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• Obama wins Indonesian backing for Pacific trade pact

  26-10-2015 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US President Barack Obama won Indonesia's endorsement for a contentious trans-Pacific trade deal Monday, with the president of Southeast Asia's largest economy vowing to join. During a meeting with Obama at the White House, Joko Widodo risked the ire of economic nationalists at home and pledged to join the pact. "Indonesia is an open economy and with a population of 250 million, we are the largest economy in Southeast Asia," Widodo said in the Oval Office.
  
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• Jeb Bush gets tout from brother as campaign focuses on Rubio

  26-10-2015 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Former President George W. Bush on Monday assured top donors to his brother's presidential campaign that Jeb Bush will be a "fierce competitor" in the 2016 race for the White House and argued his experience as Florida's governor will ultimately win over voters.
  
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• From pilot to profit-maker, Valeant's pharmacy rose quickly

  26-10-2015 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The pharmacy at the center of suspicions over Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc's business practices began as a small pilot project two years ago and quickly grew to account for 7 percent of the drugmaker's revenue. Valeant disclosed on Monday details of its relationship with Pennsylvania-based Philidor Rx Services, defending the pharmacy against allegations of illegal activity while pledging to review the business carefully. Few Valeant investors had heard of Philidor until last week, w
  
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• Owners of 'The Conjuring' farmhouse sue Warner Bros.

  26-10-2015 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HARRISVILLE, R.I. (AP) — The owners of a Rhode Island farmhouse depicted in the 2013 horror film "The Conjuring" are suing Warner Bros., saying it has created a real-life nightmare for them.
  
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• Congress negotiators near deal on budget, debt limit: sources

  26-10-2015 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House Speaker John Boehner and other congressional leaders raced to finalize a sweeping two-year budget deal and an extension of the federal debt ceiling until March 2017 before Boehner transfers power to his expected successor, Paul Ryan. If successful, the deals would mark a final act for Boehner to clear the decks of some politically divisive legislation as Ryan takes over as speaker - assuming a majority of the House of Representatives votes to pu
  
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• NASA spacecraft to fly through icy spray of Saturn moon

  26-10-2015 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An unmanned NASA spacecraft is about to make its deepest dive ever into the icy spray emanating from the underwater ocean on Saturn's moon, Enceladus. After years of observations, NASA announced earlier this year that Enceladus definitely has a subterranean ocean, widening the search for alien life in our solar system. While the Cassini probe's flyby on Wednesday will not be able to detect if there are life forms in the spray, scientists hope the close pass will give them new insight into the ha
  
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• Budget deal would offer $168 bln in Social Security savings: source

  26-10-2015 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A two-year budget deal under negotiation between congressional leaders and the White House would offer $168 billion in long-term savings through reforms to the Social Security Disability Insurance program, a source familiar with the talks said. The first major changes to Social Security since 1983 would prevent a 20 percent across-the-board cut in benefits to disabled users of the program that was expected in early 2016 with the depletion of a disability trust fund, the person said.
  
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• Adele producer: Keeping mum about 'Hello' was hard

  26-10-2015 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Getting into the studio and writing a potential hit song for Adele sounds hard enough. Now add in keeping mum about the track for a year.
  
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• U.S. police chiefs call for background checks for all gun purchases

  26-10-2015 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Fiona Ortiz CHICAGO (Reuters) - Police chiefs from across the United States called on Monday for universal background checks for firearms purchases, saying opinion polls consistently show that most Americans support such restrictions. The proliferation of firearms is one of the factors behind a rise in homicide rates in many U.S. cities this year, according to senior law enforcement officials at the International Association of Chiefs of Police conference in Chicago. Acknowledging the power o
  
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• Controversial pharma CEO Martin Shkreli bails on Valeant bet

  26-10-2015 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The one-time hedge fund executive now running a biotech firm at the center of a drug-pricing controversy on Monday said he has bailed from a losing bet he made on another contentious drug maker: Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc . On the day last week that Valeant shares plunged in response to a shortseller's accusation of accounting irregularities, Martin Shkreli, head of Turing Pharmaceuticals, took to Twitter to say he had bought shares of Valeant while at the same time selling short
  
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• 5 Britons killed after whale boat sinks off Vancouver Island

  26-10-2015 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TOFINO, British Columbia (AP) — Five British nationals died when a whale watching boat with 27 people on board sank off Vancouver Island, the British Foreign Minister said Monday. One person was missing and the rest were rescued, some by members of the local aboriginal community who rushed to help.
  
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• Short interest piled on Valeant ahead of scathing report

  26-10-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Short interest in U.S.-traded Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc shares stood at its highest in nearly a year in the first half of October, exchange data showed on Monday, indicating bearish investors were stacking up against the stock even before a negative report torpedoed the shares last week. Short interest in Valeant shot up to 10.54 million shares, or about 3.1 percent of the stock available for trading, in the period to Oct. 14, according to FactSet Research Systems data cited by t
  
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• Lions fire offensive coordinator Lombardi, 2 OL coaches

  26-10-2015 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ALLEN PARK, Mich. (AP) — Hours before leaving for their longest road trip of the season, the Detroit Lions shook up their offensive coaching staff.
  
