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• Yanks use big 3 in bullpen to secure 2-1 win over White Sox

  14-05-2016 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Yankees manager Joe Girardi unwrapped his new bullpen toy Saturday and unleashed it on the Chicago White Sox.
  
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• Hours After Prom, 2 Girls Killed When Car Strikes Tree

  14-05-2016 23:47 via abcnews.go.com
  Authorities say two teens have been killed and two others hurt after the car they were riding in lost control and hit a tree in southern New Jersey
  
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• Nationals' Harper drops appeal, serves 1-game suspension

  14-05-2016 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nationals star Bryce Harper has dropped his appeal and will serve a one-game suspension in the second game of the day-night doubleheader Saturday against Miami.
  
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• Brexit leader Johnson says EU on same doomed path as Hitler

  14-05-2016 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Boris Johnson, who is leading the "Out" campaign ahead of Britain's European Union membership referendum, said in an interview that the bloc was following the path of Adolf Hitler and Napoleon by trying to create a European superstate. "Napoleon, Hitler, various people tried this out, and it ends tragically," Johnson was quoted as saying in an interview.
  
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• Maduro in crackdown under Venezuela emergency decree

  14-05-2016 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced a sweeping crackdown Saturday under a new emergency decree, ordering authorities to seize factories "paralyzed by the bourgeoisie," and to arrest their owners. An elected socialist, Maduro accused the United States on Friday of destabilizing the country at the behest of the "fascist Venezuelan right," prompting him to declare a state of emergency. Addressing his supporters in Caracas Saturday, Maduro detailed the extent of the new decree.
  
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• The Latest: Timberlake performs at Eurovision Song Contest

  14-05-2016 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Latest on the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest (all times local):
  
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• Erik Jones wins Xfinity race at Dover for $100,000 bonus

  14-05-2016 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DOVER, Del. (AP) — Erik Jones won the Xfinity Series race Saturday at Dover International Speedway and took a $100,000 bonus from the series' Dash-4-Cash program.
  
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• Revamped San Francisco Museum of Modern Art reopens

  14-05-2016 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The revamped San Francisco Museum of Modern Art reopened Saturday with a marching band, jumbo red balloons and red confetti raining down from the top of the new 10-story white building with a bulging side.
  
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• Greece will return to bond markets next year: PM

  14-05-2016 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras said Saturday that Greece will return to the bond markets in 2017, seven years after losing access to the markets due to its debt crisis. "We will return to the markets in 2017," Tsipras said in an interview with the Realnews weekly newspaper. While the eurozone country has continued to raise funds through short-term, low-risk, bonds, Greece has not had access to the medium- and long-term bond markets since 2010, when Athens sought the first of three multi-billion e
  
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• Resignation after power grab rocks Infantino's new era claim

  14-05-2016 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — It's taken less than 80 days for Gianni Infantino's claim to be leading FIFA into a new era to be publicly undermined.
  
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• St. Louis tries to shake those home blues against Sharks

  14-05-2016 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — The rest of the postseason, the St. Louis Blues have home-ice advantage. Now, if they can only capitalize on it.
  
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• Marijuana legalization still contentious in Oregon counties

  14-05-2016 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  REDMOND, Oregon (AP) — Last year, Lindsey Pate and her husband, Christopher, bought 15 acres of high desert covered in junipers in central Oregon, where they planned to grow marijuana in greenhouses to sell for recreational use.
  
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• California Ballot Measure Blamed for Shoplifting Jump

  14-05-2016 22:55 via abcnews.go.com
  Large retailers including Safeway, Target, Rite Aid and CVS pharmacies say they have seen shoplifting jump at least 15 percent since California voters reduced theft penalties 1½ years ago
  
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• Williams sues to maintain sale to Energy Transfer Equity

  14-05-2016 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  DALLAS (AP) — Williams Cos. has gone to court to pressure rival pipeline company Energy Transfer Equity to go through with the planned $32.6 billion purchase of Williams.
  
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• Wary of rust, Cavs sweat in gym while awaiting next round

  14-05-2016 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) — Even coach Tyronn Lue came off the floor sweating on Saturday.
  
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• Game 7 to finally decide Raptors-Heat winner, Cavs' opponent

  14-05-2016 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — History is going to happen.
  
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• Brazil rebuffs Latin American leftists over Rousseff suspension

  14-05-2016 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brazil's interim government dismissed criticism by leftist countries in Latin America, including Venezuela, Cuba and Bolivia, over the impeachment process of Dilma Rousseff, who was suspended as president by the senate. The leftist president of El Salvador on Saturday added to the regional pressure on Brazil, saying that he would not recognize the interim government and recalled his ambassador, claiming there had been "political manipulation" in Latin America's biggest country.
  
