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• Experts: Unlikely German sailor fell ill in Rio's water

  04-09-2015 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Medical experts and scientists said Friday it's unlikely that a German sailor with a bacterial skin infection that's resistant to antibiotics contracted the illness in polluted Olympic waters.
  
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• Stocks end week lower after U.S. jobs data leaves Fed move unclear

  04-09-2015 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Stocks on major markets fell on Friday, closing out another tough week for equity markets, after the monthly U.S. employment report failed to provide a clear signal on the likelihood of the first Federal Reserve interest rate rise for nearly a decade later this month. The U.S. added 173,000 jobs in August, fewer than expected, but job gains in prior months were revised higher and the unemployment rate dropped to a seven year low at 5.1 percent.
  
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• Energy company Emera plans to buy Teco Energy for $6.48B

  04-09-2015 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Canadian energy and services company Emera says it will buy Teco Energy, an electric and gas utility that does business in Florida and New Mexico, for about $6.48 billion.
  
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• Venus Williams enjoys Open win

  04-09-2015 23:21 via rss.cnn.com
  
  With Serena Williams' achievements this year, it's easy to forget that she's not the lone member of the family who has pocketed multiple grand slams.
  
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• Judge: Injunction against water rule limited to 13 states

  04-09-2015 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A federal judge in North Dakota said Friday that his injunction blocking a new Obama administration rule aimed at regulating some small waterways applies only to the 13 states that sued to block it, and not nationwide.
  
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• Clinton says 'sorry' for email confusion, says she wasn't thinking

  04-09-2015 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Alistair Bell and Susan Heavey WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said on Friday she was sorry that her use of a personal email account while secretary of state had caused confusion, and blamed herself for "not thinking a lot" about the matter when she took the job. In her most contrite comments yet about an issue that has plagued her White House bid, Clinton said she had made a mistake by not using a government email account. Clinton, front-runner to be
  
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• Chinese Navy entered U.S. waters

  04-09-2015 23:18 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Chinese Navy ships entered U.S. territorial waters off of Alaska last week, coming within 12 miles of the coastline, multiple defense officials told CNN Friday.
  
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• Florida college band member gets 4 years in hazing death

  04-09-2015 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — A former Florida A&M University band member was sentenced Friday to four years in prison for his role in a drum major's hazing death.
  
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• Germany power past Poland to go top

  04-09-2015 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Striker Mario Goetze scored twice to seal Germany's 3-1 win over Poland on Friday as the hosts avenged last year's away defeat to top their Euro 2016 qualifying group. Having lost the corresponding fixture 2-0 in Warsaw last October -- Germany's first defeat to their neighbours in 19 matches -- the world champions gained sweet revenge by knocking Adam Nawalka's Poland from top of Group D. It was Poland's first defeat in seven Euro 2016 qualifiers in an impressive display from the Germans after s
  
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• Jailed clerk's attorney: Marriage licenses for gays are void

  04-09-2015 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — A jailed Kentucky clerk asserted that marriage licenses issued without her authority Friday to gay couples in Rowan County are void and "not worth the paper they are written on" because she didn't authorize them, her attorney said.
  
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• Hungary lays on buses for refugees walking to Austria

  04-09-2015 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hungary late Friday laid on buses to ferry hundreds of desperate refugees who had set off on foot for the Austrian border after being stranded for days in Budapest's main railway station. With tensions growing across a divided EU, the human cost of the refugee crisis was underlined as the father of Syrian toddler Aylan Kurdi, whose drowning shocked the world, buried his family in their war-torn hometown. Germany urged an end to "recriminations" as Britain said it would take in thousands more Syr
  
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• Apostolic Christianity fuels Kentucky clerk's gay marriage fight

  04-09-2015 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Bittenbender MOREHEAD, Ky. (Reuters) - The low-slung, white building that houses Morehead, Kentucky's Solid Rock Apostolic Church is small enough that a visitor could easily drive past without noticing. It helped the thrice-divorced Rowan County Clerk escape what her lawyer described as a life in the "devil's playground" and lead her to face jail in opposition to a U.S. Supreme Court ruling upholding same-sex marriage that she said violated her religious beliefs. No one answered the doo
  
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• US economy adds 173,000 jobs in August

  04-09-2015 23:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The US economy adds 173,000 jobs in August in the last unemployment report before September's interest rate decision by the Federal Reserve.
  
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• Hundreds march toward border in Hungary's migrant crisis

  04-09-2015 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BICSKE, Hungary (AP) — Hundreds of migrants, stymied by Hungarian authorities who had halted trains to Germany, began a final march toward freedom Friday, breaking away from police and heading on foot for the western border.
  
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• Teacher arrested after drone crashes at US Open; no injuries

  04-09-2015 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A high school science teacher was arrested Friday after a drone plummeted into empty seats and caused a scare at the U.S. Open tennis tournament.
  
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• Amid grief, Jill Biden said to share VP's hesitation on 2016

  04-09-2015 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Vice President Joe Biden's reluctance to enter the presidential race centers on his family. His wife, Jill, has never relished political life and is said to share his misgivings about whether the Bidens are emotionally equipped for another campaign.
  
