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• US says up to 116 civilians killed in counterterror strikes

  01-07-2016 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Peeling back some of the secrecy of America's drone strikes on suspected terrorists, the Obama administration on Friday said it has killed up to 116 civilians in counterterror attacks in Pakistan, Yemen and other places where the U.S. is not engaged in active, on-the-ground warfare.
  
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• Delight as jazz giants return to small Swiss town of Montreux

  01-07-2016 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The legendary American musician was back on stage at the opening of this year's Montreux Jazz Festival, half a century after he headlined the first festival in the idyllic Swiss town in 1967. "Duke Ellington was one of the people that wrote a letter to the US immigration to allow me to stay in America," he said.
  
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• Tesla crash raises concerns about autonomous vehicle regulation

  01-07-2016 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The fatal crash of a Tesla Motors Inc Model S in Autopilot mode has turned up pressure on auto industry executives and regulators to ensure that automated driving technology is deployed safely. Shares of Tesla and Mobileye NV, the maker of the camera vision system used in the Model S, rose on Friday as analysts said the accident was likely a short-term setback. On Friday, the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said U.S. traffic deaths rose by 7.7 percent to 35,200 in 201
  
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• Sleeping driver, terrified granny among Tesla Autopilot users on YouTube

  01-07-2016 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A sleeping driver and a terrified granny are among the many people who appear in popular YouTube videos using the Tesla Autopilot technology - and not always using the system as intended. Many are not "screaming granny" videos, but the more whacky ones often get far more clicks than the straightforward videos.
  
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• The Latest: Experts ID dead whale that washed onto beach

  01-07-2016 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Latest on a dead humpback whale that washed onto a Los Angeles County beach (all times local):
  
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• Gingrich, Christie lead Trump list of vice presidential options

  01-07-2016 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie top Donald Trump's short list to be his vice presidential running mate, sources said, but the candidate is casting a wide net that also includes several U.S. senators and other governors. With less than three weeks to go until his formal nomination at the Republican National Convention as the party's candidate in the Nov. 8 election, Trump's search for a No. 2 has intensified. Other
  
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• Death sparks 'Autopilot' car probe; man had speeding tickets

  01-07-2016 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The first American death involving a car in self-driving mode presents a dilemma: How aggressively to embrace the potentially life-saving technology after a fatal crash. The driver's history of speeding further complicates the question.
  
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• Meet first openly gay Miss America contestant

  01-07-2016 23:45 via cnn.com
  
  Smiling as she sits in a float at St. Louis' annual pride parade, Erin O'Flaherty gleams with a crown atop her head, a prize she clinched after being crowned Miss Missouri last month.
  
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• First openly gay Miss America contestant

  01-07-2016 23:45 via cnn.com
  
  Smiling as she sits in a float at St. Louis' annual pride parade, Erin O'Flaherty gleams with a crown atop her head, a prize she clinched after being crowned Miss Missouri last month.
  
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• The Latest: Canadians sign Radulov; Leafs quiet on Day 1

  01-07-2016 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Latest on NHL free agency (all times Eastern):
  
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• Serena survives at Wimbledon, racket doesn't; Djokovic down

  01-07-2016 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Dismayed at dropping the first set after being a single point from taking it, Serena Williams sat in her Centre Court sideline chair and cracked her racket against the turf once, twice, three times, four.
  
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• Facebook will automatically translate posts into different languages

  01-07-2016 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Facebook on Friday began testing a translation tool that will automatically let posts be displayed in languages users prefer. The leading social network first made the "multilingual composer" tool available earlier this year for use on pages representing companies, brands, groups and celebrities through its Pages service. "Page authors and other people on Facebook can compose a single post in multiple languages, and the viewers who speak one of those languages will see the post in their preferre
  
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• Euro 2016: Wales stuns Belgium

  01-07-2016 23:20 via cnn.com
  
  "Don't take me home. Please don't take me home."
  
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• Flour Recall Widens After 4 More People Get Sick

  01-07-2016 23:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  Federal health officials widened an already big recall of flour after four more people got sick from E. coli food poisoning linked to the flour.
  
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• Leading WI GOPers split with Ryan, Walker over convention

  01-07-2016 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Two top Wisconsin Republicans with significant roles in this month's GOP national convention are splitting with their state's highest profile politicians, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Gov. Scott Walker, in an internal fight over how delegates should vote at the gathering.
  
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• US auto sales hit record in first 6 months

  01-07-2016 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — U.S. auto sales may be slowing, but they still set a record in the first six months of this year.
  
