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• Inside Obama's Smart Gun Announcement

  29-04-2016 23:59 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Even the NRA doesn't oppose smart gun technology.
  
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• Anti-Trump protests break out for second day in California

  29-04-2016 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Sharon Bernstein BURLINGAME, Calif. (Reuters) - Protests erupted in California for the second day in a row on Friday against U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump, who is moving closer to winning the Republican nomination after a string of victories this week. The billionaire businessman was forced to halt his motorcade and go through a back entrance to a hotel to give a speech to the California Republican convention and avoid several hundred loud protestors gathered outside. "That was not
  
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• San Francisco chief releases racist texts, orders training

  29-04-2016 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco's police chief said Friday that he has ordered that all officers finish an anti-harassment class within the next month amid a racist texting scandal that has rocked the department already dogged by fatal shootings of unarmed minority suspects.
  
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• Kyrgios downs Coric, eyes second Estoril Open final

  29-04-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In-form Australian Nick Kyrgios moved closer to a second consecutive final at the Estoril Open after dominating Borna Coric 6-4, 6-4 in the quarter-finals on Friday. World number 20 Kyrgios, a losing finalist a year ago to Richard Gasquet, will Saturday face Spaniard Nicolas Almagro, who beat Argentine seventh seed Leonardo Mayer 6-4, 7-6 (7/5). Kyrgios, who turned 21 this week, and 19-year-old Croatian Coric are two of the most promising stars on the ATP but had never previously played each oth
  
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• Trump makes case to GOP insiders amid chaotic protest scene

  29-04-2016 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BURLINGAME, Calif. (AP) — Donald Trump, the outsider, made his case to California's Republican establishment on Friday as protesters clashed with police.
  
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• Lug nuts and $35,000 fine still the talk around Tony Stewart

  29-04-2016 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TALLADEGA, Ala. (AP) — It's been an action-packed week for Tony Stewart following his return to a race car after a back injury sidelined him the first eight races of the season.
  
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• US stocks hit by health care woes but avoid bigger losses

  29-04-2016 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks fell Friday as health care and technology companies continued to report weak first-quarter results, but thanks to some late buying, they managed to avoid major losses.
  
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• Pop classic 'Baby Baby' gets Tori Kelly reboot

  29-04-2016 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A pop classic from the early '90s, Amy Grant's hit "Baby Baby," is getting a reboot 25 years later thanks to Grammy-nominated singer Tori Kelly.
  
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• Tunsil a no-show at Dolphins' introductory news conference

  29-04-2016 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DAVIE, Fla. (AP) — Mark down Laremy Tunsil as a no-show at his introductory news conference in South Florida because of an "allergic reaction."
  
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• 60,000-pound whale carcass removed from California beach

  29-04-2016 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  SAN CLEMENTE, Calif. (AP) — It literally was a whale of a job.
  
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• Feds call for judge to disband police in polygamous towns

  29-04-2016 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The police department in a polygamous community on the Utah-Arizona border is inflicted by an entrenched culture of following sect leader edicts at the expense of the constitutional rights of nonbelievers and should be disbanded, the federal government recommended Friday in a new court filing.
  
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• The Latest: Trump says he can win even without GOP unity

  29-04-2016 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BURLINGAME, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the California Republican Party's convention, a stage for the GOP presidential candidates (all times local):
  
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• Demonstrators force Trump to abandon motorcade

  29-04-2016 22:35 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Scores of demonstrators descended on the California Republican Convention Friday to protest Donald Trump, who was due to speak at the event later in the day.
  
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• 20 arrested Thursday in anti-Trump rally

  29-04-2016 22:35 via edition.cnn.com
  
  Scores of protesters took to the streets Thursday night outside a Donald Trump campaign event in Costa Mesa, California.
  
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• Trump's new target: Sanders supporters

  29-04-2016 22:33 via edition.cnn.com
  
  With the Republican presidential nomination within his grasp, Donald Trump is courting an unlikely group of voters: Bernie Sanders supporters.
  
