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• Voice of Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck dies

  04-02-2016 23:59 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Joe Alaskey, a voice actor who performed such characters as Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, has died, a family member confirmed to CNN.
  
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• New York unveils Brooklyn-Queens streetcar plan

  04-02-2016 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York City on Thursday unveiled plans for a streetcar line along the East River that would link the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens, connecting neighborhoods that are poorly served by the subway system. Dubbed the BQX, or Brooklyn Queens Connector, construction for the estimated $2.5 billion project could begin in three years with completion expected around 2025. "It's something I think is going to make a huge impact for hundreds of thousands of people," Mayor Bill de Blasio told Hot 97 radio
  
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• Prosecutor: Girl texted with college man before stabbing

  04-02-2016 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — Two Virginia Tech students carefully planned the kidnapping and killing of a 13-year-old girl, arranging a pre-dawn rendezvous online after buying cleaning supplies and a shovel at separate Wal-Mart stores, a prosecutor alleged Thursday.
  
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• Earth, Wind & Fire founder Maurice White dead at 74

  04-02-2016 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• Obama seeks increased aid for Colombia as peace deal nears

  04-02-2016 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is announcing he'll ask Congress for $450 million in his budget next week for Colombia.
  
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• Earth, Wind & Fire founder White dies

  04-02-2016 23:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Maurice White, founder of US soul band Earth, Wind & Fire, dies aged 74, his brother says
  
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• Police: 6 dead in Chicago home in possible murder-suicide

  04-02-2016 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago police on Thursday found the bodies of four men, one woman and a child inside a home on the city's South Side in what they say could be a murder-suicide, even as they added extra patrols in the neighborhood.
  
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• How a text a day can keep the doctor away

  04-02-2016 23:32 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Text messages could be the latest solution to the very old problem of getting patients with chronic diseases to take their medications.
  
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• Cosby case could hinge on 2 issues: deposition and accusers

  04-02-2016 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — With one crucial legal battle out of the way, at least two more loom in the sexual-assault case against Bill Cosby: whether prosecutors can use his explosive testimony from a decade-old lawsuit, and whether other Cosby accusers can testify.
  
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• Is new fighter jet fit for war? Erm...

  04-02-2016 23:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The military risks committing itself to buying billions of dollars of F-35 fighter jets before they have demonstrated they are fit for combat, a new Pentagon report warns.
  
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• Ko shares lead as rain halts Coates Championship

  04-02-2016 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  World number one Lydia Ko is tied for the lead at seven-under par after rain suspended play during the second round of the LPGA Tour's Coates Golf Championship on Thursday. The 18-year-old New Zealander was able to nearly complete her round Thursday and was at four-under after 17 holes when play was halted due to thunderstorms in the region around the Golden Ocala Golf and Equestrian Club course in Ocala, Florida. South Korea's Jang Ha-Na, the 18-hole leader, is tied for the top spot with Ko.
  
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• Coldplay to honor past, present and future at Super Bowl

  04-02-2016 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Coldplay lead singer Chris Martin says the band's Super Bowl halftime show will try to honor the past, present and future.
  
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• Clinton campaign hits at Sanders over newspaper endorsements

  04-02-2016 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — Hillary Clinton's campaign for president criticized rival Bernie Sanders on Thursday for what it argues are misleading campaign advertisements that suggest the Vermont senator received the endorsement of two newspapers that have not backed his bid for the White House.
  
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• Somalia Plane Explosion 'Likely' Caused By Bomb

  04-02-2016 23:22 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The Somali plane that was forced to make an emergency landing shortly after takeoff appears to have been brought down by a bomb, Somali and airline officials said Thursday.
  
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• State IG: Classified email found from Powell, Rice tenures

  04-02-2016 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department watchdog has found that former Secretary of State Colin Powell and the immediate staff of former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice also received classified national security information on their personal email accounts, a senior House Democrat said Thursday.
  
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• Viacom names CEO Dauman as chair as Redstone exits; daughter protests

  04-02-2016 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jessica Toonkel NEW YORK (Reuters) - Viacom Inc's board of directors named Chief Executive Officer Philippe Dauman as executive chairman, replacing majority owner Sumner Redstone, overriding calls for an independent board chief from Redstone's daughter, who voted against Dauman. Viacom announced on Thursday that the ailing 92-year-old Redstone was becoming chairman emeritus, a day after CBS Corp said Redstone, also the CBS majority owner, was stepping down as executive chairman and being repl
  
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• Sumner Redstone: taking risks and banning Tom Cruise

  04-02-2016 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sumner Redstone was the mogul who never wanted to retire. On Thursday, the board of Viacom Inc , the company that owns the Paramount movie studio, MTV and other assets, gave his chairmanship to Philippe Dauman and made Redstone chairman emeritus. The changes came after Redstone underwent a mental examination last Friday by a psychiatrist hired by his former girlfriend, Manuela Herzer.
  
