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• Apple Doesn't Have to Help FBI in N.Y. iPhone Case: Judge

  29-02-2016 23:37 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  A New York judge says the U.S. Justice Department cannot force Apple to provide the FBI with access to locked iPhone data in a routine drug case.
  
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• Sportscaster Erin Andrews Testifies in Nude Videos Case

  29-02-2016 23:23 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Jurors were hearing testimony from sportscaster Erin Andrews as well as the man who stalked her and posted nude videos of her on the Internet.
  
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• Mexico will defer oil exploration projects to slash spending

  29-02-2016 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The state-run oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos, said Monday it will slash spending 22 percent and cut unprofitable production about 100,000 barrels a day as it struggles with liquidity problems and past-due ...
  
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• Syria truce offers chance for aid but still needs local negotiation: U.N. aid chief

  29-02-2016 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Tom Esslemont LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The cessation of hostilities drawn up by Washington and Moscow offers a chance to supply aid to the half a million Syrians living under siege, but negotiations with warring parties must first be successful, the U.N. aid chief said on Monday. "Access still requires negotiation by (the U.N. resident coordinator in Damascus) Yacoub El Hillo and others with the Syrian government, with Hezbollah, with local militia," Stephen O'Brien said in an in
  
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• The Latest: Melania Trump wasn't happy about Trump language

  29-02-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on campaign 2016 on the eve of Super Tuesday (all times local):
  
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• David Duke: I Agree With Trump on 'A Lot' of Issues

  29-02-2016 22:54 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  White supremacist David Duke balked at endorsing Trump last year because he believed the GOP presidential candidate was too friendly with "the Jews."
  
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• Brother in pastor's shooting sued him over money in 2011

  29-02-2016 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — The brother being held in the fatal shooting of a southwest Ohio pastor had sued the minister over an inheritance dispute five year ago, court records show.
  
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• Accused UVA Killer to Enter Guilty Plea in Two Murders

  29-02-2016 22:53 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  Accused UVA killer Jesse Leroy Matthew Jr. is planning to enter guilty pleas on Wednesday in connection with the kidnapping and murders of students.
  
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• GOP badly split as Trump, Clinton seek Super Tuesday wins

  29-02-2016 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) — On the eve of Super Tuesday's crucial primaries, a sharp new divide erupted between Republicans who pledge to fall in line behind Donald Trump if he wins their party's nomination and others who insist they can never back the bombastic billionaire.
  
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• Voters in Florida begin early voting in crucial primary

  29-02-2016 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — The Florida primary is weeks away, but tens of thousands of voters headed to the polls Monday for early voting in this critical contest that could make-or-break the presidential aspirations of native son, Sen. Marco Rubio.
  
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• Lawyers for Sen. Menendez, government argue to appeals panel

  29-02-2016 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A panel of appeals court judges grilled New Jersey Sen. Bob Menendez's lawyer during arguments on Monday in the corruption case against the longtime lawmaker.
  
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• North Korea says U.S. student confessed to theft of item with propaganda slogan

  29-02-2016 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By James Pearson and Jack Kim SEOUL (Reuters) - A U.S. student held in North Korea since early January was detained for trying to steal an item bearing a propaganda slogan from his Pyongyang hotel and has confessed to "severe crimes" against the state, the North's official media said on Monday. Otto Warmbier, 21, a University of Virginia student, was detained before boarding his flight to China over an unspecified incident at his hotel, his tour agency told Reuters in January. North Korea has a
  
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• Neighbor fired air rifle, unaware it hit Salma Hayek's dog

  29-02-2016 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Salma Hayek's neighbor fired an air rifle toward a dog that had come into his garage and fought with his dogs, apparently unaware that he had struck and killed the actress' dog, authorities in Washington state said Monday.
  
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• US 'Super Tuesday' -- what's at stake

  29-02-2016 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Americans in a dozen states head to the polls for a slew of primaries and caucuses Tuesday on what is considered the most important day of the presidential nominations calendar. A dozen states are holding contests, including several in the South. For the most part, they are both Republican and Democratic in nature.
  
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• Mexico reports fresh theft of radioactive material

  29-02-2016 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexican authorities were searching on Monday for a container of radioactive material used for industrial X-rays that was stolen along with a car in central Mexico this weekend, the latest in a series of such case in the country.
  
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• Prosecutor: Man to plead guilty to 2 students' slayings

  29-02-2016 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A former hospital worker is expected to plead guilty in the high-profile slayings of two college students in Virginia, a prosecutor said Monday.
  
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• Clinton email on North Korea deemed secret, not 'top secret'

  29-02-2016 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration settled a long-running dispute over a sensitive email on Hillary Clinton's private account, as intelligence agencies classified part of an exchange on North Korea's nuclear program for containing "secret" information, but no "top secret" material as previously claimed.
  
