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• Russian banned

  13-08-2016 23:54 via cnn.com
  
  Long jumper Darya Klishina, Russia's only Olympic competitor in athletics, has been suspended from the Rio Games by track and field's governing body, pending a ruling from the Court of Arbitration for Sport.
  
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• Double dip: Argentina beats Brazil 111-107 in 2-OT thriller

  13-08-2016 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Argentina's players locked arms and danced in a circle near mid-court. In the stands, their fans were just warming up.
  
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• Lineker presents TV show in his underpants

  13-08-2016 23:49 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Gary Lineker keeps his promise and introduces the opening Match of the Day of the new season in his underpants.
  
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• Reports of gunshots in busy mall: chaos, people running

  13-08-2016 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Reports of gunshots inside a busy North Carolina mall caused chaos Saturday afternoon as shoppers ran screaming for the doors or sheltered in stores while dozens of officers arrived on the scene, witnesses said.
  
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• Family camping in Idaho saves girl from mountain lion

  13-08-2016 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  REXBURG, Idaho (AP) — A family camping in eastern Idaho scared off a mountain lion that tried to snatch their 4-year-old daughter away from a campfire.
  
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• IOC fights cyberattacks during Olympics

  13-08-2016 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The International Olympic Committee is fending off massive cyberattacks during the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
  
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• 5 wounded in Joplin shootings; police say apparently random

  13-08-2016 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — A random shooting injured five people Saturday, including three members of a Joplin church who were starting a trip to St. Louis, police said.
  
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• Callers on hold hear school orchestra's music in Connecticut

  13-08-2016 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GREENWICH, Conn. (AP) — Callers who are put on hold at Greenwich Town Hall in Connecticut can now enjoy some Mozart, compliments of the high school's string ensemble.
  
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• Venus Williams wins historic fifth Olympic medal

  13-08-2016 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - American veteran Venus Williams on Saturday became only the second tennis player in history to win five Olympic medals after reaching the mixed doubles final.
  
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• Rose positioned for golf's 1st Olympic gold medal in century

  13-08-2016 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Justin Rose and Henrik Stenson know what it's like to play next to each other on a big stage when it's all about flag and the gold prize.
  
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• U.S. Vice President Biden to visit Turkey: White House

  13-08-2016 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EDGARTOWN, Mass. (Reuters) - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden will meet with Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan and Prime Minister Binali Yildirim during a visit to Turkey later this month, the White House said on Saturday. Biden's visit on Aug. 24 will be the first by a high-ranking U.S. official since the failed coup there. Yildirim was quoted by Turkish media earlier on Saturday saying that Washington's attitude had improved on an extradition request for Fethullah Gulen, blamed by Ankara for orche
  
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• Upset over Nadal puts del Potro in tennis final vs. Murray

  13-08-2016 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Juan Martin del Potro ended Rafael Nadal's bid for an unprecedented second Olympic singles gold medal in a thrill-a-minute semifinal, then celebrated as if the title were already his, kneeling to kiss the court before leaping into the stands.
  
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• The Latest: Pence dodges questions about his own tax returns

  13-08-2016 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — The Latest on campaign 2016 (all times Eastern):
  
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• Nice court upholds burkinis ban, but appeal planned

  13-08-2016 23:12 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A French court in Nice has upheld the ban on burkinis imposed by the mayor of Cannes but lawyers will appeal against the decision.
  
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• Rossetti gets skeet gold; Al-Rashidi wins bronze and hearts

  13-08-2016 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Gabriele Rossetti made a golden addition to the family's medal collection.
  
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• Actor Kenny Baker, Star Wars' R2-D2, dies aged 81

  13-08-2016 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kenny Baker, the British actor who starred as plucky robot R2-D2 in the "Star Wars" movies, died on Saturday at the age of 81, his agent and relatives said. "Kenny Baker has sadly passed away and was found on Saturday morning by his nephew Drew, who was also his carer in the latter part of his life," his agent Johnny Mans said in a statement to AFP. Baker's nephew, Drew Myerscough, told local media his uncle had suffered respiratory problems for almost a decade.
  
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• The Latest: Witness says argument preceded mall shots

  13-08-2016 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on the situation after shots were fired in a Raleigh mall (all times local):
  
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• Out of options, Olympic officials opt to drain green pool

  13-08-2016 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Olympic officials gave up on cleaning the green-tinged water in one of the pools at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Center. Instead, they began draining it Saturday and planned to transfer nearly 1 million gallons of clear water from a nearby practice pool in time for the start of synchronized swimming.
  
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• Rio Olympics 2016: Andy Murray to face Juan Martin del Potro in tennis final

  13-08-2016 22:33 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Andy Murray remains on course to win back-to-back Olympic gold medals after beating Kei Nishikori in the semi-finals.
  
