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• Man United beaten after bus attack

  10-05-2016 23:59 via rss.cnn.com
  
  West Ham's final match at Upton Park was delayed by 45 minutes on Tuesday after fans of the English Premier League soccer club threw objects at the bus carrying visiting team Manchester United.
  
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• AP Interview: Trump says big rallies his key campaign weapon

  10-05-2016 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump, GOP nomination virtually in hand, is planning a general election campaign that banks heavily on his personal appeal and trademark rallies while spurning the kind of sophisticated data operation that was a centerpiece of Barack Obama's winning White House runs.
  
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• Guatemalan congress votes to strip justice of immunity

  10-05-2016 23:56 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Guatemala's congress has stripped immunity from a supreme court justice accused of taking a bribe to resolve a matter in favor of a port company.
  
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• Voters in West Virginia and Nebraska cast primary ballots

  10-05-2016 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Voters in West Virginia and Nebraska are casting primary ballots on Tuesday, but the only competitive presidential race that remains in the Democratic contest in West Virginia.
  
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• Kansas man sues over wrongful conviction, 15 years in prison

  10-05-2016 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas man who spent 15 years in prison for a rape and murder to which his brother confessed several times, including in suicide notes, filed a federal lawsuit on Tuesday alleging he was framed by investigators, prosecutors and his brother's attorney.
  
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• Brazil president in last-gasp appeal against impeachment

  10-05-2016 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brasília (AFP) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff launched a last-minute bid Tuesday to block impeachment proceedings against her in what could be her final hours in power. If Brazil's first woman president is pushed out, her vice president-turned-enemy, Michel Temer, will take over. Ever-defiant, Rousseff made a fiery last stand ahead of the Senate session, vowing to serve out her full term.
  
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• US job openings rose to 8-month high in March

  10-05-2016 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. employers posted the most open jobs in eight months in March, but total hiring slowed, providing a mixed picture of the labor market.
  
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• Space hotels aren't sci-fi anymore

  10-05-2016 23:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Bigelow Aerospace is building space habitats for the public. Get an exclusive tour inside one of their prototypes, and see where we would live in space.
  
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• Brazil's Rousseff makes final survival bid as Senate poised to oust her

  10-05-2016 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Lisandra Paraguassu and Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff took her battle to survive impeachment to the Supreme Court on Tuesday, in a last-ditch attempt to stay in office a day before the Senate will likely vote to try her for breaking budget laws. Attorney General Eduardo Cardozo, the government's top lawyer, asked the Supreme Court to annul impeachment proceedings arguing they were politically motivated and had no legal basis. "I will not resign, that n
  
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• Bon Jovi opens hunger center near home

  10-05-2016 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rocker Jon Bon Jovi on Tuesday opened an anti-hunger center in his native New Jersey, hoping to tackle food insecurity rates that have remained stubbornly high since the Great Recession and Hurricane Sandy. The complex in Toms River, one of the hardest-hit towns in the 2012 mega-storm, includes a food bank, restaurant and culinary school and offers free guidance on tax returns, health care and public benefits. The frontman and namesake of Bon Jovi, who has sold some 130 million albums, and his w
  
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• A wild tune: Alaska moose harmonizes with home's wind chimes

  10-05-2016 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Forget "Uptown Funk." The Alaska wild is grooving to the smooth "moose-ic" of wind chimes.
  
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• Ahead of Obama Vietnam visit, wife of prisoner seeks US help

  10-05-2016 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The wife of a prominent Vietnamese human rights lawyer who was badly beaten by thugs and then detained by authorities appealed Tuesday for President Barack Obama to seek her husband's freedom when he visits Vietnam this month.
  
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• Disney results miss Wall St as ESPN ad revenue dips

  10-05-2016 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Lisa Richwine and Rishika Sadam (Reuters) - Walt Disney Co missed Wall Street earnings targets for the first time in at least two years as its sports network ESPN posted a drop in advertising revenue and subscriptions and its theme parks and consumer division also lagged expectations. Shares of the world's best-known entertainment company fell 4.5 percent in extended trading on Tuesday. ...
  
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• Utah's first-in-nation fetal pain law perplexes doctors

  10-05-2016 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Utah's first-in-the-nation requirement that fetuses receive anesthesia or painkillers before some abortions takes effect Tuesday, but doctors say it's unnecessary and impossible to comply with. The law ...
  
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• 1,284 new planets discovered

  10-05-2016 23:27 via rss.cnn.com
  
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• Report: NYC artist was behind Trump Central Park headstone

  10-05-2016 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A Brooklyn artist is reportedly behind a headstone bearing Donald Trump's name that was placed in New York's Central Park.
  
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• Poll: Age, income factors in staying with single employer

  10-05-2016 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — A new poll says more than 40 percent of America's baby boomers stayed with their employer for more than 20 years. But it's unlikely that their children or grandchildren will experience the same job tenure.
  
