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• In Arizona, Ali fans create makeshift memorial

  04-06-2016 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former amateur fighter Joel Valera came with red and white boxing gloves. Devastated fans of Muhammad Ali on Saturday flocked to the Scottsdale Healthcare Osborn Medical Center in the suburbs of Phoenix, where the trailblazing boxing legend died on Friday at age 74, to pay their final respects. Another fan wished Ali luck in his next fight, in a handwritten note, beside a tiny US flag.
  
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• Padres trade Shields, cash to White Sox for Johnson, Tatis

  04-06-2016 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — The San Diego Padres have traded pitcher James Shields and cash to the Chicago White Sox for pitcher Erik Johnson and shortstop Fernando Tatis Jr.
  
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• Powers has 4 hits, leads Florida State past UCLA 8-4

  04-06-2016 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Florida State gave itself a chance this time.
  
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• Marlins: Ali family isn't unhappy about premature tribute

  04-06-2016 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Miami Marlins president David Samson says the family of Muhammad Ali isn't unhappy about the team's premature tribute to the late heavyweight champion.
  
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• Ex-Stanford swimmer's jail term decried as too lenient

  04-06-2016 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — A six-month jail term for a former Stanford University swimmer convicted of sexually assaulting an unconscious woman on campus after both attended a fraternity party is being decried as a slap on the wrist.
  
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• Clinton, Sanders vie for pro-immigrant vote in California race

  04-06-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Mike Blake LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Democratic rivals Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders campaigned across California, stopping in immigrant communities, big cities and the agricultural heartland on the final weekend before Tuesday's primary in the nation's biggest state. Clinton is expected to sew up the party nomination in Tuesday's six state nominating contests, but needs a win in heavily Democratic California to solidify her campaign for the Nov. 8 election against presumptive Republican n
  
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• Muhammad Ali public funeral set for Louisville on Friday

  04-06-2016 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The life of late legendary boxer Muhammad Ali will be celebrated with a public funeral procession and memorial service next week in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, a family spokesman said Saturday. Ali, the three-time world heavyweight champion and colorful civil rights activist whose fame transcended the world of sports and made him an iconic figure of the 20th century, died Friday at age 74 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease. After a private family funeral on Thursday, Ali's bo
  
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• The Latest: Jesse Jackson calls Ali a 'social transformer'

  04-06-2016 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Latest on the death of Muhammad Ali (all times EDT):
  
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• 'Remain' camp's lead narrows before EU referendum - Opinium

  04-06-2016 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The campaign to stop Britain voting to leave the European Union in a June 23 referendum has seen its lead shrink over the past two weeks, an online poll published by market research company Opinium showed on Saturday. The poll conducted between May 31 and June 3 showed 43 percent of people planned to vote to stay in the EU while 41 percent wanted to leave, a narrower lead than the 44-40 split in Opinium's last poll for The Observer newspaper on May 21. Opinium said the swing to "Leave" would hav
  
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• Seine River peaks in Paris, top museums stay shut for days

  04-06-2016 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — The Seine River peaked early Saturday around Paris, hitting its highest level in nearly 35 years — almost 4.5 meters (15 feet) above average — then began a slow descent. That drew a collective sigh of relief but authorities cautioned it could take up to 10 days for the river to return to normal.
  
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• Boxing great Muhammad Ali died of septic shock: family spokesman

  04-06-2016 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  (Reuters) - Muhammad Ali, the former world heavyweight boxing champion, died at age 74 of septic shock due to unspecified natural causes, a family spokesman said on Saturday. Ali, who had long suffered from Parkinson's syndrome, died at 9:10 p.m. MST on Friday, spokesman Bob Gunnell said at a press conference in Scottsdale, Arizona, not far from the facility where Ali was hospitalized for a respiratory issue. His public funeral will be held on Friday in Louisville, Kentucky, Gunnell said. (Repor
  
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• At French Open, Spanish pair denies Bryans 17th major title

  04-06-2016 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — Feliciano Lopez and Marc Lopez won the French Open on Saturday for their first Grand Slam doubles title, denying Bob and Mike Bryan a 17th major trophy.
  
