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• Rodgers getting familiar faces back in Packers offense

  09-09-2015 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Aaron Rodgers got the gang back together at practice for the Green Bay Packers.
  
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• Vegas plane fire passengers escaped with lives _ and bags

  09-09-2015 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Passengers on the British Airways jet whose engine caught fire just before takeoff in Las Vegas escaped with their lives — and some with their carry-ons, as well.
  
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• Prosecutors: Ex-Virginia first lady 'full player' in scheme

  09-09-2015 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Former Virginia first lady Maureen McDonnell was a "full player" in a bribery scheme with her husband and an appeals court should reject her request to overturn her corruption convictions just like it did for him, federal prosecutors said Wednesday.
  
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• The Latest on US Open: Halep-Azarenka resumes after rain

  09-09-2015 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Iran deal seems on track, House to hold 3 votes

  09-09-2015 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest as Congress and the 2016 presidential campaign wrestle with the Iran nuclear deal. All times local (EDT):
  
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• Wall St. falls 1 percent, led by Apple, energy sector

  09-09-2015 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - U.S. stocks ended more than 1 percent lower on Wednesday after rallying the day before, led by declines in shares of Apple and energy companies, which fell with oil prices.
  
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• Trump protesters allege assault

  09-09-2015 23:40 via rss.cnn.com
  
  After filing a flurry of lawsuits during since the launch of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump is on the receiving end of one after a confrontation in New York last week between a protester and a member of his security detail turned violent.
  
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• Another Christie ally implicated in spinoff investigation

  09-09-2015 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — What began as a mysterious series of traffic jams at the George Washington Bridge exactly two years ago has mushroomed into a high-level corporate scandal that can't be good for Republican Gov. Chris Christie's struggling presidential campaign.
  
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• Prosecutor: No charges for Washington state police who fatally shot rock-throwing immigrant

  09-09-2015 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PASCO, Wash. (AP) — Prosecutor: No charges for Washington state police who fatally shot rock-throwing immigrant.
  
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• Gov't turns over fewer Clinton-related emails than ordered

  09-09-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department has failed to turn over nearly 70 pages of documents, as instructed by a federal judge, to The Associated Press. The files include information about Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton's hiring of longtime aide Huma Abedin as a special government contract staffer.
  
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• 'Tired' star crashes out of U.S. Open

  09-09-2015 23:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The New York heat finally proved too much for Petra Kvitova, as the two-time grand slam winner's U.S. Open campaign ended in the quarterfinals on a historic day for Italian women's tennis.
  
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• Deal gives Fox majority stake in National Geographic media

  09-09-2015 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The 127-year-old nonprofit National Geographic Society has struck a $725 million deal that gives 21st Century Fox a majority stake in National Geographic magazine and other media properties, expanding an existing TV partnership.
  
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• Scott Walker says US should not take Syrian refugees

  09-09-2015 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EAU CLAIRE, Wis. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Scott Walker says the United States should not take in Syrian refugees.
  
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• In Kentucky, a clerk disrupts an unspoken agreement

  09-09-2015 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — Kim Tabor hates to answer the phone these days, because so often the caller starts screaming.
  
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• U.S. plans to increase refugee intake next year: officials

  09-09-2015 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States plans to raise the number of refugees it takes in by 5,000 next year to 75,000, including an unspecified number from Syria, senior U.S. officials said on Wednesday, and congressional aides said the total may go significantly higher. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, speaking to reporters at the Capitol, said Washington was "committed to" taking in more Syrian refugees fleeing war in their country. A senior State Department official, speaking on a conference call with reporter
  
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• The Latest: Kim Davis can get paid for jail time, break

  09-09-2015 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MOREHEAD, Ky. (AP) — The latest on a Kentucky county clerk who was released from jail Tuesday after she continued to defy court orders and refused to issue marriage licenses because of her religious beliefs on homosexuality (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Iran deal seems on track after day of discord

  09-09-2015 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest as Congress and the 2016 presidential campaign wrestle with the Iran nuclear deal. All times local (EDT):
  
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• Confident China moves to challenge U.S. in Beijing's backyard

  09-09-2015 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - It is the near future, and China prepares to strike back after being attacked, loosing off ballistic missiles to take out an aircraft carrier and destroying an airfield as a fighter jet takes off. The enemy is not named in the animation, released late last month by Chinese internet giant Tencent, but the ship looks a lot like a U.S. Nimitz-class carrier, while the destroyed fighter is clearly a Lockheed Martin Corp F-22. An assertive China under President Xi
  
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• U.S. judge rules Republican lawsuit over Obamacare can move forward

  09-09-2015 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A U.S. judge said on Wednesday congressional Republicans could proceed with parts of a lawsuit that alleges executive overreach by President Barack Obama's administration in implementing his signature healthcare law. U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer, appointed by former President George W. Bush, a Republican, said the House of Representatives has standing to pursue claims that the secretaries of health and human services and of the Treasury violated the Constitution by spending funds Congres
  
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• Stocks fall as jobs data raise chances of rate increase

  09-09-2015 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A strong morning rally for stocks turned into an afternoon sell-off on Wednesday, reminding investors that the market remains volatile.
  