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• Clinton, Sanders compete in West Virginia; Trump mulls running mate

  10-05-2016 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bernie Sanders had another chance on Tuesday to slow Hillary Clinton's march toward the Democratic U.S. presidential nomination as West Virginia held its primary election, a week after Donald Trump became the Republicans' presumptive nominee. Clinton, a former U.S. secretary of state, still holds a commanding lead in the pledged delegates needed to become the party's candidate in the Nov. 8 election.
  
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• British PM calls Afghanistan, Nigeria 'fantastically corrupt'

  10-05-2016 23:19 via rss.cnn.com
  
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• American jailed for 15 years for trying to join IS

  10-05-2016 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A 24-year-old Jordanian-American was sentenced to 15 years in prison on Tuesday after acknowledging he tried to join the Islamic State group. Alaa Saadeh, of New Jersey, was arrested in June of last year and pleaded guilty on October 29. The specific charge was conspiracy to provide material support to a terrorist group.
  
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• Dutch columnist detained over tweets leaves Turkey

  10-05-2016 23:01 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A newspaper columnist who was briefly detained in Turkey and then banned from leaving the country during an investigation into tweets deemed insulting to the president has been allowed to return to the Netherlands.
  
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• Manchester United team bus 'smashed up'

  10-05-2016 23:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  West Ham's final match at Upton Park was delayed by 45 minutes on Tuesday after fans of the English Premier League soccer club threw objects at the bus carrying visiting team Manchester United.
  
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• Could this pill be the new heroin?

  10-05-2016 22:45 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The strongest opioid painkiller on the market is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and some individuals are trying to stop it from taking more lives.
  
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• New 'Orange Is the New Black' trailer drops

  10-05-2016 22:37 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Litchfield Penitentiary is getting some new blood, and spilling some of it too.Recent podcasts: Bernie gets the Axe | Blindsided: How ISIS Shook The World | Graham Opposes GOP Leader
  
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• Uber authorized to operate in Brazil's biggest city

  10-05-2016 22:16 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The mayor of Brazil's biggest city has signed a decree authorizing the use of smartphone-based ride-sharing-applications like Uber.
  
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• Cruz not ruling out re-entry into race

  10-05-2016 22:09 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Former Republican presidential candidate Ted Cruz said Tuesday he is not ruling out getting back into the race if a path to victory were to re-open.
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• Bayern rebuilds with $100M transfers

  10-05-2016 21:51 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Bayern Munich has completed the signings of Borussia Dortmund captain Mats Hummels and Benfica teenager Renato Sanches on five-year contracts in a double swoop which could cost in excess of $100 million.
  
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• Parallel lives of Prince and Michael Jackson

  10-05-2016 21:47 via rss.cnn.com
  
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• Fastest growing tourism market

  10-05-2016 21:46 via rss.cnn.com
  
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• In Mexico missing students case, suspects allege torture

  10-05-2016 21:44 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Within weeks of the September 2014 disappearance of 43 college students, Mexican authorities had rounded up scores of suspects and announced they had solved the case.
  
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• Enola Gay is a museum piece, unlike the nuclear arms Obama hoped to eradicate

  10-05-2016 21:42 via theguardian.com
  
  The plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima has been assiduously kept; Barack Obama’s commitment to ‘a world without nuclear weapons’ less soIn a quiet hangar outside Washington, the Enola Gay still gleams as if the B-29 Superfortress that dropped the first atomic bomb in anger rolled off the production line yesterday. Despite his announcing a historic visit to the site that its payload devastated in Japan, Barack Obama’s legacy as the president who would consign
  
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• NYC mayor scrutinized over donations from businesses

  10-05-2016 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — During his campaign to become New York City's mayor, Bill de Blasio held himself out as a champion of the average New Yorker who would diminish the clout of big business interests at City Hall.
  
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• DOT secretary warns he could shut down DC subway system

  10-05-2016 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said Tuesday he seriously considered ordering a shutdown of the entire Washington Metro subway system last week and may still do that if local officials don't follow ...
  
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• Obama honors UConn women for another national championship

  10-05-2016 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama is honoring the University of Connecticut women's basketball team for winning its fourth consecutive national championship and 11th overall.
  
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• NASA says 1,284 new planets found by Kepler telescope

  10-05-2016 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASA announced Tuesday the discovery of 1,284 new planets outside our solar system, more than doubling the number of exoplanets found with the Kepler space telescope. "This gives us hope that somewhere out there, around a star much like ours, we can eventually discover another Earth," said Ellen Stofan, chief scientist at NASA headquarters in Washington. The unmanned Kepler space observatory, which launched in 2009, has been scanning 150,000 stars for signs of orbiting bodies, particularly those
  
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• 'Ban Islam from America' fliers left at proposed mosque site

  10-05-2016 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  MUKILTEO, Wash. (AP) — "Ban Islam from America" fliers left at a proposed mosque site in northwest Washington are under investigation.
  
