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• EgyptAir says Mediterranean Sea debris not from Flight 804: CNN

  19-05-2016 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  (Reuters) - EgyptAir Vice Chairman Ahmed Adel said the debris found in the Mediterranean Sea was not from Flight 804, CNN reported on Thursday. Greek rescue workers found lifevests and bits of plastic floating in the Mediterranean after an EgyptAir jet carrying 66 passengers and crew from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar. "We stand corrected on finding the wreckage because what we identified is not a part of our plane. So the search and rescue is still going on," Adel told CNN. (Reporting b
  
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• Gap shutting 75 stores this year, 53 in Japan

  19-05-2016 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Retail group Gap Inc. said Thursday it would shutter 75 stores this year amid sagging sales, including 53 of its kids-focused Old Navy brand outlets in Japan. Announcing a fall in first quarter earnings, the San Francisco-based retailer also warned that its might not achieve previous earnings forecasts for this year given the headwinds buffeting the apparel industry. "Old Navy will strategically shift its focus to markets most favorable to the brand's growth," the company said, explaining the Ja
  
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• Fed fears hit global stocks; travel shares fall

  19-05-2016 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  World stock markets fell on Thursday as traders digested Federal Reserve signals that a possible US interest rate hike could be in the cards in June.
  
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• Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro accused of being 'as mad as a goat'

  19-05-2016 23:46 via theguardian.com
  
  Uruguay’s former leader José Mujica says ‘they are all crazy in ‘Venezuela’Maduro has called another official a CIA agent and a ‘traitor’
  Venezuela’s embattled president Nicolás Maduro is “mad as a goat”, according to Uruguay’s former leader José “Pepe” Mujica.
  Mujica’s comments came after Maduro accused the head of the Organization of American States (OAS) of being a “traitor” and CIA
  
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• Canada PM Trudeau says wants Britain to stay in European Union

  19-05-2016 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By David Ljunggren and Andrea Hopkins OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada does not want Britain to leave the European Union, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau told Reuters on Thursday, and said there would be "nothing easy or automatic" about negotiating new trade deals between the two countries. The federal Liberal government, citing a wish not to meddle in the EU's internal affairs, has until now kept quiet on the question of how Britain should vote on June 23 in a referendum on the so-called Brexit questio
  
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• Trump's Supreme Court list: all conservative, some provocative

  19-05-2016 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - William Pryor, in urging the U.S. Supreme Court in 2003 to uphold a Texas law banning gay sex, argued against the notion that the U.S. Constitution should safeguard a person's choice of partners. Pryor, who then was Alabama's attorney general and now serves on a federal appeals court, was one of 11 conservative jurists who presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has named as people he would consider nominating to the Supreme Court, if el
  
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• Canada regulatory board greenlights Trans Mountain pipeline

  19-05-2016 23:44 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Canada's National Energy Board has recommended the government approve a US$5.9 billion (CA$6.8-billion) Trans Mountain pipeline expansion pending 157 conditions are met.
  
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• US could lift arms embargo on Vietnam amid China tensions

  19-05-2016 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama could lift restrictions on arms sales when he makes his first visit to Vietnam next week. That would remove a final vestige of wartime animosity but would not please China, which views growing U.S. defense ties in its backyard with deep suspicion amid rising military tensions in the South China Sea.
  
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• Grand jury investigating Oklahoma executions delivers report

  19-05-2016 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — An Oklahoma grand jury investigating the state's execution procedures said Thursday that a top lawyer for Gov. Mary Fallin encouraged the use of the wrong lethal injection drug in an execution that was later called off.
  
