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• College player union leaders still pushing for changes

  05-10-2015 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Ramogi Huma and Kain Colter are fighting back.
  
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• Zion National Park investigates run-up to deaths of 7 hikers

  05-10-2015 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Zion National Park officials are retracing what led up to the deaths of seven people in a flooded canyon last month before a panel convenes to assess what can be done to keep a growing number of visitors safe when spectacular natural settings turn perilous.
  
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• Benghazi committee Democrats say they'll release witness transcripts

  05-10-2015 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Susan Cornwell and Jonathan Allen WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - The Democratic minority on a U.S. congressional committee investigating the attack in Benghazi, Libya, intend to defy the committee's Republican leaders by releasing the transcript of a closed-door interview with a former senior aide to Hillary Clinton, they said on Monday. The announcement came six days after Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the leader of U.S. House Republicans, went on television to boast that the
  
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• NATO denounces Russia for violating Turkish airspace

  05-10-2015 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — In a signal of new tensions raised by Moscow's airstrikes in Syria, NATO denounced Russia on Monday for "irresponsible behavior" after its warplanes violated Turkish airspace, and Turkey warned that any future aerial intruder would be treated like an enemy.
  
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• Israeli PM vows 'strong action' against Palestinian unrest

  05-10-2015 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Monday that he will use a "strong hand" to quell violent Palestinian protests and deadly attacks, signaling that the current round of violence is bound to escalate at a time when a political solution to the conflict is increasingly distant.
  
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• Hunter escapes attack by shoving arm down bear's throat

  05-10-2015 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GREAT FALLS, Mont. (AP) — A Montana bow hunter is recovering after he survived a grizzly bear mauling by remembering a tip from his grandmother and shoving his arm down the animal's throat.
  
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• Air France executive 'almost lynched' as jobs dispute turns violent

  05-10-2015 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Air France-KLM's human resources manager was "almost lynched" Monday by striking workers, who stripped him of his shirt in a protest over the ailing airline's plan to cut 2,900 jobs. The protest took place as Air France bosses were unveiling a revamped restructuring plan after pilots rejected an earlier proposal to work longer hours. Hundreds of workers stormed the airline's headquarters at Charles de Gaulle airport outside Paris, forcing the meeting to be hastily abandoned.
  
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• New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan to run for US Senate

  05-10-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Democratic New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan announced Monday she would challenge Republican Sen. Kelly Ayotte, setting the stage for a highly competitive race that will be critical in determining majority control of the Senate in the next president's first year.
  
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• The Weeknd, One Direction to perform on Jingle Ball tour

  05-10-2015 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Weeknd, One Direction and Selena Gomez are slated to perform on the 11-date Jingle Ball tour this December.
  
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• 'The Martian' blasts to top of N. America box office

  05-10-2015 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Los Angeles (AFP) - "The Martian" blasted to the top of the North American box office in its first week in theaters, taking in $54.3 million, industry data showed Monday. The critically-acclaimed blockbuster stars Matt Damon as an astronaut stranded on Mars who must come up with creative ways to survive on the Red Planet. A distant second was "Hotel Transylvania 2," which scared up $33.2 million after leading the box office last week.
  
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• 12 Pacific countries seal huge free trade deal

  05-10-2015 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Twelve Pacific rim countries sealed the deal early Monday on creating the world's largest free trade area, delivering President Barack Obama a major policy triumph. Working around the clock for days past their deadline, haggard trade ministers announced they reached agreement on the ambitious Trans-Pacific Partnership just before dawn, capping five years of difficult talks led by the United States. The deal aims to set the rules for 21st century trade and investment and press China, not among th
  
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• Questions arise about neighborhood where slide killed 139

  05-10-2015 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SANTA CATARINA PINULA, Guatemala (AP) — Emergency workers spent a fourth day digging bodies out of a massive mudslide on Monday, watching the death toll rise to 139 as questions mounted about why people were allowed to build homes at the base of a dangerous hillside next to a small river.
  
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• How healthy were the victims of Pompeii?

  05-10-2015 23:21 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Scientists scanned 86 preserved plaster casts of Romans who died in the Mt Vesuvius eruption in 79 AD, to find out more about their lives and health.
  
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• Is hospital bombing a war crime?

  05-10-2015 22:27 via rss.cnn.com
  
  It is illegal to attack hospitals under international humanitarian law, but it's not as simple as that, explains a war crimes expert
  
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• NATO denounces Russian incursion into Turkish airspace

  05-10-2015 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ayla Jean Yackley and Humeyra Pamuk ISTANBUL (Reuters) - The United States and NATO denounced Russia on Monday for violating Turkish airspace along its frontier with Syria, and Ankara threatened to respond if provoked again, raising the prospect of direct confrontation between the former Cold War adversaries. NATO held an emergency meeting in Brussels of ambassadors from its 28 member states to respond to what Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg called "unacceptable violations of Turkish airsp
  
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• Clinton vows to take on gun lobby, pledges tighter restrictions