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• Prince standing for FIFA top job

  09-09-2015 23:22 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Jordan's Prince Ali is having another crack at winning football's top job at next year's FIFGA presidential elections, having failed to topple Sepp Blatter in May.
  
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• Lebanon cabinet approves plan to end trash crisis

  09-09-2015 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lebanon's cabinet on Wednesday approved a plan to end a months-long trash crisis that has sparked unprecedented street protests. Agriculture Minister Akram Shehayeb announced the agreement, which approves the devolution of waste management duties to municipalities and the opening of two new landfills. "Tonight the cabinet approved a path out of the crisis," Shehayeb said after a session that lasted more than six hours and came as protesters once again demonstrated in Beirut.
  
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• Apple stakes new claim to living room, shows new iPhones

  09-09-2015 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple staked a new claim to the living room on Wednesday, as the maker of iPhones and other hand-held gadgets unveiled an Internet TV system that's designed as a beachhead for the tech giant's broader ambitions to deliver a wide range of information, games, music and video to the home.
  
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• Apple presses deeper with new iPhones and more

  09-09-2015 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  There were new iPhones of course. At Wednesday's media event in San Francisco, Apple introduced two updated iPhones, aiming to build on the success of its large-screen handsets introduced late last year that have dominated the high-end smartphone market. The iPhone 6S and 6S Plus have the same overall dimensions as the last version, with new technologies under the hood.
  
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• Correction: Obit-Martin Milner story

  09-09-2015 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — In a story Sept. 7 about the death of actor Martin Milner, The Associated Press reported erroneously that on the television series "Route 66," Milner and co-star George Maharis roamed the highway in a red Corvette convertible. The series was shot in black-and-white and blue and brown cars were used in the production.
  
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• Obama wants public groundswell for free community college

  09-09-2015 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WARREN, Mich. (AP) — Unable to have his way with Congress, President Barack Obama reached back to his roots as a community organizer and sought Wednesday to spark a national movement in support of his idea for free community college.
  
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• Alfonso Cuaron's son Jonas brings own film to Toronto fest

  09-09-2015 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Director Jonas Cuaron is following in the footsteps of his famous father with a new film "Desierto."
  
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• Baltimore readies for 2nd hearing in Freddie Gray case

  09-09-2015 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Police prepared for demonstrators Thursday at the second pretrial hearing in the case against six officers charged in the death of Freddie Gray, as local officials insisted the million-dollar settlement with Gray's family would not affect the criminal proceedings.
  
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• Turkey pro-Kurdish party warns of 'civil war' after nationalist attacks

  09-09-2015 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The leader of Turkey's main pro-Kurdish party warned Wednesday the country was being dragged into a "civil war" following a wave of attacks on its offices by nationalists outraged by Kurdish rebel killings of dozens of security force members. Tensions have risen sharply in Turkey in the past few days, as the government presses a major military operation against Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) militants, and the rebels hit back with daily attacks against the army and police. On Tuesday night, thou
  
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• Apple phone, tablet and TV fail to impress investors

  09-09-2015 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Apple Inc unveiled a new TV set top box that responds to voice commands and fresh iPhones that sense the pressure of a finger tap, changes which underwhelmed many social media commenters and investors. The new 6S and 6S Plus versions of the iPhone, Apple's biggest money maker, are the same size as the previous versions but come with a better camera, faster chips, new colors and the force-sensitive "3D Touch". Speaking before thousands of analysts, journalists and frequently cheering Apple employ
  
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• Russian-American pleads guilty to spying for Moscow

  09-09-2015 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Russian-American businessman pleaded guilty Wednesday to charges of smuggling sensitive US microelectronics for Moscow after fighting the case for three years, the Justice Department said. Arc, which portrayed itself as a maker of traffic lights, gave false information to the manufacturers on the planned end-use and end-users of the electronics, and disguised the goods when shipping to avoid US export controls.
  
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• Jeb Bush says tax code overhaul will boost economy

  09-09-2015 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GARNER, N.C. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush laid out a tax overhaul plan Wednesday that calls for a lower corporate tax rate for businesses and immediate tax deductions for business investments to help create millions of jobs and boost economic growth.
  
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• IS claims to hold Norwegian, Chinese captives

  09-09-2015 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CAIRO (AP) — The Islamic State group on Wednesday claimed to be holding a Norwegian man and a Chinese consultant hostage and demanded ransom for their release.
  
