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• Sanders will not pursue more platform changes

  13-07-2016 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Bernie Sanders won't pick a fight over the Democratic Party's policy platform at the nominating convention in Philadelphia, his spokesman said Wednesday.
  
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• Britain's May tells Merkel and Hollande she needs time before Brexit talks

  13-07-2016 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  British Prime Minister Theresa May said she had told German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande on Wednesday that her government would need time before beginning talks on Britain's exit from the European Union. May spoke to the German and French leaders along with the Irish prime minister hours after taking over from David Cameron who had announced he would resign following the vote on June 23 by Britons to exit the EU. "On all the phone calls, the prime minister emph
  
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• May tells Merkel and Hollande she needs time before Brexit talks

  13-07-2016 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  Prime Minister Theresa May said she had told German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande on Wednesday that her government would need time before beginning talks on Britain's exit from the European Union. May spoke to the German and French leaders along with the Irish prime minister hours after taking over from David Cameron who had announced he would resign following the vote on June 23 by Britons to exit the EU. "On all the phone calls, the prime minister emphasised h
  
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• U.S. in front of queue for Britain, says new foreign minister Johnson

  13-07-2016 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  Boris Johnson said on Wednesday the United States would be "in the front of the queue" following his surprise appointment as Britain's new foreign minister. The quip was a reference to a comment by U.S. President Barack Obama during Britain's EU referendum campaign that the country would be in the back of the queue if it voted to leave the bloc. Asked by a Sky News reporter whether Johnson planned to apologize to Obama for controversially saying the "part-Kenyan" president was biased against Bri
  
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• Britain's unelected Prime Ministers

  13-07-2016 23:28 via cnn.com
  
  Theresa May is Britain's 14th unelected Prime Minister since 1900, following iconic leaders such as Winston Churchill.
  
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• Rare photos inside Fukushima's red zone

  13-07-2016 23:23 via cnn.com
  
  It was the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, and since March 11, 2011, parts of Fukushima, Japan, have lain silent, abandoned in the days and weeks following a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant.
  
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• Rare photos in Japan's abandoned nuclear towns

  13-07-2016 23:23 via cnn.com
  
  It was the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, and since March 11, 2011, parts of Fukushima, Japan, have lain silent, abandoned in the days and weeks following a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant.
  
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• Inside Fukushima's red zone

  13-07-2016 23:23 via cnn.com
  
  It was the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, and since March 11, 2011, parts of Fukushima, Japan, have lain silent, abandoned in the days and weeks following a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant.
  
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• How Gingrich broke Congress

  13-07-2016 23:23 via cnn.com
  
  The word is that Donald Trump is considering Newt Gingrich for vice president. Trump needs an insider, someone with real experience. Former Speaker Gingrich, leader of the Republican resurgence in the House in the early 1990s, certainly has that experience. Indeed, there is perhaps no one else on the right with the knowledge that Gingrich has -- and no one else who would be a better target for the increasingly reform-focused Democratic Party.
  
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• Cleveland, a fractured city, an apt place for GOP convention

  13-07-2016 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — Donald Trump's effort to unite a splintered Republican Party around his candidacy is about to take center stage in a city that is itself deeply fractured.
  
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• CSX 2Q profit down 20 percent as rail volume slows 9 percent

  13-07-2016 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — CSX Corp. reported a nearly 20 percent drop in second-quarter profit as freight volume slowed 9 percent, but the railroad beat expectations by cutting expenses and raising rates where it could.
  
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• UN warns of new S. Sudan fighting as humanitarian crisis grows

  13-07-2016 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United Nations warned of fresh fighting in South Sudan Wednesday, after days of deadly gun battles that have sent thousands fleeing and sparked the evacuation of foreign nationals. Fears of a humanitarian crisis were growing with aid agencies -- themselves forced to restrict their work because of the security situation -- saying there were shortages of food and water. A fragile ceasefire nevertheless appeared to be holding in the capital Juba for the second day after a sudden flare-up in fig
  
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• The Latest: Mother: Johnson 'did what he thought was right'

  13-07-2016 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — The Latest on the aftermath of fatal shootings by police in Louisiana and Minnesota and the subsequent killing of five police officers in Dallas (all times local):
  
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• Taj ultimatum: Take casino health deal by Monday or its gone

  13-07-2016 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — A strike against Atlantic City's Trump Taj Mahal casino grew more contentious Wednesday as strikers rallied outside the New York offices of Donald Trump, who opened the casino, and Carl Icahn, his fellow billionaire who now owns it.
  
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• Factbox - New British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson's forthright comments

  13-07-2016 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  Boris Johnson, the popular and flamboyant ex-mayor of London, was on Wednesday appointed Foreign Secretary by new British Prime Minister Theresa May. Well-known for his provocative newspaper columns and undiplomatic language, below are some of Johnson's forthright comments: TURKISH PRESIDENT TAYYIP ERDOGAN POEM (MAY 2016) Earlier this year Johnson won a "President Erdogan Offensive Poetry competition" run by The Spectator magazine. "Hooray, I say.
  