  05-10-2015 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Amanda Becker MANCHESTER, New Hampshire (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton pledged Monday to take on the powerful U.S. gun lobby, saying she would pursue expanded background checks and take steps to hold manufacturers accountable for crimes committed with their weapons. Clinton was at a town hall in Manchester, New Hampshire, to unveil her plan to curb gun violence just days after a gunman killed nine people and wounded another nine last week on the campus of Umpqua
  
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• White House says 'more work to be done' on European trade deal

  05-10-2015 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Now that a trade agreement has been reached by the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries, the White House said on Monday it would also welcome a European trade deal but there is "more work to be done." White House spokesman Josh Earnest said conversations with European countries around the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) are not as advanced as those that led to the agreement with Pacific nations. "The negotiations around TTIP are not quite as advanced, but if the
  
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• Pacific Rim trade pact gets skeptical greeting in U.S. Congress

  05-10-2015 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Richard Cowan and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A 12-nation Pacific Rim trade pact hammered out over the weekend in Atlanta got a rocky response in Washington on Monday from U.S. lawmakers, indicating it has a long, difficult road ahead as Congress considers whether or not to approve it. "I am afraid this deal appears to fall woefully short," said Republican Senator Orrin Hatch, who chairs the Senate Finance Committee that oversees trade. Earlier this year after a bruising battle, Congr
  
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• Obama administration defends TPP as 'comprehensive and balanced'

  05-10-2015 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a comprehensive and balanced agreement that will raise living standards and reduce poverty, the U.S. Trade Representative said in defending a pact that is expected to face opposition in the U.S. Congress. The USTR said that the TPP, as the deal is known, would eliminate or reduce tariff and non-tariff barriers across a spectrum of goods and services, address issues like the development of the digital economy and the role of state-owned ente
  
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• Historic Pacific trade deal faces skeptics in Congress

  05-10-2015 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Krista Hughes and Kevin Krolicki ATLANTA (Reuters) - Twelve Pacific Rim countries on Monday reached the most ambitious trade pact in a generation, aiming to liberalize commerce in 40 percent of the world's economy in a deal that faces skepticism from U.S. lawmakers. The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) pact struck in Atlanta after marathon talks could reshape industries, change the cost of products from cheese to cancer treatments and have repercussions for drug companies and automakers. New Z
  
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• Buyouts coming at company behind Chicago Tribune, LA Times

  05-10-2015 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The owner of the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune and other newspapers is offering buyouts to employees.
  
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• American Airlines pilot dies during US flight

  05-10-2015 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - An American Airlines pilot became ill and died during a flight from Phoenix to Boston Monday but the co-pilot was able to safely land the plane, the US carrier said.
  
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• Print money, spend, repeat - Conservatives take aim at Labour

  05-10-2015 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Elizabeth Piper MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - The Bank of Labour - print money, spend money, repeat. At the annual conference of the ruling Conservative Party, derision over the election of far-left lawmaker Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the main opposition Labour Party is never far from the surface. At a stall in the conference centre, red 100 pounds notes were handed out with Corbyn's face and the slogan 'print money, spend money, repeat' - mocking the Labour leader's financial policies whic
  
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• US stocks end sharply higher; GE leads gains in industrials

  05-10-2015 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are closing sharply higher, led by big gains in industrial and energy stocks.
  
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• Nationals manager Williams sacked

  05-10-2015 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Washington Nationals, who failed to make the Major League Baseball playoffs after being tipped as World Series contenders, fired manager Matt Williams on Monday. Williams, who took the helm two seasons ago in his first managerial job, had one year left on his contract. Williams won 96 games in 2014 in his first season as manager and was named National League Manager of the Year.
  
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• Tsipras urges reform as part of strategy to exit crisis

  05-10-2015 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras insisted Monday that the priority of his newly re-elected government is to deliver on its bailout promises so that the country can start tapping international bond markets for money by 2017.
  
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• California governor signs hard-won right-to-die legislation

  05-10-2015 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California will become the fifth state in the nation to allow terminally ill patients to legally end their lives using doctor-prescribed drugs after Gov. Jerry Brown announced Monday he signed one of the most emotionally charged bills of the year.
  
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• Police: YouTube teen died after medical emergency

  05-10-2015 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ANNAPOLIS, Md. (AP) — Police say a 13-year-old Maryland boy known for appearing in his family's video blog and his own YouTube posts about playing the game Minecraft died after a medical emergency.
  
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• Some students, staff return to Oregon campus after shooting

  05-10-2015 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — Some faculty, staff and students embraced or brought flowers to a makeshift memorial Monday as they returned to an Oregon community college for the first time since a gunman killed eight students and a teacher.
  
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• Texas inmate says he shouldn't die for $8 robbery, slaying

  05-10-2015 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LIVINGSTON, Texas (AP) — A Texas inmate set to be executed Tuesday acknowledges fatally shooting a Mexican man who was robbed of $8 and had just moved his family to Houston, but insists he doesn't deserve to die for the killing 17 years ago.
  
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• Republican Gov. John Kasich says he's a 'troublemaker'

  05-10-2015 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful John Kasich (KAY'-sik) says some people don't get him or his economic message.
  
