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• First lady's apolitical image big part of her political draw

  26-07-2016 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Sorry, Democrats. #ElectMichelle will never be more than a wishful hashtag.
  
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• Legislator: Pfizer can't complain about execution drug

  26-07-2016 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The legislator who drafted the law that keeps most of Arkansas' lethal injection policy a secret says pharmaceutical companies have no standing to complain that prison officials will use their drugs in executions.
  
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• Wish granted: Six-year-old boy is garbage man for a day

  26-07-2016 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Ethan Dean has always dreamed of being a garbage man. Tuesday, the 6-year-old lived that fantasy: riding shot gun in a booster seat through Sacramento in a truck labeled "Ethan's Garbage Truck."
  
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• Ratings give CNN, Williams and Democrats bragging rights

  26-07-2016 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CNN, Democrats and Brian Williams can all claim some bragging rights in the ratings from the first night of the Democratic convention.
  
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• Apple talks services amid drop in iPhone sales, profit

  26-07-2016 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  With iPhone sales and profits sliding, Apple on Tuesday sought to highlight its growth in services as it seeks to reduce dependence on its main profit driver. In its quarterly update, Apple said profits slumped 27 percent from a year ago to $7.8 billion on a sharp drop in iPhone sales. Apple sold 40.4 million iPhones in the quarter ending June 25, down 15 percent from a year earlier, highlighting concerns over growth for the company's iconic smartphone.
  
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• Inderjeet Singh: Indian shot put champion blames positive drug test on conspiracy

  26-07-2016 23:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Indian and Asian shot put champion Inderjeet Singh believes there is a conspiracy against him after he failed a drugs test.
  
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• Famed TV Psychic Miss Cleo Dies at 53

  26-07-2016 23:32 via nbcnews.com
  
  Harris gained notoriety in the late 1990s as the face of the Psychic Readers Network, wearing colorful headdresses and speaking in a Jamaican accent.
  
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• Peruvian fishermen rescue baby whale from net

  26-07-2016 23:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fishermen in the Plura region of Peru have rescued an exhausted whale calf that had become trapped in a net.
  
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• Peruvian fishermen recsue baby whale from met

  26-07-2016 23:28 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Fishermen in the Plura region of Peru have rescued an exhausted whale calf that had become trapped in a net.
  
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• Why ISIS is targeting the Catholic Church

  26-07-2016 23:26 via cnn.com
  
  The attack by two knife-wielding assailants on a church outside Rouen, Normandy, Tuesday in which the attackers killed an elderly priest by slitting his throat and gravely wounded a hostage appears to have been quite deliberately targeted at the Catholic church.
  
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• Lance Bass, Husband 'Can't Wait' to Grow Their Family

  26-07-2016 23:23 via nbcnews.com
  
  Singer Lance Bass tells NBC OUT he and his husband, artist Michael Turchin, "can't wait" to grow their family.
  
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• France church attack

  26-07-2016 23:21 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Images from the French town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray, near Rouen, where a priest was killed in an attack by two men claiming links to the so-called Islamic State group.
  
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• French church attack: 'Priest killer' was being monitored

  26-07-2016 23:20 via bbc.co.uk
  
  The suspected killer of a priest in a French church was being monitored by police and wearing a tag at the time of the attack, prosecutors say.
  
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• Twitter dives after update disappoints

  26-07-2016 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Twitter shares took a fresh hit Tuesday after its quarter update showing more losses, and sluggish growth in revenues and the user base of the social media platform. Shares were down nine percent in after-hours trade after the report, which showed Twitter's loss narrowed to $107 million in the second quarter from $136 million a year earlier. A Twitter co-founder, Dorsey returned to the CEO job last year in a bid to boost growth and user engagement, with its shares slumping on concerns that it is
  
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• The Latest: Biden expects Sanders backers to go for Clinton

  26-07-2016 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Latest on the Democratic National Convention (all times EDT):
  
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• Bryan Cranston leads celebs signing anti-Trump pledge

  26-07-2016 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bryan Cranston, who played President Lyndon B. Johnson on Broadway and HBO, appeared on a civil rights panel Tuesday with 1960s-era activists and signed on to an anti-Donald Trump campaign with more than 100 other celebrities at the Democratic National Convention.
  
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• HBO didn't renew 'Project Greenlight,' Damon says

  26-07-2016 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Project Greenlight" won't be getting a fifth season on HBO.
  