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• Ex-TV pundit who claimed CIA past pleads guilty to fraud

  29-04-2016 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A former TV news analyst who falsely claimed to have been a "deep cover" agent for the CIA pleaded guilty Friday to a series of fraud charges, officials said. Wayne Simmons, 62, had been a Fox News commentator on the basis of his claim that he spent 27 years working for the Central Intelligence Agency. As part of a plea agreement filed in federal court in Virginia, Simmons admitted he defrauded the government to gain access to a US Army training program in 2008 and to be deployed to Afghanistan
  
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• 'The Hulk' racks up 100 races

  29-04-2016 22:30 via edition.cnn.com
  
  A bad workman blames his tools, but in the case of Formula One, an elite race car is the minimum requirement.
  
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• Tense protests outside Trump speech in California

  29-04-2016 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hundreds of protesters jostled with police in riot gear Friday outside a California hotel where Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump was to give a speech, forcing the candidate to duck into a back entrance. Some of the protesters lobbed eggs at officers while others attempted to break through barricades set up around the hotel located near San Francisco's international airport. The tense protest in Burlingame follows similar demonstrations that turned violent late Thursday at another
  
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• Protesters target Trump speech to California Republicans

  29-04-2016 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Sharon Bernstein BURLINGAME, Calif. (Reuters) - Protests erupted on Friday outside the venue where U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump was speaking to a group of California Republicans, a day after a demonstration against the former reality TV star turned ugly. Protesters, who held signs and Mexican flags, at one point rushed security gates, and police officers had their batons out. News cameras caught images of Trump, guarded by security officials, hopping a barrier and walking toward a
  
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• Irish leaders end deadlock, make deal for new government

  29-04-2016 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DUBLIN (AP) — Ireland's age-old political enemies struck a historic deal Friday night to create a fragile new government following an inconclusive election and two months of deadlock.
  
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• 16 blamed for mistakes in deadly US attack on Afghan clinic

  29-04-2016 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Human error, violations of combat rules and untimely equipment failures led to the mistaken U.S. aerial attack on a charity-run hospital in Afghanistan last fall that killed 42 people, a senior American general said Friday. Investigators called the attack a "disproportional response to a threat that didn't exist."
  
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• Friend of Charleston church massacre suspect pleads guilty

  29-04-2016 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A friend of the white man accused of killing nine black parishioners during a Bible study at a Charleston church last year pleaded guilty Friday to lying to federal authorities. He also revealed the suspect told him he had intended to kill himself after the slayings, which he had planned for months.
  
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• Despite carnage, Syria's Aleppo not in fighting 'freeze'

  29-04-2016 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Regime aircraft on Friday pounded rebel areas of Syria's second city Aleppo, which was left out of a deal to "freeze" fighting despite international outrage over renewed violence. Shelling and air raids in Aleppo over the past week have killed more than 230 civilians and pushed a landmark February 27 ceasefire to the verge of collapse. On Friday, crude barrel bombs smashed into residential neighbourhoods as rescue workers scrambled to cope with the casualties.
  
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• First U.S. Zika death reported

  29-04-2016 22:03 via edition.cnn.com
  
  A 70 year old Puerto Rican man died from complications of the Zika virus in February, the Centers for Disease Control and the Puerto Rico Department of Health announced today. This is the first death in the United States or territories where Zika infection contributed to the death, said the CDC.
  
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• Weasel knocks out particle accelerator

  29-04-2016 22:02 via edition.cnn.com
  
  The largest scientific experiment has gone offline because of a foreign intruder.
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• Congress heads out with no resolution on Zika, Puerto Rico

  29-04-2016 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Congress headed out of Washington on Friday, accomplishing relatively little in a short work period and missing deadlines on the budget and on helping Puerto Rico with its financial crisis.
  
