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• Escaping the Olympics via Rio's Magical Urban Jungle

  14-08-2016 23:59 via nbcnews.com
  
  The idea to create the first long-distance trail in Rio was born in Atlanta in 1996; the result is the 112-mile-long Transcarioca Trail.
  
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• Third gymnastics gold for Biles as Whitlock outshines Uchimura in Rio

  14-08-2016 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US gymnastics dynamo Simone Biles remained on course for a record haul of five women's titles in Rio on Sunday but Britain's Max Whitlock outshone Japan's Kohei Uchimura with his double gold. Biles became the first American woman to win the Olympic vault title and the first to win three gold at the same Games after her team and all-around successes. The 19-year-old Texan can claim two more on the beam and floor, which would see her become the most titled woman in Olympic gymnastics history.
  
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• National Guard activated after fatal Milwaukee shooting

  14-08-2016 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The US state of Wisconsin activated its National Guard on Sunday to help maintain order after a fatal shooting by police sparked a night of angry protests and arson in the city of Milwaukee. "One hundred twenty-five members of the national guard are on their way to Milwaukee as we speak," he confirmed in a news briefing Sunday afternoon. The violence in the Midwestern city comes after several police officers have been targeted and shot dead across the nation in recent weeks -- including five in
  
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• National Guard activated after rioting in Milwaukee over suspect's death

  14-08-2016 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Brendan O'Brien MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - The National Guard was activated on Sunday to help authorities should further rioting erupt in a predominantly black Milwaukee neighborhood where a policeman killed a suspect who officials said had turned toward the officer with a gun. Police Chief Edward Flynn said a silent video of the incident appeared to show the officer acting within lawful bounds in the shooting of Sylville K. Smith, 23, on Saturday after Smith fled a traffic stop. In a scene Mayor
  
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• Final-hole decider for golf gold

  14-08-2016 23:30 via cnn.com
  
  It was the tournament that the world's top players turned their backs on -- but golf's return to the Olympics after a 112-year absence could prove to be one of the highlights of the Games.
  
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• Trump Adviser Jeff Sessions Says Campaign 'Is Not Over'

  14-08-2016 23:25
  
  The public agrees with Trump on trade and national security, Sessions said.
  
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• Rose edges Stenson for first golf gold since 1904

  14-08-2016 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Britain's Justin Rose became the first Olympic golf champion in 112 years Sunday, outdueling Sweden's Henrik Stenson in a tension-packed final-round thriller Sunday for a historic gold medal at Rio. The 36-year-old Englishman pitched the ball 18 inches from the cup on the par-5 18th hole and sank the birdie putt to beat Stenson by two strokes for the greatest triumph of his life. It was the best tournament I've ever done," Rose said.
  
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• Wisconsin National Guard Activated in Wake of Milwaukee Violence

  14-08-2016 23:17
  
  A violent protest erupted after a fatal police shooting.
  
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• Mixed fortunes as Venus misses record fifth tennis gold

  14-08-2016 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Venus Williams missed out on becoming the first tennis player to win five Olympic gold medals when she and partner Rajeev Ram were defeated in the Rio mixed doubles final on Sunday. Fellow Americans Bethanie Mattek-Sands and Jack Sock downed Williams and Ram 6-7 (3/7), 6-1, 10-7 to grab the gold.
  
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• Alex Rodriguez may soon get a call from Miami Marlins

  14-08-2016 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Alex Rodriguez may soon get a call soon from his hometown team.
  
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• Nishikori beats Nadal, ends Japan's 96-year wait

  14-08-2016 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kei Nishikori won Japan's first Olympic tennis medal in almost a century on Sunday when he captured bronze against Rafael Nadal, despite the weary Spaniard mounting a stirring mid-match fightback. Nishikori triumphed 6-2, 6-7 (1/7), 6-3 to become the first Japanese tennis medallist since Antwerp in 1920 when the country won men's silver and men's doubles silver. Nadal, the 2008 singles champion in Beijing, was playing his 11th match in Rio.
  
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• Milwaukee reeling after police shooting

  14-08-2016 23:10 via cnn.com
  
  The deadly shooting of an armed man by Milwaukee police stirred anger, fear and disbelief as authorities worked to restore calm after a night of violent protest.
  
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• Disbelief after deadly police shooting

  14-08-2016 23:10 via cnn.com
  
  The deadly shooting of an armed man by Milwaukee police stirred anger, fear and disbelief as authorities worked to restore calm after a night of violent protest.
  
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• The Latest: Diver wins silver, accepts poolside proposal

  14-08-2016 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Latest on the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro (all times local):
  
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• PHOTOS: Rio Olympics 2016: Best Photos From Day 9

  14-08-2016 23:08
  
  Photos from the Olympic Games 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
  
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• Bolt eyes Olympic history as golfer Rose rises to occasion

  14-08-2016 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Usain Bolt is chasing a place in Olympic history on Sunday as the battle to be crowned the world's fastest man takes centre stage after Justin Rose became the Games' first golf champion in 112 years. American gymnast Simone Biles claimed a brilliant third gold and Andy Murray was set to defend his men's tennis title against Juan Martin del Potro amongst a packed Sunday schedule. Away from the action, fears over Rio de Janeiro's fragile security rose after Ryan Lochte and three fellow US swimmers
  
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• The Latest: Biden to argue Trump is least prepared nominee

  14-08-2016 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on Campaign 2016 (all times EDT):
  
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• Police: Man shot in Milwaukee had a gun in his hand

  14-08-2016 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — The black man whose killing by police touched off an outbreak of arson and rock-throwing in Milwaukee was shot by a black officer after turning toward him with a gun in his hand, the police chief said Sunday.
  
