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• Maple syrup producers having strong year, thanks to weather

  11-04-2016 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CALAIS, Vt. (AP) — Some maple syrup makers in Vermont, the country's largest producer, are having a banner year despite initial fears that an early start to the maple season this winter would cut it short.
  
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• What to Expect from 'Game of Thrones' Season 6

  11-04-2016 23:56 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The stars of the HBO series sound off on the new season.
  
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• Lawsuit: High school gave 'Dora' actress a pass over vaping

  11-04-2016 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The teenage actress who voices Nickelodeon's spunky "Dora the Explorer" character was given special treatment after she was caught vaping in a private high school bathroom, according to a lawsuit filed Monday by another student's parents.
  
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• Trump blasts 'rigged' rules on picking Republican delegates

  11-04-2016 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump lashed out at what he called the party's "rigged" delegate selection rules on Monday after rival Ted Cruz swept all of Colorado's 34 delegates over the weekend. The New York billionaire, who has been outmaneuvered by Cruz in a series of recent state meetings to select national convention delegates, said the process was set up to protect party insiders and shut out insurgent candidates. ...
  
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• 4 'Harry Potter' References From the New 'Fantastic Beasts' Trailer

  11-04-2016 23:39 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The 'Harry Potter' spinoff stars Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander.
  
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• The changing face of business in India

  11-04-2016 23:38 via edition.cnn.com
  
  With a booming aviation sector and the world's number one hotel, India remains a country on the rise.
  
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• Kepler spacecraft sends new message

  11-04-2016 23:38 via edition.cnn.com
  
  After three days in emergency mode, NASA's Kepler spacecraft is stable again -- prompting sighs of relief 75 million miles away.
  
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• Brazil impeachment committee votes on president's fate

  11-04-2016 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brasília (AFP) - An impeachment committee was due to vote Monday on the fate of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff ahead of a decisive vote in the lower house of Congress on whether she will face trial. Paulo Pimenta, a deputy with Rousseff's Workers' Party, told AFP that the president expected to lose the committee vote by a margin of about 35-29. A two-thirds majority in the lower house would send Rousseff's case to the Senate, which would then have the power to put her on trial and ult
  
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• Hastert revelations could increase chances for prison time

  11-04-2016 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Prosecutors have given the federal court overseeing Dennis Hastert's hush-money case enough evidence of sexual abuse for the judge to at least consider sentencing the former House speaker to more than the suggested maximum of six months behind bars.
  
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• Board holds clemency hearing for Georgia death row inmate

  11-04-2016 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — A Georgia death row inmate scheduled to die this week was neglected and mistreated as a child and has substantial intellectual impairments that have affected his ability to act appropriately, his lawyers wrote in a clemency petition.
  
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• FBI marks 30 years since bloody South Florida shootout

  11-04-2016 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  MIRAMAR, Fla. (AP) — The FBI on Monday marked the 30th anniversary of a bloody South Florida shootout with violent bank robbers that left two agents dead and five wounded, leading to changes in the weapons, body armor and tactics throughout law enforcement nationwide.
  
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• With New York on their minds, Democrats trade fresh attacks

  11-04-2016 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Tensions frayed in both parties on Monday, as Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump tried to stave off the prospect of a lengthy battle to the nomination with big victories in New York.
  
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• White officer gets probation in black driver's shooting

  11-04-2016 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A white South Carolina police officer who was charged with a felony for shooting and killing a black driver at the end of a chase took a plea deal Monday and was sentenced to three years of probation.
  
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• The Latest: Clinton offers condition for transcript release

  11-04-2016 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on campaign 2016 (all times Eastern Daylight Time):
  
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• The Weeknd , Bieber earn Billboard Music Award nominations

  11-04-2016 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — It's a sweet day to be The Weeknd.
  
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• Totti assist for Salah, but Roma held by Bologna

  11-04-2016 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Out-of-favour Roma icon Francesco Totti provided his first assist of the season in a frustrating 1-1 draw with Bologna that dented hopes of claiming Serie A's second automatic Champions League qualifying spot. Totti's future at the club for whom he has played 23 seasons is a hot topic in Italy as the Serie A giants stall on offering the 39-year-old an extra year's deal. Partially due to injury, Totti has made only a handful of appearances this season, but when 'Il Re di Roma' (the King of Rome)
  
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• Commodities rise as dollar slips; global stocks end flat

  11-04-2016 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Rodrigo Campos NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. dollar touched its lowest level in nearly eight months on Monday, lifting metals prices and commodity sector stocks, and U.S. crude reversed losses to settle above $40 a barrel. Safe-haven gold hit a three-week high while the yen hit its highest against the dollar in almost a year and a half, as investors remained anxious about the strength of the global economy. The yen's strength pushed Tokyo to warn it could again intervene against its currency'
  
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• U.S. Navy officer suspected of passing secrets to Taiwan, China

  11-04-2016 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy flight officer with knowledge of sensitive American intelligence collection methods faces espionage charges over suspicions he passed secret information to Taiwan and possibly to China, U.S. officials said. U.S. officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, identified the suspect as Lieutenant Commander Edward Lin, who was born in Taiwan and later became a naturalized U.S. citizen, according to a Navy article profiling him in 2008.
  