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• Factbox: Puerto Rico debt crisis bill keeps oversight board

  19-05-2016 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  By Daniel Bases and Nick Brown NEW YORK/SAN JUAN (Reuters) - The U.S. House Natural Resources Committee early on Thursday released long-delayed revised legislation to address Puerto Rico's fiscal crisis, which is threatening to become a full-blown humanitarian disaster. The bill, also known as the Puerto Rico Oversight, Management, and Economic Stability Act (PROMESA), has two major aims: setting out a framework for restructuring the island's $70 billion in debt and putting the island's financia
  
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• Bipartisan Puerto Rico crisis bill introduced, debt looms

  19-05-2016 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Daniel Bases and Susan Heavey NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. lawmakers on Thursday began coalescing around revised bipartisan legislation to help address Puerto Rico's unpayable debt burden, which now threatens a full-blown humanitarian crisis. Released close to midnight on Wednesday, the House Natural Resources Committee's revised bill includes a strong oversight board to direct how and when the island pays its bills and leaves many earlier proposals in place. Puerto Rico has already d
  
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• Clinton declares Trump a 'threat' to US democracy

  19-05-2016 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hillary Clinton on Thursday blasted her likely general election rival Donald Trump as a threat to US democracy and declared him unqualified to be president, unleashing some of her toughest criticism yet of the Republican presumptive nominee. "The threat that Donald Trump poses is so dramatic to our country, to our democracy and our economy," the former secretary of state told CNN in an interview. On May 3 she declined to answer directly when asked by MSNBC whether Trump was qualified to be comma
  
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• Trump to stump in New Mexico, nation's most Hispanic state

  19-05-2016 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump has scheduled his first campaign appearance in New Mexico — the state with the highest percentage of Hispanics in the nation.
  
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• Manning appeal seeks reversal of charges or reduced sentence

  19-05-2016 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Imprisoned U.S. Army Private Chelsea Manning has asked a military appeals court to reverse her 2013 conviction or reduce her 35-year sentence for sending mountains of classified information to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks while serving as an intelligence analyst in Iraq, according to a court document released Thursday.
  
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• Judge in Freddie Gray-officer trial grills prosecutors

  19-05-2016 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  BALTIMORE (AP) — A judge's intense line of questioning Thursday appeared to expose weaknesses in the state's case against an officer on trial for assault in the arrest of Freddie Gray, but legal experts cautioned against drawing any conclusions.
  
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• Brazil's Temer promises to bring women to his cabinet

  19-05-2016 23:30 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Acting President Michel Temer of Brazil is promising that he will have women in his currently all white-male Cabinet.
  
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• Slain worker's truck found as police probe kidnapping link

  19-05-2016 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Searchers combing the Wyoming backcountry on Thursday found the truck a slain rail line worker was driving when he disappeared amid a manhunt for two suspects in a bizarre Utah kidnapping case.
  
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• Apple's stores getting new look as other retailers struggle

  19-05-2016 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple is getting ready to unveil a stylish new product that's not for sale — a new look for its stores.
  
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• Federal judge upholds Virginia voter ID law

  19-05-2016 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A federal judge has upheld Virginia's 2013 law requiring voters to show a valid photo ID at the polls.
  
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• Colorado verdict likely deters strict security at the movies

  19-05-2016 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CENTENNIAL, Colo. (AP) — A verdict saying a Colorado movie theater could not have safeguarded against a shooting that left 12 people dead likely prevented a major shift in how people go to the movies by keeping the onus on the killer, rather than the public venue he chose to attack.
  
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• Carl Icahn's lawyer says he was not accused of 'wrongdoing'

  19-05-2016 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  A lawyer for Carl Icahn said on Thursday that the billionaire activist investor was never accused of any wrongdoing as part of an insider trading probe that involved the former chairman of Dean Foods Co, Las Vegas betting legend William "Billy" Walters and famed golfer Phil Mickelson. "Mr. Icahn has never been accused of any wrongdoing and as he has said before, any suggestion he engaged in improper trading is inflammatory," the attorney for Icahn said. Early in the insider trading investigation
  
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• Mediators push for 'national dialogue' to calm Venezuela crisis

  19-05-2016 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Foreign mediators trying to bring crisis-hit Venezuela back from the abyss announced Thursday a bid to get embattled President Nicolas Maduro's government and the opposition to sit down for talks. "It is a long, hard and difficult path," Zapatero admitted, urging support from the international community. The initiative is taking place under a national state of emergency ordered by Maduro but rejected by the opposition-controlled congress.
  
