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• Timberwolves' Towns is unanimous Rookie of the Year pick

  16-05-2016 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Karl-Anthony Towns has the height and agility, plus the intensity and intelligence.
  
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• Gov. Doug Ducey signs bill inspired by Trump protest

  16-05-2016 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  PHOENIX (AP) — Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has signed a measure that increases penalties for people who block access to political campaign events.
  
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• White House: Obama aide won't testify on Iran deal

  16-05-2016 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says a senior adviser to President Barack Obama won't testify before a House committee about how he promoted the Iran nuclear deal to the public.
  
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• Illinois police shooting suspect killed after weeklong hunt

  16-05-2016 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — A suspect in a police officer's shooting who was shot and killed in southern Illinois after a search of more than a week managed to evade capture by hiding in a sparsely populated national forest where he had once lived, a county sheriff said Monday.
  
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• School Sanders' Wife Once Ran Is Forced to Shutter

  16-05-2016 23:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  The small Vermont college that Jane Sanders used to run is going out of business — done-in by a $10 million real estate deal that she spearheaded.
  
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• Columbus' Tie to ISIS Recruits Shows No One Immune: Mayor

  16-05-2016 23:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  Jaffrey Khan, Zakia Nasrin and Rasel Raihan lived in Ohio before joining the terror group.
  
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• Canada PM Trudeau's wife criticized for wanting extra staff

  16-05-2016 23:48 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's wife is being attacked by opposition parties and on social media for wanting extra staff to help manage her official duties.
  
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• US stocks climb in broad rally as crude oil rises

  16-05-2016 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A jump in oil prices and some deal news helped send stocks up broadly Monday, breaking a three-day losing streak.
  
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• Penis operation highlights past, future of organ transplants

  16-05-2016 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Add one remarkable case to the 30,000-plus organ transplants expected to be performed nationwide this year: A cancer patient who received a donor penis.
  
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• U.S., Russia stalemate on Syria frustrates European powers

  16-05-2016 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Michelle Nichols and John Irish UNITED NATIONS/VIENNA (Reuters) - The Obama administration's failure to convince Moscow that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad must go is fueling European frustration at being sidelined in efforts to end the country's five-year civil war, diplomats say.Some diplomats and analysts question whether the United States has misread Russia's desire to keep Assad in power. "Many have consistently underestimated Russia's determination to prevent this regime from falling,
  
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• Residents in northern New England awaken to snow in mid-May

  16-05-2016 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Leaves are coming out on trees, daffodils are starting to bloom and snow is falling in parts of Northern New England a month before the start of summer.
  
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• Arizona man upset with daughter's T-shirt kills family dog

  16-05-2016 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  GOODYEAR, Ariz. (AP) — Authorities say a Goodyear man is facing charges after killing the family dog because he was upset with his teenage daughter's T-shirt.
  
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• Man accused of shooting cops dealt with mental health issues

  16-05-2016 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The man accused of shooting two New Hampshire police officers agreed to mental health counseling in 2012 after he was charged in an assault his father said was a "schizophrenic" episode, court records show.
  
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• Half of People Who Have Heart Attacks Don't Even Know It

  16-05-2016 23:16 via nbcnews.com
  
  When Julie Llamas Rickman went to the emergency department five years ago, she thought her asthma was acting up. But it was a heart attack.
  
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• Low-income high schoolers to get grants for college courses

  16-05-2016 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — For the first time, thousands of low-income high-school students in nearly two dozen states will soon be able to get federal grants to take college courses for credit, part of a program the Obama administration plans to begin this summer.
  
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• Police say Sinead O'Connor found safe, no details released

  16-05-2016 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Police in suburban Chicago said Irish singer-songwriter Sinead O'Connor was found safe Monday after officers received a report that she never returned from a Sunday bike ride in the area.
  
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• Golden ticket for 'heartbroken' Man U fan

  16-05-2016 23:09 via rss.cnn.com
  
  One distraught Manchester United traveler from Sierra Leone nearly witnessed his first match -- only to be foiled by an accidental bomb scare on Sunday.
  
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• Snowden files set for wider release

  16-05-2016 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The full cache of secret documents from former US intelligence contractor Edward Snowden is being opened to journalists and organizations willing to work with the news organization holding the archive. The move could vastly increase the disclosures from Snowden, who fled the United States with a trove of documents detailing vast surveillance programs by the NSA and other intelligence agencies from around the world. "From the start of our reporting on the archive, a major component of our approac
  
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• Experience, LeBron make Cavs huge favorites over Raptors

  16-05-2016 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — LeBron James once stood in Kyle Lowry's sneakers.
  
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• Philly Train Crash Likely Result of Distracted Engineer: Source

  16-05-2016 23:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  Last year's Philadelphia Amtrak derailment was caused by an engineer distracted by radio dispatches, a source close to the investigation tell NBC News.
  
