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• Judge leaves Katy Perry's bid to buy convent in limbo

  30-07-2015 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Katy Perry's dream of owning a hilltop convent near Hollywood is going to have a wait a while longer.
  
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• LinkedIn 2Q caps rough week for social media stocks

  30-07-2015 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — It hasn't been a good week for social media companies, not even for the usually reliable professional networking service LinkedIn Corp.
  
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• See Chilling Video of Gunman Before Theater Shooting

  30-07-2015 23:56
  
  Surveillance video from the Grand Theatre in Lafayette shows John Houser casually buying a ticket, crossing the lobby, and walking toward Theater 14.
  
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• 911 calls describe harrowing scene after theater shooting

  30-07-2015 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The urgent call went out across a police radio only minutes after gunfire erupted inside a Lafayette movie theater: The suspect was inside an auditorium and had reloaded his gun.
  
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• Congress heading on vacation, putting off messy decisions

  30-07-2015 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is heading out for a five-week summer recess in anything but a cheerful vacation mood, leaving behind a pile of unfinished business that all but guarantees a painful fall.
  
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• Donald Trump thinks he 'would get along very well with Vladimir Putin'

  30-07-2015 23:39
  
  American Presidential candidate and businessman Donald Trump has said he thinks he would "get along very well with Vladimir Putin" while speaking to press in Scotland.
  
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• Fluoride debate hits Colorado's largest water utility

  30-07-2015 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DENVER (AP) — Colorado's largest supplier of public drinking water is in the midst of a debate over how much fluoride — if any — to put into its delivery system after the federal government announced new standards in April.
  
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• GE may ship $10 billion in work overseas as U.S. trade bank languishes

  30-07-2015 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  General Electric Co is taking steps to shift some U.S. manufacturing work overseas now that the U.S. Export-Import Bank will be shuttered at least until September, the industrial giant's global operations boss told Reuters on Thursday. GE Vice Chairman John Rice said the conglomerate is bidding on over $10 billion worth of projects that require support from an export credit agency (ECA) like Ex-Im.
  
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• Clinton charity donors surge amid Hillary Clinton's campaign

  30-07-2015 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — An updated list of donors to the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation shows a marked surge in donations and the numbers of contributors to the family charity in the first half of this year — at the same time that Hillary Rodham Clinton ramped up her campaign for the presidency.
  
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• Fed's 'nearly balanced' language no bar to Sept rate rise

  30-07-2015 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Federal Reserve will not need to see balanced risks to the economy to proceed with an interest rate hike in September, according to former Fed officials and a review of central bank statements through recent turns in policy. In its latest statement, released Wednesday, the Fed said it continued to judge the risks to the U.S. economy as "nearly balanced," meaning it still sees a greater threat of a new downturn than it does of accelerating inflation and excessive growth. Prior
  
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• Soldiers guard El Salvador buses

  30-07-2015 23:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  El Salvador provides security escorts for buses forced to observe a strike called by criminal gangs, after several drivers were killed.
  
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• An offer you can't refuse - FIFA on show at Mob Museum

  30-07-2015 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Football's global corruption scandal is to be the subject of a new exhibit at Las Vegas's Mob Museum, the Sin City tourist attraction which immortalizes the lurid history of the American underworld. The museum said the permanent display -- "The 'Beautiful Game' Turns Ugly" -- would spotlight the twists and turns of the scandal that has seen several officials arrested and led to the resignation of FIFA boss Sepp Blatter. "This exhibit is ripped right from today&
  
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• Six Stabbed at Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade

  30-07-2015 23:19
  
  An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man stabbed and wounded six participants, two of them seriously, in the annual Gay Pride parade in Jerusalem.
  
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• Defense, DA argue reasons to spare Colorado gunman's life

  30-07-2015 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Defense attorneys for James Holmes made one more appeal for mercy Thursday for the Colorado movie theater shooter, urging jurors to consider his mental illness in his sentencing even though they rejected his claim of insanity when they found him guilty of murdering 12 people and trying to kill 70 others.
  
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• Here's what Betty White thinks of Cecil the lion's killing

  30-07-2015 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Betty White, a passionate animal activist, has harsh words for the Minnesota dentist who killed Cecil the lion while on a hunting trip in Zimbabwe this month.
  
