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• Apple beats Wall Street, investors wary of China sales

  27-10-2015 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Julia Love and Devika Krishna Kumar SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Apple Inc painted a rosy picture for its new iPhones on Tuesday, but a sequential slowdown of overall sales in China cast doubt on the strength of its business in the world's most important market for smartphones. Shares of the world's most profitable company initially rose after hours as Apple beat Wall Street's sales and profit forecasts, but gave up those gains later as concerns crept in. Apple's quarterly sales in Greater China
  
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• Harvick: "I don't need to defend myself" after Talladega

  27-10-2015 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — Reigning NASCAR champion Kevin Harvick shrugged off his critics Tuesday and insisted he did not intentionally cause a wreck at Talladega Superspeedway to preserve his spot in the playoffs and keep his bid for a repeat alive.
  
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• FBI, Justice Department probe violent US school arrest

  27-10-2015 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The FBI and the US Justice Department said Tuesday they had opened a civil rights investigation into the violent arrest of a black female high school student by a white police officer, footage of which has gone viral and sparked outrage. The incident in South Carolina comes amid a heightened focus on police brutality in the United States after a string of incidents -- some deadly -- involving law enforcement officials and African Americans. In two mobile phone videos of Monday's confrontation at
  
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• Salem witch takes warlock to court over alleged harassment

  27-10-2015 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — A Salem, Massachusetts, woman who calls herself a witch priestess is taking a self-proclaimed warlock to court over accusations of harassment.
  
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• IBM says SEC investigating company's books, shares fall

  27-10-2015 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating how the International Business Machines Corp recognized revenue for certain deals in the United States, Britain and Ireland, IBM said on Tuesday, news that sent its shares down 4 percent. IBM, the world's largest technology services company, said it learned of the investigation in August and was cooperating with the SEC, but did not disclose what deals were being probed. News of the SEC probe came a week after the company posted lacklu
  
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• Arrest of teen who texted in class prompts civil rights case

  27-10-2015 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A girl who refused to surrender her phone after texting in math class was flipped backward and tossed across the classroom floor by a sheriff's deputy, prompting a federal civil rights probe on Tuesday.
  
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• Houston Texans release QB Ryan Mallett after travel gaffe

  27-10-2015 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Quarterback Ryan Mallett has been released by the Houston Texans after he missed the team's charter flight to Florida over the weekend.
  
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• Officers weep at wake for NYC policeman shot in head on duty

  27-10-2015 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of officers stood in the shadows of blue ribbons tied to fences and trees as they waited Tuesday to pay tribute to a policeman slain on patrol — a man remembered for his love of family and pride in his job.
  
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• House committee chairman moves to impeach IRS chief

  27-10-2015 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican chairman of a powerful House committee moved Tuesday to impeach the head of the Internal Revenue Service, saying he violated the public trust and obstructed congressional investigations into the treatment of conservative groups.
  
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• Federer flawless in opening rout of Kukushkin

  27-10-2015 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Roger Federer charged past his first hurdle in the quest for a lucky seventh title at the Swiss Indoors on Tuesday, with the top seed delivering a crushing 6-1, 6-2 lesson to Mikhail Kukushkin. Federer set up a second-round contest with a good friend he has beaten in all ten of their matches as he plays Philipp Kohlschreiber after the German started with a 6-4, 3-6, 6-3 defeat of Pole Jerzy Janowicz. 2014 finalist David Goffin of Belgium, hammered by Federer in less than an hour a year ago in th
  
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• Father and son among 5 killed in Canada boat sinking

  27-10-2015 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TOFINO, British Columbia (AP) — The British Columbia Coroners Service released the names Tuesday of the five British nationals who died after a whale watching boat capsized off Vancouver Island. A search continued for a missing Australian man. Twenty-one people were rescued.
  
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• The Latest: Collins wins award; Yost recalls taxidermy job

  27-10-2015 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — 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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• Obama to police chiefs: US safer because of your efforts

  27-10-2015 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Defending police officers who have come under scrutiny like never before, President Barack Obama on Tuesday said the men and women who risk their lives to provide security are wrongly "scapegoated" for failing to deal with broader problems that lead people to commit crimes.
  
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• After White House celebration, Abby Wambach retires

  27-10-2015 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Abby Wambach is leaving her game just the way she wanted to — as a champion.
  
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• Twitter's 3Q report illustrates challenges facing new CEO

  27-10-2015 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter's latest financial report conveyed a succinct message: CEO Jack Dorsey has his work cut out as he tries to attract more people to one of the Internet's most influential means of communications.
  