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• The Latest: Del Potro ends Nadal's bid for 2nd singles gold

  13-08-2016 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Latest on the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local) 5:20 p.m. Rafael Nadal's bid for an unprecedented second Olympic singles gold medal ended with a thrill-a-minute semifinal loss ...
  
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• Austin, Judge homer in 1st big league at-bats as Yanks win

  13-08-2016 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Baby Bombers arrived with a bang. Two of them.
  
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• Miguel Angel Jimenez grabs 3rd-round lead at US Senior Open

  13-08-2016 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  UPPER ARLINGTON, Ohio (AP) — Another day, another leader at the U.S. Senior Open Championship.
  
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• Lone Russian track and field athlete in Rio hit by late ban

  13-08-2016 22:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Long-jumper Darya Klishina, Russia's only track and field athlete allowed to compete at the Rio Olympics, launched a last-ditch appeal on Saturday after her eligibility was withdrawn. World athletics body the IAAF said it had received "new information" about her case which triggered the ban. Klishina is slated to start competition in Rio on Tuesday.
  
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• Pelosi warns colleagues of harassing calls and messages

  13-08-2016 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EDGARTOWN, Mass. (AP) — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi warned fellow Democrats on Saturday to change their cellphone numbers and not let family members read their text messages after personal and official information of Democratic House members and congressional staff was posted online.
  
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• Rio Olympics 2016: Officials drain green pool before synchronised swimming

  13-08-2016 22:05 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Rio's main Olympic pool will be drained as part of major work to prepare for Sunday's synchronised swimming.
  
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• Police, emergency rescuers respond to reported mall shooting

  13-08-2016 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — Police in North Carolina have responded to a shooting at a busy mall in an affluent area of Raleigh.
  
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• Argentina beats Brazil 111-107 in Olympic double-OT thriller

  13-08-2016 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Facundo Campazzo made two 3-pointers to open the second overtime and three free throws in the final minute, leading Argentina to a thrilling 111-107 win Saturday against rival Brazil in men's basketball before a raucous crowd that sang, danced and chanted the entire game.
  
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• Swiss knifeman sets fire on train, injures 6

  13-08-2016 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A knifeman started a fire on Swiss train and stabbed passengers on Saturday, injuring six people including a six-year-old child, police said. The motive was not immediately clear, but the incident follows a string of violent, often deadly assaults in Europe in recent months, with many claimed by the jihadist Islamic State group. "We can neither exclude nor affirm that this was a terrorist act," Saint Gallen regional police spokesman Bruno Metzger told the local St.Galler Tagblatt daily.
  
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• Ohio fugitive arrested in New Mexico officer's death; 1 held

  13-08-2016 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An Ohio fugitive wanted for murder has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a New Mexico police officer while a second man who was his passenger is being held on a warrant.
  
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• Milestones to 90

  13-08-2016 21:55 via bbc.co.uk
  
  A look back at milestones in the very different lives of Queen Elizabeth and former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, who have both turned 90 this year.
  
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• Out of options, Olympic officials will drain green pool

  13-08-2016 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Olympic officials have given up on cleaning the green-tinged water in one of the pools at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Center, so they'll drain it and transfer nearly 1 million gallons of clear water from a nearby practice pool in time for the start of synchronized swimming.
  
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• Wild celebrations after ISIS defeated in Syrian town of Manbij

  13-08-2016 21:42 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  On the streets of Manbij, men chanted slogans against the Islamic State (ISIS) group or clipped their beards and women walked with their faces uncovered for the first time in over two-and-a-half years, hours after the militant group was pushed out of the northern Syrian city.
  
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• Nationals release former closer Jonathan Papelbon

  13-08-2016 21:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Washington Nationals have released former closer Jonathan Papelbon.
  
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• Amnesty urges rescue of Syrian girl shot by sniper

  13-08-2016 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Human rights group Amnesty International called Saturday for the evacuation of a ten-year-old Syrian girl shot in the leg by a government sniper in the besieged town of Madaya. Ghina Ahmad Wadi was hit at a checkpoint in the southwestern town eleven days ago while buying medicine for her mother. Amnesty is now urging the UN humanitarian task force in Syria, which is headed by US and Russian authorities, to evacuate her.
  
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• Egyptian lawyer, journalist released after prison sentence

  13-08-2016 21:28 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Egyptian authorities have released two prominent human rights activists who had been jailed for over a year for demonstrating against police brutality.
  
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• Russia's only cleared athlete banned

  13-08-2016 21:24 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Athletics' governing body the IAAF bans Darya Klishina, the only Russian who had been cleared to compete in the Olympic athletics in Rio.
  
