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• Marine Corps debate over women in combat continues to roil

  08-01-2016 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A top Marine general predicted Friday that the Defense Department's vows to maintain the same standards for women and men in combat jobs won't last, saying the military will eventually be pressured to lower the qualifications so more women can serve in jobs like the Marine infantry.
  
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• Tax filing issues could jeopardize health law aid for many

  08-01-2016 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — About 1.4 million households that got financial help for health insurance under President Barack Obama's law failed to properly account for it on their tax returns last year, putting their subsidies at risk if they want to keep coverage.
  
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• Vermont deli near Trump venue didn't sell bologna special

  08-01-2016 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BURLINGTON, Vt. (AP) — Workers at a Vermont deli near where Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump appeared say they didn't sell any of the bologna sandwich specials concocted in his honor.
  
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• Lottery fever as record US jackpot soars to $800 mn

  08-01-2016 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The largest jackpot in US lottery history has soared to a whopping $800 million, driven by feverish excitement among players dreaming of becoming millionaires in the drawing Saturday. The Powerball prize skyrocketed from $675 million in 24 hours as a staggering number of people bought tickets. With the jackpot, and excitement, mounting, long lines formed at stores selling lottery tickets, so the prize continued to grow.
  
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• Djokovic, Nadal to meet for 47th time in Qatar Open final

  08-01-2016 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal will meet for the 47th time and play their 24th final against each other after both won their Qatar Open semi-finals on Friday. World number one Djokovic progressed through to Saturday's final after overcoming Tomas Berdych in a bruising encounter, 6-3, 7-6 (7/3). Earlier Nadal also won in two sets but in a more straightforward fashion, beating Ukraine's Illya Marchenko 6-3, 6-4 in little over an hour.
  
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• Tech tethers dog lovers remotely to their pets

  08-01-2016 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gadgets galore are letting dog lovers stay connected to their pets even when they can't take canine companions with them on the go. A sea of innovations on display at the famously people-centric Consumer Electronics Show on Friday included a wave of technology aimed at those who consider pets cherished family members. "Everybody loves their pets," said Mike Jander of Trackimo, one of several companies showing off tracking devices that can be affixed to collars and reveal where animals run off to
  
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• U.S. Justice Dept looks into Chipotle norovirus outbreak: sources

  08-01-2016 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Justice Department is looking into a norovirus outbreak at a Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurant in California, according to people familiar with the matter, signaling heightened interest from Washington on food safety issues. Chipotle disclosed on Wednesday that the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California had served the company with a grand jury subpoena in December as part of a criminal investigation by that office and the Food and Drug Administration.
  
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• US economy shows resilience with robust hiring in December

  08-01-2016 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US economy capped a strong year of jobs growth with stellar December data, demonstrating resilience amid slowing global growth, China's turmoil, and the steep decline of the oil sector. The Labor Department said Friday that employers added 292,000 new jobs last month, a year-end surge that was far better than expected. The report was seen as a good sign for the US economy which is proving to be an island of strength as Europe and Japan continue to struggle and emerging-market economies, led
  
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• US stock market drops, ending its worst week since 2011

  08-01-2016 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A wave of late selling pummeled U.S. stocks Friday and pushed the market to its worst week in four years.
  
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• Unusual January tropical storm forms southwest of Hawaii

  08-01-2016 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — An El Nino-related tropical storm has formed southwest of Hawaii, only the third such system to develop in January in over 40 years.
  
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• Cologne police chief suspended after New Year's mob attacks

  08-01-2016 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The police chief of the German city of Cologne was suspended Friday for failing to stop mob violence at New Year's Eve celebrations, as authorities said many suspects were asylum seekers. Unsettled by a record refugee influx, Germany has reacted with shock to news that women had to run a gauntlet of groping, lewd insults and thefts in an aggressive and drunken crush of around 1,000 men, described by witnesses as mostly of Arab and North African appearance. Cologne's police chief Wolfgang Albers,
  
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• Another inmate leaves Guantanamo as population slowly dwindles

  08-01-2016 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The trickle of detainees leaving Guantanamo Bay continued Friday with the repatriation of a Kuwaiti man, as the general overseeing the military prison denied claims the Pentagon is stalling on shutting it down. Faez Mohammed Ahmed Al-Kandari became the latest transfer, sent back to Kuwait after the United States determined he no longer posed a national security threat. President Barack Obama pledged to shut Guantanamo when he took office in 2009, but his efforts have been repeatedly thwarted by
  
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• Global stocks crater in worst week in four years; oil crumbles

  08-01-2016 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK (Reuters) - The benchmark S&P 500 U.S. stock index on Friday notched its worst five-day start to a year on record as fear of a slowdown in China offset a surprisingly strong payrolls report in the United States. The euro was down 0.1 percent against the dollar at $1.0923 , while the greenback lost 0.1 percent to 117.52 yen .
  
