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• Ex-SEAL to pay $6.6 million to settle case over book

  19-08-2016 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The former Navy SEAL who wrote a book about his role in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden will pay the government more than $6.6 million for violating non-disclosure agreements and publishing without getting the document cleared by the Defense Department, according to federal court documents.
  
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• Taking heat, US officials defend $400M cash payment to Iran

  19-08-2016 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Obama administration on Friday defended its decision to make a $400 million cash delivery to Iran contingent on the release of American prisoners, saying the payment wasn't ransom because the Islamic ...
  
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• IOC Looking to Set up Disciplinary Commission in Lochte Case

  19-08-2016 23:51
  
  The International Olympics Committee is setting up a disciplinary commission.
  
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• U.S. to moms-to-be: Avoid this area

  19-08-2016 23:50 via cnn.com
  
  There have been five locally transmitted cases of the Zika virus confirmed in an area of Miami Beach, Florida Governor Rick Scott said Friday. Three of those individuals were visitors to the area when they contracted the virus.
  
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• Popular Yellowstone River closes after thousands of fish die

  19-08-2016 23:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana wildlife officials indefinitely closed a 183-mile stretch of the Yellowstone River and hundreds of miles of other waterways Friday, barring all fishing, rafting and other activities to prevent the spread of a parasite believed to have killed tens of thousands of fish.
  
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• Things Donald Trump Might Be Sorry He Said

  19-08-2016 23:40 via nbcnews.com
  
  Here's a working list of the most controversial statementsmade by Donald Trump since his June 16, 2015 presidential announcement.
  
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• Muhammad Ali auction items seen fetching heavyweight prices

  19-08-2016 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Muhammad Ali's 1974 WBC heavyweight championship boxing belt and a handwritten letter about his conversion to Islam are among items that will hit the auction block in September, in the biggest such sale since Ali's death in June. Heritage Auctions said on Friday that the auction will include the trunks Ali wore for his "Rumble in the Jungle" victory over George Foreman in Zaire in 1974. The gloves worn by Sonny Liston when he lost his title to Ali in 1964 are also among 79 lots in the Sept. 10 a
  
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• 'Perfect' ace for golf's No. 1

  19-08-2016 23:24 via cnn.com
  
  Last week, Great Britain's Justin Rose carded a hole-in-one before going on to win Olympic gold. Friday, it was Lydia Ko's turn to notch an ace as she moved to within touching distance of South Korea's Inbee Park at the top of the leaderboard in the women's individual strokeplay golf event at Rio 2016.
  
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• Unusual GOP pushback grows against upcoming Texas execution

  19-08-2016 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The scheduled execution of a Texas man who didn't pull the trigger during a fatal 1996 robbery is drawing highly unusual opposition from Republicans, led by a staunchly conservative lawmaker who said Friday that a bipartisan group of legislators will ask the state to spare the life of Jeffery Lee Wood.
  
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• SEAL to pay $6.6 million to settle case over bin Laden book

  19-08-2016 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal court documents say the former Navy SEAL who wrote a book about his role in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden will pay the government more than $6.6 million for violating non-disclosure agreements and publishing without getting the document cleared by the Defense Department.
  
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• Officials: Zika found in South Beach; spraying not practical

  19-08-2016 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — South Beach has been identified as a second site of Zika transmission by mosquitoes on the U.S. mainland, and containing it there will be difficult because high-rise buildings and strong winds make it impractical to spray the neighborhood from the air, officials said Friday.
  
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• Judge orders Clinton to answer questions on email use

  19-08-2016 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A federal judge has ordered Hillary Clinton to answer questions in writing from a conservative legal advocacy group about her use of a private email server during her tenure as secretary of state. U.S. ...
  
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• US Settles Case With Author of Controversial Bin Laden Book

  19-08-2016 23:09
  
  Matthew Bissonnette admitted to breaking rules in penning a bin Laden book.
  
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• Southern California Wildfires Destroy 96 Homes, 213 Other Buildings

  19-08-2016 23:08
  
  The blaze has burned through 37,000 acres and is 26 percent contained.
  
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• Bolt says this is goodbye; Lochte says he's sorry

  19-08-2016 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The U.S. men's basketball team just got by Spain on Friday, hours before another Olympic juggernaut, Usain Bolt, says his goodbye at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.
  
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• San Francisco honors Tony Bennett with statue, festivities

  19-08-2016 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — If ever there was a man to throw a grand birthday bash for in San Francisco, it had to be Tony Bennett.
  
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• US stocks take small losses as energy companies slide

  19-08-2016 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. stocks took small losses Friday to end a quiet week of trading. Energy companies fell as a rally in oil prices faded and investors continue to sell the safe assets they favored earlier this year. ...
  
