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• Tiny Iceland holds Portugal to draw

  14-06-2016 23:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hungary shocks 10-man Austria for first European Championship win in 52 years.
  
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• Brazil congressional committee vote deals ex-speaker blow

  14-06-2016 23:41 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  An ethics committee in Brazil's Chamber of Deputies has voted in favor of a motion to strip the former speaker of the lower house of Congress of his mandate over allegations he lied when he denied possessing foreign bank accounts.
  
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• Witness: Shooter laughed

  14-06-2016 23:40 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Norman Casiano froze, certain that the gunman was standing inches from him.
  
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• Island mourns loss of 23 Puerto Ricans slain in Orlando club

  14-06-2016 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PONCE, Puerto Rico (AP) — Nearly half of the people slain in an Orlando nightclub were Puerto Ricans, the island's justice secretary said Tuesday, compounding the shock for the territory's gay community and society as a whole.
  
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• Over $5.3 million raised for Orlando club shooting victims

  14-06-2016 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Corporate and individual donors have given more than $5.3 million to help victims of Sunday's mass shooting at a gay nightclub in Florida by a gunman who killed 49 people and wounded 53, organizers of fundraising drives said on Tuesday. U.S. investigators were digging into what motivated Omar Mateen, 29, to attack the Pulse dance club in downtown Orlando, including whether he was inspired by militant Islamist ideology and reports that he may have struggled with his own sexual identit
  
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• A night of terror at club Pulse: 1 young woman's story

  14-06-2016 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Patience Carter lay bleeding on the floor of the bathroom in club Pulse. She recalled looking into the stall next to her, and seeing bloody handprints on the wall and people draped over a toilet. Some were dead, others moaned in agony. She turned her head to see her best friend, lifeless.
  
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• Obama: Women helped by his policies, but more to accomplish

  14-06-2016 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Tuesday that women and girls have made great strides in the nearly eight years he's held office, but asserted that they can claim even more progress if society would cast aside long-held stereotypes about the way men and women should behave.
  
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• Sharapova appeals 2-year doping ban; court ruling by July 18

  14-06-2016 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAUSANNE, Switzerland (AP) — Maria Sharapova appealed her two-year doping ban to the highest court in sports on Tuesday, and an expedited ruling will be issued next month ahead of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
  
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• Kerry announces talks with Venezuela but backs disputed referendum

  14-06-2016 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Lesley Wroughton SANTO DOMINGO (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry announced high-level talks to ease tensions with Venezuela's socialist government on Tuesday, just hours after he backed calls for a referendum that could force President Nicolas Maduro from office. Kerry said the talks would start immediately in Caracas and be led by Thomas Shannon, a veteran of U.S. diplomacy in the region. Attempts last year at dialogue between the ideological foes were stalled by Venezuela's dee
  
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• Gritty minnows Iceland hold Ronaldo's Portugal in Euro 2016

  14-06-2016 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Saint-Étienne (France) (AFP) - Minnows Iceland earned a 1-1 draw with Cristiano Ronaldo-led Portugal on their European championship debut as the superstar forward failed to score as he equalled his country's apparence record. A superb finish by Nani gave Portugal the lead before Iceland's industrious midfielder Birkir Bjarnason levelled for the Scandinavians in Saint Etienne. Ronaldo equalled Luis Figo's record number of caps with both the Portugal legends now on 127 appearances.
  
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• 'Orlando strong': What the city is like now

  14-06-2016 23:10 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Just days after the deadliest mass shooting in the U.S., Orlando is in shock, but its people are coming together like never before.
  
