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• US repatriates 50 Cubans caught at sea

  14-10-2015 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Miami (AFP) - Fifty Cubans caught trying to reach US shores in rickety vessels were repatriated this week, the Coast Guard said Wednesday.
  
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• GOP lawmaker obtains Planned Parenthood videos

  14-10-2015 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Anti-abortion activists have given Congress lengthy, unedited videos they recorded showing Planned Parenthood officials discussing their retrieval of fetal tissue, a Republican House committee chairman said Wednesday.
  
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• Study: Ebola in male survivors can survive up to 9 months

  14-10-2015 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Doctors have found that Ebola can linger in some male survivors for up to nine months but aren't sure if that means they might still be infectious, according to new research.
  
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• Tesla's autopilot lets cars drive, change lanes themselves

  14-10-2015 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Electric car maker Tesla Motors is leapfrogging competitors with a new autopilot system that lets cars change lanes by themselves.
  
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• Mystery shrouds missionary slaying, child abduction in Haiti

  14-10-2015 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — No ransom demand has been received since gunmen snatched a 4-year-old boy over the weekend and killed the American missionary who had raised him since he was a severely malnourished infant, church officials said Wednesday.
  
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• Sex sting nets 150 traffickers

  14-10-2015 23:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  More than 150 people were arrested and nearly as many underage trafficking victims were rescued as part of a nationwide sex sting, the FBI announced on Wednesday.
  
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• Oprah-supported pet hospice shut after mismanagement ruling

  14-10-2015 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — A pet hospice once supported by Oprah Winfrey and other celebrities has been shut down for financial mismanagement and ordered sold, the state's attorney general said Wednesday.
  
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• Prominent astronomer resigns over student sexual harassment

  14-10-2015 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A prominent astronomer resigned Wednesday from the University of California, Berkeley, after an investigation found he sexually harassed female students over many years, two top administrators said.
  
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• U.S. has few options

  14-10-2015 23:41 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Senior State Department officials said Wednesday that the United States is growing increasingly concerned about spiraling violence in Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, and is gearing diplomatic efforts at avoiding a third intifada, or Palestinian uprising.
  
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• Square Inc files for IPO with Dorsey dual role in focus

  14-10-2015 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mobile payments company Square Inc filed for its long-expected initial public offering on Wednesday in a test of CEO Jack Dorsey's ability to take the company public even as grapples with a turnaround at Twitter Inc, which he also runs. Square's filing comes little more than a week after Twitter appointed Dorsey to head the microblogging site operator, which raised concerns about how he will balance his two jobs, a fact Square mentions in its IPO paperwork.
  
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• Lamar Odom's spiral leaves ex-NBA star fighting for his life

  14-10-2015 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Lamar Odom didn't last long at the glittering intersection of championship success and Hollywood celebrity.
  
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• Square files for keenly awaited stock market debut

  14-10-2015 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Digital payments startup Square, founded by Twitter chief Jack Dorsey, announced Wednesday that it has filed with for a stock market offering to raise $275 million. "We've built one of the fairest and most efficient payments businesses in the world," Dorsey said in a letter included with paperwork filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Dorsey said that inspiration for the startup sprang from frustration experience by an artist friend who was unable to accept credit card payments for
  
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• Narco planes, millions in payloads, fly past Peru military

  14-10-2015 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MAZAMARI, Peru (AP) — It happens about four times a day, right under the nose of Peru's military: A small single-engine plane drops onto a dirt airstrip in the world's No. 1 coca-growing valley, delivers a bundle of cash, picks up more than 300 kilos of cocaine and flies to Bolivia.
  
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• Gallbladder pain forces Placido Domingo to cancel some gigs

  14-10-2015 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Fans hoping to hear Placido Domingo conduct "Tosca" at the Metropolitan Opera will have to wait a little longer: The maestro is suffering from gallbladder pain and will have to go under the knife, missing the first five shows.
  
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• Cubs made title favorites on dubious anniversary

  14-10-2015 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Chicago Cubs, whose 106-season title drought is the longest in North American sports history, became betting favorites Wednesday to win baseball's World Series as they recalled a dubious anniversary. Westgate Sportsbook in Las Vegas installed the Cubs as 5-2 oddsmakers favorites to win this year's World Series after they beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-4 on Tuesday to advance to the National League Championship Series. Since their founding in 1870, the Cubs had never before clinched a playoff
  
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• 'America's Next Top Model' leaving the runway in December

  14-10-2015 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — TV's "America's Next Top Model" is leaving the runway.
  
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• Wal-Mart warns on profit, stock has steepest decline in 25 years

  14-10-2015 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wal-Mart Stores Inc warned on Wednesday that higher wages as well as spending on e-commerce and lower prices would cut earnings per share as much as 12 percent next fiscal year, sparking the steepest one-day decline in the company's shares in 25 years. Wal-Mart Chief Executive Doug McMillon said a $1.5 billion investment in wages and training, including raising the minimum store wage to $10 an hour from $9, were needed to improve customer service and would account for three-quarters of the expec
  
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• Financial services startup Square files for $275M IPO

  14-10-2015 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Square, the financial-services startup that helps small businesses process credit card payments, is planning to go public.
  
