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• Face-down dummy Halloween prank prompts repeated 911 calls

  09-10-2015 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — A dummy placed face down in a Detroit woman's front yard as a Halloween prank has prompted repeated visits by police.
  
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• Arkansas judge halts 8 executions as inmates challenge law

  09-10-2015 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas judge on Friday halted the upcoming executions of eight death row inmates, dealing a blow to the state's efforts to begin putting prisoners to death for the first time in a decade.
  
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• Alberto, Rangers beat Blue Jays in 14th, lead ALDS 2-0

  09-10-2015 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TORONTO (AP) — Backup infielder Hanser Alberto singled home the go-ahead run in the 14th inning and the Texas Rangers beat the Toronto Blue Jays 6-4 Friday for a 2-0 lead in the best-of-five American League Division Series.
  
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• Ohio prisons officials challenge FDA stand on execution drug

  09-10-2015 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — With two dozen scheduled executions in limbo, Ohio sent a forceful letter to Washington on Friday asserting that the state believes it can obtain a lethal-injection drug from overseas without violating any laws.
  
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• Judge refuses to throw out defamation suit against Cosby

  09-10-2015 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — A federal judge in Massachusetts has refused to dismiss a defamation lawsuit brought against comedian Bill Cosby by three women who say he sexually abused them decades ago.
  
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• Exclusive: GE nears deal to sell over $30 billion of loans to Wells Fargo - source

  09-10-2015 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - General Electric Co is in advanced talks to sell a specialty finance portfolio, worth more than $30 billion, to Wells Fargo & Co , according to a person familiar with the matter, as the industrial conglomerate returns to its roots. Wells Fargo has so far outbid other parties for General Electric's vendor financing, commercial distribution finance and direct lending, the person with direct knowledge of the situation said on Friday.
  
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• Obama: Americans must 'come together' on gun crimes

  09-10-2015 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ROSEBURG, Ore. (AP) — The public must "come together" to figure out how to keep deadly mass shootings from happening, President Barack Obama said Friday. But he emerged from a private meeting with family of the victims of last week's shooting in Oregon to declare: "Today is about the families."
  
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• Milner-Scudder sees All Blacks to clean sweep win

  09-10-2015 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The All Blacks remain short of their champion best and were rattled by the Tongan forwards before some Nehe Milner-Skudder magic set up a 47-9 victory on Friday. Milner-Skudder scored twice in five minutes midway through the second half at St James' Park to take the stuffing out of a Tonga side that had valiantly stayed in touch for the first 50 minutes. The New Zealanders, having already qualified for the play-offs before the game, were looking to polish their rough edges against Tonga.
  
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• Mormon leader: Africans at peace with past priesthood ban

  09-10-2015 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — One of the highest-ranking black Mormon leaders said Friday that Latter-day Saints in Africa are at peace with the religion's past ban on the lay priesthood.
  
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• Commodity surge lifts world equities; dollar falls

  09-10-2015 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks on major world markets posted their biggest weekly advance since 2011 on Friday, as greater investor appetite for riskier assets propelled gains in equities and a surge in commodities and crude oil prices. Declines in the dollar, a bullish oil forecast as well as miner Glencore's pledge Friday to slash world zinc output have lifted beaten-down commodities. The 19-commodity Thomson Reuters/Core Commodity CRB Index , a global benchmark for commo
  
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• The Latest: US condemns rash of Palestinian attacks

  09-10-2015 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — The latest developments in ongoing violence between Palestinians and Israelis (all times local):
  
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• Train attack hero in 'good spirits' after stabbing

  09-10-2015 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  One of three Americans who helped thwart a terror attack on a train in France, was recovering Friday after being stabbed in his home state of California, hospital officials said. Spencer Stone "is awake, able to get out of bed and in good spirits," a statement by the UC Davis Medical Center said.
  
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• Overhaul of Florida's districts hurts would-be House speaker

  09-10-2015 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — A Florida judge called Friday for a sweeping overhaul of the state's 27 congressional districts, including one held by one of the Republicans seeking to become the next U.S. House speaker.
  
