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• Baby born to brain-dead mum in Portugal

  07-06-2016 23:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A baby is born in Portugal to a woman who has been brain-dead for almost four months, hospital officials in Lisbon say.
  
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• Excluded groups say they should be part of UN AIDS meeting

  07-06-2016 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Gay, transgender and other groups blocked from participating in a high-level U.N. meeting on AIDS represent the populations most affected by the disease and should take center-stage at the event, advocates said Tuesday.
  
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• Clinton seeks to cap nomination with wins in California, NJ

  07-06-2016 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Already the presumptive Democratic nominee, Hillary Clinton pressed for victory in California and five other states Tuesday, while Bernie Sanders hoped a strong showing would raise doubts about her historic achievement and spur superdelegate to rally around him instead.
  
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• Texas regulator: Trump U preyed on 'novice' investors

  07-06-2016 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — As Texas regulators investigated Trump University for fraud six years ago, Donald Trump's lawyers tried the same defenses the presumptive Republican presidential nominee cited again as recently as Tuesday — that the now-defunct real-estate workshops were top-notch and the students overwhelmingly satisfied.
  
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• Defendant in church shootings faces November federal trial

  07-06-2016 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The federal death penalty trial of a white man charged with shooting and killing nine black parishioners during a Bible study at their Charleston church will be held in November, a judge announced Tuesday.
  
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• TSA chief says progress being made on shortening lines

  07-06-2016 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Significant progress has been made on shortening screening lines since earlier this spring, when airlines reported thousands of frustrated passengers were missing flights, the head of the Transportation Security Administration said Tuesday.
  
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• MGM Resorts rolls out parking fees on the Las Vegas Strip

  07-06-2016 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Las Vegas Strip's largest hotel-casino operator has officially started charging for parking.
  
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• Valeant loses money in 1Q, cuts outlook, shares plunge

  07-06-2016 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAVAL, Quebec (AP) — Valeant tumbled to a loss in its first quarter and the embattled drug maker, squeezed by higher costs, cut its profit and revenue expectations for the year.
  
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• Prosecutor backs off Detroit man's 4 murder convictions

  07-06-2016 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — A judge on Tuesday threw out the murder convictions of a young Detroit man who pleaded guilty to killing four people at age 14, a remarkable turnaround in a case that has been in doubt for years after a professional hit man stepped forward and took responsibility for the slayings at a drug den.
  
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• Judge sentences California man to 12 years in terrorism case

  07-06-2016 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — A federal judge in Sacramento has sentenced a man to 12 years in prison for his conviction in a case alleging he tried to join Islamic extremists in Syria.
  
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• Oil hits 2016 high on U.S. draw forecasts, Nigeria woes

  07-06-2016 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Oil prices jumped more than 1 percent on Tuesday, hitting 2016 highs, with U.S. crude settling above $50 a barrel the first time in almost a year, on expectations of domestic stockpile draws and worries about global supply shortfalls from attacks on Nigeria's oil industry. A report by trade group American Petroleum Institute (API), released after prices settled, showed a higher-than-expected crude draw of 3.6 million barrels. The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) will issue official i
  
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• Late sell-off leaves US stocks barely higher; oil rises

  07-06-2016 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Stock indexes inched upward Tuesday, led by gains in energy companies as the price of oil closed above $50 a barrel for the first time in almost a year. The market had been on track for its highest close ...
  
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• Spats among Iraq's security forces delay advance on Fallujah

  07-06-2016 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NAYMIYAH, Iraq (AP) — After securing the southern edge of militant-held Fallujah, seven battalions of Iraqi special forces units have been unable to advance for two days — a delay that commanders say isn't due to counterattacks or difficult terrain, but rather to disagreements about battlefield strategy among the disparate Iraqi forces fighting the Islamic State group.
  
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• Doctor settles Chelsea dismissal case

  07-06-2016 23:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Former Chelsea doctor Eva Carneiro settles a constructive dismissal claim against the club and a discrimination case against Jose Mourinho
  
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• GOP unite in denouncing Trump comments on judge

  07-06-2016 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Leading Republicans united Tuesday in an extraordinary denunciation of Donald Trump's attacks on a federal judge, with House Speaker Paul Ryan calling them the "textbook definition of a racist comment" though he stood by his endorsement of the presumptive presidential nominee.
  
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• Colin heads out sea after drenching Florida with rain

  07-06-2016 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Colin headed out to sea Tuesday after dumping as much as 9 inches of rain on parts of Florida, flooding roads and causing thousands of power outages.
  
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• US warns banks of Swift hacking threat

  07-06-2016 23:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  US regulators warn banks about potential cyber attacks linked to Swift, the interbank messaging system.
  