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• Ex-Flint Emergency Manager Subpoenaed by Congress

  04-02-2016 23:12 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Flint's former Emergency Manager Darnell Earley is slated to attend an upcoming congressional hearing on his role in the city's water crisis.
  
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• Democratic race down to just two: Clinton, Sanders face off

  04-02-2016 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DURHAM, N.H. (AP) — Their race newly energized, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders head into the first one-on-one debate of the Democratic presidential contest Thursday night in a tussle over their very political identities.
  
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• Tortured Italian student died 'slow death': Egypt official

  04-02-2016 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CAIRO (AP) — The body of an Italian graduate student who disappeared last month has been found with multiple stab wounds, cigarette burns and other signs of torture and a "slow death" on a roadside on the outskirts of Cairo, an Egyptian prosecutor said Thursday.
  
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• Clinton, Sanders fight for New Hampshire in debate

  04-02-2016 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Clinton won Iowa by a hair but Sanders leads handsomely in the polls in New Hampshire, where Republicans are also swarming to for the crucial February 9 vote, with Donald Trump eager to reclaim the Republican lead after he was beaten in Iowa by arch-conservative Senator Ted Cruz. The billionaire Trump also faces the sudden, dramatic rise of Senator Marco Rubio, who is gaining traction among mainstream Republican voters.
  
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• Michigan emails show officials knew of Flint water disease risk

  04-02-2016 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "Are we to believe that a top staffer with years of experience would not inform Governor Snyder of a possibly deadly situation?" Progress Michigan executive director Lonnie Scott said in a statement. The group cited an email from March 13, 2015, that showed Hollins and Dan Wyant, the former head of the state department of environmental quality, were aware of the increase in Legionnaires' disease in Genesee County, where Flint is located, and that a county health official was attributing the case
  
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• Abuse arrests at U.S. special needs school

  04-02-2016 23:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A criminal investigation resulting in the arrests of five employees of a Massachusetts private school came after school officials reported alleged abuse to authorities, according to a lawyer representing the school.
  
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• New tarantula named after Johnny Cash

  04-02-2016 23:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Among 14 newly described species of tarantula is Aphonopelma johnnycashi, which lives near Folsom Prison in California.
  
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• Black spider named after Johnny Cash

  04-02-2016 23:03 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Among 14 newly described species of tarantula is Aphonopelma johnnycashi, which lives near Folsom Prison in California.
  
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• Florida, vulnerable to Zika virus, gets ready for fight

  04-02-2016 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Florida's warm climate, year-round mosquitoes and revolving door of international travelers make it vulnerable to the Zika virus, but local governments here have a history of fighting off outbreaks before they become widespread.
  
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• U.S. House Republicans vow to kill Obama oil tax idea

  04-02-2016 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republicans in the U.S. Congress on Thursday reacted swiftly to President Barack Obama's call for a new, $10 per barrel tax on oil, promising to kill what they called an "absurd" idea.
  
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• People want me to fail - Hartley

  04-02-2016 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Captain Dylan Hartley says he has "never prepared for a game so well" as he has for England's Six Nations opener against Scotland.
  
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• Images of Baby Murdered With Parents in Mexico Stirs Outrage

  04-02-2016 23:00 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  People are expressing outrage over the killing of a baby who was gunned down along with his parents in Pinotepa Nacional, in Oaxaca, Mexico.
  
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• The Latest: Hundreds mourn slain 13-year-old at funeral

  04-02-2016 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) — The Latest on charges against two Virginia Tech students in the death of a 13-year-old girl (all times local):
  
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• Plan aims to revive historic US ocean liner

  04-02-2016 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A historic luxury ocean liner that has languished for decades and seemed destined for the scrap heap could again take to the seas, under a proposal unveiled Thursday in New York. Crystal Cruises announced an exclusive purchase option for the SS United States, valid for nine months and pending a feasibility study, to restore the ship to its former grandeur at an estimated cost of $700-800 million. The SS United States was the fastest, most luxurious ocean liner of its day, with a capacity of 2,00
  
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• Smirking Shkreli refuses lawmakers' questions, calls them 'imbeciles'

  04-02-2016 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Sarah N. Lynch and David Ingram WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former drug executive Martin Shkreli smirked and brushed off questions about drug prices then tweeted that lawmakers were imbeciles on Thursday, when he appeared at a U.S. congressional hearing against his will. Shkreli, 32, sparked outrage last year among patients, medical societies and Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton after his company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, raised the price of the drug Daraprim by more th
  
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• WHO sounds Zika blood warning as Europe sees first pregnancy case

  04-02-2016 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The World Health Organization on Thursday advised countries against accepting blood donations from people who have travelled to regions affected by the Zika virus, as Spain announced Europe's first known case of the disease in a pregnant woman. With dozens of cases emerging in Europe and North America from travellers returning from affected areas, WHO stressed the potential link between Zika and microcephaly -- which causes children to be born with abnormally small heads -- and urged health auth
  
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• US struggling to build anti-Islamic State strategy in Libya

  04-02-2016 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is struggling to find the right mix of military and diplomatic moves to stop the Islamic State in Libya, where the extremist group has taken advantage of the political chaos in the country to gain a foothold with worrying implications for the U.S. and Europe — particularly Italy, just 300 miles away.
  
