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• Nationals don't expect heroics from new 2B Daniel Murphy

  07-01-2016 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Nationals don't expect Daniel Murphy to be their savior.
  
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• Cousteau's Calypso to sail again

  07-01-2016 23:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The late French explorer Jacques Cousteau's famous ship, Calypso, will sail again following renovation work, its owners reveal.
  
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• Californians finally see sun after series of El Nino storms

  07-01-2016 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Californians cautiously ventured outside Thursday after days of powerful El Nino-driven storms drenched the region, stopping cable cars in San Francisco, stranding motorists and dumping heavy snow in northern Arizona.
  
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• In Iowa, establishment GOP candidates play expectations game

  07-01-2016 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Jeb Bush and Chris Christie won't win Iowa. Marco Rubio probably won't either.
  
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• Dow, S&P off to worst four-day Jan start ever as China fears grow

  07-01-2016 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  China allowed the biggest fall in its yuan currency in five months, adding to investor fears about the health of its economy, while Shanghai stocks were halted for the second time this week after another steep selloff. Oil prices fell to 12-year lows and copper prices touched their lowest since 2009, weighing on energy and materials shares. All 10 S&P 500 sectors ended in the red, though, and the Nasdaq Biotech index fell 4.1 percent.
  
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• Dow Jones index's start to 2016 worst in at least 120 years

  07-01-2016 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The last time the Dow Jones Industrial Average had such a miserable start to a year, traders were likely heading to the New York Stock Exchange at 10 Broad Street in a horse-drawn buggy. The 5.2 percent drop in the Dow in the first four days of 2016 was its worst such beginning since at least 1896, according to financial data provider FactSet Research. The demolition of the New York Stock Exchange at 10 Broad Street began in May 1901, and the new exchange opened at 18 Broad Street in 1903.
  
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• Bottle of Canadian beer still drinkable after 120 years: researcher

  07-01-2016 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A bottle nearly as old as Canada discovered last year contained a bitter-tasting beer that was just about drinkable but not very good, a researcher who tested it said Thursday. The bottle from the "Alexander Keith" brewery was nearly full when a diver recovered it from the bottom of the Atlantic in November. It was brewed in Halifax sometime between 1872 and 1890, just a few years after the birth of the Canadian Confederation in 1867, according to the team that studied it.
  
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• NY salt miners rescued after frigid night in stuck elevator

  07-01-2016 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Seventeen miners spent a frigid night in a broken-down elevator in America's deepest salt mine, huddling with heat packs and blankets before being rescued early Thursday, a mishap that highlighted the ...
  
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• Tech executives, U.S. officials to confer on militants' social media use

  07-01-2016 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Dustin Volz and Mark Hosenball WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior White House officials and U.S. intelligence and law enforcement figures will meet with Silicon Valley executives on Friday to discuss the use of social media by militant groups, sources familiar with the meeting said on Thursday. In an escalation of pressure on technology firms to do more to combat online propaganda from groups such as Islamic State, the meeting follows attacks in Paris and San Bernardino, California, that underscor
  
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• End 'business as usual' with North Korea, U.S. tells China

  07-01-2016 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Lesley Wroughton and Ju-min Park WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) - The United States called on China on Thursday to end "business as usual" with its ally North Korea after Pyongyang defied world powers by announcing it had tested a hydrogen bomb. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said he made clear in a phone call with Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi that China's approach to North Korea has not succeeded. "China had a particular approach that it wanted to make, that we agreed and respected to gi
  
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• Clinton woos Asian Americans, slams 'hateful' GOP rhetoric

  07-01-2016 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN GABRIEL, Calif. (AP) — Democratic presidential frontrunner Hillary Clinton Thursday courted Asian American voters, telling members of the nation's fastest growing racial minority that she disagrees with the "hateful rhetoric" of her Republican challengers.
  