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• US beats Spain 82-76 in men's basketball, will play for gold

  19-08-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The U.S. Olympic men's basketball team is still a little better than Spain.
  
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• Mexican drug lord's kidnapped son potential bargaining chip

  19-08-2016 22:59 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  For the ambitious Jalisco New Generation cartel, it must have seemed like a gift: Imprisoned Sinaloa cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman's son, partying at a gourmet restaurant deep in their territory.
  
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• Day 14 Live: US men into basketball final

  19-08-2016 22:56 via cnn.com
  
  The fat lady is starting to clear her throat as we approach the finishing straight of the XXXI Olympiad. Just three of days of action to go now in Rio.
  
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• After apology, questions about future loom for Lochte

  19-08-2016 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — U.S. Olympic swimmer Ryan Lochte apologized Friday for his behavior surrounding an incident at a Rio de Janeiro gas station, saying he should have been more "careful and candid" about how he described what happened after a night of partying with his teammates.
  
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• Billowing Flames and Smoke Rise From Oil Tank Explosions

  19-08-2016 22:48
  
  The company operating the tanks said that there had been no injuries.
  
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• The Latest: Lobby firm investigates Manafort foreign ties

  19-08-2016 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on campaign 2016 (all times Eastern):
  
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• Local Zika spreads to tourist hotspot Miami Beach

  19-08-2016 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Five new cases of Zika have been found in the tourist hotspot of Miami Beach, signaling the spread of local transmission of a virus blamed for birth defects, officials said Friday. Pregnant women and those who want to become pregnant are urged to stay away from two areas -- a 1.5 square mile (3.9 square kilometer) section of Miami Beach and a neighborhood north of downtown called Wynwood -- where mosquitoes are actively spreading the disease, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention sai
  
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• CNN map: 3 states tilt to Clinton

  19-08-2016 22:40 via cnn.com
  
  August has thus far been kind to Hillary Clinton's poll numbers both nationally and in some critical battleground states.
  
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• Bridge case attorneys weigh whether to subpoena Christie

  19-08-2016 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is not charged with any wrongdoing in the criminal case involving the closure of traffic lanes on the world's busiest bridge three years ago, yet his presence looms large over next month's trial of two former subordinates.
  
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• Police: Driver Killed by NC Trooper Was Hearing Impaired

  19-08-2016 22:38
  A police report says a driver shot and killed by a North Carolina trooper following a brief pursuit was hearing and speech impaired
  
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• Coe hails Bolt the genius, foresees leading role

  19-08-2016 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Jamaican sprint star Usain Bolt is a "genius" whose longevity guarantees his place as a legend worthy of a continuing role in track and field, IAAF president Sebastian Coe told AFP in an interview on Friday. Bolt has won both the 100 and 200m at the Rio Games to match similar feats at the Beijing and London Olympics in 2008 and 2012 respectively. "The man is a genius," Coe told AFP.
  
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• Touring flooding, Trump moves ahead with campaign turnaround

  19-08-2016 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — Offering consolation, expressing regret, cutting ties with a controversial aide. Donald Trump's campaign turnaround plan on Friday featured the unorthodox candidate acting much like a conventional politician struggling to revive a presidential bid on the ropes.
  
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• Russian cruise missiles target Syria

  19-08-2016 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian warships in the Mediterranean Sea fired cruise missiles at targets near Aleppo on Friday, a further sign of Moscow's broadening military effort in Syria days after it began to fly bombing missions from an airbase in Iran. Russian air power had helped Syrian President Bashar al-Assad make steady advances against rebels seeking to oust him since Moscow's intervention a year ago, but a recent insurgent advance in Aleppo has checked that momentum. In northeastern Sy
  
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• USA NBA stars dunk Spain to reach Rio final

  19-08-2016 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two-time defending champion United States, led by NBA star Klay Thompson's 22 points, advanced to the Rio Olympics gold-medal game by defeating Spain 82-76 Friday in a rematch of the past two Olympic finals. Kevin Durant added 14 points for the US team while Kyrie Irving contributed 13 and DeAndre Jordan scored nine points and grabbed 16 rebounds.
  
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• After the Olympics: The next paths for elite athletes

  19-08-2016 22:29 via cnn.com
  
  After the Olympic flame goes out, what happens to the athletes we've come to know and love over the last two weeks?
  
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• President Obama to Visit Flood-Ravaged Baton Rouge

  19-08-2016 22:27
  
  President Obama will travel to flood-damaged Louisiana next Tuesday.
  
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• Years of race insults preceded slaying of Lebanese neighbor

  19-08-2016 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — When an Oklahoma man befriended his Lebanese neighbors, his husband lashed out at the family, hurling epithets and at one point allegedly running over the mother with a car.
  