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• Sharks want more penalties called vs Blues in Game 2

  16-05-2016 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — The San Jose Sharks got just three power plays in their Game 1 loss to open the Western Conference finals, and no call when Joe Thornton's bushy beard got tugged on by St. Louis Blues captain David Backes in the first period.
  
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• Gun used by Zimmerman to kill Trayvon Martin on block again

  16-05-2016 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  George Zimmerman, the Florida man who killed unarmed teenager Trayvon Martin in 2012, will try again this week to sell the handgun he used in the shooting after an online auction last week was hijacked by fake buyers. Zimmerman, who was acquitted of second-degree murder and manslaughter charges in the controversial case, told Reuters in an email on Monday that a new auction would begin on UnitedGunGroup.com at 9 a.m. ET Tuesday and end at noon on Wednesday. United Gun Group owner Todd Underwood
  
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• 'Hamilton' star Miranda says 'immigrants get the job done'

  16-05-2016 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The creator of the hit Broadway musical "Hamilton" says it's a needed reminder during a heated political season that "immigrants get the job done."
  
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• US reveals how much Treasury debt Saudi Arabia owns

  16-05-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Foreign holdings of U.S. Treasury securities rose in March, with the Treasury Department revealing for the first time in four decades how much Saudi Arabia owns.
  
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• The Latest: Records link cop shooter suspect, mental illness

  16-05-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The Latest on the case of a New Hampshire man accused of shooting two police officers (all times local):
  
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• 'Captain America' stays atop North American box office

  16-05-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Los Angeles (AFP) - The latest action-packed "Captain America" film stayed atop the North American box office this weekend, according to industry figures released on Monday.
  
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• Puerto Rico police probe dog remains found in 43 bags

  16-05-2016 22:58 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Authorities in Puerto Rico say they are investigating the deaths of multiple dogs whose parts were found in 43 plastic bags dumped near a road.
  
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• Wisconsin's Johnson says he wasn't making 9/11 comparison

  16-05-2016 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Wisconsin Sen. Ron Johnson is defending his discussion of the vote taken by passengers aboard the hijacked United Flight 93 on 9/11 in the context of the upcoming November election, calling those who have criticized him over his remarks "political hacks."
  
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• Warren Buffett's Berkshire takes $1 billion bite of Apple

  16-05-2016 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway Inc revealed a more than $1 billion stake in Apple Inc in a rare foray into the technology sector, which the billionaire has largely shunned apart from a poorly performing investment in IBM . Shares of Apple rose 3.7 percent on the Berkshire imprimatur, closing up $3.36 at $93.88. Berkshire made its investment in the first quarter, before the iPhone maker in April reported its first quarterly revenue decline in 13 years.
  
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• US Supreme Court punts on contraception coverage case

  16-05-2016 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US Supreme Court ruled Monday that lower courts should decide an emblematic case on women's access to contraception, the latest in a series of challenges to the divisive "Obamacare" health care reform. The court was considering whether the government was violating the religious freedom of certain faith-based groups by providing health insurance covering birth control to their female employees. It was the fourth time in as many years that a challenge to President Barack Obama's flagship healt
  
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• Interracial marriage drama prompts Oscar buzz at Cannes

  16-05-2016 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US filmmaker Jeff Nichols said Monday he hoped his rapturously received Cannes contender "Loving", about an interracial couple's landmark marriage-rights case, would help change the current vicious tone of America's culture wars. The movie, which prompted early Oscar buzz after a press preview, tells the story of Richard and Mildred Loving, a Virginia couple who battled before the Supreme Court in 1967 for their right as a white man and an African-American woman to live together as husband and w
  
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• Clinton mocks Trump in hypothetical debate

  16-05-2016 22:52 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton impersonated Donald Trump at an event Monday, mocking the presumptive Republican nominee during a speech where the former secretary of state pretended to be in a general election debate.Popular: Radical Islam in America | Graham Opposes Republican Leader | Guns in America
  
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• Han Kang's 'The Vegetarian' wins Man Booker fiction prize

  16-05-2016 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  LONDON (AP) — South Korean author Han Kang has won the Man Booker International Prize for fiction with "The Vegetarian," an unsettling novel in which a woman's decision to stop eating meat has devastating consequences.
  
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• US Rep. Fattah: Consultants to blame for any financial crime

  16-05-2016 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Lawyers for U.S. Rep. Chaka Fattah blamed his former political consultants for any financial crimes that flowed from a costly, failed bid for Philadelphia mayor in opening statements at his corruption trial Monday.
  
