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• US Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia dies at 79: Texas governor

  13-02-2016 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a fiery conservative who helped shape American legal thought, died Saturday. Scalia, the longest-serving justice on the high court, died in his sleep while on a hunting trip in Texas, local media reported. "Justice Antonin Scalia was a man of God, a patriot and an unwavering defender of the written Constitution and the rule of law," Texas Governor Greg Abbott said in a statement.
  
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• The Latest: Thousands greet Francis at Mexico basilica

  13-02-2016 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The latest on Pope Francis' visit to Mexico (all times local):
  
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• Chief justice confirms death of Justice Antonin Scalia

  13-02-2016 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Chief Justice John Roberts on Saturday confirmed the death of conservative colleague Justice Antonin Scalia. "On behalf of the court and retired justices, I am saddened to report that our colleague Justice Antonin Scalia has passed away," Roberts said. "He was an extraordinary individual and jurist, admired and treasured by his colleagues. His passing is a great loss to the court and the country he so loyally served. We extend our deepest condolences to his
  
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• Mexico warden, 2 other prison officers charged over riot

  13-02-2016 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MONTERREY, Mexico (AP) — The warden, superintendent and a guard have been arrested on murder charges following a prison riot in northern Mexico that killed 49 people, state prosecutors said Saturday.
  
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• The Latest: First bid for set of Air Jordans is $100,000

  13-02-2016 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TORONTO (AP) — The Latest on Saturday's events at the NBA's All-Star Weekend in Toronto (all times local):
  
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• CORRECT: US Marshals Service confirms that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is dead at 79.

  13-02-2016 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — CORRECT: US Marshals Service confirms that Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is dead at 79.
  
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• Justice Antonin Scalia dead at 79

  13-02-2016 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Antonin Scalia, the influential conservative and most provocative member of the Supreme Court, has died. He was 79.
  
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• At least three dead in US pile-up

  13-02-2016 23:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  At least three people die and scores are injured in a motorway pile-up involving more than 50 vehicles in Pennsylvania.
  
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• U.S. Supreme Court Justice Scalia dead: Texas governor

  13-02-2016 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Conservative U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, 79, has died, Texas Governor Greg Abbott said. In a statement, Abbott extended his "deepest condolences" to Scalia's family. The San Antonio News-Express said Scalia had apparently died of natural causes while visiting a luxury resort in West Texas. Scalia, appointed to the top U.S. court in 1986 by President Ronald Reagan, was known for his strident conservative views and theatrical flair in the courtroom. ...
  
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• Texas governor extends 'deepest condolences' after Scalia death

  13-02-2016 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Texas Governor Greg Abbott extended his "deepest condolences" to the family of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia following the judge's death, the governor's office said in a statement posted online on Saturday. "Justice Antonin Scalia was a man of God, a patriot, and an unwavering defender of the written Constitution and the rule of law," Abbott said. (Reporting by Scott Malone in Boston; Editing in Bill Trott)
  
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• The Latest: Pope heads to Guadalupe basilica for Mass

  13-02-2016 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Latest on Pope Francis' visit to Mexico (all times local):
  
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• Heat's Chris Bosh says more exams coming on his injured calf

  13-02-2016 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TORONTO (AP) — All-Star forward Chris Bosh will have more exams on his strained right calf when he gets back to Miami, possibly as early as Monday to determine the status and severity of the problem.
  
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• The Latest: Anthony says he has no plans to leave the Knicks

  13-02-2016 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TORONTO (AP) — The Latest on Saturday's events at the NBA's All-Star Weekend in Toronto (all times local):
  
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• Sanders says Clinton is coming 'unraveled' by his progress

  13-02-2016 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RENO, Nev. (AP) — Bernie Sanders is pronouncing himself startled by the ferocity of Hillary Clinton's attempts to take him down, saying she's coming "unraveled" by his progress in the Democratic presidential campaign.
  
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• Rupp, Cragg win marathon trial, earn spot on US Olympic Team

  13-02-2016 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Galen Rupp and Amy Cragg won the steamy U.S. Olympic Team Marathon Trials, earning berths to the Rio Games.
  
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• Graham's 27 lead No. 6 Kansas past No. 3 Oklahoma 76-72

  13-02-2016 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — Devonte' Graham scored a career-high 27 points and did a tenacious job defending Buddy Hield to help No. 6 Kansas defeat No. 3 Oklahoma 76-72 on Saturday.
  
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• The Latest: DA says officers "totally justified" in shootout

  13-02-2016 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Latest on a police shooting in Baton Rouge (all times local):
  
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• Team Penske helps rookie Ryan Blaney in Daytona 500 practice

  13-02-2016 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Team Penske teammates Joey Logano and Brad Keselowski helped rookie Ryan Blaney post a solid lap in Daytona 500 practice Saturday.
  
