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• Teen named Bud Weisser arrested over Budweiser brewery trespass

  05-12-2015 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US police arrested a teenager named Bud Weisser -- for allegedly trespassing at a Budweiser brewery, reports say. The 19-year-old was arrested in St. Louis, Missouri, after officers responded to reports of an altercation between the brewery's security officer and a suspect, NBC News and other US media reported. Weisser had allegedly entered a secure area of the brewery and was asked to leave by security.
  
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• Man accidentally shot at Phoenix gun show

  05-12-2015 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Authorities say a man was accidentally shot at a gun show in Phoenix but is expected to recover.
  
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• The Latest: Home raided near where shooter's family lived

  05-12-2015 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — The latest on the mass shooting in San Bernardino, California (all times local):
  
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• No. 12 Baylor out of Sugar Bowl after 23-17 loss to Texas

  05-12-2015 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WACO, Texas (AP) — No. 12 Baylor's season has gone from sweet to bitter and battered.
  
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• London train station stabbing leaves one injured - police

  05-12-2015 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A man has been seriously injured in a stabbing at a London train station, with his alleged assailant reportedly shouting "This is for Syria" during the attack. A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said officers were called to an incident at Leytonstone underground station, east London, at 1905 GMT on Saturday where a suspect was reportedly threatening members of the public with a knife. This is mainly due to the threat the authorities say is posed by Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq
  
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• High winds push Orbital space launch bid to Sunday

  05-12-2015 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Miami (AFP) - High winds in Florida have pushed to Sunday Orbital ATK's launch of its unmanned Cygnus cargo ship to the International Space Station, the latest in a series of delays due to weather.
  
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• Triple suicide bombing kills 27 in Chad

  05-12-2015 23:11 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Three suicide bombers carried out coordinated attacks Saturday at a village market in Chad, killing 27 people and wounding about 80 others, security sources said.
  
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• Barca held at Valencia, Benzema double rallies Madrid

  05-12-2015 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New Valencia coach Gary Neville watched on from the stands as Santi Mina's late equaliser handed his side a shock 1-1 draw at home to European champions Barcelona. Luis Suarez had put the visitors into a controversial lead as he appeared to be offside before slotting in at the near post, but Valencia's work rate was rewarded when Mina fired into the top corner five minutes from time. Real Madrid are now just four points behind Barca as they bounced back from their embarrassing elimination from t
  
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• Afghan Taliban issue audio message to show leader still alive

  05-12-2015 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Afghan Taliban released an audio message Saturday it said was from leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour, vehemently rejecting reports of his death in an internal firefight as "enemy propaganda". The 16-minute file claimed recent news reports -- which said Mansour was shot in a clash with his own commanders -- sought to sow divisions in the Taliban, which has seen a new resurgence under the firebrand supremo. "There is no truth to the rumours that I was injured or killed in Kuchlak (near Quetta in Pa
  
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• Austria's Hirscher wins super-G, holds off 2 Americans

  05-12-2015 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEAVER CREEK, Colo. (AP) — That Marcel Hirscher finished first and Ted Ligety right behind him wasn't a big surprise.
  
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• Watson ties course record and takes 2-shot lead in Bahamas

  05-12-2015 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASSAU, Bahamas (AP) — The first time Jordan Spieth saw Albany Golf Club, he predicted Bubba Watson would love the place because it looked so open off the tee.
  
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• Melee on Texas sideline after Baylor QB makes tackle

  05-12-2015 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WACO, Texas (AP) — Baylor left tackle Spencer Drango and some of his teammates were going to help quarterback Lynx Hawthorne get up along the Texas sideline when he made the tackle after throwing an interception.
  
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• Veterans in Utah among 1st to get first prosthetic implants

  05-12-2015 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Two military veterans will undergo surgery in Salt Lake City that will make them among the first in the U.S. to have a surgically implanted prosthetic.
  
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• Lindsey Vonn wins again at Lake Louise

  05-12-2015 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAKE LOUISE, Alberta (AP) — Lindsey Vonn completed a World Cup downhill sweep Saturday for her 17th victory at Lake Louise.
  
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• Chelsea loses on EPL day of underdog

  05-12-2015 22:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Relegation survivors last season, few would have tipped Leicester City to be topping the English Premier League in December.
  