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• Orlando shooter's wife tried to talk him out of attack: media reports

  14-06-2016 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Letitia Stein and Peter Eisler ORLANDO, Fla. (Reuters) - The wife of the gunman who killed 49 people at an Orlando gay nightclub over the weekend tried to talk him out of the attack, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, media reported on Tuesday, citing law enforcement sources. Omar Mateen, who was shot dead by police after a three-hour standoff at the Pulse club early on Sunday, called 911 during his rampage to profess allegiance to various militant Islamist groups. Federal in
  
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• UEFA gives Russia last chance over Euro 2016 fan violence

  14-06-2016 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  UEFA told Russia on Tuesday it will be kicked out of the Euro 2016 if its fans cause more stadium trouble, while France arrested a group of Russian supporters. Europe's governing body found Russia responsible for the fans who charged into a section occupied by England supporters at the Russia-England game in Marseille on Saturday and for racist chanting and fireworks fired during the game. It ordered the "suspended disqualification" of the team and fined the Russian Football Union 150,000 euros
  
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• Police: At least 1 hostage taken at Texas Wal-Mart

  14-06-2016 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  AMARILLO, Texas (AP) — Officers responding to a reported shooting at a Wal-Mart store in Amarillo on Tuesday shot and likely killed a man who had taken at least one person hostage, according to police.
  
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• US plan for Zika includes special CDC teams to help states

  14-06-2016 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Health officials have put together a plan to combat Zika that includes a special team of experts that can be dispatched to states if the virus spreads in the U.S.
  
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• Trump gains slightly on Clinton after Florida attack: Reuters/Ipsos poll

  14-06-2016 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Chris Kahn NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton's lead over Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential race has narrowed since late last week, according to the results of the first Reuters/Ipsos poll conducted since the Orlando shooting rampage on Sunday. Trump, the presumptive Republican nominee for the Nov. 8 election, has blamed Democratic policies for the worst mass shooting in U.S. history and doubled-down on his pledge to ban Muslim immigration, while Clinton has warned against demonizing Mu
  
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• The Latest: Biden says attack becoming 'clearer'

  14-06-2016 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on the Florida nightclub shooting. (all times local):
  
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• UN: Risk that Rio Olympics will spread Zika is 'very low'

  14-06-2016 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GENEVA (AP) — There is "a very low risk" that the upcoming Rio de Janeiro Olympics will accelerate the spread of the Zika virus around the globe, the World Health Organization said Tuesday.
  
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• Stefani 'shaken,' 'horrified' by Christina Grimmie's murder

  14-06-2016 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. (AP) — Gwen Stefani says she and her fellow "The Voice" coaches are shocked and horrified by the death of season six contestant Christina Grimmie.
  
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• Argentina ex-official arrested over cash bags at monastery

  14-06-2016 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — An official in the former government of President Cristina Fernandez was arrested on Tuesday as he allegedly tried to hide millions in dollars and other currencies at an Argentine monastery.
  
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• London bans 'unrealistic' ads

  14-06-2016 22:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  From July, London commuters will no longer have to view advertisements that "conform to unhealthy or unrealistic body images," the city's transport authority announced.
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• Hackers stole Democrats' files?

  14-06-2016 22:43 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hackers connected to the Russian government broke into the servers of the Democratic National Committee and stole opposition research on Donald Trump, according to the cybersecurity experts who responded to the intrusion.Podcast favorites: Blindsided: How ISIS Shook The World | Bernie gets the Axe | Guns in America
  
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• Clinton: Trump 'has nothing' to say

  14-06-2016 22:42 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton on Tuesday offered a point-by-point rebuttal to Donald Trump's plan to combat terrorism, accusing the presumptive Republican nominee of peddling "lies" because "he has to distract us from the fact he has nothing substantive to say."
  
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• Senior House Democrat: must expect Russia to target U.S. institutions

  14-06-2016 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top Democrat on the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee said on Tuesday he would not elaborate on reports that Russia was involved in hacking the Democratic National Committee database, but that Russian targeting should be expected. ...
  
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• U.S. court backs landmark Obama internet equal-access rules

  14-06-2016 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. appeals court upheld the Obama administration's landmark rules barring internet service providers from obstructing or slowing down consumer access to web content on Tuesday, dealing a blow to big cable and mobile phone companies. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in a 2-1 decision, backed the Federal Communications Commission's so-called net neutrality rules put in place last year to make inter
  
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• Dozens hurt in Paris clashes between police, protesters

  14-06-2016 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Forty people were hurt and authorities made 73 arrests Tuesday as violence between riot police and masked troublemakers gripped Paris protests over France's labour reforms. Police fired water cannon in the south of the city to quell rioters as "several hundred" masked protesters lobbed objects at security forces in bloody scenes in the French capital. Police said 29 members of the security forces were among the 40 injured overall.
  