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• Cameron's potential successors push for Brexit delay

  01-07-2016 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The favourites to succeed Prime Minister David Cameron pushed Friday for a delay in initiating Britain's talks to leave the EU as French President Francois Hollande insisted "Brexit" cannot be cancelled or delayed. In further signs of economic fallout from last week's shock vote, the government also warned it would likely abandon a key promise to achieve a budget surplus by 2020, while no-frills airline EasyJet announced contingency plans to ensure its European operations after Brexit. Britain h
  
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• Italians among hostages in Dhaka cafe attack: source

  01-07-2016 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  Italian nationals are thought to be among the hostages taken by gunmen who stormed a cafe popular with foreigners in the capital of Bangladesh on Friday, a source at the Italian foreign ministry said. The source said it was not clear how many Italians may be involved. Gunmen stormed a restaurant in the diplomatic quarter of Dhaka on Friday night and took about 20 people hostage, including several foreigners, in an attack claimed by Islamic State.
  
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• Cooling off

  01-07-2016 23:01 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The National Building Museum's new exhibit features a "glacial ice field" - giant sculptures representing icebergs, as an alternative to Washington DC's summer heat.
  
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• German connection

  01-07-2016 23:00 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The UK's Brexit vote is testing the cultural bonds between Britain and Berlin, but film studio boss Charlie Woebcken says "these links aren't going away".
  
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• Serena causing a racquet at Wimbledon

  01-07-2016 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Defending champion Serena Williams said she was ready to kick up a racquet at Wimbledon after smashing one up on court. The world number one, who is fighting for a seventh Wimbledon singles title, said she was angry and ready for any challenge after narrowly surviving a major scare against US compatriot Christina McHale on Friday. Williams was so incensed with her own performance that she violently smashed her racquet repeatedly into the Centre Court turf.
  
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• Woods to sit out British Open and miss another major

  01-07-2016 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TROON, Scotland (AP) — Tiger Woods is out of the British Open, the first time he has sat out three straight majors.
  
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• In VP search, Trump and Clinton eye different priorities

  01-07-2016 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump wants a running mate who has what he lacks — political experience. Hillary Clinton is putting a premium on diversity as she searches for a No. 2.
  
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• Novak Djokovic is in trouble ...

  01-07-2016 22:51 via cnn.com
  
  World No. 1 Novak Djokovic, who has won four straight grand slams, trailed Sam Querrey by two sets when they were forced off due to rain Friday at Wimbledon.
  
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• Ramadan campaign

  01-07-2016 22:42 via cnn.com
  
  In the past several days, ISIS has conducted lethal suicide attacks in Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Bangladesh and also, very likely, in Turkey.
  
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• ISIS' Ramadan terror campaign

  01-07-2016 22:42 via cnn.com
  
  In the past several days, ISIS has conducted lethal suicide attacks in Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Bangladesh and also, very likely, in Turkey.
  
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• ISIS' Ramadan campaign

  01-07-2016 22:42 via cnn.com
  
  In the past several days, ISIS has conducted lethal suicide attacks in Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Bangladesh and also, very likely, in Turkey.
  
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• White House reveals drone death toll

  01-07-2016 22:39 via cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama is expected to reveal the number of civilian deaths from U.S. drone strikes on Friday, a central tactic of his fight against terrorism that has been harshly criticized by several human rights groups.
  
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• Malkovich a 'man of integrity' French court told in defamation case

  01-07-2016 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  John Malkovich took French daily Le Monde and two of its journalists to court Friday for defamation over a report alleging the US actor had a secret Swiss bank account. Dangerous Liaisons star Malkovich is suing the paper over two articles in February about the tax evasion scheme run by British banking giant HSBC out of its Swiss affiliate. Malkovich, 62, was among several celebrities listed by Le Monde among the "elite tax evaders" to have had a secret Swiss account between 2005 and 2007 -- a c
  
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• US reveals death tolls from drone and air strikes

  01-07-2016 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States on Friday lifted the lid on one of the most controversial tactics of President Barack Obama's secretive counter-terror campaign, detailing for the first time the number killed in air strikes in countries like Pakistan and Libya. At the same time, the White House released an executive order outlining the steps that should be taken to reduce civilian casualties in America's ongoing battle against violent extremism. In a much-anticipated report, the Director of National Intelligen
  
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• The Latest: New York Islanders sign Ladd, Chimera

  01-07-2016 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Latest on NHL free agency (all times Eastern):
  
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• Wimbledon to play on middle Sunday for 4th time in 139 years

  01-07-2016 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — For only the fourth time in Wimbledon's 139-year history, matches will be scheduled on the two-week tournament's middle Sunday.
  
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• Gunmen take hostages at cafe in Dhaka's diplomatic quarter

  01-07-2016 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - Gunmen stormed a restaurant popular with expatriates in the diplomatic quarter of the Bangladeshi capital on Friday night and took about 20 people hostage, including several foreigners, in an attack claimed by Islamic State. The Islamist militant group said more than 20 people had been killed, although police have so far confirmed the deaths of two policemen. In the latest flare-up of Islamist militant violence to hit the South Asian nation, police said eight
  
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• Police say 2 officers killed in Bangladesh attack

  01-07-2016 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — The Latest on the attack on a restaurant popular with foreigners in a diplomatic zone in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka (all times local):
  
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• CDC: Amoeba didn't die in whitewater center's murky churn

  01-07-2016 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The chlorination and filtration systems at an artificial water rapids course where Olympic kayakers train were inadequate to kill a rare, brain-attacking organism, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said after an Ohio teenager died from the amoeba.
  
