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• Verizon strike possible as contract deadline looms

  31-07-2015 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Verizon workers in nine states could walk off the job as soon as early Sunday if union negotiators don't reach an agreement over benefits with the wireless carrier.
  
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• 'Sensational find' reveals passion of one of history's great affairs

  31-07-2015 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Vienna (AFP) - "Please forgive me for what I've done, I could not resist love" -- these are the final dramatic words of Baroness Mary Vetsera, whose farewell letters were discovered in a bank vault in Vienna 126 years after she famously committed suicide with Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, experts announced Friday. Hailing the find as "sensational", the Austrian National Library (ONB) said bank employees had stumbled across the precious documents during a clear-out of t
  
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• With protest over, Shell prepares for Arctic Ocean drilling

  31-07-2015 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Hours after a repaired Shell icebreaker eased past protesters in Oregon to join an Arctic drilling operation, the oil giant used other vessels in its flotilla to begin excavating off the coast of Alaska in hopes of confirming the presence of billions of barrels of crude below the ocean floor.
  
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• Man who died in police fight wanted for beating 97-year-old

  31-07-2015 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Authorities say a man who died after a fight with San Francisco police was wanted for the beating of a 97-year-old who employed him as a caretaker and later died from the attack.
  
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• Tony Bennett honored by DC university for commitment to arts

  31-07-2015 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — George Washington University is honoring singer Tony Bennett and his wife with the university president's medal for their commitment to the arts.
  
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• Judge suggests Goodell, Brady appear in court Aug. 12, 19

  31-07-2015 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The federal judge handling Tom Brady's attempt to overturn his four-game suspension strongly suggested the New England quarterback and NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell appear in court on Aug. 12 and 19.
  
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• Yahoo tries to get more fashionable with Polyvore purchase

  31-07-2015 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Yahoo is buying style-tip specialist Polyvore in its latest attempt to become a more fashionable place to advertise.
  
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• The Latest: Cespedes, Hunter, Haren traded at MLB's deadline

  31-07-2015 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Here are the latest developments as Major League Baseball hits a deadline Friday for trades where players do not first have to pass through waivers (all times Eastern):
  
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• White House threatens to veto anti-abortion budget

  31-07-2015 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House on Friday threatened to veto any Republican budget plan that strips funding from abortion provider Planned Parenthood, deepening an election-tinged political culture war. Planned Parenthood has long been the bete noire of conservative activists. One opposition group recently released undercover videos that purported to show Planned Parenthood staff offering to sell fetal tissue.
  
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• Zimbabwe seeks US hunter's extradition for killing lion

  31-07-2015 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Zimbabwe on Friday called for the extradition of Walter Palmer, as AFP learnt that the Minnesota dentist and trophy hunter had posed for a photograph next to the body of Cecil the lion. Palmer paid $55,000 for the hunt earlier this month in which he shot the lion with a powerful bow and arrow outside Hwange national park in western Zimbabwe. Cecil, who had a distinctive black mane, was a popular tourist draw at the park and was wearing a tracking collar as part of an Oxford University research p
  
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• Global property partners unfazed by Trump bombast

  31-07-2015 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Real estate tycoon and White House hopeful Donald Trump has lost high-profile US contracts over his hardline anti-immigrant stance, but internationally the row has yet to damage the Trump brand. In 2011 in Panama City, Trump opened the tallest tower in Latin America (since surpassed by a skyscraper in Chile) -- 70 floors of apartments and hotel rooms looming over the Pacific.
  
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• Rite Aid to put Cosmo behind blinders

  31-07-2015 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Cosmopolitan magazine is apparently too racy to appear without a wrap on Rite Aid drugstore shelves.
  
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• Argentine in Fifa 'not guilty' plea

  31-07-2015 23:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Alejandro Burzaco, a former Argentine sporting executive, pleads not guilty in the corruption case involving football's world governing body Fifa.
  
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• Nashville studio once set to be razed named historic place

  31-07-2015 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A storied recording studio on Nashville's Music Row that was once slated to be demolished to make way for a luxury condo development has been named to the National Register of Historic Places.
  
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• Shell resumes offshore oil drilling in Arctic

  31-07-2015 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Oil giant Shell has resumed offshore drilling operations in Alaskan waters, the company said Friday, after one of its icebreakers was delayed for nearly two days by protesters dangling from a bridge. Greenpeace activists were suspended from a bridge and in kayaks in the water for more than 40 hours in an effort to block the Fennica icebreaker from traveling to the Transocean Polar Pioneer rig in the Arctic Ocean. Shell said drilling operations resumed Thursday at 5:00 pm (0100 GMT Friday) at the
  
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• Woman sues credit reporting firms for declaring her dead

  31-07-2015 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 40-year-old St. Louis woman isn't dead, but she said she spent months trying to convince credit reporting agencies that she's alive.
  