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• Nationals fire manager Matt Williams after only 2 seasons

  05-10-2015 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In describing what he will look for in a manager to replace Matt Williams, Washington Nationals GM Mike Rizzo might have been pointing out exactly what he felt went wrong with the man he hired two years ago and fired Monday.
  
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• Coast Guard: Missing ship sank, 1 body found, search goes on

  05-10-2015 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The captain of the 790-foot El Faro planned to bypass Hurricane Joaquin, but some kind of mechanical failure left the U.S. container ship with 33 people aboard helplessly — and tragically — adrift in the path of the powerful storm, the vessel's owners say.
  
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• Afghan forces called for air strike in Kunduz: U.S. general

  05-10-2015 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Yeganeh Torbati WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Afghan forces asked for U.S. air support while fighting the Taliban in Kunduz shortly before an air strike resulted in the deaths of civilians there, the American commander of international forces in Afghanistan said on Monday. U.S. Army General John Campbell fell short of squarely acknowledging U.S. responsibility for an air strike that killed 22 people in an Afghan hospital run by aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) on Saturday. MSF reiterated its
  
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• Seven hurt as train derails in US state of Vermont

  05-10-2015 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A passenger train derailed Monday in the US state of Vermont, injuring seven people, none seriously, according to officials. Five train cars -- two of which went over an embankment -- ran off the tracks in the small town of Northfield, Vermont, at 10:30 am (1430 GMT). Railway company Amtrak, attributed the derailment to reports of a rockslide on the tracks, and said in a statement that there were no reports of life-threatening injuries.
  
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• Farmer opens barn to show woolly mammoth bones

  05-10-2015 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LIMA TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A farm in southeastern Michigan has become a natural history museum since bones from a woolly mammoth were discovered.
  
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• The Latest: Flyover shows destruction from flooding

  05-10-2015 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The latest on the rainstorm that is pounding parts of the East Coast (all times local):
  
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• Penguins hoping more depth behind stars leads to deeper run

  05-10-2015 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Mike Johnston spent his first season coaching the Pittsburgh Penguins preaching the same message over and over to his talented but almost pathologically unselfish lineup:
  
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• The Latest: Palestinian President convenes security meeting

  05-10-2015 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — The latest developments in ongoing tensions between Palestinians and Israel following days of violence in Jerusalem and the West Bank (all times local).
  
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• Body found in search for U.S. ship that vanished in hurricane

  05-10-2015 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Zachary Fagenson MIAMI (Reuters) - Missing cargo ship El Faro, hit by powerful Hurricane Joaquin, is believed to have sunk off the Bahamas and one presumed crew member is confirmed dead, the U.S. Coast Guard said on Monday. "We're assuming the vessel has sunk," Coast Guard Captain Mark Fedor told reporters in Miami. Coast Guard vessels and aircrews continued to search for the missing crew - 28 U.S. citizens and five Polish nationals - but Fedor acknowledged they had faced steep odds against s
  
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• John Stamos surrenders to being charming in 'Grandfathered'

  05-10-2015 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — In conversation, John Stamos comes across as entirely at ease in his handsome, age-defying skin.
  
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• Clinton chokes up over gun control

  05-10-2015 21:35 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton grew emotional on the campaign trail Monday while introducing a mother whose child was killed during the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
  
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• Russian insider: Have a better plan?

  05-10-2015 21:26 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Russia is happy to entertain alternate solutions to the Syrian war, but has yet to hear any, a Russian insider and member of parliament told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Monday.
  
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• VW tells German lawmakers 8M cars in EU affected by probe into rigged emissions tests

  05-10-2015 21:22 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Volkswagen says 8 million cars in the European Union are affected by an investigation into whether the automaker manipulated emissions tests, according to a letter received Monday by German lawmakers.
  
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• The new must-have millionaire toys?

  05-10-2015 21:17 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Beyond the superyacht: The new must-have millionaire toys?
  
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• Forget the boat, here's the island you can sail

  05-10-2015 21:17 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Kokomo Ailand, the futuristic floating island you can sail, proves there's no such thing as "over-the-top" in the world of superyacht design.
  
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• Armenian lawmakers OK constitutional changes to make ex-Soviet nation parliamentary republic

  05-10-2015 21:12 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Armenian lawmakers have approved a constitutional reform that would trim presidential powers and give more authority to parliament and the prime minister.
  
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• Libyan internationally-recognized parliament votes to extend its mandate

  05-10-2015 21:02 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A member of Libya's internationally-recognized parliament and its media spokesman say the body has voted to extend its own mandate past the Oct. 20 deadline.
  
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• Pilot dies during flight to Boston

  05-10-2015 21:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The pilot of an American Airlines passenger jet died during a flight from Phoenix to Boston on Monday, an airline official said.
  
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• Child's body found on Greek shore as Europe copes with migrant influx

  05-10-2015 20:47 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The body of a young child that washed up on the Greek island of Kos Sunday is a symbol of the continued danger thousands of refugees are facing as they flee war torn Syria and Afghanistan for European shores.  
  
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