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• Iran to charge detained US man with threatening country's national security

  17-08-2016 23:58 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Iran is preparing to indict a detained U.S. man, accusing him of acting against the country’s national security interests, a source familiar with the case has told The Foreign Desk.
  
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• Brazil out for revenge in final showdown

  17-08-2016 23:55 via cnn.com
  
  Brazil will get a shot at redemption after its men's football team thrashed Honduras to set up an Olympic gold medal match against Germany.
  
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• The Latest: Female Japanese wrestler wins historic 4th gold

  17-08-2016 23:53 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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• The Latest: Veteran prosecutor succeeds convicted boss

  17-08-2016 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Latest on the Pennsylvania attorney general's last day in office after her criminal conviction and resignation (all times local):
  
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• More than 500 evacuated from burning ship off Puerto Rico

  17-08-2016 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than 500 passengers and crew were evacuated from a burning ship about a mile off Puerto Rico's north coast on Wednesday, and many required medical care, though there were no reported fatalities or ...
  
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• Pope outlines vision for promoting life, family issues

  17-08-2016 23:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis on Wednesday outlined his vision for how the Vatican will promote family and life issues, naming an American moderate to head the new Vatican office for families and laity and directing related institutes to give merciful care to spiritually wounded Catholics.
  
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• Trump overhauls campaign team again as Clinton surges

  17-08-2016 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump on Wednesday shook up his campaign team for the second time in two months, fending off suggestions that his presidential run is in crisis as polls show Hillary Clinton cruising towards victory. The Republican White House nominee, who is tanking in swing states to his Democratic rival, hired a news executive from a virulently anti-Clinton website as his campaign chief executive and promoted a leading Republican strategist to campaign manager. Critics warned that Bannon, a former Gold
  
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• Clinton's 'Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy' Comes Full Circle

  17-08-2016 23:41 via nbcnews.com
  
  For Democrats, Donald Trump's decision to put Steve Bannon in charge of his campaign is vindication of a conspiracy theory of their own.
  
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• Yeleussinov wins 4th straight Kazakh welterweight gold medal

  17-08-2016 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Daniyar Yeleussinov leaves with a more permanent — and gnarly — reminder of his Olympic experience than a gold medal.
  
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• US education secretary touts school diversity efforts

  17-08-2016 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A network of magnet schools in Connecticut can serve as a model for achieving the kind of diversity that is lacking in too many American schools, U.S. Education Secretary John B. King Jr. said Wednesday.
  
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• Inbee Park a shot back as women's golf returns to Olympics

  17-08-2016 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Inbee Park could tell right away Wednesday that this was not an ordinary golf tournament.
  
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• Grassley: FBI improperly restricting access to Clinton docs

  17-08-2016 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican senator says the FBI is improperly restricting access to materials from its closed investigation into Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.
  
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• Cisco laying off 5,500 employees amid tech upheaval

  17-08-2016 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN JOSE, Calif. (AP) — Cisco Systems says it will lay off 5,500 employees as the internet gear maker scrambles to adapt to technology changes that have reduced demand for its main products.
  
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• Trump turns to conservative flame-thrower as campaign CEO

  17-08-2016 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Donald Trump's new campaign CEO is a flame-thrower in cargo shorts.
  
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• Patent for J&J's Remicade invalidated, cheaper version looms

  17-08-2016 23:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A cheaper version of Johnson & Johnson's top-selling drug, the rheumatoid arthritis treatment Remicade, could be available in the U.S. two years early after a federal judge ruled a key patent on the drug invalid.
  
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• The Latest: Trump receives first intelligence briefing

  17-08-2016 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential campaign (all times EDT):
  
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• Steinbrenner says Yankees fans ready to embrace Baby Bombers

  17-08-2016 23:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — Convinced Yankees fans are ready to embrace a new generation of Baby Bombers, owner Hal Steinbrenner watched Tyler Austin and Aaron Judge hit home runs in their first major league at-bats last weekend
  
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• Huskers' practice performances impress Riley in trying times

  17-08-2016 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska coach Mike Riley is impressed with the resiliency his team has shown under difficult circumstances the past month.
  
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• Ariya leads as women take golf stage after 116 years

  17-08-2016 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  World number two Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand became the first player to top a women's Olympic golf leaderboard in 116 years as the event made a historic Games return on Wednesday. Ariya shot a first-round 6-under-par 65 in the Rio Games, showing flashes of the form that won her last month's British Open. The tournament got under way three days after Britain's Justin Rose won the first men's gold medal in 112 years in a down-to-the-wire fight with Henrik Stenson of Sweden.
  
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• US stocks get modest lift from Federal Reserve comments

  17-08-2016 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. stocks closed barely higher Wednesday as big gains for utilities balanced out losses for retailers like Lowe's, Target and Staples. Stocks fell in morning trading as a recent slump in phone company ...
  