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• Yankees' Austin, Judge homer in 1st big league at-bats

  13-08-2016 21:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Tyler Austin and Aaron Judge wasted no time in making an impact on the New York Yankees on Saturday, becoming the first teammates to hit home runs in the first at-bats of their major league debuts in the same game.
  
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• Hull stun champs Leicester, Guardiola makes winning start with Man City

  13-08-2016 21:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Leicester City's Premier League title defence got off to a dismal start as crisis-club Hull clinched a 2-1 win over the champions, while the Pep Guardiola era at Manchester City started with a dramatic 2-1 victory against Sunderland on Saturday's opening day. Three months on from their 5,000-1 fairytale title triumph, Leicester fell to Scottish winger Robert Snodgrass's 57th-minute strike after Riyad Mahrez had cancelled out Adama Diomande's opener.
  
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• Only Russian track or field athlete in Rio 'banned on new info'

  13-08-2016 21:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Long-jumper Darya Klishina, Russia's only track and field athlete allowed to compete at the Rio Olympics, has been withdrawn because of "new information", the world athletics body told AFP on Friday.
  
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• Turkey says no compromise with Washington on cleric's extradition

  13-08-2016 21:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Humeyra Pamuk ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey will not compromise with Washington over the extradition of the Islamic cleric it accuses of orchestrating a failed coup, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Saturday, warning of rising anti-Americanism if the United States fails to extradite. Yildirim's comments, at a briefing for local reporters, were the latest to take aim at Turkey's top NATO ally and coincided with a report that an Istanbul prosecutor wrote to U.S. authorities asking f/4or the
  
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• Points for Guardiola, pain for Ranieri as EPL season starts

  13-08-2016 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — Pep Guardiola's first match in charge of Manchester City ended with an unconvincing 2-1 win over Sunderland on Saturday, just hours after the new English Premier League season got underway with a shock defeat for champion Leicester at Hull.
  
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• Court rejects Muslims' demand to lift full-body swimwear ban

  13-08-2016 21:03 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A French court has rejected a demand by a group of French Muslims in Cannes to overturn a ban on full-body, head-covering swimwear on city beaches.
  
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• Passengers stabbed on Swiss train

  13-08-2016 20:59 via cnn.com
  
  A man on a train in eastern Switzerland stabbed several passengers and poured out some kind of liquid that caught fire Saturday afternoon, leaving six people hurt -- including a 6-year-old boy, police said.
  
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• 'Unprecedented' flooding slams U.S. Gulf Coast; at least two dead

  13-08-2016 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Bryn Stole BATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) - Torrential rainfall along the U.S. Gulf Coast has caused "unprecedented" flooding in parts of Louisiana, Governor John Bel Edwards said on Saturday, while claiming at least two lives across the region. The National Weather Service issued flood watches for parts of eastern Texas early on Saturday and extended its flash flood warning further west in Louisiana, according to its website. It also maintained a flash flood watch and flood warnings for eastern
  
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• The Latest: Officials to refill green pool after draining it

  13-08-2016 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest on the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):
  
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• Correction: Hot Car Death-Texas story

  13-08-2016 20:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HELOTES, Texas (AP) — In a story Aug. 12 about a baby that died after being left in the car, The Associated Press reported erroneously that the child was 7 months old. Officials provided the incorrect age on Friday night. The child is 6 months old, according to the medical examiner's office.
  
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• Sole Russian track athlete banned from Rio, quickly appeals

  13-08-2016 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The IAAF said Saturday it has banned the only Russian in Olympic track and field from competition and that she is appealing the ruling.
  
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• 1 of the green pools at Olympics to be drained and refilled

  13-08-2016 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Olympic officials say they will drain the larger pool at the Maria Lenk Aquatics Center to remove the green-tinged water.
  
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• Biles, Uchimura go for third Rio gymnastics golds

  13-08-2016 20:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Both American Biles, 19, and Japan's Uchimura, 27, have followed on from helping their countries to team gold, by claiming the coveted all-around title. Biles can keep her bid to become the first woman to win five Olympic golds alive in Sunday's vault with Uchimura, competing on the floor, looking for his first apparatus title in the third Games.
  
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• Thousands return to Manbij after IS militants flee city

  13-08-2016 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Suleiman Al-Khalidi BEIRUT (Reuters) - Thousands of displaced residents streamed back into the northern Syrian town of Manbij on Saturday after U.S.-backed fighters ousted the last Islamic State militants from their former stronghold, residents and U.S. allies said. The U.S.-backed Syria Democratic Forces (SDF) announced on Friday they had seized full control of the city near the Turkish border after the departure of the last of the militants, who had been using civilians as human shields. Hu
  
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