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• American killed in Palestinian attack was peace activist

  27-10-2015 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — An American educator who marched for civil rights in the 1960s and advocated coexistence between Muslims and Jews when he moved to Israel died Tuesday after succumbing to wounds sustained in a Palestinian attack on a bus in Jerusalem two weeks ago.
  
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• Stealth bomber builder announced

  27-10-2015 22:54 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The Pentagon took a major step toward upgrading its aging bomber fleet Tuesday, awarding the long-awaited contract to build the new Long Range Strike Bomber to Northrop Grumman.
  
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• Senate approves major cybersecurity bill

  27-10-2015 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate easily passed legislation on Tuesday aimed at bolstering the country’s cyber defenses, advancing the first serious attempt in Congress to combat computer hacks that have hit a growing number of businesses and government agencies in recent years. The bill, which would expand liability protections to companies that choose to voluntarily share cyber-threat data with the government, must be reconciled with two similar information-sharing me
  
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• Walgreens says will buy smaller drugstore rival Rite-Aid

  27-10-2015 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Drugstore chain Walgreens Boots Alliance Inc said on Tuesday it would acquire smaller peer Rite Aid Corp for $17.2 billion including acquired debt.
  
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• China 'driving countries to U.S. embrace'

  27-10-2015 22:51 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Admiral Dennis Blair (Ret.), former chief of the U.S. Pacific Command, tells Christiane Amanpour, "I really don't understand the Chinese game" in the South China Sea.
  
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• Ford Motor third-quarter profit misses estimate, shares drop

  27-10-2015 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Bernie Woodall and Joseph White DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co reported sharply higher quarterly profit on Tuesday, driven by its record quarterly performance in North America, but the automakers' shares fell 5 percent after its results fell short of Wall Street estimates. Ford executives also cautioned that year-end sales promotions could cut into North American profit margins during the current quarter. Ford has told dealers in the United States that it plans next week to launch a new dr
  
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• Showdown at sea

  27-10-2015 22:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Beijing tells the U.S. there could be consequences, after it tracked a U.S. Navy warship that came very close to one of the artificial islands that China is building in the South China sea.
  
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• Senate passes bill to push sharing of info on hacker threats

  27-10-2015 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed a bill Tuesday aimed at improving cybersecurity by encouraging companies and the government to share information about threats. It took six years to win approval.
  
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• Three Palestinians shot dead after knife attacks: Israeli army

  27-10-2015 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Three Palestinians were shot dead after attacking Israeli soldiers with knives in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, the military said, and an American-Israeli wounded in an attack two weeks ago died of his injuries, an Israeli hospital said. Religious and political tensions over a Jerusalem site sacred to both Muslims and Jews have fuelled the worst wave of Israeli-Palestinian violence since the 2014 Gaza war. The Israeli military said that soldiers had a
  
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• Muhlenberg rescinds honorary degree awarded to Bill Cosby

  27-10-2015 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — Muhlenberg College has become the latest school to rescind an honorary degree awarded to Bill Cosby following renewed accusations of sexual assault against the comedian.
  
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• Walgreens Boots to buy Rite Aid in $17.2 bn deal

  27-10-2015 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US drugstore chain Walgreens Boots Alliance announced Tuesday it would take over rival Rite Aid to strengthen its position as the country's second-largest pharmacy network. Walgreens Boots will pay $9.4 billion in cash for Rite Aid, and after acquired debt is included, the total value of the deal will hit $17.2 billion, it said. It will bring Walgreens Boots's 13,100 stores in a dozen countries, with sales of $76.4 billion in 2014, together with Rite Aid's 4,600 stores and in the US and $26.5 bi
  
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• Air Force picks Northrop Grumman to build next big bomber

  27-10-2015 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Air Force said Tuesday it chose Northrop Grumman Corp., maker of the B-2 stealth bomber, to build its next-generation bomber, a highly classified, $55 billion project designed to replace the aging bomber fleet with an information-age aircraft that eventually may be capable of flying without a pilot aboard.
  
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• Russia pounds Syrian rebels, then reaches out to opposition

  27-10-2015 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — When Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said his country was ready to aid Syrian rebels fighting the Islamic State group, rebel commanders scoffed, pointing out that Russian aircraft were pounding their bases in central and northern Syria on a daily basis.
  
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• Photos: Zac Efron Shows Off His Muscles Shooting 'Neighbors 2'

  27-10-2015 22:34 via abcnews.go.com
  
  See your favorite stars transform into the characters you love.
  
