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• Photos: Bethenny Frankel Tries Paddleboarding

  24-07-2015 23:53
  
  Stars heat up the beach and pool in their barely-there swimwear.
  
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• After U.S. shooting, high cost of more security vexes movie theaters

  24-07-2015 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Metropolitan Opera in New York searches the bags and purses of patrons each night, and air travel involves long lines and security checks. Cost, staffing and the turn-off factor to what is supposed to be a fun night out will likely deter movie theater chains from adopting airport-style security, especially at a time when attendance is dropping thanks to the lure of online streaming, YouTube and video on demand. "Owners do not want the experience at their theater to be a negative one, and goi
  
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• Welcome home, 'son': Barack Obama lands in Kenya

  24-07-2015 23:50
  
  US President Barack Obama has landed in Kenya to begin a visit that many Kenyans see as the return of the country’s “son”.
  
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• VIDEO: Obama begins Africa trip in Kenya

  24-07-2015 23:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US President Barack Obama has landed in Nairobi as he begins a four day trip to Africa - a trip of both political and personal significance.
  
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• U.S. drones aim at Al Shabaab

  24-07-2015 23:48 via edition.cnn.com
  
  The Pentagon has quietly expanded its military operations in Somalia against Al-Shabaab militants in recent weeks.
  
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• Autopsy: Woman dead in Texas jail used bag tied in slipknot

  24-07-2015 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — A black woman found dead in a Southeast Texas jail three days after a traffic-stop confrontation with a white officer hanged herself using a clear plastic bag tied into a slipknot, according to an autopsy report released Friday.
  
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• No warning as drifter with violent past opened fire at movie

  24-07-2015 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — A man who lost his family, home and businesses as he spent years angrily espousing right-wing extremism on television, the Internet and to anyone else who would listen did not say a word as he opened fire on strangers in a darkened movie theater, authorities said Friday.
  
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• NCAA: Southern Miss, Tyndall committed multiple violations

  24-07-2015 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The NCAA says Southern Mississippi's men's basketball program and former coach Donnie Tyndall have committed multiple violations, including arranging fraudulent academic credit, impermissible financial aid and obstructing the governing body's investigation.
  
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• VIDEO: Turkey's Incirlik airbase explained

  24-07-2015 23:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The significance of the Incirlik air base in southern Turkey explained, as Turkey says it will allow the US to use the base to launch airstrikes against IS.
  
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• The Latest: Official IDs wounded teachers cited for heroism

  24-07-2015 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — The latest on the shooting at a Lafayette, Louisiana, movie theater (times are local):
  
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• Facing the future at the IMF

  24-07-2015 23:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Facing the future at the IMF
  
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• Amazon shares surge on surprise profit

  24-07-2015 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Online retailer Amazon's shares have closed 9.8% higher after it posted an unexpected profit on Thursday.
  
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• Barca 'fight' Premier League exodus

  24-07-2015 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Barcelona will "fight" to stop the best players joining the Premier League when the new TV deal starts, says their president.
  
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• Two young Louisiana women lost in a random burst of gunfire

  24-07-2015 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jillian Johnson was a local art workshop and gift store owner who went to movies to see a comedy with her best friend. Breaux, who attended the same 7 p.m. show with her boyfriend, was an honor student who aspired to be an X-ray technician. Twenty minutes into the showing of "Trainwreck" in a Lafayette, Louisiana theater, the two women were gunned down by a stranger with a long history of mental illness.
  
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• Autopsy: Woman dead in Texas jail used bag tied in slip knot

  24-07-2015 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HEMPSTEAD, Texas (AP) — A black woman found dead in a Southeast Texas jail three days after a traffic-stop confrontation with a white officer hanged herself using a clear plastic bag tied into a slip knot, according to an autopsy report released Friday.
  
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• Win in violence-wracked Burundi vote

  24-07-2015 23:23 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Burundian President Pierre Nkurunziza has been re-elected, the African country announced Friday, ending a violence-marred election period and giving him a third term that critics contended he should never have been allowed to seek.
  
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• Turkish police use water cannon as purge of Isis suspects sparks riots in Istanbul

  24-07-2015 23:20
  
  The Turkish purge of suspected Isis militants and banned Kurdish groups was launched in Sultangazi, a notoriously unruly Kurdish neighbourhood of Istanbul. After security forces descended overnight and launched a series of raids, hundreds of young men fought back.
  
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• Convicted spy Pollard could be freed from prison soon

  24-07-2015 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Convicted American spy Jonathan Pollard could be released from federal prison within months.
  