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• Thousands of tiny red crabs stranding on California beach

  14-05-2016 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Thousands of tiny red crabs are carpeting beaches in Orange County and creating an amazing spectacle for swimmers and surfers.
  
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• Gov: New Hampshire shootings 'vivid reminder' of cops' risks

  14-05-2016 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — New Hampshire Gov. Maggie Hassan said the shootings of two Manchester police officers as they pursued a robbery suspect are a "vivid reminder of the risks the members of law enforcement take every day."
  
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• Barcelona deserve title - Zidane

  14-05-2016 22:19 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Real Madrid boss Zinedine Zidane concedes Barcelona are deserved La Liga champions after his side lost out to their rivals by one point.
  
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• Three dead in Moscow cemetery brawl

  14-05-2016 22:11 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Three people are killed and more than 90 arrested as a mass brawl breaks out at Moscow cemetery, Russian media report.
  
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• The Latest: Fans come from all over the world to Eurovision

  14-05-2016 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  STOCKHOLM (AP) — The Latest on the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest (all times local):
  
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• 'Clash' film shows Egyptian conflict from back of police van

  14-05-2016 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CANNES, France (AP) — For his latest film, Egyptian director Mohamed Diab is portraying his country's recent turbulent history from a unique vantage point: the back of a van.
  
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• Penguins, Lightning off to chippy start in conference finals

  14-05-2016 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Pittsburgh Penguins and Tampa Bay Lightning got off to a chippy start in the Eastern Conference finals.
  
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• Chicago mayor to replace police review board with more independent watchdog

  14-05-2016 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to scrap a police review board and replace it with a more independent and better-funded watchdog to investigate police shootings and other misconduct cases, he wrote in a newspaper column. The decision to abolish the Independent Police Review Authority (IPRA) comes a month after a task force released a scathing report recommending a new board to help mend strained relations between Chicago's police force and the city's minority communities. The task force report
  
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• Prince guitar to be auctioned in Beverly Hills

  14-05-2016 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A bright yellow, uniquely shaped guitar used by Prince to perform such tunes as "Cream" and "Gett Off" is going up for auction.
  
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• Syrian forces retake Deir al-Zor hospital after 'major' Islamic State offensive

  14-05-2016 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Syrian government forces retook a hospital in Deir al-Zor after Islamic State attacked it on Saturday following a dawn offensive by the militants on the besieged eastern Syrian city, a war monitor and state media said. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which monitors Syria's five-year-long war, said Islamic State had killed at least 35 members of the Syrian armed forces and detained some medical staff from the hospital. The fighting in and around the hospital also killed at
  
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• Car blast kills two in Qamishli, northeast Syria: official

  14-05-2016 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  Two people were killed when a car exploded in the town of Qamishli in northeastern Syria on Saturday, around 10 days after local security services warned about a possible attack, a Syrian Kurdish official said. The media officer for Kurdish internal security force, the Asayish, Abdallah Saadoun, told Reuters the vehicle exploded in a car wash. One of the dead was a car wash worker and one was a Kurdish YPG militia fighter who was nearby, Saadoun said.
  
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• 'The Blacklist' spin-off with Famke Janssen coming to NBC

  14-05-2016 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — "The Blacklist" is branching out.
  
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• Jimmie Johnson looks to extend track dominance at Dover

  14-05-2016 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DOVER, Del. (AP) — Jimmie Johnson fell in love with Dover the first time he turned a lap at the track in the late 1990s.
  
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• India journalist held over yoga report

  14-05-2016 21:26 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A journalist in India faces charges over a report he wrote saying Muslims were banned from teaching yoga under government policy.
  
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• Trump has a history of questionable behavior with women: NY Times

  14-05-2016 21:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Interviews with dozens of women who have worked for Donald Trump or interacted with him socially reveal a pattern of often unsettling personal behavior by the Republican presidential candidate, The New York Times reported on Saturday. “A lot of things get made up over the years,” Trump told the Times. Barbara Res, who oversaw construction of Trump's Manhattan business headquarters, said he would sometimes interrupt meetings with comments about women's figures.
  
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• Cameron struggles to make Britons believe his EU message - poll

  14-05-2016 21:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Prime Minister David Cameron is struggling to convince voters he is telling the truth about why Britain should stay in the European Union and his main "Out" rival Boris Johnson is doing a better job, an opinion poll found. Only 21 percent of respondents in the survey carried out by polling firm ComRes agreed that Cameron was more likely to tell the truth about the EU than Johnson while 45 percent said Johnson was more believable than Cameron. With less than six weeks to go until the June 23 refe
  
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• Indians place OF Michael Brantley on 15-day disabled list

  14-05-2016 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — Michael Brantley's right shoulder needs more rest.
  