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• Prince death investigation focuses on flight, drugs, doctor

  29-04-2016 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Authorities are investigating whether Prince died from an overdose and whether a doctor was prescribing drugs for the musician in the weeks before he was found dead at his suburban Minneapolis home. A guide to the latest developments:
  
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• U.S. court rules Amtrak has too much power over freight carriers

  29-04-2016 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. government-owned passenger rail company Amtrak wields improper and coercive regulatory power over private freight carriers under a law that lets it help set rules that competing railroads must follow, a federal appeals court ruled on Friday. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit struck down parts of the 2008 law, called the Passenger Rail Investment and Improvement Act, saying it infringes on the rights of private freight carriers. The court said the problem stems f
  
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• White House 2016: Clinton gears up for Trump in fall race

  29-04-2016 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Waves of campaign staffers are being dispatched to battleground states. Advisers are starting to consider locations for a splashy convention rally in Philadelphia. An army of lawyers is scrutinizing more than two dozen possible vice presidential picks.
  
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• Boom! Queen & Harry answer Obamas' Invictus Games challenge

  29-04-2016 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — It helps to have friends in high places when you're promoting an athletic event.
  
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• Helicopter crash off Norway kills 13 oil workers

  29-04-2016 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A helicopter carrying North Sea oil workers crashed off the coast of southwest Norway on Friday, killing all 13 people on board, rescue services said. The Super Puma chopper went down around midday in the archipelago off the coast of Bergen, Norway's second-biggest city. Rescue services recovered eleven bodies but called off the search for the two remaining passengers five hours later saying they could not have survived the crash.
  
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• Romania: police confiscate Byzantine coins from British man

  29-04-2016 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Romanian border police say they have confiscated 71 Byzantine coins from a British citizen traveling from Turkey to Romania.
  
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• China denies Hong Kong visit request by U.S. carrier group: Pentagon

  29-04-2016 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By David Brunnstrom and Greg Torode WASHINGTON/HONGKONG (Reuters) - China has denied a request for a U.S. carrier strike group led by the USS John C. Stennis to visit to Hong Kong, the U.S. Defense Department said on Friday, amid heightened tensions over China's territorial claims in the South China Sea. A Pentagon spokesman, Commander Bill Urban, said a U.S. warship, the USS Blue Ridge, was currently in Hong Kong on a port visit and the United States expected that to continue.
  
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• 33 rescued lions to fly from Peru to South Africa

  29-04-2016 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A total of 33 lions rescued from abuse in Peruvian and Colombian circuses will be taken by plane on Friday to South Africa, in what campaigners are calling the largest-ever airlift of big cats. The lions, with names such as Zeus and Shakira, were freed after the use of wild animals in circuses was outlawed in Peru in 2011 and Colombia in 2013. "It's truly wonderful that these lions, after a lifetime of suffering and abuse in circuses, are going home to Africa," said the president of ADI, Jan Cre
  
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• US urges action by Bangladesh to prevent killings

  29-04-2016 21:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State John Kerry called on Bangladesh's leader to step up law enforcement to prevent a wave of killings targeting liberal voices, the State Department said Friday amid fears that the traditionally moderate South Asian nation is under threat from Islamic extremists.
  
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• U.S. stands by South Korea defense talks despite China, Russia objections

  29-04-2016 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON/BEIJING (Reuters) - The White House on Friday said talks to install a new anti-missile defense system in South Korea would continue in the wake of nuclear arms and missile tests by North Korea despite calls by China and Russia for the United States to back off. The United States and South Korea have begun talks on possible deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system after North Korea tested its fourth nuclear bomb on Jan. 6 and conducted missile tests.
  
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• Zuma could face corruption charges

  29-04-2016 21:12 via edition.cnn.com
  
  A South African court ruled Friday that prosecutors acted "irrationally" when they decided to drop more than 700 corruption and fraud charges against President Jacob Zuma in 2009.
  
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• Will Ferrell 'abandons' playing Reagan

  29-04-2016 21:11 via edition.cnn.com
  
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• Russians 'barrel roll' over U.S. jet

  29-04-2016 21:03 via edition.cnn.com
  
  A Russian SU-27 conducted a "barrel roll" Friday over the top of a U.S. Air Force RC-135 which was flying a reconnaissance mission in international airspace above the Baltic Sea, two U.S. defense officials told CNN.
  
