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• McCaffrey leads No. 9 Stanford past Colorado 42-10

  07-11-2015 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Christian McCaffrey is a dynamic runner, returner and receiver.
  
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• UK-Egypt ties hit after Russian plane crash

  07-11-2015 23:46 via bbc.co.uk
  
  In the urgent search for answers one week after a Russian plane crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula, relations between Cairo and London have taken a hit over security issues, writes the BBC's Lyse Doucet
  
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• Leary, Louis CK, Fallon perform to benefit cancer foundation

  07-11-2015 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Denis Leary, Louis CK, Jimmy Fallon and other famous comedians are coming together to raise money for a cancer foundation.
  
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• U.S. navigation moves in South China Sea will continue: Carter

  07-11-2015 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Yeganeh Torbati SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (Reuters) - The United States will conduct freedom of navigation operations in the South China Sea again, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in a speech on Saturday, although he gave no timeline for any such actions. Carter's comments, delivered at a defense forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California, came at the close of a trip to Asia, where he cruised on a U.S. aircraft carrier operating in the South China Sea and blamed Beijing's
  
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• Scores flee in Burundi before crackdown

  07-11-2015 23:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  People in Burundi are leaving their homes in large numbers ahead of a promised government crackdown.
  
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• Military activity forces Los Angeles airport to detour night flights

  07-11-2015 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nighttime flights into and out of Los Angeles International Airport will avoid passing over the Pacific Ocean just to the west of the airport for the coming week because the U.S. military has activated airspace there, officials said. The Federal Aviation Administration and the military did not disclose the nature of the activities taking place near the second-busiest U.S. airport. Airplanes normally fly over the ocean when arriving and departing the coastal Los Angeles International Airport duri
  
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• No. 11 Florida beats pesky Vanderbilt 9-7, clinches SEC East

  07-11-2015 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida coach Jim McElwain shook his head and chuckled as he joked about possibly getting arrested leaving the stadium.
  
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• U.S. to continue navigation operations in the South China Sea: Carter

  07-11-2015 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (Reuters) - The United States will conduct freedom of navigation operations in the South China Sea again, U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in a speech on Saturday, although he gave no timeline for any such actions. "We've done them before, all over the world," Carter said at a defense forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. "And we will do them again." (Reporting by Yeganeh Torbati; Editing by Susan Heavey)
  
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• Carter says Russia, China potentially threaten global order

  07-11-2015 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SIMI VALLEY, Calif. (AP) — Defense Secretary Ash Carter on Saturday accused Russia of endangering world order, citing its incursions in Ukraine and loose talk about nuclear weapons, and said the U.S. defense establishment is searching for creative ways to deter Russian aggressive and protect U.S. allies.
  
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• US military in new plans to deter Russian 'aggression'

  07-11-2015 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States is adapting its "operational posture" to counter Russian aggression, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter said Saturday. "We are adapting our operational posture and contingency plans as we -– on our own and with allies -– work to deter Russia's aggression, and to help reduce the vulnerability of allies and partners," Carter told a defense forum at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library in California. Carter said the United States was modernizing its nuclear arsenal, inv
  
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• Death toll rises to 41 in Romanian nightclub fire

  07-11-2015 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Nine more people died with burn-related injuries on Saturday, just over a week after a fire broke out in a Bucharest nightclub, authorities said, bringing the death toll in the tragedy to 41.
  
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• Johnny Carson foundation giving $20M for media program

  07-11-2015 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — The foundation of late talk show host Johnny Carson has announced a $20 million gift to help create an academic program and facility focused on emerging media at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.
  
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• Vonn needs thumb stitches because of her fighting dogs

  07-11-2015 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lindsey Vonn says she needed stitches in her thumb after trying to break up a fight between her dogs over a Frisbee
  
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• Notre Dame's C.J. Prosise injured in win over Pitt

  07-11-2015 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Notre Dame senior running back C.J. Prosise left Saturday's win over Pittsburgh in the first half with a neck and shoulder injury and did not return.
  
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• Hogan, McCaffrey lead No. 9 Stanford past Colorado 42-10

  07-11-2015 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Kevin Hogan threw two touchdown passes and ran for another Saturday in leading ninth-ranked Stanford past Colorado 42-10 and into the Cardinal history books.
  
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• Search for missing in Brazil mudslide disaster

  07-11-2015 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rescuers searched for a third day Saturday the site where an avalanche of mud and mining sludge buried a village in southeastern Brazil, as authorities struggled to pin down the number of dead and missing. The tragedy occurred when waste reservoirs at the partly Australian-owned Samarco iron ore mine burst open, unleashing a sea of muck that flattened the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues on Thursday. Authorities have given contradictory tolls of the dead and missing in and around the village of
  
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• No ET signals yet, SETI says

  07-11-2015 22:19 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A star system that has been a source of speculation about extraterrestrial intelligence has offered only radio silence.
  
