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• Allegations of human rights violations in Fallujah fight

  06-06-2016 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As Iraqi security forces tighten their grip on the outskirts of militant-held Fallujah allegations of human rights violations are surfacing on both sides of the operation. On Monday, hundreds of civilians, ...
  
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• No Trump ads: BuzzFeed says candidate 'hazardous'

  06-06-2016 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BuzzFeed has terminated an advertising deal with the Republican Party, saying presumptive presidential nominee Donald Trump is "hazardous to our health," the digital news group said Monday. "The Trump campaign is directly opposed to the freedoms of our employees in the United States, and around the world, and in some cases, such as his proposed ban on international travel for Muslims, would make it impossible for our employees to do their jobs," Peretti said in the memo to staff.
  
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• An extra rest day in NBA Finals seems timely for Cavaliers

  06-06-2016 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — Under the long-used former NBA Finals format, Game 3 of this Golden State-Cleveland matchup would have been played Tuesday night.
  
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• Tropical Storm Colin gains speed as barrels toward Florida

  06-06-2016 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Letitia Stein TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) - Tropical Storm Colin picked up speed over the Gulf of Mexico on Monday as it headed toward Florida's northwest coast, unleashing thunderstorms and flooding, while the governor activated the national guard ahead of imminent landfall. The storm, about 70 miles from the Florida coast as of 5 p.m, barreled toward land at 23 miles per hour, more quickly than it moved earlier in the day, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said. The combination of the storm
  
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• On cusp, Clinton keeps focused: 'Not over until it's over'

  06-06-2016 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COMPTON, Calif. (AP) — Hillary Clinton stood on the cusp Monday of having enough delegates to claim the Democratic presidential nomination, having overwhelmed Bernie Sanders in a pair of weekend elections in the Caribbean.
  
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• Storm warning extended to Oregon Inlet North Carolina: NHC

  06-06-2016 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  (Reuters) - The U.S. National Hurricane Center on Monday said the Tropical Storm warning has been extended northeast-ward to Oregon Inlet North Carolina. Some strengthening is forecast on Tuesday and Tuesday night, the NHC said. Heavy rains from Tropical Storm Colin are spreading across much of Florida, Southern Georgia, and South Carolina, the Miami-based weather forecaster added. (Reporting by Swati Verma in Bengaluru; Editing by Phil Berlowitz)
  
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• Obama honors Super Bowl champion Broncos at White House

  06-06-2016 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama honored the Denver Broncos at the White House Monday for winning Super Bowl 50 with one of the best defenses of all time and one of the best quarterbacks of all time in Peyton Manning.
  
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• Saudi reform plan aims for revenue surge, salary clamp-down

  06-06-2016 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Saudi Arabia plans to more than triple the government's non-oil revenues and clamp down on public sector salaries over the next five years, ministers said on Monday as they described reforms designed to reduce the economy's dependence on oil. The National Transformation Plan (NTP) aims to boost the state's non-oil revenue to 530 billion riyals ($141 billion) by 2020, documents distributed to reporters in Jeddah showed. The NTP, which includes over 500 projects and initiatives as well as performa
  
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• Kurt Busch conserves fuel for a win at Pocono Raceway

  06-06-2016 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONG POND, Pa. (AP) — Kurt Busch felt like a game show contestant who had to beat the clock to win a prize.
  
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• Fed's Yellen sees rate hikes ahead, but few hints on when

  06-06-2016 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen on Monday gave a largely upbeat assessment of the U.S. economic outlook and said interest rate hikes are coming but, in an omission that stood out to some investors, gave little sense of when.
  
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• LA jurors recommend execution for 'Grim Sleeper' killer

  06-06-2016 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jurors on Monday recommended the death penalty for a Los Angeles garbage collector convicted of the "Grim Sleeper" killings that terrorized southern Los Angeles for more than two decades. Lonnie David Franklin had been convicted of 10 counts of first-degree murder for the killings of nine women and a 15-year-old girl between 1985 and 2007. The same jury at Los Angeles Superior Court deliberated for five hours over two days before recommending the death penalty, with sentencing set for August 10.
  
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• Judge: Release grand jury material to Michael Brown's family

  06-06-2016 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Michael Brown's family will get unredacted transcripts of grand jury proceedings involving the officer who killed the 18-year-old, a federal judge said Monday, marking the first time someone other than a prosecutor or grand juror will see uncensored details of the secret proceedings.
  
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• Power outages, flooding in Fla due to Tropical Storm Colin

  06-06-2016 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Heavy rains from Tropical Storm Colin hit north Florida and southern Georgia on Monday, knocking out power in some areas and flooding roads on the Gulf coast.
  
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• Fight may have prompted pit bull attack that left man dead

  06-06-2016 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  STOCKTON, Calif. (AP) — Northern California deputies are investigating the death of a man mauled by a pit bull over the weekend.
  
