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• Indiana agency : No action planned over card game prizes

  20-07-2015 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MUNCIE, Ind. (AP) — A senior center has stopped offering prizes like cookies and toilet paper in card games in which residents paid a few dollars to play after state officials warned them the practice constituted gambling.
  
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• Plaintiff in Supreme Court gay marriage ruling has book deal

  20-07-2015 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The lead plaintiff in the landmark Supreme Court case that made gay marriage a nationwide right has a book deal.
  
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• Nazi hunters: Serge and Beate Klarsfeld awarded medals of honour by Germany

  20-07-2015 23:50
  
  A French couple who have spent decades hunting down Nazis who had gone into hiding after WWII have been awarded medals of honour by Germany.
  
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• Nuggets trade point guard Ty Lawson to Houston

  20-07-2015 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — The Denver Nuggets have traded point guard Ty Lawson to the Houston Rockets.
  
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• Can new Nigeria tackle Boko Haram?

  20-07-2015 23:46 via edition.cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama will welcome Nigeria's new president to the White House Monday in an effort to bolster the fight against Boko Haram and begin a new chapter with Africa's most populous country.
  
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• No slump in key state, poll finds

  20-07-2015 23:42 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump ignited a political furor with his weekend comments about Sen. John McCain's war record, but the first polling released since then shows no change in his standing.
  
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• Chattanooga shooter was suicidal, bankrupt: report

  20-07-2015 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The man who killed five US troops in Tennessee was suicidal, preparing for bankruptcy and struggling with drug abuse, a family representative told local media. Four US marines and a sailor were killed after 24-year-old Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez opened fire on two military centers in Chattanooga on Thursday, before dying himself in a shootout with police. A diary obtained by the FBI showed he wrote about having suicidal thoughts and "becoming a martyr" in 2013 after having lost his jo
  
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• Queen's 'Nazi salute' tests privacy

  20-07-2015 23:40 via edition.cnn.com
  
  After pictures were released of Queen Elizabeth II apparently giving a Nazi salute when she was a child, CNN's Max Foster examines how much privacy the royal family can expect.
  
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• With Sikorsky sale done, United Technologies eyes acquisitions

  20-07-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  United Tech shares slipped 0.7 percent on Monday after news of the $9 billion sale to Lockheed Martin Inc became official. Also, United Tech, which reports earnings on Tuesday, will lose Sikorsky's profit contribution, estimated by Sterne Agee CRT at 6.5 percent of overall operating earnings this year.
  
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• Lockheed to buy Black Hawk maker Sikorsky for $9 billion

  20-07-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Andrea Shalal WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp said Monday it would buy Black Hawk maker Sikorsky Aircraft from United Technologies Corp for $9 billion, cementing Lockheed's dominance in weapons making. Lockheed will also review the possible sale or spin off of $6 billion in other information technology and services businesses. The Pentagon's largest supplier called Sikorsky a "national icon" and said the net cost of the deal was around $7.1 billion, taking into
  
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• Lockheed sees U.S. Marines 'on track' to declare F-35 combat-ready

  20-07-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lockheed Martin Corp Chief Executive Marillyn Hewson on Monday said the U.S. Marine Corps was "on track" to declare an initial squadron of F-35B fighter jets ready for combat this month after completing a review of the squadron last week. "They are now the midst of their assessment of their operational readiness, and are on track ... to announce their (initial operational capability) this month," she said.
  
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• Lockheed sees positive Pentagon view on Sikorsky buy

  20-07-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp on Monday said Pentagon officials planned a detailed review of the company's bid to acquire Sikorsky Aircraft, the helicopter unit of United Technologies Corp, but it did not expect major obstacles.
  
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• Lockheed says commercial cyber business part of strategic review

  20-07-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Lockheed Martin Corp is including its commercial cyber business in a strategic review of key services and information technology businesses, but will not exit the government cybersecurity business, Chief Executive Marillyn Hewson said.
  
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• Lockheed CFO sees Sikorsky turnaround around late 2018 or 2019

  20-07-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sikorsky Aircraft will face some revenues and earnings pressures for several years, but should see improved market conditions in the commercial sector and growth in new military production around late 2018 or 2019, Lockheed Martin Corp's chief financial officer said on Monday.
  
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• Trump's global punch beats rivals

  20-07-2015 23:35 via edition.cnn.com
  
  CNN's Hala Gorani hits the streets of London to see if anyone recognizes U.S. Presidential candidates.
  
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• Police: Ex-NFL player's mistress kills his wife then self

  20-07-2015 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — A former NFL player's mistress, apparently jealous that he was taking his wife on a trip to Las Vegas, drove to his home near Atlanta, kidnapped her romantic rival and led officers on a chase into Alabama before killing the wife and herself, police said.
  