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• US won't seek death penalty against Benghazi suspect

  10-05-2016 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department will not seek the death penalty against Ahmed Abu Khattala, the suspected Libyan militant charged in the Benghazi attacks that killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, federal officials announced Tuesday.
  
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• Philadelphia upgrading radios, helmets with convention grant

  10-05-2016 21:31 via news.yahoo.com
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia is planning to upgrade its emergency radio system and buy some new helmets for its motorcycle unit some of the millions of dollars it's getting to host the Democratic National Convention, the mayor's office said Tuesday.
  
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• 'The Goldbergs' creator talks love affair with Flyers

  10-05-2016 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Barry Goldberg has come to say goodbye to a close-knit friend at a Flyers funeral. Resting in a box were the tattered remains of Goldberg's cherished Philadelphia Flyers T-shirt he named Big Orange.
  
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• Clinton, Sanders compete in West Virginia primary; Trump looks on

  10-05-2016 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bernie Sanders had another chance on Tuesday to slow Hillary Clinton's march toward the Democratic U.S. presidential nomination as West Virginians voted in their state's primary. A week after Donald Trump became the Republicans' presumptive nominee, Clinton, a former U.S. secretary of state, held a commanding lead in the pledged delegates needed to clinch her party's nomination. The winners of the Republican and Democratic nomination battles will face off in the Nov. 8 election to succeed Democr
  
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• White House sends high-court pick's questionnaire to Senate

  10-05-2016 21:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland detailed his most significant cases in thousands of pages of documents submitted to Congress Tuesday, including his role as a federal prosecutor in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing case and the prosecution of Unabomber Ted Kaczynski.
  
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• Canadian oil production trickles back as wildfire threat eases

  10-05-2016 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Rod Nickel and Nia Williams FORT MCMURRAY/EDMONTON, Alberta (Reuters) - Oil sands companies around the Canadian energy center of Fort McMurray began to resume production on Tuesday after an out-of-control wildfire forced a shutdown a week ago, and energy executives met with province leaders who reported the town was less damaged than first feared. The fire continued to grow on Tuesday, but it has moved far enough away from the oil sands' sites to allow companies to begin resuming production.
  
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• Colorado inmate claims Prince is his father, seeks DNA test

  10-05-2016 21:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — A Colorado prison inmate has filed a paternity claim with a Minnesota court against the estate of Prince, the latest claimant in what could grow into a long line of people asserting that they're entitled to a piece of the musician's fortune.
  
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• Stephen Curry makes history - again

  10-05-2016 21:18 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Another day, another record for Stephen Curry. And this one is big.Popular: Guns in America | Sanders Demands Clinton Apologize | Blindsided: How ISIS Shook The World
  
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• The macho men who love Shania Twain

  10-05-2016 21:17 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The tough guys on the Dallas Stars have adopted an unlikely source of strength during their NHL playoff push: Country music star Shania Twain.
  
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• Bangladesh executes leader of Islamist party

  10-05-2016 21:16 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A senior government official says the head of Bangladesh's largest Islamist party has been executed for his role in acts of genocide and war crimes during the country's independence war against Pakistan in 1971.
  
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• Nationals announce $175M, 7-year deal with Strasburg

  10-05-2016 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A day after Stephen Strasburg deflected questions about a new contract, the Washington Nationals announced that they had, indeed, agreed to a seven-year deal with the right-hander that starts next season.
  
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• Senate panel rejects Pentagon's call to shut military bases

  10-05-2016 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A GOP-led Senate panel is all but shutting the door on the possibility of a new round of military base closings.
  
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• Brazil's Rousseff undone by hubris, economic missteps

  10-05-2016 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  By Brad Brooks and Paulo Prada BRASILIA (Reuters) - Minutes after taking her oath of office in 2011, President Dilma Rousseff stood before Congress and pledged to end the dirty back-room deals and kickback schemes at the heart of Brazilian politics. In her first year, she forced out seven cabinet ministers tainted by accusations of wrongdoing and had the highest approval rating of any president since Brazil's return to democracy in 1985. Although she faces no allegations of personal enrichment,
  
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• Bangladesh executes top Islamist leader for war crimes: minister

  10-05-2016 21:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bangladesh on Tuesday executed the leader of the country's largest Islamist party for war crimes, officials said, a move set to exacerbate tensions in the volatile Muslim-majority nation. Motiur Rahman Nizami, leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami party, was hanged at a prison in the capital Dhaka, just days after the nation's highest court dismissed his final appeal to overturn the death sentence for atrocities committed during the country's 1971 war of independence with Pakistan. Law and Justice minis
  
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