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• Raptors need Lowry to step up in Game 3 against Cavaliers

  20-05-2016 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TORONTO (AP) — After two bad games in Cleveland, Kyle Lowry isn't lacking confidence as the Eastern Conference finals shift to Toronto.
  
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• Mexico to extradite drug boss Guzman to U.S., won't face death penalty

  20-05-2016 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Mexico approved the extradition of drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States on Friday after receiving guarantees he would not face the death penalty, and the kinkgpin's lawyers vowed to block the move. Juan Pablo Badillo, one of Guzman's lawyers, told Reuters he would file "many" legal challenges in the coming days, which could delay the drug lord's eventual extradition for weeks. Guzman, head of the Sinaloa drug cartel, was the world's most wanted drug kingpin until his capture
  
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• Gun rights group NRA endorses Trump for US president

  20-05-2016 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The National Rifle Association on Friday endorsed Donald Trump for US president, saying it was time to unite behind the Republican or "kiss your guns goodbye" if Hillary Clinton is elected. "We have to unite and we have to unite right now," Chris Cox, head of the NRA's lobbying arm, said at the gun rights group's annual convention in Louisville, Kentucky. The NRA's endorsement of a Republican nominee is no surprise.
  
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• Sanders campaign down to less than $6 million in cash

  20-05-2016 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders' campaign had less than $6 million at the start of May, a critical cash shortage as he makes an admittedly tough final play to wrest the Democratic presidential nomination from Hillary Clinton. He has been spending about $40 million per month.
  
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• Oklahoma governor vetoes bill to jail abortion doctors

  20-05-2016 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Oklahoma's Republican Governor Mary Fallin vetoed a bill calling for prison terms of up the three years for doctors who performed abortions, saying the legislation would not withstand a criminal constitutional legal challenge, her office said on Friday. The bill, which was approved a day earlier in the Republican-dominated legislature, would have made performing an abortion a felony. The bill allowed an exemption for an abortion necessary to save the life of the mother.
  
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• Protesters storm Baghdad's Green Zone again, dozens hurt

  20-05-2016 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Kareem Raheem and Stephen Kalin BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces opened fire on protesters who stormed into Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone on Friday and entered the cabinet building, drawing calls for revolt from a powerful Shi'ite Muslim cleric. The thousands of protesters included supporters of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and people from other groups upset with the government's failure to approve anti-corruption reforms and provide security. The government briefly imposed a curf
  
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• Sunglasses, wide-brim hats approved for Mormon missionaries

  20-05-2016 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Mormon leaders are giving their young missionaries some help for those long walks beneath the blazing sun by granting them permission to wear sunglasses and wide-brimmed hats.
  
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• Russia urges joint strikes on Syria rebels but U.S. reacts coolly

  20-05-2016 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Russia has proposed to the U.S.-led coalition that they stage joint air strikes on Syrian rebels, including militant Islamist group Nusra Front, who are not observing a ceasefire, but the United States responded coolly on Friday. Such action would begin as of May 25 and be coordinated with the Syrian government, Russian Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu told a Defence Ministry meeting broadcast on state television, adding Moscow reserved the right to stage strikes unilaterally. "We believe the adop
  
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• Mexico OKs extradition of drug lord 'El Chapo' Guzman to US

  20-05-2016 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico's Foreign Relations Department ruled Friday that the extradition of convicted drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States can go forward.
  
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• Armed man shot outside White House

  20-05-2016 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House was placed on lockdown for more than an hour Friday and heavily armed Secret Service agents deployed around the building after a man brandished a weapon nearby and was shot. President Barack Obama was not on the premises when the incident took place at around 3:06 pm (1906 GMT). The Secret Service reported an "adult male subject, carrying a firearm, approached an outer perimeter checkpoint accessible to the general public," according to spokesman Robert Hoback.
  
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• Europe leads global stocks rebound

  20-05-2016 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - Global stocks rallied Friday, with European equities especially strong, as markets put aside worries about higher US interest rates and the "Brexit" vote next month.
  
