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• Google rolling out latest Android system to Nexus phones

  22-08-2016 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Google is ready to start sending out the latest version of its Android operating system to a handful of devices. The release announced Monday means many Nexus-branded devices should receive a free upgrade ...
  
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• Worldwide concern over 'too many immigrants': study

  22-08-2016 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  People throughout the world are becoming increasingly uncomfortable with immigration levels which are higher than any time since the Second World War, according to a new survey published Monday. At least six out of 10 people in France and Belgium, which have recently suffered deadly jihadist attacks, believe immigration has had a "negative impact", said the Ipsos polling institute. Similar figures were found in Russia, Hungary and also Italy, which has had to deal with large numbers of migrants
  
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• Philippines drug war deaths climb to 1,800; U.S. 'deeply concerned'

  22-08-2016 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Karen Lema MANILA (Reuters) - The Philippines has recorded about 1,800 drug-related killings since President Rodrigo Duterte took office seven weeks ago and launched a war on narcotics, far higher than previously believed, according to police figures. Philippine National Police Chief Ronald Dela Rosa told a Senate committee on Monday that 712 drug traffickers and users had been killed in police operations since July 1. Police were also investigating 1,067 other drug-related killings, Dela Ros
  
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• Oil tumbles, Treasuries rise as investors await Fed

  22-08-2016 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Hilary Russ NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices fell more than 3 percent on supply worries, while U.S. Treasuries rose and stocks flattened on Monday as markets awaited more clarity later this week from the Federal Reserve on when it might raise U.S. interest rates. An upbeat assessment of the U.S. economy from Fed Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer on Sunday was viewed as raising the prospect of Fed Chair Janet Yellen flagging a rate rise at a meeting with world central bankers on Friday. Treasury yi
  
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• Last resident of historic Chinese shrimping village dies

  22-08-2016 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHINA CAMP STATE PARK, Calif. (AP) — The last remaining resident of a shrimping village established by Chinese immigrants on the northern shore of San Francisco Bay has died.
  
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• Federal Reserve under growing pressure to reform system, goals

  22-08-2016 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The U.S. Federal Reserve has two guiding goals when designing monetary policy: maximum employment and stable inflation. At this year's flagship economic policy conference, from Aug. 25 to 27, U.S policymakers will confer not only with their counterparts from around the world but also host a meeting on Thursday with a group calling for a radical overhaul of the Fed. Fed Up, a network of community organizations and labor unions that wants a more diverse, transparent and income-inequality aware cen
  
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• Doherty settles with ex-managers she said mismanaged money

  22-08-2016 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Court records show Shannen Doherty has settled a lawsuit against her former business managers, who she accused of leaving her without health insurance and caused a delay in doctors diagnosing her with breast cancer.
  
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• Feds: Ignore that post about banning driver cellphone use

  22-08-2016 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Briefly Monday, it looked like the federal government was going to push all 50 states to ban the use of cellphones and other wireless devices while people are driving. But the National Highway Traffic ...
  
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• 'Ready to mount a pre-emptive strike'

  22-08-2016 23:29 via cnn.com
  
  The US and South Korean militaries started a massive joint annual exercise Monday, a drill that has drawn North Korean threats of nuclear retaliation.
  
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• North Korea threatens nuclear strike

  22-08-2016 23:29 via cnn.com
  
  The US and South Korean militaries started a massive joint annual exercise Monday, a drill that has drawn North Korean threats of nuclear retaliation.
  
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• In Iraq, Nigeria and now Turkey, child bombers strike

  22-08-2016 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Less than a day earlier, Turkey was less fortunate: a teenage bomber detonated his suicide vest among dancing guests at a Turkish wedding party, officials say, killing 51 people, nearly half of them children themselves. Saturday's attack at the wedding in Gaziantep marked not only Turkey's deadliest this year, but also the first time in Turkey that militants may have deployed a child bomber in a way already used to deadly effect in wars from Africa to Syria. In Afghanistan, the Taliban has long
  
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• California high court upholds ban on dredges to extract gold

  22-08-2016 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — California's ban on the use of suction dredges to extract gold from rivers is legal and not overridden by a 19th century federal law that allows mining on federal land, the California Supreme Court ruled Monday.
  