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• Cops: Man impersonated brother to avoid $7K in unpaid tolls

  30-07-2015 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FORT LEE, N.J. (AP) — Authorities say a New Jersey motorist assumed his brother's identity to avoid $7,500 in unpaid tolls after he was stopped for not paying another toll on the George Washington Bridge.
  
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• Endangered pallid sturgeon larvae found in Missouri River

  30-07-2015 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BELLEVUE, Neb. (AP) — Three fish larvae captured from the Missouri River last year have been confirmed as those of the endangered pallid sturgeon, the U.S. Geological Survey said Thursday.
  
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• What do Trump and Corbyn have in common?

  30-07-2015 23:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Corbyn leading Labour? Trump in the White House? Such a world is far-fetched, but their popularity is telling about politics on both sides of the pond.
  
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• Bush calls courtship of minority voters integral to campaign

  30-07-2015 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ORLANDO, Florida (AP) — Following his own advice, Jeb Bush is taking his presidential campaign to the neighborhoods and churches where Hispanics and African Americans live and worship in an effort to broaden his appeal among minority voters.
  
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• Blue moon? Friday's celestial event comes with a catch

  30-07-2015 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — This is an astronomy story that comes up only once in a blue moon, like on Friday. Maybe.
  
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• Dodgers bolster pitching in huge deal with Braves, Marlins

  30-07-2015 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — The first-place Los Angeles Dodgers have bolstered their pitching staff, acquiring Mat Latos from the Miami Marlins and Alex Wood, Jim Johnson and Luis Avilan from the Atlanta Braves in a 13-player deal.
  
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• The Latest: Dash camera shows first officer racing to scene

  30-07-2015 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — The latest on the shooting at a Louisiana movie theater in which a gunman killed two people and then himself (all times local):
  
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• Defense asserts reasons to spare Colorado gunman's life

  30-07-2015 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — Defense attorneys for James Holmes made one more appeal for mercy Thursday for the Colorado movie theater shooter, urging jurors to consider his mental illness in his sentencing even though they rejected his claim of insanity when they found him guilty of murdering 12 people and trying to kill 70 others.
  
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• LinkedIn bucks week's downward trend among social media

  30-07-2015 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — It hasn't been a great week for social media companies, but professional networking service LinkedIn Corp. seems to be bucking the trend.
  
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• Spring rebound for US economy sets stage for Fed rate hike

  30-07-2015 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy isn't moving at warp speed, but it looks like it will be strong enough to handle an expected interest rate increase later this year.
  
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• Ohio Dad Charged After Child's Body Found Rotting in Crib

  30-07-2015 22:55
  
  An Ohio father was arrested after a cable installer found the "badly decomposed" body of a child inside a crib at an apartment complex, police said Wednesday.
  
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• Hollywood's Relativity Media files for bankruptcy protection

  30-07-2015 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Relativity Media, the struggling "mini major" Hollywood studio behind movies such as "Immortals" and "Mirror Mirror," filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection Thursday.
  
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• Fines ordered as long as ship blocked from heading to Arctic

  30-07-2015 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A federal judge in Alaska on Thursday ordered Greenpeace USA to pay a fine of $2,500 for every hour that protesters dangle from a bridge in Oregon and block a Royal Dutch Shell icebreaker from leaving for oil drilling in the Arctic.
  
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• Photos: Jennifer Lopez Shoots Scenes as an Undercover Cop

  30-07-2015 22:46
  
  See your favorite stars transform into the characters you love.
  
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• Clinton charity donors surge amid Hillary Clinton campaign

  30-07-2015 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Officials with the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation say the ranks of donors to the family charity surged in the first half of this year — at the same time that Hillary Rodham ramped up her campaign for the presidency.
  
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• Chicken, beer a bad recipe for home burglar who fell asleep

  30-07-2015 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAKE WORTH, Fla. (AP) — Chicken and beer make for a bad burglary.
  
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• Michigan taxidermist recreates football rivalry

  30-07-2015 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Lansing-based taxidermist used the longtime rivalry between Michigan State University and the University of Michigan as inspiration for his latest creation.
  
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• Utah officials considering new name for Negro Bill Canyon

  30-07-2015 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The renewed national scrutiny of the Confederate flag has Utah officials again considering changing the name of the picturesque Negro Bill Canyon. But the title that some find offensive is a point of historical pride for others.
  