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• Brazil inflation hits 13-year high amid political crisis

  08-01-2016 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brazil's inflation rate hit a 13-year high in 2015, in what analysts called payback for years of economic mismanagement, worsened by a political crisis in Latin America's biggest economy. Brazil, which hosts the summer Olympic Games in August, is struggling through a deep recession and political instability after impeachment proceedings were launched against President Dilma Rousseff. In recession since the second quarter of last year, Brazil is suffering rising unemployment and a drop in investo
  
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• Cologne police chief dismissed over New Year's Eve assaults

  08-01-2016 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — The police chief of the German city of Cologne was dismissed Friday amid mounting criticism of his force's handling of a string of New Year's Eve sexual assaults and robberies blamed largely on foreigners.
  
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• Billionaire Cohen settles with SEC, could soon manage outside money

  08-01-2016 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The hedge fund billionaire Steven A. Cohen has resolved U.S. charges related to insider trading, in an accord that clears the way for one of Wall Street's top investors to soon manage outside money even after his former firm pleaded guilty to fraud. Cohen accepted a two-year ban on managing outside money in a settlement announced on Friday by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, possibly ending the long probe by the government into Cohen and his former firm SAC Capital Advisors. The acco
  
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• IS sympathizer shoots Philadelphia cop in 'chilling' ambush

  08-01-2016 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A man claiming allegiance to the Islamic State extremist group shot and seriously wounded a policeman in Philadelphia, opening fire multiple times at point-blank range with a stolen police gun before he was arrested, officials said Friday. The apparent assassination attempt comes amid heightened security in the United States following last month's assault by a radicalized Muslim couple in California that killed 14 people, and the November terror attacks in Paris. Policeman Jesse Hartnett, 33, wa
  
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• Months-long investigation behind drug boss Guzman's arrest: Pena Nieto

  08-01-2016 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - The capture of most-wanted drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman was the result of a months-long criminal and intelligence investigation, Mexican President Enrique Nieto said on Friday. Guzman, head of the powerful Sinaloa Cartel and who Pena Nieto first caught in February 2014, was captured in an early morning raid that killed five in the city of Los Mochis in the drug baron's native state of Sinaloa in northwest Mexico. (Reporting by Gabriel Stargardter)
  
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• US announces new efforts to counter violent extremism

  08-01-2016 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration announced new steps Friday to counter violent extremism by the Islamic State group and other militants, both at home and abroad.
  
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• US drone crashes in Iraq; not shot down by enemy fire

  08-01-2016 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. military officials say an American Predator drone crashed Thursday in Iraq but say it was not shot down by enemy fire.
  
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• Inspiration for Bowie's stunning new work

  08-01-2016 22:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  One Sunday night in the spring of 2014, David Bowie walked into 55 Bar, a 96-year-old jazz joint tucked away on a quiet side street in New York's West Village.
  
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• White House defends holiday-season deportation raids

  08-01-2016 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Facing rising outrage among its allies, the White House on Friday defended its deportation policies and suggested it had no plans to shift course after a series of holiday-season raids seeking Central American immigrants angered activists and Democratic lawmakers.
  
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• Missing U.S. missile shows up in Cuba

  08-01-2016 22:28 via rss.cnn.com
  
  An inactive Hellfire missile sent to Europe for training was inadvertently shipped to Cuba, where it has remained since 2014, sources familiar with the matter said Friday.
  
