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• Suspect in stabbings, face-biting hospitalized under guard

  16-08-2016 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A 19-year-old Florida State University student with no criminal record fatally stabbed a couple at random outside their house, wounded their neighbor and was biting the dead man's face when deputies finally subdued him, authorities said Tuesday.
  
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• Poland plans prison terms for using term 'Polish death camp'

  16-08-2016 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The Polish government approved a new bill on Tuesday that foresees prison terms of up to three years for anyone who uses phrases like "Polish death camps" to refer to Auschwitz and other camps that Nazi Germany operated in occupied Poland during World War II.
  
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• NBC chairman blasts Trump in private Facebook post

  16-08-2016 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The chairman of NBC Entertainment slammed Donald Trump, the network's onetime "Apprentice" star, as "toxic" and "demented" in a private Facebook post that became public.
  
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• Global stocks fall on British data, Fed rate hike talk

  16-08-2016 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Global stocks retreated Tuesday as British inflation data stoked worries about Brexit fallout and a senior US central banker said an interest rate hike could come as early as September.
  
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• Grand finale for Biles with fourth gold, China flop in Rio

  16-08-2016 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US star Simone Biles got the golden finale she craved in Rio with a record-equalling fourth women's crown but former gymnastics power China leave the Games on a low. The 19-year-old Biles wrapped up ten days of incredible gymnastics with her trademark dominant display of acrobatics and tumbling on the floor in the Rio Olympic Arena. The 1.45m (4ft 9ins) gymnast from Texas got the crowd behind her with her Samba routine to lead a US 1-2 ahead of Aly Raisman.
  
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• The Latest: 11 deaths confirmed in Louisiana flooding

  16-08-2016 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The Latest on flooding in the Deep South (all times local):
  
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• What Trump's hand gestures say about him

  16-08-2016 23:39 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Body language expert Mary Civiello breaks down the top five gestures Donald Trump uses when he speaks.
  
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• Slain runner from NYC laid to rest in Massachusetts

  16-08-2016 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LEOMINSTER, Mass. (AP) — A New York City woman killed while out running near her mother's Massachusetts home brought light to the lives of everyone she touched, mourners were told at her funeral Tuesday.
  
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• Hugh Hefner's Playboy Mansion sells for $100 million

  16-08-2016 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The famed Los Angeles Playboy mansion belonging to Hugh Hefner, founder of the Playboy empire, has been sold for $100 million, and Hefner, 90, will live in the mansion for the rest of his life, a representative for the buyer said in a news release on Tuesday. The property was bought by Daren Metropoulos, a principal at private equity firm Metropoulos & Co, for half of the $200 million it was initially listed for earlier this year. Metropoulos said Hefner's 1927 Gothic Tudor-style mansion, wh
  
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• Suspect found biting off man's face at Florida murder scene

  16-08-2016 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A teenager bit off pieces of the face of a slain man at the scene of a double homicide in Florida that may be linked to an addictive synthetic drug. Police said they found Florida State University student Austin Harrouff, 19, grunting and growling as he removed the victim's flesh with his teeth late Monday in the driveway of a house in Tequesta, less than 100 miles (150 kilometers) north of Miami. Martin County Sheriff William Snyder said the "perplexing, inexplicable" attack was random and the
  
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• FBI expects Clinton documents will not be released without its OK

  16-08-2016 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The FBI said Tuesday it would expect Congress to obtain FBI approval before releasing any of the documents the agency has turned over to lawmakers about Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while secretary of state. In a statement, the Federal Bureau of Investigation said the material it had provided to Congress contains "classified and other sensitive information and is being provided with the expectation it will not be disseminated or disclosed without FBI con
  
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• Rio Olympics 2016: Brazil lose to Sweden on penalties in semi-final

  16-08-2016 23:31 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Brazil's hopes of a first Olympic women's football gold come to an end as Sweden beat them on penalties in their semi-final.
  
