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• Worst day in 10 months as Wall Street reacts to 'Brexit'

  24-06-2016 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The S&P 500 turned negative for the year-to-date on Friday as Wall Street suffered its largest selloff in 10 months after Britain's decision to leave the European Union caught traders wrong-footed. In the busiest trading volume for a single session in nearly five years, financial stocks led the decline on the S&P 500 with a 5.4 percent drop -the largest for the sector since November 2011. The S&P 500 lost all the year's gains and suffered its largest decline since late August last ye
  
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• Viva Shaq! Obama names hoops legend as Cuba envoy

  24-06-2016 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Basketball fanatic Barack Obama named legendary center Shaquille O'Neal as sports envoy to Cuba on Friday, in a new sign of thawing ties between Washington and Havana. When the imposing seven-foot one-inch player was dominating courts for the Orlando Magic and Miami Heat in Florida he was just a short hop from the island state. The United States and Cuba finally restored ties last year and officials from both countries are gingerly negotiating a new relationship, even as parts of the embargo fal
  
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• Man freed after 20 years: Don't just drop charges _ clear me

  24-06-2016 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — After 20 years behind bars for a murder he says he didn't commit, Richard Rosario was about to get the charges dropped Friday. Until he said no.
  
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• The Latest: Calls for 2nd referendum crash UK website

  24-06-2016 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — The Latest on Britain's historic vote to leave the European Union (all times local):
  
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• Fourteen dead in West Virginia in state's worst floods in a century

  24-06-2016 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  At least 14 people in West Virginia have died and hundreds more have been rescued from swamped homes in the state's worst flooding in more than a century, government officials said on Friday. "The damage is widespread and devastating," Governor Earl Ray Tomblin said at a news conference. Government officials are focusing resources on rescuing those trapped or swept away by the flooding, he said, adding that some 66,000 residences are without power.
  
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• Text: Lawyer seeks plea deal, doubts Manziel can stay clean

  24-06-2016 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — An attorney handling Johnny Manziel's domestic violence case expressed doubts about the Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback's ability to stay clean and said he was given a receipt that shows Manziel may have spent more than $1,000 at a drug paraphernalia store just 15 hours after he was involved in a hit-and-run crash, according to a lengthy text message accidentally sent to The Associated Press.
  
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• 14-man Racing down Toulon to win Top 14 title

  24-06-2016 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Racing 92 clinched their first French Top 14 title in 26 years on Friday when they shrugged off having to play an hour with 14 men to defeat Toulon 29-21 in a thrilling final. "It is the most special season of my life," said man-of-the-match Carter who arrived in France having helped the All Blacks to the 2015 World Cup. Toulon's English full-back Delon Armitage blasted his team's indiscipline.
  
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• US stocks plunge on Brexit; Dow drops 610 points

  24-06-2016 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - US stocks dived Friday after Britain's surprise vote to leave the European Union, joining a global equity rout amid rising uncertainty about the future of Europe.
  
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• House ethics panel finds no wrongdoing by GOP Rep. Buchanan

  24-06-2016 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The House Ethics Committee on Friday ended a four-year probe into Republican Rep. Vern Buchanan of Florida, finding no evidence that the lawmaker violated House rules.
  
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• Wizards guard Beal says no to US Olympic offer

  24-06-2016 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Washington Wizards guard Bradley Beal said Friday he has declined the chance to play on the US Olympic team of NBA stars that will seek a third consecutive gold medal in August at Rio. Beal announced on Twitter that he would join a growing group of players saying no to Rio, including LeBron James, Stephen Curry, Russell Westbrook, Chris Paul, James Harden and John Wall.
  
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• 18 dead in West Virginia floods; focus on search and rescue

  24-06-2016 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — As a deluge swamped southeast West Virginia — a disaster that killed at least 18 people — Ronnie Scott's wife called him and told him their house was filling up with water. She fled to the attic with two dogs and a cat and waited. She smelled natural gas.
  
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• Could Brexit vote be a preview of U.S. presidential race?

