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• Obama's income fell to $436,000, lowest of his presidency

  15-04-2016 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's income fell to just over $436,000 in 2015, the lowest of his presidency, and he and first lady Michelle Obama paid nearly $81,500 in taxes, according to tax returns the White House released on Friday.
  
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• Photos: Oddities and Unusual Images From Around the World

  15-04-2016 23:51 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Strange and fun photos from around the world.
  
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• Players congratulated me - Gutierrez

  15-04-2016 23:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jonas Gutierrez says his former Newcastle United team-mates phoned to congratulate him on winning an employment tribunal.
  
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• 'Ex-Newcastle pals congratulated me'

  15-04-2016 23:50 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Jonas Gutierrez says his former Newcastle United team-mates phoned to congratulate him on winning an employment tribunal.
  
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• Officials Scramble to Fix Problems Told to Putin on His Call-in Show

  15-04-2016 23:46 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Problems were fixed within hours all over Russia after the show.
  
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• Dylan, McCartney, Stones lined up for mega-concert: report

  15-04-2016 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The most legendary names in rock including the Rolling Stones, Paul McCartney and Bob Dylan are being lined up for a historic mega-festival, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. The newspaper said organizers of Coachella, the lucrative rock festival that opened Friday, were making arrangements for the massive event to take place at the same venue in the California desert on October 7-9. A representative from Coachella's Los Angeles-based promoter GoldenVoice did not respond to a request for co
  
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• Hawaiian leaders seek expansion of marine conservation area

  15-04-2016 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  HONOLULU (AP) — A group of Native Hawaiian leaders are urging President Barack Obama to expand what's already one of the largest marine conservation areas in the world.
  
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• Moody's upgrades Argentina as end to creditor battle nears

  15-04-2016 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Maximiliano Rizzi and Sarah Marsh BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Moody's bumped up Argentina's credit rating one grade to "B3" on Friday due to "economic policy improvements" under a new, business-friendly government and expectations the country will finally settle a legal battle with creditors. Both said they would assign a new rating to the sovereign issuer once Argentina had finally recovered from a 2014 default. Argentina is preparing to launch its first international bond issue in 15 years nex
  
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• Castres boost Top 14 rugby play-off chances

  15-04-2016 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Castres boosted their chances of progressing to the Top 14 play-offs with a 33-28 victory at Grenoble on Friday. Castres followed up last week's 15-9 win over Toulouse with this success which lifted them up a place into the crucial sixth spot on 53 points. Grenoble, who were seeking a fourth straight Top 14 win, remained in eighth spot on 47 points.
  
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• VIDEO: Huge sandstorm hits Chinese province

  15-04-2016 23:25 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A huge sandstorm hit China's Gansu Province on Friday afternoon, filling the skies with dust.
  
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• Osborne says Brexit would push higher mortgage costs

  15-04-2016 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chancellor George Osborne said the country's home-owners could face higher borrowing costs if voters decide to leave the European Union in a referendum in June, building on his warnings against a so-called Brexit. "The Bank of England is independent and it makes its decisions on interest rates," Osborne told BBC television in Washington where he is attending a half-yearly meeting of global finance officials at the International Monetary Fund. "But the overwhelming view of the experts here in Was
  
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• Pacific salmon may be scarce, pricy in stores this summer

  15-04-2016 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Salmon caught off the Pacific Coast may be harder to find in stores this summer and cost more with tight restrictions imposed on fishermen who anticipate pulling fewer of the prized catch into their boats, ...
  
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• Edward Snowden releases song with Jean-Michel Jarre

  15-04-2016 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fugitive US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden, who in 2013 revealed widespread US foreign surveillance, has released a song with French electronic artist Jean-Michel Jarre, the Columbia record company announced Friday. The track, titled "Exit", features Snowden discussing digital surveillance to the backdrop of a lively electronic soundscape created by Jarre. The pair were brought together by Britain's Guardian newspaper after Jarre gave an interview and asked to be put in touch with the fo
  
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• Trump prepared to cede Wyoming delegate contest

  15-04-2016 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Donald Trump's presidential campaign has all but thrown in the towel in Wyoming ahead of Saturday's Republican convention.
  
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• Oil exporters to discuss output freeze

  15-04-2016 23:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Opec members, together with a few other oil producers, are meeting in Qatar on Sunday to discuss freezing output in an attempt to push up oil prices.
  
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• Apple opposes U.S. appeal over iPhone in New York drug case

  15-04-2016 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Apple Inc argued on Friday that the U.S. Justice Department had failed to substantiate that it needed the company's help to access a locked iPhone in a New York drug case. Apple's brief, filed in federal court in the New York City borough of Brooklyn, came a week after the U.S. government said it would push on with an appeal of a federal judge's ruling in February holding that he could not force the company to hand over the phone's data.
  
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• Difference Between $12, $15 Minimum Wage Bigger Than It Seems

  15-04-2016 23:05 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders pound each other on federal minimum wage.
  
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• Stage version of 'Anastasia' slated for Broadway next season

  15-04-2016 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Another princess is heading to Broadway. This time she's Russian.
  