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• American may face charges for spearing Canadian bear

  16-08-2016 23:29 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Officials in Canada's Alberta province say they plan to ban spear hunting after an American posted a video of himself impaling a black bear.
  
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• Aetna to Cut Nearly 70 Percent of 'Obamacare' Footprint

  16-08-2016 23:21 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Other insurance providers made similar moves.
  
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• FBI Hands Over Clinton Email Probe Materials to Congress

  16-08-2016 23:17 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The move comes after demands from top House Republicans.
  
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• Aguero hat-trick fires City to Steaua rout

  16-08-2016 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sergio Aguero brushed off two missed penalties to score a hat-trick as Manchester City outclassed Steaua Bucharest 5-0 on Tuesday in the first leg of their Champions League play-off tie in Romania. The result means that new City coach Pep Guardiola can breathe a huge sigh of relief as the Abu Dhabi-backed club have one foot in the lucrative group stage. David Silva fired City into a 13th-minute lead either side of two failed spot-kicks from Aguero, before the Argentine atoned with the visitors'
  
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• Rio boxing embroiled in fresh controversy

  16-08-2016 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  An Irish amateur world champion accused Olympic boxing of corruption on Tuesday as the sport was embroiled in fresh controversy barely 12 hours after a Russian was booed to the Rio podium. The International Boxing Association (AIBA) vehemently rejected the claims after a seething Michael Conlan was turfed out of the competition in a surprise unanimous points decision to another Russian, the bantamweight Vladimir Nikitin. Towering heavyweight Evgeny Tishchenko won a highly contentious gold on Mon
  
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• The Latest: Germany headed to Olympic women's soccer final

  16-08-2016 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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• The Latest: Rubio likely to campaign with Pence, not Trump

  16-08-2016 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the 2016 presidential campaign. (all times EDT):
  
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• NY man in court charged with murdering Muslim cleric, assistant

  16-08-2016 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Gina Cherelus NEW YORK (Reuters) - A New York City man appeared in court on Tuesday and denied charges he shot and killed a Muslim cleric and his assistant on a street in the borough of Queens over the weekend. Oscar Morel, 35, faces up to life in prison without parole if he is convicted of killing Imam Maulama Akonjee, 55, and Thara Uddin, 64, in a brazen daylight attack on Saturday that horrified the neighborhood's Bangladeshi community. ...
  
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• Eight dead, 40,000 homes flooded in Louisiana

  16-08-2016 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The death toll from historic flooding in the US state of Louisiana climbed to eight on Tuesday, as the expanding flood zone prompted authorities to declare disasters in a dozen parishes. While flooding receded in parts of southern Louisiana, other areas saw rising waters. The National Weather Service issued renewed flood warnings.
  
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• Brilliant, inventive jazz vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson dies

  16-08-2016 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bobby Hutcherson, the bricklayer's son who became one of the greatest, most inventive jazz vibraphonists to pick up a pair of mallets, has died. He was 75.
  
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• Steaua Bucharest 0-5 Manchester City

  16-08-2016 23:02 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Sergio Aguero scores a hat-trick and misses two penalties as Man City thrash Steaua Bucharest in the first leg of their Champions League play-off.
  
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• Brazil heartbreak in soccer semifinal

  16-08-2016 23:02 via cnn.com
  
  Brazil's women are out of the Olympic football tournament after a nerve-shredding penalty shootout defeat to Sweden in Tuesday's semifinal.
  
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• Trump visits Milwaukee, to address unrest over police shooting

  16-08-2016 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ginger Gibson MILWAUKEE (Reuters) - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, visited Milwaukee on Tuesday, days after the city was hit by unrest over the fatal police shooting of a black man, and said that initial evidence pointed to the shooting being justified. Trump, who has been vocal in support of law enforcement during a spate of protests around the country over high-profile police shootings, told Fox News that he plans to address the unrest during a town hall meeting on Tue
  
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• French mayor bans 'anarchical' Pokemon settlement in village

  16-08-2016 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A French mayor has denounced the "anarchical settlement" of "Pokemon Go" characters on the "territory" of his eastern village and has ordered the game's creator to remove ...
  
