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• Sharapova says she failed drug test; penalty unknown

  07-03-2016 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Maria Sharapova's tennis career and Olympic hopes are in jeopardy, and she claims it's all because she failed to click on a link in an email that would have told her to stop taking meldonium.
  
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• Storylines to Watch in Tuesday’s Presidential Contests

  07-03-2016 23:57 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Here’s what each to look for Tuesday as four states vote.
  
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• Hundreds of Cops Pay Respects to Officer Killed Her 1st Day

  07-03-2016 23:55 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A Virginia police officer who was fatally shot her first day on the job has been laid to rest next to her father in a Massachusetts cemetery
  
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• GOP candidates claim Reagan mantle, but forget his words

  07-03-2016 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nancy Reagan spent decades protecting the legacy of her husband, but some of President Ronald Reagan's famous political advice appears lost among the White House candidates who embrace him as a guiding light.
  
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• Governor Tweets up a Storm After Debate Calls to Resign

  07-03-2016 23:35 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The governor of Michigan didn't take Clinton and Sanders' criticisms lying down.
  
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• Man Who Filmed Himself Being Arrested for Jaywalking Facing New Charge

  07-03-2016 23:34 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The jaywalking incident prompted two police investigations.
  
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• Jury awards $55M to Erin Andrews in lawsuit over nude video taken at hotel, posted online

  07-03-2016 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jury awards $55M to Erin Andrews in lawsuit over nude video taken at hotel, posted online.
  
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• Stock market posts meager gains, led by energy companies

  07-03-2016 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks wavered throughout the day but managed to eke out modest gains Monday as oil prices rose.
  
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• Jimmy Carter's Doctors Find No Evidence of Cancer After Breakthrough Treatment

  07-03-2016 23:32 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The former president was diagnosed with metastatic cancer.
  
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• Capitol Hill Buzz: Reid, Grassley clash on Senate floor

  07-03-2016 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley lashed out at the Senate's top Democrat on Monday, accusing him and his colleagues of throwing tantrums over Republican opposition to President Barack Obama filling the Supreme Court vacancy.
  
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• US appeals ruling on accessing data in New York iPhone case

  07-03-2016 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department is appealing a New York judge's ruling that Apple cannot be forced to provide the government with access to locked iPhone data.
  
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• Strong promises "wide open" duel for Texas quarterback

  07-03-2016 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas coach Charlie Strong promised a "wide open" competition for the starting job among the team's five scholarship quarterbacks as the Longhorns opened spring practice Monday.
  
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• Jurors reach verdict in Erin Andrews' $75M lawsuit against stalker, hotel; to be announced soon

  07-03-2016 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Jurors reach verdict in Erin Andrews' $75M lawsuit against stalker, hotel; to be announced soon.
  
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• British police's counter-terror chief warns of IS attack

  07-03-2016 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — British police's counter-terror chief warned Monday that the Islamic State group wants to launch "enormous and spectacular attacks," as jihadis broaden their focus to target Western lifestyles.
  
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• Photos: Jay Z and Blue Ivy Pose With the Lombardi Trophy

  07-03-2016 23:22 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The life and times of Beyonce.
  
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• Ex-NYC Mayor Bloomberg says he will not enter presidential race

  07-03-2016 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg said on Monday he will not enter the race for U.S. president in November, because it was clear he could not win and he did not want to risk enabling a victory by Republicans Donald Trump or Ted Cruz. Last month the Financial Times quoted Bloomberg as saying he found the campaign discussions "distressingly banal" and considering running for president. Bloomberg said in a online column that in a three-way race, no candidate was likely to win
  
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• Cops find gunfire suspect, 75, asleep after 4-hour standoff

  07-03-2016 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEWARK, Ohio (AP) — Gunfire at a central Ohio home in the middle of the night spurred a four-hour standoff until officers heard snoring, realized the 75-year-old suspect had fallen asleep in bed and moved in to arrest him, police said Monday. No one was hurt.
  
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• Nancy Reagan's funeral date set

  07-03-2016 22:56 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Former first lady Nancy Reagan's funeral will be held Friday at 2 p.m. ET, according to Melissa Giller, spokesperson for the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library.
  
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• Flint water crisis: Officials accused

  07-03-2016 22:56 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Another lawsuit has been filed in the Flint water crisis, this one by seven families that accuse city and state officials of downplaying the situation while residents suffered.
  
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• J.K. Rowling to Release 4 New Wizarding Stories This Week

  07-03-2016 22:46 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The series is called "Magic in North America."
  