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• Here's How a Lack of Sleep Might Make You Chow Down

  29-02-2016 22:34 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  People who don't get enough sleep may pack on the pounds because they've got the munchies - the same munchies that pot smokers say they get.
  
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• North Carolina Cop Kills Man During Chase

  29-02-2016 22:33 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  The chase began with an officer trying to detain a man wanted for a drug charge, Raleigh Police Chief Cassandra Deck-Brown said.
  
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• News Corp to settle U.S. in-store ads monopoly lawsuit: lawyer

  29-02-2016 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  News Corp has agreed on the eve of trial to settle a $2 billion lawsuit accusing the company of monopolizing the market for in-store promotions at more than 50,000 retail stores across the United States, a lawyer for the plaintiffs said Monday. The deal with Rupert Murdoch's company was disclosed by Steven Benz, a lawyer for consumer packaged goods companies including Dial Corp and Kraft Heinz Co, after jury selection had been completed for a trial in Manhattan federal court. A News Corp spokesm
  
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• Photographer Recounts Altercation With Security at Trump Rally

  29-02-2016 22:30 via feeds.nbcnews.com
  
  NBC News Jacob Rascon tracks down TIME Photojournalist Chis Morris following his altercation with security at a rally for Donald Trump in Virginia.
  
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• Comedian Katt Williams arrested on battery charge in Georgia

  29-02-2016 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GAINESVILLE, Ga. (AP) — Comedian Katt Williams was arrested Monday on a battery charge in Georgia after a store employee told police that Williams punched him during an argument.
  
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• Baghdad attacks signal Iraqi forces stretched thin against Islamic State

  29-02-2016 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ahmed Rasheed and Saif Hameed BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Islamic State's deadliest attacks for months in and around Baghdad could be a sign that Iraqi forces are stretched thin after recent advances to reclaim territory from the group, according to some military commanders and a provincial official. Iraqi forces backed by air strikes from a U.S.-led coalition retook the northern city of Baiji in October and then Ramadi, 100 km (60 miles) west of Baghdad, at the end of last year.
  
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• Rubio takes gloves off with Trump, and supporters love it

  29-02-2016 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Inviting audiences to "have a little fun," Republican presidential hopeful Sen. Marco Rubio's jabs at front-runner Donald Trump are getting personal.
  
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• Bipartisan drug abuse bill faces Senate fight over money

  29-02-2016 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — An election-year Senate fight is brewing over a bipartisan bill targeting heroin and opioid abuse that Democrats say needs another ingredient: more money.
  
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• State Department to release final Clinton email batch

  29-02-2016 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jonathan Allen WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department said it would release the final batch of Hillary Clinton's emails from her time at the department's helm later on Monday evening, meeting an extended deadline set by a federal judge. The release of the remaining 1,700 emails yet to be made public does not mark the end of a controversy that has dogged Clinton's campaign to be elected president in November since her use of a private email server in her home first came to light a ye
  
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• The Latest: Hungary endorses referendum on EU migrant quotas

  29-02-2016 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  IDOMENI, Greece (AP) — The Latest on Europe's migration crisis (all times local):
  
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• Trump rally interrupted by protests

  29-02-2016 22:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Dozens of protesters interrupted Donald Trump's rally in Radford, Virginia, on Monday, many of them linking arms and bringing the Republican presidential front-runner's stump speech temporarily to a halt.
  
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• Syria truce task force meets as aid deliveries start

  29-02-2016 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Aid workers on Monday made the first delivery of desperately needed assistance since the start of Syria's fragile ceasefire, as an international task force met to try to bolster the truce. The task force co-chaired by Moscow and Washington held talks in Geneva to evaluate allegations of a range of breaches, said the United Nations which mediated the three-day-old ceasefire. At the weekend, key regime backer Russia traded accusations with the main opposition grouping, the High Negotiations Commit
  
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• Google self-driving car strikes public bus in California

  29-02-2016 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A self-driving car being tested by Google struck a public bus on a Silicon Valley street, a fender-bender that appears to be the first time one of the tech company's vehicles caused an accident during testing on city roads.
  
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• Suicide bombings kill 40 in eastern Iraq, eight west of Baghdad

  29-02-2016 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least 40 people were killed by a suicide bomber at a funeral in Iraq's eastern province of Diyala while a suicide blast at a security checkpoint in Baghdad's western outskirts killed eight members of the security forces, police said on Monday. The larger attack in Muqdadiya, 80 km (50 miles) northeast of Baghdad, killed six local commanders of the Hashid Shaabi umbrella group of Shi'ite militias who were attending the funeral of a commander's relative, security officials and police in Diyala
  
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• Yahoo estimates $64-78 million restructuring charges, mostly in first quarter

  29-02-2016 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc estimated that a plan to cut jobs and other restructuring moves would result in pretax charges of $64 million to $78 million, mostly in the first quarter of 2016. Of the total, $40 million to $48 million would be for severance pay and related cash expenditures, the company said in a regulatory filing on Friday.
  