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• Erin Hamlin leads US luge World Cup sweep at Lake Placid

  05-12-2015 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAKE PLACID, N.Y. (AP) — Erin Hamlin paused between runs of the women's World Cup luge race at Mount Van Hoevenberg to ponder the unthinkable — an American sweep of the podium.
  
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• Rare pressing of Beatles' White Album sells for $790,000

  05-12-2015 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A rare pressing of the Beatles' White Album from Ringo Starr's record collection has sold at auction for $790,000.
  
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• Impeachment sends Brazil's economy into storm winds

  05-12-2015 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Strong winds are forecast for Brazil's already turbulent economy and there's no chance of sunshine before resolution of President Dilma Rousseff's impeachment battle, market observers say. Volatility is the key word as Brazil's Congress embarks on what could be months of intense debates over the fate of the unpopular leftist president, whose second term so far has been plagued by deep recession and a giant corruption scandal at the heart of the political and business establishment. The initial r
  
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• Chad says suicide blasts kill at least 15 in Lake Chad

  05-12-2015 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Madjiasra Nako N'DJAMENA (Reuters) - Four female suicide bombers attacked the Chadian island of Koulfoua on Lake Chad on Saturday, killing at least 15 people and injuring 130 in an attack blamed by security sources on militant Islamist group Boko Haram. The swampy maze of islands in the border areas between Chad, Niger, Cameroon and Nigeria has become one of the main targets of Boko Haram fighters who can find easy cover in the waterways. The militants are based mostly in Nigeria but have bec
  
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• Obscure knife-gun cited in Chicago police shooting case

  05-12-2015 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — It sounds like something James Bond would carry: A knife that's also a gun.
  
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• Jeb Bush campaign's rainbow of colors goes on display

  05-12-2015 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Jeb Bush's campaign colors were on display — literally — at an international art show in his hometown.
  
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• Taliban releases audio message to show leader alive

  05-12-2015 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Mirwais Harooni and Jibran Ahmed KABUL/PESHAWAR, Pakistan (Reuters) - The Taliban released an audio message on Saturday it said was from its leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour to counter widespread reports that he had been wounded or killed in a shootout in Pakistan this week. The 16-minute message said that the reports had been deliberately spread to create divisions in the Taliban. It was not possible to verify whether the voice was really that of Mansour although some senior Taliban members said
  
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• Red, white and blue: Bush campaign colors go on display

  05-12-2015 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Jeb Bush's campaign colors were on display — literally — at an international art show in his hometown.
  
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• Govt: Triple suicide bombings in Chad kill at least 15

  05-12-2015 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A triple suicide bombing Saturday at a market on an island in Lake Chad killed at least 15 people and injured 130, Chad's government said. A top police official blamed the carnage on Nigeria's Islamic extremist group Boko Haram.
  
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• Chicago cops' versions of teen's killing at odds with video

  05-12-2015 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Police officers who watched a colleague shoot a black Chicago teenager 16 times filed reports depicting a very different version of events than what dashcam footage showed, portraying the teen as far more menacing than he appeared in the video.
  
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• AP Interview: Moments of humility, introspection from Trump

  05-12-2015 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  STERLING, Va. (AP) — Donald Trump's Republican campaign for president is built on the same win-at-all-costs, no-second-guessing confidence that made him billions in real estate and a star of reality television.
  
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• Ward leads No. 17 Houston to 24-13 win over No. 20 Temple

  05-12-2015 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Greg Ward, Jr. ran for 148 yards and two touchdowns and No. 17 Houston got a 24-13 win over 20th-ranked Temple in the inaugural American Athletic Conference Championship game on Saturday.
  
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• Colombia finds what may be world's largest sunken treasure

  05-12-2015 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) — Colombian President Juan Manual Santos hailed Saturday the discovery of a Spanish galleon that went down off the South American nation's coast more than 300 years ago with what may be the world's largest sunken treasure.
  