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• Charges dropped against Ron Paul's former campaign manager

  09-10-2015 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A federal judge dismissed charges Friday against Ron Paul's 2012 presidential campaign manager, leaving two other campaign operatives to stand trial on charges alleging they secretly paid an influential Iowa politician for his endorsement.
  
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• Leading Republican Ryan reconsiders House speaker run: lawmakers

  09-10-2015 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Susan Cornwell and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A leading Republican congressman with allies on the right wing of the party, Paul Ryan, is weighing a bid to replace retiring U.S. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner, fellow lawmakers said on Friday as they sought to defuse a leadership battle. Numerous House Republicans and even 2012 presidential candidate Mitt Romney have asked Ryan to run for speaker after the front-runner, House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, abruptly drop
  
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• Development banks pledge $15 bln in new climate funds: officials

  09-10-2015 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Development banks including the World Bank have pledged an additional $15 billion a year by 2020 to fight climate change, taking the world closer to the clutch target of $100 billion, officials said Friday. Just two months before key UN climate talks in Paris, world leaders are scrambling to reach the magic number of $100 billion in funding to help vulnerable nations cope with the impact of climate change. The World Bank announced it would increase climate financing from 21 percent of its total
  
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• AP Exclusive: Saudi crush was deadliest hajj tragedy ever

  09-10-2015 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — One survivor of last month's crush and stampede at the hajj in Saudi Arabia recalled seeing so many bodies that he couldn't tell how many there were.
  
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• Facing ban on orca breeding, SeaWorld contemplates next move

  09-10-2015 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — SeaWorld says denying orcas' their ability to breed is cruel, but it was unclear Friday whether the corporation will fight such a ban at its California park and risk further hurting attendance.
  
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• 13-year-old boy accused in fatal shooting of girl, 12

  09-10-2015 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JASPER, Mo. (AP) — A 13-year-old boy appears to have deliberately shot and killed a 12-year-old girl outside a home in rural southwest Missouri with a gun that came from the house, the local sheriff said Friday.
  
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• UN backs EU military action against migrant smugglers

  09-10-2015 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The UN Security Council on Friday approved a European military operation to seize and destroy boats used by migrant smugglers in the Mediterranean after thousands died in dangerous crossings. European warships on Wednesday launched Operation Sophia to seize traffickers' boats in international waters off Libya's coast, in the second of a three-phase campaign to stem the flow of migrants. This year alone, 3,092 people have died while crossing the Mediterranean to Europe, while more than half a mil
  
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• Satellite images show scale of planned North Korea parade

  09-10-2015 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Satellite imagery from North Korea shows it has amassed hundreds of trucks, armoured vehicles, troops and horses for a massive military parade to mark Saturday's 70th anniversary of the ruling Workers' Party. The North traditionally marks major anniversaries with large-scale shows of strength in a display of patriotic fervour and observers say this weekend's spectacle could be one of the biggest in history. Images obtained on October 6 by the US-Korea Institute think tank at Johns Hopkins Univer
  
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• Trio use stolen gun to rob, kill 2 in Northern California

  09-10-2015 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police said Friday that three young and homeless wanderers used a handgun stolen from an unlocked car parked in San Francisco to rob and kill two people.
  
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• US abandons Pentagon's failed rebel-building effort in Syria

  09-10-2015 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is overhauling its approach to fighting the Islamic State in Syria, abandoning a failed Pentagon effort to build a new ground force of moderate rebels and instead partnering with established rebel groups, officials said Friday.
  