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• Officials: Milwaukee shooting victim was black man with gun

  14-08-2016 22:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — The man whose fatal shooting by Milwaukee police triggered hours of violent protests on the city's predominantly black north side was a 23-year-old black man and father to a toddler, his mother and police said Sunday.
  
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• Betts' 3 HRs carries Porcello, Red Sox to another Fenway win

  14-08-2016 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — Mookie Betts hit three home runs and drove in a career-best eight runs and Dustin Pedroia collected five hits to power the Boston Red Sox to a 16-2 rout of the Arizona Diamondbacks on Sunday.
  
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• Bayern clinch German Super Cup on Ancelotti's debut

  14-08-2016 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Carlo Ancelotti claimed his first title as Bayern Munich coach on Sunday as a 2-0 victory at Borussia Dortmund gave last season's double winners the German Super Cup. The 57-year-old has succeeded Pep Guardiola, who won seven titles in three years as Bayern coach, and Ancelotti made a flying start on his first competitive match with Munich. After Arturo Vidal's opening goal, early in the second-half, Thomas Mueller, who failed to score for Germany at last month's European championships, grabbed
  
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• Kurdish forces launch fresh thrust to retake Mosul from Islamic State

  14-08-2016 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Saif Hameed WARDAK, Iraq (Reuters) - Kurdish Peshmerga forces launched a fresh attack on Islamic State (IS) forces early on Sunday as part of a campaign to capture Mosul, the militants' de facto capital in Iraq, Kurdish officials said. The advance began after heavy shelling and air strikes by a United States-led coalition against IS forces, a Reuters correspondent reported from Wardak, 30 km (19 miles) southeast of Mosul. The militants fought back, firing mortars at the advancing troops and d
  
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• Contrasting fortunes for Wenger and Mourinho

  14-08-2016 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — While a defeated Arsene Wenger was counting the cost of Arsenal's young defenders, a triumphant Jose Mourinho highlighted the value of Zlatan Ibrahimovic's experience to Manchester United on a day of contrasts for the two managers on Sunday.
  
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• WATCH: Simone Biles Gets Invitation to Visit 'Pretty Little Liars'

  14-08-2016 22:32
  
  ABC News' Sara Haines reports the buzziest stories of the day in "GMA" Pop News.
  
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• WATCH: Michael Phelps Wins Gold in What Could Be His Final Olympic Race

  14-08-2016 22:32
  
  ABC News' Matt Gutman reports the latest news from the 2016 Olympic Games.
  
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• WATCH: Maya Dirado Discusses Team USA's Olympic Performance

  14-08-2016 22:32
  
  The Olympic swimmer has won two golds, a silver and a bronze medal at the Rio Games.
  
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• 'Incredible carnival' for golf champ

  14-08-2016 22:32 via cnn.com
  
  It was the tournament that the world's top players turned their backs on -- but golf's return to the Olympics after a 112-year absence could prove to be one of the highlights of the Games.
  
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• Bangladesh officials to meet Fed, U.S. investigators over heist: sources

  14-08-2016 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A team from Bangladesh will meet officials of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Justice this week in New York in connection with the cyber theft of $81 million from the South Asian country's central bank in February, sources said. Two people close to the Bangladesh central bank said the goal of the meetings starting on Tuesday would be to discuss what led to the heist, carried out by unidentified hackers, and how such events can
  
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• National Guard activated after Milwaukee riot over suspect's death

  14-08-2016 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker activated the National Guard on Sunday to help police should further rioting erupt in a predominantly black Milwaukee neighborhood where police killed an armed suspect. The Sherman Park neighborhood, which has a reputation for poverty and crime, appeared calm at midday on Sunday after businesses were burned, cars set ablaze and gunshots fired overnight by demonstrators angered by the police killing. Seventeen people were arrested in the disturbances, Milwaukee Pol
  
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• Blast at Turkish border crossing kills 10 Syrian rebels

  14-08-2016 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — A bomb blast at a border crossing between Syria's opposition-held Idlib province and Turkey killed at least 10 Syrian rebel fighters on Sunday, activists said, as a wave of airstrikes pounded the region and fighting raged in the contested northern city of Aleppo.
  
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• Klishina waiting to hear if she can compete at Olympics

  14-08-2016 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The lone Russian track and field athlete at the Olympics is waiting to hear whether she will be allowed to compete.
  
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• Independent Presidential Candidate McMullin Says He’s Not Responsible If Trump Loses

  14-08-2016 22:19
  
  McMullin is billing himself as the conservative alternative to Trump.
  