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• Obama, Fed chair Yellen discuss outlook for economy

  11-04-2016 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — With the U.S. economy improving, President Barack Obama and Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen discussed the outlook for near and long-term economic growth during a Monday afternoon meeting in the Oval Office, the White House said.
  
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• Brazil impeachment commission votes on president's fate

  11-04-2016 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brasília (AFP) - An impeachment commission was due to vote Monday on the fate of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff ahead of a vote by the lower house of Congress to decide whether she should go to trial. The commission was due to vote later Monday. Paulo Pimenta, a deputy with Rousseff's Workers' Party, told AFP that the president would lose the commission vote by a margin of about 35-29.
  
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• US governor rejects mandatory electric chair

  11-04-2016 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Terry McAuliffe, governor of the US state of Virginia, said on Monday he would refuse to sign a bill that would order executions by electric chair when drugs for lethal injections are unavailable. The measure passed by the state legislature was aimed at addressing widespread shortages of the drugs affecting all states that impose the death penalty. Reaffirming his support for capital punishment, McAuliffe nevertheless barred the state from imposing the electric chair as an mandatory substitute f
  
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• Ex-football player jailed after 2 college students slain

  11-04-2016 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The two Southern University students slain during a shootout at an off-campus party appeared to be "innocent bystanders" who were caught in the crossfire, authorities said Monday.
  
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• 95 Mississippi authors call for repeal of anti-LGBT law

  11-04-2016 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — John Grisham and Donna Tartt are among 95 Mississippi authors urging state officials to repeal a law that will let workers cite religious beliefs to deny services to lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender people.
  
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• THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL STOP SCREAMING IN ALL CAPS

  11-04-2016 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — FOR MORE THAN A CENTURY, THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED ITS FORECASTS IN ALL CAPITAL LETTERS. But in the age of social media that's considered yelling, so next month federal meteorologists are lowering their voices and their letters — except in dire emergencies.
  
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• US stock indexes waver ahead of company earnings reports

  11-04-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks ended Monday's session mostly unchanged as investors waited for first-quarter company earnings to start rolling in. Overseas markets gained as investors hoped for more stimulus in China, the world's second-largest economy.
  
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• Singer Bryan Adams cancels Mississippi show to protest same-sex law

  11-04-2016 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Canadian singer Bryan Adams has canceled a show in Mississippi to protest a new state law that will let people with religious objections deny services to same-sex couples, the second major concert scrapped in the U.S. South over discrimination concerns. On Friday, rock star Bruce Springsteen called off a weekend concert in North Carolina to show his opposition to a new law there barring transgender people from choosing bathrooms consistent with their gender identity. The cancellations come as U.
  
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• Russia Starts S-300 Missile Systems Deliveries to Iran

  11-04-2016 22:49 via abcnews.go.com
  A senior Russian official says Moscow has started delivering S-300 air defense missile systems to Iran
  
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• Led Zeppelin's Plant, Page to face 'Stairway to Heaven' trial

  11-04-2016 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Led Zeppelin's lead singer Robert Plant and guitarist Jimmy Page must face a U.S. jury trial over whether they stole opening chords for their 1971 classic "Stairway to Heaven." In a decision on Friday, U.S. District Judge Gary Klausner in Los Angeles said "Stairway" and the 1967 instrumental "Taurus" by the band Spirit were similar enough to let a jury decide whether Plant and Page were liable for copyright infringement. The lawsuit was brought by Michael Skidmore, a trustee for the late Randy W
  
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• UK royals mix Bollywood and sports

  11-04-2016 22:47 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Britain's Prince William and his wife Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge are in Mumbai as part of a week-long tour of India and Bhutan. CNN's Sumnima Udas reports.
  
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• US stocks end lower ahead of earnings

  11-04-2016 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - Wall Street stocks finished modestly lower Monday as the market prepared for the start of a corporate earnings season that is expected to show generally weaker results.
  
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• Race and the death penalty in US spotlight

  11-04-2016 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Advocates for two African Americans on death row for murder are seeking a reprieve for both men on the grounds their trials were tainted by racial bias, taking their campaigns all the way to the US Supreme Court. Amnesty International is waging a last-ditch effort to secure a stay for Kenneth Fults, 47, who is due to be executed by lethal injection on Tuesday in the southeastern state of Georgia for the murder of a white woman 20 years ago. "Once he pled guilty, I knew I would vote for the death
  
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• Navy officer accused of espionage; now held in Navy brig

  11-04-2016 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military has charged a Taiwan-born Navy officer with espionage for allegedly passing military secrets to China or Taiwan, U.S. defense officials said Monday.
  