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• McConnell: 'Gender card' alone not enough for Clinton

  20-07-2015 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SHEPHERDSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The Senate's top Republican says the "gender card alone" won't be enough to propel Democrat Hillary Rodham Clinton to the White House.
  
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• Earthquake centered in northern Oklahoma rattles state

  20-07-2015 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — A magnitude 4.4 earthquake centered in northern Oklahoma has shaken the state, with reports of it being felt hundreds of miles away.
  
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• Keillor says he's sure: He's retiring from 'Prairie Home'

  20-07-2015 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Garrison Keillor, creator and longtime host of the popular "A Prairie Home Companion" radio show, says he means it this time: He's retiring.
  
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• Grievances persist despite start of new era in US-Cuba ties

  20-07-2015 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Cuban national flag fluttered in the Washington sun Monday as the U.S. and Cuba formally ended more than a half-century of estrangement, formally re-establishing relations severed at the height of the Cold War. But the symbolism of an embassy ceremony could not conceal deep, lingering conflicts between the nations.
  
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• Chattanooga shooting suspect was in Doha, Qatar: government sources

  20-07-2015 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - The suspect in the Chattanooga shooting in which five U.S. servicemen died last week was in Doha, Qatar on at least one occasion during his seven-month trip last year to the Middle East, two government sources told Reuters on Monday. Investigators are trying to determine why 24-year-old Mohammod Youssuf Abdulazeez, who was shot dead during the attack on Thursday, went to Doha and the significance of his presence in the city, home both to jihadist supporters and a U.S. air base.
  
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• House to take up bill blocking money for 'sanctuary cities'

  20-07-2015 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House will take up a bill this week blocking funding for so-called "sanctuary cities" that resist turning over immigrants to federal authorities.
  
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• GM ignition switch deaths and injuries total 393

  20-07-2015 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — General Motors' faulty ignition switches were responsible for at least 124 deaths and 269 injuries, according to a fund set up to compensate victims.
  
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• Co-head of fallen streaming site Grooveshark dead at 28

  20-07-2015 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A co-founder of Grooveshark, an early leader in music streaming that recently closed under threat of crushing financial penalties to record labels, has died at 28, police said Monday. Josh Greenberg died at his home Sunday evening in Gainesville, Florida, the university town where he helped launch the site in 2006. The cause of death was unclear but there was no evidence of foul play or suicide, the Gainesville Police Department said on Twitter.
  
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• Flash flood washed out otherwise sound California bridge

  20-07-2015 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DESERT CENTER, Calif. (AP) — The interstate bridge that washed out in the desert between Los Angeles and Phoenix easily withstood its daily load of thousands of cars and trucks, but the pounding of an unusually powerful flash flood scoured away the land where the bridge was anchored, officials said Monday.
  
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• Cuba opens Washington embassy, urges end to embargo

  20-07-2015 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Cuban flag was raised over Havana’s embassy in Washington on Monday for the first time in 54 years as the United States and Cuba formally restored relations, opening a new chapter of engagement between the former Cold War foes. Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez presided over the reinauguration of the embassy, a milestone in the diplomatic thaw that began with a breakthrough announcement by U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul C
  
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• Keillor says he's done after next season's 'Prairie Home'

  20-07-2015 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Garrison Keillor, creator and longtime host of the popular "A Prairie Home Companion" radio show, says he means it this time: He's retiring.
  
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• Gold falls to lowest level in five years on dollar strength

  20-07-2015 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Investors are running out of reasons to own gold.
  
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• Josh Duggar of '19 Kids and Counting' says wife gave birth

  20-07-2015 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TONTITOWN, Ark. (AP) — Josh Duggar, the eldest son featured on TLC's recently cancelled "19 Kids and Counting" reality show, has announced the birth of his and his wife's fourth child.
  
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• Ukraine crisis: 'Putin is obsessed with the idea of testing Nato' - and the Baltics will be next, says Odessa governor Mikheil Saakashvili

  20-07-2015 22:57
  At first sight it seemed an improbable appointment: a man who had served twice as president of neighbouring Georgia, parachuted in as governor of a single region of Ukraine. But for the government in Kiev, beset in the east by pro-Russian rebels, and facing entrenched corruption and an array of powerful oligarchs elsewhere, it was an obvious choice.
  
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• Cuban flag flies as US, Havana renew ties despite discord

  20-07-2015 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Cuban flag flew proudly over Havana's newly restored embassy Monday as the US and Cuba relaunched diplomatic ties but swiftly cautioned that sharp differences lingered after five decades of enmity. Some seven months after President Barack Obama and his Cuban counterpart Raul Castro agreed to restore ties snapped in 1961 during the Cold War, Havana and Washington restored diplomatic relations and reopened full embassies in the two capitals. "This milestone does not signify an end to
  
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• Here's how Hillary Clinton can remain the favourite among black voters

  20-07-2015 22:53
  
  “Black lives matter.”
  