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• Police raid South America football body

  07-01-2016 23:41 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Paraguayan authorities raid the HQ of South America's football body, Conmebol, as part of a US probe into corruption at Fifa.
  
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• CNN inside North Korea sees surge of pride

  07-01-2016 23:41 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Skepticism from international experts about North Korea's claim to have conducted its first H-bomb test isn't dampening spirits in Pyongyang.
  
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• China's woes rattle global markets

  07-01-2016 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Stock markets across the globe slumped and oil plumbed new depths Thursday as signs of a dramatic slowdown in powerhouse China put fright into investors about the outlook for the global economy. Another cut in the value of the Chinese yuan triggered a plunge in shares on Chinese exchanges, leading to the second suspension of trading on the Shanghai exchange this week.
  
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• Aubameyang beats Yaya Toure to award

  07-01-2016 23:40 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang narrowly beats Yaya Toure to the Confederation of African Football's player of the year award.
  
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• Woman who served as surrogate gives birth to granddaughter

  07-01-2016 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PLANO, Texas (AP) — A North Texas woman has given birth to her own granddaughter after serving as a surrogate for her daughter.
  
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• China shares turmoil hits Wall Street

  07-01-2016 23:37 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Wall Street is the latest casualty as worries about share turmoil in China after the suspension of trading spooks investors across the globe.
  
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• Turkey summons Iran envoy over media linking Saudi executions with Erdogan

  07-01-2016 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ece Toksabay ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey summoned Iran's ambassador on Thursday to demand a halt to Iranian media reports linking the execution of a Shi'ite cleric by Saudi Arabia with last week's visit to Riyadh by President Tayyip Erdogan. "We strongly condemn the linking of our president's recent visit to Saudi Arabia to the executions sentenced in the country in stories published on media outlets linked to Iranian official bodies," the Turkish Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The state
  
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• A young girl and a city struggling for life

  07-01-2016 23:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Struggling for life in a city under siege and under fire
  
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• All the winter's a weird weather stage; Here are the players

  07-01-2016 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Get ready for weather whiplash as powerful climatic forces elbow each other for starring roles in a weird winter show.
  
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• Manning back in the saddle for Broncos

  07-01-2016 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Peyton Manning will return as starting quarterback when the Denver Broncos launch their postseason campaign later this month, head coach Gary Kubiak confirmed Thursday. The five-time MVP has not started a game for the Broncos since mid-November, with injury and poor form prompting Denver to rely on the talents of back-up Brock Osweiler. Osweiler had a respectable 5-2 record after replacing Manning as starter during the latter stages of the regular season.
  
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• The Latest: Bent beam eyed in NY mine elevator mishap

  07-01-2016 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LANSING, N.Y. (AP) — The latest on 17 miners who were stuck in an elevator at a salt mine in central New York (all times local):
  
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• Cole died from pulmonary tension, which led to heart failure

  07-01-2016 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Natalie Cole's family said the singer's cause of death was idiopathic pulmonary arterial hypertension, which led to heart failure.
  
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• Obama to talk up gun measures at town hall

  07-01-2016 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says President Barack Obama wants to hear from gun control supporters and opponents alike when he takes questions at a televised town hall meeting on gun violence.
  
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• French oceanographer Cousteau's iconic ship to sail again

  07-01-2016 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Celebrated French marine explorer Jacques Cousteau's iconic ship the Calypso -- out of commission after an accident 20 years ago -- will sail again in a few months, its owners said Thursday. The Cousteau Society said the vessel will "be getting a whole new life" after it sank in 1996 in Singapore when a barge rammed into the ship just as it was departing for an expedition in the Yellow River in China. The vessel was docked at a shipbuilding yard in Brittany in France for repairs in 2007 but a sp
  
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• Broncos name Peyton Manning their starter for playoffs

  07-01-2016 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Gary Kubiak stuck to his word in naming Peyton Manning his starter even after declaring that Brock Osweiler had done nothing to deserve a demotion.
  
