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• Cosmic curveball: Is the universe expanding even faster?

  02-06-2016 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Astronomers thought they had a handle on how the universe ticks, but the cosmos may be toying with them.
  
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• Cosby accuser planned earlier confrontation but backed off

  02-06-2016 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Newly public police records in Bill Cosby's criminal sex-assault case show his accuser planned to confront him weeks after their 2004 encounter but backed off when he got too close to her.
  
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• Two jets from elite U.S. military squadrons crash, one reported dead

  02-06-2016 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Two fighter jets from elite U.S. military demonstration squadrons crashed in separate incidents on Thursday, including one that had just done a flyover of the Air Force Academy graduation in Colorado where President Barack Obama had spoken. In Tennessee, one person was killed when an F/A-18 jet from the Navy's Blue Angels squadron crashed in Smyrna, about 24 miles (39 km) southeast of Nashville, local media reported. The crash occurred while the Blue Angels were practicing for a week
  
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• The Latest: Prosecutor to discuss zoo investigation Monday

  02-06-2016 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — The Latest on the shooting of a Cincinnati Zoo gorilla after a small child got into its enclosure (all times local):
  
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• Prosecutor clears 2 St. Louis officers in fatal shooting

  02-06-2016 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The prosecutor for St. Louis said Thursday she won't be charging two officers in the fatal shooting of a black 18-year-old last year, concluding that no evidence disproves claims by police that it was self-defense.
  
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• The Latest: Police to seek murder charges in boy's death

  02-06-2016 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — The Latest on the discovery of a young boy's body in Detroit and the arrest of a suspect found in Ohio (all times local):
  
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• US Air Force plane crashes after flying over Obama speech

  02-06-2016 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  A plane from the US Air Force's elite Thunderbird team crashed Thursday in Colorado shortly after flying over a ceremony where President Barack Obama spoke, an official said. The pilot ejected safely from the aircraft and was undergoing a medical examination, according to the Air Force official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. Following the accident, Obama met with the pilot at Peterson Air Force Base before heading back to Washington aboard Air Force One.
  
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• Palestinian reality TV show shines light on democracy woes

  02-06-2016 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The winner of this "election" for Palestinian president was a 24-year-old lawyer from east Jerusalem, who defeated a woman and a Christian from Bethlehem. But this was reality television — not real life — and the vote came on a TV show called "The President" that is meant to educate young Palestinians about politics.
  
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• Clinton casts Trump as dangerous clown in caustic speech on foreign policy

  02-06-2016 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Amanda Becker WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton lambasted Donald Trump's foreign policy platform as "dangerously incoherent" in a speech on Thursday that cast her Republican rival as both a frightening and laughable figure. In remarks that at times resembled a comedy roast, Clinton unleashed a torrent of polished zingers and one-liners to attack Trump's policies and character, suggesting Trump might start a nuclear war if elected to the White House
  
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• Healthcare helps Wall St. to slight gains; jobs report next

  02-06-2016 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wall Street closed slightly higher on Thursday as fresh data gave a rosier view of the economy and further gains for healthcare shares countered declines in energy names. The S&P 500 ended at its highest closing level in seven months, while the Nasdaq minted its seventh straight day of gains. Investors now await Friday's payrolls report as they evaluate economic data to determine whether the Federal Reserve will hike interest rates as soon as its June 14-15 meeting.
  
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• Man who put Yellowstone bison calf in SUV pleads guilty

  02-06-2016 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, Wyo. (AP) — A federal magistrate has imposed $735 in fines, fees and compensation on a Canadian man who loaded a bison calf he came across in Yellowstone National Park into his SUV because he thought it was cold.
  
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• US cyclist withdraws from Rio consideration citing Zika

  02-06-2016 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  American cyclist Tejay van Garderen understands the chances that he might contract the Zika virus at the Rio Olympics are minimal, and that precautions could be taken to further reduce the threat.
  
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• Prince joins a list of stars dead from drug overdoses

  02-06-2016 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Minnesota medical examiner said Thursday that Prince died of an accidental overdose of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid painkiller. Authorities have not said whether he had a prescription for the drug and, if not, how he obtained it.
  
