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• Warney, Stony Brook off to NCAA after 80-74 America East win

  12-03-2016 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  STONY BROOK, N.Y. (AP) — Everybody wanted a photo with the hero and Jameel Warney was happy to oblige.
  
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• DeMarcus Ware redoes deal to stay in Denver

  12-03-2016 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — DeMarcus Ware has restructured his contract to stay with the Denver Broncos, who have lost several key players to free agency.
  
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• China's Anbang to acquire Strategic Hotels for $6.5 billion: source

  12-03-2016 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Mike Stone NEW YORK (Reuters) - China's Anbang Insurance Group has agreed to acquire Strategic Hotels & Resorts Inc for around $6.5 billion, as the owner of New York's iconic Waldorf Astoria expands its U.S. hotel portfolio, a person briefed on the matter said Saturday. The deal, which illustrates corporate China's unquenched thirst for U.S real estate, comes just three months after Strategic Hotels' current owner, private equity firm Blackstone Group LP , took the company private for aro
  
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• Trump rally sparks extraordinary stretch in Republican race

  12-03-2016 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — In a Republican presidential primary filled with extraordinary moments, a 24-hour stretch that began Friday night stands above them all.
  
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• Turning to Ohio and beyond, Clinton must excite voters

  12-03-2016 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — When it comes to Hillary Clinton, some Ohio voters admit to feeling more lukewarm than fired up.
  
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• Kerber upset at Indian Wells

  12-03-2016 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Australian Open champion Angelique Kerber crashed out of the Indian Wells tournament Saturday, losing her opening match in straight sets 7-5, 7-5 to Czech Denisa Allertova. The world number two knocked off Serena Williams in the Australian Open final in January for the first Grand Slam tournament victory of her career.
  
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• Earthquakes rock south-central Alaska, western Aleutians

  12-03-2016 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A magnitude 4.5 earthquake rocked south-central Alaska on Saturday and was felt in the state's largest city, Anchorage.
  
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• Defiant Trump stares down calls to tackle campaign violence

  12-03-2016 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A defiant Donald Trump returned to the campaign trail Saturday after a "planned attack" shut down one of his rallies, as the Republican faced scrutiny over the racially-charged tone of his White House bid. Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton issued a stern warning to Trump after the scenes of violence in Chicago, with days to go until a crucial new round of nomination votes Tuesday, in comments that were echoed by President Barack Obama. Friday's violence flared after throngs of protesters --
  
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• Second of 2 escaped New Mexico inmates caught in Albuquerque

  12-03-2016 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The second of two New Mexico convicts was taken into custody in Albuquerque on Saturday, less than a day after the other one's capture.
  
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• Messi masterclass hits Getafe for six

  12-03-2016 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Lionel Messi scored, provided three assists and missed a penalty as Barcelona pressed home their advantage at the top of La Liga with a 6-0 thrashing of Getafe on Saturday. Atletico Madrid stayed eight points adrift of Barca at the top with 3-0 win over Deportivo la Coruna thanks to goals from Saul Niguez, Antoine Griezmann and Angel Correa. Juan Rodriguez's own goal opened the scoring at the Camp Nou, before Messi saw his penalty saved by Vicente Guaita, teed up Munir El Haddadi and Neymar and
  
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• Man charged in Belfast bombing

  12-03-2016 23:06 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A 45-year-old man appeared in a Northern Ireland court Saturday in connection with a bombing in Belfast -- a blast that authorities fear could be one of many leading up to an uprising's milestone anniversary.
  
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• Anti-Trump activists look to replicate Chicago success

  12-03-2016 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — College students, civil rights activists and other opponents of Donald Trump's Republican presidential candidacy are celebrating their success in shutting down his rally Friday night in Chicago.
  
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• The Latest: Clinton picks up more superdelegates

  12-03-2016 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the 2016 presidential campaign (all times Eastern Standard Time):
  
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• Trump rejects calls to temper tone at his campaign events

  12-03-2016 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  VANDALIA, Ohio (AP) — One day after well-organized protesters led Donald Trump to cancel a campaign rally before it even started, the Republican presidential front-runner coldly rejected calls on Saturday to temper the tone of his events. He called such protesters a "disgrace" and blamed them for fueling violent confrontations at his rallies.
  
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• Syrian transition can only start with Assad's exit or death: opposition

  12-03-2016 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Syrian opposition negotiator Mohamad Alloush said on Saturday that Syria's political transition could only start once Bashar al-Assad was no longer president of Syria. "We consider that the transitional period starts with the fall of Bashar al-Assad or his death," he told reporters in Geneva, where a round of peace talks is due to begin on Monday.
  
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• Rebels shoot down Syrian warplane

  12-03-2016 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rebels shot down a Syrian government warplane over western Syria on Saturday, rebels and a military source said, although there were conflicting accounts on whether it had been brought down by a missile or anti-aircraft guns. The Syrian military source said militants had targeted a warplane while it was landing in Hama province, bringing it down, and calling the attack a breach of a "cessation of hostilities" agreement. A rebel group operating in the area, Jaish al-Nasr, said it had brought down
  
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• Florida disputes Trump assertion about dishonest voting

  12-03-2016 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida election officials on Saturday pushed back against assertions by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump that there was "dishonest early voting" going on in the state.
  