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• Judge orders State Dept. to review 14,900 new Clinton emails

  22-08-2016 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ginger Gibson and Arshad Mohammed WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A judge ordered the State Department on Monday to review and determine the potential release of 14,900 documents, most of which are believed to be emails to or from Hillary Clinton, that turned up in an FBI investigation of her use of a private email server as secretary of state.     The documents are part of a cache that the FBI turned over to the State Department at the end of its probe into Clinton's use of the server.
  
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• Gabby Douglas, Laura Marano join Miss America pageant panel

  22-08-2016 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) — Olympic gymnast Gabby Douglas and musician and actress Laura Marano have been added as celebrity judges for the 2017 Miss America competition.
  
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• Man pleads not guilty to fatal shootings at house party

  22-08-2016 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EVERETT, Wash. (AP) — A 19-year-old man accused of shooting three former classmates to death at a house party in suburban Seattle has pleaded not guilty to murder charges.
  
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• Sheriff: Suspect in massacre admits killing at least 1

  22-08-2016 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CITRONELLE, Ala. (AP) — A Mississippi man admitted killing at least one of the five adults found dead at a rural home where his estranged girlfriend had sought shelter amid allegations of abuse, a sheriff said Monday.
  
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• General to testify about burning letters inBergdahl case

  22-08-2016 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — The judge overseeing Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl's military trial said Monday that a top general must testify about destroying letters that he received from supporters and critics of the soldier who walked off his post in Afghanistan.
  
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• Long, hard recovery slog begins in flood-ravaged Louisiana

  22-08-2016 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Storm victims spill out of the waiting rooms, some clutching water-stained documents, others with the long stare of those stricken by disaster, each with a story of personal tragedy about the Louisiana ...
  
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• Trump vows 'fair, but firm' approach to illegal immigration

  22-08-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican Donald Trump promised on Monday to be "fair, but firm" toward the estimated 11 million immigrants living in the United States illegally, a shift in tone that raised questions on whether ...
  
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• Speedo USA, 3 other sponsors drop Lochte after Rio incident

  22-08-2016 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Less than 24 hours after the close of the Rio Olympics, Ryan Lochte took a major financial hit Monday for a drunken incident he initially tried to pass off as an armed robbery.
  
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• The Latest: Trump backs military gear for police agencies

  22-08-2016 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential campaign. (all times EDT):
  
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• Gonzalez hits 3 of Dodgers' 7 homers for 18-9 win over Reds

  22-08-2016 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — Adrian Gonzalez hit three of the Dodgers' seven homers — driving in a career-high eight runs — and rookie Corey Seager had a noteworthy homer as well on Monday, leading Los Angeles to an 18-9 victory and a split of its four-game series with the Cincinnati Reds.
  
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• Sarkozy announces long-awaited bid for French presidency

  22-08-2016 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Nicolas Sarkozy launched a bid Monday to win back the French presidency, announcing he would seek his party's nomination to run in next year's election. "I have decided to be a candidate in the 2017 presidential election," Sarkozy wrote in a new book, "Tout pour la France" (All for France), due out this week. "France demands that you give her your all.
  
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• Moment ISIS child suicide bomber is seized

  22-08-2016 22:49 via cnn.com
  
  Dramatic video has emerged of the moment Iraqi police strip an alleged would-be ISIS child suicide bomber of an explosive belt.
  