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• Officials heed warnings as early heat wave hits the West

  02-06-2016 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Parts of the Western U.S. are getting an early taste of scorching summer heat, forcing officials in California, Oregon and desert Southwest states to heed the warnings of dangerous, triple-digit temperatures in this first week of June.
  
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• California shooter had 'kill list,' linked to second death

  02-06-2016 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A gunman who shot dead his former college professor in California appeared to be working through a "kill list" of targets, police said Thursday, after discovering a second suspected victim dead at her home in the Midwest. Mainak Sarkar, 38, entered a small office in the engineering building at the sprawling University of California in Los Angeles Wednesday and shot the 39-year-old William Klug before turning the gun on himself, authorities said. Los Angeles police chief Charlie Beck said a note
  
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• Arizona mother kills three young sons, stabs self

  02-06-2016 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  By David Schwartz PHOENIX (Reuters) - A 29-year-old woman stabbed to death and partially dismembered her three young sons before seriously wounding herself inside a north Phoenix home where she lived, police said on Thursday. Phoenix police said the boys - aged 2 months, 5 years and 8 years - were discovered with multiple stab wounds inside a closet by officers who were called early on Thursday to what a spokesman described as a "horrific scene." The youngest child was found in a case, the two o
  
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• Republican House Speaker throws support behind Trump

  02-06-2016 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican House Speaker Paul Ryan threw his support behind the party's presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump on Thursday, a key step toward building unity ahead of the US general election in November. The top-ranked Republican currently elected to public office, Ryan dropped a bombshell last month, triggering soul-searching within the fractured party when he said he was "just not ready" to support Trump as the flag bearer. Ryan is developing policy to serve as the basis for the Republic
  
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• Authorities say man cited 'Purge' film in Indiana slayings

  02-06-2016 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A 19-year-old Indianapolis man has been charged with killing three people over four days in attacks a prosecutor said he justified by citing the horror movie "The Purge," which is about one day a year when murder is legal.
  
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• Suspect arrested in fatal shooting of 2 college students

  02-06-2016 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A man accused of starting a shootout that killed two Southern University students was arrested on murder charges Thursday, although police don't believe he fired the deadly shots.
  
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• Cameron says would join EU if Britain was not a member, but not euro

  02-06-2016 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Elizabeth Piper LONDON (Reuters) - Prime Minister David Cameron said on Thursday he would take Britain into the European Union under the "special status" it now enjoys if it was not already a member, pressing his campaign to remain in the bloc in a live television performance. Fielding questions from a sometimes hostile audience on subjects ranging from immigration to security, Cameron said he often became frustrated with the 28-member bloc. "I would never want us to join the euro, but if we
  
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• Police investigate aircraft tire slashings in Alaska

  02-06-2016 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Authorities are investigating an overnight vandalism spree that left dozens of airplanes with slashed tires at a small airport in the Alaska's largest city.
  
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• Paris museums on alert as flood chaos hits France, Germany

  02-06-2016 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Floods in Germany and France have killed at least 10 people and forced thousands from their homes, officials said Thursday as Paris' Louvre museum announced it would move treasures out of reach of the swollen Seine. Several towns in southern Germany have been devastated by flooding that has also seen rescuers in central France rowing lifeboats down streets turned into muddy rivers. In France, a man on horseback died after he was swept away in a swollen river in Evry-Gregy-sur-Yerre, southeast of
  
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• U.S.-led coalition airdrops weapons to Syria rebels in Aleppo province

  02-06-2016 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  A U.S.-led coalition fighting against Islamic State in Syria air-dropped weapons to rebels in the town of Marea in northern province Aleppo on Thursday, a rebel commander and monitoring group said. The British-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said weapons and ammunition were dropped. It was the first time the coalition had dropped weapons to fighters other than the Syria Democratic Forces, an alliance fighting separately against IS that includes the Kurdish YPG militia.
  
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• After an early wobble, US stocks close higher

  02-06-2016 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. stocks rebounded from an early slide Thursday, nudging the Standard & Poor's 500 index and Nasdaq composite to their highest close of the year.
  