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• Wal-Mart cuts profit outlook, sending shares plunging

  14-10-2015 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wal-Mart Stores cut its profit outlook due to increased spending on employee wages and e-commerce on Wednesday, sending shares in the world's largest retailer plunging. Wal-Mart predicted earnings per share would fall between six and 12 percent in fiscal 2017 that begins on February 1, its "heaviest" year in terms of investment. Wal-Mart plans $1.5 billion in extra spending in 2017, with about 75 percent of that sum going to higher wages, company executives said.
  
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• MH17 prosecutors now face tricky task of catching culprits

  14-10-2015 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Dutch-led criminal probe to find those responsible for shooting down flight MH17 has now become the top priority after the cause of the crash was unveiled, but doubts remain whether the culprits will ever be caught. Analysts said Wednesday that Russia's cooperation in the investigation to identify those behind the downing of the Malaysia Airlines flight on July 17 last year was now essential -- but also highly unlikely. Air crash investigators released their final report Tuesday into the doome
  
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• The Latest: Lamar Odom's dad at hospital, grandmother says

  14-10-2015 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The latest on the hospitalization of Lamar Odom, who was found unconscious in a Nevada brothel (all times local):
  
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• Graphic video shows attack

  14-10-2015 23:21 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Graphic surveillance footage provided by Israeli police shows an attack at a bus stop in an ultra-Orthodox area of Jerusalem. The footage shows a white car ramming into a group of people waiting at the bus stop. The perpetrator is then seen coming out of the car and hacking victims, before he is shot several times by a security guard and killed. A 40-year-old Israeli man was killed and 8 others wounded in the attack, Israel's emergency medical services told CNN.
  
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• Report: Family at his side

  14-10-2015 22:32 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Reality star Khloe Kardashian is reportedly at Lamar Odom's side at a hospital in Nevada after the former NBA star was found unconscious in a brothel.
  
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• Who's who in the Kardashian clan?

  14-10-2015 22:29 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Thanks to "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" and an energetic social media presence, it's hard to avoid the publicity-friendly Kardashian family. Here are some pictures so you can tell them apart.
  
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• NBA champion Lamar Odom

  14-10-2015 22:29 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Former NBA star Lamar Odom, who won two championships and later married Khloe Kardashian, was hospitalized after he was found unconscious at a brothel in Nevada.
  
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• Brothel owner: He was vomiting

  14-10-2015 22:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Dennis Hof, owner of the Love Ranch South, talks about what happened when Lamar Odom was found unresponsive at the brothel and taken to a hospital. CNN affiliate KTNV has more.
  
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• Church members arrested in teen death

  14-10-2015 22:21 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A counseling session on the spiritual state of two brothers turned physical at Word of Life Christian Church in New Hartford, New York, resulting in the death of a young man and serious injuries to his brother, New Hartford Police Chief Michael Inserra said Wednesday.
  
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• Rubio: Dem presidential debate 'like something from 1985'

  14-10-2015 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio said Wednesday that the Democrats' presidential debate showcased old government solutions and suggested that his older rivals with names like Bush and Clinton are out of touch with most Americans.
  
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• A timeline of Lamar Odom's personal and professional events

  14-10-2015 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Lamar Odom became a basketball star in 1999 when the Los Angeles Clippers drafted him. He became a reality-TV star 10 years later when he married Khloe Kardashian in a season-opening episode of "Keeping Up with the Kardashians."
  
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• Iran sends fighters to Syria, escalating its involvement

  14-10-2015 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Hundreds of Iranian troops are being deployed in northern and central Syria, dramatically escalating Tehran's involvement in the civil war as they join allied Hezbollah fighters in an ambitious offensive to wrest key areas from rebels amid Russian airstrikes.
  
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• Family of sunken El Faro crew member files $100 million lawsuit

  14-10-2015 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The family of a crew member missing from the El Faro cargo ship is seeking $100 million in a negligence and wrongful death lawsuit against the owners and captain of the ship that sank off the Bahamas in a hurricane two weeks ago. The lawsuit on behalf of the estate of Lonnie Jordan, one of the 33 crew members presumed dead, was filed on Wednesday in Jacksonville, against Tote Services Inc and Tote Maritime Puerto Rico, as well as the El Faro captain, according to court documents. "Tote Services,
  
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• California now says violent inmates have long fought fires

  14-10-2015 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — In a sharp reversal of previous claims, California corrections officials said Wednesday that nearly 40 percent of the state's inmate firefighting crew have previous convictions for violent offenses, after the department claimed for years that only nonviolent inmates were admitted to the program.
  
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• Jay Z testifies in dispute over his hit song 'Big Pimpin"

  14-10-2015 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Jay Z says he believes he has a valid license to use the Arabic music featured on his 1999 hit "Big Pimpin'" that is now the subject of a copyright infringement trial.
  
