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• Dallas suspect amassed personal arsenal at suburban home

  08-07-2016 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — An Army veteran killed by Dallas police after the sniper slayings of five officers amassed a personal arsenal at his suburban home, including bomb-making materials, bulletproof vests, rifles, ammunition and a journal of combat tactics, authorities said Friday.
  
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• Colon, Scherzer, Saunders, Belt added to All-Star rosters

  08-07-2016 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Bartolo Colon and Max Scherzer are headed to the All-Star Game, picked as replacements for other pitchers originally selected for the National League team.
  
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• UK PM candidate Leadsom says post-Brexit right to stay will depend on work permits

  08-07-2016 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  EU citizens coming to Britain once the country has left the European Union will need to obtain work permits if they wish to stay, Andrea Leadsom, one of two candidates vying to replace David Cameron as prime minister, said.
  
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• PM candidate Leadsom says post-Brexit right to stay will depend on work permits

  08-07-2016 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EU citizens coming to Britain once the country has left the European Union will need to obtain work permits if they wish to stay, Andrea Leadsom, one of two candidates vying to replace David Cameron as prime minister, said.
  
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• Mets pitcher Harvey to have season-ending surgery

  08-07-2016 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York Mets pitcher Matt Harvey, struggling through his worst Major League Baseball campaign, will undergo season-ending surgery that will include removal of a rib, the team confirmed on Friday. The 27-year-old right-hander, a workhorse last season in the Mets' run to the National League title and the World Series, has thoracic outlet syndrome, which causes pain in the shoulder, arm, and neck and happens when the nerves or blood vessels are compressed. "Although we all feel badly for him, we e
  
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• Harvick gets Kentucky pole after rain cancels qualifying

  08-07-2016 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  SPARTA, Ky. (AP) — Storms washed out qualifying at Kentucky Speedway on Friday, putting Kevin Harvick on the pole for Saturday night's Sprint Cup Series race based on owner points.
  
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• Strong jobs report lifts US, European stocks

  08-07-2016 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York (AFP) - European and US stock markets surged on Friday after a strong US jobs report allayed fears of a slowdown in the world's biggest economy.
  
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• The Latest: Overhaul of Arpaio investigations expected soon

  08-07-2016 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — The Latest on a hearing Friday to examine relaunching several internal investigations into alleged officer misconduct at Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio's office. (all times local):
  
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• Mistaken identity in Dallas: man wrongly IDed as shooter speaks out

  08-07-2016 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the deadly shooting rampage in Dallas unfolded, one man was surprised amid the chaos to find out police had identified him as a suspected attacker -- and his photo was plastered all over the internet. The Dallas Police Department ignited a brief manhunt for the camouflage-clad Mark Hughes, after tweeting a photo of him toting an AR-15 assault rifle with the words: "This is one of our suspects. Hughes was marching in the Dallas demonstration to protest US police brutality against black America
  
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• Shadow of JFK assassination falls on ambush shooting of Dallas police

  08-07-2016 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Echoes of the most infamous day in the history of Dallas rang out on Thursday night when a shooter gunned down police officers just blocks from where President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. The JFK assassination turned Dallas into a pariah for years while one of the deadliest mass shootings of police in U.S. history has stunned the Texas city, a magnet for migration that ranks as one of the most populous metro areas in the United States. Dallas residents said although the shooting co
  
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• Miesha Tate's perseverance rewarded with UFC 200 star role

  08-07-2016 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Until this year, Miesha Tate seemed destined to spend her career in Ronda Rousey's shadow. She was the second-best fighter in her emerging sport, twice failing to stop Rousey's remarkable rise to stardom.
  