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• Capitol Hill food service workers get $1 mn in back pay

  26-07-2016 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nearly 700 workers who prepare and serve meals to US lawmakers in Washington are due to receive more than $1 million in back pay, the US Labor Department announced Tuesday. Contractors hired to staff food service operations at the US Capitol failed to pay prevailing wages, overtime or health and welfare benefits, according to a Labor Department investigation. The company Restaurant Associates, and Personnel Plus, a subcontractor, will pay $1,008,302 in back wages to 674 employees.
  
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• Student who tried to rush stage at Trump rally pleads guilty

  26-07-2016 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  DAYTON, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio college student has pleaded guilty to trying to rush the stage at a Donald Trump rally and has been ordered to stay out of future GOP presidential events.
  
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• Tesla opens Gigafactory to expand battery production, sales

  26-07-2016 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SPARKS, Nev. (AP) — It's Tesla Motors' biggest bet yet: A massive, $5 billion factory in the Nevada desert that could nearly double the world's production of lithium-ion batteries.
  
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• Severe birth defects not as lethal as docs once said: Study

  26-07-2016 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Parents of newborns with rare genetic conditions used to hear the grim words that the severe birth defects were "incompatible with life." Support groups and social media showing the exceptions have changed the landscape. So has mounting research suggesting that not all such babies are doomed to die.
  
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• Twitter still struggling to grow as rivals race ahead

  26-07-2016 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Twitter is in danger of becoming the next internet company forced into a desperation sale if it cannot find a way to start luring people and advertisers back to its sometimes-befuddling messaging service.
  
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• Recent deaths of kids in hot cars prompt pleas to parents

  26-07-2016 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — The deaths of four children in hot cars in recent days has brought the number across the U.S. this year to at least 23, nearly matching the total for all of last year and prompting experts to plead for vigilance and warn parents that it can happen to anyone.
  
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• Actress who played TV psychic Miss Cleo dies of cancer at 53

  26-07-2016 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The actress who became famous playing the Jamaican psychic Miss Cleo, claiming to know callers' futures in ubiquitous TV infomercials and commercials 15 years ago, has died of cancer.
  
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• Florida Georgia Line respond to police comments

  26-07-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Country duo Florida Georgia Line said they meant no disrespect to police agencies when they requested that armed officers not be allowed backstage during music festivals on Friday and Saturday.
  
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• The Latest: Protesters gather to greet convention delegates

  26-07-2016 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — The Latest on the protests and rallies on the second day of the Democratic National Convention (all times local):
  
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• Apple quarterly profit slides 27 pct to $7.8 bn

  26-07-2016 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Apple said Tuesday its quarterly profit slumped 27 percent from a year ago to $7.8 billion on a sharp drop in iPhone sales. Apple sold 40.4 million iPhones in the quarter ending June 25, down from more than 51 million a year earlier, highlighting concerns over growth for the company's iconic smartphone and key profit driver. Overall revenue was down 15 percent from a year ago at $42.4 billion for Apple, which is the world's most valuable company.
  
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• Bill Clinton's new role

  26-07-2016 22:52 via cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton is calling on her biggest advocate Tuesday night.
  
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• Bill Clinton embraces his role

  26-07-2016 22:52 via cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton is calling on her biggest advocate Tuesday night.
  
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• Trump's hotel pay fight

  26-07-2016 22:50 via cnn.com
  
  A Virginia hotel is fighting back against Donald Trump after the GOP presidential nominee criticized the air conditioning -- or lack thereof -- at a Monday event there.
  
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• Trump's hotel bill fight

  26-07-2016 22:50 via cnn.com
  
  A Virginia hotel is fighting back against Donald Trump after the GOP presidential nominee criticized the air conditioning -- or lack thereof -- at a Monday event there.
  
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• Trump embroiled in pay fight with hotel

  26-07-2016 22:50 via cnn.com
  
  A Virginia hotel is fighting back against Donald Trump after the GOP presidential nominee criticized the air conditioning -- or lack thereof -- at a Monday event there.
  
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• French jihadist attacks church while under house arrest

  26-07-2016 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray (France) (AFP) - A French jihadist who was under house arrest on terror charges took part in a church attack in which a priest was killed Tuesday, further inflaming tensions over security failures in the violence-weary nation. Adel Kermiche, 19, was one of two attackers who stormed a Catholic church in the northern town of Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray during morning mass, slitting the throat of an 86-year-old priest and leaving a worshipper with serious injuries, said Paris
  
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• Favored by Obama, TPP deal draws ire at Dem, GOP conventions

  26-07-2016 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — It's 30 chapters long and almost nobody has read it, but the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal is the unlikely villain at both political conventions.
  