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• $32B House Interior, EPA spending bill faces veto threat

  13-07-2016 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided House is about to pass a $32 billion spending bill for the Interior Department and environmental regulations as Congress prepares to exit Washington for a seven-week recess. But the move seems to do little to advance GOP leaders' hopes of fixing the Capitol's shattered budget process.
  
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• The Latest: Man robbed while playing 'Pokemon Go'

  13-07-2016 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the "Pokemon Go" smartphone game craze (all times local):
  
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• Italy train crash: human error?

  13-07-2016 23:16 via cnn.com
  
  A train crash in a rural area of southeastern Italy may have been caused by human error, according to a local prosecutor.
  
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• Trump calls on U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg to resign after criticism

  13-07-2016 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Lawrence Hurley and John Whitesides WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Republican Donald Trump thrust the U.S. Supreme Court into the presidential campaign debate on Wednesday, rallying conservatives with a call for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg to resign after she lambasted him in a series of media interviews. The presumptive Republican presidential nominee led a chorus of outrage over the comments by Ginsburg, who described Trump as a "faker" and speculated about the possibility of moving to New Zealand
  
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• Phoenix gets first female police chief in its history

  13-07-2016 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  PHOENIX (AP) — Officials say Jeri Williams has been chosen as Phoenix's new police chief, the first female to hold that job in the city's history.
  
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• CFP will consider moving semifinal games off New Year's Eve

  13-07-2016 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  The College Football Playoff is considering moving future semifinals off New Year's Eve after television ratings for last season's games plunged.
  
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• Duncan breaks silence: 'When it's not fun anymore, I'm done'

  13-07-2016 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  San Antonio Spurs star Tim Duncan says he decided to retire after 19 seasons because playing basketball wasn't "as fun anymore."
  
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• Montana sets grizzly hunt rules ahead of federal decision

  13-07-2016 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Montana wildlife regulators set the rules Wednesday for how hunters will be able to kill grizzly bears in the future if the U.S. government decides to remove federal protections for grizzlies in and around Yellowstone National Park.
  
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• Hammond faces daunting task in charge of UK's Brexit-hit economy

  13-07-2016 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  By David Milliken LONDON (Reuters) - Philip Hammond took over as Britain's new finance minister on Wednesday, putting him in charge of the world's fifth-largest economy as it risks sliding into recession after voters decided to leave the European Union last month. Hammond, 60, was foreign secretary until he was appointed by Britain's new Prime Minister Theresa May to replace George Osborne who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer for more than six years. One of Hammond's first tasks will be to
  
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• France's Hollande urges Britain's May to begin Brexit talks quickly

  13-07-2016 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  PARIS (Reuters) - French President Francois Hollande urged new British Prime Minister Theresa May to begin talks to pull her country out of the European Union quickly, his office said after a phone call between the two leaders on Wednesday. "They agreed to actively develop the bilateral relationship that warmly unites France and Britain in all fields, it said in a statement. ...
  
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• First funerals held for Dallas police slain in racially motivated ambush

  13-07-2016 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jon Herskovitz and Lisa Maria Garza DALLAS (Reuters) - Thousands of police officers joined by ordinary citizens attended funerals on Wednesday for three of the policemen shot dead in a racially motivated ambush attack last week that intensified America's long-running debate on race and justice. At the Dallas megachurch called The Potter's House, officers by the thousands crowded into the funeral for Dallas Area Rapid Transit officer Brent Thompson, who had married a fellow officer just two we
  
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• Ex-Stanford swimmer faces drug counseling after leaving jail

  13-07-2016 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The former Stanford University swimmer who got six months in jail for sexually assaulting an unconscious woman will be required to attend drug and alcohol counseling on top of random testing after he was caught lying about his high school habits.
  
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• House GOP subpoenas NY, Mass. AGs on climate change probe

  13-07-2016 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Escalating a political fight over global warming, a Republican House chairman issued subpoenas Wednesday to two Democratic state attorneys general, seeking records about their investigation into whether Exxon Mobil misled investors about global warming.
  
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• Court ruling opens GM to billions in death, injury claims

  13-07-2016 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — A federal appeals court ruling that General Motors can't use its 2009 bankruptcy to fend off lawsuits over faulty and dangerous ignition switches exposes the automaker to billions in additional liabilities, according to legal experts.
  
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• A look at 'Pokemon Go' and how it works

  13-07-2016 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Confused by the "Pokemon Go" mania sweeping the world?
  
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• Arkansas governor aims to set execution dates before January

  13-07-2016 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson said Wednesday that he hopes to set execution dates before January now that the state has a new supply of a lethal injection drug that had expired last month.
  
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• Inside Fukushima's radiation zone

  13-07-2016 23:01 via cnn.com
  
  It was the largest nuclear disaster since Chernobyl, and since March 11, 2011, parts of Fukushima, Japan, have lain silent, abandoned in the days and weeks following a nuclear meltdown at the Fukushima I Nuclear Power Plant.
  
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• Mississippi leaders divided on religious-beliefs law appeal

  13-07-2016 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi's Democratic attorney general said Wednesday that he won't join the Republican governor in appealing a federal judge's ruling that blocked a state law on religious objections to gay marriage.
  