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• The Latest: Obama calls Sanders to discuss campaign

  06-06-2016 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the presidential campaign a day before voters choose their candidates in six states (all times Eastern Daylight Time):
  
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• Prosecutor: Insanity defense to be used Kalamazoo shootings

  06-06-2016 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KALAMAZOO, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan man charged with killing six strangers in between picking up riders for Uber is expected to plead insanity in his defense.
  
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• Auction for Warren Buffett charity lunch starts slow

  06-06-2016 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The annual charity auction for a private lunch with billionaire investor Warren Buffett is underway. The top bid to dine with the chairman of the conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway Inc was $200,100 at 12 p.m. EDT on Monday, but will likely surge by the time the auction on eBay ends on Friday night. Buffett has raised about $20.2 million in 16 auctions for Glide.
  
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• Advocates: Albuquerque police in Trump protest 'witch hunt'

  06-06-2016 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Albuquerque police are continuing to search for suspects linked to a violent anti-Donald Trump protest while advocates say the effort to arrest more youth is part of a "well-financed witch hunt."
  
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• Would teens be slimmer if Katy Perry hawked kale & quinoa?

  06-06-2016 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Would U.S. teens be any slimmer if Katy Perry hawked kale and quinoa?
  
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• Louisville plans Ali funeral, his 'last statement' to world

  06-06-2016 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The family of late boxing legend Muhammad Ali and the city of Louisville on Monday prepared for his public funeral later this week, which organizers said "The Greatest" helped plan himself as a "last statement" to the world. Former president Bill Clinton, comedian Billy Crystal and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan are among those due to speak Friday at the public memorial in a sports arena in the Kentucky hometown of the three-time world heavyweight champion. The charismatic Ali, a dazzlin
  
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• Clinton calls for Democratic unity as she aims to clinch nomination

  06-06-2016 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By James Oliphant LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton called for party unity on Monday, suggesting it was time for Bernie Sanders to abandon his hard-fought challenge, as six states hold nominating contests on Tuesday when she expects to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination. Clinton told reporters in California that Tuesday marked eight years from the day she withdrew from the 2008 White House race, endorsing Barack Obama after a bitter rivalry. After staying above the campaign fray
  
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• Prison breakout investigation blames employees' complacency

  06-06-2016 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — An investigation into the escape of two murderers from an upstate prison last year concluded Monday that chronic staff complacency, complicit employees and failures of basic security procedures were to blame.
  
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• Death for 'Grim Sleeper' serial killer

  06-06-2016 23:15 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A former rubbish collector convicted of the "Grim Sleeper" serial murders in Los Angeles is given the death sentence.
  
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• Judges hear arguments over fate of bridge conspirators list

  06-06-2016 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A federal appeals court heard arguments Monday in a dispute over whether the government should release a list of unindicted co-conspirators in the George Washington Bridge lane-closing case.
  
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• Facebook gets in game-streaming with Blizzard

  06-06-2016 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Facebook on Monday announced that it is getting into the eSports game, jumping into the field of video games as spectator sports against Amazon-owned Twitch and Google's YouTube Gaming. The move will pave the way for Blizzard game fans to use the leading social network's Live video service to broadcast play in real time, the companies said in a joint release. California-based Blizzard, owned by video game publisher Activision, is in the process of creating a "Go Live" feature that would let play
  
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• Woman testifies town's police chief coerced her into sex

  06-06-2016 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A small Cajun community disbanded its troubled police department a year ago, but the town hasn't shaken a scandal that ousted its police chief.
  
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• Federal Reserve relief and oil prices send stocks higher

  06-06-2016 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks jumped Monday after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen again managed to soothe investors' jangled nerves. The Standard & Poor's 500 index made its highest close in 2016, and oil prices also reached their highest levels of the year.
  
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• 'Grim Sleeper' murder case jury recommends death penalty

  06-06-2016 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Dan Whitcomb LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - The jury in the "Grim Sleeper" serial killer case in Los Angeles recommended the death penalty on Monday for the former sanitation worker they convicted of carrying out a string of murders, local media reported. The recommendation, which must be formally upheld and imposed by a judge at a sentencing hearing scheduled for August, came after about five hours of deliberations, the Los Angeles Times reported. The 12 jurors were charged with deciding whether 63
  
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• Stanford University sex attack sparks outrage

  06-06-2016 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The judge who oversaw the case in California, Aaron Persky, has also sparked outrage for sentencing Brock Allen Turner to six months in prison and probation for the assault, saying that he feared a stiffer jail term would have "a severe impact" on Turner. "(Brock) will never be his happy go lucky self with that easy going personality and welcoming smile," Dan Turner told the court in his statement made public on Monday.
  
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• Miniseries based on journalist David Carr's memoir planned

  06-06-2016 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A TV miniseries based on the late journalist David Carr's best-selling memoir is in development.
  