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• The Latest: Brazil's goalkeeper injured ahead of games

  26-07-2016 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — The Latest on the Rio Games (all times local to Rio de Janeiro):
  
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• Beyonce, Adele lead MTV Video Music Award nods

  26-07-2016 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The pop diva was in the running for 11 awards at MTV's annual extravaganza, which will take place August 28 in New York's Madison Square Garden, a shift from the more common venue in Los Angeles. Adele came in second with eight nominations. All but seven were for the chart-topping English balladeer's "Hello," which with more than 1.6 billion views is the fifth most watched video ever on YouTube.
  
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• Packers WR Jordy Nelson says he had "hiccup" with left knee

  26-07-2016 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Jordy Nelson called it a "hiccup." How long Packers fans have to hold their breath remains to be seen.
  
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• IMF reaches staff-level accord with Moldova for $179M loan

  26-07-2016 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) — The International Monetary Fund reached an agreement Tuesday with Moldova for a $179 million, 3-year loan arrangement conditional on the government carrying out reforms.
  
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• Priest killed in ISIS-inspired attack

  26-07-2016 22:38 via cnn.com
  
  Priest killed and hostage seriously wounded in attack on church
  
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• With iPhone sales sagging, Apple's earnings suffer

  26-07-2016 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Apple says iPhone sales fell for the second quarter in a row, putting a damper on revenue and profit for the period ending June 30.
  
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• U.S. opens door to a change in blood donation policy for gay men

  26-07-2016 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Food and Drug Administration opened the door on Tuesday to a change in its blood donor deferral recommendations, which currently prohibit donations from gay men for a year following their last sexual encounter in order to reduce the risk of transmitting HIV, the virus that causes AIDS. In December the FDA overturned a 30-year ban on all blood donations from men who have sex with men, saying the change was based on science showing an indefinite ban was not necessary to prevent transmissi
  
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• Clinton, Dems put gun control at center of convention stage

  26-07-2016 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — With mothers of police violence victims on the stage and anti-gun protesters in the streets, Hillary Clinton and Democrats are giving gun control and efforts to curb police violence a starring role at their summer convention.
  
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• The Latest: Shocked French town honors slain priest

  26-07-2016 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — The Latest on the attack on a French church claimed by Islamic State group (all times local):
  
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• California wildfire forces shutdown of famed Big Sur parks

  26-07-2016 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BIG SUR, Calif. (AP) — California's signature parks along the Big Sur coastline that draw thousands of daily visitors were closed Tuesday as one of the state's two major wildfires threatened the scenic region at the height of the summer tourism season.
  
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• Sanders camp nudges Democratic platform to left

  26-07-2016 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The common statement of policy principles was adopted Monday on the opening day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. Echoing a central message of the Clinton campaign -- "stronger together" -- the document's preamble also makes a forceful case against wealth inequality and adopts phrasing used throughout the Sanders campaign: the one percent. "We believe that today's extreme level of income and wealth inequality -- where the majority of the economic gains go to the top one perc
  
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• Turkey detainees 'tortured, raped'

  26-07-2016 22:20 via cnn.com
  
  As a human rights group tells it, this is what witnesses say is happening to some of the thousands arrested after this month's failed coup in Turkey: captured military officers being raped by police; hundreds of detained soldiers beaten; some withheld food, water and access to lawyers for days.
  
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• Assange: 'More material' coming

  26-07-2016 22:16 via cnn.com
  
  Wikileaks founder Julian Assange said Tuesday his whistleblowing website might release "a lot more material" relevant to the US electoral campaign.
  
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• US women's hoops team wraps up 3 exhibitions at Garden

  26-07-2016 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The U.S. women's basketball team continues its pre-Olympic tour with a three-city exhibition series that wraps up Sunday at Madison Square Garden.
  
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• 'Unthinkable' that jihadists could hit small Normandy town

  26-07-2016 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray (France) (AFP) - No one in this small Normandy town could have imagined that one day they too would be the target of a jihadi attack, let alone Tuesday's knife murder of an elderly priest celebrating mass. "He baptised my three children," said widower Claude Godfroy, 86. "We were about the same age," he said of Father Jacques Hamel, who presided over the funeral for Godfroy's wife six years ago at the centuries-old stone church in Saint-Etienne-du-Rouvray.
  
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• CCTV 'shows Japanese knife attacker Satoshi Uematsu'

  26-07-2016 22:06 via bbc.co.uk
  
  CCTV footage emerges of the Japanese knife attacker who killed 19 people.
  
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