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• Maryland man charged in bomb threat at Baltimore TV station

  29-04-2016 21:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - A Maryland man accused of threatening Fox Television's Baltimore affiliate while wearing a hedgehog suit and a fake bomb vest loaded with foil-wrapped chocolate bars has been charged with arson and other counts, authorities said on Friday. The suspect, Alex Brizzi, 25, of Elkridge, Maryland, was shot and wounded by police after trying to deliver a flash drive with video about the end of the world during Thursday's incident at the offices of WBFF-TV. Police Commissioner Kevin Davis to
  
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• U.S. says working with Russia to revive Syria ceasefire

  29-04-2016 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States said on Friday it was in discussions with Russia about trying to renew the cessation of hostilities in Syria following the deadly bombing this week of a hospital in Aleppo. "Our hope is by refreshing this agreement ... we can build momentum again toward a broadly observed cessation of hostilities," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told a briefing. A senior State Department official said the United States was seeking to halt fighting in Latakia and eastern Ghouta near Damascus
  
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• Photos: The Week in Pictures: April 23 - 29, 2016

  29-04-2016 20:55 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Find this week's top photos from around the globe in ABC News' This Week in Pictures slideshow
  
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• Protests follow Donald Trump to California GOP convention

  29-04-2016 20:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BURLINGAME, Calif. (AP) — Several hundred protesters opposing Donald Trump gathered Friday outside the hotel where he was scheduled to speak to California Republicans, and a large contingent of police sought to head off violence like what followed a rally in Southern California the night before.
  
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• Caps' Tom Wilson fined $2,400 for knee hit to Pens' Sheary

  29-04-2016 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ARLINGTON, Va. (AP) — The NHL fined Capitals forward Tom Wilson $2,404 on Friday for his knee-on-knee hit on Pittsburgh's Conor Sheary, sparing him a suspension that could have altered the second-round playoff series against the Penguins.
  
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• Jailed Montana resort founder invokes right to silence

  29-04-2016 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The jailed founder of a Montana club for the ultrarich said he won't answer a judge's demands to reveal what happened to hundreds of millions of dollars in assets he drained from the resort prior to its bankruptcy.
  
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• Zverev boosts reputation at Munich Open with Goffin shock

  29-04-2016 20:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Munich (Germany) (AFP) - Fast-rising German teenager Alexander Zverev enhanced his reputation further Friday when he knocked top seed David Goffin out of the Munich Open with an impressive 6-3, 4-6, 6-3 win.
  
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• US stocks skid as tech and health care are routed

  29-04-2016 20:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are skidding Friday as technology companies absorb big losses for the second day in a row. Health care companies are falling after weak first-quarter reports from drug and health insurance companies. Markets in Europe also took hefty losses.
  
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• 8 children, 2 tied up in backyard, rescued from Texas home

  29-04-2016 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Authorities have rescued eight unsupervised children from a San Antonio home where a 2-year-old boy was chained to the ground in the backyard and a 3-year-old girl was tied to a door with a dog leash, sheriff's officials said Friday.
  
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• Friend of Charleston church shooting suspect pleads guilty to lying

  29-04-2016 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Harriet McLeod CHARLESTON, S.C. (Reuters) - A friend of the suspected gunman accused of slaying nine black parishioners in a 2015 attack on a South Carolina church pleaded guilty in a federal court on Friday to lying to investigators and concealing knowledge of the crime. Joseph Meek, 21, had agreed in a deal with prosecutors to plead guilty to withholding information about a crime and making false statements to authorities investigating the massacre in Charleston, according to court document
  
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• Truce violations prohibit talk about political process: Syrian opposition's Hijab

  29-04-2016 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  Syrian opposition figure Riad Hijab said on his Twitter account on Friday negations about the political future of Syria cannot take place while truce violations continue. "The situation is not suitable for talking about a political process in light of the horrific massacres and systematic violations of the truce, which no longer really exists on the ground," said Hijab, who is chairman of the opposition High Negotiations Committee (HNC) after a phone call with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry.
  
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