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• Rebuilding Yankees to leave A-Rod with reduced playing time

  02-08-2016 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Yankees plan to leave Alex Rodriguez with reduced playing time as they turn their attention to rebuilding.
  
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• Where basic food costs one month's pay

  02-08-2016 23:46 via cnn.com
  
  Flour. Pasta. Milk.
  
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• Where basic food costs month's pay

  02-08-2016 23:46 via cnn.com
  
  Flour. Pasta. Milk.
  
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• Earnhardt to miss 2+ more races because of concussion

  02-08-2016 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CONCORD, N.C. (AP) — Dale Earnhardt Jr. will miss at least two more races while he recovers from a concussion.
  
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• Delaware's Death Penalty Law Struck Down

  02-08-2016 23:43 via nbcnews.com
  
  Delaware's highest court declared the state's death penalty law unconstitutional Tuesday, ruling that it violates the Constitution's guarantee of a fair trial.
  
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• Police asked Facebook to suspend accounts during standoff

  02-08-2016 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  TOWSON, Md. (AP) — During a standoff, police asked Facebook to suspend an armed woman's social media accounts because people commenting on videos she was posting were encouraging her not to comply with officers, authorities said Tuesday.
  
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• GM and Ford U.S. sales miss mark but industry strong overall

  02-08-2016 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The biggest U.S. automakers, General Motors Co and Ford Motor Co , reported July U.S. sales that disappointed Wall Street on Tuesday but results were strong overall for the industry despite fears its long growth spurt may soon be over. GM reported that sales fell 2 percent to 267,258 vehicles, at the low end of expectations, while Ford posted sales of 216,479 vehicles, down 3 percent. Overall, July U.S. auto sales on Tuesday rose 0.7 percent to 1.52 million vehicles, according to Autodata Corp,
  
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• U.S. officials provide stopgap Zika funds, Congress urged to act

  02-08-2016 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal health officials, scrambling to fund efforts to combat the spread of the Zika virus in the United States, said on Tuesday they have provided more stopgap money to various locales while calls grew for Congress to cut short its recess and act. Concern is mounting about the threat posed by the mosquito-borne virus after authorities in Florida last week reported the first signs of local transmission of Zika in the continental United States. The Florida Department of Health on Tuesday said it
  
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• The Latest: At least 18 California bus victims treated

  02-08-2016 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATWATER, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on a deadly California bus crash (all times local):
  
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• Republican tensions rise as Trump withholds support for leading figures

  02-08-2016 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Alana Wise and Jeff Mason WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump ratcheted up tensions in his Republican Party on Tuesday, denying leading figures support in their re-election bids, while his Democratic rival Hillary Clinton won her first endorsement from a Republican lawmaker. President Barack Obama blasted Trump as unfit to be president and questioned why any Republican would support the New York businessman seeking his first public office. "The question I think that
  
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• Judge extends order blocking Ohio's Planned Parenthood law

  02-08-2016 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  CINCINNATI (AP) — A federal judge is keeping an Ohio law diverting public money from Planned Parenthood from taking effect.
  
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• Man charged with murdering 3 at suburban Seattle party

  02-08-2016 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — Prosecutors have filed three charges of aggravated first-degree murder against a 19-year-old accused of shooting his ex-girlfriend and two young men to death at a party in suburban Seattle over the weekend.
  
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• U.N.: 60,000 flee South Sudan violence

  02-08-2016 23:25 via cnn.com
  
  Violence in South Sudan over the past three weeks has prompted a massive flight of refugees into neighboring countries, according to the United Nations.
  
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• Is Pope changing role of women in church?

  02-08-2016 23:24 via cnn.com
  
  Pope Francis has created a commission to study the historical role of female deacons in the Catholic Church, the Vatican's press office said.
  
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• Former Red Sox pitcher Britton suspended for positive test

  02-08-2016 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Detroit pitcher Drake Britton has been banned for 50 games following a positive test for amphetamine under baseball's minor league program and St. Louis second baseman Luke Doyle has been suspended for 100 games for refusing to take a test.
  
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• Clintons break from campaign to attend Rhode Island funeral

  02-08-2016 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Hillary Clinton took a break from the presidential campaign on Tuesday to attend the funeral in Rhode Island of her longtime friend, Mark Weiner, a major Democratic donor and fundraiser.
  
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• Critics Welcome NYPD Top Cop's Resignation

  02-08-2016 23:02 via nbcnews.com
  
  After a long and storied career in law enforcement, New York City police Commissioner Bill Bratton on Tuesday announced his resignation.
  
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• Prosecutors ask judge to cut almost all of possible $562M penalty in California pipeline blast

  02-08-2016 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Prosecutors ask judge to cut almost all of possible $562M penalty in California pipeline blast.
  