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• Pages astronauts followed to land on moon sell for $175,000

  20-05-2016 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  DALLAS (AP) — Three pages with the step-by-step computer procedures that U.S. astronauts followed to land the Apollo 11 lunar module on the moon's surface in 1969 have sold at auction for $175,000.
  
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• Kenny Perry holds onto Regions Tradition lead by stroke

  20-05-2016 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — Kenny Perry navigated condition changes and a course he's still learning to retain the Regions Tradition lead.
  
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• Congress warming to idea of medical marijuana for veterans

  20-05-2016 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DENVER (AP) — Congress is showing an increasing willingness to let VA doctors talk to veterans about medical marijuana in states where it's legal, although final approval is far from certain.
  
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• Out of the heat: Rangers plan $1B retractable-roof stadium

  20-05-2016 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — The Texas Rangers could be playing in a new $1 billion retractable-roof stadium by 2021 and would remain in Arlington until at least 2054 under plans revealed Friday by the team and the city.
  
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• Ashes of late writer Garcia Marquez head home to rest in Colombia

  20-05-2016 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The ashes of the late Nobel Prize-winning novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez will be laid to rest near his seaside home in Colombia on Sunday. The bestselling author of the modern classic "One Hundred Years of Solitude" died in April 2014 in his adopted home of Mexico at the age of 87. Now his ashes have been brought to his native Colombia to rest in the colonial city of Cartagena de Indias, where well-wishers will pay homage to him on Sunday.
  
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• US moves pre-Olympic swimming camp over Zika concerns

  20-05-2016 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  USA Swimming has moved a pre-Olympic training camp in July from Puerto Rico to Atlanta over concerns regarding exposure to the Zika virus. The American sport governing body informed coaches and athletes of the change on Thursday, shifting the last workouts ahead of August's Rio Olympics to the Georgia Tech aquatic center where the 1996 Atlanta Olympic swim events were held.
  
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• Murder charge dropped against Houston man in boy's stabbing

  20-05-2016 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  HOUSTON (AP) — A murder charge was dropped Friday against a man who had been accused of fatally stabbing an 11-year-old Houston boy as the child walked home from school because the man's alibi checked out, authorities said Friday.
  
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• Stocks close higher, led by health care and tech companies

  20-05-2016 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks rose on Friday in a modest but broad rally that erased much of the losses from earlier in the week when investors had sold over fears of rising interest rates.
  
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• Privacy fears: Panel has advice for drone operators

  20-05-2016 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — A panel of privacy experts and technology companies organized by the Obama administration has issued guidelines for using drones without being overly intrusive.
  
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• Trump rallies gun owners with fiery anti-Clinton speech

  20-05-2016 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Emily Flitter LOUISVILLE, Ky. (Reuters) - Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump assured gun owners on Friday he would protect their constitutional right to bear arms and eliminate gun-free zones if elected, accusing Democrat Hillary Clinton of wanting to weaken gun rights. Trump, who will almost certainly be the Republican presidential nominee, picked up the endorsement of the National Rifle Association, a politically powerful lobbying group which claims more than 4 million members.
  
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• 'Tase him!' 'I'm dead': Deputies struggle with man in videos

  20-05-2016 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Two deputies yell "Stop fighting!" and "He's got my Taser!" as they repeatedly stun a handcuffed man in the back of a vehicle, commanding him to relax even as he insists "I'm dead," shortly before he stops breathing, body-camera videos show.
  
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• Despite high-profile disasters, air safety steadily improves

  20-05-2016 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Since the start of 2014, more than 1,600 people have died in commercial aviation disasters. That rate is up from the preceding three years and results in part from some shocking incidents, including a pilot suicide and the downing of a passenger jet over Ukraine by an anti-aircraft missile.
  
