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• Amazon shares catch fire on surprise profit

  22-10-2015 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Amazon shares vaulted higher Thursday after the online giant's second consecutive surprise profit, defying expectations for a loss. Amazon posted net income of $79 million in the third quarter, against analyst expectations of more losses. Amazon shares rallied 10.7 percent in after-hours trade to $624.50.
  
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• Alaska tribal members get back totem pole taken by actor

  22-10-2015 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — A stolen totem pole that went from the garden decor of two golden-age Hollywood actors to the basement of a Hawaii museum was returned Thursday to Alaska tribal members.
  
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• US-Iraqi forces free 70 captives facing IS 'mass execution'

  22-10-2015 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kurdish and US forces stormed an Islamic State prison in northern Iraq on Thursday, freeing some 70 captives who were facing imminent execution, the Pentagon said. A US serviceman died of wounds sustained in the pre-dawn operation, the first to be killed in action since the US-led campaign against IS began in Iraq in June 2014. Five IS militants were captured and several others killed in the raid on a compound near Hawijah, Pentagon press secretary Peter Cook said.
  
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• Facing GOP inquiry, Clinton seeks to close book on Benghazi

  22-10-2015 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton strove to close the book on the worst episode of her tenure as secretary of state Thursday, battling hours of Republican questions in a hearing that grew contentious but revealed little new about the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya. She firmly defended her record while seeking to avoid any mishap that might damage her presidential campaign.
  
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• Probe finds EPA error caused mine spill it hoped to avoid

  22-10-2015 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Government investigators squarely blamed the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday for a 3 million-gallon wastewater spill from a Colorado gold mine, saying an EPA cleanup crew rushed its work and failed to consider the complex engineering involved, triggering the very blowout it hoped to avoid.
  
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• Klopp frustrated on Anfield bow as Celtic, Spurs lose

  22-10-2015 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jurgen Klopp's Anfield bow as Liverpool manager ended in a 1-1 draw against Rubin Kazan in the Europa League on Thursday as fellow British hopefuls Celtic and Tottenham went down to defeat. Emre Can cancelled out Marko Devic's well-taken opener for Russian side Rubin to notch the first goal of the Klopp era, but despite playing against 10 men for 54 minutes following Oleg Kuzmin's dismissal, Liverpool could not find a winner. The fit-again Christian Benteke, on as a second-half substitute, came
  
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• Obama vetoes defense bill, sends it back to Congress

  22-10-2015 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Patricia Zengerle and Julia Edwards WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama vetoed a sweeping $612 billion defense policy bill on Thursday, returning the measure to the Republican-controlled Congress because of the way it uses money meant for war spending to avoid automatic budget cuts to military programs. "I'm going to be sending it back to Congress and my message to them is very simple: 'Let's do this right,'" Obama told reporters. Let's have a budget that properly funds our national
  
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• Obama defends Black Lives Matter movement

  22-10-2015 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Defending the Black Lives Matter movement, President Barack Obama said Thursday the protests are giving voice to a problem happening only in African-American communities, and that "we, as a society, particularly given our history, have to take this seriously."
  
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• Obama vetoes $612 billion defense bill in rebuke to GOP

  22-10-2015 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama vetoed a sweeping $612 billion defense policy bill Thursday in a rebuke to congressional Republicans, and insisted they send him a better version that doesn't tie his hands on some of his top priorities.
  
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• Retooled Microsoft gets earnings boost

  22-10-2015 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Microsoft reported a modest rise in profits Thursday in the past quarter, beating most analyst forecasts, saying its new focus on cloud-based software is delivering results. "We are making strong progress across each of our three ambitions by delivering innovation people love," said chief executive Satya Nadella. In after-hours trade, Microsoft shares jumped more than six percent to $51.08 on the stronger-than-expected results.
  
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• Tarantino joins New York rally demanding police reform

  22-10-2015 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Film director Quentin Tarantino joined activists in New York's Times Square on Thursday to launch a fresh push for US police reform and justice for unarmed victims killed by officers. Around 40 bereaved families travelled across the country to take part in RiseUpOctober, three days of events demanding an end to police violence and reform of the criminal justice system. Among the names read by Tarantino were Michael Brown, 18, whose death in Ferguson, Missouri in August 2014 sparked a national pr
  
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• Police officer's slaying puts 'drug courts' under scrutiny

  22-10-2015 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Arrested in a 19-person drug sweep, Tyrone Howard was one of only three who got sent to drug court, which offered him treatment instead of prison.
  
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• Nurse quarantined over Ebola fears sues Gov. Chris Christie

  22-10-2015 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — The health care worker who sharply criticized being quarantined at a New Jersey hospital last year because she had contact with Ebola patients in West Africa said in a lawsuit filed Thursday that Gov. Chris Christie and the state health department illegally held her against her will.
  
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• Christie beefs up Iowa operation, plans more time in state

  22-10-2015 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Republican Chris Christie promised Thursday to spend a lot more time in Iowa as the leadoff presidential caucuses draw closer, signaling a shift for the New Jersey governor after months of focusing on New Hampshire.
  