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• Trump's Temperament Becoming a Campaign Talking Point

  02-08-2016 23:00 via nbcnews.com
  
  Terms like "narcissist" and "sociopath" have been routinely attached to his name.
  
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• Correction: Russia-Media-US story

  02-08-2016 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — In a story July 27 about the portrayal of Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump in Russian media, The Associated Press reported erroneously that RT TV is part of the Rossiya Segodnya state media complex. RT TV is a stand-alone organization funded by the state.
  
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• New York City Police Commissioner Bratton to retire

  02-08-2016 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton said on Tuesday he will retire in September, ending a four-decade career that earned him credit for pushing crime rates to historic lows but also criticism for his "zero tolerance" approach to policing. Bratton, 68, will head a newly created risk division at the consulting firm Teneo, where he will advise chief executives on cyber crime and terrorism, he said during an interview on CNBC. At a City Hall news confe
  
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• $89,000 ice cream truck joins Boston police force

  02-08-2016 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  It's the ice cream truck that police hope can defrost any lingering iciness from ordinary Americans on particularly hot days: meet the latest $89,000 addition to the Boston police fleet. Festooned in balloons and unveiled to the public on Monday, the blue-and-white van is marked with police insignia and has "Free Ice Cream" written in large blue letters underneath a serving hatch. "If you had told me 30 years ago that the Boston Police Department would have an ice cream truck as part of its patr
  
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• Turkey's Erdogan blasts foreign countries over coup reaction

  02-08-2016 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan once more blasted unnamed Western countries Tuesday for what he said was support for the attempted coup on July 15 that left more than 270 people dead.
  
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• Global stocks stumble after weak U.S. data, dollar slides

  02-08-2016 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Weak U.S. economic data and disappointing auto sales numbers drove Wall Street down on Tuesday, further dragging on global equity prices after the approval of a fiscal stimulus package by Japan's cabinet failed to cheer markets. Data showing muted U.S. inflation hit the U.S. dollar, which dropped to a six-week low against a basket of currencies, while persistent worries of a supply glut sent U.S. crude prices back below $40 a barrel. Wall Street suffered its worst day in nearly a month after dat
  
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• NCAA accepts Missouri's sanctions, adds year of probation

  02-08-2016 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The NCAA has accepted Missouri's self-imposed sanctions over infractions involving its men's basketball program but it tacked on a year of probation though August of next year.
  
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• Republican governor's race tops primary contests in Missouri

  02-08-2016 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Voters were weighing their desires for an outside voice versus political experience Tuesday as they cast ballots in a Republican gubernatorial race that has been one of Missouri's most broadly contested primaries in a generation.
  
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• US stocks take biggest losses in nearly a month

  02-08-2016 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks took their biggest loss in almost a month on Tuesday as investors worried about the health of the U.S. economy and sold shares in retailers and car companies. Machinery companies also fell and the price of oil continued to decline.
  
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• The Latest: Facebook suspended account during standoff

  02-08-2016 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  RANDALLSTOWN, Md. (AP) — The Latest on the fatal shooting of a black woman in a gunfire exchange with police that also injured a young boy (all times local):
  
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• 'Little ninja': Zika-spreading mosquito puts up tough fight

  02-08-2016 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — The mosquitoes spreading Zika in Miami are proving harder to eradicate than expected, the nation's top disease-fighter said Tuesday as authorities sprayed clouds of insecticide in the ground-zero neighborhood, emptied kiddie pools and handed out cans of insect repellent to the homeless.
  
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• Rapper who was part of Fetty Wap crew freed on $250,000 bail

  02-08-2016 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PATERSON, N.J. (AP) — A rapper who was part of Fetty Wap's Remy Boyz recording group has been freed from jail after he was charged in a shooting that injured a 7-year-old boy.
  
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• State dinner celebrates 50 years of US-Singapore relations

  02-08-2016 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's 12th state dinner is being held Tuesday night for the prime minister of Singapore, a city-state Obama refers to as an anchor for the U.S. presence in Southeast Asia.
  
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• Official says car bombing in eastern Libya kills 23 people

  02-08-2016 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  CAIRO (AP) — A suicide car bomb attack in the eastern city of Benghazi targeting Libyan troops killed 23 people and wounded dozens of others Tuesday, a hospital official said.
  