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• FBI adds 2009 Chicago slaying suspect to 10 Most Wanted list

  19-05-2016 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — A Chicago-area man suspected of taking part in the 2009 killing of a teenager who was beaten and shot before his body was set on fire was added Thursday to the FBI's 10 Most Wanted Fugitives list.
  
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• Muirfield says 'no' to female members, off British Open list

  19-05-2016 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Muirfield was stripped of its right to host the British Open after the Scottish club voted against admitting female members in a move that provoked sharp criticism from players and lawmakers Thursday.
  
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• UPDATE: Officials now say debris is not from Flight 804

  19-05-2016 23:07 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Checks of the passenger manifest have so far resulted in no hits on terror watch lists, officials with knowledge of the investigation told CNN.
  
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• Argentine lawmakers OK bill to stop layoffs; Macri to veto

  19-05-2016 23:04 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Argentina's House of Deputies has given final congressional approval to a bill that would ban layoffs in the public and private sectors.
  
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• Gap closes 75 stores outside North America

  19-05-2016 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Gap Inc. said it is shuttering 75 Old Navy and Banana Republic stores outside North America as the struggling company looks to focus on regions where it sees it has the greatest potential for success.
  
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• Trump, Clinton speeches to highlight US divisions on guns

  19-05-2016 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will court voters on opposite sides of the gun debate over the next two days in events that will highlight the nation's deep divide on the topic.
  
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• Stocks fall over continued worry about possible Fed hike

  19-05-2016 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks dropped on Thursday as investors get used to idea that the Federal Reserve may raise interest rates next month.
  
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• Eyeing Senate, Clinton directing money to 2016 battlegrounds

  19-05-2016 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton, seeking a governing coalition if she wins the White House, is pumping millions of dollars into key battleground states at the heart of her presidential map and Democrats' quest to regain control of the Senate.
  
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• U.S. review of EgyptAir imagery shows no signs of blast: officials

  19-05-2016 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  A U.S. review of satellite imagery so far has not produced any signs of an explosion aboard the EgyptAir flight that crashed on Thursday en route from Paris to Cairo, officials from multiple U.S. agencies told Reuters. The officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss intelligence matters, said the conclusion was the result of a preliminary examination of imagery and cautioned against media reports suggesting the United States believed a bomb was responsible for the crash.
  
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• Former NFL rusher Best will take a run at Rio

  19-05-2016 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Detroit Lions running back Jahvid Best, whose NFL career was cut short by concussions, is trying to qualify for the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Olympics as a sprinter for St. Lucia. Best was a first-round pick in the 2010 NFL Draft and played two seasons for the Lions, who snapped a 10-year run of losing seasons in 2011, his final season. Best, 27, ran for 945 yards and six touchdowns over 22 games, but mutiple concussions in 2011 ended his career.
  
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• Computers and warrants: Some senators oppose Justice plan

  19-05-2016 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A bipartisan group of senators took a first step Thursday to blocking a Justice Department proposal that they say would make it too easy for the government to hack into computers during investigations.
  
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• Capitol Hill Buzz: NFL returns money used to honor troops

  19-05-2016 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Two Republican senators said Thursday that they've scored a touchdown for taxpayers after the National Football League informed them that it is refunding more than $700,000 paid by the Defense Department to NFL clubs to honor military service members at league games and events.
  
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• IS suspect blows himself up during police raid in Turkey

  19-05-2016 22:46 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A Turkish official says a suspected Islamic State militant blew himself up during a police raid in the southeastern city of Gaziantep.
  
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• Search continues for wreckage from EgyptAir flight as officials probe links to terror

  19-05-2016 22:45 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  An intense search continued Thursday in the Mediterranean Sea off Greece for wreckage of an EgyptAir flight that went down earlier in the day with 66 people on board.
  
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• Virginia health care: Pay by the month, get unlimited visits

  19-05-2016 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — In January, Dr. Maura McLaughlin started a new type of primary care practice in central Virginia. Instead of getting payments from insurance companies for each appointment, her patients pay her directly, and get unlimited visits for a fixed monthly fee.
  
