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• Police: Boy's abuse escalated from slapping to handcuffing

  15-07-2015 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HAGERSTOWN, Md. (AP) — Jack Garcia was a challenging kid — smart, but stubborn and uncommunicative, especially in his early years, according to those who knew him.
  
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• U.S. law enforcement, Mexico agents met on Guzman escape: Mexico official

  15-07-2015 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. law enforcement officials met with agents of the Mexican attorney general's office this week to share information related to the escape from prison of drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman and coordinate efforts to apprehend him, a Mexican government official said on Wednesday. Representatives from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Drug Enforcement Administration met Mexican law enforcement officials in Mexico City on Monday, the government official said, spea
  
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• Probe: Bogus enrollees kept getting 'Obamacare'

  15-07-2015 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Phony applicants that investigators signed up last year under President Barack Obama's health care law got automatically re-enrolled for 2015. Some were rewarded with even bigger taxpayer subsidies for their insurance premiums, a congressional probe has found.
  
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• The Latest: Kremlin says Obama, Putin agree on nuke deal

  15-07-2015 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Here are the latest developments involving the agreement between the United States, Iran and world powers to limit the Islamic Republic's nuclear program (all times EDT):
  
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• Energy stocks lead US market lower; investor wait on Greece

  15-07-2015 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. stock market edged lower Wednesday, ending a four-day rally, as a drop in energy shares and jitters over Greece outweighed encouraging earnings reports from banks.
  
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• Armed gang hits Chris Brown's house

  15-07-2015 23:29 via edition.cnn.com
  
  After years of his own legal troubles, Chris Brown finds himself as an apparent victim -- after armed intruders burst into his Southern California home and locked his aunt in a closet, police said.
  
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• IRS investigating Shaggy 2 Dope from Insane Clown Posse

  15-07-2015 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — The Internal Revenue Service wants to know more about the income of one half of hip-hop duo Insane Clown Posse.
  
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• Menendez defense raises more than $1.5M since indictment

  15-07-2015 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez has raised more than $1.5 million for his legal defense fund since he was indicted on federal corruption charges April 1 and has spent more than $867,000 defending himself, according to a review of a financial disclosure filed with the Senate.
  
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• Ashes legend: 'Wake up Aussies!'

  15-07-2015 23:23 via edition.cnn.com
  
  It was the England win the Australians weren't expecting -- and a stark warning for the men from Down Under, says Aussie cricket legend Brett Lee.
  
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• Armed gang hit Chris Brown's house

  15-07-2015 23:22 via edition.cnn.com
  
  After years of his own legal troubles, Chris Brown finds himself as an apparent victim -- after armed intruders burst into his Southern California home and locked his aunt in a closet, police said.
  
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• Lawsuit: DirecTV's 'NFL Sunday Ticket' is illegal monopoly

  15-07-2015 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — DirecTV's exclusive right to broadcast certain NFL games is an illegal monopoly that raises costs for bars and restaurants, a San Francisco bar says in a lawsuit against the league and the satellite TV provider.
  
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• China meat smuggling crackdown stokes risky underground trade

  15-07-2015 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Adam Jourdan and Clare Baldwin SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) - On a dusty industrial lot in northern Hong Kong, a group of travelers sheltered in the shade away from the pressing July heat, packing old cloth bags and backpacks with Styrofoam to protect a more precious cargo: smuggled meat. Crowded amid the warehouses of Sheung Shui, a remote suburb near the mainland border, the group of around 40 are about to take frozen Brazilian beef into China to feed a growing demand for meat that is unsat
  
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• Yellen defends Fed policies from critical House lawmakers

  15-07-2015 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Wednesday she is encouraged by signs that the economy is reviving after a brutal winter. And if the improvements stay on track, the Fed will likely start raising interest rates later this year.
  
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• Justice Kennedy acknowledges gay marriage controversy

  15-07-2015 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has acknowledged the controversy surrounding the recent ruling that granted gays and lesbians the right to marry across the nation and likens it to a case in which justices decided burning an American flag is protected free speech.
  
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• The new Vegas of the East?

  15-07-2015 23:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Russia's vast eastern frontier is sparsely populated and underdeveloped - but one town there is hoping to become the new Vegas of the East and attract gamblers from across Asia.
  
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• Netflix delivers strong 2Q with 3.3 million more customers

  15-07-2015 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Netflix's second-quarter performance followed a familiar script of rapid subscriber growth that has enthralled investors.
  
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• How India makes Parsi babies

  15-07-2015 23:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Parsis of India are a unique community, but their numbers are declining fast. In an effort to change this, the government is spending $1.5m to encourage Parsis to have more children.
  
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• Santorum collects $600,000 for second presidential campaign

  15-07-2015 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Rick Santorum, who came in second place in the 2012 Republican presidential nominating contest, has raised about $607,000 for his new bid.
  