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• See inside Versace's designer flats

  24-07-2015 23:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UK's first Versace-branded flats go on sale
  
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• U.S. health insurer mergers to speed industry deals: experts

  24-07-2015 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Anthem announced its proposed $54 billion purchase of Cigna on Friday, just weeks after Aetna Inc said it would buy rival Humana Inc for $37 billion. If both transactions are approved by regulators, the industry will go from five major national players to three.
  
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• FDA OK's Odomzo from Novartis for common skin cancer type

  24-07-2015 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — A new drug for advanced basal cell carcinoma, an increasingly common cancer in the skin's top layer, has won Food and Drug Administration approval.
  
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• U.S.'s Biden welcomes heavy weapons-free zone proposal for Ukraine: White House

  24-07-2015 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Friday welcomed Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko's proposal to create a 30-km (17-mile) zone free of tanks, artillery and mortar systems along the line of contact in eastern Ukraine, the White House said. Biden and Poroshenko, who spoke by telephone, agreed that Russia and Russian-backed separatists had still failed to implement the Minsk agreement calling for a ceasefire and the removal of heavy weapons from the line of contact, the White House said in a sta
  
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• 100 same-sex weddings and counting

  24-07-2015 23:14 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Married in every sense of the word, but strangers in the government's eyes. That was the harsh reality for Steven Rosen and his late husband Cal Grogan.
  
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• Oklahoma police scour teen's social media after deaths

  24-07-2015 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BROKEN ARROW, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma police on Thursday scoured the social media posts and interests of a teenager accused in the stabbing death of five family members for clues to explain a late night attack that left bodies strewn through a two-story house in a quiet neighborhood.
  
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• Turkey approves U.S.-led coalition's use of air bases against Islamic State

  24-07-2015 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Turkey has approved the use of its air bases by U.S. and coalition aircraft in the fight against Islamic State, the Foreign Ministry said on Friday, marking a major change in policy after a suicide bombing by the militants this week. The shift comes as Ankara, long a reluctant partner in the U.S.-led fight against Islamic State, launched air strikes against the militants in Syria on Friday for the first time. U.S. defense officials on Thursday said Turkey had agreed to let it launch manned air s
  
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• Turkey warplanes attack Kurdish militants in northern Iraq - media

  24-07-2015 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish warplanes launched attacks on camps of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in northern Iraq late on Friday, Dogan news agency and other local media reported. The attacks, which was Reuters was unable to immediately confirm, followed air strikes into northern Syria, where Turkish fighters had targeted Islamic State bases. (Reporting by Gulsen Solaker and Daren Butler; Writing by David Dolan)
  
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• US stocks tumble as weak Chinese data rattles Wall Street

  24-07-2015 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - US stocks sank deep in the red Friday as weak Chinese factory data and US home sales numbers outweighed Amazon's unexpected blockbuster swing into profit.
  
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• US charges naval officer over nuclear sub photos

  24-07-2015 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A 28-year-old US Navy serviceman has been charged with allegedly taking unlawful photographs of a nuclear submarine and trying to cover up evidence, prosecutors said Friday. Kristian Saucier was arrested in May and released on a $100,000 bond, charged with unlawfully retaining photographs of the USS Alexandria and obstructing investigators. In 2009, as a then machinist's mate, Saucier allegedly took photos on his cellphone of classified areas and equipment on board the vessel at a naval bas
  
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• What I saved from the rubble

  24-07-2015 23:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What one item would you save in an earthquake?
  
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• Anthem to buy Cigna, creating biggest U.S. health insurer

  24-07-2015 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The proposed acquisition, the health insurance industry's largest, comes three weeks after Aetna Inc agreed to buy Humana Inc for $37 billion. Health insurers are finding it tougher to raise prices following the roll-out of President Barack Obama's healthcare law, while grappling with soaring expenses of medications including cancer drugs that can cost each patient more than $100,000 a year. Anthem said buying Cigna would help it reduce costs and negotiate lower prices with doctors and
  
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• The Latest: Office that tracks hate groups knew of shooter

  24-07-2015 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — The latest on the shooting at a Lafayette, Louisiana, movie theater (times are local):
  
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• Turkish warplanes on new mission to bomb IS targets in Syria: reports

  24-07-2015 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Istanbul (AFP) - Turkish F-16 air force jets on Friday took off from their base on a new mission to bomb targets controlled by Islamic State (IS) jihadists in Syria, television reports said.
  
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• Bolt wins 100m at Anniversary Games

  24-07-2015 22:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Usain Bolt shrugs off doubts about his form to win the 100m in 9.87 seconds at the Anniversary Games in London.
  