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• Officials: Chemical attack in Iraqi town

  12-03-2016 22:35 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Suspected terrorists with links to ISIS on Saturday fired rockets containing unspecified chemical substances into a residential part of the northern Iraqi town of Taza, Iraqi security officials told CNN.
  
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• Trump's incendiary rhetoric

  12-03-2016 22:32 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A timeline of controversial comments Donald Trump has made to protesters during the 2016 election campaign.
  
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• Alaska scientists continue researching seabird death mystery

  12-03-2016 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The common murre on Sarah Schoen's examination table lived a short, hungry life.
  
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• Greece vows to resolve migrant build-up on border 'within week'

  12-03-2016 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Greece said Saturday it aimed to "resolve" the migrant build-up on the Macedonian border within a week, as Chinese artist Ai Weiwei hauled a white grand piano to the muddy frontier to highlight their plight. As the rain poured down on Idomeni camp, where some 12,000 people are stranded in miserable conditions, a surreal scene played out with Syrian refugee Nour Alkhzam sitting at the piano and playing for 20 minutes under cover of plastic sheeting held up by Ai and a handful of others. The stunt
  
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• Second of 2 inmates who escaped from a New Mexico prison transport van now in custody.

  12-03-2016 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Second of 2 inmates who escaped from a New Mexico prison transport van now in custody.
  
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• New disturbance at Trump rally as crucial Republican contests near

  12-03-2016 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By William Philpott DAYTON, Ohio (Reuters) - Secret Service agents rushed to protect U.S. Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump on stage during a disturbance at a rally on Saturday, a day after rowdy protests shut down his event in Chicago. Trump briefly ducked at the podium and four Secret Service agents scrambled to surround him after a man apparently broke through a security perimeter near the stage at Dayton International Airport in Ohio.
  
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• 4 wounded in party bus shooting; witnesses not cooperating

  12-03-2016 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — Gunmen in Northern California fired shots into a moving party bus early Saturday, wounding four and leaving authorities stumped because passengers refused to cooperate with the investigation.
  
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• No. 17 Texas A&M Aggies trounce LSU 71-38 in SEC Tournament

  12-03-2016 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The 17th-ranked Texas A&M Aggies will play for their first conference tournament title since 1987, just not in the way they expected.
  
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• Trump rally violence offers Kasich fresh chance for contrast

  12-03-2016 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HEATH, Ohio (AP) — John Kasich on Saturday delivered his harshest criticism yet of Donald Trump, saying he's "had it" with the "toxic" nature of Trump's campaign and suggesting he may not support the businessman should he become the Republican nominee.
  
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• Leader of Eagles of Death Metal apologizes for comments

  12-03-2016 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Eagles of Death Metal frontman Jesse Hughes has apologized for suggesting that security guards at a Paris concert venue were complicit in the assault by Islamic militants there in November that left 89 people dead.
  
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• Obama thirsty for a taste of Donald Trump's wine

  12-03-2016 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — President Barack Obama is thirsty ... for a taste of Donald Trump's wine.
  
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• Los Angeles County coroner resigns amid body backlog

  12-03-2016 21:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles County's coroner is resigning after only 2 1/2 years, saying understaffing left him unable to do the job amid complaints of stacked body and testing backlogs.
  
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• Unusually widespread flooding across Louisiana, Mississippi

  12-03-2016 20:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HATTIESBURG, Miss. (AP) — As the Leaf River rose north of Hattiesburg, Mississippi, 26-year-old Rebecca Bruce and her fiancé grabbed what they could and left the shed where they live. The water was more than 2 feet deep indoors when they left, she said.
  
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• The Latest: Sanders criticizes Chicago mayor as Clinton ally

  12-03-2016 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the 2016 presidential campaign (all times Eastern Standard Time):
  
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• Thrilling World Cup downhill finale ahead

  12-03-2016 20:41 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Italy's Dominik Paris set up a thrilling finale to the World Cup season with victory in the penultimate downhill in Kvitfjell Saturday to close to within four points of the leaders.
  
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• Trump under fire as calls mount to quell campaign violence

  12-03-2016 20:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump said Saturday he felt "energized" in his campaign a day after calling off a giant rally amid chaotic scenes of violence, as the Republican faced scrutiny over the racially-charged tone of his White House bid. Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton issued a stern warning to Trump after tensions boiled over in Chicago, just days before a crucial new round of presidential nomination votes on Tuesday. President Barack Obama added his voice to the chorus criticism of Trump's incendiary r
  
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• 15-year-old pilot from England wins Dubai's World Drone Prix

  12-03-2016 20:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A team led by a 15-year-old pilot from England took first place Saturday in the World Drone Prix, a new contest hoping to take flight both in this Mideast country fascinated by the technology and with ...
  