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• Meet the world's best gamers

  02-06-2016 22:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
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• Dad of woman slain by serial killer attacks him in court

  02-06-2016 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  CLEVELAND (AP) — The father of a woman killed by a convicted sex offender dove across a courtroom table to attack him Thursday, shortly after a judge announced the defendant would be sentenced to death for killing three people and wrapping their bodies in garbage bags.
  
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• Hillary Clinton: Trump is too dangerous and unstable to have the nuclear codes

  02-06-2016 22:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Democratic frontrunner attacks Trump’s ‘personal feuds and outright lies’ in blistering speech that questions GOP candidate’s suitability for the White House Hillary Clinton has lacerated Donald Trump’s fitness to lead the United States in a tour-de-force assault on his record and temperament, branding him too dangerous and unstable to be entrusted with nuclear codes and warning of economic crisis if he were to reach the White House.The Democratic frontrunner and fo
  
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• Photos: Prince Harry Chats with Veterans

  02-06-2016 22:29
  
  The life and times of the British prince.
  
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• Briton abandons Everest ascent to save fellow climber

  02-06-2016 22:25 via theguardian.com
  
  Former soldier Leslie Binns turned around less than 500 metres from summit to help save Indian mountaineer Sunita HazraA British climber gave up the chance to reach the top of Mount Everest less than 500 metres from the summit to save the life of a fellow mountaineer.Leslie Binns, who served in the British army for 13 years, turned around to save Indian climber Sunita Hazra in the early hours of 21 May. He was about 12 hours from the summit of the world’s highest mountain when he came acro
  
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• Bodies of migrants who died when boats sank wash ashore in Libya

  02-06-2016 22:23 via theguardian.com
  
  At least 85 bodies found on beaches in Libya a week after hundreds of migrants drowned trying to cross the MediterraneanThe bodies of at least 85 migrants who drowned trying to cross the Mediterranean were found washed up on beaches in western Libya near the city of Zuwara on Thursday, a Red Crescent official said.Hundreds of migrants died in boat accidents last week as departures from the North African coast towards Italy surged. Many of the boats are believed to have left from the shore around
  
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• Paul Ryan endorses Donald Trump

  02-06-2016 22:12 via rss.cnn.com
  
  House Speaker Paul Ryan on Thursday said he's voting for presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.
  
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• Clinton bashes Trump's foreign policy

  02-06-2016 22:00 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton is drawing a significant contrast with presumptive Republican nominee Donald Trump on foreign policy in an address Thursday that aides said cast the real estate mogul as a foreign policy lightweight and security risk.
  
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• Donald Trump is temperamentally unfit for presidency, says Clinton – video

  02-06-2016 21:56 via theguardian.com
  
  Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton makes a major address on national security, saying her Republican rival Donald Trump is ‘temperamentally unfit’ to hold the office of president. Clinton also berated Trump for being too friendly with North Korea and too harsh on European allies in a foreign policy speech aimed at portraying the billionaire businessman as unfit for the White House Continue reading...
  
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• 'Lucky' Djokovic nearly disqualified

  02-06-2016 21:51 via rss.cnn.com
  
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• UCLA shooting: Gunman had 'kill list'

  02-06-2016 21:38 via rss.cnn.com
  
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• How dangerous is it?

  02-06-2016 21:28 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains how the powerful prescription painkiller Fentanyl is being misused and how that can be lethal.Sponsored:
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• Fan reaction

  02-06-2016 21:28 via rss.cnn.com
  
  The mourning over the death of Prince hasn't seemed to stop since his body was found in an elevator at his Paisley Park estate on April 21.
  
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• Fentanyl: Deadlier than heroin

  02-06-2016 21:27 via rss.cnn.com
  
  America's addiction to opioid-based painkillers and heroin just got exponentially more dangerous. The most potent painkiller on the market, prescribed by doctors for cancer treatment, is being made illicitly and sold on the streets, delivering a super high and, far too often, death.
  