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• Myanmar voters go to polls

  07-11-2015 22:16 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Myanmar goes to the polls Sunday, with many hoping that the landmark election will mark a new era of political cooperation and the installation of veteran democracy campaigner Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) party further into the political process.
  
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• Group: ISIS freed 37 Assyrian Christians

  07-11-2015 22:13 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Nine months later, dozens of Assyrian Christians captured by ISIS can finally head home after being freed by the terror group, a rights network said.
  
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• Magnitude-6.8 earthquake rocks Chile

  07-11-2015 22:10 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A magnitude-6.8 earthquake rocked the central coast of Chile on Saturday, two months after a temblor struck the same area.
  
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• Crossing the Pacific on tree trunks

  07-11-2015 21:59 via bbc.co.uk
  
  What do you need to cross the ocean on a wooden raft?
  
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• Kizer throws for 5 TDs, No. 8 Notre Dame tops Pitt 42-30

  07-11-2015 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — DeShone Kizer threw for five touchdowns and ran for another as No. 8 Notre Dame bolstered its College Football Playoff resume with a 42-30 victory over Pittsburgh on Saturday.
  
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• Chase-leading Gordon knows there could be Texas desperation

  07-11-2015 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Jeff Gordon knows there could be some desperate drivers in Texas on Sunday trying to get what he already has — one of the four spots to race for the NASCAR Sprint Cup championship in the season finale.
  
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• Controversial Russian media mogul found dead in Washington

  07-11-2015 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Controversial Russian media mogul Mikhail Lesin, who helped launch the English-language television network RT, has been found dead at a Washington hotel. RT, formerly known as Russia Today, said the former minister of media affairs died of a heart attack. "Lesin died.
  
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• Brazil rescuers search for 19 missing after dams burst

  07-11-2015 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MARIANA, Brazil (AP) — Searchers used small airplanes and a drone Saturday to look for 19 people confirmed as missing following the burst of two dams inside an iron ore mine, while authorities lowered the official death count to one.
  
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• Stoke tighten screw on Mourinho, Lingard lifts Utd

  07-11-2015 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Marko Arnautovic returned to haunt Jose Mourinho with a spectacular winner as Stoke City sank Chelsea 1-0 on Saturday to plunge the Premier League champions' manager's future into doubt. Mourinho branded Arnautovic "unmanageable" during their time at Inter Milan, but the Austria forward may have had the last laugh with an acrobatic 53rd-minute volley at the Britannia Stadium. It condemned Chelsea to a third straight league defeat, unprecedented since 1999 and their seventh in total, and left the
  
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• Hundreds of migrants rescued off eastern Greek islands

  07-11-2015 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Authorities rescued several hundred migrants from the Aegean Sea off eastern Greek islands in relatively calm waters on Saturday, also reporting the death of a toddler.
  
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• Legally blind barber awarded $100k for wrongful termination

  07-11-2015 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — A legally blind barber has been awarded $100,000 by a Massachusetts commission against discrimination after it says he was wrongly fired.
  
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• Stud fee at $200K for Triple Crown champ American Pharoah

  07-11-2015 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Triple Crown winner American Pharoah will stand at stud for $200,000, among the highest prices for a horse in his first year as a stallion.
  
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• Mississippi State, high school mourning after fatal wreck

  07-11-2015 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two schools are in mourning after a father and son who both played football at Mississippi State and Pascagoula High School were killed in a highway crash while heading to a game.
  
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• Disillusioned young Poles lend refugees a helping hand

  07-11-2015 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Angered by their country's foot-dragging on Europe's refugee crisis, 30 young Poles are lending a helping hand to refugees in the Balkans, breathing new life into a "Solidarity" ethic made famous in Poland in the 1980s. "We're heading to the Balkans this week with clothing for refugees," says Maciej Bulanda, 26, one of four friends who launched the aid drive on Facebook by creating the Dobrowolki ("volunteers" or "goodwillers") page. Soon they will set off on the 2,000-kilometre (1,200-mile) jou
  
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• The Latest: Toddler found dead in Aegean off Greek island

  07-11-2015 20:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — The latest news as tens of thousands of people fleeing war or seeking a better life make their way across Europe. All times local.
  
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• Peru creates huge national park in Amazon basin

  07-11-2015 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Peru is creating a national park to protect a vast territory in the Amazon basin that is vulnerable to drug trafficking and illegal logging and mining, the country's environment minister said Saturday. Called the Sierra del Divisor National Park, it covers an area of about 14,170 square kilometers (5,470 square miles) in a region inhabited by a variety of indigenous communities living in self-imposed isolation. Peru's President Ollanta Humala will travel to the region Sunday to sign a decree cre
  
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• Rain causes more chaos at Sanderson Farms

  07-11-2015 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Heavy rain washed out play at the weather-hit Sanderson Farms Championship on Saturday, raising the prospect of a 54-hole finish with many players yet to complete their second round. Play was suspended at 11.09 a.m. local time as rain deluged the Country Club of Jackson course in Mississippi. Roberto Castro of the United States remains in the box seat as one of the few players to complete two rounds.
  