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• Israel calls on powers to punish Iran for its missile tests

  12-03-2016 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday called for world powers to take "immediate punitive steps" against Iran, following its ballistic missile tests last week. A series of tests conducted by Iran's Revolutionary Guards caused international concern, with the United States, France and other countries saying that, if confirmed, the launch of nuclear-capable ballistic missiles would violate U.N. Security Council resolution 2231. Netanyahu has been v
  
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• Brazil's Rousseff could lose key coalition ally

  12-03-2016 20:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brasília (AFP) - The largest political party in Brazil, the PMDB, gave itself 30 days Saturday to decide whether to break with embattled President Dilma Rousseff's coalition. Lawmaker Osmar Terra, a member of the powerful Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB), said the decision had been taken at the centrist party's national convention in Brasilia. The PMDB cannot sink with it.
  
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• Scotland's SNP to start rebuilding independence campaign this summer

  12-03-2016 20:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Elisabeth O'Leary GLASGOW, Scotland (Reuters) - The Scottish National Party (SNP) will start building a new case for independence from the United Kingdom this summer, party leader and Scottish government head Nicola Sturgeon said on Saturday, without committing herself to a timeframe for a new referendum. Scots voted 55 to 45 percent against independence in 2014, but the collapse of the Labour and Conservative parties vaulted the SNP to unprecedented gains in the subsequent British national e
  
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• Ai Weiwei brings white grand piano to muddy refugee field

  12-03-2016 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei dragged a white grand piano to a muddy, rain-drenched refugee camp on the Greek-Macedonian border Saturday, allowing a young Syrian woman to tinkle the ivories for the first time in years. Performing in the pouring rain under a plastic sheet held up by Ai and others, 24-year-old Nour Alkhzam, who has not seen her husband for over a year because of her country's brutal war, played for 20 minutes in a field at the Idomeni border camp, where 12,000 migrants and re
  
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• Poles protest as govt refuses to accept adverse court ruling

  12-03-2016 20:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Thousands rallied in Warsaw and other Polish cities Saturday to protest the conservative government's refusal to accept a constitutional court ruling that strikes down government changes that have paralyzed the court.
  
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• Egypt court sentences blogger to 3 years for insulting women

  12-03-2016 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian court has sentenced a blogger to three years in jail with hard labor for "spreading false news" after he said about 45 percent of married Egyptian women have the readiness for "immorality" and to cheat on their husbands.
  
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• 1 dead, 2 missing after tugboat crash on Hudson River

  12-03-2016 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A tugboat crashed into a barge on the Hudson River north of New York City early Saturday, killing one crew member and leaving two missing.
  
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• Obama rebukes Trump for campaign rhetoric

  12-03-2016 20:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Barack Obama gave a mocking rebuke Saturday of Republican frontrunner Donald Trump for his incendiary language on the campaign trail. At a Democratic fundraising event in Dallas, Texas, Obama took a swipe at Trump's sideline wine label -- just a tiny piece of his sprawling business empire. "We are great right now," Obama retorted, in remarks that came one day after skirmishes broke out at a scuttled Trump rally in Chicago.
  
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• Cabinet declares temporary solution for Lebanon trash crisis

  12-03-2016 19:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Lebanese government announced Saturday a temporary solution for the country's eight-month trash crisis by opening three landfills as thousands protested in downtown Beirut.
  
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• Nissan recalls 47,538 Leaf vehicles for brake relay problem

  12-03-2016 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Nissan is recalling more than 47,000 Leaf electric cars in the U.S. and Canada, citing a possible brake malfunction.
  
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• Ben Bagdikian mourned as 'a major figure' US journalism

  12-03-2016 19:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Tributes and remembrances for Ben H. Bagdikian came flooding in Saturday following the death of the renowned reporter and media critic who was a passionate voice for journalistic integrity.
  
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• London base jumper leaps safely off EU's tallest building

  12-03-2016 19:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Witnesses say a base jumper has safely parachuted from the European Union's tallest building, the Shard in London, and evaded police by jumping on the subway.
  
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• Italian teen among 6 killed in Italy Alps avalanche

  12-03-2016 19:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Six climbers, including a teenager, were killed in an Alpine avalanche on Saturday that struck Monte Nevoso area, close to Italy's border with Austria, rescuers said. The victims included five Italian nationals, one of whom was 16, and an Austrian woman. The six were among a group of 15 people who were very close to the summit of Monte Nevoso, climbing at an altitude of more than 3,300 metres (10,800 feet), when the avalanche hit in the late morning.
  
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• The Latest: Syrian refugee plays the piano at Greek border

  12-03-2016 19:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — The Latest on the migrant crisis in Europe (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Snowmobile strikes Iditarod teams, kills dog

  12-03-2016 19:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Latest on the Iditarod Sled Dog Race (all times local):
  
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• Syria's government says won't discuss presidency at talks

  12-03-2016 19:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syria's government on Saturday ruled out any discussion of the presidency or presidential elections at peace talks and criticised the U.N. envoy overseeing next week's negotiations. The opposition in turn accused Damascus of trying to stop the talks before they had started - an exchange that reflected the huge challenges facing diplomats trying to build on a ceasefire deal that has cut violence since Feb. 27. Foreign Minister Walid al-Moualem confirmed his governm
  
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