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• Real Madrid, Man. City qualify

  03-11-2015 23:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  It was proof that money won't always buy you success -- and that the better team doesn't always win.
  
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• VW says fuel usage understated on some models; Porsche warns

  03-11-2015 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Volkswagen on Tuesday said it had understated the fuel consumption of 800,000 cars sold in Europe, while majority stakeholder Porsche Automobil Holding SE warned that VW's latest findings could further weigh on its results. The latest revelation about fuel economy and carbon dioxide emissions, which Germany's largest automaker said represented a roughly 2 billion euro ($2.19 billion) economic risk, deepened the crisis at VW. The scandal initially centered on software on up to 11 million diesel v
  
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• No trades get done on NFL's deadline day

  03-11-2015 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — The only action at the NFL's trade deadline Tuesday came in Denver, where tight end Vernon Davis arrived to take his physical and begin learning the language of Peyton Manning's suddenly revved-up offense.
  
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• Ohio votes on legalizing pot for medical, recreational use

  03-11-2015 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The only state with a ballot question this year on legalizing pot is Ohio, where voters will decide in a single stroke Tuesday whether to make marijuana legal for both recreational and medical use.
  
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• Houston equal rights measure in hands of voters

  03-11-2015 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — An ordinance that would establish nondiscrimination protections for gay and transgender people in Houston is in the hands of voters after a nearly 18-month battle that spawned rallies, legal fights and accusations of both religious intolerance and demonization of the LGBT community.
  
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• House panel seeks more details from VW in emissions scandal

  03-11-2015 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Leaders of a House committee are requesting more details and documents from Volkswagen after federal regulators said the car maker cheated a second time on emissions tests.
  
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• Royals celebrate first title since '85 with huge rally

  03-11-2015 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thousands of Kansas City Royals supporters gathered at Union Station on Tuesday after a victory parade to celebrate the team capturing its first World Series title since 1985. The Royals, who lost in last year's best-of-seven Major League Baseball final, rallied from behind to win four times in defeating the New York Mets 4-1 to seize the crown this year -- 30 years after taking their only other title. A sea of blue-clad supporters at the US Midwestern metropolis watched as the victory parade st
  
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• 'Call of Duty' meet 'Candy Crush': A look at game mergers

  03-11-2015 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Activision's deal unveiled Tuesday to acquire "Candy Crush" publisher King Entertainment for $5.9 billion eclipses several recent video game industry acquisitions. A closer look at how these mash-ups are impacting the interactive industry:
  
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• Sports, political contests dominate TV ratings

  03-11-2015 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nothing beats athletes clashing on the field for impressive TV ratings, but the skirmishes of CNBC's Republican debate came close.
  
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• Keystone backers look to Obama's successor to make the call

  03-11-2015 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The company pleading for permission to build the Keystone XL pipeline looked beyond President Barack Obama on Tuesday in apparent hopes a future Republican president would greenlight the project. But the administration signaled it was in no mood to hand off the decision to the winner of the 2016 election.
  
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• Tesla sets March 2016 unveiling of less pricey Model 3

  03-11-2015 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tesla said Tuesday its upcoming Model 3 electric car aimed at less affluent buyers would be unveiled in March 2016, sending shares higher for the star automaker. California-based Tesla reported a loss for the third quarter of $230 million on revenues of $937 million. "We are on track to unveil Model 3 in late March 2016," said a letter to shareholders with the quarterly earnings from chief executive Elon Musk and finance chief Deepak Ahuja.
  
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• Japanese company fined $70 million over exploding air bags

  03-11-2015 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — U.S. auto safety regulators fined Japan's Takata Corp. $70 million Tuesday for concealing evidence for years that its air bags are prone to explode with grisly consequences — a defect linked to eight deaths and more than 100 injuries worldwide.
  
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• More than half of health law's insurance co-ops are closing

  03-11-2015 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — More than half of the health care law's nonprofit insurance co-ops are closing, the Obama administration said Tuesday even as it defended the troubled alternative to mega-insurers.
  
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• Sevilla 1-3 Manchester City

  03-11-2015 23:27 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Manchester City seal their place in the Champions League last 16 by tearing apart Sevilla in a blistering attacking display.
  
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• Tesla's 3Q loss widens, but shares rise on production

  03-11-2015 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Tesla Motors' net loss more than doubled to $229.9 million in the third quarter as expenses and research costs rose and vehicle prices dipped slightly.
  
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• Taiwan, China leaders to hold historic meeting in Singapore on Saturday

  03-11-2015 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By J.R. Wu and Ben Blanchard TAIPEI/BEIJING (Reuters) - The presidents of Taiwan and China will meet in Singapore on Saturday to discuss cross-strait issues, Taiwan's presidential office said, in the first such meeting of leaders from the two sides since the Chinese civil war ended in 1949. Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou will fly to Singapore to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping, the presidential office said in a statement.
  