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• Options volume surges on Wall Street sell-off

  07-01-2016 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Market volatility in China and a relentless slide in oil prices spurred an options trading flurry on Thursday, as traders geared up for further market gyrations after U.S. stocks fell for the second straight day. U.S. stocks opened sharply lower on Thursday, with the Dow Jones industrial average down 1.3 percent. The CBOE Volatility Index , the market's favored gauge of Wall Street anxiety, jumped 14 percent to 23.46, the highest since mid-December.
  
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• Global stocks, oil tumble as China economy concerns mount

  07-01-2016 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares on major exchanges fell for a sixth straight day on Thursday and crude oil prices touched multi-year lows as investors fretted over the state of China's economy and its ability to stabilize its stock market. In a move that deepened concerns over China's economic health, the People's Bank of China set the yuan midpoint rate lower for an eighth consecutive day. China suspended a circuit breaker implemented at the start of 2016 that stopped trading for
  
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• Dow, S&P lose over 2%, Nasdaq 3% as global rout deepens

  07-01-2016 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - US stocks tumbled Thursday as another big drop in Chinese stocks heightened worries about the world's second-largest economy and triggered another wave of selling across global equity markets.
  
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• Golden Globes to offer a galaxy of stars, if not the Force

  07-01-2016 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The 73rd annual Golden Globes will hope its assemblage of Hollywood stars, from Jennifer Lawrence to Leonardo DiCaprio, will be enough to offset the absence of a different kind of star.
  
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• Correction: El Nino Storms story

  07-01-2016 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In stories Jan. 4 and 5 about California storms, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the National Weather Service forecast up to 15 inches of rain over the next 16 days. The forecast was for snow, not rain, and was for a three-day period, not 16. The weather service has a 16-day storm model but limits forecasts to seven days.
  
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• Suspended soccer chief pulls from race

  07-01-2016 23:11 via rss.cnn.com
  
  UEFA President Michel Platini told The Associated Press that he has withdrawn his name from the FIFA presidential election.
  
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• Murder charge sought for US policeman

  07-01-2016 23:07 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A police officer who killed an unarmed Air Force veteran should be charged with murder, says a state prosecutor.
  
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• Adventure show hosts pleads guilty in hunting case

  07-01-2016 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A former beauty queen who hosted an adventure TV show has pleaded guilty to killing an Alaska grizzly bear without a state tag.
  
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• Manhunt in Argentina for 3 convicts who escaped prison

  07-01-2016 23:00 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Local television stations in Argentina are broadcasting a police operation apparently attempting to capture three of the South American nation's most notorious criminals who recently broke out of prison.
  
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• Stocks, oil tumble as China economy concerns mount

  07-01-2016 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK (Reuters) - Shares on major exchanges fell for a sixth consecutive day on Thursday and crude prices touched multi-year lows as investors fretted over the state of the Chinese economy and its ability to stabilize its stock market. China suspended a circuit breaker set up at the start of 2016 that stopped trading for the day when stocks fell 7 percent, a halt that had already triggered twice this week. Analysts and investors said the mechanism, put in place to avoid mark
  
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• Governor proposes $122.6 billion California budget

  07-01-2016 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown proposed a $122.6 billion budget plan for California on Thursday that includes billions more in spending for education, health care and state infrastructure, increases the state rainy day fund to $8 billion and takes steps to pay down debts.
  
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• American al Qaeda suspect pleads not guilty as U.S. mulls new charges

  07-01-2016 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - An American citizen who authorities say supported al Qaeda and assisted in preparing a 2009 car bomb attack on a U.S. military base in Afghanistan could face new charges that carry the death penalty, a U.S. prosecutor said Thursday. The announcement came as Muhanad Mahmoud Al Farekh, 30, pleaded not guilty in federal court in Brooklyn to charges that he played a role in helping prepare one of two explosive devices for use in the Jan. 19, 2009 attack. Prosecut
  
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• Alabama sues federal government over refugee program

  07-01-2016 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Alabama on Thursday became the second state to sue the U.S. government over refugee resettlement, accusing the Obama administration of failing to consult with states on placement of those who have fled their home countries.
  