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• Supreme Court dodges major decision on Obamacare birth control

  16-05-2016 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The ideologically deadlocked Supreme Court on Monday failed to resolve a major case involving the Obamacare law's mandatory birth control coverage, telling lower courts to reconsider the matter after tossing out their rulings favoring President Barack Obama. With four conservative justices and four liberals, the court did not rule on the merits of the legal challenge by nonprofit Christian employers who objected to the 2010 healthcare law's requirement that they provide female workers with medic
  
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• Sinead O'Connor found safe after going missing in Chicago area: police

  16-05-2016 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Irish-born singer Sinead O'Connor turned up safe at an undisclosed location on Monday, hours after being reported missing in Illinois by a caller who told authorities she had failed to return from a bicycle ride, police said. O'Connor, 49, who was reported missing in Wilmette, a suburb north of Chicago, has publicly acknowledged a history of mental illness. Six months ago, she said in a grief-wracked Facebook post that she had deliberately taken a drug overdose.
  
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• Firm sorry for leaving fake bomb at stadium

  16-05-2016 22:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The security firm that left a mock pipe bomb inside Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium apologized for its role in the security mishap.
  
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• Baby bison put down after tourists put it in their car

  16-05-2016 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A bison put in a car by tourists because it looked like it was cold had to be put down, officials at Yellowstone National Park said on Monday. The tourists loaded the animal into their trunk last week and drove it to a ranger station after taking a photograph that prompted a backlash on social media. "In this case, park rangers tried repeatedly to reunite the newborn bison calf with the herd.
  
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• 1st US penis transplant could raise hope for maimed soldiers

  16-05-2016 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — A 64-year-old cancer patient has received the nation's first penis transplant, a groundbreaking operation that may also help accident victims and some of the many U.S. veterans maimed by roadside bombs.
  
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• Dad, son wanted in Utah kidnapping hid in Wyoming wilderness

  16-05-2016 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A five-day manhunt for a father and son accused of tying up a woman and her four teenage daughters in a Utah basement ended this weekend near a makeshift campsite at the base of rugged Wyoming mountains.
  
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• Alaska man convicted of murder in death of 2 troopers

  16-05-2016 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  FAIRBANKS, Alaska (AP) — A rural Alaska man who shot two state troopers to death has been convicted of first-degree murder.
  
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• NTSB finds engineer distracted by radio traffic in 2015 Amtrak crash: NBC

  16-05-2016 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The National Transportation Safety Board has concluded that the engineer of an Amtrak passenger train that crashed in Philadelphia in 2015 was distracted by radio traffic, NBC News reported on Monday, citing an unnamed source. The derailment on May 12, 2015, killed eight people and injured more than 200. The engineer, Brandon Bostian, who suffered a concussion in the crash, told investigators he had no memory of what occurred after the train pulled out of the North Philade
  
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• AP source: LA Angels closing in on deal to sign Tim Lincecum

  16-05-2016 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Los Angeles Angels are closing in on a deal to sign two-time Cy Young Award winner Tim Lincecum, a free agent trying to come back from hip surgery, according to a person with knowledge of the negotiations.
  
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• Hillary Clinton and the 2-for-1 presidency

  16-05-2016 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOPKINSVILLE, Ky. (AP) — The notion of a 2-for-1 Clinton presidency is back.
  
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• Ex-Phoenix VA head gets probation in wait list-linked case

  16-05-2016 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  PHOENIX (AP) — A former VA health system director has been sentenced to two years' probation for failing to disclose gifts received while supervising the Phoenix hospital where whistleblowers revealed veterans on secret waiting lists faced scheduling delays of up to a year.
  
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• Apple, oil shares push US stocks higher

  16-05-2016 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - A resurgent Apple and big gains by oil-linked shares Monday helped push US stocks decisively higher.
  
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• Obama says Senate obligated to vote on Supreme Court nominee

  16-05-2016 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Monday he believes the Senate has a constitutional obligation to vote on a president's nomination to the Supreme Court, staking out a position at odds with Republicans and some legal scholars.
  
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• Thousands turn out as Leicester parade trophy

  16-05-2016 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Leicester City's incredible Premier League fairytale reached a joyous crescendo as thousands of fans turned the city blue while revelling in the club's title parade on Monday. For two weeks since Claudio Ranieri's side were crowned one of the most unlikely champions in English football history, the city of Leicester hasn't stop celebrating and the party climaxed beneath sunny skies 24 hours after the Foxes finished their campaign with a draw at Chelsea. After starting the season as 5,000-1 outsi
  
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• Could this help you live longer?

  16-05-2016 22:26 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Many Americans say they attend church because it helps them stay grounded and gives them spiritual guidance. A new study suggests that regular attendance may also help increase their lifespan.Sponsored:
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• Mexican human rights body investigating reporter's killing

  16-05-2016 22:24 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Mexico's National Human Rights Commission says it is investigating the killing of a journalist in Veracruz, an eastern state that has been the site of many journalists' slayings in recent years.
  
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