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• Ex-U.N. diplomat in bribe case likely faces more charges: U.S. prosecutor

  26-10-2015 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - A former United Nations General Assembly president accused of being part of a bribery scheme would likely face additional charges, a U.S. prosecutor said on Monday, hours before the diplomat was released from jail. John Ashe, who served in the U.N. post from 2013 to 2014, already faces two counts of tax fraud in an indictment filed in Manhattan federal court. Prosecutors say that immunity does not apply to the tax charges.
  
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• Royals and 007 cast give sparkle to 'Spectre' world premiere

  26-10-2015 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — The new James Bond flick "Spectre" got a royal seal of approval at its world premiere Monday night.
  
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• After hand surgery, Enrique Iglesias helping kids in crises

  26-10-2015 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Enrique Iglesias is giving a helping hand to children dealing with emergencies after an accident with a drone led to him having reconstructive hand surgery.
  
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• Leah Remini talks to '20/20' about Tom Cruise, Scientology

  26-10-2015 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Actress Leah Remini is talking about Scientology and Tom Cruise in a new interview with ABC's "20/20."
  
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• US trial convicts trio of high-tech exports to Russia

  26-10-2015 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A US federal judge convicted two men and a woman in New York on Monday of illegally exporting high-tech electronics from Texas to Russian military and spy agencies. Five others have pleaded guilty, including the Russian-American businessman who owned the Arc Electronics corporation in Houston, Texas. The other three are in Russia and beyond the reach of US law.
  
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• The Latest: Mets slugger Cespedes set to play in opener

  26-10-2015 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The latest on the World Series, which opens Tuesday night with the Kansas City Royals hosting the New York Mets (all times local):
  
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• Jon Stewart opening animal sanctuary in New Jersey

  26-10-2015 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The former host of "The Daily Show" and his wife are transforming their New Jersey farm into a sanctuary for neglected animals.
  
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• 8 men up for FIFA presidential race on deadline day to enter

  26-10-2015 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GENEVA (AP) — Deadline day to enter the FIFA presidential election saw surprise entries and a potential eight-man lineup on Monday.
  
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• Garrett: Cowboys' Hardy won't be punished for sideline rant

  26-10-2015 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  IRVING, Texas (AP) — Dallas coach Jason Garrett says defensive end Greg Hardy won't be disciplined for a sideline tirade that included a physical confrontation with special teams coach Rich Bisaccia after New York's decisive kickoff return for a touchdown.
  
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• Ex-prosecutor who didn't charge Cosby sued for defamation

  26-10-2015 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A woman who settled a sex abuse lawsuit against Bill Cosby has sued the former prosecutor who declined to file charges, saying he has defamed her through recent attacks on her credibility.
  
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• White House issues veto threat for House bill on Labor Department rule

  26-10-2015 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House issued a veto threat on Monday for a U.S. House of Representatives' bill that it said would "derail" an effort by the Labor Department to provide new protections to investors receiving advice from brokers. "This bill would effectively block action to protect working and middle-class families from the harmful conflicts of interest that lead to biased advice," the White House said in a statement about the Retail Investor Protection Act. (Reporting by Roberta
  
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• Royals' Perez earning a reputation for being indestructible

  26-10-2015 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — It's a good thing the Royals' Salvador Perez wears all that bulky catching gear.
  
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• Heartbreak of NBA's 'forgotten' team

  26-10-2015 22:41 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Its brief membership of the NBA is just a fading memory, but residents of Sheboygan still fondly remember the days when its basketball team put the small city on the map.
  
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• Depth saved lives

  26-10-2015 22:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Death toll from South Asia quake that killed at least 180 people could have been worse if the quake's epicenter was not as deep. CNN's Tom Sater explains.
  
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• Lego bricks help lawyer find art

  26-10-2015 22:27 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Previously a corporate lawyer in New York City, Nathan Sawaya has built a second career in art by using Lego bricks to create sculptures.
  
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• Apple Pay growth slows a year after launch: research

  26-10-2015 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Apple Inc's mobile wallet Apple Pay is winning over more U.S. households a year after its launch, but growth has slowed, research released on Monday showed. Fourteen percent of U.S. households with credit cards had signed up for the payment option by the end of September, up from 11 percent in February, Phoenix Marketing International said at a payments conference in Las Vegas. "A very rapid initial threshold was achieved by Apple Pay and it is still growing but the growth rate has slowed down,"
  
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• UK's House of Lords hands Cameron defeat on tax credit cuts

  26-10-2015 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Britain's unelected House of Lords on Monday dealt a strong defeat to the government of Prime Minister David Cameron by voting to delay a cut in tax credits.
  