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• Chicken Nuggets Recalled Over Possible Contamination With Plastic

  07-03-2016 22:09 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The Applegate Naturals Chicken Nuggets were produced on Sept. 28, 2015.
  
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• New anti-Trump ad: He talks '$#@!+'

  07-03-2016 21:50 via rss.cnn.com
  
  An independent conservative group is attempting to turn Donald Trump's use profanity against him in a critical new ad targeting the Republican front-runner in Florida.
  
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• Campaign donors having second thoughts about Marco Rubio

  07-03-2016 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TAMPA, Florida (AP) — Just when Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio needs them the most, big-dollar contributors from the party's wealthy main stream are having second thoughts about his future in the 2016 race.
  
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• Lawyer featured in 'Making a Murderer' is writing a book

  07-03-2016 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — An attorney for Steven Avery who was featured in the hit Netflix series "Making a Murderer" has more to say about the trial.
  
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• EU official sees possible breakthrough on Turkey migrant deal

  07-03-2016 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU leaders have made progress in negotiations with Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu on Monday and could still reach a deal on curbing migrant flows overnight, a senior official in the EU's executive said. "Good progress in difficult European Council talks on solving the refugee crisis," tweeted Martin Selmayr, chief-of-staff to European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker. "A breakthrough during this night is possible." (Reporting by Alastair Macdonald; Editing by
  
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• U.S. says to release data of casualties from counter-terror strikes

  07-03-2016 21:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By David Brunnstrom and Jonathan Landay WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States said on Monday that in the coming weeks it will publicly release an assessment of combatant and non-combatant casualties from U.S. counter-terrorism strikes in areas outside active war zones since 2009. The decision, which follows criticism by human rights groups and others that drone strikes in Pakistan, Yemen, Somalia and Libya have caused civilian casualties, was taken in the interest of transparency, according t
  
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• Over 50 dead as Tunisia foils 'emirate' bid on Libya border

  07-03-2016 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tunisian forces repelled a jihadist assault Monday on a town near the Libyan border, killing 36 assailants in what authorities said was a thwarted effort to establish an Islamic emirate. Eleven members of the security forces and seven civilians were also killed in Ben Guerdane in what President Beji Caid Essebsi condemned as an "unprecedented" jihadist attack. Prime Minister Habib Essid, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State (IS) group, said the operation's aim had been to create a "Daes
  
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• Boston Marathon bombing survivor killed in Dubai car crash

  07-03-2016 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — A college student who survived serious injuries in the Boston Marathon bombing was killed in a car accident in Dubai over the weekend, a spokesman for Northeastern University said Monday.
  
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• Maria Sharapova announces failed drug test at Australian Open

  07-03-2016 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former world number one Maria Sharapova announced Monday she failed a doping test at the Australian Open, saying a change in the World-Anti-Doping Agency banned list for 2016 led to the violation. "I did fail the test, and I take full responsibility for it," a sombre Sharapova said at a press conference at a downtown Los Angeles hotel.
  
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• Alabama judge seals Harper Lee will

  07-03-2016 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MONROEVILLE, Ala. (AP) — Famously private in life, "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee is keeping her secrets even in death.
  
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• NY police officers honor former colleague killed in Texas

  07-03-2016 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Hundreds of New York City police officers lined Fifth Avenue in Manhattan in a farewell salute Monday to a former NYPD colleague who was gunned down in Texas.
  
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• Obama orders flags at half-staff for Nancy Reagan

  07-03-2016 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US President Barack Obama ordered flags lowered to half-staff Monday at the White House and all federal buildings in honor of late former first lady Nancy Reagan. Reagan, who died Sunday at age 94, will be buried in a private ceremony Friday alongside her husband former president Ronald Reagan at his presidential library overlooking Simi Valley, California. A fierce protector of her husband and his political legacy, Reagan had outsized influence during her White House years from 1981 to 1989.
  
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• Chicago area's top prosecutor under scrutiny before primary

  07-03-2016 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — In what has seemed an almost daily occurrence on the campaign trail, protesters have blocked streets and buildings to call for the resignation of the Chicago area's top prosecutor, who took a year to charge a white police officer in the death of a black teenager shot 16 times.
  
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• O.J. Simpson case: What the knife means

  07-03-2016 21:24 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The so-called "trial of the century" had all the drama, twists and turns one could imagine -- except for a murder weapon.
  
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• Fed Vice Chair sees hints of too-low inflation moving up

  07-03-2016 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal Reserve Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer said Monday that inflation in the U.S. may be starting to tick up from too-low levels, a key condition for further interest rate hikes.
  