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• Clinton blames State colleagues for classified secrets in emails

  08-07-2016 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jonathan Allen NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton repeated on Friday that she did not realize she was transmitting highly classified government secrets through her private email server while U.S. secretary of state in her first remarks since a federal investigation found this happened at least 110 times. Clinton, the presumptive Democratic Party's presidential nominee, shifted the blame onto her former colleagues at the State Department, saying in television interviews she followed their le
  
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• Photos: This Week in Pictures: July 2 - 8, 2016

  08-07-2016 23:24
  
  Find this week's top photos from around the globe in ABC News' This Week in Pictures slideshow
  
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• PM candidate May says Brexit means controlling free movement of people

  08-07-2016 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Theresa May, one of two candidates vying to replace David Cameron as Britain's prime minister, said on Friday that leaving the European Union will mean controlling the free movement of people coming to Britain. "If I am prime minister, we will come out of the European Union and part of that will be control of free movement," she told The Daily Telegraph newspaper. Controlling immigration was a major driver for many of the 52 percent of Britons who backed leaving the European Union but Britain ma
  
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• Dallas gunman wanted to kill white cops: police

  08-07-2016 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The deadly ambush of Dallas police by a gunman apparently bent on killing white cops in retaliation for the harsh treatment of blacks by law enforcement triggered urgent calls Friday to mend America's troubled race relations. Police identified the shooter -- who gunned down five officers before being killed in a standoff with police -- as 25-year-old Micah Johnson, a black Dallas area resident who was an Army reservist until last year and served in Afghanistan. While the White House ruled out an
  
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• A gay Sulu enters 'Star Trek,' but Takei disapproves

  08-07-2016 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — USS Enterprise helmsman Hikaru Sulu is portrayed as gay in "Star Trek Beyond," but George Takei, who originated the role, isn't pleased.
  
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• Photos: Reese Witherspoon Catches Some Rays in L.A.

  08-07-2016 23:18
  
  This month's hottest celebrity pictures.
  
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• Mom shields son during Dallas shooting

  08-07-2016 23:17 via cnn.com
  
  She isn't an officer. She wasn't in uniform. But Shetamia Taylor, a mother of four boys, was still wounded during the Dallas sniper attack.
  
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• Home of killer in 'Silence of the Lambs' sells for $195,000

  08-07-2016 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  LAYTON, Pa. (AP) — The Pennsylvania house used in the Oscar-winning film "The Silence of the Lambs" has been sold.
  
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• UFC star Jon Jones' backup sample also fails doping test

  08-07-2016 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A doping test on Jon Jones' backup sample has confirmed the positive results that forced the UFC to drop the pound-for-pound star from his main-event bout at UFC 200 this week.
  
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• Clinton: Country Must Confront 'Implicit Bias' After Shootings

  08-07-2016 23:13 via nbcnews.com
  
  Hillary Clinton on Friday told NBC News' Lester Holt that the country needs to do more address "implicit bias" and said that she will take a look at her own campaign rhetoric following a string of high-profile shootings this week.
  
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• Authorities: 911 caller ambushed, shot officer in Georgia

  08-07-2016 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A man who called 911 to report a car break-in Friday ambushed a south Georgia police officer dispatched to the scene, sparking a shootout in which both the officer and suspect were wounded, authorities said. Both are expected to survive.
  
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• US economy looks strong with 287,000 jobs added in June

  08-07-2016 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The much better-than-expected numbers gave a boost to markets in the US and Europe, which have been battered down by worries that Britain's vote to withdraw from the European Union will drag down economic growth. The May job creation numbers in fact were revised downward in Friday's data from the original 38,000 reported to just 11,000. June's hiring levels boosted the monthly average of the last three months to a solid 147,000, which economists say is adequate to keep bringing down unemployment
  
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• The Latest: Clinton deflects 'careless' claim on emails

  08-07-2016 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest developments in the presidential campaign (all times local):
  
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• Major U.S. companies ask judge to block NC transgender bathroom law

  08-07-2016 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  Dozens of large U.S. companies on Friday backed the Obama administration's bid to strike down a North Carolina law restricting the use of public bathrooms by transgender people, saying the law hurts their recruitment efforts and could discourage investment in the state. In a friend-of-the-court brief filed in federal court in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, 68 companies including Apple Inc , Bloomberg LP, Microsoft Corp , General Electric Co and Nike Inc , said the law, known as H.B. 2, should be
  
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• New York police step up security after Dallas attack

  08-07-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Police in New York said Friday they were ramping up security measures out of an "abundance of caution" following the mass shooting in Dallas that left five officers dead. Patrolmen will travel in pairs, city police commissioner William Bratton told a news conference, while the unarmed auxiliary police will not be deployed in the streets. Bratton said there were "no specific threats" against the New York Police Department (NYPD).
  