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• EPA drops proposed emissions limits affecting race cars

  15-04-2016 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Environmental Protection Agency has dropped proposed language from new vehicle emissions restrictions following concerns raised by auto racing.
  
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• Pollutants in fish may prevent humans from expelling toxins

  15-04-2016 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fish that contain environmental pollutants may harm people who eat them by preventing the human body from doing its natural job of flushing out toxins, researchers said Friday. The study in the journal Science Advances examined 10 persistent organic pollutants (POPs) -- including the pesticide DDT and industrial chemicals such as flame retardants -- found in yellowfin tuna and human blood and urine. One chemical used to make flame retardants in upholstery and plastics, known as PBDE-100, was fou
  
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• Wearing Saints black and gold, fans of Will Smith pay homage

  15-04-2016 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  METAIRIE, La. (AP) — Wearing black and gold jerseys and bowing their heads, fans of slain former New Orleans Saints defensive end Will Smith paid homage to the star on Friday, almost a week after he was shot and killed during a traffic dispute.
  
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• New quake rocks Japan, killing one and damaging buildings

  15-04-2016 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A powerful earthquake hit southern Japan early Saturday, sending panicked residents from their homes and damaging buildings in a region where nerves were already frayed after a series of powerful tremors over the past two days. The earthquake hit after another strong one on the southwestern island of Kyushu Thursday, killing nine people, injuring hundreds and causing widespread damage in the area where rescuers were still searching for survivors feared trapped under rubble. One more person was k
  
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• Croatia Jews snub official WWII event

  15-04-2016 22:48 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Croatian Jews hold their own Holocaust commemoration at a Second World War death camp in protest at what they say is rising neo-Nazi sentiment.
  
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• No, John Kasich, women are not to blame for rape | Angelina Chapin

  15-04-2016 22:44 via theguardian.com
  
  It’s a fundamental lack of empathy that makes men say women should avoid parties, where they’d never say drunk driving victims should avoid roadsToday Ohio Republican governor John Kasich presented a “solution” to sexual violence that is more flawed than his losing presidential campaign. At a town hall in Watertown, New York, he told a female college student that to avoid “sexual violence, harassment and rape” she should not “go to parties where there&rs
  
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• World Anti-Doping Agency revokes Russian lab accreditation

  15-04-2016 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The World Anti-Doping Agency on Friday revoked the accreditation of the Moscow Antidoping Center, as Russia continues to grapple with the scandal that could see its athletes barred from the Rio Olympics. The laboratory had been suspended on November 10 as recommended in the WADA independent commission report that laid bare evidence of state-sponsored doping and corruption in sport in the country. The report found that laboratory director Grigori Rodchenkov had ordered close to 1,500 samples to b
  
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• Former TV 'Apprentices' say Trump unfit for White House

  15-04-2016 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Alana Wise WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of former contestants on Donald Trump's reality television show "The Apprentice" put their old boss in the hot seat on Friday, saying the U.S. Republican front-runner had widened racial divisions and should not be president. Trump's one-time admirers, most from racial minorities, urged the New York billionaire to tamp down his divisive rhetoric as he campaigns to succeed Democratic President Barack Obama in a Nov. 8 election. "We are all disappointed
  
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• Kerry asks Russia about Iran general's Moscow trip defying UN travel ban

  15-04-2016 22:40 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Secretary of State John Kerry raised concerns with Russia over news a general from Iran's hardline Revolutionary Guard Corps visited Moscow in defiance of a U.N. travel ban.
  
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• Escaped Texas jail inmate found hiding in dishwasher

  15-04-2016 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  JASPER, Texas (AP) — An East Texas jail inmate who fled while being treated at a hospital has been caught hiding in a dishwasher.
  
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• Top finance officials: World economy still faces threats

  15-04-2016 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The global recovery has regained most of the ground lost from the market turbulence at the beginning of the year, finance officials of the world's largest economies said Friday. But they worry that growth remains uneven in the face of a variety of threats ranging from terrorist bombings to Britain's upcoming vote on whether to leave the European Union.
  
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• Democrats' Arizona lawsuit turns eyes to state plagued by voting controversy

  15-04-2016 22:38 via theguardian.com
  
  The Democratic party’s lawsuit, alleging the suppression of minority voters, spotlights truths that have long been part of the state’s political landscapeFor years, get-out-the-vote organizers in Arizona have been knocking on supporters’ doors in the days before an election and offering to take their sealed absentee ballots to the nearest polling station so they arrive in time to be counted.In the sprawling urban jungle that is Phoenix, the state’s major population center
  
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• Tear gas and arrests at Cairo protest

  15-04-2016 22:36 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Police fire tear gas at crowds in the Egyptian capital Cairo at a protest against a controversial deal to hand two islands to Saudi Arabia.
  
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• US researchers see more signs NKorea is producing plutonium

  15-04-2016 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — As North Korea intensifies testing of its ballistic missile technology, a U.S. website said Friday it also sees further signs from satellite imagery that North Korea is looking to produce more plutonium for nuclear weapons.
  