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• CeeLo Green apologizes, wants to return to 'The Voice'

  22-10-2015 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — CeeLo Green says he has grown personally and professionally and wants to return to "The Voice."
  
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• APNewsBreak: Former Subway pitchman's victims get $1 million

  22-10-2015 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Ten victims of former Subway pitchman Jared Fogle have received a total of $1 million in restitution since he agreed to plead guilty to child pornography and sex-crime charges, and his four other victims could receive their checks by the time he is sentenced next month — a move prosecutors said is rare.
  
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• LeBron still not practicing after back injection

  22-10-2015 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) — LeBron James has not practiced since getting an injection in his back, but the Cavaliers remain confident he'll be ready to start the NBA season.
  
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• Germany foils anti-migrant arson plot as hostility mounts

  22-10-2015 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  German officials said Thursday they had foiled an extremist plot to torch migrant shelters, adding to concerns over rising attacks on refugees in Europe as migrant arrivals hit new records. Police in the southern German town of Bamberg arrested 13 members of a far-right movement suspected of planning to set fire to two homes for asylum seekers, prosecutors said. As hostility towards the migrants and refugees streaming into Europe grows, reports emerged of fresh assaults on boats carrying migrant
  
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• AP FACT CHECK: Clinton and critics on Benghazi, emails

  22-10-2015 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional investigations, by definition, are about finding facts. But some facts were twisted Thursday in a showdown between Hillary Rodham Clinton and her Republican questioners over how history — and voters — will remember the deadly 2012 attack on a diplomatic compound and CIA quarters in Benghazi, Libya.
  
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• Clinton defends her Benghazi record in face of Republican criticism

  22-10-2015 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jonathan Allen and John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday deflected harsh Republican criticism of her handling of the deadly 2012 attack in Benghazi, Libya, and urged her questioners in Congress to put U.S. national security ahead of politics. At a sometimes bitter day-long hearing, Republicans accused the front-runner in the 2016 Democratic presidential race of misinforming the public about the cause of the attack by suspected Islamic mil
  
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• Bond lowered for friend of suspect in black church massacre

  22-10-2015 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A federal magistrate on Thursday lowered bond for a man accused of failing to tell authorities all he knew about the suspect in the massacre of nine black people at a Charleston church last June.
  
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• Google shares leap as quarterly profit beats street

  22-10-2015 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Google shares leapt on Thursday after the Internet colossus reported quarterly earnings that beat Wall Street expectations. Newly formed parent company Alphabet reported that Google profit in the recently ended quarter jumped 45 percent to $3.98 billion on revenue that was up 13 percent to $18.67 billion. The third quarter results "show the strength of Google's business, particularly in mobile search," chief financial officer Ruth Porat said.
  
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• Russia shows military might in Syria, also pushes diplomacy

  22-10-2015 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HEMEIMEEM AIR BASE, Syria (AP) — As Russia unleashed waves of warplanes Thursday from this air base in western Syria to pound militant targets, President Vladimir Putin pushed diplomatic efforts with the West, stressing the need "to consider each other as allies in a common fight."
  
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• Mexico police find drug tunnel at US border

  22-10-2015 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexican police have found an 800-meter (half-mile) long tunnel used by a gang to sneak drugs from Tijuana to the California city of San Diego, authorities said Thursday. The federal officers detained 16 suspects and seized 10 tonnes of marijuana in Wednesday's operation in a warehouse, the National Security Commission said in a statement. The 10-meter (33-foot) deep tunnel had tracks to transport the narcotics on a platform-like car, a ventilation system and lights.
  
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• Analysis: Clinton seeks to look presidential in hearing

  22-10-2015 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — With a calm demeanor and detailed answers, Hillary Rodham Clinton sought to turn an hours-long congressional grilling on the deadly Benghazi attacks into an opportunity to look more presidential than political.
  
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• Russell Simmons' RushCard says customers can get their cash

  22-10-2015 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The pre-paid debit card company that cut off thousands of its customers from their money for more than a week said the problems are now mostly fixed and that it would soon offer help to those impacted by the technology fiasco.
  
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• The Latest: Suspect in road rage killing has court hearing

  22-10-2015 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The latest on the road rage killing of a 4-year-old girl on a New Mexico freeway (all times local):
  
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• Raising a pint, Xi and Cameron toast 'golden' ties over fish and chips

  22-10-2015 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  After three days of pomp, deal-making and geopolitics, British Prime Minister David Cameron raised a pint to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday over a traditional pub dinner of fish and chips. Cameron took a break from the formalities of hosting the state visit to take Communist Party General Secretary Xi to The Plough at Cadsden, near his official country residence at Chequers, for a fish and chip supper washed down with a pint of Green King IPA ale. "I dropped into The Plough at Cadsden
  
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• Clinton's listening face

  22-10-2015 22:27 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton had plenty to listen to during the Benghazi testimony.
  