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• Deadly Kashmir clashes after Modi visit

  07-11-2015 20:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A demonstrator is killed in clashes with government troops in Indian-administered Kashmir, following a visit there by Prime Minister Narendra Modi.
  
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• Police: Mother kills son, herself at Phoenix-area hospital

  07-11-2015 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MESA, Ariz. (AP) — A mother of a patient at a suburban Phoenix children's hospital took her son's life before taking her own, police said Saturday.
  
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• Chicago police search for killers who lured, executed 9-year old

  07-11-2015 20:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police continued their hunt Saturday for the killers of a nine-year-old Chicago boy who was lured into an alley and fatally shot, apparently in retaliation against his father, who had gang ties. The bullet-riddled body of young Tyshawn Lee was found Monday not far from his home in Chicago's South Side, an area of the city that has seen a dramatic rise in homicides in recent months. "Tyshawn Lee was murdered in probably the most abhorrent, cowardly, unfathomable crime that I've witnessed in 35 ye
  
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• VIDEO: Huge flock of geese blocks traffic

  07-11-2015 19:47 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A flock of more than 1,000 geese have been found strolling along an expressway in China.
  
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• VIDEO: Controlled blast at Michigan power plant

  07-11-2015 19:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A power plant in Michigan is demolished in a controlled blast.
  
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• German vice chancellor: Syrian asylum proposal off table

  07-11-2015 19:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Germany's vice chancellor said Saturday he considers a proposal the interior minister made, then shelved, to give many Syrians a restricted asylum status finished — signaling that he doesn't want to set off a new round of political infighting over it.
  
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• Activists Say IS Group Releases 37 Syrian Christian Captives

  07-11-2015 19:21 via abcnews.go.com
  Activists say Islamic State group releases 37 Syrian Christians abducted in February
  
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• Sorting sexting offenders from victims will take time

  07-11-2015 19:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DENVER (AP) — Authorities say it could take a month to sort the offenders from the victims in a widespread sexting case at a Colorado high school.
  
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• Sinai crash cause 'still unclear'

  07-11-2015 19:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The Egyptian head of the team investigating the Sinai plane crash says it is too early to say what caused it, despite reports of a "violent explosion".
  
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• After vet felled by PTSD, service dog Honor aids family now

  07-11-2015 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CLYDE, N.C. (AP) — Part of the Labrador retriever's training was to sense when the demons of war had invaded Wade Baker's dreams.
  
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• No arrest yet after Texas state judge shot outside her home

  07-11-2015 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Authorities provided few details Saturday about the Texas state judge who was shot and wounded in the driveway of her Austin home.
  
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• Search resumes for missing in Brazil mudslide

  07-11-2015 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rescue teams searched for a third day Saturday for survivors of an avalanche of mud and mining sludge that buried a village in southeastern Brazil, as the advancing torrent threatened other communities. Hundreds of firefighters, soldiers and civil defense workers probed for signs of life in the sea of mud unleashed Thursday when waste reservoirs burst at the partly Australian-owned Samarco iron ore mine. It flattened the nearby village of Bento Rodrigues, and has continued its destructive advanc
  
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• Volkswagen managers afraid to travel to the U.S.: paper

  07-11-2015 19:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Volkswagen managers are worried about traveling to the United States, a German newspaper reported on Saturday, saying U.S. investigators have confiscated the passport of an employee who is there on a visit. Citing company sources, the Suddeutsche Zeitung said Volkswagen believes the investigators want to prevent the manager from evading questioning or criminal prosecution linked to the diesel emissions scandal. A spokesman for VW said: "Volkswagen employees are still traveling to the United Stat
  
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• Thousands of Spaniards protest against domestic violence

  07-11-2015 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MADRID (AP) — Thousands of people from all over Spain converged on Madrid on Saturday to march against domestic violence.
  
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• Greece: No migrant deaths in Aegean for 1st time in 11 days

  07-11-2015 18:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — For the first time in 11 days, no new fatalities involving migrants were reported in the Aegean Sea, with good weather conditions on Saturday helping refugees safely make the short but often perilous journey from Turkey's coast to the eastern Greek islands.
  
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• 9th Circuit addresses senility among federal judges head on

  07-11-2015 18:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Now 84, federal appellate court Judge William Canby made the difficult decision a few years ago to mostly stop hearing cases after a 30-year career. He was sharp and healthy, but didn't want to risk mental decline that would lead him to make mistakes, he said.
  
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