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• Lochte, Teammate Ordered to Stay in Brazil After Robbery

  17-08-2016 23:08 via nbcnews.com
  
  There is still a lot of confusion about reports that Ryan Lochte and three of his teammates were robbed in Rio over the weekend.
  
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• Anti-imperialism schooling now a must for Bolivian officers

  17-08-2016 23:07 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Good leadership skills won't be enough for Bolivian officers seeking promotion to the rank of captain in any branch of the South American nation's military.
  
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• Tropical Storm Fiona forms over central Atlantic

  17-08-2016 23:04 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The U.S. National Hurricane Center says Tropical Storm Fiona has formed over the central Atlantic, becoming the season's sixth named storm.
  
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• Trump hires 'street fighter' in new shakeup of White House campaign

  17-08-2016 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican candidate Donald Trump overhauled his presidential campaign team on Wednesday for the second time in under two months, hiring the head of a conservative news website to bolster his combative image and try to reverse poor opinion poll numbers. Trump named Steve Bannon, head of the Breitbart News website, as campaign chief executive officer, a new position. The latest shakeup combines Bannon, a conservative flamethrower, with Conway, a measured, data-driven analyst who might be able to
  
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• New 'Flash Boys' exchange IEX to challenge NYSE, Nasdaq

  17-08-2016 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Wall Street's old guard is gearing up for a turf battle with upstart exchange operator IEX Group, which will launch its first trading for the public on Friday. IEX, a leading critic of high-frequency trading and its embrace by the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq, plans a gradual ramp-up of its exchange, which it argues will allow individual investors to take back the market. The launch is a landmark for four-year-old IEX, which was co-founded by former Wall Street trader Brad Katsuyama.
  
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• European Olympic chief arrested

  17-08-2016 22:53 via cnn.com
  
  The head of the European Olympic Committees, Irishman Pat Hickey, has been arrested in Rio de Janeiro as part of an alleged international ticket scalping scam.
  
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• Europe Olympic head in alleged ticket scam

  17-08-2016 22:53 via cnn.com
  
  The head of the European Olympic Committees, Irishman Pat Hickey, has been arrested in Rio de Janeiro as part of an alleged international ticket scalping scam.
  
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• Driven out: Housing crisis looms in flood-stricken Louisiana

  17-08-2016 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DENHAM SPRINGS, La. (AP) — With an estimated 40,000 homes damaged by deadly flooding, Louisiana could be looking at its biggest housing crunch since the miserable, bumbling aftermath of Hurricane Katrina a decade ago.
  
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• US men's volleyball reaches Rio semis with 4th straight win

  17-08-2016 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — John Speraw ran along the sideline about as close as he could to actually being in the action. He was cheering Aaron Russell to make a save while crashing into the barrier some 20 feet behind the end line.
  
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• Turkey has detained 40,000 people in crackdown since coup, PM says

  17-08-2016 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ANKARA (Reuters) - A total of 40,029 people have been detained in Turkey in investigations related to last month's failed coup and around half of those have been formally arrested, Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said on Wednesday. In a speech broadcast live on television, Yildirim said that 20,355 people had been formally arrested in relation to the failed July 15 putsch, which Turkey blames on followers of the U.S.-based cleric Fethullah Gulen. Yildirim also said that 79,900 people had been rem
  
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• Three killed in shipping collision in Turkey's Bosphorus

  17-08-2016 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Three Turkish Coast Guard personnel were killed on Wednesday after their vessel collided with a bulk carrier in the Bosphorus strait, forcing officials to temporarily suspend traffic in the busy shipping lane. Their vessel capsized after colliding with the Tolunay, a Cook Island-flagged bulk carrier, which was sailing toward the Black Sea, shipping agent GAC said. Four members of the Coast Guard were in hospital, a spokesman at the Istanbul governor's office said. The collis
  
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• Some 38,000 prisoners to be released under probation scheme reform: minister

  17-08-2016 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Some 38,000 prisoners jailed in Turkey are to be released under a reform of a "supervised release" scheme announced in a government decree issued on Wednesday, Justice Minister Bekir Bozdag wrote on Twitter. The reform, which will enable many prisoners to leave jail early on probation, was made as the country's prison system, already overstretched, faces the increased burden of 10,000s of people detained in relation to last month's attempted military coup. (Writing by Daren
  
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• Romance novellas by women in Nigeria challenge traditions

  17-08-2016 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  KANO, Nigeria (AP) — Nestled among vegetables, plastic kettles and hand-dyed fabric in market stalls are the signs of a feminist revolution: Piles of poorly printed books by women that advocate forcefully against conservative Muslim traditions such as child marriage and quick divorce.
  