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• U.S. to form task force to fight online militant propaganda

  08-01-2016 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Dustin Volz and Mari Saito WASHINGTON/SAN JOSE (Reuters) - The Obama administration on Friday announced the formation of a task force to counter online propaganda by Islamic State and other militant groups as the United States tries to crack down on the unprecedented use of the Internet by jihadists. A new group known as the Countering Violent Extremism Task Force will "integrate and harmonize" government efforts to prevent violent extremism in the United States, White House national security
  
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• UN envoy in Syria to assure upcoming peace talks in Geneva

  08-01-2016 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — As a Saudi-Iran crisis roils the Middle East, the U.N. special envoy to Syria arrived in Damascus on Friday to lay the groundwork and prepare the peace negotiations between President Bashar Assad's government and its opponents due later this month in Geneva.
  
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• Clinton aims to drive wedge on guns between Obama, Sanders

  08-01-2016 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton is intensifying attacks on rival Sen. Bernie Sanders over his gun record, trying to draw a wedge between the liberal Vermont Senator and President Barack Obama.
  
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• Campbell says it supports federal standard for GMO labeling

  08-01-2016 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Campbell Soup says it now supports mandatory national labeling for products containing genetically modified ingredients, and that it will stop backing efforts opposing such disclosures.
  
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• Video shows El Chapo in custody

  08-01-2016 22:06 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Univision provided this video of reputed Mexican drug kingpin Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in the custody of Mexico's Navy. CNN's Rafael Romo reports.
  
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• Mike Utley, Derrick Brooks, Troy Davis join Hall of Fame

  08-01-2016 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SCOTTSDALE, Arizona (AP) — Former Washington State offensive lineman Mike Utley, who suffered a spinal cord injury during an NFL game and was paralyzed, is one of 14 players to be selected for induction for the College Football Hall of Fame.
  
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• Texas governor joins GOP calls for constitutional convention

  08-01-2016 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is joining the ranks of Republicans who are pushing for the first U.S. constitutional convention in more than 200 years.
  
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• Republican politicians jumped the gun on terrorism suspect's arrest: sources

  08-01-2016 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two Texas politicians made public details of an investigation into a terrorism suspect while it was still in progress, potentially jeopardizing the inquiry, three sources familiar with the matter said on Friday. Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick released details on Thursday night contained in documents that were still under court seal, the sources said. Spokesmen for Abbott and Patrick declined to comment on Friday.
  
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• Benghazi panel Republican 'hopeful' Clinton will be charged

  08-01-2016 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican member of the House Benghazi committee says he is "hopeful" the Justice Department will bring charges against Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton for having classified information on her private email server.
  
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• Armed men attack Egypt hotel

  08-01-2016 21:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Two gunmen attempted to storm a hotel and take guests hostage in the Egyptian coastal city of Hurghada, according to state run al-Ahram news agency.
  
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• Philadelphia shooter 'does not appear' to be observant Muslim: CAIR

  08-01-2016 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The man who shot a policeman in Philadelphia and claimed to have pledged allegiance to Islamic State militants does not appear to be a mosque-going Muslim, a senior official at the largest U.S. Muslim advocacy group said. "At this hour, it does not appear that he was an observant or mosque-going Muslim” in the local community, said Jacob Bender, executive director of the Philadelphia Chapter of the Council on American–Islamic Relations. Edward Archer of Philadelphia approached Office
  
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• French fashion designer Andre Courreges dies at 92: company

  08-01-2016 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  French fashion designer Andre Courreges, symbol of a futuristic style revolution in the 1960s and synonymous with mini-skirts and little white boots, has died at the age of 92. "Clothes should escape from conventions," Courreges once said. Fashion, he thought, should be "a way of life".
  
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• EU pushes Libya peace as IS claims deadly blasts

  08-01-2016 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The EU urged Libyan politicians to back a unity government Thursday, as the Islamic State group claimed suicide bombings that killed dozens and sparked fears of a jihadist expansion on Europe's doorstep. European Union foreign affairs chief Federica Mogherini also said the EU would give Libya 100 million euros ($108 million) to battle IS, saying the security situation "needs to be tackled immediately". Mogherini met separately in a Tunis suburb with Fayez al-Sarraj, a businessman who was named i
  
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• Clinton's request for secure fax Plan B sparks accusations

  08-01-2016 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton's request in 2011 that a document be emailed to her instead of sent by secure fax emerged as the latest political uproar over her private email account Friday, as a top Republican senator accused her of ordering classified information scrubbed. It wasn't clear if any information in the document was classified to begin with.
  