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• Terrorism 'most likely' cause of EgyptAir flight MS804 crash

  19-05-2016 22:39 via theguardian.com
  
  EgyptAir withdraws claims that wreckage has been found as official admits it ‘is not our aircraft’EgyptAir flight MS804 crash: debris ‘not our aircraft’ airline says – liveEgypt has said terrorism was more likely than a technical fault to have caused EgyptAir flight MS804 to swerve abruptly and fall out of the night sky on Thursday, plunging into the Mediterranean with 66 people onboard.Continue reading...
  
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• Defense pointing to Gary Condit in Chandra Levy case

  19-05-2016 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense attorneys for a man convicted of killing former Washington intern Chandra Levy are making clear that at his second trial they plan to offer jurors evidence pointing to a different one-time suspect in the case: former California Congressman Gary Condit.
  
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• Clinton: Trump 'dangerous,' not qualified to be president

  19-05-2016 22:23 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Democratic presidential front-runner Hillary Clinton criticized presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump on Thursday, saying his recent behavior shows he's not qualified to president.
  
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• Tragedy adds new worry

  19-05-2016 22:22 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The Mediterranean has long evoked images of azure waters, warm weather and relaxation at reasonable prices. But that idyllic picture is beginning to darken, with plane crashes, terror attacks on the beach and refugee deaths at sea now blighting the region.
  
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• Alberta wildfire spreads out from Fort McMurray to Saskatchewan

  19-05-2016 22:05 via theguardian.com
  
  Wildfire that began 1 May is still 18 miles from nearest community, La Loche
  Canadian officials hope cooler temperatures and rain forecast will slow spreadA massive wildfire raging in Canada’s oil sands capital has moved into Alberta’s neighboring province of Saskatchewan, but officials said hope cooler temperatures and rain forecast for the coming days will help mitigate its spread.Alberta senior wildlife manager Chad Morrison said on Thursday the fire, which has grown to 1,930 squa
  
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• Sole Briton on flight MS804 had just become father for second time

  19-05-2016 21:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Richard Osman’s French-born wife gave birth less than a month ago to second daughterEgyptAir flight MS804 crash: debris ‘not our aircraft’ airline says – liveThe sole British citizen on flight MS804 had become a father for the second time less than a month ago.Richard Osman’s French-born wife, Aurelie, 36, gave birth to Olympe on 27 April. The couple already had a 14-month-old daughter, Victios. The two infants are with their mother at the family’s Paris home,
  
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• Chibok girl meets President

  19-05-2016 21:56 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The Chibok girl who escaped after more than two years as a prisoner of Boko Haram is now with the governor of her state where she is being treated like a "VIP guest," an official has told CNN.
  
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• Clinton doesn't rule out Sanders for VP

  19-05-2016 21:55 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton didn't rule out Wednesday picking her Democratic presidential primary challenger, Bernie Sanders, from serving as her vice president.
  
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• What we know about the Airbus A320

  19-05-2016 21:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The A320 plane is part of one of the best-selling Airbus fleets in the planet.
  
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• EgyptAir flight 804: A timeline of what happened

  19-05-2016 21:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  EgyptAir Flight 804 vanished from radar on its way from Paris to Cairo with 66 people aboard.
  
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• The tragedy in 1 minute

  19-05-2016 21:40 via rss.cnn.com
  
  EgyptAir Flight 804 vanished from radar on its way from Paris to Cairo with 66 people aboard.
  
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• Aid group suspending operations in area where driver killed

  19-05-2016 21:39 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Doctors Without Borders says it must suspend operations in part of Central African Republic after its employees there came under attack, leaving one person dead.
  
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• Argentine prosecutor: Nisman maybe 'induced' to kill himself

  19-05-2016 21:32 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Alberto Nisman, who investigated Argentina's worst terrorist attack before he was found dead in his home last year, may have been forced to kill himself, another prosecutor who was formerly in charge of his case said Thursday.
  
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