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• Lopez and Lopez break grand slam duck in Paris

  04-06-2016 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Marc Lopez and Feliciano Lopez made Saturday in Paris a day to remember for Spain as they beat American twins Bob and Mike Bryan, the most successful doubles pairing in grand slam history, to win the French Open crown. Hours after compatriot Garbine Muguruza notched up her maiden slam title on the same Philippe Chatrier showcourt with a straight sets defeat of holder Serena Williams, Lopez and Lopez took their first major too, going the full distance in winning 6-4 6-7(6) 6-3. While the Bryan br
  
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• Muhammad Ali remembered as boxer who transcended sports world

  04-06-2016 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The death of Muhammad Ali, the former heavyweight champion known as much for his political activism as his boxing brilliance, triggered a worldwide outpouring of affection and admiration for one of the best-known figures of the 20th century. Ali, who had long suffered from Parkinson's syndrome which impaired his speech and made the once-graceful athlete almost a prisoner in his own body, died on Friday at age 74. Ali was admitted to a Phoenix-area hospital, HonorHealth, with a respiratory ailmen
  
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• Simple blood tests can help detect, target cancer: study

  04-06-2016 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Blood samples can be just as effective as invasive tissue biopsies in monitoring cancer and can help doctors better prescribe treatment, a study revealed Saturday. Although tumor biopsies are generally used to assess changes in a cancer's DNA, blood samples can do the same thing, according to the study presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. New advances are allowing researchers to study cancer via the bloodstream where tumor cells shed small, detectable pie
  
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• Cancer cell therapies could be approved next year: Juno, Kite Pharma

  04-06-2016 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Deena Beasley CHICAGO (Reuters) - A new wave of experimental cancer drugs that directly recruit the immune system's powerful T cells could begin reaching patients next year, according to companies presenting new data at the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. In interviews with Reuters, Kite Pharma Inc and Juno Therapeutics Inc both said they could receive initial regulatory approvals next year for a type of immunotherapy treatment known as chimeric antigen receptor T
  
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• Ex-Polish presidents lead anti-government march in Warsaw

  04-06-2016 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's two former presidents led tens of thousands of marchers Saturday in Warsaw to protest the right-wing government's policies and mark 27 years since the ouster of communism.
  
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• Muguruza poised to rule after French Open title

  04-06-2016 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  By Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) - Considering she won her maiden grand slam title on the surface that suits her game the least, Garbine Muguruza is being tipped as the player who will end up ruling women's tennis. The 22-year-old Spaniard claimed the French Open by defeating Serena Williams in straight sets on Saturday, 11 months after losing the Wimbledon final to the world number one. On Monday, Muguruza, whose hard-hitting game is at its devastating best on fast courts, will be second in the
  
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• Crowdfunded beer pipeline to protect medieval city of Bruges

  04-06-2016 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRUGES, Belgium (AP) — The idea may have seemed mad, but after all, the beer is called the Madman of Bruges — or Brugse Zot in Dutch.
  
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• Louisiana, Mississippi areas under flood watch as Texas floods spread

  04-06-2016 21:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Torrential rains in Texas which caused flooding that killed 16 people this week have spread to southern Louisiana, leaving parts of that state and Mississippi under a flash flood watch through Sunday morning, according to the National Weather Service. Heavy rains could strike the Florida panhandle early next week, but not as intensely as in Texas, Daniel Petersen, a meteorologist at the Weather Prediction Center in Maryland, said in a phone interview on Saturday.
  
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• U.S. Navy jets in Mediterranean launch second day of raids on Islamic State targets

  04-06-2016 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  (Reuters) - U.S. fighter jets on Saturday launched a second day of air strikes against Islamic State targets from the USS Harry S. Truman aircraft carrier in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, according to a U.S. Navy official. Four strikes executed by the jets on Friday targeted a building in Syria and a cave that was hit three times, said the official, who was not authorized to speak publicly. No strikes were directed against targets in Iraq, the official said.
  
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• Muhammad Ali's other fight -- for civil rights

  04-06-2016 21:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Washington (AFP) - "I am America. The grandson of a slave and an admirer of Malcolm X, Ali was a fiercely talented boxer who dazzled the world with his skills. In the 1940s and 1950s, Louisville, Kentucky -- Ali's hometown on the Ohio River -- was a world of divisions: segregated schools, churches, public spaces.
  
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• Venezuela's Maduro entreats Latin America not to isolate him

  04-06-2016 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Sarah Marsh and Nelson Acosta HAVANA (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called upon Latin America on Saturday not to give in to "brutal pressure" from the United States to isolate his government, which is battling intensifying opposition at home and abroad. The head of the Organization of American States (OAS), that Venezuela views as a pawn of U.S. policy, this week called for an emergency meeting to discuss a possible censure of the country for violating democratic norms. Meanw
  
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• Clinton says Trump's rhetoric 'hateful, very prejudicial'

  04-06-2016 21:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Calling immigration a key issue in the presidential race, Hillary Clinton is attacking Donald Trump for talking in "hateful, very prejudicial, really unacceptable ways."
  