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• 'Star Trek' actor Anton Yelchin's parents sue carmaker

  02-08-2016 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The parents of late "Star Trek" actor Anton Yelchin filed a lawsuit Tuesday against the makers of his automobile after it rolled down the driveway of his home and killed him. The Russian-born actor died instantly when his 2015 Jeep Grand Cherokee pinned him against a concrete mailbox at his house in Los Angeles on June 19, according to police. "It is wrong, it's against nature when the parents bury (their) own child," Yelchin's father Viktor said at a news conference announcing the wrongful deat
  
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• Jury hears openings in WTC-related trial of Canadian man

  02-08-2016 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — A Manhattan jury has heard opening statements in the trial of the Canadian owner of a company that won $1 billion in contracts to provide steel to build the World Trade Center's tallest building.
  
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• DNC Shakes up Top Leadership

  02-08-2016 22:19 via nbcnews.com
  
  The DNC announced the departure of three more senior officers. But for all the damage caused by the email hack, some see a silver lining.
  
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• Trump is 'unfit,' Obama says, challenging GOP to end support

  02-08-2016 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — In a searing denouncement, President Barack Obama castigated Donald Trump as "unfit" and "woefully unprepared" to serve in the White House. He challenged Republicans to withdraw their support for their party's nominee, declaring "There has to come a point at which you say enough."
  
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• AP source: Cardinals, Mathieu agree to 5-year, $62.5M deal

  02-08-2016 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) — A person with knowledge of the situation tells The Associated Press that the Arizona Cardinals and All-Pro defensive back Tyrann Mathieu have agreed to a five-year, $62.5 million contract extension, with $40 million guaranteed.
  
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• Teva completes $40 bn purchase of Allergan generics arm

  02-08-2016 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Teva Pharmaceutical Tuesday completed its $40 billion acquisition of the generics arm of rival Allergan, a move the Israeli firm hailed as confirmation of its intention to become one of the world's largest drugmakers. "Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd. and Allergan plc today announced that Teva has completed its acquisition of Allergan's generics business (Actavis Generics)" the Israeli company said in a statement.
  
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• Younger Millennials Having Less Sex Than Their Parents

  02-08-2016 22:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  Millennials born in the 1990s are more than twice as likely to be sexually inactive in their early 20s than their Generation X peers were.
  
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• At Least Five Killed in Gruesome Charter Bus Crash

  02-08-2016 22:15 via nbcnews.com
  
  The charter bus swerved into a support pole, apparently at full speed, and trapped some of the injured in their seats for hours.
  
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• NYC's top cop stepping down after challenging tenure

  02-08-2016 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York City Police Commissioner William Bratton is leaving the nation's largest police force, after getting credit for keeping crime down but grappling with tension between police and minority communities.
  
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• Bratton steps down as New York police chief in September

  02-08-2016 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  America's most powerful city police chief announced his resignation as New York commissioner on Tuesday, ending a 45-year career in public life and leaving to his successor the task of repairing fraught police-community relations. Bill Bratton, 68, who has served twice as New York police commissioner, as well as the police chief in Los Angeles and Boston, was a key proponent of "zero tolerance" policing in the 1990s that slashed crime to historic lows.
  
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• Syrian government and rebels trade gas attack accusations

  02-08-2016 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian rebels accused government forces of launching toxic gas attacks on civilians in a town southwest of Aleppo on Tuesday. The government rejected the claim and accused the rebels of using chemical weapons themselves.
  
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• News Guide: What's next in Texas balloon crash investigation

  02-08-2016 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOCKHART, Texas (AP) — A team from the National Transportation Safety Board is collecting the last of the wreckage from a hot air balloon that plummeted into a sun-scorched Texas pasture in a crash that killed 16 people.
  
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• Mother of police shooting suspect blames Black Lives Matter

  02-08-2016 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  The mother of one of two central Pennsylvania teenagers charged with shooting at police officers last week contends the Black Lives Matter movement is to blame for his actions.
  
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• The Latest: Australian water polo player in isolation

  02-08-2016 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest from the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):
  
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• Olympic network NBC vows full Rio coverage, woes included

  02-08-2016 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Bob Costas and other top members of NBC's Olympics coverage team veered between optimism and caution in predicting Rio de Janeiro's ability to pull off a successful Summer Games and said NBC will cover the good and bad.
  
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• Ex-Texas Tech trio accused of burglary get community service

  02-08-2016 21:43 via news.yahoo.com
  LUBBOCK, Texas (AP) — Prosecutors recently dropped burglary charges against three former Texas Tech football players in exchange for the players' agreeing to perform community service and meet other requirements.
  
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• New Mexico transit fight one of many Route 66 disputes

  02-08-2016 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The fight over Albuquerque's plans for building a rapid transit route along a stretch of historic Route 66 is drawing fierce protest from some residents and business owners along the famed highway.
  
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• Bill Clinton remembers friend as 'forever young' in eulogy

  02-08-2016 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton has paid tribute to a longtime friend who died last week.
  
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