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• ISIS fight: What the U.S. is doing

  11-04-2016 22:39 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Popular: Guns in America | Sanders Demands Clinton Apologize | Blindsided: How ISIS Shook The World
  
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• The Latest: Activists: IS militants down Syrian warplane

  11-04-2016 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the conflict in Syria and diplomatic efforts ahead of a the next round of Geneva peace talks(all times local):
  
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• Sketch-comedy series 'MADtv' returning to TV, satire intact

  11-04-2016 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The sketch comedy series "MADtv" is making a comeback.
  
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• The Latest: Venezuela to freeze assets in Panama leaks probe

  11-04-2016 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the publication by a coalition of media outlets of an investigation into offshore financial dealings by the rich and famous (all times local):
  
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• 'Milk' director shoots gay history series for US TV

  11-04-2016 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  American filmmaker Gus Van Sant said Monday he was "very excited" about what he hopes will be a landmark history of the gay rights movement he has just finished shooting for US television giant ABC. The director of 2008 double Oscar-winner "Milk" -- about Harvey Milk, the first openly gay person to be elected to public office in California -- said he was all the happier about "When We Rise" because it was made for "a very conservative platform". The eight-hour mini-series written by Dustin Lance
  
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• Yemen truce strained by reports of air strikes and fighting

  11-04-2016 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Mohammed Mukhashaf ADEN (Reuters) - A truce aimed at ending more than a year of war in Yemen appeared to be largely holding on Monday, although residents said fighting was still going on in parts of the country. The U.N.-brokered ceasefire is meant to precede peace talks in a country that has become the face of rivalry between Saudi Arabia and Iran. It seemed to be holding up despite "pockets of violence", U.N. spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in New York.
  
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• Coast Guard Rescues 17-Year-Old Drifting Off Florida Coast

  11-04-2016 22:21 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The girl had lost her paddle, she told authorities.
  
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• Ballplayer Jose Reyes' domestic abuse charge gets dropped

  11-04-2016 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  HONOLULU (AP) — A Hawaii judge has approved dismissing a domestic abuse charge against Colorado Rockies shortstop Jose Reyes.
  
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• Directions to Dodger Stadium: Take Vin Scully Avenue

  11-04-2016 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — On their way to Dodger Stadium for the team's home opener, fans can now take Vin Scully Avenue into the main gate.
  
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• Pre-Teen Saves 40-Person Wedding Party After B&B Catches Fire

  11-04-2016 22:15 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Ashton Dunford, 10, even offered help to put out the fire's flames.
  
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• Study finds evidence of brain injury in living NFL veterans

  11-04-2016 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than 40 percent of retired NFL players tested with advanced scanning technology showed signs of traumatic brain injury, a much higher rate than in the general population, according to a new study of the long-term risks of playing American football. The research, presented at an American Academy of Neurology meeting that began in Vancouver on Monday, is one of the first to provide "objective evidence" of traumatic brain injury in a large sample of National Football League veterans while they
  
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• US Navy Officer Accused of Spying for China and Taiwan

  11-04-2016 22:05 via abcnews.go.com
  Lt. Commander Edward Lin a Taiwanese-born flight officer, officials said.
  
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• Sanders lags in delegates but leads in likability

  11-04-2016 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders is still behind when it comes to delegates and votes, but he has one clear advantage over his Democratic and Republican presidential rivals — a lot of people actually like him.
  
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• Verizon landline, cable workers union threatens strike

  11-04-2016 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Unions representing more than 36,000 Verizon landline phone and cable workers are threatening a strike starting Wednesday morning if the company doesn't agree to a new contract.
  
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• Trump blasts 'rigged' rules on Republican delegates

  11-04-2016 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump lashed out at what he called the party's "rigged" delegate selection rules on Monday after rival Ted Cruz swept all of Colorado's 34 delegates over the weekend. The New York billionaire said the process of selecting national convention delegates, which varies state by state, was set up to protect party insiders and shut out insurgent candidates. "The system is rigged, it's crooked," Trump said on Fox News
  
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• U.S. 'very concerned' over Syrian violence before peace talks

  11-04-2016 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States is "very, very concerned" about an increase in Syrian violence just ahead of planned peace talks in Geneva this week, a State Department spokesman said on Monday, blaming Syrian government forces for the escalation in fighting. "We are very, very concerned about the recent increase in violence and that includes actions that are in contravention of the cessation of hostilities," spokesman Mark Toner told a news briefing. Kerry wanted to make sure that in the next days leading up
  
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• Don McLean lawyer: Domestic assault case not close to end

  11-04-2016 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  CAMDEN, Maine (AP) — A lawyer for Don McLean says the "American Pie" singer's domestic violence case in Maine is not close to an end.
  
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• Grassley, Garland reprise 1990s judicial confirmation fight

  11-04-2016 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chuck Grassley and Merrick Garland go way back, but when the Republican Senate Judiciary Committee chairman and President Barack Obama's U.S. Supreme Court nominee meet for a private breakfast on Tuesday, they will not exactly be sharing fond memories. Two decades ago, Grassley, an Iowa Republican, spearheaded a fight against Garland's nomination to the influential U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Just like now, a Democratic pres
  
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