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• Louisiana capital city struggles with 2 weeks of violence

  19-07-2016 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Louisiana capital is marked by memorials — flowers, balloons and stuffed animals with notes of condolences.
  
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• Republicans prepare to nominate Trump in face of wife's speech controversy

  19-07-2016 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland CLEVELAND (Reuters) - Accusations of plagiarism in a speech by Donald Trump’s wife dominated the Republican convention on Tuesday just when the party was due to formally nominate her businessman husband as its presidential candidate. Melania Trump's address to the convention in Cleveland on Monday night contained a section strikingly similar to words delivered at the Democratic convention in 2008 by the woman she hopes to succeed as first lady, Michelle Obama. As critics a
  
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• Police break up skirmishes among demonstrators in Cleveland

  19-07-2016 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — Police broke up scuffles between groups of demonstrators a few blocks from the Republican National Convention as crowds in the hundreds gathered Tuesday afternoon. There was no immediate word on any arrests or injuries.
  
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• Lawsuits: VW employees tried to cover up emissions cheating

  19-07-2016 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York state, Massachusetts and Maryland are suing Volkswagen and its affiliates Audi and Porsche over diesel emissions cheating, alleging that the German automakers defrauded customers, misled regulators and then sought to cover up the deception.
  
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• The lonely struggle of a gay Mormon

  19-07-2016 23:46 via cnn.com
  
  On the night of February 12, 2016, Harry Fisher spent a few hours online: He scrolled through Facebook, checked his email. He searched Google Maps for nearby canyons and read through the lesson plan for a Sunday school class he would not live to teach.
  
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• Obama says some local police departments need more resources

  19-07-2016 23:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The loss of three more police officers in Baton Rouge over the weekend demonstrates the importance of the federal government doing everything it can to help police officers go home at night and be safe, President Barack Obama said Tuesday after meeting with key leaders of his domestic security team.
  
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• FBI: Man charged with plotting attack eyed Jewish target

  19-07-2016 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  PHOENIX (AP) — A Tucson man charged with plotting a terrorist attack on a motor vehicle office in metro Phoenix also expressed to an undercover FBI employee that he wanted to target a Jewish community center in his hometown in a violent attack, a federal agent testified Tuesday at a court hearing.
  
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• Dow inches to record high in mixed day for stock indexes

  19-07-2016 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks ended mixed Tuesday as investors let up on the accelerator after a three-week rally sent indexes to all-time highs.
  
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• Turkey fires tens of thousands in coup plotters hunt

  19-07-2016 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — Asserting that "all the evidence" points to a U.S.-based Muslim cleric as the mastermind of last week's failed coup, Turkey's government on Tuesday fired tens of thousands of teachers, university deans and others accused of ties to the plot and demanded the cleric's extradition.
  
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• As PCs decline, Microsoft betting its future on the cloud

  19-07-2016 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Microsoft's investment in cloud computing is paying off.
  
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• The Latest: Obama: Slayings a reminder of risk officers take

  19-07-2016 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Latest on shootings of six Baton Rouge police officers (all times local):
  
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• Olympic tickets: Prices could drop for non-Brazilian buyers

  19-07-2016 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Sports fans living outside Brazil who bought tickets for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics early may be regretting it, having paid higher prices and add-on fees.
  
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• The Latest: Trump set to visit Cleveland science center

  19-07-2016 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — The Latest on the Republican National Convention (all times EDT):
  
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• Melania Trump opts for Serbian designer for her big moment

  19-07-2016 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Her husband's campaign slogan is "Make America Great Again." But when it came to her big moment in the spotlight, Melania Trump chose a dress not by an American designer, but by a Serbian-born designer based in London.
  
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• Old Trump campaign manager takes a shot at new one on CNN

  19-07-2016 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A look at the 2016 Republican National Convention through a media lens:
  
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• United 2Q profit falls 51 percent, revenue down too

  19-07-2016 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Profit at United Airlines was down by half in the second quarter, and the carrier says that the slump in average fares will last through the summer.
  
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• U.S., Turkish defense chiefs discuss Incirlik Air Base operations

  19-07-2016 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. Defense Secretary Ash Carter and his Turkish counterpart on Tuesday discussed the importance of Turkey's Incirlik Air Base in the campaign against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, the Pentagon said. The base, which is used by Turkish and U.S. forces in the air campaign against Islamic State, has been without power in the days since the failed coup. Turkish Minister of Defense Fikri Isik expressed regret that he could not attend a defense ministerial meeting on Wednesday in Washington on the
  
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• HIV cases rise in 74 countries

  19-07-2016 23:14 via cnn.com
  
  But it's not all bad. The global number of cases has declined by an average of .7% per year.
  