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• Dallas shootings bring pause to gun-control fight in U.S. Congress

  08-07-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  The shooting deaths of five police officers in Dallas brought a pause to the gun-control fight in Congress on Friday, as Republicans and Democrats called for healing even as they prepared for what could be the year's final push for legislation next week. Shock over the Dallas shootings, the second major gun attack to rock the United States in less than a month, overshadowed the gun debate in the U.S. House of Representatives, where lawmakers have fought over three rival measures since the June 1
  
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• Clinton: A 'terrible disconnect'

  08-07-2016 22:58 via cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton on Friday called for the nation to come together in the aftermath of an ambush that killed five police officers in Dallas, Texas, warning that this "absolutely horrific event" — coupled with a series of recent shootings involving police officers — "should worry every single American."
  
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• Bill Nye visits new Noah's ark attraction he criticized

  08-07-2016 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WILLIAMSTOWN, Ky. (AP) — Bill Nye is touring a new Noah's Ark attraction in Kentucky that he has called a danger to the nation's science education.
  
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• NATO agrees to reinforce eastern Poland, Baltic states against Russia

  08-07-2016 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Robin Emmott and Sabine Siebold WARSAW (Reuters) - NATO leaders agreed on Friday to deploy military forces to the Baltic states and eastern Poland for the first time and increase air and sea patrols to reassure allies who were once part of the Soviet bloc following Russia's seizure of Crimea from Ukraine. Germany will lead the battalion in Lithuania, Britain in Estonia and Canada in Latvia.
  
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• More states sue Obama administration over transgender directive

  08-07-2016 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ten states including Nebraska, Michigan and Ohio sued the Obama administration on Friday, saying the federal government does not have the power to tell states that transgender people must be allowed to use public bathrooms that conform with their gender identity. The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska, takes issue with a May 13 letter sent by the U.S. Department of Justice and U.S. Department of Education to states warning them that they could lose federal funding
  
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• Rare restraint in political reaction after police shootings

  08-07-2016 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In this heated and deeply divisive campaign year, America's presidential candidates — as well as other politicians — responded to the killings of five police officers and two black men with striking reflection and restraint.
  
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• Black Lives Matter condemns Dallas shootings, plans protests

  08-07-2016 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Leaders and supporters of the Black Lives Matter movement sought a delicate balance Friday by both condemning the slaying of five Dallas police officers and promising more demonstrations against deadly shootings by law enforcement.
  
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• Will Trump drop out even if he wins?

  08-07-2016 22:43 via cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump loves being unpredictable -- it's a valuable card in any good negotiator's hands, he insists.
  
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• Will Donald Trump drop out even if he wins?

  08-07-2016 22:43 via cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump loves being unpredictable -- it's a valuable card in any good negotiator's hands, he insists.
  
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• Police Departments Across U.S. Step Up Security

  08-07-2016 22:43 via nbcnews.com
  
  Police across the country stepped up security and took other precautionary measures in the aftermath of Thursday's shooting at a protest in Dallas.
  
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• Court rules for government in fight over tribal expulsions

  08-07-2016 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Federal officials are under no obligation to reinstate Native American tribe members who may have been wrongly expelled in cases where the tribe has final say over enrollment decisions, a federal appeals court said Friday.
  
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• Burk calls for US Women's Open to leave Trump National

  08-07-2016 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Martha Burk is back in golf, encouraging people to join a protest over the U.S. Women's Open being held next year at Trump National in New Jersey.
  
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• Photos: Brooke Shields Attends an Art Opening in Southampton

  08-07-2016 22:41
  
  Some celebrities never seem to age.
  