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• Iran: 'Lebanese-American on spy charge'

  03-11-2015 23:23 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Iran arrested a "Lebanese-American citizen" on suspicion of espionage, according to the state-run Islamic Republic of Iran Broadcasting media outlet.
  
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• VW scandal widens to CO2 emissions

  03-11-2015 23:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  VW says it has found "irregularities" in carbon dioxide emissions levels which could affect around 800,000 cars in Europe.
  
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• Trump: Fed keeping interest rates low to help Obama

  03-11-2015 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said Tuesday that the Federal Reserve is keeping interest rates low at the behest of President Barack Obama, a charge the White House disputed.
  
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• Nielsen's top programs for Oct. 26-Nov. 1

  03-11-2015 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen for Oct. 26 to Nov. 1. Listings include the week's ranking and viewership.
  
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• 2 young actors happy to channel Gloria and Emilio Estefan

  03-11-2015 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — She wasn't a dancer and he had a strong Puerto Rican accent, but together Ana Villafañe and Josh Segarra are being transformed into Cuban-American power couple Gloria and Emilio Estefan.
  
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• Tommy Caldwell of Yosemite free-climb fame writing memoir

  03-11-2015 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Rock climber Tommy Caldwell, who made history earlier this year with a free-climb in Yosemite National Park, has a book deal.
  
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• Doctors Without Borders marks 1 month since hospital attack

  03-11-2015 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — One month after a U.S. military strike on its trauma center in Afghanistan, Doctors Without Borders on Tuesday called for an independent investigation into the attack that killed 30 people.
  
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• Chargers reception leader Allen out for season

  03-11-2015 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  San Diego Chargers wide receiver Keenan Allen, the NFL's number two pass catcher, will miss the remainder of the season because of a lacerated kidney, the team announced Tuesday. Allen was on track for the greatest season by any receiver in Chargers history with 67 catches, the third-most after eight games in NFL history, for 725 yards and four touchdowns before being placed on injured reserve. The kidney injury came when Allen made an acrobatic touchdown grab against Baltimore on Sunday in a 29
  
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• Chipotle now linked to 35 confirmed E. coli cases

  03-11-2015 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc is now linked to 35 confirmed E. coli food poisoning cases in Oregon and Washington, state officials said on Tuesday. A dozen of the cases involving Chipotle were in Oregon and the remainder in Washington state, the officials said. The current outbreak has resulted in 12 hospitalizations so far but no deaths, the state officials said.
  
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• VIDEO: Can New Yorkers cope with decaf-only coffee?

  03-11-2015 23:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  New York's first coffee shop selling only decaf has just opened. How will famously high-energy New Yorkers cope without caffeine?
  
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• Afghan woman is stoned for adultery

  03-11-2015 22:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A video has emerged showing a young woman accused of adultery being stoned to death in central Afghanistan officials say.
  
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• Brazil Fifa official Marin extradited

  03-11-2015 22:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The former head of Brazilian football, Jose Maria Marin, is extradited from Switzerland to the US to face corruption charges.
  
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• The Latest: Procession Begins for Slain Albuquerque Officer

  03-11-2015 22:29 via abcnews.go.com
  The Latest: Officers, residents line up for slain officer's funeral procession
  
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• No time to call for help

  03-11-2015 22:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  U.S. officials say that satellites have detected a heat flash shortly before Metrojet Flight 9268 crashed. CNN's Hala Gorani reports.
  
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• Pickups can't bring down planes

  03-11-2015 22:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Christiane Amanpour speaks with John Goglia, former NTSB board member and an independent air safety consultant, about the crash in Egypt's Sinai.
  
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• VIDEO: Airport haka welcomes champion All Blacks

  03-11-2015 22:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rugby World Cup champions, the All Blacks, arrive home in New Zealand to a heroes' welcome at Auckland International Airport.
  
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• Should making fun of Sikhs be banned?

  03-11-2015 22:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Will India's most popular humour be outlawed?
  
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• Korea's hidden problem: Suicidal defectors

  03-11-2015 22:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Why so many North Korean defectors take their own lives
  
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• NFL, Panthers investigate rappelling protesters incident

  03-11-2015 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The NFL and the Carolina Panthers still don't know how protesters got rappelling gear into the team's stadium Monday night and suspended themselves by cables from the upper deck during a nationally televised game against the Indianapolis Colts.
  