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• Buhari's first 100 days: What's he done?

  04-09-2015 22:57 via rss.cnn.com
  
  As I stood on a queue at the immigration desk at the arrivals section of the Murtala Muhammed International airport in Nigeria's capital city Abuja in May 2015, a well-dressed couple who had just arrived skipped the queue and headed straight to the desk. People murmured in exasperation and a woman right in front of me said with indignation: "It's OK, now that Buhari is president, all these things will stop."
  
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• Guatemala ex-president tells court he's innocent of graft

  04-09-2015 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Otto Perez Molina sat in a defendant's chair Friday and declared his innocence in a customs corruption scandal that forced him to resign a day earlier as president of this Central American nation.
  
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• US stocks drop; mixed jobs report clouds rate outlook

  04-09-2015 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — It's an old adage that investors hate uncertainty. Unfortunately for them, they got more of it on Friday.
  
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• Miss America Organization gave $6M in cash, tuition in 2014

  04-09-2015 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — The Miss America Organization says it handed out nearly $6 million in cash or free tuition to contestants last year in its scholarship awards program.
  
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• AP PHOTOS: Haunting images of people fleeing their homelands

  04-09-2015 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wrenching images of a drowned Syrian boy focused the world's attention this week on the plight of people fleeing their homelands. But the crisis has been developing for years. Here are other indelible images taken by Associated Press photographers that you may have missed.
  
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• Bernie Sanders has got his own set of emojis

  04-09-2015 22:44
  
  Need to express your enduring love for Bernie Sanders and a particular emotion at the same time?
  
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• Houston-area sheriff's deputy remembered during funeral

  04-09-2015 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Thousands of law enforcement officers stood at attention to form a wall Friday outside one of Houston's largest churches as a 21-gun salute and flyover by police helicopters were carried out in honor of a slain sheriff's deputy.
  
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• Wall St. falls as US jobs data muddies Fed rate hike

  04-09-2015 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - Wall Street stocks fell Friday after a mixed US jobs report clouded prospects for a Federal Reserve interest rate increase amid China-induced global market turmoil.
  
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• Dad grieves burying his family

  04-09-2015 22:37 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Alylan Kurdi, the boy whose body was found on the beach is now being buried back in Kobani, along with his brother and mother. CNN's Hala Gorani reports.
  
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• Pope Francis thanks US nuns after 'radical' claim

  04-09-2015 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The pope, who will travel to the United States later this month, made the comments via teleconference to an immigrant welcome center at a Texas church earlier this week for the ABC News special. Sister Norma Pimentel runs the welcome center at Sacred Heart Church in McAllen, Texas and the audience was intended to share immigrants' stories with Pope Francis, 78.
  
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• 'Snail's pace' row at climate talks

  04-09-2015 22:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  UN climate officials have reacted sharply to criticism that the talks to land a new global deal are going at a "snail's pace".
  
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• World's shortest man dies aged 75

  04-09-2015 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  London (AFP) - The world's shortest man, as verified by the Guinness Book of Records, has died of an undisclosed illness in American Samoa, a hospital spokeswoman said Friday.
  
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• 'Gaps' in China's defense

  04-09-2015 22:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The neat rows of clearly marked missile systems that wound their way through Beijing Thursday as part of a massive military parade underscore the rapid development of China's indigenous defense industry.
  
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• Drone arrest at U.S. Open

  04-09-2015 22:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Tennis balls were not the only thing flying Thursday night at the U.S. Open, where a small drone crashed into a seating area during a match.
  
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• Workers accused of day care 'Fight Club' plead not guilty

  04-09-2015 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ELIZABETH, N.J. (AP) — Two day care workers accused of instigating scuffles among young children as part of what one compared to the movie "Fight Club" pleaded not guilty Friday to child abuse charges.
  
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• Gang leader sentenced to death for role in notorious soccer tournament shooting deaths

  04-09-2015 22:21
  
  A street gang member has been sentenced to death for his role in a notorious soccer tournament shooting attack that left three people dead.
  
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• Near LA's Koreatown, pastor tries to lift veil on drug abuse

  04-09-2015 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a blue-and-white church on the outskirts of Los Angeles' Koreatown, pastor Young Ho Han is trying to lift the veil on a problem silently afflicting his community: drug abuse among young Korean-Americans.
  
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• Europe should have seen refugee crisis coming: U.N. official

  04-09-2015 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - European countries were warned repeatedly about the refugee crisis now playing out on their doorstep and the flood of war-weary, desperate people into Europe should surprise no one, a senior U.N. official said on Friday. Ivan Simonovic, assistant U.N. secretary-general for human rights, spoke to reporters in New York about the escalating migration crisis in Europe, saying it would not subside anytime soon. More than 300,000 people have crossed to E
  
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• 'Empire' releases new songs ahead of season 2 premiere

  04-09-2015 22:14
  
  Real-life chart-toppers Pitbull and Ne-Yo collaborate on the latest music from the sensational show.
  