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• Obama takes on opponents of Iran nuclear deal

  15-07-2015 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US President Barack Obama on Wednesday confronted critics of the nuclear deal reached with Iran, saying they were at odds with "99 percent" of the world and had failed to offer any real alternative. As the freshly inked deal was put to members of the UN Security Council, a combative and at times testy Obama said opponents at home and abroad had offered only a path to war. "If 99 percent of the world community and the majority of nuclear experts look at this thing and they say this
  
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• EEOC: UPS discriminates with bans on beards, long hair

  15-07-2015 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A Muslim man who objected to rules requiring him to get rid of his beard if he wanted to become a driver for UPS Inc. was told by a UPS official that "God would understand" if he shaved, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commissioner said in a lawsuit filed Wednesday against the shipping company.
  
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• Sky protects Froome's Tour lead as Majka wins Stage 11

  15-07-2015 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CAUTERETS, France (AP) — Tour de France leader Chris Froome understands those who harbor doubts about his dominant performances in a sport long marred by doping. Maybe, he says, it's time to bring in an independent specialist to test his body and help prove that he's riding clean.
  
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• Harper Lee novel sets one-day record at Barnes & Noble

  15-07-2015 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Harper Lee's novel "Go Set a Watchman" set a record for first-day sales in the adult fiction category at Barnes and Noble, the largest US bookstore chain announced on Wednesday. Barnes and Noble said the previous record was held by Dan Brown for his 2009 bestseller "The Lost Symbol," which is to be made into a film expected to star Tom Hanks. "Watchman" also surpassed EL James' latest mommy-porn erotica "Grey: Fifty Shades of Grey as Told by Christian
  
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• Icy mountain ranges seen on Pluto after NASA flyby

  15-07-2015 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Icy mountain ranges can be seen rising from Pluto's surface, according to the first close-up images released Wednesday from NASA's New Horizon's spacecraft after its historic of flyby of the dwarf planet. Scientists were also stunned to see a close-up section of Pluto that showed no sign of craters, despite its home in the Kuiper Belt, the region beyond Neptune where cosmic debris is constantly pelting Pluto and its five moons. NASA said the findings suggest that Pluto is geologic
  
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• Obama: Iran deal is only alternative to more Mideast war

  15-07-2015 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Matt Spetalnick and Roberta Rampton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama, seeking to sell the Iran nuclear deal to skeptical U.S. lawmakers and nervous allies, insisted on Wednesday the landmark agreement was the only alternative to a nuclear arms race and more war in the Middle East. Obama made his case in a nationally televised news conference responding to critics at home and abroad after Iran and six world powers sealed an accord in Vienna on Tuesday to restrict Tehran’s nuclea
  
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• Judge rules Utah should put 2 moms on birth certificate

  15-07-2015 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A federal judge has ordered the state of Utah to list the names of a lesbian couple on a birth certificate as the mothers of their new baby.
  
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• 'Something wonderful': Peaks on Pluto, canyons on Charon

  15-07-2015 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Mankind's first close-up look at Pluto did not disappoint Wednesday: The pictures showed ice mountains on Pluto about as high as the Rockies and canyons on its big moon Charon that appear deeper than those on Earth.
  
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• Family, survivor call for federal probe of police shooting

  15-07-2015 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The family of an unarmed man fatally shot by police in suburban Los Angeles are calling for a federal civil rights investigation of the police department involved.
  
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• White House hopeful Trump discloses $10 bn net worth

  15-07-2015 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Business tycoon Donald Trump, one of the richest men in America, has a net worth of more than $10 billion, his campaign said Wednesday in a financial statement required for his White House bid. Trump, vying for the Republican presidential nomination, reported an income of $362 million last year, minus dividends, interest, capital gains, rents and royalties. "This report was not designed for a man of Mr Trump's massive wealth," his campaign crowed about the financial disclosure.
  
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• Violence as Greece debates reforms needed for bailout

  15-07-2015 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Anti-austerity protesters hurled petrol bombs at police guarding the Greek parliament Wednesday as MPs debated deeply unpopular reforms they need to vote in to clear the way for a eurozone rescue of Greece's failing economy. The street violence reflected broad public anger at measures now backed by Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras despite a July 5 referendum rejecting near-identical terms from Greece's creditors. Tsipras is facing a revolt over the reforms from his radical left ruling Syr
  
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• Cowboys, Bryant agree five-year deal

  15-07-2015 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Dallas Cowboys settled the contract saga surrounding star receiver Dez Bryant on Wednesday after agreeing a long-term deal worth a reported $70 million over five years. The Cowboys and Bryant inked the deal shortly before the expiration of a deadline for franchise-tagged players to negotiate a multi-year contract. The National Football League giants signalled the deal in a series of posts on Twitter, showing pictures of Bryant putting pen to paper before posing with the contract alongside Co
  
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• House passes bill to keep highway aid flowing to states

  15-07-2015 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House passed a bill Wednesday to temporarily shore up funding for transportation programs and prevent a shutdown in highway and transit aid to states at the end of this month. But Senate Republicans are trying to cobble together a longer-term bill that could provide money for several years.
  