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• The Latest: In Saints' black, gold, fans pay homage to Smith

  15-04-2016 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  METAIRIE, La. (AP) — The Latest on the shooting death of former New Orleans Saints' defensive end Will Smith (all times local):
  
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• Sanders urges 'moral economy' at Vatican

  15-04-2016 22:30 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders carries his populist message of economic inequality to the Vatican.
  
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• Obama meets with musicians on My Brother's Keeper

  15-04-2016 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Musicians Alicia Keys, Nicki Minaj, Busta Rhymes, Common, Janelle Monae and others are meeting with President Barack Obama to discuss ways they can continue the White House's My Brother's Keeper initiative and spur criminal justice reform in the United States.
  
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• Mississippi governor signs law allowing armed church security

  15-04-2016 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mississippi Governor Phil Bryant signed a gun rights bill on Friday allowing churches to create security programs designating members to carry firearms to defend worshipers against violence. The legislation, called the "Mississippi Church Protection Act," also makes it easier for residents in other settings to carry concealed weapons, drawing criticism from national gun control advocates. It was passed amid heightened concerns about church security after a gunman last June killed nine black wors
  
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• Lawsuit: Seattle compost ordinance is rotten

  15-04-2016 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — A Seattle ordinance that bars people from throwing their coffee grounds, pizza scraps and other potential compost into their trash cans is being challenged by critics who say the liberal city is turning garbage collectors into trash investigators.
  
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• Boston marks 3rd anniversary of deadly marathon bombings

  15-04-2016 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Boston marked the third anniversary of the deadly 2013 marathon bombings Friday with subdued, silent remembrances.
  
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• Migrant fined for Nauru suicide bid

  15-04-2016 22:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  An Iranian asylum seeker is fined for trying to kill himself during an attempt to move him and his daughter from an Australian-funded camp on Nauru.
  
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• Singer Zac Brown was in hotel room where 4 arrested

  15-04-2016 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country singer Zac Brown says in a statement that he was "in the wrong place at the wrong time" last week in a Palm Beach hotel room where four people were arrested for drug possession.
  
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• Brazil's Rousseff scraps impeachment broadcast after criticism

  15-04-2016 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff canceled an address to the nation on Friday night in which she was to defend her government in the face of imminent impeachment, a presidential aide told Reuters. The lower house of Congress will vote on Sunday on whether Rousseff should be impeached by the Senate for breaking budget laws, a vote that the leftist leader is widely expected to lose.
  
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• NBA to allow shirt sponsorship

  15-04-2016 22:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  National Basketball Association teams will be able to sell advertising space on their jerseys starting from the 2017-18 season, the league says.
  
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• US bars government employees from traveling to Acapulco

  15-04-2016 22:10 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The U.S. government is barring employees from traveling to the Mexican resort city of Acapulco, where a rise in homicides has made it one of the world's deadliest cities in recent years.
  
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• Kerry tells Russia to press Assad to comply with Syria ceasefire

  15-04-2016 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  There is an "urgent need" for the government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to stop violating the ceasefire in Syria, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said on Friday, and called on Russia to help, the State Department said. It said Kerry, in a telephone call with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov, said "The United States expected Russia to urge the regime to comply with the cessation and that we would work with the opposition to do the same." The United States knows that some of the S
  
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• Peshmerga troops running on empty in fight against ISIS

  15-04-2016 22:02 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Kurdish Peshmerga forces – arguably the most effective ground troops battling the Islamic State terror group in Iraq - have been fighting for the past three months without a paycheck, according to experts and a top official from the region.
  
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• More body parts found in Seattle a week after others dumped

  15-04-2016 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Sanitation workers found human remains in Seattle on Friday, and authorities were trying to determine whether they were additional body parts belonging to a woman who was killed and dismembered.
  
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• Ex-NY legislator Silver had affairs with two women: court papers

  15-04-2016 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sheldon Silver, one of New York state's most powerful politicians before his December conviction in a bribery case, had extramarital affairs with a lobbyist and a woman he helped get a state job while in office, according to documents unsealed on Friday. Silver, a Democrat who was speaker of the New York State Assembly, and both women tried to stop the release of the documents.
  
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• Damascus skirts transition talk as Aleppo clashes intensify

  15-04-2016 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By John Irish and Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - Syria's chief government negotiator sought on Friday to steer a new round of peace talks away from the political transition that U.N. mediators hope to promote, as increased fighting near Aleppo threatened to undermine a shaky truce. Bashar Ja'afari said his focus was to submit amendments to a framework document for the talks, prompting accusations from the head of the opposition negotiating team that Damascus was "not serious" about seeking a polit
  
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• Army: 1st women commissioned as infantry, armor officers

  15-04-2016 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Army says it has approved the first women to be commissioned as infantry and armor officers — leadership roles that until now were open only to men.
  
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• Man wrongly convicted in 1957 Illinois murder is released

  15-04-2016 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — A 76-year-old man who a prosecutor says was wrongly convicted in the 1957 killing of an Illinois schoolgirl was released Friday shortly after a judge vacated his conviction, meaning that one of the oldest cold cases to be tried in U.S. history has officially gone cold again.
  
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