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• Making space for coup purge, Turkey starts to release 38,000 prisoners

  17-08-2016 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Daren Butler ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey began freeing 38,000 prisoners on Wednesday, after announcing a penal reform that will make space for tens of thousands of suspects rounded up over last month's attempted coup. Western allies worry President Tayyip Erdogan, already accused by opponents of creeping authoritarianism, is using the crackdown to target dissent, testing relations with a key NATO partner in the war on Islamic State. Wednesday's decrees, published in the Official Gazette, also
  
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• High-Speed Train Rams Into Downed Tree, Injuring 13

  17-08-2016 22:50 via nbcnews.com
  
  A passenger train in southern France collided with a tree that was blown onto the track during a severe storm.
  
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• Germany tries to appease Turkey angered by Islamist 'hub' allegations

  17-08-2016 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BERLIN/ANKARA (Reuters) - Germany on Wednesday tried to row back from its latest spat with Turkey, its crucial partner in efforts to stem mass migration, after Ankara lashed out over a leaked government report alleging Turkey was a hub for Islamist groups. Turkey and Germany have had a series of rows in recent months, just as the European Union has been trying to secure Turkey's help in tackling the influx of migrants to Europe, of which Germany has taken in the bulk. Ankara has also been incens
  
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• US: N. Korea shrinks warning time

  17-08-2016 22:49 via cnn.com
  
  The US government is increasingly concerned that advances in North Korea's weapons program have dramatically decreased the warning time for a nuclear attack on America or its allies, according to US officials.
  
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• After Campaign Shake-Up, It's Trump Versus the World

  17-08-2016 22:47 via nbcnews.com
  
  For months, Republican elders cautioned Donald Trump that his wild-eyed approach was dragging down his general election campaign. In reshuffling his t
  
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• KICKING OFF: Freeney expected to make debut with Falcons

  17-08-2016 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A look at Thursday's NFL preseason matchups:
  
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• The Latest: Tony Parker leaving French national team

  17-08-2016 22:43 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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• City with 27 heroin overdoses in 4 hours

  17-08-2016 22:43 via cnn.com
  
  There were 27 heroin overdoses within four hours, including one death, in Huntington, West Virginia, on Monday. Officials believe the drug may be laced with something to makeit particularly dangerous.
  
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• City sees 27 heroin overdoses in 4 hours

  17-08-2016 22:43 via cnn.com
  
  There were 27 heroin overdoses within four hours, including one death, in Huntington, West Virginia, on Monday. Officials believe the drug may be laced with something to makeit particularly dangerous.
  
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• Young adult-aimed Pivot network shutting down after 3 years

  17-08-2016 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Participant Media is calling a halt to its Pivot cable network, which will wind down this fall, the company said Wednesday. Debuting three years ago, Pivot targeted young adults with a message of social ...
  
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• Cisco to cut 5,500 jobs in shift away from switches, routers

  17-08-2016 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc said it would lay off up to 5,500 employees, or nearly 7 percent of its workforce, as the world's largest networking gear maker shifts focus to areas such as security, Internet of Things and cloud. Cisco's traditional business of switches and routers has been struggling with sluggish demand from telecom carriers and enterprise customers and intense competition from companies such as Huawei and Juniper Networks Inc. Revenue in the company's traditional routers busine
  
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• West, Ward reprising Batman roles in animated movie

  17-08-2016 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Adam West and Burt Ward are reprising their respective roles as Batman and Robin, but they won't have to don tights this time around.
  
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• Wildfire burns with ferocity never seen by fire crews

  17-08-2016 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — A wildfire with a ferocity never seen by veteran California firefighters raced up and down canyon hillsides Wednesday, instantly incinerating homes and forcing thousands of people to flee, some running for their lives just ahead of the flames.
  
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• Sioux tribe leader wants political help to halt oil pipeline

  17-08-2016 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A tribal leader Wednesday said he contacted the White House and met with North Dakota's senators in an effort to halt construction of a $3.8 billion, four-state oil pipeline that crosses the Missouri River near an American Indian reservation in southern North Dakota.
  
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• Networking titan Cisco cuts 5,500 jobs as profit climbs

  17-08-2016 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  San Francisco (AFP) - Cisco on Wednesday announced plans to cut seven percent of its global workforce as it shifts its focus from networking hardware to software and services.
  
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• Target says low demand for Apple products hurts electronics sales

  17-08-2016 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Target Corp reported a drop in demand for Apple Inc's products that hurt the retail chain's electronics sales in the second quarter, but said it is working with the iPhone maker to capitalize on new product launches during the second half. Earlier on Wednesday, Target cut its fiscal-year profit outlook after quarterly sales fell more than expected due to lower demand for electronics and a weak start to a revamp of its grocery business. Chief Executive Brian Cornell said customer visits declined
  
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• The Latest: Convicted prosecutor says last day bittersweet

  17-08-2016 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Latest on the Pennsylvania attorney general's last day in office after her criminal conviction and resignation (all times local):
  
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