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• Greece debt crisis: Tsipras' steers bailout reforms through parliament, but now he faces a revolt within his own party

  15-07-2015 22:23
  Greek MPs have passed a bill that will implement major economic reforms in return for a bailout, although many MPs from the ruling Syriza party have voted against it.
  
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• Greece debt crisis: PM Alexis Tsipras steers bailout reforms through parliament, but now he faces a revolt within his own party

  15-07-2015 22:23
  Greek MPs have passed a bill that will implement major economic reforms in return for a bailout, although many MPs from the ruling Syriza party have voted against it.
  
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• Greece debt crisis: PM Alexis Tsipras faces make-or-break vote to agree unpopular austerity measures after day of strikes and protests

  15-07-2015 22:23
  Greece is bracing itself for unprecedented civil unrest as the nation’s parliament seemed set to choose drastic and unpopular austerity measures in return for loans that may, or may not, save the country from bankruptcy.
  
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• Rapper Young Thug arrested for making 'terroristic threats'

  15-07-2015 22:20
  
  Rapper Young Thug was arrested by the US Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force on an outstanding warrant for "terroristic threats."
  
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• Rapper Young Thug arrested by US Marshals for making 'terroristic threats'

  15-07-2015 22:20
  
  Rapper Young Thug was arrested this morning by the US Marshals Southeast Regional Fugitive Task Force on an outstanding warrant for "terroristic threats."
  
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• US stocks end lower as Greek protests rattle investors

  15-07-2015 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - US stocks finished modestly lower Wednesday, snapping a four-day winning streak after violent protests outside the Greek parliament revived anxiety about the eurozone.
  
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• Obama implies Cosby allegations amount to rape

  15-07-2015 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US President Barack Obama weighed in Wednesday on the Bill Cosby sex assault scandal, saying that drugging and having sex with someone without consent – a scenario that parallels allegations made against the comedian – amounts to rape. Obama made the remarks at a White House press conference when asked whether he would revoke the Presidential Medal of Freedom bestowed in 2002 on Cosby, who has been accused of sexual misconduct spanning four decades. If you give a woman -- or a man, for that
  
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• Donald Trump: Tycoon and presidential candidate says he is worth $10bn

  15-07-2015 22:13
  
  “I’m really rich,” Donald Trump said last month when he officially launched his run for the White House. “I don’t need anybody’s money - it’s nice.”
  
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• Probe sends stunning closeup photos of Pluto mountains

  15-07-2015 22:12 via edition.cnn.com
  
  NASA says it's "another historic leap for humankind"
  
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• Energy stocks lead US market lower

  15-07-2015 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are ending lower as energy companies fall with weaker oil prices.
  
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• The Latest: Pro-Israel group urges Congress to reject deal

  15-07-2015 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Here are the latest developments involving the agreement between the United States, Iran and world powers to limit the Islamic Republic's nuclear program (all times EDT):
  
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• 'Something wonderful': 1st close-up pictures of Pluto

  15-07-2015 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Scientists have released the first up-close images ever of Pluto and its big moon Charon. And they say they're amazed.
  
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• The Latest: Plan puts Iran under 10-year threat of sanctions

  15-07-2015 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Here are the latest developments involving the agreement between the United States, Iran and world powers to limit the Islamic Republic's nuclear program (all times EDT):
  
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• Mexico's historic oil auction falls short of goal

  15-07-2015 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexico's historic first oil auction fell short of expectations on Wednesday, with only two of 14 offshore fields awarded as the world's biggest firms shunned the inaugural sale. The government offered 14 oil fields in shallow water of the Gulf of Mexico worth a total of $17 billion, the first sale in an energy reform that ends the state's 77-year monopoly on drilling. The auction was the climax of President Enrique Pena Nieto's top economic reform, which was enacted last year
  
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• Google adding 'buy' buttons to mobile search ads

  15-07-2015 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Google is looking to make it easier for people to shop while using its website, launching a trial run of a feature allowing smartphone users to make online purchases from their search results. The introduction of 'Purchases on Google' comes as Facebook, and Pinterest also try to make it easier for people to shop while using their sites, putting themselves in position to profit from transactions or related advertising. "Although we're still in early experiments with a limited
  
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• Probe sends stunning closeup Pluto photos

  15-07-2015 21:56 via edition.cnn.com
  
  NASA says it's "another historic leap for humankind"
  
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• House committees will investigate Planned Parenthood video

  15-07-2015 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The searing political conflict over abortion flared anew Wednesday as congressional Republicans said they will investigate whether Planned Parenthood is selling organs from aborted fetuses.
  
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• Taxpayer service hits new low at IRS as 'Obamacare' kicks in

  15-07-2015 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hello? Hello? Customer service at the IRS hit new lows this year, just as taxpayers were grappling with a wave of identity theft and new requirements under President Barack Obama's health law.
  
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• News Guide: Presidential candidates file fundraising reports

  15-07-2015 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Presidential candidates are filing their initial fundraising reports on Wednesday, offering a glimpse at how they're raising and spending money.
  
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