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• Neighbors begin vigilance as North Korea launch window opens

  06-02-2016 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea's neighbors began an uneasy waiting game Sunday, the start of an eight-day window for a planned North Korean long-range rocket launch.
  
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• Leicester stuns Man City 3-1 to go 5 points clear at top

  06-02-2016 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Leicester stunned Manchester City 3-1 on Saturday to bolster its bid to become the unlikeliest champion in English football history.
  
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• The Latest: Clinton discusses concerns over Benghazi in NH

  06-02-2016 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The Latest on the race for president, with candidates focusing on New Hampshire, which holds the first primary in the 2016 race on Tuesday (all times local):
  
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• Vatican abuse critic refuses to quit

  06-02-2016 22:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An outspoken British member of a Roman Catholic commission on sexual abuse refuses to quit, denouncing his treatment by the Vatican as "outrageous".
  
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• Pluto has 'floating hills,' NASA says

  06-02-2016 22:40 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Pluto's icy wonderland keeps mystifying scientists.
  
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• New York moves to stop gay conversion therapy for youths

  06-02-2016 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York is taking steps to stop therapists from trying to change young people's sexual orientation, Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced Saturday, joining a number of states that have acted against what's known as gay conversion therapy.
  
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• Thousands march across Europe in anti-Islam Pegida rallies

  06-02-2016 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A march by Germany's anti-Islamic organisation Pegida drew thousands to the eastern city of Dresden on Saturday with rallies in support of the movement also held in a string of other European cities. In Prague, around 5,000 people turned out for a Pegida-inspired march organised by two far-right groups, while in Amsterdam mounted police charged pro- and anti-Pegida groups and arrested at least a dozen people. The Pegida group had called for the Saturday rallies, urging supporters to march under
  
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• This electric car goes 370 MPH!

  06-02-2016 22:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Speed freaks have been flocking to Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats for more than a century.
  
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• Labour leader sticks to 'in' camp in Britain's EU debate

  06-02-2016 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The opposition Labour Party will campaign for Britain to remain in the European Union in an upcoming referendum, its leader Jeremy Corbyn said on Saturday, after a dissenter from his party had suggested Corbyn might still join the "out" camp. A eurosceptic left-winger who voted "no" to Europe in a 1975 referendum, Corbyn initially refused to rule out campaigning to leave the bloc after he was elected party leader in September, but has since said Labour would back remaining.
  
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• The Latest: Jeb Bush says future doesn't hinge on NH vote

  06-02-2016 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The Latest on the race for president, with candidates focusing on New Hampshire, which holds the first primary in the 2016 race on Tuesday (all times local):
  
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• Search for possible survivors of midair crash suspended

  06-02-2016 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities on Saturday called off the search for survivors of a midair collision that sent at least one plane plunging into the ocean near the Port of Los Angeles and instead turned to hunting bodies and wreckage.
  
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• Late ex-Mayor Cianci returns to beloved Providence City Hall

  06-02-2016 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Buddy Cianci, the former mayor of Providence who presided over the city's revitalization during two stints in office cut short by criminal charges and prison, returned to City Hall on Saturday, lying in repose outside the office he occupied for more than 21 years.
  
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• Panthers too good, versatile for Broncos No. 1 defense

  06-02-2016 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The Denver Broncos and their top defense haven't seen anything quite like Cam Newton and the Carolina Panthers, the No. 1 scoring offense in the league.
  
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• Denver brings dominant defense into Super Bowl 50

  06-02-2016 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Peyton Manning wanted to make one thing perfectly clear when he arrived in the Golden Gate City for the golden anniversary of the Super Bowl: "Our defense is what got us here."
  
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• Jewish group condemns far-right WWII remembrance in Hungary

  06-02-2016 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The Simon Wiesenthal Center has condemned a far-right commemoration in Hungary of a World War II battle in which speakers lauded a wartime pro-Nazi Hungarian leader.
  
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• Nurse scores 20 as UConn routs East Carolina 92-46

  06-02-2016 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  STORRS, Conn. (AP) — Kia Nurse scored a season-high 20 points as top-ranked UConn routed East Carolina 92-46 on Saturday in the Huskies' final tuneup before a showdown with No. 2 South Carolina.
  
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• Chicago officer sues estate of teen he shot, claiming trauma

  06-02-2016 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — A white Chicago police officer who fatally shot a black 19-year-old college student and accidently killed a neighbor has filed a lawsuit against the teenager's estate, arguing the shooting left him traumatized.
  
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• Somali officials: Suicide bomber may have blown hole in jet

  06-02-2016 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A suicide bomber is suspected to have set off the explosive that blew a hole in a jetliner, sucked the man out of the plane and forced the aircraft to make an emergency landing on Tuesday in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, Somali officials said Saturday.
  