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• Advances on IS strongholds underlines US, Russia convergence

  06-06-2016 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — A two-pronged advance to capture key urban strongholds of the Islamic State group and its self-styled capital of Raqqa has underlined a quiet convergence of strategy between the U.S. and Russia to defeat the extremists, with Syria's Kurds emerging as the common link.
  
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• Trump campaign wasting precious time, GOP critics say

  06-06-2016 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump is wasting precious time.
  
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• Sally Field to return to Broadway in 'The Glass Menagerie'

  06-06-2016 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Emmy- and Oscar-winner Sally Field will return to Broadway this spring in a revival of "The Glass Menagerie," playing a part she has tackled before but never managed to shake.
  
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• The Latest: Jury returns death sentence for serial killer

  06-06-2016 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on the Grim Sleeper serial killer case in Los Angeles (all times local):
  
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• Dad of ex-Stanford swimmer says son has paid price for rape

  06-06-2016 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  PALO ALTO, Calif. (AP) — The father of a former Stanford University swimmer who received six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman ignited more outrage over the case by saying his son already has paid a steep price for "20 minutes of action."
  
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• Fed Chair Yellen says poor US jobs report 'concerning'

  06-06-2016 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said Monday the dismal US jobs report for May was "concerning" and "disappointing", but stressed she was still optimistic on the outlook for US economic growth. "One should never attach too much significance to any single monthly report," Yellen said, adding that the overall labor market situation has been "quite positive". In a speech on the economic outlook to the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia, Yellen stressed that she thought the US economy would con
  
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• Sanders focusing on California

  06-06-2016 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EMERYVILLE, California (AP) — Facing elimination, Bernie Sanders declined Monday to look past primary contests in California and five other states as Hillary Clinton inches closer to securing enough delegates to become the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee.
  
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• BuzzFeed terminates Republican ad deal over Trump

  06-06-2016 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Angela Moon NEW YORK (Reuters) - Online media outlet BuzzFeed has pulled out of an advertising deal reported to be worth $1.3 million with the Republican National Committee over objections to the party's presumptive nominee Donald Trump. In an e-mail to employees on Monday, BuzzFeed founder and CEO Jonah Peretti wrote: "We don't run cigarette ads because they are hazardous to our health, and we won't accept Trump ads for the exact same reason." "The Trump campaign is directly opposed to the f
  
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• Astronauts enter inflatable room at space station

  06-06-2016 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Astronauts entered an inflatable add-on room at the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday for the first time since it was fully installed last month, NASA said. US astronaut Jeff Williams told the US space agency's mission control that the flexible habitat -- known as the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) -- looked "pristine" and was cold inside after entering for the first in a two-year series of tests, NASA said in a statement. NASA is testing expandable habitats astronauts might
  
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• Charlie Hebdo victims added to journalist memorial

  06-06-2016 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Eight journalists killed in the 2015 attack on French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo had their names added Monday to a US memorial honoring reporters killed in the exercise of their profession. The memorial wall at the Newseum, a Washington museum of news and journalism, added the names of 20 people killed last year, as a reminder of the threats faced by journalists in many parts of the world. Also honored were two US television journalists shot to death on live TV and reporters, bloggers and
  
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• U.S. Supreme Court lets Google advertising class action suit proceed

  06-06-2016 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday let stand a lower court's decision to allow a class action lawsuit against Google Inc to proceed regarding claims that the company deceived California advertisers about the placement of Internet ads through its Adwords service. The court decided not to hear Google's appeal of a ruling by the San Francisco-based 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals last September that the litigation could move forward as a class action repres
  
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• U.S. carrier pounds ISIS from the Med

  06-06-2016 22:38 via rss.cnn.com
  
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• What Taylor Swift did after her breakup

  06-06-2016 22:25 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Taylor Swift didn't let her break up with Calvin Harris get in the way of making a dream come true for one New Jersey couple.
  
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• Michael J. Fox: How to honor Ali

  06-06-2016 21:57 via rss.cnn.com
  
  On Saturday morning, the world awoke to a reminder that even the most exalted of heroes does not win every fight.
  
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• D-Day: Debunking myths of Normandy

  06-06-2016 21:55 via rss.cnn.com
  
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• Why bottom enhancement is big business

  06-06-2016 21:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
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• What's next for Zika babies?

  06-06-2016 21:53 via rss.cnn.com
  
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• Mad dad sells son's car on Craigslist

  06-06-2016 21:48 via rss.cnn.com
  
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• This is the age when you start losing friends

  06-06-2016 21:11 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Are you younger than 25 years old? You may want to appreciate this moment in life when your social circle is at its greatest. If you're older, you may relate to what you read next.
  
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• Clinton, Sanders trade final primary shots

  06-06-2016 21:11 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton is on the cusp of history, but Bernie Sanders is refusing to admit defeat as the rivals blitz California on a intense final day of campaigning in the 2016 Democratic primary.
  
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