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• Triple suicide attack 'kills 27 on Lake Chad island'

  05-12-2015 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  N'Djamena (AFP) - A triple suicide bombing on an island in Lake Chad on Saturday killed at least 27 people and left more than 80 wounded, a Chadian security source said, in another apparent strike by Boko Haram Islamists despite a regional offensive to stop the insurgency. "Three suicide bombers blew themselves up in three different places at the weekly market on Loulou Fou, an island in Lake Chad," the source in the capital N'Djamena told AFP, speaking on condition of anonymity. N'Djamena on No
  
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• Social media companies step up battle against militant propaganda

  05-12-2015 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Joseph Menn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Facebook, Google and Twitter are stepping up efforts to combat online propaganda and recruiting by Islamic militants, but the Internet companies are doing it quietly to avoid the perception that they are helping the authorities police the Web. On Friday, Facebook Inc said it took down a profile that the company believed belonged to San Bernardino shooter Tashfeen Malik, who with her husband is accused of killing 14 people in a mass shooting that the FBI i
  
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• Kerry warns Israel about collapse of Palestinian Authority

  05-12-2015 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry is warning Israel about the dangers of the possible collapse of the Palestinian Authority. He says such an event would lead to situation that would threaten both the security of Israel and the Palestinian people.
  
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• Obama vows US 'will not be terrorized' as IS hails California attackers

  05-12-2015 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Barack Obama vowed Saturday that America "will not be terrorized" as the Islamic State group praised the couple behind the California mass shooting as "soldiers" of its caliphate. "It is entirely possible that these two attackers were radicalized to commit this act of terror," Obama said of Syed Farook, 28, and his 29-year-old Pakistani wife Tashfeen Malik, who slaughtered 14 people and wounded 21 others at a year-end office party in San Bernardino on Wednesday. In a radio broadcast in
  
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• Chad says 15 citizens killed in Lake Chad bombings

  05-12-2015 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DAKAR (Reuters) - Fifteen people were killed and 130 injured in a series of suicide attacks on Lake Chad's Koulfoua island involving four bombers, Chad's state TV said on Saturday. "The provisional death toll is 19 dead, including the four kamikazes, and 130 injured," the brief statement said. The death toll given earlier in the day by security sources was higher at around 30. (Reporting by Emma Farge; Editing by Richard Balmforth)
  
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• Islamic State says California mass killers were their followers

  05-12-2015 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Yasmeen Abutaleb and Rory Carroll SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (Reuters) - Islamic State said on Saturday that the married couple who killed 14 people in a mass shooting in California which U.S. authorities are investigating as an act of terrorism were its followers. The militant group made the statement in an online radio broadcast three days after U.S.-born Syed Rizwan Farook, 28, and his wife Tashfeen Malik, 29, from Pakistan, attacked a holiday party for civil servants in San Bernardino, about
  
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• IS claim of latest US gun massacre caps year of danger signs

  05-12-2015 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Islamic State group's claim to have inspired this week's San Bernardino massacre raises the question of what kind of threat it poses after a year which has seen record numbers of alleged jihadists arrested in the United States. Much is unclear about the motivation of the young Muslim couple who allegedly attacked the husband's co-workers at a workplace holiday party in San Bernardino, California on Wednesday, killing 14. This came as a surprise to many as the nondescript target was not a sym
  
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• Murray stuns Chelsea, Mahrez fires Leicester top

  05-12-2015 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Glenn Murray's 82nd-minute goal for Bournemouth condemned Chelsea to their worst defeat of a wretched season on Saturday, while Riyad Mahrez's hat-trick fired Leicester City top of the Premier League. A run of three games without defeat in all competitions had suggested an upturn in Chelsea's fortunes, only for Eddie Howe's promoted Bournemouth to condemn the champions to their eighth defeat of the campaign. Murray was the match-winner at Stamford Bridge, scoring 99 seconds after coming on to se
  
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• Women want spot in big wave surf competition in California

  05-12-2015 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — It was the first set of the day at Mavericks, a rock-studded, once-secret surf spot 20 miles south of San Francisco, and Andrea Möller was out charging big waves with a dozen other women when her surfboard hit her in the cheek under her left eye.
  