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• Here's how Hillary Clinton can remain the favorite among black voters

  20-07-2015 22:53
  
  “Black lives matter.”
  
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• Gunfire, blasts heard in Burundi's capital ahead of polls

  20-07-2015 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BUJUMBURA, Burundi (AP) — Gunfire and explosions could be heard in Burundi's capital on the eve of the country's disputed presidential election.
  
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• Nasdaq edges to record high to open busy earnings week

  20-07-2015 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - The Nasdaq edged up to a third straight record high Monday as solid earnings from toymaker Hasbro and others kicked off a heavy week of quarterly results.
  
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• Upgraded charges weighed in fatal limo crash on Long Island

  20-07-2015 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PECONIC, N.Y. (AP) — Investigators are weighing whether to upgrade charges against the driver of a pickup truck that slammed into a limousine in Long Island wine country over the weekend, leaving four women dead and four others with serious injuries, a prosecutor said Monday.
  
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• Lockheed Martin to buy fabled helicopter maker Sikorsky

  20-07-2015 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lockheed Martin said Monday it will buy Sikorsky Aircraft, the storied US maker of the Black Hawk helicopter, in an all-cash $9 billion deal with United Technologies. "Sikorsky is a natural fit for Lockheed Martin and complements our broad portfolio of world-class aerospace and defense products and technologies," said Marillyn Hewson, Lockheed Martin chairman, president and chief executive, in a statement. "The addition of the unit will be seen as a complementary piece to Lockheed
  
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• Sex-for-power charge in China

  20-07-2015 22:39 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Chinese authorities have arrested a former top official in a corruption investigation after expelling him from the ruling Communist Party, state-run Xinhua news agency reported Monday.
  
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• Box office top 20: 'Ant-Man' continues Marvel's no. 1 streak

  20-07-2015 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Marvel notched its 12th straight no. 1 debut at the box office with "Ant-Man" opening with $57.2 million.
  
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• Thieves steal ATM machine, but it falls out of getaway van

  20-07-2015 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LYNNWOOD, Wash. (AP) — Snohomish County authorities say two thieves suspected of stealing an ATM machine from a business made it as far as the parking lot, but the machine fell out of the getaway van.
  
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• Ex-minister: Greece made mistakes but...'

  20-07-2015 22:28 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Greece's divisive former finance minister, Yanis Varoufakis, admitted on Monday that Greece made mistakes over its bailout negotiations, but he continued to lay the preponderance of blame for the Greek woes on the country's creditors.
  
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• Menendez assails feds in filings over corruption indictment

  20-07-2015 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Sen. Robert Menendez launched a wide-ranging attack on the corruption charges against him Monday, accusing Justice Department prosecutors of misconduct and setting the stage for what is likely to be a confrontational and heated court fight.
  
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• UK tackles lure of ISIS

  20-07-2015 22:26 via edition.cnn.com
  
  In a major speech Monday, British Prime Minister David Cameron plans to unveil plans to confront the ideology of terrorism among the young and disaffected in the UK.
  
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• Failed strut caused SpaceX rocket blast: CEO Elon Musk

  20-07-2015 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The SpaceX Falcon 9 explosion was caused by a failed strut that allowed a helium bottle to burst free inside the rocket's liquid oxygen tank, CEO Elon Musk said Monday. "One of those struts broke free during flight," Musk told reporters on a conference call to discuss the June 28 blast on what was supposed to be a routine cargo mission to the International Space Station. "So the helium bottle would have shot to the top of the tank at high speed," said Musk, noting that t
  
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• Queen's 'Nazi salute' vs. privacy

  20-07-2015 22:16 via edition.cnn.com
  
  After pictures were released of Queen Elizabeth II apparently giving a Nazi salute when she was a child, CNN's Max Foster examines how much privacy the royal family can expect.
  
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• Obama nominates economist Kathryn Dominguez to Fed board

  20-07-2015 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is nominating economist Kathryn Dominguez to serve on the Federal Reserve's board of governors.
  
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• US stocks notch modest gains on solid earnings reports

  20-07-2015 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. stocks are closing with modest gains after several companies reported solid earnings.
  
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• McConnell, Boxer hope to announce a transportation bill deal

  20-07-2015 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Monday he hopes to announce soon that he and Sen. Barbara Boxer of California have reached an agreement on a transportation bill.
  
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• Boston bus driver treats passengers at lemonade stand

  20-07-2015 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — A Boston bus driver made a new group of friends by surprising passengers with a treat to help brave the sweltering heat: He made a stop at a child's lemonade stand.
  
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• Safe words: A smart and subtle counter-extremism strategy

  20-07-2015 22:07
  
  The portents did not look good for David Cameron. His party’s previous attempts to tackle extremism had been angry in tone and light on solutions. In other words, the end result was counter-productive: Muslim communities felt alienated, and precious little – in terms of making Britain safer – was achieved. The Prime Minister has made a start on reversing these failures.
  
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