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• Judge clears way for House lawsuit challenging health law

  09-09-2015 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge has cleared the way for a legal challenge by Congressional Republicans to President Obama's health care law to proceed.
  
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• U.S. Republican Cruz tries to bask in Trump's limelight

  09-09-2015 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ginger Gibson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Ted Cruz was happy to be the opening act for Donald Trump at a rally opposing the Iran nuclear deal on Wednesday in the shadow of the U.S. Capitol. Cruz is trying to win over Trump's supporters in the heated quest for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination by embracing Trump rather than bashing him as other Republican contenders have done, and had invited Trump to join him at the rally. It was clear Trump was the main event, with a crowd of thousands
  
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• Amid Syrian exodus, US to take more refugees

  09-09-2015 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With the Syrian crisis threatening to overwhelm its allies in the Middle East and Europe, the United States was drawing up plans Wednesday to take in more desperate refugees. As the White House admitted Washington has a "moral responsibility" to address the crisis, Secretary of State John Kerry met lawmakers to make the case for resettling more displaced families. It is for President Barack Obama's administration to say how many more refugees from around the globe America will try to admit next
  
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• Presidential candidates duel on Iran; House GOP in turmoil

  09-09-2015 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Debate on the Iran nuclear deal morphed into full-blown political spectacle Wednesday as Donald Trump and Ted Cruz held a rally to denounce it, Hillary Rodham Clinton gave a speech to praise it and congressional Republicans turned on each other angrily as they grasped for a last-ditch play to stop it.
  
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• US stocks sink as Apple drops after products launch

  09-09-2015 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - US stocks finished sharply lower Wednesday as a morning rally fizzled and Apple shares dropped after unveiling a suite of upgraded smartphone, tablet and television products.
  
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• Refugee crisis: Tony Abbott bows to public pressure to resettle 12,000 Syrian refugees

  09-09-2015 22:29
  
  Australia’s Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, has bowed to public pressure and agreed to resettle 12,000 Syrian refugees – but senior ministers are urging him to give priority to Christian minorities.
  
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• Refugee crisis: Tony Abbott bows to pressure to resettle 12,000 Syrian refugees

  09-09-2015 22:29
  
  Australia’s Prime Minister, Tony Abbott, has bowed to public pressure and agreed to resettle 12,000 Syrian refugees – but senior ministers are urging him to give priority to Christian minorities.
  
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• Refugee crisis: Two French mayors prompt fury by saying they will only accept Christian refugees

  09-09-2015 22:22
  
  Two centre-right mayors have infuriated the French government by saying they will accept only Christian refugees, even as the first 200 Middle Eastern migrants arrived in France from Germany.
  
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• Highest-paid TV and movie actresses

  09-09-2015 22:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Sofia Vergara's role as brash and beautiful Gloria on the hit ABC sitcom "Modern Family" has been very good for her -- to the tune of $28.5 million.
  
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• NFLers training in virtual reality

  09-09-2015 21:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Football is a game of yards and inches. And to get that extra inch, being at the cutting edge of training and technology could make all the difference.
  
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• World's coolest club with hottest light show

  09-09-2015 21:50 via rss.cnn.com
  
  If getting away from it all is part of golf's charm, then how about a course where you can play 24/7 in summer?
  
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• Refugee crisis: More compassion but tighter borders – Jean-Claude Juncker unveils an ambitious overhaul of Europe's migration policy

  09-09-2015 21:50
  Europe should embrace more refugees fleeing war and dictatorship while also tightening border controls and more strictly enforcing its returns policy, the European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, said as he unveiled an ambitious overhaul of migration policy.
  
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• Refugee crisis: More compassion but tighter borders – Jean-Claude Juncker unveils ambitious overhaul of Europe's migration policy

  09-09-2015 21:50
  Europe should embrace more refugees fleeing war and dictatorship while also tightening border controls and more strictly enforcing its returns policy, the European Commission President, Jean-Claude Juncker, said as he unveiled an ambitious overhaul of migration policy.
  
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• Anger at refugee quotas

  09-09-2015 21:33 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The European Commission has set out detailed plans for mandatory quotas for EU nations to take in refugees, as Europe struggles to cope with a huge influx of migrants -- many of them fleeing war in Syria.
  
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• Hungary building wall

  09-09-2015 21:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  CNN's Arwa Damon reports from Hungary where a wall is being constructed in an attempt to stem the tide of migrants and refugees crossing the border.
  
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• Queen Elizabeth II breaks record

  09-09-2015 21:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Queen Elizabeth II has thanked people from around the world for their messages of "great kindness" as she marked the day she becomes the longest-reigning monarch in British history.
  
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• ISIS leader raped U.S. hostage Kayla Mueller

  09-09-2015 21:11 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A young Yazidi woman tells CNN's Atika Shubert that she was handpicked by ISIS leader Abu Bakar Al Baghdadi, held captive and forced to serve his wives and children.
  
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