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• Pfizer takes 'significant' move to restrict lethal injection drugs

  14-05-2016 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A decision by pharmaceutical giant Pfizer to restrict the distribution of its products used in lethal injections has cut off the last remaining approved source of drugs used to carry out the death penalty, experts said. Capital punishment observers on Saturday hailed the move by New York-based Pfizer as "significant," noting that it highlights the pharmaceutical industry's opposition to the misuse of its products. Pfizer said in a statement on its website that its mission includes making product
  
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• Williams v Keys in first all-US clay final since 2002

  14-05-2016 20:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Three-time champion Serena Williams said she can't wait after setting up the first all-American women's claycourt final in 14 years, with an Italian Open final against Madison Keys on Sunday. The last time two Americans faced off in the final of a WTA claycourt event was in 2002, when Williams beat her older sister Venus to win her maiden French Open at Roland Garros. Williams, who will aim for her fourth and second successive title in Paris in a fortnight, said earlier this week she was excited
  
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• An all-American final in Rome: Serena Williams vs. Keys

  14-05-2016 20:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ROME (AP) — It's going to be a rare all-American affair in the Italian Open final.
  
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• Suarez hat-trick fires Barca to La Liga title

  14-05-2016 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Barcelona sealed their 24th La Liga title as Luis Suarez took his tally for the season to 59 goals with a hat-trick in a 3-0 win at Granada to hold off Real Madrid's late-season surge. Real registered their 12th consecutive La Liga win, 2-0 at Deportivo La Coruna thanks to Cristiano Ronaldo's double, but finished a point behind their bitter rivals. Suarez's treble also sees him become the first player in seven years other than Ronaldo and Barca teammate Lionel Messi to win the Pichichi award for
  
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• More help needed to defeat Boko Haram, rebuild, summit told

  14-05-2016 20:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Regional and Western powers were on Saturday urged to do more to stop the threat from Boko Haram, as the UN voiced concern about its ties to the Islamic State group and the militants' threat to African security. Nigeria invited leaders of its neighbours Benin, Cameroon, Chad and Niger to Abuja, whose troops will be deployed as part of a much-delayed 8,500-member regional force to combat the Islamists. Countries hit by the violence had to win "the hearts and minds of those terrorised by Boko Hara
  
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• The man who saved Ferrari in his 'bathtub'

  14-05-2016 20:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Why was Michael Schumacher's victory in the torrential rain at the Spanish GP 20 years ago so iconic? Andrew Benson explains...
  
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• Women's Obituary Says Instead of Flowers, Don't Vote for Trump

  14-05-2016 20:19 via abcnews.go.com
  
  A recently deceased women tells mourners not to vote for Donald Trump.
  
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• Swiss town in shock after soccer coach held over 4 killings

  14-05-2016 20:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — The small Swiss town of Rupperswil is in shock after learning that a long-time local youth soccer coach is suspected of being behind the brutal killings of four people last December.
  
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• Teens escape unharmed after limo catches fire on way to prom

  14-05-2016 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  NATICK, Mass. (AP) — Bad luck followed a group of teenagers heading to the prom on Friday the 13th as the limousine they were riding in caught fire.
  
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• Court absolves soldiers in army killing of suspects

  14-05-2016 19:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican civilian court has freed the last three soldiers accused of homicide in a 2014 incident in which at least a dozen suspects were allegedly executed after they surrendered.
  
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• Guardiola signs off at Bayern with German league title

  14-05-2016 19:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Pep Guardiola signed off his three years in the Bundesliga with a 'beer shower' on Saturday as Bayern Munich lifted a fourth straight German league title after Saturday's 3-1 win over bottom-side Hanover. Bayern's 28th win in 34 league games triggered party scenes at the Allianz Arena as the Bavarians celebrated their 26th German league title. This was Guardiola's 20th trophy as a coach after 14 in four years with Barcelona and now six in three years in Munich before leaving to coach Manchester
  
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• Russia: 2 police killed, 14 wounded in clash with militants

  14-05-2016 19:36 via news.yahoo.com
  MAKHACHKALA, Russia (AP) — Police in Russia's Dagestan region say two officers have been killed and 14 wounded during clashes with militants holed up in an apartment.
  
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• Vegas Tycoon Sheldon Adelson Throws Support Behind Trump

  14-05-2016 19:35 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Campaign says Adelson will contribute a substantial amount of money.
  
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• Did skinny-dipper kill rare fish?

  14-05-2016 19:18 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Did a drunken man's skinny-dip in a Nevada wildlife refuge kill one of the world's rarest fish?
  
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• Suarez hat-trick seals title for Barcelona

  14-05-2016 19:17 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Luis Suarez set the seal on the La Liga season with a hat-trick as Barcelona retained the title Saturday with a 3-0 win at Granada.Sponsored:
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• Barcelona wins 2nd straight Spanish league title

  14-05-2016 18:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — Barcelona has won its second straight Spanish league title after defeating Granada 3-0 on Saturday with a hat trick by Luis Suarez in the final round.
  
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