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• Cautious hopes as UN adopts draft climate change deal

  05-12-2015 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Negotiators from 195 nations agreed on a draft Saturday for a pact to save mankind from disastrous global warming, raising hopes that decades of arguments will finally end with a historic deal in Paris. The planned pact would aim to break the world's dependence on fossil fuels, slashing the greenhouse gas emissions from burning oil, coal and gas that are causing temperatures to rise dangerously. UN negotiations dating back to the early 1990s have failed to forge unity between rich and poor natio
  
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• Watson grabs Challenge lead with Casey on his heels

  05-12-2015 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two-time Masters champion Bubba Watson fired a nine-under par 63 to grab a two-stroke lead over England's Paul Casey after Saturday's third round of the Hero World Challenge. Casey fired a 63 of his own to stand second on 199, one stroke ahead of Americans Patrick Reed and Chris Kirk -- who each fired 66s -- with US world number one Jordan Spieth and countryman Bill Haas on 201 after each firing 68s. Watson made seven birdies and an eagle to storm into the lead after starting the day one back.
  
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• Trump: Even cheating spouse shouldn't stop Iowa caucus-goers

  05-12-2015 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SPENCER, Iowa (AP) — It's another weekend closer to the important Iowa presidential caucuses, and that's brought lots of the Republican candidates to the state that's first on the 2016 election calendar.
  
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• US women's soccer star Megan Rapinoe tears knee ligament

  05-12-2015 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Megan Rapinoe of the U.S. World Cup champion soccer team tore a knee ligament that will require surgery, jeopardizing her chances of playing in next summer's Rio Olympics.
  
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• One worker killed, 30 missing after Azeri oil rig fire: government

  05-12-2015 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Nailia Bagirova BAKU (Reuters) - At least one worker was killed and 30 others were missing on Saturday after an Azeri oil platform caught fire during high winds in the Caspian Sea on Friday, state energy company SOCAR said. As hopes of finding survivors faded, SOCAR said a severe storm was hampering rescue efforts at its platform in the Guneshli oil field. "One body was found and a search-and-rescue operation for 30 missing workers is under way," it said in a statement, adding that 32 workers
  
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• No indication California attackers 'part of organized group': White House

  05-12-2015 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  There is no indication that the shooters who killed 14 people in California are part of a larger terrorist group, the White House said Saturday, even as the Islamic State group claimed the pair were "soldiers" of its caliphate.
  
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• Dangerous wind again stalls launch of space station supplies

  05-12-2015 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Once again, high wind is keeping space station supplies stuck on Earth.
  
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• 'Watch over us:' Prayers, chaos ensue as terror hits home

  05-12-2015 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — Huddled beneath a desk, a bookshelf shoved against a locked office door, Regina Kuruppu held tightly to her co-workers' hands and began to pray aloud, unable to drown out the terrifying cries coming from one story below. "Heavenly Father," she said as her colleagues tried to offer words of comfort. "Watch over my family. Watch over us."
  
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• NASA releases 'best close-ups' of Pluto

  05-12-2015 19:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US space agency has released a series of sharp Pluto snapshots, billing them as the best close-ups of the dwarf planet we may see for decades. On July 14, NASA's New Horizons became the first spacecraft to pass by Pluto, offering scientists unprecedented insight. The latest pictures, made available Friday, are part of a sequence taken near New Horizons' closest approach to Pluto and show a mix of terrains that are cratered, mountainous and glacial in nature, NASA said in a statement.
  
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• Mahrez fires Leicester top, Stoke submerge City

  05-12-2015 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Riyad Mahrez scored a hat-trick as Leicester City won 3-0 at Swansea City on Saturday to recapture the Premier League summit from Manchester City, who crashed to defeat at Stoke City. Leicester striker Jamie Vardy was bidding to equal Jimmy Dunne's 83-year-old English top-flight record by scoring for the 12th game running, but it was Mahrez who stole the show at the Liberty Stadium. The Algerian winger took his tally for the campaign to 10 goals, putting him joint-second behind 14-goal Vardy in
  
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• AP Source: Rutgers agrees to hire Ohio State's Ash as coach

  05-12-2015 19:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A person who has been briefed on the decision tells The Associated Press that Rutgers has an agreement with Ohio State defensive coordinator Chris Ash to become the Scarlet Knights' new coach.
  
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• Scottish crime author William McIlvanney dies at 79

  05-12-2015 19:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Scottish writer William McIlvanney, best known for his detective novel "Laidlaw" — called the first book of "Tartan Noir" by some — has died at 79.
  
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• Kim Kardashian West, Kanye West welcome son

  05-12-2015 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The newest member of the Kardashian clan has arrived.
  
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