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• US fines Takata record $200 million over faulty airbags

  03-11-2015 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US auto safety regulators announced a record $200 million civil fine against Takata on Tuesday for providing inadequate and inaccurate information about its dangerously explosive airbags installed in millions of cars. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration said the Japanese auto parts maker had evaded reporting requirements, including making "the conscious decision" to not report two incidents to the regulator, despite what is now eight deaths worldwide tied to the faulty airbags. Th
  
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• Gov't fines Takata $70 million in air bag recall case

  03-11-2015 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — U.S. auto safety regulators fined Takata Corp. of Japan $70 million for lapses in the way it handled recalls of millions of explosion-prone air bags that are responsible for eight deaths and more than 100 injuries worldwide.
  
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• Oh Henry: Ellenson highlights Marquette's big freshman class

  03-11-2015 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — Coach Steve Wojciechowski looks around the practice court at Marquette and sees options, lots of them.
  
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• Jon Stewart signs net deal with HBO

  03-11-2015 21:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Former Daily Show host Jon Stewart signs a deal with HBO to produce topical videos for the network's internet services.
  
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• AP PHOTOS: Pilgrims in northeast Brazil honor Padre Cicero

  03-11-2015 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JUAZEIRO DE NORTE, Brazil (AP) — For almost a week, including the Day of the Dead, the Brazilian city of Juazeiro do Norte is filled with thousands of pilgrims who come to honor "Padre Cicero," a figure venerated here as a saint but not recognized as one by the Roman Catholic Church.
  
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• Senate blocks legislation to undercut EPA clean water rules

  03-11-2015 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats have blocked a Senate bill that would have forced the Obama administration to withdraw new federal rules to protect smaller streams, tributaries and wetlands from development and pollution.
  
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• Austrian government moves to tighten asylum rules

  03-11-2015 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Austria's government, facing a record influx of migrants as well as a surge in support for the anti-immigration far-right, moved Tuesday to tighten asylum rules in the EU country. Chancellor Werner Faymann said that the legislation, due to go before parliament in December, is a "signal that asylum is something which is temporary" aimed at deterring people from coming to Austria. Austria has seen some 400,000 migrants enter the country since September, most of whom travel onwards to Germany or Sc
  
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• Q&A: Nebraska lands again at center of Keystone XL debate

  03-11-2015 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska is again at the center of the political debate over the Keystone XL pipeline as the company behind the project asks the State Department to pause its review of the proposal while TransCanada works with state officials to secure its preferred route.
  
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• Titans fire Whisenhunt as coach after 1-6 start

  03-11-2015 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ken Whisenhunt was fired as coach of the Tennessee Titans after a 1-6 start to the season, the NFL club announced Tuesday, naming assistant coach Mike Mularkey as interim coach. Whisenhunt went 3-20 as coach of the Titans, the second-worst showing by an NFL coach over his first 23 games with a team after John McKay's 0-23 run from 1976-78 with Tampa Bay.
  
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• Many Bush backers in New Hampshire have 'moved on' from Jeb

  03-11-2015 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Jeb Bush is turning toward New Hampshire to revive a sagging campaign for president, but he's starting from a position of weakness that some family loyalists say is of his own making.
  
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• No. 10 Shockers enter season with high expectations again

  03-11-2015 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The players who took Wichita State to the Final Four three years ago are seniors now, their youthful exuberance now bolstered by the wisdom of experience.
  
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• Why this teen plotted massacre

  03-11-2015 20:56 via rss.cnn.com
  
  John David LaDue cradled the homemade bomb in a tree not far from school. It was summer 2013, and classes were out -- the perfect time to test his explosive.
  
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• VW sees 800,000 more cars affected by 'inconsistencies'

  03-11-2015 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BERLIN/FRANKFURT (Reuters) - Volkswagen said on Tuesday it found data "inconsistencies" on carbon dioxide emissions for 800,000 more cars, the latest sign of trouble for Europe's biggest automaker, already reeling from an emissions scandal. Volkswagen said it faces about 2 billion euros ($2.19 billion) in economic risks from the newly disclosed issue, which mostly affects small diesel engines and one gasoline one. "From the very start I have pushed hard for the relentless and comprehensive clari
  
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• U.S. says too soon for Syrian opposition to attend talks in Russia

  03-11-2015 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. State Department said on Tuesday it was premature for the Russian government to invite Syrian opposition to talks in Russia. Russian media reported that Syrian government officials and members of the country's splintered opposition could meet in Moscow next week. "We think it's premature," State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau said.
  
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• Georgia official: Man charged with killing sheriff escapes as deputies try to transfer him

  03-11-2015 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DUBLIN, Ga. (AP) — Georgia official: Man charged with killing sheriff escapes as deputies try to transfer him.
  
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