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• Muguruza dethrones Serena again in Paris to win French Open

  04-06-2016 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Pritha Sarkar PARIS (Reuters) - For a split second Garbine Muguruza stood wide-eyed and open mouthed as she seemed to have no clue if her lob had landed in -- but as she turned towards the VIP Box, the wild cheers proved she had dethroned Serena Williams to win the French Open title. The 22-year-old Spaniard, who produced a pristine performance for an hour and 43 minutes on Saturday to deny Williams a 22nd major trophy with a 7-5 6-4 victory, was soon covered head-to-toe in clay after collaps
  
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• Obama leads tributes for Muhammad Ali, 'The Greatest'

  04-06-2016 20:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Barack Obama on Saturday led a flood of global tributes for boxing legend Muhammad Ali, as preparations were made for a final farewell to The Champ in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky. Ali, the three-time world heavyweight champion and colorful civil rights activist whose fame transcended the world of sports and made him an iconic figure of the 20th century, died Friday at age 74 after a long battle with Parkinson's disease.
  
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• Germany's Schweinsteiger has doubts for Euro 2016 opener

  04-06-2016 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bastian Schweinsteiger admits he is unlikely to play Germany's opening Euro 2016 match in eight days' time after making his comeback from three months out in Saturday's 2-0 win over Hungary. A first-half own-goal by Hungary defender Adam Lang and a second from Thomas Mueller in Gelsenkirchen gave the Germans a confidence boost before their opening match against Ukraine a week on Sunday at the European Championship. The biggest boost for the Germans was the return of Manchester United midfield ge
  
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• 'Too Ugly to Be the World Champ': Ali's Best Stings

  04-06-2016 20:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  He never held back — in the ring and in his life — and the world was richer for it.
  
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• The Latest: Lopez and Lopez win French Open doubles title

  04-06-2016 20:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — The Latest on the French Open (all times local):
  
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• Sharks F Tomas Hertl to miss Game 3 with lower-body injury

  04-06-2016 20:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — The San Jose Sharks will be without top-line forward Tomas Hertl for Game 3 of the Stanley Cup Final.
  
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• Germany see off Hungary as Schweinsteiger returns

  04-06-2016 20:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Germany laboured to a 2-0 friendly win over Hungary on Saturday in their final Euro 2016 warm-up match as captain Bastian Schweinsteiger returned after three months out with injury. A first-half own-goal by Hungary defender Adam Lang and a second from Thomas Mueller in Gelsenkirchen gave the Germans a confidence boost before their opening match against Ukraine next Sunday in Group C of the European Championship.
  
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• The Latest: UN urges probe after Syrian drowns in Hungary

  04-06-2016 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATHENS (AP) — The Latest on Europe's migration crisis. (all times local):
  
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• Iraqi troops close in on ISIS-held cities

  04-06-2016 20:18 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Iraqi security forces rapidly closed in on key ISIS-held territories in Iraq and Syria on Saturday, in groundbreaking advances to regain control of militant controlled towns, military officials say.
  
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• French military suspends 5 for Central African violent acts

  04-06-2016 20:17 via news.yahoo.com
  PARIS (AP) — France has suspended five members of the military for violence during their deployment in Central African Republic against citizens they were sent to protect, the Defense Ministry announced Saturday. The five risk being booted from the army.
  
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• Tropical rains, possible tornadoes threaten half of the US

  04-06-2016 20:15 via news.yahoo.com
  ATLANTA (AP) — From tropical rains to tornadoes, about half of the U.S. expected to see wet and at times severe weather this weekend, capping a week of scorching temperatures out West and flooding that killed nine soldiers when their military vehicle got caught in the rushing waters of a rain-swollen creek at Fort Hood, Texas.
  
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• The Latest: Daughter says Ali's heart wouldn't stop beating

  04-06-2016 20:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
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• The real Serena finally shows up but it's all in vain

  04-06-2016 20:05 via news.yahoo.com
  By John Stonestreet PARIS (Reuters) - The real Serena Williams finally turned up at the French Open on Saturday in pursuit of a 22nd grand slam singles title but it was to no avail as she lost to a tenacious opponent who beat her at her own power game. In contrast to her listless quarter and semi-final performances in laboring past two players outside the world's top 50, the American looked more like her menacing self as she traded high-octane blows with Spanish fourth seed Garbine Muguruza. The
  
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• Music producer whose long sentence drew outcry is free early

  04-06-2016 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah music producer whose 55-year prison sentence on drug charges drew national outcry has been released early.
  
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• Muhammad Ali: 'Greatest' boxer, showman, ambassador

  04-06-2016 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An angry 12-year-old Cassius Clay went to a policeman on that day in 1954, vowing he would find the thief who took his bike and have his revenge. The policeman's advice was to learn to box first so Clay, who would later change his name to Muhammad Ali, went to a gym, where he learned quite well. Ali was handsome, bold and outspoken and became a symbol for black liberation as he stood up to the U.S. government by refusing to go into the Army for religious reasons.
  
