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• Photos: Drew Barrymore Shares a Selfie from a Hike in Hawaii

  06-10-2015 23:50
  
  The best shots of your favorite stars snapping selfies.
  
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• Students help first lady harvest White House garden

  06-10-2015 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sweet potatoes, carrots and peanuts are some of the crunchy edibles coming out of Michelle Obama's White House garden.
  
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• Former US Rep. John Dingell hospitalized for heart procedure

  06-10-2015 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Former U.S. Rep. John Dingell, the longest-serving member of Congress in U.S. history, has been hospitalized in Detroit for a heart procedure.
  
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• Sanders predicts more labor support in 2016 bid

  06-10-2015 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders said Tuesday he has "zero doubt" that rank-and-file union members will support his Democratic presidential campaign even though Hillary Rodham Clinton has locked up many endorsements.
  
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• Neiman Marcus publishes the ultimate gift catalog (its 89th)

  06-10-2015 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Out of ideas for the perfect six-figure gift? Then today (even more than most other days) is your day with the arrival of the 89th annual Neiman Marcus Christmas Book. The catalog may prove to be wistful window shopping for 99 percent of shoppers, but for the remainder, you may find just the thing you didn't know you had to have.
  
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• Fourteen dead as South Carolina gripped by historic flooding

  06-10-2015 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  South Carolina grappled with the damage wrought by record rainfall, as the death toll from widespread flooding rose to 14 on Tuesday and residents braced for more evacuations in areas near swollen waterways and dams across the state. "We are still in the mode that the next 36 to 48 hours will be volatile," Governor Nikki Haley told a news conference. The governor said she could not yet estimate the cost of the devastation but noted "the damage is going to be heartbreaking for a lot of people." M
  
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• Ron Paul to testify at trial of 2012 campaign aides

  06-10-2015 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Three top officials with Ron Paul's 2012 presidential campaign claim political motivations are behind charges alleging they violated federal financial disclosure laws by secretly paying an influential Iowa politician for his endorsement.
  
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• Hassan's political philosophy shaped by advocacy for son

  06-10-2015 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A dozen years before running for governor in New Hampshire, Maggie Hassan got her start in public service at the invitation of then-Gov. Jeanne Shaheen, the woman she now hopes to serve alongside in the U.S. Senate.
  
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• Art lovers stage mock anti-Renoir protest at Boston museum

  06-10-2015 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Renoir didn't leave much of an impression on a group of art lovers in Boston.
  
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• Guatemala to investigate for those responsible for mudslide

  06-10-2015 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SANTA CATARINA PINULA, Guatemala (AP) — The warning signs were everywhere in the canyon neighborhood of Cambray on the outskirts of Guatemala City, where a mudslide buried hundreds of people last week.
  
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• Ben Carson: Would have sacrificed life to stop Oregon attack

  06-10-2015 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential contender Ben Carson says he would have sacrificed his life to help stop last week's deadly attack in Oregon. But he's joined the rest of the GOP's 2016 class in refusing to support new measures to stop mass shootings.
  
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• Time Out defends Meryl Streep T-shirt in 'slave' row

  06-10-2015 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Time Out magazine has defended its use of a slogan including the word slave on a T-shirt worn by Meryl Streep to promote the movie "Suffragette," arguing that critics have taken the quote out of context.
  
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• Harvey misses Mets' workout, apologizes after late arrival

  06-10-2015 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Matt Harvey missed the New York Mets' mandatory workout Tuesday at Citi Field and apologized to the team for arriving late.
  
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• Nielsen's top programs for Sept. 28-Oct. 4

  06-10-2015 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Sept. 28-Oct. 4. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
  
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• Nadal toils in China opener

  06-10-2015 22:15 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Rafael Nadal played his first ATP match since his shock exit at the U.S. Open and toiled against a Chinese wildcard ranked 230th in Beijing. But three-time defending champion Novak Djokovic breezed.
  
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• In past votes, SC delegation opposed flood aid

  06-10-2015 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — South Carolina's congressional delegation is vowing to make sure the state gets federal help to recover from the historic flooding from massive rains.
  
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• DVR usage changes Nielsen ratings picture

  06-10-2015 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Football and CBS — sometimes both —dominated ratings during the second week of the television season.
  
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• Dog rescued after fall into crack at Volcanoes National Park

  06-10-2015 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — A Big Island family was reunited with their dog after a rescue team removed the Labrador retriever trapped in a crack in the earth at Hawaii Volcanoes National Park.
  