  24-06-2016 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Britain's stunning vote to leave the European Union, buoyed by a frenzy of nationalism and populist anger, was a crushing rejection of the political elite. Republican Donald Trump hopes it is also a preview of November's U.S. presidential election. The referendum result reverberated immediately in a U.S. presidential campaign dominated by Trump's rapid rise to capture the nomination, fueled by a similar brew of anti-establishment and anti-globalization sentiment.
  
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• Bernie Worrell, masterful P-Funk keyboardist, dead at 72

  24-06-2016 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Bernie Worrell, the ingenious "Wizard of Woo" whose amazing array of keyboard sounds and textures helped define the Parliament-Funkadelic musical empire and influenced performers of funk, rock, hip-hop and other genres, has died.
  
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• Soccer officials in Americas to discuss future joint events

  24-06-2016 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — After staging a successful expanded Copa America in the United States for the tournament's 100th anniversary, soccer officials intend to discuss whether to establish a new event that would see regular competition between the regions.
  
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• Obama designates first US LGBT national monument

  24-06-2016 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Barack Obama designated the first LGBT national monument Friday, bestowing the honor on a New York bar and surrounding area considered to be the birthplace of America's gay rights movement. The monument includes Greenwich Village's Stonewall Inn bar, the small park next door, and the immediate vicinity, where protests that came to be known as the Stonewall Uprising erupted in 1969 following a police crackdown. "The designation will create the first official National Park Service unit d
  
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• The Latest: FEMA sending teams to West Virginia

  24-06-2016 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — The Latest on flooding that has devastated parts of West Virginia (all times local):
  
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• Doping on everyone's mind heading into US swimming trials

  24-06-2016 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Elizabeth Beisel tilted her head, grimaced a bit and pondered the question: Does she think the Olympic swimming competition will be clean in Rio?
  
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• Pentagon expected to repeal ban on transgender members next month

  24-06-2016 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Pentagon plans to announce the repeal of its ban on openly serving transgender service members next month, U.S. defense officials said. The disclosure came the same week that the U.S. Army formally welcomed its new secretary, Eric Fanning, who became the first openly gay leader of a military service branch in U.S. history. Ashley Broadway-Mack, president of the American Military Partner Association, said in a statement: "Our transgender service members and their families are breathing a huge
  
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• Navy fires 2nd officer in Iran ship capture

  24-06-2016 23:09 via cnn.com
  
  A U.S. Navy officer who helped oversee the 10 sailors who were captured by Iran earlier this year -- which created an uproar in the U.S. when video was released showing them on their knees with their hands behind their heads -- has been relieved of his duties, the Navy announced Friday.
  
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• Navy fires 2nd officer in Iran captured ship incident

  24-06-2016 23:09 via cnn.com
  
  A U.S. Navy officer who helped oversee the 10 sailors who were captured by Iran earlier this year -- which created an uproar in the U.S. when video was released showing them on their knees with their hands behind their heads -- has been relieved of his duties, the Navy announced Friday.
  
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• Photos: The Week in Pictures: June 18 - 24, 2016

  24-06-2016 23:00 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Find this week's top photos from around the globe in ABC News' This Week in Pictures slideshow
  
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• Moody's cuts outlook on UK, maintains on EU after Brexit

  24-06-2016 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Ratings agency Moody's on Friday cut its outlook on the United Kingdom's long term debt to 'negative' from 'stable', but maintained its 'stable' outlook on the European Union following the UK's vote to leave the EU. Moody's said the Brexit vote will bring about a period of uncertainty for the UK, with negative implications for the country's medium-term growth outlook.
  
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• Brazil drug lab shut ahead of Olympics

  24-06-2016 22:54 via cnn.com
  
  The World Anti-Doping Agency suspends Brazil's only laboratory set to handle drug testing just weeks before the Rio Olympic Games are set to begin. CNN's Nick Paton Walsh reports.
  
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• Trans-Atlantic Trend? Trump sees UK vote as validation

  24-06-2016 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Britain's stunning exit from the European Union sent a political jolt across the Atlantic, fueling Donald Trump's belief that frustrated U.S. voters will back similarly sweeping change in November. It rattled Democrats who are banking on Americans ultimately choosing a more conventional leader in Hillary Clinton.
  