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• Football star Marta in tears as Sweden inflict penalty pain on Brazil

  16-08-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Sweden ended a disconsolate Marta's dreams of guiding Brazil's women to a first Olympic football gold medal Tuesday with a 4-3 penalty shoot-out win to book their place in Friday's gold medal match. Brazil had thrashed the Swedes 5-1 in the group stages just 10 days ago, but were held to a third consecutive 0-0 draw and, as in their quarter-final win over Australia, forced to go through the agony of penalties. "There is no way to describe the feeling of frustration," said Brazil coach Vadao.
  
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• Clinton's August fundraising spree: From Scranton to Cher

  16-08-2016 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Scranton isn't a standard stop on the Democratic fundraising circuit. Yet Hillary Clinton put the working class Pennsylvania town on her itinerary — several times. The Democratic presidential nominee and ...
  
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• John McLaughlin, host of confrontational TV show, dead at 89

  16-08-2016 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — John McLaughlin, the conservative political commentator and host of the namesake long-running television show that pioneered hollering-heads discussions of Washington, D.C., politics, has died. He was 89.
  
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• Gymnastics: Biles wins record-equaling fourth gold with floor victory

  16-08-2016 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Pritha Sarkar RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Simone Biles showed off her sassy moves and explosive tumbles on the floor exercise to win a record-equaling fourth gold at the Olympics on Tuesday. A day after a wobbly performance on the balance beam ended the American's hopes of leaving Rio with a record haul of five golds for a female gymnast, she was back on form to capture the floor title with 15.966 points. Aly Raisman completed a one-two for the United States by earning 15.500, while Briton Amy
  
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• Rocket kills 7 civilians in Saudi as Yemen probe begins

  16-08-2016 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Saudi Arabia suffered its worst civilian death toll Tuesday in cross-border shelling from Yemen as an anti-rebel coalition it leads launched an investigation into a deadly strike on a hospital. A rocket fired by rebels in Yemen killed seven civilians in Najran city in the highest reported number of non-combattant casualties in the kingdom's south since the Arab coalition intervened in Yemen 17 months ago. "It killed four citizens and three residents," the civil defence spokesman in Najran city s
  
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• Steelers' LB James Harrison not interested in talking to NFL

  16-08-2016 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LATROBE, Pa. (AP) — Pittsburgh Steelers' linebacker James Harrison doesn't want to face a suspension. He is also not interested in talking to NFL representatives, either.
  
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• Exclusive: Civil war costs Yemen $14 billion in damage and economic losses - report

  16-08-2016 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Yara Bayoumy WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The cost from damage to infrastructure and economic losses in Yemen's civil war is more than $14 billion so far, according to a confidential report seen by Reuters that highlights the effort needed to rebuild the country, where more than half the population is suffering from malnutrition. "The conflict has so far resulted in damage costs (still partial and incomplete) of almost $7 billion and economic losses (in nominal terms) of over $7.3 billion in relati
  
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• WATCH: Charles Koch on Why Hiring Former Inmates Makes Sense

  16-08-2016 22:44 via abcnews.go.com
  
  ABC News' Jonathan Karl spoke exclusively with Koch about his push for criminal justice reform.
  
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• Dynamo Biles wins fourth gold on floor

  16-08-2016 22:42 via cnn.com
  
  For anyone who doubted her, it's official: US Olympic gymnast Simone Biles is #1.
  
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• Convoy of IS fighters allowed to leave Syrian city

  16-08-2016 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A couple hundred vehicles of Islamic State fighters were allowed to leave the northern Syrian city of Manbij as U.S.-backed forces seized the town in recent days because the militants had civilians with them, according to a U.S. military official.
  
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• Congress receives FBI notes from Clinton interview

  16-08-2016 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Congress has received FBI documents related to the agency's recently closed investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state, according to lawmakers. ...
  