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• Louisiana residents without flood insurance face uncertainty

  22-08-2016 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Sam Karlin BATON ROUGE, La. (Reuters) - Quenton Robins watched on Sunday morning as a giant metal claw clamped down on his mother's ruined belongings, snapping wooden cabinets with an audible crack as the operator of a giant mechanized arm slowly cleared a mound of debris from her yard in Baton Rouge. Five feet (1.5 meters) of water swept through the homes in the quiet Park Forest neighborhood just over a week ago, shocking residents who had been told they did not live in a flood zone. "It's
  
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• US works to keep Turkey in its fold as NATO ally looks East

  22-08-2016 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — With suspicions on both sides mounting, the United States is struggling to preserve its wobbly partnership with Turkey as it entertains a closer relationship with Russia and fumes over a U.S.-based cleric it blames for orchestrating last month's failed coup attempt.
  
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• Flash flood traps11 in huge bat cave in west Romania

  22-08-2016 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — Flash floods trapped 11 people, including four French citizens Monday in a huge bat cave in western Romania. Two were later rescued and authorities said there was no danger to the remaining nine.
  
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• Medivation surges on Pfizer takeover as US markets stay flat

  22-08-2016 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Cancer drugmaker Medivation on Monday gained nearly 20 percent after the announcement it would be bought by Pfizer, but Wall Street stocks were otherwise generally flat. Chris Low of FTN Financial said the markets were in wait-and-see mode, with a lack of economic data coming this week and a much-anticipated speech from Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen due on Friday in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.
  
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• Man kicked out of bar bites off bartender's finger in fight

  22-08-2016 22:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Police are searching for a man who bit off a bartender's finger after being kicked out of a San Francisco bar at closing time.
  
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• Kobe Bryant starts $100 million investment fund

  22-08-2016 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Retired NBA star Kobe Bryant is moving to Wall Street, announcing the formation of a $100 million venture capital fund to invest in media, technology and data companies. The fund, known as Bryant Stibel, ...
  
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• Turkey strikes Islamic State, YPG militants to open corridor for rebels: official

  22-08-2016 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Turkey's military fired on Syrian Kurdish targets 20 times with artillery at Manbij in northern Syria, a Turkish official said, adding that the military was continuing to hit Islamic State targets in the Syrian town of Jarablus on the border with Turkey. "The fundamental aim in the latest operation is to open a corridor for moderate rebels," the official said.
  
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• Stocks end mostly lower in quiet trade; oil prices decline

  22-08-2016 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks closed slightly lower in quiet trading Monday after drifting most of the day between gains and losses. Energy companies fell along with the price of oil while biotechnology and drug companies rose after Pfizer announced it was buying a cancer drug maker.
  
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• The good, the bad and the ugly of Rio Games

  22-08-2016 22:25 via cnn.com
  
  So Rio pulled it off, successfully delivering perhaps the most doubted Olympic Games of the modern era.
  
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• Rio: The Good, bad and ugly

  22-08-2016 22:25 via cnn.com
  
  So Rio pulled it off, successfully delivering perhaps the most doubted Olympic Games of the modern era.
  
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• US kids eat 3x times too much added sugar: health group

  22-08-2016 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  US children eat three times as much added sugar as they should, a leading US health group said Monday, calling for stricter limits on sugar for kids. Babies and tots under two should eat no added sugar at all and older children should have the equivalent of a maximum 100 calories per day, according to recommendations from the American Heart Association (AHA). It would also require most kids to eat about one-third of the added sugar they currently consume, often in the form of soda and sweetened
  
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• Pentagon: Exclusion zone in Syria is not a 'no fly zone'

  22-08-2016 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Pentagon spokesman says the U.S. has told Syria that its air force must not fly in areas where American military advisers are working with Kurdish and Arab forces fighting the Islamic State group. But he said this does not amount to a "no fly zone."
  
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• Box office top 20: 'Suicide,' 'Sausage' stay on top

  22-08-2016 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — "Suicide Squad" and "Sausage Party" remained no. 1 and no. 2 at the weekend box office in North America, while a trio of newcomers failed to make much of a dent.
  