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• Anderson ends Headingley 'hate' in style at first Test

  20-05-2016 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  England's James Anderson and Stuart Broad may have "hated" bowling at Headingley but all it needed was a change of ends to transform their collective fortunes at the ground. The new-ball duo shared nine wickets as England shot out Sri Lanka for just 91 on Friday's second day of the first Test at Yorkshire's headquarters. Anderson took five for 16 in 11.4 overs and Broad four for 21 in 10.
  
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• At NRA, Trump slams Clinton for 'heartless' gun restrictions

  20-05-2016 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Donald Trump on Friday slammed Hillary Clinton as "heartless" for backing restrictions on gun ownership that he said would leave Americans in high-crime areas unable to protect themselves. He also challenged Clinton to follow his lead and release a list of potential Supreme Court nominees.
  
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• Rangers announce plans for new $1 billion baseball stadium

  20-05-2016 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Texas Rangers and city officials in Arlington, Texas, have agreed to a deal for a new $1 billion retractable-roof stadium that would become the Major League Baseball club's ballpark by 2021. The plans announced Friday by Rangers owner Ray Davis and mayor Jeff Williams will be submitted to the city council Tuesday with approval expected on the project, in which the team and city would split costs 50-50. The Rangers, who lost the World Series to San Francisco in 2010 and St. Louis in 2011, hav
  
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• Sharks ride top line to 2-1 series lead against Blues

  20-05-2016 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Joe Thornton and his linemates have managed to do what Patrick Kane, Jonathan Toews and Jamie Benn couldn't in the first two rounds of the NHL playoffs: control the play against the St. Louis Blues.
  
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• Washington teacher attacked, found with zip-tie around neck

  20-05-2016 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  SEATTLE (AP) — A Washington high school teacher attacked on campus after school let out was hit on the head and had a zip-tie around his neck when he was found by another teacher near the school's wood shop, authorities said Friday.
  
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• Steelers new 'MVP' is robot - Mobile Virtual Player

  20-05-2016 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New padded robots operated by remote control are being used by the Pittsburgh Steelers in off-season workouts with more available to NFL teams next year if experimental tests work out. The Mobile Virtual Player -- dummies on wheels that can weave, change direction, speed up and stop -- are being used as far more than simulated tackling surrogates by Steelers coach Mike Tomlin, who has them testing receivers and rushers in training. "It's an awesome piece of football technology," Tomlin said in a
  
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• USOC leader: Flawed anti-doping system needs attention

  20-05-2016 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The leader of the U.S. Olympic Committee says the latest anti-doping headlines make it "increasingly difficult to defend the current system."
  
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• 3-D candy-maker billed as world's first arrives in New York

  20-05-2016 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Now there's yet another market for 3-D printer-enthusiasts: candy.
  
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• Egyptian officials: Debris found

  20-05-2016 22:24 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Passenger belongings and parts of the aircraft of missing EgyptAir Flight 804 have been found north of the coastal city Alexandria, according to the Egyptian armed forces.
  
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• Med crash: What we know, what we don't

  20-05-2016 22:07 via rss.cnn.com
  
  EgyptAir Flight 804's downing is a tragedy. But we still don't know what kind of tragedy. While Donald Trump's certainty that it was a terrorist act may assure some, and could even be accurate, this isn't how investigations like this work. Theories serve only as a way to guide this investigation, but it is facts that will tell us what actually happened. And that matters not simply for the future safety of the global aviation network, but for the stresses on America's own aviation apparatus.
  
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• Poll: Both Clinton, Trump unpopular

  20-05-2016 21:35 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Despite being the front-runner candidates of their respective parties, both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are extraordinarily unpopular heading into their party's conventions this summer.
  
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• Security: Can attacks be prevented?

  20-05-2016 21:32 via rss.cnn.com
  
  As travelers around the world absorb the implications of this week's crash of EgyptAir Flight 804, questions are being raised about how to improve airport security.Popular: Radical Islam in America | Graham Opposes Republican Leader | Guns in America
  
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• Mexico OKs 'El Chapo' extradition to U.S.