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• Tony Yazbeck to take over from Matthew Morrison on Broadway

  07-01-2016 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Tony Yazbeck will step into the heroic shoes of former "Glee" star Matthew Morrison in Broadway's "Finding Neverland."
  
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• Haiti candidate needs major changes to participate in runoff

  07-01-2016 22:00 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A spokesman for Haitian presidential contender Jude Celestin said Thursday that the second-place candidate will participate in an upcoming runoff only if sweeping changes recommended by a special commission are adopted to improve voting.
  
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• Victim's family helps nab suspect in '03 Nevada killing

  07-01-2016 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RENO, Nev. (AP) — The victim's persistent family, some old-fashioned detective work and a little bit of luck led to the discovery of a man's body in a shallow grave in Nevada's high desert and the arrest of his widow, now accused of killing him more than a decade ago, the local sheriff says.
  
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• Platini withdraws bid for FIFA presidency

  07-01-2016 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Suspended UEFA chief Michel Platini on Thursday withdrew from the race to become FIFA president, telling L'Equipe that he will concentrate on clearing his name instead. "I will not present myself for the presidency of FIFA. Platini and Blatter were suspended for eight years by FIFA's ethics committee over a 2 million Swiss franc ($2 million/1.8 million euro) payment made to Platini in 2011 for work carried out between 1999 and 2002.
  
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• Oregon robbery suspect resembles Discovery Channel star

  07-01-2016 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — This is a dirty job one Discovery Channel star wouldn't do.
  
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• US recruits tech leaders to help disrupt Islamic State group

  07-01-2016 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (AP) — With extremists finding fertile ground for recruitment online, the White House is dispatching top national security officials to Silicon Valley to seek the tech industry's help in disrupting the Islamic State group and other extremists.
  
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• Truck bomb kills nearly 50 at Libyan police academy

  07-01-2016 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ayman El-Sahli MISRATA, Libya (Reuters) - At least 47 people were killed on Thursday when Libya's worst bomb attack since the fall of Muammar Gaddafi hit a police training center as hundreds of recruits gathered for a morning meeting. No group immediately claimed the attack in the western town of Zliten, but suicide blasts and car bombings have increased in Libya as Islamist militants have taken advantage of the North African country's chaos to expand their presence. Late on Thursday the Isla
  
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• Platini withdraws candidacy for FIFA presidency

  07-01-2016 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Brian Homewood ZURICH (Reuters) - Banned European soccer boss president Michel Platini has withdrawn his candidacy from the race for the presidency of soccer's scandal-plagued governing body FIFA, he told French sports daily L'Equipe on Thursday. Platini, the head of European soccer body UEFA, was handed an eight-year ban from the game along with outgoing FIFA president Sepp Blatter by the federation's independent Ethics Committee on Dec. 21. Both have been engulfed by the worst corruption sc
  
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• Nightmare on New Year's Eve

  07-01-2016 21:49 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A wave of sexual assaults and robberies rocked Germany on New Year's Eve, particularly in the city of Cologne, where a large mob attacked a women at the train station and fireworks display. CNN's Frederick Pleitgen reports.
  
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• Kerry says Iran may be 'days away' from satisfying nuke deal

  07-01-2016 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry said Thursday that Iran may be "days away" from complying with last summer's nuclear deal, a step that would compel the U.S. and other Western nations to immediately suspend many sanctions on the Islamic republic. The landmark could usher in a new phase in the budding U.S.-Iranian rapprochement.
  
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• Actress and children confirmed dead

  07-01-2016 21:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Three bodies found in the garden of former actress Sian Blake are those of the former EastEnders star and her two children, police confirm.
  
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