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• Facebook's Zuckerberg to have child

  31-07-2015 23:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are expecting a baby girl.
  
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• Seeking pre-debate boost, Kasich zeroes in on New Hampshire

  31-07-2015 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KEENE, N.H. (AP) — Days before Fox News announces who will participate in the first GOP primary debate, Ohio Gov. John Kasich is projecting a laid-back attitude toward his chances of being on stage and saying he's pleased with the support he's received since joining the race July 21.
  
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• Actress Valerie Harper out of hospital, resting with family

  31-07-2015 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OGUNQUIT, Maine (AP) — Officials at a Maine playhouse say Valerie Harper is resting with her family after falling ill before a performance.
  
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• Clintons paid 35.7 percent federal tax rate between 2007-14

  31-07-2015 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal tax returns released by Hillary Rodham Clinton show she and former President Bill Clinton paid an overall 35.7 percent tax rate on tens of millions the couple earned between 2007 and 2014.
  
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• U.S. labor data weigh on dollar, Treasury yields

  31-07-2015 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The dollar fell and benchmark U.S. Treasury yields touched multi-week lows on Friday as an unexpectedly weak government reading of American labor costs dulled prospects for higher U.S. interest rates. Wall Street stock prices closed down, after surrendering early gains from the Employment Cost Index data showing the smallest quarterly increase in 33 years. Oil prices declined by 2 to 3 percent on growing worries about global oversupply.
  
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• Coast Guard ends search for missing Florida teens

  31-07-2015 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US Coast Guard said Friday it is ending its search for two Florida teens who went missing after setting off on a fishing trip one week ago. Austin Stephanos and Perry Cohen, both 14, cast off last Friday from Jupiter, Florida, in a 19-foot (six-meter) white single-engine boat and have not been seen since. "We have made the decision that we will suspend at sunset tonight," Captain Mark Fedor of the US Coast Guard told reporters.
  
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• Pot industry's bank bid rejected by federal regulators

  31-07-2015 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DENVER (AP) — A Colorado credit union is hoping a federal judge will intervene to let the booming marijuana industry move its finances from cash-stuffed suitcases to the regulated banking system.
  
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• Clinton releases tax, health records on busy Friday

  31-07-2015 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton is in "excellent physical condition and fit to serve as president of the United States," her physician says — just one in a flood of disclosures about the Democratic presidential candidate that arrived on a busy summer Friday.
  
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• Hillary Clinton urges congress to lift the Cuba embargo

  31-07-2015 23:00
  
  Presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton said on Friday that the Cuban embargo “needs to go once and for all.”
  
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• The Latest: Cespedes, Haren, Revere traded at MLB's deadline

  31-07-2015 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Here are the latest developments as Major League Baseball hits a deadline Friday for trades where players do not first have to pass through waivers (all times Eastern):
  
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• Judge tosses lawsuit seeking Kurt Cobain death-scene photos

  31-07-2015 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — A judge has thrown out a lawsuit seeking the release of graphic photos and records from Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain's death scene.
  
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• Trump lies low at Women's British Open, Pettersen leads

  31-07-2015 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TURNBERRY, Scotland (AP) — If the first day of the Women's British Open was all about Donald Trump, the second day belonged to Suzann Pettersen.
  
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• Correction: Colorado Fluoride Debate story

  31-07-2015 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DENVER (AP) — In a story July 30 about a debate over adding fluoride to public drinking water, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of the director for the Fluoride Action Network. His name is Paul Connett, not Paul Commett.
  
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• Argentine exec pleads not guilty in FIFA case

  31-07-2015 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An Argentine sports marketing executive on Friday pleaded not guilty and posted a $20 million bond, the second foreign citizen to appear before a US court in connection with a sweeping FIFA corruption scandal. US Attorney General Loretta Lynch unveiled the 47-count indictment in May. Burzaco pleaded not guilty to three charges of racketeering, money laundering and wire fraud conspiracy and posted a $20 million bond for his release, underwritten by friends and family.
  
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• Man accused of shooting family recently released from jail

  31-07-2015 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — A court official says an 18-year-old man accused of shooting a family who stopped to help him on a Montana roadside was released from a Wyoming jail two weeks earlier.
  