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• Guard admits role in NY prison break

  29-02-2016 21:56 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A corrections officer accused of aiding two convicted killers in their escape last June from an upstate New York penitentiary pleaded guilty Monday and was sentenced to six months behind bars.
  
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• Oil rise 3 percent as China moves to boost economy, crude output drops

  29-02-2016 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Oil prices jumped 3 percent on Monday after China moved to boost its slowing economy, a drop in crude output from OPEC and the U.S., and a pledge by Saudi Arabia to limit market volatility, suggesting a 20-month selloff could be hitting a bottom. China, the world's largest oil importer, cut its reserve requirement ratio, the amount of cash banks must hold as reserves, for a fifth time in a year. Saudi Arabia, working with Venezuela and Qatar and non-OPEC producer Russia on a plan to freeze oil o
  
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• Woman takes severed head to train station

  29-02-2016 21:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A woman who carried the severed head of a child into a Moscow metro station Monday has been arrested, the city's prosecutor's office said.
  
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• SEAL saved hostage in rescue firefight

  29-02-2016 21:45 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Navy SEAL Edward Byers received the Medal of Honor on Monday morning for his role in rescuing an American civilian being held hostage by Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan.
  
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• Documents reveal details about Boston Marathon bombers

  29-02-2016 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Tamerlan Tsarnaev (TAM'-ehr-luhn tsahr-NEYE'-ehv) passed the U.S. citizenship test and denied terrorism links months before he and his brother detonated two bombs that killed three people at the Boston Marathon finish line.
  
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• Clergy victims doubt "Spotlight" Oscar win will bring change

  29-02-2016 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Victims of clergy sexual abuse are reveling in the Oscar won by "Spotlight" — the story of The Boston Globe's investigation into the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Boston.
  
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• Trump naysayers push #NeverTrump on Twitter before Super Tuesday

  29-02-2016 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Gina Cherelus and Melissa Fares NEW YORK (Reuters) - The use of the #NeverTrump hashtag grew on Twitter on Monday as detractors of Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump fretted over his momentum on the eve of Super Tuesday election contests. On Twitter, the top influencer, or person who received the most engagement on their #NeverTrump tweets, was Trump rival Marco Rubio, according to online research firm Hashtagify.me. The senator from Florida and real estate billionaire Trump ar
  
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• Supreme Court justice asks first question in decade

  29-02-2016 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rarely are Supreme Court proceedings rocked by such astonishment. On Monday, Justice Clarence Thomas broke a years-long habit of silence by asking a question during a hearing on gun rights -- his first in a decade. An arch-conservative who was ideologically aligned to his friend on the court, the late -- and voluble -- Justice Antonin Scalia, Thomas has become known as the only justice never to open his mouth during oral arguments.
  
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• Sanders in his own, offensive words

  29-02-2016 21:29 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Editor's note: This article contains language that may be offensive to some readers.
  
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• Justice Thomas asks questions in court, 1st time in 10 years

  29-02-2016 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Justice Clarence Thomas broke 10 years of courtroom silence Monday and posed questions during a Supreme Court oral argument, provoking gasps from the audience.
  
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• Elite U.S forces target ISIS leaders

  29-02-2016 21:17 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The U.S. Army's elite Delta Force operations to target, capture or kill top ISIS operatives have begun in Iraq, after several weeks of covert preparation, an administration official with direct knowledge of the force's activities told CNN.
  
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• Photos: The Hottest Couples at the Oscars

  29-02-2016 21:07 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Photos of couples at the Academy Awards.
  
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• Can Miami Beach survive climate change?

  29-02-2016 21:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Miami Beach is in trouble.
  
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• Reward offered for goose's killers

  29-02-2016 21:03 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Big-hearted radio listeners are in a flap over the suspected shooting of a goose, offering a £275,000 ($380,000) reward to help find its killers.
  
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• 'Female Viagra' gets mixed reviews

  29-02-2016 20:58 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A new review of the "little pink pill" for women with low sexual desire says the drug doesn't work very well -- but some doctors and patients who've been using the treatment disagree. The drug, Addyi, or flibanserin, has been on the market since October.
  
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• Man stabs 10 children in school

  29-02-2016 20:57 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A man in southern China stabbed 10 schoolchildren before killing himself Monday morning, state-run media reported.
  
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• Murder hunt as men killed 'execution-style'

  29-02-2016 20:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  An investigation is underway after three young men were found shot to death "execution-style" in a house in Indiana, authorities said.
  
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• New controversy over Oscars swag bag

  29-02-2016 20:52 via rss.cnn.com
  
  New controversy surrounds an Israel trip given as a prize in the Oscars swag bag. CNN's Oren Liebermann reports.
  
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