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• Hezbollah Leader Echoes Trump That Obama, Clinton Founded ISIS

  14-08-2016 22:19
  
  Hassan Nasrallah quoted the GOP nominee in a speech criticizing the U.S.
  
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• More than 7,000 People Rescued From Submerged Homes and Cars in Louisiana

  14-08-2016 22:18
  
  At least three people have died in the flooding.
  
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• The Latest: Chief: Officer, man in fatal shooting both black

  14-08-2016 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Latest on violence in Milwaukee following the shooting of a man by police (all times local):
  
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• Mustafina gets first gymnastics gold for Russia in Rio

  14-08-2016 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Rio de Janeiro (AFP) - Aliya Mustafina gave Russia their first gymnastics gold in Rio when she successfully defended her uneven bars title at the Olympic Games on Sunday.
  
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• U.S. swimmer Lochte says gun held to forehead in taxi hold-up

  14-08-2016 22:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Eduardo Simões and Caroline Stauffer RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Armed robbers posing as police officers held a gun to the forehead of U.S. gold medal swimmer Ryan Lochte in a taxi hold-up in Rio de Janeiro after a party early on Sunday, Lochte said. Lochte told NBC's Today Show he was returning to the Olympic village from a party hosted by the French Games delegation, with swimming team mates Gunnar Bentz, Jack Conger and Jimmy Feigen, when armed men carrying police badges pulled them
  
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• Swiss train attack suspect, female victim die of wounds

  14-08-2016 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — The man who attacked passengers on a crowded Swiss train with a knife and burning liquid died of his wounds Sunday, as did one of his victims, a 34-year-old woman, Swiss police said. Three others remain hospitalized with serious wounds.
  
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• Rose captures golf's 1st gold medal in 112 years

  14-08-2016 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Justin Rose delivered a gold-medal performance in golf worthy of a 112-year wait.
  
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• 4th body found after apartment explosion; search continues

  14-08-2016 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SILVER SPRING, Md. (AP) — A fourth body was recovered after an explosion and fire at an apartment complex in Maryland, authorities said Sunday as firefighters continued amid sweltering heat to comb through the rubble to search for several others who remain missing.
  
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• Polish horse auction sales much lower after government purge

  14-08-2016 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JANOW PODLASKI, Poland (AP) — Sales at a famed horse auction on a remote state-run farm in eastern Poland on Sunday were much lower this year, with some potential buyers staying away after the country's right-wing government carried out a controversial political purge of managers in the respected Arabian horse breeding program.
  
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• Dozens dead as warplanes pound rebel-held north Syria

  14-08-2016 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Syrian and Russian warplanes have launched a wave of air strikes in northern Syria, killing dozens in areas held by a rebel alliance battling to take control of second city Aleppo. The air strikes, which began Saturday and continued Sunday, killed 45 civilians in and around Aleppo and 22 in neighbouring Idlib province, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The raids came as the Islamist Faylaq al-Sham Islamist faction, part of the rebel alliance, said it had begun a new offensive "to lib
  
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• Trump Blames 'Crooked Media' After Week of Unfavorable Polls

  14-08-2016 22:00
  
  He says he's running against the media, not Hillary Clinton.
  
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• 'Suicide Squad' loses some luster in 2nd box-office weekend

  14-08-2016 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The colorful crew of "Suicide Squad" got duller in their second weekend in theaters, with audiences hungry for the raunchy fare of animated "Sausage Party."
  
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• Milwaukee mayor says 4 officers were injured in a violent protest and have been treated and released from a hospital

  14-08-2016 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee mayor says 4 officers were injured in a violent protest and have been treated and released from a hospital.
  
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• Liverpool stuns Arsenal, Ibrahimovic stars for Man United

  14-08-2016 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — A rampant Liverpool came from behind to beat Arsenal 4-3, while Manchester United began its new era under Jose Mourinho with a 3-1 win at Bournemouth in their opening games of the English Premier League season on Sunday.
  
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• French artist JR leaves giant imprint on Rio Olympics

  14-08-2016 21:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  At first, it looks like smoke billowing from a high-rise. This Olympic-sized trompe l'oeil is the work of French art photographer JR, who is famous for plastering huge black-and-white photographs onto street scenes around the world. "It's like taking the city as a playground... and having sculptures jumping off the buildings,” JR told AFP.
  
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• Milwaukee mayor says photo shows 'without question' that a man shot by police had a gun in his hand

  14-08-2016 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — Milwaukee mayor says photo shows 'without question' that a man shot by police had a gun in his hand.
  
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• Mother: Milwaukee shooting victim was 23-year-old black man

  14-08-2016 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — The man whose shooting by Milwaukee police triggered hours of violent protests on the city's predominantly black north side was a 23-year-old black man and father to a toddler, his mother said Sunday.
  
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• National Guard put on standby after violence in Milwaukee

  14-08-2016 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — Wisconsin's governor put the National Guard on standby Sunday in case of another outbreak of violence in Milwaukee, after a deadly police shooting touched off a night of arson and rock-throwing in a mostly black neighborhood.
  
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