  20-05-2016 21:31 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Reputed drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's extradition to the United States has been approved, the Mexican ministry of foreign relations announced Friday.
  
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• Gun lobby group NRA endorses Trump

  20-05-2016 21:30 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump on Friday took the stage at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting, just moments after the gun rights group officially endorsed Trump for president.
  
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• UK PM's office denies Trump invite

  20-05-2016 21:07 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The office of British Prime Minister David Cameron on Friday disputed a claim that it invited Donald Trump to London for a visit, contrary to the presumptive Republican nominee's comments earlier in the day that he was invited "about two days ago."
  
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• Trump thanks NRA for endorsement

  20-05-2016 21:07 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump on Friday took the stage at the National Rifle Association's annual meeting, just moments after the gun rights group officially endorsed Trump for president.
  
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• Can attacks be prevented?

  20-05-2016 21:07 via rss.cnn.com
  
  As travelers around the world absorb the implications of this week's crash of EgyptAir Flight 804, questions are being raised about how to improve airport security.
  
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• 97 women, children freed from terrorists

  20-05-2016 20:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  At least one more former Chibok schoolgirl abducted by Boko Haram militants in 2014 has been found, Nigerian army Col. Sani Usman said.
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• Dead: Beastie Boy who named band

  20-05-2016 20:34 via rss.cnn.com
  
  John Berry, the founding member of the Beastie Boys and the person who came up with the groundbreaking hip hop group's name, has died. He was 52.
  
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• Where can you get a 5 percent yield? At Macy's

  20-05-2016 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Caroline Valetkevitch NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some of the best deals at big retailers like Macy's, Staples and Gap are not in their stores but on the stock market: their dividends are through the roof. For example, Staples pays a dividend equal to about 6 percent of the company's $8.15 share price, an all-time high for the company and more than double its 10-year average dividend yield of 2.5 percent.
  
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• Harvick told Kahne he wasn't after his job at Hendrick

  20-05-2016 20:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — As rumors swirled that Kevin Harvick planned to leave Stewart-Haas Racing, he took Kasey Kahne aside and promised him he wasn't after his job.
  
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• Bill Clinton: Democrats will "be together in the end."

  20-05-2016 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SIOUX FALLS, South Dakota (AP) — Despite the drawn-out primary fight, Bill Clinton says he thinks Democrats will be able to "be together in the end."
  
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• Protesters return to Baghdad's Green Zone, sparking violence

  20-05-2016 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Kareem Raheem and Stephen Kalin BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi security forces opened fire on protesters who stormed into Baghdad's heavily-fortified Green Zone and entered at least one government building, drawing calls for revolt from a powerful Shi'ite Muslim cleric. The thousands of protesters included supporters of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and people from other groups upset with the government's failure to approve anti-corruption reforms and provide security. The government imposed a curfew on
  
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• Boxer Jermain Taylor avoids prison time for 3 felony charges

  20-05-2016 20:11 via news.yahoo.com
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Former middleweight champion Jermain Taylor has avoided prison time on several felony charges stemming from three separate incidents in Arkansas, including firing a gun at a Martin Luther King Jr. parade.
  
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• Sofia Coppola tries her hand at opera in Rome

  20-05-2016 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  ROME (AP) — Oscar-winning film director Sofia Coppola is taking a break from movies to direct a new production of Verdi's "La Traviata" at the Rome Opera House.
  
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• Passengers on EgyptAir flight included businessmen, parents

  20-05-2016 20:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — The 66 people lost aboard EgyptAir Flight 804 included a businessman adored by his colleagues, a language and history scholar and a mother caring for a daughter with cancer. A look at the lives of the dead:
  
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• Schumacher's 'determination' can help him recover

  20-05-2016 20:06 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Trends come and go but the "KeepFightingMichael" hashtag remains a daily prayer on social media.
  
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