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• May faces struggle to keep executive pay in check

  22-08-2016 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Simon Jessop and Sinead Cruise LONDON (Reuters) - Plans by Prime Minister Theresa May to give shareholders more powers to curb top executives' pay could prove unpopular with some big investors, and some industry analysts say they may have little impact. BP and WPP were among major companies to face high-profile revolts at shareholders' meetings this year, reflecting broader anger at inequality that helped persuade Britons to vote to leave the European Union in June. As a result, May has promi
  
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• In dry, windy West, crews target flames in several states

  22-08-2016 22:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN SIMEON, Calif. (AP) — Growing wildfires fed by windy, dry conditions have destroyed buildings and forced evacuations in central California, eastern Washington and elsewhere.
  
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• US commander skeptical of cooperation with Russia in Syria

  22-08-2016 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The top U.S. commander for the fight against the Islamic State group said Monday that he is skeptical of any additional military cooperation with Russia in Syria, and that he believes he can get the mission done without it.
  
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• Horrific aftermath of wedding blast that killed 54

  22-08-2016 22:09 via cnn.com
  
  In the horrific aftermath of a blast that ripped through a wedding at Gaziantep in southern Turkey -- being blamed by officials on a child suicide bomber -- CNN's Ben Wedeman visited the distressing scene.
  
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• Horrific aftermath of wedding blast

  22-08-2016 22:09 via cnn.com
  
  In the horrific aftermath of a blast that ripped through a wedding at Gaziantep in southern Turkey -- being blamed by officials on a child suicide bomber -- CNN's Ben Wedeman visited the distressing scene.
  
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• GOP senator suggests swapping college instructors for videos

  22-08-2016 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — U.S. Sen. Ron Johnson has an idea for making colleges cheaper — ditch the instructors and start playing online videos for students.
  
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• Firefighter will get back dog after it escaped, got adopted

  22-08-2016 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — A firefighter who left his dog with friends as he battled wildfires in Washington state will get back his dog weeks after the animal ran away and got adopted by another family.
  
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• Judge: Ferguson-Florissant School District elections biased

  22-08-2016 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ST. LOUIS (AP) — A federal judge ruled Monday that the process of electing school board members for a district that includes Ferguson, Missouri, is biased against black voters and must be revised before another election will be allowed.
  
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• Republicans to query firms that ran Clinton's private server

  22-08-2016 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans stepped up their attacks on Monday on former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server and pointed to newly released messages to allege that foreign donors to the Democratic presidential nominee's family charity got preferential treatment from her department.
  
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• Trump vows 'fair, but firm' on illegal immigration

  22-08-2016 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Republican Donald Trump promised on Monday to be "fair, but firm" toward the estimated 11 million immigrants living in the United States illegally, a shift in tone that raised questions on whether ...
  
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• U.S. judge blocks Obama transgender school bathroom policy

  22-08-2016 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A U.S. judge blocked an Obama administration policy that public schools should allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of their choice, granting a nationwide injunction sought by 13 dissenting states just in time for the new school year. While a setback for transgender advocates, the ruling is only the latest salvo in a larger legal and cultural battle over transgender rights that could be headed toward the U.S. Supreme Court. Following milestone achievements in gay rights including same
  
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• The Latest: Town raises money for the families of 5 slain

  22-08-2016 21:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CITRONELLE, Ala. (AP) — The Latest on the massacre of five adults at a home in south Alabama (all times local):
  
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• Apple boosts health while Microsoft revs machine smarts

  22-08-2016 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Microsoft on Monday announced it bought a startup to boost its artificial intelligence capabilities, and rival Apple confirmed it has boosted its health focus with an acquisition of its own. Microsoft did not disclose financial terms of its deal to buy Genee, which specializes in using machine smarts to handle the time-sucking task of scheduling meetings. "Genee uses natural language processing and optimized decision-making algorithms so that interacting with a virtual assistant is just like int
  
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