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• U.N. diplomat charged by U.S. for bribe scheme gets $2 million bail

  09-10-2015 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A deputy United Nations ambassador from the Dominican Republic facing U.S. charges over a bribery scheme had his bail set at $2 million on Friday, despite a prosecutor's warnings that he poses a flight risk. Francis Lorenzo, who was arrested on Tuesday, must also live under house arrest with his mother after bail conditions are met and waive diplomatic immunity from future arrest, a federal magistrate judge in Manhattan ruled. The decision by U.S. Magistrate
  
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• The Latest: University president: 'Crime is all around us'

  09-10-2015 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — The latest on a shooting outside a Texas Southern University student housing complex (all times local):
  
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• Snoop Dogg, Jermaine Dupri to star in new BET reality series

  09-10-2015 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Rappers Snoop Dogg and Birdman, Grammy-winning producer Jermaine Dupri, and entrepreneur Damon Dash are among the stars of a still-untitled BET reality series, the network announced Friday.
  
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• Divided House Republicans see savior in Paul Ryan

  09-10-2015 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Endlessly divided, House Republicans pleaded with Rep. Paul Ryan on Friday to rescue them from their damaging leadership vacuum. But the GOP's 2012 vice presidential nominee showed little appetite for the prestigious yet thankless job of speaker of the House.
  
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• Brian Hoyer gets starting QB job back for scuffling Texans

  09-10-2015 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Brian Hoyer has his job back as Houston's starting quarterback.
  
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• Cable snaps, hikers fall nearly 30 feet

  09-10-2015 22:09 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Four hikers fell about 28 feet into a river after the cable on a suspension bridge collapsed in New Zealand.
  
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• New York theater named after stage and TV actor John Cullum

  09-10-2015 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Two-time Tony Award-winner John Cullum has gotten the ultimate stage honor — a theater named after him.
  
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• GLANCE: Tunisia, Nobel winner, shines as Arab Spring success

  09-10-2015 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Nobel Peace Prize announced Friday pointed to the relative success of Tunisia in building toward democracy after a 2011 uprising ousted a longtime dictator. That makes it a resounding exception among the nations of the Arab Spring revolts.
  
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• The Latest: Student fatally shot at college housing complex

  09-10-2015 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — The latest on a shooting outside a Texas Southern University student housing complex (all times local):
  
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• Lennon fans mark 75th birthday with Central Park sing-in

  09-10-2015 21:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  John Lennon fans on Friday marked what would have been the slain Beatle's 75th birthday with a sing-in of his greatest tunes in New York's Central Park. "I love The Beatles but John Lennon was always my favorite because of the love that he showed," said Cindy Sabo, from the southern US state of Mississippi. "I just have loved John my entire life," she said.
  
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• Farmers look at devastating losses as flood rolls downstream

  09-10-2015 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRANCHVILLE, S.C. (AP) — Thad Wimberly tugs on a clump of peanuts, shaking off the mud as he cracks the soggy shells to inspect his crop. But all he can do is sigh as his livelihood disintegrates between his fingers.
  
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• Nick Jonas, Rick Ross, Meek Mill added to Tidal concert

  09-10-2015 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Nick Jonas and rappers Rick Ross, Meek Mill and French Montana have been added to the Tidal X concert in October, concert organizers announced Friday.
  
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• U.S. sees acts of terrorism in East Jerusalem: State Department

  09-10-2015 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States considers violence in East Jerusalem to be acts of terrorism, a U.S. State Department spokesman said on Friday. Spokesman John Kirby told reporters the United States "condemns in the strongest possible terms violence against both Israeli and Palestinian citizens." "We consider these violent acts that we're talking about specifically here acts of terror ... this terrorism," he said. Israeli troops fatally shot six Palestinians in protests in Gaza and a knife-wielding Jewish man
  
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• Banks take spotlight as earnings season heats up

  09-10-2015 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Chuck Mikolajczak NEW YORK (Reuters) - The financial sector, recently a weak performer in the stock market, will garner the majority of investor attention next week as a number of big banks post their quarterly results. Goldman Sachs Group Inc, Bank of America Corp, Wells Fargo & Co, Citigroup and JPMorgan Chase & Co - the five biggest U.S. banks by market cap - are due to report results as the sector has trailed the market in recent weeks and earnings estimates have fallen. In the la
  
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• IS advances near Syria's Aleppo despite Russian strikes

  09-10-2015 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Islamic State militants captured a string of villages near Aleppo on Friday in a lightning attack that brought them closer to the prized city in northern Syria, despite a major increase in Russian airstrikes that Moscow insists are targeting the extremists.
  