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• Deeper 'major budget cuts' enforced on Paralympics in Rio

  19-08-2016 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Paralympics will go ahead in Rio next month but organizers said Friday that deep budget cuts mean a venue will close down, facilities will be dismantled and the workforce will be reduced.
  
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• The Latest: Another DNC official resigns in hacking fallout

  19-08-2016 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on campaign 2016 (all times Eastern):
  
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• The Latest: Reid: Congress must approve funds to fight Zika

  19-08-2016 21:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on Zika infections in Florida (all times local):
  
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• Syrian regime jets hit Kurdish positions, even after US warning

  19-08-2016 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Syrian regime jets pounded US-backed Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria for a second day Friday, even after the US-led coalition scrambled jets to protect its military advisers working on the ground. In another escalation of Syria's bloody conflict, warplanes from President Bashar al-Assad's regime were bombarding the city of Hasakeh -- targeting Kurdish forces that for months have worked closely with coalition military advisers helping local fighters combat the Islamic State group.
  
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• Jack Riley, a regular on 'The Bob Newhart Show,' dies at 80

  19-08-2016 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Jack Riley, who played a counseling client on "The Bob Newhart Show" and also voiced a character on Nickelodeon's animated "Rugrats," died Friday. The 80-year-old actor died in Los Angeles, according to his representative Paul Doherty.
  
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• Over 17,000 firefighters battle monster fires in US

  19-08-2016 21:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More than 17,000 firefighters struggled Friday to contain dozens of large fires that have burned huge swaths of land and destroyed hundreds of buildings across 10 US states, with parched California especially hard hit. On Thursday alone, 31 fires burned nearly 400,000 acres (162,000 hectares) in the affected areas, including seven blazes in California and six in Idaho, according to the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC). In California, the Bluecut Fire in the mountains of the Angeles Nation
  
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• The Latest: Bus driver killed in crash was longtime worker

  19-08-2016 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The Latest on the Friday collision of two commuter buses in Newark, New Jersey, in which a driver was killed and more than a dozen people were injured (all times local):
  
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• Zika spreads to Miami Beach, U.S. expands travel warning

  19-08-2016 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Zachary Fagenson and Julie Steenhuysen MIAMI/CHICAGO (Reuters) - Federal health officials on Friday warned pregnant women not to travel to trendy Miami Beach after Florida confirmed that the mosquito-borne Zika virus was active in the popular tourist destination. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention also suggested that pregnant women who are especially worried about exposure to Zika - which has been shown to cause the severe birth defect known as microcephaly - might consider a
  
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• Congo pardons 24 critics to ease political tension

  19-08-2016 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Aaron Ross KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congo's government announced pardons for 24 jailed critics of President Joseph Kabila on Friday in a bid to ease tension ahead of a presidential election set for November. The opposition considers the detained politicians and democracy activists to be political prisoners and the apparent olive branch may blunt international criticism of the government over its human rights record. It could also put opposition leaders on the defensive over their demand that they
  
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• Colombia issues 50,000-peso note with writer Garcia's image

  19-08-2016 21:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — Colombia has released a new 50,000-peso note bearing the image of the celebrated late writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
  
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• Kanye West's weekend pop-up stores in NYC, 20 other cities

  19-08-2016 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Kanye West fans waited in line overnight in lower Manhattan on Friday for the chance to buy pieces from a new clothing line centered on the rapper-turned-fashion mogul's latest album. The store was among ...
  
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• Syria's first responders: 'Most dangerous job in the world'

  19-08-2016 21:40 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  It took Mahmoud Fadlallah and the team of seven rescue workers 30 minutes to reach the middle-aged couple trapped beneath the rubble of their apartment building in the contested Syrian city of Aleppo.
  
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• Bias Alert: NBC laments sad picture of Syrian boy, but leaves out US role in civil war

  19-08-2016 21:39 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  NBC gave worthy coverage to the heartbreaking photo of a shell-shocked and injured Syrian boy this week, but the Peacock network made no mention of President Obama’s foreign policy failures that have allowed the Assad regime, ISIS and Al Qaeda to turn the nation into a bloodbath over the last five years.
  
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• 2 coaches dead in apparent murder-suicide; teen's body found

  19-08-2016 21:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Two Oregon high school wrestling coaches, lifelong friends, are dead in an apparent murder-suicide and the body of a teenager who was last seen alive with one of them was also found, authorities said.
  
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• The images that reveal the horror of Syria

  19-08-2016 21:37 via cnn.com
  
  Omran Daqneesh is among the lucky ones -- rescued alive after his home was turned to rubble in a bombing.
  
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• Can 2 boys change how we see war?

  19-08-2016 21:37 via cnn.com
  
  Omran Daqneesh is among the lucky ones -- rescued alive after his home was turned to rubble in a bombing.
  
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