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• Mexico jails Guzman prison guards

  24-07-2015 22:44 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A Mexican judge jails three prison officers while an inquiry continues into the escape of drug cartel head Joaquin Guzman.
  
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• New inquiry into Clinton emails fuels political questions

  24-07-2015 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A new letter by intelligence investigators to the Justice Department says secret government information may have been compromised in Hillary Rodham Clinton's private server, underscoring an inescapable reality for her presidential campaign: Email is forever.
  
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• Bucs' C.J. Wilson placed on reserve/retired list

  24-07-2015 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Tampa Bay Buccaneers cornerback C.J. Wilson has been placed on the reserve/retired list while he recovers from losing two fingers on his right hand in a July 4 fireworks accident.
  
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• Focus turns to The Economist after FT sale

  24-07-2015 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Pamela Barbaglia LONDON (Reuters) - The Economist Group could become the latest British media business to undergo a change of ownership this year as its co-owner Pearson focusses on education, bankers and industry sources said.     The company, whose weekly magazine was first published in 1843, is partly held by Pearson via the Financial Times, which is now in the process of being sold to Japan's Nikkei.     But Pearson has retained control of its 50 percent stake in The Economist Group
  
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• Turkish fighter jets enter Syrian airspace, attack Islamic State - TV

  24-07-2015 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish fighter jets entered Syrian airspace to launch a fresh attack on Islamic State targets late on Friday, local broadcaster NTV reported. A Turkish official could not confirm the report, although another broadcaster, CNN Turk, also reported that jets had entered Syrian airspace. A first attack on Islamic State targets on Friday morning was mounted by Turkish jets from a location inside Turkey, but close to the border. (Reporting by Gulsen Solaker and Daren Butler; Writing
  
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• Suspect in Louisiana theater rampage had history of mental illness

  24-07-2015 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A 59-year-old man who had been committed to a hospital for psychiatric care was identified by authorities on Friday as the gunman who fatally shot two people in a rampage at a crowded movie theater in central Louisiana before turning the gun on himself as police closed in. The suspected gunman, John R. Houser, who had a history of mental illness and railed against the U.S. government online, opened fire with a .40 caliber handgun about 20 minutes into the comedy film "Trainwreck," send
  
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• Theater gunman known as angry man with radical views

  24-07-2015 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  For decades before he opened fire in a Louisiana movie theater and killed two people, John Russell Houser was known as a man prone to anger, a loudmouth provocateur never afraid to share his opinion.
  
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• Fed: Confidential forecasts mistakenly made public

  24-07-2015 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Federal Reserve says it mistakenly posted confidential economic projections on its public website last month.
  
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• US stocks tumble as weak Chinese data rattles sentiment

  24-07-2015 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - US stocks closed sharply lower Friday as weak Chinese factory data and tumbling commodity prices overtook Amazon's 10 percent gain after an unexpected swing into profit.
  
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• Donald Trump loved and hated by Hispanics in border city

  24-07-2015 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAREDO, Texas (AP) — A day after Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's visit, some residents of Laredo, Texas, are calling the billionaire businessman a racist, while others are cheering his hardline immigration views.
  
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• Obama lands in Kenya to a hug

  24-07-2015 22:12 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Pres. Barack Obama returns to his father's homeland of Kenya in Africa. CNN's Jim Acosta reports.
  
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• USA Gymnastics coordinator Karolyi likely done after Rio

  24-07-2015 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOFFMAN ESTATES, Ill. (AP) — Martha Karolyi will likely retire after the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics, the longtime U.S. women's gymnastics coach said Friday.
  
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• Freed Gitmo detainees arrested

  24-07-2015 22:10 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Two former detainees at the Guantanamo Bay prison in Cuba were arrested by Belgian police in a counterterrorism operation targeting a recruiting network for al Qaeda in Syria.
  
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• US stocks sink; S&P 500 index notches another losing week

  24-07-2015 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. stocks are closing broadly lower, giving the market another losing week.
  
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• In a change from 2008, Clinton talking often about race

  24-07-2015 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — In her second bid for the presidency, Hillary Rodham Clinton is discussing "systemic racism" and making the issue a hallmark of her campaign, as she looks to connect with the black voters who supported rival Barack Obama in 2008.
  
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• The Latest: Louisiana governor orders flags at half-staff

  24-07-2015 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — The latest on the shooting at a Lafayette, Louisiana, movie theater (times are local):
  
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• AT&T buys DirecTV, now biggest traditional TV provider in US

  24-07-2015 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Even as TV watchers increasingly go online, AT&T has become the country's biggest traditional TV provider with its $48.5 billion purchase of DirecTV.
  
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