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• What's in the deal? Crises averted, relaxed spending limits

  27-10-2015 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — No government shutdown. No government default. No big spike in Medicare premiums for 15 million Americans. Looser limits on spending. And plenty of random stuff — including a new "Freedom Foyer" in the Capitol.
  
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• Despite risk, Carson not backing off Nazi, slavery talk

  27-10-2015 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COCONUT CREEK, Fla. (AP) — On the eve of his party's third debate, Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says he won't curb his penchant for drawing on extreme examples to prove his points.
  
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• Mets' deGrom plans on cutting long hair after season

  27-10-2015 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jacob deGrom sounded like his decision was a lock: He wants to trim his long hair after the season.
  
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• Senate passes cybersecurity bill encouraging information-sharing among companies, government

  27-10-2015 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate passes cybersecurity bill encouraging information-sharing among companies, government.
  
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• Walgreens Boots Alliance confirms it will buy Rite Aid for $9.41 billion in cash.

  27-10-2015 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Walgreens Boots Alliance confirms it will buy Rite Aid for $9.41 billion in cash.
  
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• The Latest: Sheriff: 1 video shows student hitting officer

  27-10-2015 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Here are the latest developments in the confrontation between a South Carolina deputy and a student recorded on cellphone video (all times local):
  
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• Photos: Angela Bassett Stuns in a Little Black Dress

  27-10-2015 22:13 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Some celebrities never seem to age.
  
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• Lawyer: Escort unlikely to talk with NCAA without immunity

  27-10-2015 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The attorney for Katina Powell says his client is unlikely to cooperate with authorities and the NCAA unless she receives immunity for her allegations that a former Louisville men's basketball staffer hired her and other dancers to strip and have sex with recruits and players.
  
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• DOD: Muslim beliefs should not govern female guards at Gitmo

  27-10-2015 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senior defense officials said Tuesday that it was "outrageous" that female guards at the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are barred from transporting five detainees suspected of being involved in the Sept. 11 attacks.
  
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• Telemundo closing gap on Spanish-language leader

  27-10-2015 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Telemundo, the perpetual little brother to Univision in the competition between Spanish-language television networks catering to a U.S. market, is closing the gap this season with the help of fast-paced soap operas involving characters in the drug trade.
  
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• Small California police department to use nunchucks

  27-10-2015 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Sgt. Casey Day was skeptical. The chief of his rural Northern California police department wanted him to find out if an ancient martial arts weapon made famous in 1970s Bruce Lee movies could be used to subdue unruly suspects.
  
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• Teacher strike gives 6K Illinois kids month off from school

  27-10-2015 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — Negotiators in the southwestern Illinois city of East St. Louis are trying to end a teacher strike that has kept more than 6,000 students from the classroom since the start of October.
  
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• Sheriff says 1 video shows female student hitting officer during 'disturbing' arrest

  27-10-2015 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Sheriff says one video shows female student hitting officer during 'disturbing' arrest.
  
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• Budget deal would cut popular crop insurance program

  27-10-2015 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The two-year budget deal produces savings from one of the most popular programs in farm country — federally subsidized crop insurance — and farm state lawmakers are furious.
  
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• US steps up anti-IS raids, Iran invited to Syria talks

  27-10-2015 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States announced Tuesday that Iran may take part in talks to end the civil war in Syria and warned of increased military action against the Islamic State. On the military front, the Pentagon said it may launch more air strikes and even direct ground attacks by special forces against jihadists seeking to carve out an Islamic caliphate in Iraq and Syria. "An invitation to Iran to participate, I think Iranian leaders can take to mean that it's a genuine multilateral invitation," departme
  
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• Heat's Bosh returns, not looking back at last season's scare

  27-10-2015 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Getting a reminder that the looming Miami Heat season debut marks the 13th opening night of his professional career made Chris Bosh pretend to cringe a tiny bit.
  
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• What You Missed From First Two GOP Debates

  27-10-2015 21:52 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A recap of the last two Republican debates.
  
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• Space junk heading back to Earth

  27-10-2015 21:21 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Heads up!
  
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• Dancing superstar: Can Bindi Irwin be stopped?

  27-10-2015 21:19 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Sure, fans of "Dancing with the Stars" are excited each week to see who gets the boot, but this season it's all about the performances, thanks in part to Bindi Irwin.
  
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• 10 big NBA predictions

  27-10-2015 21:18 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The new NBA campaign tips off on Tuesday, with last season's finalists the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers both under the spotlight on opening night.
  
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• Cyanide massacres elephants

  27-10-2015 21:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  National park officials say 22 more elephants have been killed by cyanide in Zimbabwe, adding to a worrying poaching trend.
  
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