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• Colombia: 3,177 pregnant women with Zika; no microcephaly

  06-02-2016 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos says there's no evidence that Zika has caused any cases of the birth defect known as microcephaly in his country, though it has diagnosed 3,177 pregnant women with the virus.
  
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• Critic of Vatican refuses to step down from sex abuse commission

  06-02-2016 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - A prominent and outspoken British member of a papal advisory commission on sexual abuse by the clergy on Saturday refused to step down despite a no-confidence vote, and said only Pope Francis could dismiss him. A Vatican statement issued earlier said that "it was decided" at a commission meeting that Peter Saunders would take a leave of absence. Saunders, head of Britain's National Association for People Abused in Childhood, would now "consider how he
  
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• Ecuador-Turkey row over speech scuffle

  06-02-2016 21:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Ecuador protests to Turkey over an incident in which demonstrators were ejected during a speech by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Quito.
  
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• The Latest: Attackers torch refugee center in Prague

  06-02-2016 21:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Latest on the flow of thousands of would-be refugees from the Middle East and elsewhere to Europe (all times local):
  
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• AU and Somali troops retake Somali town from militants

  06-02-2016 21:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A Somali military official says allied African Union and Somali troops have retaken the town Marka one day after Islamic extremist fighters took control of the center following the withdrawal of African Union forces.
  
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• Louisville's Pitino: Fine schools, coaches for violations

  06-02-2016 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Louisville coach Rick Pitino says schools and coaches should be fined for violations, and that players who had nothing to do with infractions should not be penalized.
  
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• Rubio braces for attacks in debate, Trump returning to stage

  06-02-2016 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Marco Rubio headed into the latest Republican debate ready for an onslaught of attacks about his experience and preparedness from a trio of rivals whose performance in the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday will be critical to their White House hopes.
  
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• Scotland 9-15 England

  06-02-2016 20:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Scotland's wait to regain the Calcutta Cup goes on after England open the Eddie Jones era with victory at Murrayfield.
  
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• Correction: GOP 2016-Cruz-White Turnout story

  06-02-2016 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PORTSMOUTH, N.H. (AP) — In a story Feb. 5 about presidential candidate Ted Cruz's turnout strategy, The Associated Press reported erroneously that political strategist Matthew Dowd is a Republican. He is an independent.
  
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• No. 19 Louisville rolls past Boston College 79-47

  06-02-2016 20:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Trey Lewis scored 16 points and Deng Adel added 13 as No. 19 Louisville routed Boston College 79-47 on Saturday, a day after the school imposed a postseason ban for recruiting violations.
  
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• England beat Scotland to give Jones winning start

  06-02-2016 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tries by lock George Kruis and wing Jack Nowell gave England a hard-earned 15-9 Six Nations victory over Scotland at Murrayfield on Saturday in coach Eddie Jones's first match in charge. It was not exactly a flying start to a new era for Jones and his team but, after the ignominy of England becoming the first host nation to exit a World Cup before the knock-out stages, a sixth successive Calcutta Cup victory against Scotland qualified as a solid first step. Equally depressingly, the Scots drew a
  
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• 2 puppeteers held in Spain for allegedly praising terrorism

  06-02-2016 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MADRID (AP) — A Spanish court has ordered the detention of two puppeteers for allegedly praising terrorism during a performance in Madrid.
  
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• Thousands march in anti-Islam Pegida rallies across Europe

  06-02-2016 20:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A march by Germany's anti-Islamic organisation Pegida drew thousands to the eastern city of Dresden on Saturday with rallies in support of the movement also held in a string of other European cities. In Prague, around 5,000 people turned out for a Pegida-inspired march organised by two far-right groups, while in Amsterdam mounted police charged pro- and anti-Pegida groups and arrested at least a dozen people. Another rally in the northern French port of Calais, home to the infamous "Jungle" refu
  
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• Tests show few high lead readings in Ohio village's water

  06-02-2016 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SEBRING, Ohio (AP) — Regulators say lead levels in tap water have been below the federal allowable limit in 96 percent of the samples tested this past week in a northeast Ohio village.
  
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• The Latest: Gov. John Kasich supporters fan out across NH

  06-02-2016 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The Latest on the race for president, with candidates focusing on New Hampshire, which holds the first primary in the 2016 race on Tuesday (all times local):
  
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• Tunisia unveils anti-jihadi fence on Libyan border

  06-02-2016 20:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEN GUERDANE, Tunisia (AP) — Tunisia's defense minister has visited an anti-jihadi fence that's being built on the country's border with Libya to stop Islamist militants from entering Tunisian territory.
  