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• Aaron Hernandez lawyers ask for search warrant to be tossed

  06-10-2015 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Lawyers for former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez asked a judge Tuesday to invalidate a search warrant that led police to seize a vehicle that prosecutors say Hernandez was driving when he fatally shot two men in 2012.
  
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• Top general in Afghanistan recommends keeping more US troops

  06-10-2015 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. commander in Afghanistan recommended on Tuesday that President Barack Obama revise his plan and keep more than 1,000 U.S. troops in the country beyond 2016, just days after a deadly U.S. airstrike "mistakenly" hit a hospital during fierce fighting in the north.
  
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• Disaster plan developed in case fire reaches nuclear waste

  06-10-2015 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Beneath the surface of a St. Louis-area landfill lurk two things that should never meet: a slow-burning fire and a cache of Cold War-era nuclear waste, separated by no more than 1,200 feet.
  
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• A rally in energy stocks doesn't lift broader market

  06-10-2015 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A rally in energy stocks wasn't enough to lift the broader market, leaving indexes mostly lower at the closing bell.
  
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• UAW threatens strike at Fiat Chrysler U.S. operations

  06-10-2015 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  United Auto Workers members are planning to strike at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV U.S. manufacturing plants as soon as Wednesday evening, threatening to bring manufacturing to a halt. A strike at its U.S. operations could cost the automaker $40 million a week in operating profit, said Sean McAlinden, chief economist with the Center for Automotive Research. Workers at several plants in Kokomo and at least one in Michigan received notices to be ready to strike but it was not clear whether all Fia
  
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• The Latest: Guard dropping 1-ton sandbags on breached dam

  06-10-2015 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The latest on the rainstorm that pounded parts of the East Coast (all times local):
  
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• Rock fences that may prevent derailment not used in Vermont

  06-10-2015 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Special fences protect railroad tracks from rock slides in some parts of the country, but the head of Amtrak said Tuesday it's unclear if the mechanisms could have prevented a derailment that injured seven people in Vermont.
  
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• Carter sounds nearly ready to open combat jobs to women

  06-10-2015 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ROME (AP) — Defense Secretary Ash Carter sounded like he's nearly made up his mind about opening all combat jobs to women, as he told U.S. troops in Sicily on Tuesday that limiting his search for qualified military candidates to just half the population would be "crazy."
  
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• Portugal's president urges parties to unite, seek compromise

  06-10-2015 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LISBON, Portugal (AP) — Portugal's president urged politicians on Tuesday to set aside their bickering and find compromises in the national interest after an election that threatened to bring a period of damaging instability.
  
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• Correction: Protecting the Ocean story

  06-10-2015 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  VALPARAISO, Chile (AP) — In a story Oct. 5 about the United States and Chile setting up new marine sanctuaries, The Associated Press incorrectly quoted Secretary of State John Kerry as saying, "There is literally too much money chasing too much fish." What Kerry said was, "There is literally too much money chasing too few fish."
  
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• US 'deeply regrets' Afghan hospital deaths: Pentagon chief

  06-10-2015 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US Defence Secretary Ashton Carter on Tuesday said the Pentagon "deeply regrets" the deaths of 22 people who died in a US air strike on a hospital in the Afghan city of Kunduz. Carter's remarks came as his top general in Afghanistan, John Campbell, acknowledged the incident was a mistake. "The Department of Defense deeply regrets the loss of innocent lives that resulted from this tragic event," Carter said in a statement released as he visited Rome on a five-day European tour.
  
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• Russia 'vulnerable to prosecution'

  06-10-2015 21:59 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Members of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's regime could be prosecuted in national courts outside Syria -- and Russia could be vulnerable to prosecution for backing them -- a long-time American war crimes official told CNN's Christiane Amanpour on Tuesday.
  
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• Ground campaign?

  06-10-2015 21:59 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The latest U.S. assessment of Moscow's activity in western Syria indicates Russia has moved several ground combat weapons and troops into the area to potentially back up Syrian forces in the field planning to attack anti-regime forces, according to two U.S. defense officials.
  
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• Friends, family, admirers remember Bond in DC memorial

  06-10-2015 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Friends and family of Julian Bond remembered the deceased civil rights leader as a man who left a lasting "invaluable imprint" on not only the civil rights movement but on people around the United States and the globe.
  
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• Tupac Shakur prison manifesto goes on sale

  06-10-2015 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A prison manifesto by slain rap legend Tupac Shakur, dubbed as his letter to black men, is going up for sale. Shakur spent nine months in a New York state prison in 1995 for a rape conviction. Shakur described racial abuse by the guards at the prison and offered a message of empowerment.
  
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• House hardliners prepare to vet candidates for speaker

  06-10-2015 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House GOP hardliners are preparing to interview the three declared candidates for speaker as Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy tries to hang onto his advantage for the job.
  