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• Fed faces battle to escape world's low interest rate grip

  14-06-2016 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Howard Schneider WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Evidence that the U.S. neutral rate of interest remains stalled near zero may slow Federal Reserve rate hikes even more than expected, tying the hands of policymakers until a rebound in global demand or other forces raise that key measure of the economy’s underlying strength. With the Fed still trying to encourage spending, investment and hiring, a low neutral rate means the Fed has less room to move before that stimulus is gone. Fed estimates pub
  
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• Brazil sack coach Dunga after Copa America exit

  14-06-2016 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brazil sacked national coach Dunga on Tuesday after their humiliating group-stage elimination from the Copa America Centenario. The Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) said in a statement it decided to fire Dunga and "dissolve the Brazilian national team's coaching staff" following their latest debacle. The news came after CBF officials met with Carlos Caetano Bledorn, alias Dunga, earlier on Tuesday.
  
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• NATO to send troops to deter Russia, Putin orders snap checks

  14-06-2016 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Robin Emmott and Phil Stewart BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Britain, Germany and the United States advanced plans on Tuesday to spearhead a new NATO force on Russia's border from next year, and Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered snap checks on combat readiness across his armed forces. Weeks before a critical NATO summit in Warsaw, three of NATO's biggest military powers said they would each command a battalion across the eastern flank to help deter any show of force such as that deployed by Mosc
  
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• Asymmetric molecule, key to life, detected in space for first time

  14-06-2016 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (Reuters) - Scientists for the first time have found a complex organic molecule in space that bears the same asymmetric structure as molecules that are key to life on Earth. The researchers said on Tuesday they detected the complex organic molecule called propylene oxide in a giant cloud of gas and dust near the center of the Milky Way galaxy. Akin to a pair of human hands, certain organic molecules including propylene oxide possess mirror-like versions of the
  
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• Senate leader McConnell says wants to deny guns to 'terrorists'

  14-06-2016 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell on Tuesday said "nobody wants terrorists to have firearms" and that he was open to suggestions from experts on legislation that could address the problem. McConnell, a Republican, made his remarks amid blistering attacks by Democrats on the lack of action in Congress on legislation to prevent suspects on "watch lists" purchasing guns or explosives. The debate in Congress over firearms was reignited on Sunday after a gunman in Orlando, Florida armed wit
  
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• Baseball great Rose discredits Ichiro hits chase

  14-06-2016 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Major League Baseball great Pete Rose is unimpressed by the looming prospect of seeing his all-time hits record surpassed by Miami Marlins outfielder Ichiro Suzuki. Suzuki stands just one hit behind Rose's major-league record of 4,256 hits, a pursuit of history that is being followed avidly in his native Japan. Rose however is adamant that the fact that 1,278 of the hits were accumulated in Japan places an asterisk against the total.
  
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• AP Source: NHL settles on Las Vegas for expansion

  14-06-2016 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The NHL is ready to roll the dice on Las Vegas.
  
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• Fact-checking Trump's demagogic rhetoric after Orlando terror attack

  14-06-2016 22:19 via theguardian.com
  
  After the presumptive Republican nominee veered into rhetoric without modern campaign precedent on Monday, our reporter sought to verify some of Trump’s more outrageous claimsDonald Trump escalated his demagogic rhetoric on Monday in the aftermath of the terrorist attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, Florida, that killed 49. Originally intended to be an attack on Bill and Hillary Clinton, Trump’s speech was refocused to be a discussion “of the serious threats facing all Americ
  
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• Navy helicopter crashes in Virginia; 3 crewmembers uninjured

  14-06-2016 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEWPORT NEWS, Va. (AP) — A Navy helicopter crashed in the James River during a training mission on Tuesday, and three crewmembers were plucked from the water uninjured by a passing vessel, authorities said.
  