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• Chipotle sued for misleading investors over food safety

  08-01-2016 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Tom Polansek CHICAGO (Reuters) - Chipotle Mexican Grill , under scrutiny for months over outbreaks of foodborne illness linked to its restaurants across several U.S. states, was sued on Friday for allegedly misleading investors about its food safety controls. The burrito chain failed to disclose that its "quality controls were inadequate to safeguard consumer and employee health," according to a civil lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Chipotle decline
  
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• 'Age map' traces galactic history

  08-01-2016 21:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  By measuring the age of 70,000 stars across the Milky Way, astronomers make a "growth chart" for our galaxy.
  
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• IS symphathizer shoots Philadelphia cop

  08-01-2016 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A man claiming allegiance to the Islamic State extremist group shot and seriously wounded a police officer in Philadelphia, opening fire multiple times at point blank range with a stolen weapon, police said Friday. The assassination attempt comes amid heightened security in the United States following last month's assault by a radicalized Muslim couple in California that killed 14 people, and the November terror attacks in Paris. Police officer Jesse Hartnett, 33, was shot three times in his lef
  
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• Bahamian pleads not guilty to stealing unreleased TV scripts

  08-01-2016 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A judge in New York says a Bahamian man charged with hacking into celebrities' email accounts to steal unreleased movie and TV scripts and private sex tapes can be held without bail because he's a flight risk.
  
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• Factbox: Supreme Court teacher union case revisits 1977 precedent

  08-01-2016 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday will consider whether workers who are not members of public sector unions can be forced to pay fees that finance collective bargaining. The case involving a California teachers union could reduce the influence of organized labor. Most California public school teachers are members of the union but some elect not to join.
  
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• Contractors get prison time for deadly building collapse

  08-01-2016 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — As he drank coffee at his job site in the mornings, demolition subcontractor Sean Benschop often talked with Borbor Davis, who worked at the adjacent Salvation Army in downtown Philadelphia.
  
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• Mexico recaptures drug kingpin 'Chapo' Guzman

  08-01-2016 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexican marines conducted extensive operations in the northwestern states of Sinaloa and Durango in search of Guzman since the 58-year-old drug lord's July 11 escape from a high-security prison. Guzman's arrest will be a major sigh of relief for the president, whose administration was humiliated by Guzman's prison break.
  
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• Oklahoma judge: Man must stand trial in workplace beheading

  08-01-2016 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — A man accused of beheading a co-worker with a large butcher knife at an Oklahoma food processing plant must stand trial for first-degree murder, a judge ruled Friday after a hearing at which witnesses graphically described what they saw in the September 2014 attack.
  
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• Oregon woman pleads guilty to striking, carrying man on car

  08-01-2016 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EUGENE, Ore. (AP) — An Oregon woman has pleaded guilty to hitting a pedestrian and carrying him on top of her car for 11 blocks before dumping the man along a side road. The 67-year-old man died from his injuries.
  
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• Chile researchers develop RSV vaccine for virus common in children

  08-01-2016 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Researchers in Chile said Friday they have developed the first vaccine against a virus that commonly causes lung and respiratory tract infections in children. The team said that after clinical trials can be held it hopes to market the vaccine against so-called respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) in four or five years. RSV kills or forces the hospitalization of thousands of babies around the world each year.
  
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• Dolce and Gabbana unveils discreet designs for Muslim women

  08-01-2016 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dolce and Gabbana, designers best known for womenswear inspired by the sultry sensualism of southern Italy, are attacking the booming middle Eastern market for high fashion with a collection of abayas and hijabs. The Abaya line, which conforms with the modesty requirements of most versions of Islam, was launched this week in D&G's boutiques throughout the Middle East, as well as in Milan, Munich, Paris and London, popular destinations for well-heeled shopping tourists from the region. The mi
  
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• Armed group not ready to end wildlife refuge occupation

  08-01-2016 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BURNS, Ore. (AP) — The leader of an armed group occupying a national wildlife refuge to protest federal land management policies said Friday he and his followers are not ready to leave even though the sheriff and many locals say the group has overstayed their welcome.
  
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• Jury convicts man in Chinatown racketeering, murder case

  08-01-2016 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A jury convicted a key defendant Friday of racketeering, murder and scores of other counts after a years-long federal undercover investigation centered in the Chinatown district of San Francisco that also ensnared a California state senator.
  
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