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• Q&A: What went into judge's sex assault sentence of swimmer

  07-06-2016 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A California judge is facing demands for his removal after sentencing a former Stanford University swimmer to six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious young woman behind a campus dumpster.
  
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• At 52, NFL sacks leader Smith experiencing pain, memory loss

  07-06-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  BATAVIA, N.Y. (AP) — Wearing a tight orange golf shirt that shows off his muscular physique, 52-year-old Bruce Smith is still capable of casting an intimidating presence like he did while setting the NFL career record for sacks.
  
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• Police search construction firms behind Olympic project

  07-06-2016 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil's federal police searched the offices of a construction consortium behind one of Rio de Janeiro's main Olympic sites on Tuesday as part of a probe into potential fraud, the police said in a statement.
  
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• Obama, Indian PM discuss...

  07-06-2016 22:56 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives at the White House Tuesday for his third Washington meeting with President Barack Obama since he swept to power two years ago.
  
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• Turkey's president lifts lawmakers' immunity

  07-06-2016 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — Turkey's president has approved amendments to the constitution that pave the way for the trials of some 138 legislators, including several pro-Kurdish lawmakers who face terror-related charges.
  
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• Ex-Clinton staffer files sealed documents on immunity issue

  07-06-2016 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The ex-staffer who set up Hillary Clinton's home email server has filed documents under seal in response to a judge's directive that he reveal his immunity arrangement with the Justice Department.
  
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• Hacker falsely tweeted death of NFL commissioner Goodell -- league

  07-06-2016 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The NFL said Tuesday it had "engaged law enforcement" to find out how hackers managed to access the league Twitter account and falsely post that commissioner Roger Goodell had died. The tweet was deleted minutes after it was posted and Brian McCarthy, the league's vice president of communications, posted on his own Twitter account that it was untrue. "The @NFL Twitter account was hacked," McCarthy posted.
  
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• Stocks rise to six-week high on Fed view, higher oil prices

  07-06-2016 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Stocks gained broadly on Tuesday, helped by buoyant oil prices, a day after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen pushed back expectations for an interest rate increase without raising concerns over the strength of the world's largest economy.
  
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• Louisville ready to 'welcome the world' to Ali services

  07-06-2016 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Louisville, the largest city in the southern state of Kentucky and home to 600,000 people, will play host Thursday and Friday to the mass public celebration of the life of Ali, its most famous native son. Ali, whose remarkable boxing career and civil rights activism made him one of the most indelible figures of the 20th century, died last week at age 74 after a decades-long battle with Parkinson's disease. New York renamed a street outside Madison Square Garden "Muhammad Ali Way" after the boxin
  
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• Brazil prosecutor wants arrests of Senate boss, ex-president: reports

  07-06-2016 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brasília (AFP) - Brazil's political crisis heated up Tuesday, as authorities reportedly sought the arrests of senior figures behind the push to impeach suspended president Dilma Rousseff, accusing them of obstructing a corruption probe. If reports in the main Brazilian newspapers are confirmed, new doubts would be cast over the impeachment of Rousseff, pushing Latin America's biggest economy into ever greater uncertainty with less than two months to go before Rio de Janeiro hosts the Summ
  
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• The Latest: Prosecutor: Justice for victims most important

  07-06-2016 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on the case against a man accused of killing nine black church members during Bible study in Charleston (all times local):
  
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• Woman who died in Alaska fire was Indonesian national

  07-06-2016 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Authorities have identified a woman who died in a fire at a remote Alaska fishing lodge as a 59-year-old Indonesian national.
  
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• Nail-biter race for Peru's presidency remains tight

  07-06-2016 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LIMA, Peru (AP) — The nail-biter race for Peru's presidency remained tight Tuesday as the daughter of imprisoned ex-president Alberto Fujimori gained ground on her rival thanks to votes trickling in from remote rural areas and embassies abroad.
  
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• Bison fossils reveal human migration path

  07-06-2016 22:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Exactly when the first humans in North America left Alaska and moved south into the rest of the continent has always been subject to some debate.
  