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• 'He will never die': World mourns Muhammad Ali

  04-06-2016 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  From the White House to Kinshasa and Uzbekistan they remembered on Saturday a sporting and cultural icon, saying there would never be another one like Muhammad Ali, "The Greatest". Ali was recalled not just as a heavyweight boxing king but also for his fight for social justice, while others told moving personal stories of his warmth and generosity, how he was equally at home with presidents and people on the streets. President Barack Obama hailed Ali, who died on Friday after a long battle with
  
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• Factbox: Muhammad Ali, 'the greatest,' remembered as a true champion

  04-06-2016 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  (Reuters) - Former world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali died on Friday, aged 74. Following are some of the reactions to his death: U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA "A man who fought for us. He stood with King and Mandela; stood up when it was hard; spoke out when others wouldn’t. His fight outside the ring would cost him his title and his public standing. It would earn him enemies on the left and the right, make him reviled and nearly send him to jail. But Ali stood his ground. And hi
  
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• Congolese pay tribute to 'Rumble in the Jungle' icon Ali

  04-06-2016 19:52 via news.yahoo.com
  KINSHASA (Reuters) - "It was total madness," said Augustin Lisoya, now maintenance director at Kinshasa's Tata Raphael stadium, recalling the night in 1974 that he watched Muhammad Ali knock out George Foreman there before some 60,000 fans. "When Muhammad Ali sent George Foreman to the floor, there was an outbreak of joy from the people of Kinshasa and from all of the Congolese people," says Lisoya, standing in the dimly-lit bowels of the now-decaying stadium where he witnessed the "Rumble in th
  
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• The Latest: 14 cars on oil train derailed, 4 caught fire

  04-06-2016 19:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The Latest on a train derailment in Oregon's scenic Columbia River Gorge (all times local):
  
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• Foreman recalls charismatic foe, and friend, Ali

  04-06-2016 19:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  George Foreman no longer wonders why a devastating defeat at the hands of Muhammad Ali in the fabled Rumble in the Jungle of 1974 proved the catalyst for an enduring friendship. "Everybody falls in love with him, you can't help it," Foreman told CNN a day after the three-time heavyweight world champion Ali died in Arizona after battling Parkinson's disease for decades. Foreman and Ali are forever linked by that clash in Kinshasa, where Ali knocked out the previously unbeaten Foreman in the eight
  
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• Bishops face sack for child abuse 'negligence': pope

  04-06-2016 19:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Catholic bishops guilty of negligence in child abuse cases can now be dismissed from office, Pope Francis said Saturday in a move hiking pressure on the Church's hierarchy. The move was announced just two weeks after the pope came under fire for meeting a top French cardinal accused of covering up for a paedophile priest in a scandal that has shaken France's Catholic Church. The decision, which will also apply to other senior Church officials, was unveiled in a papal decree which said such cases
  
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• The day Muhammad Ali met the Beatles

  04-06-2016 19:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It's hard to imagine now: barely having a clue who the Beatles were, or the man who would become Muhammad Ali.
  
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• Baby sitter charged with murder in baby's drug death

  04-06-2016 19:27 via news.yahoo.com
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A baby sitter accused of giving an 8-month-old boy a fatal dose of Benadryl has been given a $750,000 bond and told to have no contact with children and no unsupervised contact with her own children.
  
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• Syrian troops reach Raqqa province, IS fighting on 4 fronts

  04-06-2016 19:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian troops reached the edge of the northern province of Raqqa on Saturday, home to the de facto capital of the Islamic State group's self-styled caliphate, in a push that leaves the extremists fighting fierce battles on four fronts in Syria and neighboring Iraq.
  
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• Serena vows to keep chasing Steffi record of 22 Grand Slam titles

  04-06-2016 19:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Serena Williams vowed to keep chasing down Steffi Graf's record of 22 Grand Slam titles after it remained once again tantalisingly out of reach thanks to Garbine Muguruza's French Open triumph on Saturday. Williams's titles count at the majors has stalled on 21 ever since she lifted a sixth Wimbledon crown last year by beating Muguruza in the final. The American star then suffered a shock semi-final loss to Italian journeywoman Roberta Vinci at the US Open before defeat to Germany's Angelique Ke
  
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• The Strokes return with feet in past at Governors Ball

  04-06-2016 19:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Strokes set off a cultural moment when they emerged 15 years ago in New York, opening the century with a throwback to the brusque punk aesthetic. The rockers returned at full volume to their signature sound Friday night as they headlined the first day of their hometown's Governors Ball festival, where the band presented its first new music in three years. With the knowing title of "Future Present Past," the new EP by The Strokes, released on Friday, consists of three original songs with echo
  
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