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• Clinton debate boost may keep Biden on 2016 sidelines

  14-10-2015 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hillary Clinton bested her challengers in the campaign's first Democratic presidential debate, but her biggest accomplishment may have been to neutralize a potential rival who was not even on stage: Joe Biden. Analysts and observers said Clinton delivered a commanding performance Tuesday in the party's two-hour Las Vegas showdown, reasserting her control of the presidential race after months of slipping poll numbers. For months Biden has been weighing whether to jump in.
  
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• Prospective speakers multiply in House as all wait on Ryan

  14-10-2015 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Every day another Republican lawmaker seems to wake up and decide that he — and in at least one case, she — would make a pretty good speaker of the House.
  
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• 2 die in temporary bridge collapse in Johannesburg

  14-10-2015 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A temporary bridge that was part of a construction project collapsed onto one of South Africa's busiest highways on Wednesday, killing two people and injuring 21 others, South Africa media reported.
  
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• AP Source: Prominent astronomer resigning amid sex scandal

  14-10-2015 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A prominent astronomer is resigning from the University of California, Berkeley, after an investigation found he sexually harassed female students, according to a senior administration official.
  
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• The Latest: Officials say violent inmates long fought fires

  14-10-2015 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The latest on California's use of prisoners with violent backgrounds to fight wildfires (all times local):
  
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• More VW trouble: 2016 diesels have new suspect software

  14-10-2015 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. regulators say they have a lot more questions for Volkswagen, triggered by the company's recent disclosure of additional suspect software in 2016 diesel models that potentially would help exhaust systems run cleaner during government tests.
  
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• Customs agents: Traveler hid cocaine in oil, vinegar bottles

  14-10-2015 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Law enforcement officials say a passenger arriving at New York's Kennedy Airport had 11 pounds of liquid cocaine packed into oil and vinegar bottles.
  
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• Kerry plans Mideast trip to calm Israeli-Palestinian tension

  14-10-2015 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry plans to travel to the Middle East soon in a bid to ease soaring Israeli-Palestinian tensions amid a wave of deadly violence.
  
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• Debate day-after: Sanders raises cash, Clinton camp pleased

  14-10-2015 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders' campaign said it raised nearly $2 million from the first Democratic debate of the 2016 race, and social media metrics showed he was the most-searched candidate on Google and most-discussed on Facebook and Twitter.
  
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• California officials say violent inmates have long fought fires, contradicting previous claims

  14-10-2015 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — California officials say violent inmates have long fought fires, contradicting previous claims.
  
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• GOP lawmaker says he has unedited Planned Parenthood videos

  14-10-2015 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Anti-abortion activists have given Congress lengthy, unedited videos they recorded showing Planned Parenthood officials discussing their retrieval of fetal tissue, a House committee chairman said Wednesday.
  
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• AP Source: Prominent astronomer resigning from UC Berkeley over sexually harassing students

  14-10-2015 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — AP Source: Prominent astronomer resigning from UC Berkeley over sexually harassing students.
  
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• Court again considers fate of seized gold coins worth $80M

  14-10-2015 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal appeals court is again weighing the fate of 10 rare gold coins possibly worth $80 million or more that the government says were illegally taken from a Philadelphia mint and wound up in a jeweler's hands.
  
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• Boehner likely to move on debt limit hike before departure

  14-10-2015 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Speaker John Boehner is signaling that he'll move must-do legislation to increase the government's borrowing cap before he leaves Capitol Hill.
  
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• Israel sets up east Jerusalem checkpoints as violence spikes

  14-10-2015 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Israel set up checkpoints Wednesday in Palestinian neighbourhoods of east Jerusalem and mobilised hundreds of soldiers as it struggled to stop attacks that have raised fears of a full-blown uprising. Hours after the first roadblocks were erected, two more knife attacks shook Jerusalem, one outside the Old City and another near the crowded central bus station during rush hour. In his first address since the violence began, Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said in televised remarks that he suppo
  
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• Family of El Faro victim launches $100 million lawsuit

  14-10-2015 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The family of a crew member of "El Faro," a cargo ship that vanished during Hurricane Joaquin with 33 people aboard, filed a $100 million lawsuit Wednesday against the ship's US owner and its missing captain. The suit, brought by the family of Lonnie Jordan, accuses the company and ship captain Michael Davidson of "negligence," lawyer Willie Gary told a press conference. "El Faro," which went missing on October 1, was en route from Florida to Puerto Rico with a cargo of containers and automobile
  
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• Clinton's debate showing may dampen calls for Biden

  14-10-2015 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By James Oliphant WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden faced an altered political dynamic on Wednesday after Hillary Clinton reasserted her command of the Democratic Party presidential race during a debate that may have left little room for him to run. Analysts widely hailed Clinton, 67, as turning in a nimble, effective performance on Tuesday night, perhaps easing the fears of some Democrats fretting that the flap over her use of a private email server while in the Obama adminis
  
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