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• Syrian army gains ground around Aleppo, looks to Raqqa

  13-02-2016 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Paul Carrel, Shadia Nasralla and Tom Perry MUNICH/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Russia said on Saturday a Syria ceasefire plan was more likely to fail than succeed, as Syrian government forces backed by Russian air strikes took rebel ground near Aleppo and set their sights on the Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa province. International divisions over Syria surfaced anew at a Munich conference where Russia rejected French charges that it was bombing civilians, just a day after world powers agreed on the
  
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• Bryant soaks up warm farewell from frigid outpost

  13-02-2016 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Keating TORONTO (Reuters) - A frigid Sunday night in winter-locked Canada may be the perfect place for a hockey player to take a bow, but for Kobe Bryant the NBA's most northern outpost would seem an odd setting to wave farewell. The NBA All-Star Game on Sunday, the first ever held outside the United States, will not represent Bryant's last goodbye - that will come on April 13 back home in sunny Los Angeles in the Lakers' regular season finale against the Utah Jazz. Reporters from acros
  
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• Turkey strikes Kurdish militia in Syria, demands it withdraw

  13-02-2016 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Orhan Coskun and Daren Butler ANKARA/ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey's military shelled Kurdish militia targets in northern Syria on Saturday and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu demanded that the group withdraw from the area in a move that further complicated the conflict across the NATO member's border. The shelling took place after Kurdish YPG fighters backed by Russian bombing raids drove Syrian rebels from a former military air base, south of the town of Azaz and near the Turkish border. "Toda
  
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• Cragg wins marathon trial, earns spot on US Olympic Team

  13-02-2016 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Amy Cragg has won the steamy U.S. Olympic Team Marathon Trials, earning a berth to the Rio Games.
  
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• John Lattner, won Heisman at Notre Dame in 1953, dies at 83

  13-02-2016 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — John Lattner, the 1953 Heisman Trophy winner who helped lead Notre Dame to a 9-0-1 record and a No. 2 ranking in Frank Leahy's final year as coach, has died at 83.
  
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• Turkey strikes Kurd, regime forces in Syria, mulls ground attack

  13-02-2016 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Turkey's military hit Kurdish and Syrian regime targets Saturday in the northern province of Aleppo, a state-run news agency reported, as Ankara mulled joint ground assault with Saudi troops. Anatolia, quoting a military source, said the armed forces shelled Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party (PYD) targets around the town of Azaz, and also responded to regime fire on a Turkish military guard post in Turkey's southern Hatay region. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said Minnigh airbase,
  
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• Britons expect Cameron to get poor EU deal - poll

  13-02-2016 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A clear majority of Britons do not expect Prime Minister David Cameron to get a good deal in his renegotiation of Britain's EU membership terms, according to a poll on Saturday, adding to the pressure on him ahead of next week's meeting of leaders. Cameron is hoping to clinch a deal with his European Union peers at a summit on Feb. 18-19 which he can then put before the British public in a referendum on whether to remain in the 28-member bloc. The latest ComRes survey for the Independent on Sund
  
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• Police: 3 killed, scores to hospitals after huge I-78 pileup

  13-02-2016 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FREDERICKSBURG, Pa. (AP) — A pileup involving dozens of vehicles on a Pennsylvania interstate that killed three people and sent scores to hospitals appears to have been related to a passing snow squall, authorities said Saturday.
  
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• GOP candidates set sights on South in presidential debate

  13-02-2016 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican presidential candidates turn their sights on the South in Saturday night's debate, with Marco Rubio looking to right his campaign after a costly stumble that gave new hope to some of his rivals. ...
  
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• The Latest: Group backing Bush hits Kasich over defense

  13-02-2016 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on the 2016 presidential race, with the focus turning to South Carolina and the Republican debate on Saturday night (all times local):
  
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• Dozens of newly released Clinton emails now classified

  13-02-2016 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The former top diplomat, a top White House candidate in the 2016 race, has been dogged by allegations that her use of a private email server while in office, rather than a secure government system, had put US secrets at risk. The State Department has so far released nearly 46,000 pages of emails out of a total 55,000 pages, all of which are expected to be published by the end of the month. Three were upgraded to "secret," a State Department official said.
  
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• Greek farmers end blockade of central Athens in tax dispute

  13-02-2016 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATHENS, Greece (AP) — Greek farmers protesting planned tax hikes and pension changes have left a central Athens square where they had been camped out since Friday but are vowing to keep protesting until the government listens.
  
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• Turkish PM confirms strikes on Syrian Kurdish militia, demands it withdraw

  13-02-2016 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu confirmed on Saturday that Turkish forces had struck Kurdish YPG militia targets in northern Syria and demanded that the group withdraw from the area it has recently captured. "We will retaliate against every step (by the YPG)," he told reporters in comments shown live by state broadcaster TRT Haber. "The YPG will immediately withdraw from Azaz and the surrounding area and will not go close to it again." (Writing by Daren Butler; Editin
  
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• Baton Rouge police say 2 officers, 1 suspect shot

  13-02-2016 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Baton Rouge neighborhood was awakened before dawn Saturday by a barrage of gunfire, with police saying two officers were wounded as they traded shots with a man they had been chasing. Neighbors say dozens ...
  