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• Stanford rape: 'Your son must read this'

  07-06-2016 22:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Victim's statement is moving to women, but the ones who should read it are men and boys; another letter written by the assailant's father shows why this is so.Sponsored:
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• See flesh-eating bacteria survivor now

  07-06-2016 22:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Four years after a life-threatening bout with flesh-eating bacteria that resulted in the loss of both hands, one leg and her remaining foot, Aimee Copeland is comfortable in her new body. On Monday, Copeland posted a picture to Facebook of her vacation in San Juan, Puerto Rico, smiling on the beach, scars and all.Podcast favorites: Blindsided: How ISIS Shook The World | Bernie gets the Axe | Guns in America
  
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• World Bank slashes global growth forecast to 2.4 percent

  07-06-2016 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A worried World Bank slashed its growth forecast for the global economy Tuesday, saying advanced economies are rebounding more slowly than expected and low commodity prices continue to hurt other countries. The Bank said that the global economy should grow at just 2.4 percent this year, the same lethargic pace of 2015 and much slower than the 2.9 percent it predicted in January. It said risks to growth have risen since the beginning of the year, particularly the high level of borrowing by compan
  
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• Leopard escapes at Utah zoo, visitors take shelter

  07-06-2016 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — Hundreds of Salt Lake City zoo visitors took shelter inside buildings Tuesday morning after a rare leopard escaped and fell asleep on a beam just above where visitors would have gathered to watch her.
  
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• Why I'm glad I failed China's toughest exam

  07-06-2016 22:36 via rss.cnn.com
  
  This week, millions of Chinese high school students will take the two-day college entrance exam, or gaokao.
  
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• Clinton to cement hold on nomination

  07-06-2016 22:34 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Democrats vote in six US primaries, as an Associated Press count says Hillary Clinton has already won enough delegates to secure the party's presidential nomination.
  
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• Alligator spotted with dead body in its mouth

  07-06-2016 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  LAKELAND, Fla. (AP) — Police in central Florida are trying to figure out how an alligator got ahold of a dead body.
  
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• The Latest: Trump says he may not get fair trial as nominee

  07-06-2016 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on campaign 2016 as California, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Dakota and South Dakota vote. (all times Eastern):
  
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• New baby warthogs get ready for Oakland Zoo debut

  07-06-2016 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The Oakland Zoo has welcomed two litters of baby warthogs and will soon put the seven piglets on display.
  
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• Hard life for children after fleeing ISIS

  07-06-2016 22:28 via rss.cnn.com
  
  There was something strange in their eyes: a flat, empty, distant stare. The boys, especially the ones in their early teens, look at you, but don't see you.
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• Promising start for NBA Finals on ABC

  07-06-2016 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The second straight NBA Finals matchup between Golden State and Cleveland got off to a promising start for ABC, but the network has to be hoping the series becomes more competitive in a hurry.
  
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• Adviser's serial firings show 'big problem' at brokerages

  07-06-2016 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SCOTRUN, Pa. (AP) — He was fired from one company, then another, then another. And still Anthony Diaz continued handling other people's money.
  
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• Leopard escapes from zoo exhibit

  07-06-2016 22:18 via rss.cnn.com
  
  A 4-year-old leopard escaped from an exhibit at Salt Lake City's Hogle Zoo on Tuesday morning, a zoo official said.
  
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• FDA: People are overdosing on anti-diarrhea drugs

  07-06-2016 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal health officials are investigating sometimes-deadly overdoses with common anti-diarrhea drugs, a bizarre manifestation of the nation's drug abuse problem.
  
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• Mormon church sued by 4th Navajo alleging sexual abuse

  07-06-2016 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A fourth Navajo is suing the Mormon church, alleging religious leaders didn't do enough to protect him from sexual abuse he endured by his foster father in a now-defunct church program that placed thousands of American Indian children with Mormon families.
  
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• Exclusive: North Korea restarts plutonium production for nuclear bombs - U.S. official

  07-06-2016 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jonathan Landay, David Brunnstrom and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - North Korea has restarted production of plutonium fuel, a senior State Department official said on Tuesday, showing that it plans to pursue its nuclear weapons program in defiance of international sanctions. The U.S. assessment came a day after the U.N. nuclear watchdog said it had “indications” that Pyongyang has reactivated a plant to recover plutonium from spent reactor fuel at Yongbyon, its main nucle
  
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• Scandals in new Brazil government offer Rousseff hope of survival

  07-06-2016 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA (Reuters) - A wave of scandals buffeting Brazil's interim government is weakening the resolve of some senators to oust suspended President Dilma Rousseff, offering the leftist leader hope of surviving an impeachment trial in the upper house. Soccer-star-turned-Senator Romario shocked the government last week when he announced he was no longer certain to vote in favor of removing Rousseff. Brazil's first female leader was placed on trial by the Senate last month on char
  
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• NFL, law enforcement looking into hacked tweet about Goodell

  07-06-2016 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL has "engaged law enforcement" to see how its Twitter account was hacked with a post purporting that Commissioner Roger Goodell had died.
  
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• Istanbul blast: Descending into chaos

  07-06-2016 21:51 via rss.cnn.com
  
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