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• UN agency links hot dogs and other processed meat to cancer

  26-10-2015 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — Bacon, hot dogs and cold cuts are under fire: The World Health Organization threw its global weight behind years of experts' warnings and declared Monday that processed meats raise the risk of colon and stomach cancer and that red meat is probably harmful, too.
  
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• Memoir by Senate Majority Leader McConnell coming in May

  26-10-2015 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has a book deal.
  
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• Video testimony of Pharrell Williams, Robin Thicke, released

  26-10-2015 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Footage of Robin Thicke and Pharrell Williams testifying about the creation of the song "Blurred Lines" that was a key element of a copyright infringement trial earlier this year has been released, showing Thicke repeatedly acknowledging he was drunk and high during interviews promoting 2013's biggest hit song.
  
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• Trump describes $1m 'small loan'

  26-10-2015 22:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump on Monday said his climb to the top of the business world hasn't been an easy one and depicted a $1 million loan from his father as "small."
  
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• Photos: Jennifer Garner Eschews Makeup to Grocery Shop

  26-10-2015 22:04 via abcnews.go.com
  Celebrities go for the au naturel look!
  
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• AP-GfK Poll: Trump is hard sell for Hispanics

  26-10-2015 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — Republican front-runner Donald Trump is widely unpopular among the nation's Hispanics, a new AP-GfK poll finds, challenging the billionaire's oft-repeated assertion that he will win the Hispanic vote if he becomes his party's nominee.
  
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• Analysis: Meetings and more meetings yield no Syria solution

  26-10-2015 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Another meeting in another luxury hotel in another European city oozing with diplomatic history.
  
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• U.S. destroyer sailing to China islands

  26-10-2015 22:03 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The U.S. Navy plans to send a destroyer within 12 miles of China's man-made islands in the South China Sea within the next 24 hours, a U.S. defense official confirmed to CNN.
  
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• What refugees leave on the beach

  26-10-2015 21:59 via rss.cnn.com
  
  After arriving in Lesbos, a Greek island in the Aegean Sea, Anna Pantelia lined up with other photographers as they waited for another wave of migrants to arrive by boat.
  
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• Dow, S&P 500 fall on oil share weakness

  26-10-2015 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - The Dow and S&P 500 finished lower Monday as petroleum-linked stocks tumbled ahead of earnings this week from ExxonMobil and Chevron.
  
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• Sanders urges Verizon to resolve local labor dispute

  26-10-2015 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders waded into a labor dispute involving Verizon on Monday, urging the telecommunications giant to negotiate a fair contract for 39,000 members of the Communications Workers of America.
  
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• The Latest: Israel strikes Gaza sites after rocket attack

  26-10-2015 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — The latest developments in a wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence (all times local).
  
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• In shift, Jeb Bush turns to brother George W. for 2016 help

  26-10-2015 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Jeb Bush has played down his famous family roots in his pursuit of the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, but with his campaign in trouble, he turned on Monday to brother George W. Bush for a political morale boost. The former president appeared on stage with his younger brother before an important gathering of Bush donors in Houston, an event that the Bush team sought to use to calm jittery supporters alarmed by his months-long slide in the polls. T
  
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• GOP-led Congress moves to block Obama's Clean Power Plan

  26-10-2015 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congressional Republicans are moving to block President Barack Obama's plan to force steep cuts in greenhouse gas emissions from U.S. power plants.
  
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• A look at those killed in Oklahoma homecoming parade crash

  26-10-2015 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Those killed in Saturday's deadly crash during Oklahoma State University's homecoming parade include a husband and wife with long ties to the university, the 2-year-old son of an OSU student, and a student from India who was working on her master's degree at a university in Edmond. The crash also injured 46 other people, including many children.
  
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• Prince invites fans to party with him at Paisley Park

  26-10-2015 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHANHASSEN, Minn. (AP) — Prince seems to be shedding his reclusive reputation and becoming a party animal.
  
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• LeBron: 'I'm ready to go' for opener

  26-10-2015 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) — His lower back feeling better, his body refreshed, LeBron James declared himself ready for his 13th NBA season.
  
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• Gov't bans e-cigarettes in airline passengers' checked bags

  26-10-2015 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A new federal rule forbids airline passengers from packing electronic cigarettes or other battery-operated electronic smoking devices in their checked bags to protect against in-flight fires.
  
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• Houston RB Arian Foster out for season with Achilles injury

  26-10-2015 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Texans running back Arian Foster is out for the season with an Achilles tendon injury, a significant blow for a team that was just blown out for the second time this season.
  
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• Dow, S&P 500 end down slightly as Apple, energy weigh

  26-10-2015 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - The Dow and the S&P 500 edged lower on Monday as energy shares dropped with oil prices and Apple retreated a day before its quarterly results.
  
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