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• Stock market wobbles following four-day winning streak

  07-03-2016 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are mostly lower in late afternoon trading Monday as momentum from a four-day winning streak fades. Energy companies are jumping along with the price of crude oil and natural gas. Banks and technology companies are lower. Chipmaker Micron Technology is down 3 percent.
  
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• Mac ransomware caught before large number of computers infected

  07-03-2016 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The first known ransomware attack on Apple Inc's Mac computers, which was discovered over the weekend, was downloaded more than 6,000 times before the threat was contained, according to a developer whose product was tainted with the malicious software. Hackers infected Macs with the "KeRanger" ransomware through a tainted copy of Transmission, a popular program for transferring data through the BitTorrent peer-to-peer file sharing network. KeRanger, which locks data on Macs so users cannot acces
  
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• The Latest: Kasich: I shouldn't have answered Trump question

  07-03-2016 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on campaign 2016 (all times Eastern Standard Time):
  
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• Air strike hits Syrian market, opposition says truce must be respected

  07-03-2016 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Tom Perry and Tom Miles BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) - A Syrian or Russian air strike was reported to have killed at least a dozen people and possibly many more at a market in northwestern Syria on Monday, straining a cessation of hostilities agreement meant to pave the way for peace talks. In a further upsurge in violence, al Qaeda's Nusra Front and other Islamist insurgents not included in the U.S.-Russian agreement attacked government forces in a neighboring province, a monitoring group said. T
  
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• The Latest: UN aid deliveries under way to Damascus suburb

  07-03-2016 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — The Latest on Syria's conflict (all times local):
  
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• U.S. takes North Korea nuclear threats seriously: State Department

  07-03-2016 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. State Department said on Monday the United States took North Korean threats to use nuclear weapons seriously and urged Pyongyang to halt its provocations, including testing nuclear devices and long-range rockets. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered his country last week to be prepared to use nuclear weapons at any time and to be ready to carry out a pre-emptive attack, state media reported.
  
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• Jurors discuss who is to blame for Erin Andrews nude video

  07-03-2016 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The key questions jurors are deliberating in Erin Andrews' $75 million lawsuit are whether two hotel companies bear any responsibility for a stalker renting a room next to the sportscaster and taking a nude video of her, and if so, how much they should pay.
  
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• Obama to shed light on US drone strikes with casualty count

  07-03-2016 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration will disclose how many people have been killed by U.S. drones and counterterrorism strikes since 2009, the White House said Monday, lifting one element of secrecy shrouding the controversial counterterrorism program.
  
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• Peyton Manning jokes, chokes up during retirement remarks

  07-03-2016 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — His voice cracking with emotion, Peyton Manning said good bye to the game he loved at a news conference packed with friends, family and laughter.
  
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• US consumer borrowing growth slows in January

  07-03-2016 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. consumers bumped up their borrowing in January at the slowest rate pace in nearly three years, as outstanding revolving debt — such as credit cards — slipped from December.
  
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• USOC on Zika: Athletes decide whether to compete in Brazil

  07-03-2016 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — U.S. Olympic Committee leaders say athletes have to decide for themselves about competing at the Summer Olympics in Brazil, where the outbreak of the Zika virus has made some question the wisdom of traveling there this year.
  
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• US swimming star Franklin unfazed by Zika threat

  07-03-2016 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  United States swimming star Missy Franklin on Monday shrugged off the possible threat posed by the Zika virus to athletes at August's Olympics in Rio de Janeiro as team officials outlined precautions to protect competitors. Franklin, one of the stars of the 2012 London Olympics, said she was unfazed by the series of headlines emerging from Brazil in recent months, which has seen 1.5 million cases of the Zika virus since 2015. Four-time Olympic gold medalist Franklin, however, said she was happy
  
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• Activist investor pushes Shutterfly to pursue a sale

  07-03-2016 20:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Activist investor Ancora Advisors is stepping up the pressure on photo sharing service Shutterfly to negotiate a sale of the company or reshuffle its board of directors if a deal can't be quickly worked out.
  
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• Syrian opposition undecided over peace talks

  07-03-2016 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — The main Syrian opposition coalition will decide later this week on whether to take part in peace talks scheduled to resume Wednesday in Geneva, the head of the group said Monday, while violence across the north of the Syria claimed the lives of over a dozen people, despite a partial cease-fire.
  
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• Trump tries to stay on message in NC amid wave of protests

  07-03-2016 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Protesters have become commonplace at Donald Trump's political rallies, but the multitude of interruptions Monday in North Carolina made it somewhat difficult for the businessman to stay on message.
  
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