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• Surprise Brexit vote unleashes scramble for dollars

  24-06-2016 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Richard Leong NEW YORK (Reuters) - Britain's historic vote to leave the European Union sparked traders on Friday to scramble for dollars in an effort to buy U.S. bonds and to exit dollar-based bets based on U.K. voters favoring to stay in the bloc. The stunning outcome in Thursday's Brexit referendum increased reluctance among money market funds and other cash investors to lend as global stock markets plunged.
  
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• Nexit, Frexit or Italeave? British vote fires up EU's 'Outers'

  24-06-2016 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Dominic Evans and Marton Dunai LONDON/BUDAPEST (Reuters) - Britain's vote to leave the European Union fired up populist eurosceptic parties across the continent on Friday, giving fresh voice to their calls to leave the bloc or its euro currency. Right-wing and anti-immigrant parties in the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden and France demanded referendums on membership of the union, while Italy's 5-Star movement said it would pursue its own proposal for a vote on the euro. Geert Wilders, leader of
  
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• Dutch anti-immigrant party chief urges 'Nexit' referendum for Netherlands

  24-06-2016 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Marton Dunai BUDAPEST (Reuters) - The Netherlands should hold its own referendum on whether to leave the European Union following Britain's vote in favor of exiting the bloc, the leader of the Dutch anti-immigrant PVV party, Geert Wilders, said on Friday. Wilders' Eurosceptical party is leading opinion polls in the Netherlands, one of the six founder nations of what has become the EU, ahead of a parliamentary election expected next March. "I congratulate the British people for beating the pol
  
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• Two killed, 100 homes destroyed by fast-moving California wildfire

  24-06-2016 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Alex Dobuzinskis LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A fast-moving central California wildfire that more than doubled in size on Friday has killed two people and destroyed 100 structures, authorities said. The so-called Erskine Fire broke out on Thursday afternoon in the foothills of Kern County about 42 miles (68 km) northeast of Bakersfield, and three firefighters were hospitalized for smoke inhalation, officials said. The fire has led hundreds of residents to evacuate and the Kern County Fire Departme
  
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• Brexit, not the clothes, are the talk of Paris Fashion Week

  24-06-2016 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — The British vote to leave the European Union and not the clothes were the talk of the front row crowd at menswear shows in Paris on Friday.
  
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• Disney beaches open, gator caught

  24-06-2016 22:38 via cnn.com
  
  Walt Disney World reopened its beaches to guests Thursday, a source at the Florida theme park with knowledge of the situation told CNN.
  
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• California wildfire: two die as hundreds 'engaged in epic firefight'

  24-06-2016 22:37 via theguardian.com
  
  Residents of Kern County describe chaotic scenes on Friday as they scrambled to escape flames and smoke and the governor declared a state of emergencyAn explosive wildfire has claimed two lives, scorched approximately 100 structures and forced thousands to flee in central California.
  Residents described chaotic scenes on Friday as they scrambled to escape flames and smoke in the foothills of Kern County, about 42 miles north-east of Bakersfield. Continue reading...
  
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• Experts explore ethics of more trials in Freddie Gray case

  24-06-2016 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BALTIMORE (AP) — Is it ethical for Baltimore's top prosecutor, who staked her reputation on charging six police officers in the death of Freddie Gray, to keep trying for a conviction? Legal experts said Friday that State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby is obligated to consider this question.
  
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• Top U.S. financial regulators to discuss 'Brexit' by phone on Friday

  24-06-2016 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The heads of all the U.S. financial regulatory agencies will hold a meeting by phone on Friday to discuss the vote by Britain to leave the European Union, according to a notice from the Treasury Department. U.S. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew will preside over the discussion of the Financial Stability Oversight Council, which was created in response to the 2007-09 financial crisis and which also includes the heads of the Federal Reserve, Securities and Exchange Commision and the Commodity Futures T
  
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• Modric, Mandzukic hopeful for Croatia against Portugal

  24-06-2016 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LENS, France (AP) — Croatia's key players Luka Modric and Mario Mandzukic trained well on Friday and could be ready for at least part of the round of 16 game against Portugal.
  