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• New Nigerian general to head multinational Boko Haram fight

  30-07-2015 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Nigeria's Defense Ministry has appointed a new general to head the multinational army to fight Boko Haram.
  
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• New Body Cam Vid Shows Response to Police Shooting

  30-07-2015 22:34
  
  New body camera video shows the moments after the fatal shooting of Cincinnati motorist Sam DuBose from the perspective of the other two officers who responded.
  
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• Judge: Sale of Los Angeles convent appears to be invalid

  30-07-2015 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge said Thursday he believes a group of elderly nuns improperly sold their hilltop convent to a businesswoman but delayed any efforts by church officials to finalize a competing sale to pop singer Katy Perry.
  
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• MH370 maps

  30-07-2015 22:32 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Malaysia Airlines flight 370 disappeared less than an hour after it took off from Kuala Lumpur. Here are maps showing what happened.
  
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• Fed's 'nearly balanced' language no bar to September rate rise

  30-07-2015 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Federal Reserve will not need to see balanced risks to the economy to proceed with an interest rate hike in September, according to former Fed officials and a review of central bank statements through recent turns in policy. In its latest statement, released Wednesday, the Fed said it continued to judge the risks to the U.S. economy as "nearly balanced," meaning it still sees a greater threat of a new downturn than it does of accelerating inflation and excessive growth. Prior
  
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• The Latest: Officer: 'Send anybody you got' to theater

  30-07-2015 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — The latest on the shooting at a Louisiana movie theater in which a gunman killed two people and then himself (all times local):
  
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• Mexico offers $200 million auction to stop peso slide

  30-07-2015 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexico's central bank decided Thursday to increase its daily dollar auction from $52 million to $200 million to stop the peso's dramatic slide. After the central bank's announcement, the peso rose slightly to close at 16.60.
  
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• Congress heads off on vacation, putting off messy decisions

  30-07-2015 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress is heading out for a five-week summer recess in anything but a cheerful vacation mood, leaving behind a pile of unfinished business that all but guarantees a painful fall.
  
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• Chinese web dissenters using coded language to dodge censorship filters and vent frustration at government

  30-07-2015 22:20
  Chinese internet users wanting to vent frustration at their government are using a coded language to dodge censorship filters.
  
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• Meeting unions, Clinton offers support for $12 minimum wage

  30-07-2015 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton on Thursday offered some support for a proposal in the Senate that would raise the federal minimum wage to $12 an hour, hinting that the higher rate sought by labor unions doesn't have enough support.
  
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• Trump lands, Kim leads at Women's British Open

  30-07-2015 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TURNBERRY, Scotland (AP) — Donald Trump's show-stealing arrival at the Women's British Open on Thursday upstaged another strong start to a major by South Korea's Hyo-Joo Kim.
  
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• Only small increase in US girls getting cervical cancer shot

  30-07-2015 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — More U.S. girls are getting a controversial vaccine, but the increase last year was only slight.
  
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• Mullah Omar dead: Afghan Taliban struggles to maintain unity in the wake of leader's death - as exclusively seen letters apparently reveal

  30-07-2015 22:12
  The radio silence gave way to frantic conversations. Local Taliban commanders sought reassurance. Mullah Omar, the mujahedin commander of Kandahar, had finally been declared dead and along the porous border between Afghanistan and Pakistan, confusion reigned. Listening to the hurried conversations in Kandahar on Wednesday night were the Afghan border police.
  
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• US stocks eke out tiny gains after erasing an early loss

  30-07-2015 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks are closing with tiny gains after clawing back ground they lost earlier.
  
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• Dow falls on weak P&G results; Nasdaq up

  30-07-2015 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - The Dow was dragged lower by weak Procter & Gamble results Thursday, but the Nasdaq gained as food giant Mondelez raised its forecast after better-than-expected earnings.
  
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• John Mara says Giants have not been allowed to examine JPP

  30-07-2015 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) — The New York Giants have no firsthand knowledge about the extent of the hand injuries Pro Bowl defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul sustained in a July 4 fireworks accident in Florida.
  
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• Wing part could help solve what happened to MH370

  30-07-2015 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAINT-ANDRE, Reunion (AP) — A barnacle-encrusted wing part that washed up on a remote Indian Ocean island could help solve one of aviation's greatest mysteries, as investigators work to connect it to the Malaysia Airlines flight that vanished more than a year ago.
  
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