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• Germany's Schweinsteiger weds Serbian tennis ace Ivanovic

  13-07-2016 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — German soccer international Bastian Schweinsteiger has tied the knot with Serbian tennis player Ana Ivanovic.
  
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• Feds propose railroads have plans to deal with oil spills

  13-07-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is proposing that railroads hauling crude oil be required to develop comprehensive plans for dealing with a significant oil spill, including providing information to state and tribal authorities.
  
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• The Latest: Groups sue over police treatment at protests

  13-07-2016 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Latest on the killing of a black man by white Louisiana police officers (all times local):
  
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• APNewsBreak: Half of arrestees where Castile died are black

  13-07-2016 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Police in the suburban St. Paul area where a black man was shot and killed during a traffic stop have disproportionately arrested African-Americans, according to an analysis of data provided by the department that shows nearly half of the people arrested this year in the heavily white community were black.
  
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• Google 'sheep' view? Island maps itself

  13-07-2016 22:52 via cnn.com
  
  Sheep on the Faroe Islands — a small archipelago in the North Atlantic Ocean — are helping to map the remote island's countryside as part of a project dubbed Sheep View 360.
  
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• Calvin Harris' Twitter tirade at Taylor Swift

  13-07-2016 22:50 via cnn.com
  
  Just when you thought Taylor Swift's breakup with DJ Calvin Harris was amicable and so last month, things have gone south Hiddleswiftly.
  
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• University of Iowa to lay off ex-athletic official who sued

  13-07-2016 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) — The University of Iowa is planning to lay off a former top athletic administrator who is suing the school for gender discrimination and retaliation, the school confirmed Wednesday.
  
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• Likely hack of U.S. banking regulator by China covered up: probe

  13-07-2016 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The report cited an internal FDIC investigation as identifying Beijing as the likely perpetrator of the attacks, which the probe said were covered up to protect the job of FDIC Chairman Martin Gruenberg, who was nominated for his post in 2011. "The committee's interim report sheds light on the FDIC’s lax cyber security efforts," said Lamar Smith, a Republican representative from Texas who chairs the House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space and Technology. "The FDIC's intent to
  
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• One Island Could Decide if GMO Mosquitoes Will Fight Zika in US

  13-07-2016 22:41
  Florida Keys community divided over how using mosquitoes to fight Zika virus.
  
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• First virus-hunter in space will test DNA-decoding device

  13-07-2016 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The first virus-hunter in space is all set to conduct some cosmic, new DNA research.
  
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• Airport workers to strike during Democratic convention

  13-07-2016 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Philadelphia airport workers have voted to go on strike during the Democratic Party's national convention in the US East Coast city at the end of July. In a move that could add to the expected chaos in the city during the July 25-28 Democratic National Convention, the Service Employees International Union said Wednesday that up to 1,000 security workers, baggage handlers and cabin cleaners working for three airport subcontractors will walk out. The SEIU, which is trying to organize the airport s
  
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• Disney-owned networks to simulcast Obama town hall

  13-07-2016 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — ABC's news president says the sense that the public is hungry for progress on race relations and policing led the network to quickly schedule a town hall meeting with President Barack Obama in prime time on Thursday.
  
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• NY to pay citizenship application fee for 2,000 immigrants

  13-07-2016 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state will cover the application fee for U.S. citizenship for an estimated 2,000 low-income immigrants, with winners to be selected by a lottery, state officials announced Wednesday.
  
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• May takes over as British PM, makes Johnson foreign minister

  13-07-2016 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Theresa May, who took over as Britain's new prime minister on Wednesday charged with pulling the country out of the EU, caused surprise by immediately appointing leading Brexit campaigner Boris Johnson as foreign minister. May replaced David Cameron as Conservative leader after he stood down following the seismic vote to leave the European Union on June 23, which sparked three weeks of intense political turmoil and volatility on financial markets. May, who had supported Britain's continued EU me
  
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• U.S. says it is looking forward to working with new British foreign minister

  13-07-2016 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. State Department looks forward to working with Boris Johnson, appointed on Wednesday as British foreign secretary, a U.S. State Department spokesman said. The United States will always be able to work with British officials because of its "deep, abiding" relationship with Britain, State Department spokesman Mark Toner said at a daily news briefing. Johnson was a leading figure in the victorious "Leave" campaign in Britain's European Union membership referendum las
  
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• Factbox: David Davis: Who is Britain's Mr Brexit?

  13-07-2016 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  David Davis, a strong supporter of Brexit, was appointed the minister responsible for leading Britain's negotiations to leave the European Union by Prime Minister Theresa May. Here are some facts about Davis, 67, Britain's "Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union". - In a blog published on Monday, Davis said there should be "a little time" before Britain triggered Article 50. - Before becoming a lawmaker in 1987, David worked as an insurance clerk and spent 17 years at Tate and Lyle.
  
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• Obama sends 47 US troops to South Sudan amid heavy fighting

  13-07-2016 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he's deployed 47 U.S. troops to South Sudan amid a worrisome outbreak of fighting there.
  
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