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• Things to know about Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker

  13-07-2015 22:13
  
  Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker will announce his bid for the 2016 presidential campaign on Monday.
  
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