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• The Latest: France rescues 4 trying to cross the Channel

  06-02-2016 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Latest on the flow of thousands of would-be refugees from the Middle East and elsewhere to Europe (all times local):
  
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• Thousands brave freeze at Turkey border as Syria warns Riyadh, Ankara

  06-02-2016 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Thousands of Syrians braved the freezing cold at Turkey's border Saturday after fleeing a regime assault that threatens a new humanitarian disaster, as Damascus warned Riyadh and Ankara not to send in troops. The government said any uninvited foreign soldiers who enter Syria would go home "in a wooden coffin", following reports that Saudi Arabia and Turkey, which support rebel forces, could deploy troops. Tens of thousands of people have fled fierce fighting as government forces backed by Russia
  
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• Man accused of IS-inspired plot to attack Detroit church

  06-02-2016 19:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Authorities have arrested a 21-year-old Michigan man whom they accuse of supporting Islamic State militants and plotting to attack a Detroit church.
  
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• Jesse Chavez beats Blue Jays in arbitration, awarded $4M

  06-02-2016 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Pitcher Jesse Chavez defeated the Toronto Blue Jays in salary arbitration, improving players to 3-0 this year in cases that went to hearings.
  
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• Syrian government steps up siege of rebel-held Damascus suburbs: state media, rebels

  06-02-2016 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Syrian government forces have tightened a three-year siege on two rebel-held suburbs southwest of Damascus by capturing land between the two and choking off their supply route, state media, a monitoring group and a rebel spokesman said on Saturday. The suburbs of Daraya and Mouadamiya were linked by a strip of land that served as a supply route. Daraya borders a military airport used by Russian planes - which have been conducting air strikes for President Bashar al-Assad since September - and th
  
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• The Latest: Jeb Bush talks Donald Trump, drug addiction

  06-02-2016 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEDFORD, N.H. (AP) — The Latest on the race for president, with candidates focusing on New Hampshire, which holds the first primary in the 2016 race on Tuesday (all times local):
  
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• NY governor moves to stop 'gay conversion' therapy for kids

  06-02-2016 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York is taking steps to stop therapists from trying to change young people's sexual orientation, joining a number of states that have taken action against what's known as "gay conversion" therapy.
  
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• Authorities suspend search for survivors of midair collision near Los Angeles port

  06-02-2016 19:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities suspend search for survivors of midair collision near Los Angeles port.
  
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• Leicester stuns Man City to stretch EPL lead, Spurs go 2nd

  06-02-2016 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — With a 3-1 win at Manchester City, Leicester showed why it really could be lifting the Premier League trophy for the first time in May.
  
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• Skiers killed in Austrian avalanche

  06-02-2016 19:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Five Czech skiers have been killed in a huge avalanche in the Austrian Alps that buried 17 people, local police say.
  
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• More than 3,100 pregnant women in Colombia have Zika virus: government

  06-02-2016 19:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than 3,100 pregnant Colombian women are infected with the mosquito-borne Zika virus, President Juan Manuel Santos said on Saturday, as the disease continues its rapid spread across the Americas. There are so far no recorded cases of Zika-linked microcephaly in Colombia, Santos said. There are 25,645 people infected with the disease in Colombia, Santos said during a TV broadcast with health officials, among them 3,177 pregnant women.
  
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• The Latest: Calais police fire tear gas at far-right rally

  06-02-2016 19:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  AMSTERDAM (AP) — The Latest on the flow of refugees from the Middle East and elsewhere to Europe (all times local):
  
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• Von Miller, 2 other Broncos fined by NFL for AFC title game

  06-02-2016 18:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Denver Broncos Von Miller, T.J. Ward and Shiloh Keo have been fined $23,152 each by the NFL for actions in their victory over the New England Patriots in the AFC championship game.
  
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• Kiwi Ko, South Korea's Jang share LPGA lead

  06-02-2016 18:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  World number one Lydia Ko completed a bogey-free five-under par 67 Saturday morning to remain deadlocked with South Korea's Jang Ha-Na entering the final round of the LPGA Coates Championship. Canada's Brooke Henderson charged into third with a third-round 67 to stand two shots adrift of the leaders and one in front of South Korea's Kim Sei-Young as the final round began with hopes to finish as planned on Saturday evening. Ko and Jang each birdied the seventh to begin Saturday's play.
  
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• Italy demands answers as student's body flown in from Cairo

  06-02-2016 18:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ROME (AP) — Italy demanded Saturday that Egyptian authorities swiftly determine who was responsible for the torture and slaying of an Italian doctoral student researching Egyptian labor movements and other social issues in Cairo.
  
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• Austrian police: 5 skiers killed in 'massive' avalanche

  06-02-2016 18:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — Five people were killed Saturday when a "massive" avalanche in the Austrian Alps struck skiers from the Czech Republic taking part in a freeriding camp, police said.
  
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