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• Turkey to U.S: 'Hand us coup leader'

  19-07-2016 23:12 via cnn.com
  
  Turkey has requested the extradition of cleric Fethullah Gulen from the United States, Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım said in parliament Tuesday.
  
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• Obama pledges to seek more resources for U.S. police departments

  19-07-2016 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Barack Obama on Tuesday said his administration would work to provide additional support to police departments after the attacks on officers in Texas and Louisiana. "It's very important for us to do everything we can to help police officers go home at night and to be safe," Obama said after a meeting in the Oval Office with Attorney General Loretta Lynch, FBI Director James Comey and Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson. Obama said that he would continue to work with C
  
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• Palestinian boy killed during clash with Israeli troops in West Bank: Palestinians

  19-07-2016 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A Palestinian boy was killed on Tuesday during a clash with Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank on the outskirts of Arab East Jerusalem, the Palestinian health ministry said. An Israeli police spokeswoman said paramilitary Border Police officers used only tear gas and stun grenades in the clash at al-Ram after a petrol bomb was thrown at forces and that initial details at hand suggested there had been no firing. Earlier, a Palestinian assailant who stabbed two Israeli soldiers and wounded t
  
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• Trump: No firings over Melania plagiarism

  19-07-2016 22:50 via cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump's presidential campaign doesn't plan to fire anybody or to take disciplinary action over the controversy surrounding Melania Trump's plagiarism of Michelle Obama, CNN learned Tuesday.
  
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• Trump camp responds to plagiarism claims

  19-07-2016 22:50 via cnn.com
  
  At least one passage in Melania Trump's speech Monday night at the Republican National Convention bears an unmistakable resemblance to another delivered by Michelle Obama in 2008.
  
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• No one to be fired over Melania Trump plagiarism

  19-07-2016 22:50 via cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump's presidential campaign doesn't plan to fire anybody or to take disciplinary action over the controversy surrounding Melania Trump's plagiarism of Michelle Obama, CNN learned Tuesday.
  
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• No firings over speech plagiarism

  19-07-2016 22:50 via cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump's presidential campaign doesn't plan to fire anybody or to take disciplinary action over the controversy surrounding Melania Trump's plagiarism of Michelle Obama, CNN learned Tuesday.
  
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• No firings over plagiarism

  19-07-2016 22:50 via cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump's presidential campaign doesn't plan to fire anybody or to take disciplinary action over the controversy surrounding Melania Trump's plagiarism of Michelle Obama, CNN learned Tuesday.
  
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• No firings over Melania plagiarism

  19-07-2016 22:50 via cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump's presidential campaign doesn't plan to fire anybody or to take disciplinary action over the controversy surrounding Melania Trump's plagiarism of Michelle Obama, CNN learned Tuesday.
  
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• Cleric Gulen urges U.S. to reject Turkish extradition attempt

  19-07-2016 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  A Turkish cleric living in self-imposed exile in the United States called on Washington to reject any request by Turkey to extradite him, according to a statement on Tuesday. "I urge the U.S. government to reject any effort to abuse the extradition process to carry out political vendettas," Fethullah Gulen said in a statement released by the Alliance for Shared Values, a group associated with the cleric. U.S. officials say they have not yet received an extradition request from Turkey.
  
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• Three U.S. states sue Volkswagen, say executives covered up diesel cheating

  19-07-2016 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Senior executives at Volkswagen AG including its former chief executive covered up evidence that the German automaker had cheated on U.S. diesel emissions tests for years, three U.S. states charged on Tuesday in civil lawsuits against the company. New York, Massachusetts and Maryland filed separate, nearly identical lawsuits in state courts, accusing the world's No. 2 automaker of violating their environmental laws. The lawsuits, which could lead to state fines of hundreds of millions of dollars
  
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• Plagiarism defense: 'My Little Pony'?

  19-07-2016 22:39 via cnn.com
  
  Who said it: Melania Trump or Twilight Sparkle from "My Little Pony"?
  
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• Tom Sizemore arrested on suspicion of domestic violence

  19-07-2016 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tom Sizemore was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of felony domestic violence and was being held on $50,000 bail, police said.
  
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• Can you sue Pokemon Go?

  19-07-2016 22:29 via cnn.com
  
  Danny Cevallos reports on the game's terms and conditions and whether you can sue the app if you get hit by a car in your quest to catch 'em all.
  