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• More needs to be done to support police, protect civilians: Clinton

  08-07-2016 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  (Reuters) - Hillary Clinton, commenting on the killing of five police officers by a black army reservist in Dallas and police killings of black men in Louisiana and Minnesota, said on Friday much more needed to be done to support police and innocent Americans who get into potentially deadly encounters with police. "We must do more to have national guidelines about the use of force by police, especially deadly force," Clinton, the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, told CNN. Look at wha
  
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• Obama calls Dallas police chief, U.S. attorney general over shootings

  08-07-2016 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  President Barack Obama called Dallas Police Chief David Brown and U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch on Friday while traveling in Poland to get an update on the investigation into the Texas shootings, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. "The president also offered his condolences on behalf of the country to Chief Brown for the officers who were killed in last night's shootings," Earnest said. Obama is in Poland for a NATO summit.
  
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• Thunder forward McGary handed five-game drug ban

  08-07-2016 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Oklahoma City Thunder forward Mitch McGary was issued a five-game NBA suspension on Friday for violating the league's drug policy, a ban set to begin in the 2016-17 campaign. McGary, a 24-year-old reserve center, was hampered by several injuries and played only 20 games last season, averaging only 1.3 points and 0.9 rebounds in limited playing time in his second NBA campaign. "I clearly made a mistake and for that I apologize to the organization, my teammates, and our fans," McGary said in a sta
  
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• Legendary Pakistani social worker Edhi dies at 88

  08-07-2016 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan's legendary philanthropist Abdul Sattar Edhi, who devoted his life to the poor and the destitute, died on Friday at a hospital in Karachi following a prolonged illness. He was 88.
  
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• Congress can stop police shootings

  08-07-2016 22:25 via cnn.com
  
  On Wednesday, the nation awoke to the killing of Alton Sterling. On Thursday, the killing of Philando Castile. On Friday, the apparently retaliatory killing in Dallas of five police officers patrolling an otherwise peaceful protest decrying these, and other, police shootings. With each tragedy comes not only a growing outcry for accountability, but also a growing skepticism that the justice system can guarantee it.
  
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• NRA will comment -- later

  08-07-2016 22:23 via cnn.com
  
  Critics are calling out the National Rifle Association for not quickly coming to the defense of Philando Castile, who was fatally shot by a police officer in Minnesota this week after reportedly acknowledging that he had a weapon and a concealed carry permit.
  
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• Judge sentences former Alabama House speaker ethics case

  08-07-2016 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OPELIKA, Ala. (AP) — Former Alabama House Speaker Mike Hubbard was sentenced Friday to four years in prison and another eight on probation for breaking the state ethics law — a prison term handed down as his defense lawyer continued to argue Hubbard's innocence.
  
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• France's top hope Pinot cracks in first Tour Pyrenean stage

  08-07-2016 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAC DE PAYOLLE, France (AP) — Dribbling in pain on the punishing climb of the Col d'Aspin, Thibaut Pinot saw his hopes of winning the Tour de France disappear.
  
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• Highway Gunman Motivated by Police Shootings: Authorities

  08-07-2016 22:20 via nbcnews.com
  
  One woman died and three others were hurt when a gunman allegedly shot indiscriminately at passing cars in Tennessee early Thursday.
  
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• Dallas shooter apparently backed black militant groups

  08-07-2016 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The main shooting suspect in the deadly ambush on Dallas police was a US Army reservist and Afghanistan veteran who apparently supported violent black militant movements. On the Facebook page attributed to Micah Johnson, the 25-year-old widely identified as the gunman, he appears with his right arm raised in the tight fist reminiscent of the black power movement of decades ago in America. Johnson, who is black, wears a colorful, loose-fitting African style tunic against the backdrop of the red,
  
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• 25 killed, 120 wounded in rebel shelling in Syria's Aleppo: monitor

  08-07-2016 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At least 25 civilians including four children were killed and 120 others wounded on Friday in rebel shelling of regime-held districts of Syria's Aleppo, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. Fighting has continued since the truce was announced on Wednesday, particularly in and around Aleppo, with deaths on both sides of the divided city. The Observatory, a Britain-based monitoring group, said that at least four civilians had died in regime air strikes there.
  
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