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• VW, with limited DC lobbying footprint, braces for Congress

  06-10-2015 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — When Volkswagen's top American executive heads to Capitol Hill this week, he probably won't be able to count on longtime allies among the lawmakers investigating the company's emissions cheating scandal.
  
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• Stars add title experience behind high-scoring Seguin, Benn

  06-10-2015 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Dallas will try to convert a second straight promising offseason into a trip to the playoffs, something the disappointing team couldn't do last season because of a slow start and another slump triggered by a key injury.
  
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• Somali militants vow to welcome British peacekeepers 'with fire'

  06-10-2015 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Feisal Omar MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Somalia's militant Islamist group al Shabaab pledged on Tuesday to greet British troops "with fire" when they arrive to provide support to a peacekeeping force in the conflict-ravaged country. Last week Prime Minister David Cameron announced plans to deploy up to 70 troops and experts to provide logistical, medical and engineering support to the African Union-led peacekeeping force in Somalia, which is struggling to emerge from two decades of chaos and is als
  
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• German authorities accused of playing down refugee shelter sex crime reports

  06-10-2015 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Germany's police union and women's rights groups accused the authorities on Tuesday of playing down reports of harassment, sexual assault and even rape at refugee shelters because they feared a backlash against asylum seekers. Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere called on Germans to avoid succumbing to a blanket suspicion of the hundreds of thousands of migrants arriving in the country, saying an unbelievable number of rumors were being spread on the Internet.
  
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• Competition for Microsoft lineup, which targets high end

  06-10-2015 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The success of Microsoft's fall lineup of devices will ride on the company's ability to convince people who got free Windows 10 software upgrades this summer to spring for new devices — specifically, Windows devices.
  
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• Ukraine rebels to delay local election, sidestep tense topic

  06-10-2015 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Officials in rebel-controlled eastern Ukraine announced Tuesday they will postpone local elections that were going to be held shortly, sidestepping a contentious issue that had blocked progress toward a resolution for the war in Ukraine.
  
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• Louisville campus police reviewing escort allegations

  06-10-2015 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Louisville campus police now say they are reviewing allegations that a former men's basketball staffer hired escorts to dance and have sex with recruits and players in a dormitory.
  
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• What makes Persian food so great?

  06-10-2015 21:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hungry? CNN's Fred Pleitgen discovers what makes Persian food so great and how to make an Iranian stew.
  
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• Doomed ship had engine problem

  06-10-2015 21:40 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The captain of the missing ship El Faro attempted to divert the vessel from dangerous waters plagued by Hurricane Joaquin, but could not due to a mechanical problem, the Associated Press reported.
  
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• LAPD: Rap group posted video of gun flashed near officer

  06-10-2015 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police say a video posted online that shows someone flash a gun while filming a police officer is an attempt at publicity from a 1990s rap group looking to spark a comeback.
  
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• New auto safety technologies leave some drivers bewildered

  06-10-2015 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Many Americans buying new cars these days are baffled by a torrent of new safety technology.
  
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• Facebook blow as EU court quashes transatlantic data deal

  06-10-2015 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Facebook and other Internet giants could be barred from sending European citizens' personal information to the US after the EU's top court on Tuesday struck down a key transatlantic data deal in the wake of the Edward Snowden scandal. The landmark verdict stemmed from a case lodged by Austrian law student Max Schrems, who challenged the 2000 "Safe Harbour" agreement between Washington and Brussels on the grounds it did not properly protect European data. After declaring Safe Harbour "invalid," t
  
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• Microsoft unveils first laptop, Windows 10 smartphones

  06-10-2015 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Microsoft unveiled its first laptop and its first Windows 10 smartphones Tuesday as it aims to widen the use of its new operating system in the mobile technology universe. The spate of fresh products, launched before the year-end holiday shopping season, seeks to build on the July launch of Windows 10. Microsoft said Tuesday that the Windows 10 system was now running on 110 million devices around the world, up from 75 million in late August.
  
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• California governor OKs expansive new equal pay protections

  06-10-2015 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Female workers in California are getting new tools to challenge gender-based wage gaps under legislation that supporters say offers the strongest equal-pay protection in the nation.
  
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• United co-pilot passes out, diverting flight to New Mexico

  06-10-2015 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A United Airlines flight from Houston to San Francisco had to be diverted to Albuquerque, New Mexico, after the co-pilot passed out.
  
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• 3D printing can even build a new beak

  06-10-2015 20:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  When you're a toucan, you need your beak. It's a pretty important part of your identity.
  
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