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• Murray advances at Queen's Club, Wawrinka crashes out

  14-06-2016 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Andy Murray made a successful start to his reunion with coach Ivan Lendl as the defending champion battled to a 7-6 (10/8), 7-6 (7/1) victory over Nicolas Mahut at Queen's Club on Tuesday. Murray is bidding for a record fifth title at the Wimbledon warm-up event and the world number two ignored the slippery conditions on a rainy day in west London to advance to the second round in one hour and 50 minutes. Earlier, Stan Wawrinka suffered more misery on grass despite the addition of new coach Rich
  
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• The Latest: Man charged in weapons case faces assault probe

  14-06-2016 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on an Indiana man charged in California with possessing an assault weapon and explosives before a gay pride event. (all times local):
  
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• Police fire teargas, water cannon during Paris labor law protest

  14-06-2016 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Brian Love PARIS (Reuters) - Gangs of masked youths hurled stones and makeshift firebombs at riot police on Tuesday as tens of thousands of people marched through Paris in protest over a planned change of labor laws that would make hiring and firing easier. The Paris police department reported 58 arrests, including many foreigners, with 24 police and 17 protesters injured. The hardline CGT labor union had called for a large turnout in Tuesday's protest march to demonstrate that opposition to
  
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• Trump definitely turning 70

  14-06-2016 22:08 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Tuesday is Donald Trump's 70th birthday -- and thanks to comedian Bill Maher, we have proof.
  
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• NASA's Kepler finds 'Tatooine' planet

  14-06-2016 22:08 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Scientists have confirmed that an exoplanet named Kepler-1647 is the largest discovered that orbits two suns.
  
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• Newtown victim's mom pens open letter after Orlando shooting

  14-06-2016 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A woman whose 6-year-old daughter was killed in the shooting at Connecticut's Sandy Hook Elementary School is expressing her grief over the Orlando nightclub shooting that left 49 people dead.
  
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• UN votes to allow EU ships off Libya to seize illegal arms

  14-06-2016 22:02 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The U.N.
  
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• Disney steps up security in wake of Orlando massacre

  14-06-2016 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Security has been stepped up at Disney theme parks following reports that the gunman behind the massacre in Orlando may have scouted Disney World in Florida as a possible target. "Unfortunately, we've all been living in a world of uncertainty, and during this time we have increased our security measures across our properties, adding such visible safeguards as magnetometers, additional canine units and law enforcement officers on site, as well as less visible systems that employ state-of-the-art
  
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• ISIS rides attacks as territory shrinks

  14-06-2016 21:51 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Propaganda outlets linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have been quick to associate the group with the recent terror attacks in Orlando and Paris.
  
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• Brazil's football confederation fires coach Dunga

  14-06-2016 21:41 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Brazil's football confederation has fired national coach Dunga in the wake of the team's elimination from the Copa America in the United States.
  
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• World's most brutal golf course?

  14-06-2016 21:32 via rss.cnn.com
  
  It's known as a war of attrition and a game of patience where accepting your fate is key, but this week's U.S. Open at Oakmont ups the ante.
  
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• Muslim terrorist kills French cop, wife while livestreaming on Facebook

  14-06-2016 21:30 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A Muslim radical who was being investigated for terror ties stabbed a French police chief to death outside his home, then tortured the man's wife in front of their toddler son - all while livestreaming his rampage on Facebook.
  
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• Source: Gunman cased bar, Disney

  14-06-2016 21:29 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Angry and homophobic. Reacts to the sight of two gay men being affectionate.
  
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• Trump's fatuous terrorism plan

  14-06-2016 21:28 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Trump's words in the wake of Orlando are dangerously oversimplified, says Peter Bergen, who says Trump's plan to suspend immigration will never work.Sponsored:
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• Fans sing Abba to counter hooliganism

  14-06-2016 21:22 via rss.cnn.com
  
  Swedish and Irish fans in France had the time of their lives, belting out Abba's "Dancing Queen." Michael Holmes has the story.Podcast favorites: Bernie gets the Axe | Radical Islam in America | Graham Opposes GOP Leader
  
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