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• U.S. inflation tame despite economy gaining momentum

  16-08-2016 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. consumer prices were unchanged in July but a rise in industrial output and home building suggested a pickup in economic activity that could allow the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates this year. Tuesday's economic reports came as influential New York Fed President William Dudley said the U.S. central bank could raise interest rates next month, citing a tightening labor market that he said was starting to spur faster wage growth. "The strong housing starts and industrial output perform
  
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• Golden finale for Biles, China flop in Rio

  16-08-2016 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US star Simone Biles got the golden finale she craved in Rio with a fourth women's crown but former gymnastics power China leave the Games without a title for the first time in 32 years. The 19-year-old Biles wrapped up ten days of incredible gymnastics with her trademark dominant display of acrobatics and tumbling on the floor in the Rio Olympic Arena. The 1.45m (4ft 9ins) gymnast from Texas got the crowd behind her with her Samba routine to lead a US 1-2 ahead of Aly Raisman.
  
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• Crews gain on wildfire that tore through California town

  16-08-2016 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOWER LAKE, Calif. (AP) — Crews gained ground on a massive wildfire that destroyed 175 homes, businesses and other structures in a small California town while charring nearly 7 square miles, fire officials said Tuesday.
  
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• Jenner-starring E! series 'I Am Cait' axed after 2 seasons

  16-08-2016 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — E! network is canceling "I Am Cait" after two seasons.
  
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• Global stocks fall, bond yields rise as Fed's Dudley boosts rate hike bets

  16-08-2016 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Dion Rabouin NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street stocks fell the most in two weeks on Tuesday, following European and Asian bourses lower after weak U.S. data and comments by Federal Reserve policymakers that the Fed could raise interest rates as early as next month. New York Fed President William Dudley and Atlanta Fed chief Dennis Lockhart both said in public statements that the U.S. central bank could raise the nation's short-term interest rates at its September policy meeting. Fed funds futu
  
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• Roger Ailes Advising Trump on Debates, Sources Say

  16-08-2016 22:26 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Ailes resigned as Fox News Chairman last month.
  
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• Biles wins new gold as UK's Tinkler gets bronze

  16-08-2016 22:23 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Britain's Amy Tinkler wins Olympic bronze in the women's floor as the United States' Simone Biles wins her fourth gold of Rio 2016.
  
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• In flooded Louisiana, a cleanup and a search for bodies

  16-08-2016 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Authorities went door to door and car to car to check for bodies Tuesday, and homeowners began the heartbreaking task of gathering up soaked family photos and mucking out houses dank with bayou mud, as the floodwaters started to recede across parts of southern Louisiana.
  
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• 'El Chapo' son may have been kidnapped

  16-08-2016 22:22 via cnn.com
  
  A son of Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman may have been one of a group of people kidnapped from a restaurant in the Mexican beach resort city of Puerto Vallarta, according to the Guzman family.
  
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• Clinton's FBI Interview Notes: What Congress Received

  16-08-2016 22:20 via abcnews.go.com
  
  The State Department asked to review any notes the FBI released to Congress.
  
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• NBC audience soars with first full week of Olympics Games

  16-08-2016 22:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — You don't need to be a numbers-cruncher to guess what won the ratings race last week — and why.
  
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• Brazil's Rousseff ahead of trial: 'I'm innocent'

  16-08-2016 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Brasília (AFP) - Brazil's suspended president Dilma Rousseff admitted Tuesday she had made mistakes but said she had done nothing worthy of impeachment in an address just over a week before she goes on trial. Rousseff, accused of using illegal budgetary maneuvers to cover up the depth of the country's economic problems during her 2014 re-election, faces trial in the Senate starting August 25, four days after the Olympic Games end in Rio. In a letter to the Brazilian people that she read o
  
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• Rio Olympics 2016: Giles Scott wins GB's fifth successive Finn title

  16-08-2016 22:08 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Giles Scott seals gold in sailing's Finn class to give Great Britain a fifth successive Olympic title in the event.
  
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