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• The Latest: German ministry to work for EU, after drinks

  24-06-2016 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — The Latest on Britain's historic vote to leave the European Union (all times local):
  
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• Michael Herr, author of the Vietnam-era 'Dispatches,' dies

  24-06-2016 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Herr, the author and Oscar-nominated screenplay writer who viscerally documented the ravages of the Vietnam War through his classic nonfiction novel "Dispatches" and through such films as "Apocalypse Now" and "Full Metal Jacket," died Thursday after a long illness. He was 76.
  
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• US stocks plunge on Brexit; Dow falls 610 points

  24-06-2016 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - US stocks dived Friday after Britain's surprise vote to leave the European Union, joining a global equity rout amid rising uncertainty about the future of Europe.
  
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• From indifference to uncertainty, Brexit talk hits Euro 2016

  24-06-2016 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — Britain's momentous decision to leave the European Union was the talk of soccer's European Championship on Friday.
  
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• Fourteen people die in West Virginia floods

  24-06-2016 22:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  At least 14 people die in devastating flooding in the US state of West Virginia, according to the state governor.
  
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• Markets reel as world absorbs shock of UK vote for Brexit

  24-06-2016 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Britain has jumped. Now it is wildly searching for the parachute.
  
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• Wall St. tumbles after Britons vote to leave EU

  24-06-2016 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Bank shares tumbled on Friday to lead Wall Street's biggest selloff in 10 months after Britain's decision to leave the European Union caught traders wrong-footed.
  
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• U.S. REACTION: Obama tries to put best face on Brexit vote

  24-06-2016 22:10 via cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama said Friday that the relationship between the United States and the United Kingdom will not change following the Brexit vote.
  
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• England v Sri Lanka: Alex Hales and Jason Roy lead 10-wicket rout

  24-06-2016 22:10 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Alex Hales and Jason Roy both score centuries as England sweep aside Sri Lanka to win the second ODI by 10 wickets.
  
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• Fire spokesman: Two people killed in huge wildfire burning through central California mountain communities

  24-06-2016 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  LAKE ISABELLA, Calif. (AP) — Fire spokesman: Two people killed in huge wildfire burning through central California mountain communities.
  
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• Cameron resigns as Brexit vote shocks EU, pummels markets

  24-06-2016 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  British voters dealt a seismic blow to the European Union by voting to leave the bloc, triggering the resignation of Prime Minister David Cameron Friday and sending world financial markets into freefall. The shock outcome of Thursday's historic referendum could have a knock-on effect on other EU members battling hostility to Brussels and possibly lead to the break-up of the United Kingdom after Scotland raised the prospect of another independence vote. In an emotional statement outside Downing S
  
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• Turkey warns of rising European xenophobia after Brexit vote

  24-06-2016 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Nick Tattersall and Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Europe's politicians are failing to combat rising xenophobia and anti-immigrant views, Turkish officials said on Friday, after Britain's vote to exit the European Union deprived Turkey of what had been a major backer in its quest for EU membership. The Brexit campaign and the rise of Europe's populist right have cast further doubt over Turkey's decade-long accession negotiations, a process which was in its early years an anchor for economi
  
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• Sanders: 'We are talking to the Clinton campaign' – video

  24-06-2016 21:59 via theguardian.com
  
  US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders said on Friday he is in talks with Hillary Clinton’s campaign to come up with some ‘serious proposals’ to help ‘transform America’. He made the comments during a speech in Albany, New York. Earlier in the day, Sanders said he would vote for Clinton to stop Republican candidate Donald Trump from winning the White House, a show of support that his campaign said was not a formal endorsement Continue reading...
  
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• Actress Kelly McGillis attacked at North Carolina home

  24-06-2016 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. (AP) — An apparently shaken and frantic Kelly McGillis could be heard on a recorded 911 call screaming about a woman who broke into her North Carolina home, saying the woman attacked her and claimed to know her.
  
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• UEFA's Collina happy with European Championship refs' work

  24-06-2016 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  PARIS (AP) — No goal controversies. No straight red cards. No players seriously injured by bad tackles.
  
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• Anger in bedrooms, joy on streets

  24-06-2016 21:56 via cnn.com
  
  Shortly after 5 a.m. in the northwest London suburb of Harlesden, Toni Carlton rolled over in bed, picked up her cell phone and checked its news feed.
  
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