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• Chilean ex-lieutenant faces US trial in murder of singer and activist Víctor Jara

  02-06-2016 21:24 via theguardian.com
  
  US has not acted on Chile’s extradition request but human rights group has brought a civil suit against Pedro Pablo Barrientos Núñez, who lives in FloridaA former lieutenant in the Chilean army under Augusto Pinochet will face a civil trial in Florida this month for his involvement in the 1973 murder of Chilean folk singer Víctor Jara, according to the US human rights group bringing the suit. Jara, also a poet and political activist, inspired generations of artists fro
  
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• Moose gives birth in Anchorage parking lot – video

  02-06-2016 21:20 via theguardian.com
  
  Shoppers in East Anchorage sit quietly for hours on Thursday and watch a mother moose give birth and then bond with her newborn calf in the parking of a Lowe’s hardware store. The store set up a safe zone for the mother and calf until the two eventually left the area Continue reading...
  
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• Elephant charges Arnold Schwarzenegger

  02-06-2016 21:15 via rss.cnn.com
  
  While on a safari in South Africa, Arnold Schwarzenegger gets up close and personal with a bull elephant.
  
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• Tiger temple faces criminal complaint

  02-06-2016 21:04 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Federal officials in Thailand plan to file a criminal complaint against the controversial "Tiger Temple" after 40 dead tiger cubs were found in a freezer at the Buddhist temple, the deputy chief of the country's parks and wildlife department said Thursday.
  
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• Boy, 6, calls 911 over dad's driving

  02-06-2016 20:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  This wasn't the kind of emergency the Joleen McDonald had in mind when she taught her 6-year-old son, Robbie, to dial 911.
  
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• Trump flip-flops on Japan nukes

  02-06-2016 20:50 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump on Wednesday night charged Hillary Clinton was misrepresenting his position by saying he wants nuclear arms for Japan -- but the presumptive Republican nominee previously has said exactly that.
  
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• Charles Darwin letter returned to Smithsonian over 30 years after theft

  02-06-2016 20:49 via theguardian.com
  
  The 1875 letter, part of correspondence between British scientist and Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, was stolen by an employee in mid-1970s, FBI saidMore than three decades after a letter by Charles Darwin was stolen, the FBI’s art crime team has recovered and returned it to the Smithsonian.The letter, part of the Darwin’s correspondence with an American geologist, Ferdinand Vandeveer Hayden, was written in May 1875 to thank his fellow naturalist for field studies of what became Yellows
  
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• Why soccer legend Pele joined the military

  02-06-2016 20:27 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Making a list of career highlights is a pretty simple task for most footballers -- but most footballers haven't accomplished half of what Pele did on the field.
  
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• UN reluctant to start aid airdrops in Syria without Russian backing

  02-06-2016 20:25 via theguardian.com
  
  International community had set 1 June deadline for Syria to grant permission for widespread access to besieged townsThe UN has infuriated the Syrian opposition by saying that a previous commitment to push for airdrops to deliver food aid to besieged towns cannot go ahead without the permission of the Russian government.
  The UN and the World Food Programme were under instruction from the international community to deliver food aid by air if Syrian government had not given permission for widespre
  
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• New radio map of Jupiter reveals ammonia plumes beneath clouds

  02-06-2016 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  The nature of the gas giant’s atmosphere has long been something of a puzzle, but radio wave data has allowed scientists to peek beneath planet’s cloudsHuge plumes of ammonia have been found beneath the clouds of Jupiter, providing new insights into the planet’s dynamic atmosphere, scientists say. Nearly 780 million kilometres from the sun and the largest planet in the solar system, the gas giant Jupiter has long fascinated astronomers. But the nature of its atmosphere has been
  
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• Microplastics killing fish before they reach reproductive age, study finds

  02-06-2016 20:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Tiny particles of plastic litter in oceans causing deaths, stunted growth and altering behaviour of some fish that feed on them, research shows Fish are being killed, and prevented from reaching maturity, by the litter of plastic particles finding their way into the world’s oceans, new research has proved.Some young fish have been found to prefer tiny particles of plastic to their natural food sources, effectively starving them before they can reproduce. Continue reading...
  
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• Japan: Search for missing boy downsized

  02-06-2016 19:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
  After six days of searching through thick forest, the operation to find missing 7-year-old Japanese boy Yamato Tanooka will scale down on Friday, officials say.
  
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