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• Counselors on hand at Phoenix-area school day after shooting

  13-02-2016 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — Social workers offered counsel to students at a suburban Phoenix high school Saturday, a day after two 15-year-old girls died there in a murder-suicide shooting.
  
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• At Westminster, border collies the breed to beat for agility

  13-02-2016 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — As competitors scramble and spring through the obstacle course, the question is this: Can anyone beat the border collies?
  
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• Shops' electricity rationed in crisis-hit Venezuela

  13-02-2016 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  "This is madness, this is not the solution!" said Nataly Orta, 48, at the locked gate of the Lider mall in eastern Caracas. Authorities ordered more than 250 shopping centers to find other sources of power from 1:00 to 3:00 pm and again from 7:00 to 9:00 pm, for the next three months. A business association then said on Saturday the authorities had agreed to relax that requirement by supplying some stores with power in return for them reducing their opening hours.
  
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• Sanders meets solar workers in Nevada

  13-02-2016 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RENO, Nev. (AP) — Bernie Sanders is making common cause with advocates for Nevada's struggling solar industry as the state's Democratic presidential contest approaches.
  
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• Uganda's president cites security as key topic in debate

  13-02-2016 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) — Uganda's long-time president declared Saturday he would deal firmly with any security threats during and after next week's presidential election, brushing aside fears of violence during a televised debate with seven challengers.
  
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• Carmelo Anthony says he has no plans to leave Knicks

  13-02-2016 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TORONTO (AP) — Carmelo Anthony says he has no plans to leave New York and is angry about a report linking him to trade talks.
  
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• Reality tempers optimism in coal country after court ruling

  13-02-2016 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MADISON, W.Va. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has delivered a commodity that is hard to come by in coal country: hope.
  
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• Man Utd top-four hopes fade, Chelsea cruise

  13-02-2016 20:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Louis van Gaal conceded that Manchester United may need to win the Europa League to qualify for next season's Champions League after a 2-1 defeat at Sunderland on Saturday. Bidding to close the six-point gap separating them from the Champions League places, United fell behind in the third minute when Wahbi Khazri's free-kick from wide on the Sunderland left crept in. Anthony Martial levelled before half-time, but an unfortunate 82nd-minute own goal by United goalkeeper David de Gea gifted Sunder
  
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• Wales secure ninth straight win over Scotland in Six Nations

  13-02-2016 20:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wales continued their Six Nations dominance over Scotland with a hard-fought 27-23 triumph at the Principality Stadium on Saturday. A seventh minute solo try from Gareth Davies had put Warren Gatland's men in front, before Scotland took control. Tommy Seymour crossed five minutes later and three penalties from Greig Laidlaw put Scotland in position to end their 14-year wait for a win in Cardiff.
  
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• Idaho hiking reopens, with hikers warned not to feed goats

  13-02-2016 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CLARK FORK, Idaho (AP) — A hiking trail in northern Idaho reopened Saturday, but with an admonishment to hikers: don't feed the goats.
  
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• The Latest: Official names suspect in shooting of 2 officers

  13-02-2016 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Latest on a police shooting in Baton Rouge (all times local):
  
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• Recaptured jail inmate says he never intended to harm anyone

  13-02-2016 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — The suspected mastermind of a three-man escape from a Southern California jail says he never intended to harm anyone during his eight days on the run.
  
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• Deep freeze grips U.S. northeast, triggers fatal 50-car pileup

  13-02-2016 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Scott Malone and Valerie Vande Panne BOSTON, Mass (Reuters) - A dangerous cold snap bringing life-threatening cold was settling in across the northeastern United States on Saturday and a snow squall triggered a pileup of dozens of vehicles on a Pennsylvania highway that left several people dead. Officials warned people to stay indoors away from what the National Weather Service described as "life threatening" cold. Wind chill advisories were in effect over parts of nine states extending from
  
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• Republican group likens Clinton to Trump in advertisement

  13-02-2016 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is getting an assist from a Republican super PAC founded by a top strategist to former President George W. Bush.
  
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• Noise harder on children than adults, hinders how they learn

  13-02-2016 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — From the cacophony of day care to the buzz of TV and electronic toys, noise is more distracting to a child's brain than an adult's, and new research shows it can hinder how youngsters learn.
  
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• Cuba returns dummy Hellfire missile mistakenly received

  13-02-2016 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Cuba has returned a dummy U.S. Hellfire missile that was mistakenly shipped to the country in 2014, American officials said Saturday.
  
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• In war on Zika mosquito, Brazil vows worry-free Olympics

  13-02-2016 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff on Saturday launched a door-to-door "war" on mosquitoes that carry the Zika virus, vowing they will not jeopardize the Rio Olympics in August. "The situation does not compromise the Olympics," Rousseff said as she joined soldiers in a nationwide campaign to teach citizens how to fight the outbreak. Rio de Janeiro will host the Summer Games August 5 to 21, drawing athletes and spectators from around the world.
  
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• Multiple fatalities reported in big I-78 pileup

  13-02-2016 20:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FREDERICKSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Multiple fatalities have been reported in a pileup police say involves more than 50 vehicles on Interstate 78 in central Pennsylvania.
  
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