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• Obama tells police after killings: 'We have your backs'

  19-07-2016 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Andy Sullivan BATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) - President Barack Obama has told law enforcement officials that Americans recognize, respect and depend upon the difficult and dangerous work they do, a rallying call of support following the ambush killings of eight officers in Dallas and Baton Rouge. Three police officers were gunned down in Louisiana's state capital on Sunday by a U.S. Marine Corps veteran with ties to an African-American anti-government group, authorities said. On July 7, another
  
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• Clinton: First day of Republican convention 'surreal'

  19-07-2016 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Hillary Clinton dismissed the first day of the Republican National Convention as a "surreal" experience on Tuesday, comparing the gathering led by Republican Donald Trump to the classic fantasy film "The Wizard of Oz."
  
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• IOC explores legal options on banning all Russians from Rio

  19-07-2016 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — With just over two weeks until the opening ceremony, Russia still doesn't know whether its athletes — all or even some — will be competing in the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. It may all come down to the lawyers.
  
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• Obama, Erdogan discuss status of cleric Gulen in call

  19-07-2016 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  By Roberta Rampton and Lesley Wroughton WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan discussed the status of U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen, blamed by Turkish authorities for masterminding a recent failed coup, during a call on Tuesday, the White House said. The Turkish government has filed material in electronic form about Gulen with the U.S. government, which has been waiting for a formal extradition request, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said. U.S
  
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• Friends recall slain officers as residents gather to mourn

  19-07-2016 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Across this city, shocked residents have gathered in churches and at community vigils to pray for the law enforcement community and the three officers who were slain in an ambush by a gunman.
  
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• The Latest: Erdogan supporters rally for 5th straight day

  19-07-2016 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — The Latest on the attempted military coup in Turkey (all times local):
  
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• Henry VIII's Mary Rose warship gets makeover

  19-07-2016 21:57 via cnn.com
  
  The 16th-Century Mary Rose warship is on display at a museum in Portsmouth, England, after 34 years of restoration.
  
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• Trump Set to Become GOP's Official Presidential Nominee

  19-07-2016 21:54 via nbcnews.com
  
  Donald Trump is expected to be formally nominated the Republican Party's presidential nominee Tuesday evening.
  
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• Feds remove the lesser prairie chicken from protection list

  19-07-2016 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Facing an uphill court fight, the U.S. government announced Tuesday it was formally removing the lesser prairie chicken from a federal protection list under the Endangered Species Act.
  
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• 5 Things to Know About Tiffany Trump Ahead of RNC Speech

  19-07-2016 21:48 via nbcnews.com
  
  Ahead of her speech at the RNC in Cleveland, here are five things to know about Tiffany Trump.
  
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• Washington tribe joins legal challenge over modified salmon

  19-07-2016 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  SEATTLE (AP) — A Native American tribe in Washington state has joined a lawsuit challenging the federal government's approval of an Atlantic salmon genetically modified to grow faster.
  
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• Bush: Am I the last Republican president?

  19-07-2016 21:43 via cnn.com
  
  Former President George W. Bush fretted to a group of former aides and advisers in April that he was worried he could be the "last Republican president."
  
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• Cleveland police are relying heavily on bike patrols

  19-07-2016 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — Cleveland police trying to keep protests from turning violent during the Republican convention are relying heavily on officers on bikes, who are not only more maneuverable but are seen as friendlier and less intimidating.
  
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• One mother, six twins

  19-07-2016 21:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Danesha Couch from Kansas City tells BBC News she feels "blessed" after giving birth to her third set of twins on 17 June.
  
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• Melania Trump just latest to face plagiarism allegations

  19-07-2016 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Politicians almost always have a way with words.
  
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• Crane collapses on lanes of Tappan Zee Bridge in NYC suburbs

  19-07-2016 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  A huge crane toppled off the new Tappan Zee Bridge under construction north of New York City and collapsed across the busy span it is replacing, halting traffic Tuesday afternoon on the key Hudson River ...
  
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• Viewers found relief from grimness with TV's fun-and-games

  19-07-2016 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The news was awful again last week, but viewers found some refuge in TV's fun-and-games.
  
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• Trump seeks to steady GOP convention after plagiarism charge

  19-07-2016 21:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CLEVELAND (AP) — After a chaotic start, Donald Trump is under pressure to steady his Republican convention as a plagiarism charge and other unforced errors threaten to overshadow GOP efforts to unify behind him.
  
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