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• Underdog fighting Hilary Clinton

  04-09-2015 22:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  With just a few days of summer Senate recess left, Bernie Sanders is spending some time campaigning in the Hawkeye State.
  
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• Rebel US county issues first marriage licenses to gay couples

  04-09-2015 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A US county at the center of a firestorm for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gays handed out its first certificate to a same-sex couple on Friday, local television reported. The reversal comes after the Rowan County clerk in Kentucky was ordered jailed for contempt of court Thursday after refusing to comply with the Supreme Court's June 26 landmark ruling legalizing gay marriage. Kim Davis, an Apostolic Christian, made headlines for insisting it was against her religious beliefs to do so,
  
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• United Arab Emirates says 45 of its troops killed in Yemen

  04-09-2015 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SANAA, Yemen (AP) — Forty-five troops from the United Arab Emirates were killed in Yemen while taking part in Saudi-led operations against Shiite rebels, the Gulf nation said Friday, in the deadliest day for its military in its 44-year history.
  
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• UAE, Bahrain lose 45 troops on black day for Yemen coalition

  04-09-2015 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The UAE said 45 of its soldiers engaged in a Saudi-led campaign against Shiite rebels in Yemen were killed in an accidental explosion that the insurgents claimed was caused by rocket fire. In what was the deadliest day for the coalition since it was formed in March, Bahrain said five of its soldiers guarding the Saudi border with Yemen were also killed. The Yemeni government said an "accidential explosion" at an arms depot at a military base in the eastern province of Marib killed the Emiratis,
  
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• US presses China over currency as G20 seeks to calm nerves

  04-09-2015 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States on Friday pressed China to improve communication of its economic policy and avoid competitive devaluations, as G20 finance chiefs met hoping to calm markets rattled by slowing Chinese growth and the prospect of a US rate hike. The finance chiefs gathered for the two-day meeting in Ankara under Turkey's G20 presidency -- a role that in 2016 goes to China -- at a time of some alarming indicators from the global economy, in particular from key emerging markets. A source close to t
  
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• 'Britain's FBI' target more than 20 of the world's most corrupt politicians laundering millions of pounds through City of London

  04-09-2015 21:40
  British police are targeting more than 20 of the world’s most corrupt politicians involved in laundering millions of pounds through the City in a major expansion of the UK’s international anti-graft operations.
  
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• Rising seas 'threaten NASA launch sites'

  04-09-2015 21:39 via rss.cnn.com
  
  NASA's rockets are astounding machines, capable of blasting into space at thousands of miles per hour and withstanding temperatures twice the melting point of steel.
  
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• Toyota to invest $50M in car-tech research at Stanford, MIT

  04-09-2015 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EAST PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — Toyota is investing $50 million with Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in hopes of gaining an edge in an accelerating race to phase out human drivers.
  
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• Jailed Kentucky clerk sees licenses issued on Friday as invalid: her attorney

  04-09-2015 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples considers the licenses issued on Friday by her office as invalid, her attorney said. Kim Davis, who was jailed on Thursday afternoon, also has no intention of stepping down from her job as clerk for Rowan County, Matthew Staver said in front of the detention center in Grayson, Kentucky, where Davis is being held.
  
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• Fired regulator: Governor pushed to waive oil safeguards.

  04-09-2015 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California's top oil and gas regulators repeatedly warned Gov. Jerry Brown's senior aides in 2011 that the governor's orders to override key environmental safeguards in granting oil industry permits would violate state and federal laws protecting groundwater from contamination, one of the former officials has testified.
  
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• Europe's answer to refugee crisis should not be nationalistic: Moscovici

  04-09-2015 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Europe should not respond to the inflow of immigrants from the Middle East and Africa with nationalism, because caring about human rights is part of the European identity, Europe's Economic Commissioner Pierre Moscovici said on Friday. Moscovici, who is attending talks of world financial leaders in Turkey -- a country that has already taken in more than 2 million refugees from war-torn neighbors -- was responding to the words of Hungary's Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who said on Thursday the inf
  
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• Latest on US Open: Venus Williams beats Bencic in 3rd round

  04-09-2015 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The latest on the U.S. Open (all times local):
  
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• Gun-maker creates ‘anti-Muslim’ gun complete with Bible verse

  04-09-2015 21:17
  
  A Florida-based gun-maker with an apparent expertise in bigotry has created an AR-15 “Crusader” Rifle that’s designed to prevent “Muslim terrorists” from using it.
  
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• Refugee crisis: European leaders preparing EU-wide protection force to deal with unfolding humanitarian catastrophe

  04-09-2015 21:05
  
  European leaders are preparing to create a powerful EU-wide border protection force to deal with the refugee crisis engulfing the continent, The Independent understands.
  
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• Northern regions willing to take share of refugees - provided Whitehall foots the bill

  04-09-2015 21:01
  
  The leaders of some of Britain’s biggest cities have told David Cameron they will welcome extra Syrian refugees. But they have warned that Whitehall must provide them with proper funding.
  
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