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• Mets add hitting help, trade for Detroit's Cespedes

  31-07-2015 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Mets have acquired slugging outfielder Yoenis Cespedes from Detroit Friday in their strongest attempt yet to boost a punchless lineup that threatened to derail their postseason hopes.
  
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• Photos: Baby Wallaby Emerges From Mom's Pouch

  31-07-2015 22:43
  
  Absolutely adorable baby animals!
  
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• US stocks fall on oil-sector weakness

  31-07-2015 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - Weakness in petroleum-linked equities weighed on US stocks Friday following poor earnings from ExxonMobil and Chevron and a drop in oil prices.
  
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• Ethics panel clears lawmakers in 2013 Azerbaijan trip

  31-07-2015 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee said it has found no evidence of wrongdoing by nine members of Congress who went on a 2013 trip to Azerbaijan paid for by that country's government.
  
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• Dozens of Clinton emails censored for security reasons

  31-07-2015 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Dozens of emails that traversed Hillary Clinton's private, unsecure home server contain national security information now deemed too sensitive to make public, according to the latest batch of records released Friday.
  
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• Dow, S&P 500 fall on oil-sector weakness

  31-07-2015 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - Weakness in petroleum-linked equities weighed down the Dow and the S&P 500 Friday following poor earnings from ExxonMobil and Chevron and a drop in oil prices.
  
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• Maisie Williams has 'significant role' on 'Doctor Who'

  31-07-2015 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — When viewers see Maisie Williams on the new season of "Doctor Who," she'll be a brand-new character, not someone from the Doctor's past.
  
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• Serena withdraws from Stanford with elbow injury

  31-07-2015 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  World number one and defending champion Serena Williams withdrew Friday from next week's WTA hardcourt tournament in Stanford with a right elbow injury, organizers said. "I'm disappointed to have to withdraw from the Bank of the West Classic, but I need to get my elbow back to 100 percent,” Williams said in a statement released by tournament officials. The 33-year-old American had planned to start her buildup to the US Open in Stanford.
  
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• The Latest: Revere traded to Blue Jays at MLB's deadline

  31-07-2015 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Here are the latest developments as Major League Baseball hits a deadline Friday for trades where players do not first have to pass through waivers (all times Eastern):
  
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• Lieberman hired by Kings as NBA's second female assistant

  31-07-2015 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — New Sacramento Kings assistant Nancy Lieberman recalls a conversation with Pat Riley a couple of years back when she explained to the Miami Heat executive how much she wanted to keep coaching at basketball's highest level.
  
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• Taking on Bush and Rubio, Clinton calls for Cuba embargo end

  31-07-2015 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Drawing a sharp distinction with Republican rivals in the pivotal election state of Florida, Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday called on the GOP-run Congress to end the trade embargo the U.S. has imposed on Cuba since 1962
  
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• US stocks end lower as energy stocks slump on earnings

  31-07-2015 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are closing with small losses, as a big drop in energy stocks offsets gains in other parts of the market.
  
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• Suit: Anti-abortion group recorded abortion providers

  31-07-2015 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An association of abortion providers moved Friday to block the release of recordings it claims were made by an anti-abortion group that has previously revealed secretly recorded videos of a Planned Parenthood leader discussing the use of aborted fetuses for research.
  
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• Hillary Clinton is declared 'fit to serve' by her personal doctor

  31-07-2015 22:05
  
  The Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton has been given a clean bill of health and is “fit to serve”, her personal doctor has announced.
  
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• Antonio Banderas to star in Starz series 'Cuban Quartet'

  31-07-2015 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Starz is developing "Cuban Quartet," a series starring Antonio Banderas.
  
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• Haren dealt by Marlins to Cubs for 2 minor leaguers

  31-07-2015 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Right-hander Dan Haren has been acquired by the Chicago Cubs from the Miami Marlins.
  
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• Triathletes shrug off water warnings, swim in Rio

  31-07-2015 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Triathletes swam in waters off Copacabana Beach Friday ahead of weekend Olympic test events, despite published warnings that water in the area was "unfit" for swimming.
  
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• U. of Cincinnati shooting puts spotlight on campus police

  31-07-2015 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — When an Ohio prosecutor charged a campus police officer with murder in the death of a driver during a traffic stop, he offered a harsh judgment on University of Cincinnati police, saying the school should not be in the business of law enforcement at all.
  
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• Photos: Summer's 10 Best Amusement Parks for Families

  31-07-2015 21:57
  
  Family Vacation Critic names the best amusement parks of 2015.
  
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