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• The Latest: President arrives in Oregon following shooting

  09-10-2015 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — The latest on President Barack Obama's visit to Roseburg, Oregon, following the deadly shooting rampage at Umpqua Community College (all times local):
  
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• NASA unveils (some) missing pieces in journey to Mars

  09-10-2015 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In the Hollywood movie "The Martian" an American astronaut survives on Mars against all odds, but in reality NASA admits that huge obstacles remain before humans can reach the Red Planet. NASA outlined the many steps ahead in a 36-page document that calls the problems "solvable" but steers clear of saying how much money is needed or when to expect an astronaut mission to Mars. The strategy was released to the public late Thursday ahead of talks with Congress about budgets for space exploration a
  
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• The Latest: Shooting victim loved lacrosse, helping others

  09-10-2015 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The latest on the shooting at Northern Arizona University (all times local):
  
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• Israel struggles to contain wave of stabbing attacks

  09-10-2015 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Unrest that erupted several weeks ago at Jerusalem's most sensitive holy site spread Friday to Gaza in the form of deadly border clashes with Palestinian protesters, as Israeli security forces struggled to contain a wave of Palestinian stabbing attacks against civilians and soldiers.
  
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• In rare event, remnants of Pacific hurricane hit Alaska

  09-10-2015 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — Remnants of Pacific Hurricane Oho battered Alaska's southeast coast on Friday, the latest unusual weather event to hit a state that so far this year has dealt with a lack of snow, warmer temperatures and intense wildfires.
  
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• Platini retains UEFA title, with no interim leader in place

  09-10-2015 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Still defiant, UEFA is standing by its man.
  
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• 1 fatally shot at Texas Southern University housing complex

  09-10-2015 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — One person was killed and another wounded during a shooting Friday at a Texas Southern University student-housing complex, and the Houston campus has been placed on lockdown, university and police officials said.
  
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• The Latest: Palestinian envoy to UN wants emergency meeting

  09-10-2015 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — The latest developments in ongoing violence between Palestinians and Israelis. (all times local)
  
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• Insurgent group in north Syria retakes village from Islamic State: monitor

  09-10-2015 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (Reuters) - A powerful insurgent group in northern Syria on Friday recaptured a village taken over by Islamic State earlier in the day, a monitoring group and online media affiliated with the rebels said. Ahrar al-Sham, which is separately battling both Syrian government forces and the Islamic State, beat back the jihadists to regain control over Tel Suseen in Aleppo province, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. ...
  
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• UAW leaders send Fiat Chrysler pact to workers for vote

  09-10-2015 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Bernie Woodall DETROIT (Reuters) - U.S. union United Auto Workers' leaders on Friday approved a tentative four-year contract with Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV , sending the proposed pact to 40,000 workers for a ratification vote. The move follows Fiat Chrysler workers' rejection last week of a previous tentative contract. A new tentative agreement was reached on Wednesday night, averting a call by the UAW to have its members strike Fiat Chrysler’s U.S. operations.
  
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• APNewsBreak: Ohio challenges FDA's stand on execution drug

  09-10-2015 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — With two dozen scheduled executions in limbo, Ohio sent a forceful letter to Washington on Friday asserting that the state believes it can obtain a lethal-injection drug from overseas without violating any laws.
  
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• U.S. commander says U.S. must exercise freedom of navigation in Asia-Pacific

  09-10-2015 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By David Brunnstrom WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The commander of U.S. forces in the Pacific said on Friday the United States must carry out freedom of navigation patrols throughout the Asia Pacific, but declined to say whether it planned go within 12 nautical miles of China's artificial islands in the South China Sea. Admiral Harry Harris told a Washington seminar one of his responsibilities was to offer options to President Barack Obama and Secretary of Defense Ash Carter, and added, "I'm comfortabl
  
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