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• Acute anger at grave spelling changes

  04-02-2016 22:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  French speakers will soon have to think twice about how they spell certain words.
  
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• NY Times eyes more changes to meet digital challenge

  04-02-2016 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The New York Times is eyeing further changes to its newsroom to meet the growing challenges of digital, it said Thursday, as the company reported a rise in profits. On the heels of its quarterly report, the prestigious daily -- seeking to navigate a shift to digital readership -- said executive editor Dean Baquet and longtime journalist David Leonhardt would lead a review of operations. "We need to develop a strategic plan for what The New York Times should be and determine how to apply our time
  
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• Obama to seek new tax on oil in budget proposal

  04-02-2016 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. President Barack Obama will propose a $10-a-barrel fee on oil in his budget plan next week, as the White House seeks to boost the nation's investments in clean transportation projects, the White House said on Thursday. The fee, which would be paid by oil companies, is likely to fall flat in the Republican-controlled Congress. In the last year of his presidency, Obama has said the country must stop subsidizing the "dirty" fossil fuels of the past and focus on clean, renewable fuels that do n
  
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• Cruz: border security needed to stop addiction 'epidemic'

  04-02-2016 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOOKSETT, N.H. (AP) — Republican Ted Cruz shared the deeply personal story of his sister's overdose death as he campaigned across New Hampshire on Thursday, describing "an epidemic" of addiction that has destroyed lives in his family and across the nation.
  
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• 'Pharma Bro' Shkreli Invokes the Fifth Before Congress

  04-02-2016 22:07 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Former drug executive Martin Shkreli, who has previously derided Congress on social media, faces members of that legislative body on Thursday morning.
  
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• Witness in 'Serial' case is cross-examined, sticks to story

  04-02-2016 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — A Maryland prosecutor on Thursday sought to poke holes in the testimony of an alibi witness who says she chatted with a convicted killer at a library about the time prosecutors say his high school girlfriend was killed in a case that was profiled on the "Serial" podcast.
  
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• Poll: Sanders Leads Clinton By 20 Points in NH

  04-02-2016 22:00 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Bernie Sanders maintains a significant double-digit lead over Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire, according to an NBC News/Wall Street/Marist poll.
  
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• Obama comparisons trail young senators seeking GOP nod

  04-02-2016 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PORTSMOUTH, New Hampshire (AP) — Some Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz supporters get the irony.
  
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• Protests, EU demands add pressure on Greece's Tsipras

  04-02-2016 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Tens of thousands joined anti-government protests across Greece Thursday as the country was crippled by a general strike against painful pension reforms demanded by bailout lenders.
  
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• Oregon standoff leader and followers indicted

  04-02-2016 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The leader of an armed standoff at a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon has been indicted along with several of his followers, including the four still holed up at the site, authorities said Thursday. Ammon Bundy, who was among 12 people arrested last week in relation to the takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, faces charges of intimidation or threats and conspiring to impede federal officials from performing their duties through the use of force. The siege at the refuge began on Jan
  
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• Honda Recalls More Than 2.2M Cars Over Faulty Airbags

  04-02-2016 21:49 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Honda now says it will recall more than 2.2 million vehicles due to faulty Takata airbags, about 500,000 more than was originally reported.
  
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• Six People Found Dead in Southwest Chicago Home

  04-02-2016 21:47 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Police gave no details but said they're investigating the discovery of six bodies in a Chicago house as a homicide.
  
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• Military explosives caused plane blast

  04-02-2016 21:47 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A military grade of the explosive TNT caused this week's explosion on a Somali airliner, a source familiar with the investigation told CNN, citing an initial analysis of residue recovered from the aircraft.
  
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• IS suspects held in German raids

  04-02-2016 21:45 via bbc.co.uk
  
  German police arrest two Algerians suspected of planning an attack and having links to the militant group, Islamic State.
  
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• Meet the 21-Year-Old CEO Who Dropped Out of Northwestern

  04-02-2016 21:39 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Dorm Room CEOs: Noah Whinston launched an e-sports franchise at 21 years old, and dropped out of Northwestern to run the business full-time.
  
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• Clinton tries to answer $675,000 question

  04-02-2016 21:35 via rss.cnn.com
  
  In a campaign that's been filled with zingers and gotcha moments, Wednesday night's CNN Democratic town hall with Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders got the candidates to slow down for a bit.
  
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