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• Tesla fatal crash is setback to autonomous cars

  01-07-2016 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Tesla Model S cruising on "Autopilot" failed to pick up a crossing tractor-trailer against a bright sky, sending the driver to his death without any effort to hit the brakes. The first known fatality from autonomous driving technology, it was a nightmare scenario for an industry promoting a way to improve road safety and reduce traffic fatalities that come mostly from human error. Researchers say the tragedy does not change the long-term outlook for autonomous vehicles or their potential ben
  
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• A changed America

  01-07-2016 22:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  America is in the middle of its most volatile presidential election season in half a century, and the Midwestern state of Ohio is set to be a key decider in the race. Michael Goldfarb returns to the state he first reported on two decades ago to see how much has changed.
  
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• Federer romps into Wimbledon fourth round

  01-07-2016 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Roger Federer racked up his 150th tour-level win on grass as the world number three crushed Britain's Daniel Evans 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 in the Wimbledon third round on Friday. Third seed Federer, bidding for a record eighth Wimbledon title, will face Bulgaria's Grigor Dimitrov or Steve Johnson of the United States for a place in the quarter-finals. The 17-time Grand Slam champion has yet to drop a set in this year's tournament and he is comfortably through to the second week while his principle rival N
  
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• Man killed by bear experienced in dangers of the wilderness

  01-07-2016 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — The Montana man killed by a bear near Glacier National Park was intimately familiar with both the beauty and the danger of the vast, wild forest that spreads from the shadows of the park's rugged peaks.
  
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• Mideast mediators questions Israel's commitment to 2 states

  01-07-2016 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — International mediators trying to promote Mideast peace warned in a highly anticipated report Friday that Israel's settlement expansion is eroding the viability of a Palestinian state and raises "legitimate questions" about its commitment to a two-state solution.
  
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• Clinton's lead over Trump narrows to 9 points: Reuters/Ipsos

  01-07-2016 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Chris Kahn NEW YORK (Reuters) - Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton's lead over Republican Donald Trump has dipped into the single digits among likely U.S. voters for the first time in nearly two weeks, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Friday. The June 27-July 1 poll showed a 9.4 percentage point lead for the former secretary of state over the New York businessman, down slightly from an 11.2 point lead in a previous five-day poll that ended on June 28. Clinton had mai
  
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• The Latest: Federer advances to 4th round at Wimbledon

  01-07-2016 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — The Latest from Wimbledon (all times local):
  
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• Gingrich, Christie lead Trump field of U.S. vice presidential possibilities

  01-07-2016 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican stalwarts Newt Gingrich and Chris Christie are at the top of Donald Trump's short list to be his vice presidential running mate, sources said, but the real estate developer is casting a wide net that also includes Indiana Governor Mike Pence. With less than three weeks to go until he is formally nominated at the Republican National Convention as the party's candidate in the Nov. 8 election, Trump's search for a No. 2 has intensified. Other names
  
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• Judge lets new painkillers lawsuit against NFL teams proceed

  01-07-2016 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge in California refused to dismiss a lawsuit by 1,500 former NFL players claiming the teams and their training staffs routinely dispensed a range of powerful drugs, often without prescriptions, to mask pain and injuries and get players on the field without regard for their long-term health.
  
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• IS claims attack in Bangladesh capital: jihadist news agency

  01-07-2016 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for a gun attack Friday on a restaurant in Bangladesh’s capital popular with foreigners that sparked a deadly firefight with police, an IS-linked news agency reported. “Islamic State commandos attack a restaurant frequented by foreigners in the city of Dhaka,” the Aamaq news agency said.
  
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• Construction worker killed, 1 injured after truck hits lift

  01-07-2016 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  SEATTLE (AP) — One contractor died and another was seriously injured after a truck struck the lift they were in while working on the exit ramp of the West Seattle Bridge.
  
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• The Latest: Burroughs, Gray highlight Olympic wrestling

  01-07-2016 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Latest on the Olympics ahead of the Rio Games (all times local):
  
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• Former seminary student sentenced for seeking infant sex

  01-07-2016 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — A former seminarian has been sentenced in San Diego to nearly 16 years in prison for trying to adopt or purchase infants from Mexico to sexually molest them.
  
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• California governor signs stringent gun bills, vetoes others

  01-07-2016 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown signed six stringent gun-control measures Friday that will require people to turn in high-capacity magazines and mandate background checks for ammunition sales, as California Democrats seek to strengthen gun laws that are already among the strictest in the nation.
  
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• Dead whale stuck on Los Angeles beach ahead of holiday

  01-07-2016 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A dead humpback whale was stuck on a popular Los Angeles-area beach as the Fourth of July weekend got underway Friday, with visitors urged to steer clear of the huge carcass.
  
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