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• Clinton stands her ground

  22-10-2015 22:27 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton testifies before a special committee investigating the Benghazi attacks. CNN's Jeff Zeleny reports on the latest.
  
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• Patients, donors in 3-hospital kidney swap meet in Detroit

  22-10-2015 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — It was a donation chain linking three patients from three Michigan hospitals to three strangers willing to give them working kidneys.
  
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• CBS drama 'Code Black' welcomes cast from 'The Lion King'

  22-10-2015 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The overcrowded and stressful emergency room at CBS' "Code Black" will soon receive a special patient — from "The Lion King."
  
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• ISIS tentacles spread in Africa

  22-10-2015 22:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A high-ranking member and spiritual leader of Al-Shabaab has pledged allegiance to ISIS, a move that further fractures the Somali-based jihadi group and spreads the reach of ISIS further into Africa.
  
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• Deep-voiced monkeys may be 'all talk,' study finds

  22-10-2015 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A study out Thursday in the journal Current Biology found that male howler monkeys with the most powerful voices -- a trait that is useful for attracting females -- also had the smallest testicles. For scientist Leslie Knapp, who describes the work as her "calls and balls paper," the findings offer an intriguing look at an evolutionary tit for tat. "The idea has been around since Charles Darwin, but this is the first time that anyone actually has demonstrated a trade-off between vocal characteri
  
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• Pandora to pay $90 million to settle suit over pre-1972 hits

  22-10-2015 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Streaming music company Pandora has agreed to pay $90 million to settle a lawsuit brought by major record labels over its use of recordings released before 1972.
  
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• The world's most (and least) trustworthy cities...

  22-10-2015 22:05 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Australia, give yourself a pat on the back.
  
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• FBI agent indicted for drug trafficking

  22-10-2015 22:02 via rss.cnn.com
  
  For two years, investigators decoded text messages, conducted surveillance and leaned on informants to unravel a drug trafficking network that allegedly distributed heroin and methamphetamine in a city park and California prisons.
  
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• 153-year-old shipwreck found

  22-10-2015 21:52 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Explorers have found the 153-year-old wreckage of the Bay State, one the earlier propeller-driven steamships to ply the waters of the Great Lakes.
  
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• WikiLeaks Releases Second Batch From CIA Boss' Email

  22-10-2015 21:51 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  There is nothing classified in the hacked material.
  
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• Big stakes in smallest horse race

  22-10-2015 21:51 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Is this the world's smallest horse race? The annual Moorcroft Racehorse Welfare Center Shetland Pony Gold Cup sees children take to the turf.
  
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• Same-sex marriage closer in Ireland

  22-10-2015 21:10 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Same-sex couples will soon be able to walk down the aisle in the Emerald Isle, after both legislative chambers pass a bill legalizing same-sex marriage.
  
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• Philippines storm toll rises

  22-10-2015 21:09 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Typhoon Koppu killed at least 43 people as it slowly moved across the northern Philippines this week, the country's disaster management agency said late Thursday.
  
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• World's most adorable horse race

  22-10-2015 21:06 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Is this the world's smallest horse race? The annual Moorcroft Racehorse Welfare Center Shetland Pony Gold Cup sees children take to the turf.
  
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• Photos: Meet the Incredible Dog Who Looks After Baby Monkeys

  22-10-2015 20:43 via abcnews.go.com
  
  See the unlikely friendships that exist in the animal kingdom.
  
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• Viking sword discovered by hiker

  22-10-2015 20:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A sword is probably the last thing you'd expect to find on a hike -- especially one that's more than a millennium old.
  
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• The Latest: House panel bickers over Benghazi, Blumenthal

  22-10-2015 20:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The latest from the House Benghazi committee's hearing featuring testimony from former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton (all times local):
  
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• Years after CBS scandal, answers to Bush questions elusive

  22-10-2015 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Rushing to meet a deadline proved to be the downfall of Dan Rather and his CBS News team when their story questioning former President George W. Bush's military record collapsed in 2004, a media scandal that is the basis of the current film "Truth."
  
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• Protesting students shut schools

  22-10-2015 20:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Students angry at tuition hikes in South Africa presented a list of demands Thursday to the leadership of the African National Congress outside the ruling party's headquarters.
  
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• McDonald's earnings rise on turnaround progress

  22-10-2015 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  McDonald's reported higher earnings Thursday, capitalizing on positive buzz from a new buttermilk chicken sandwich and other product tweaks to break a two-year streak of falling US comparable sales. The fast-food giant, which has been in turnaround mode under new chief executive Steve Easterbrook, reported third-quarter net income of $1.3 billion, up 22.5 percent from the year-ago period. Global comparable sales rose 4.0 percent, including a 0.9 percent gain in the US, its first quarterly increa
  
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• Police: Man admits to road-rage killing of New Mexico girl

  22-10-2015 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A man confessed to fatally shooting a 4-year-old girl while arguing with her father as the two men drove down a freeway in separate vehicles, police said, without offering more details on what led to the apparent road-rage slaying.
  
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