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• Georgetown University apologizes for slavery past

  01-09-2016 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Ian Simpson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Georgetown University apologized on Thursday for its historical links to slavery and said it would give an admissions edge to descendants of slaves whose sale in the 19th century helped pay off the U.S. school's debts. The Washington-based university, run by the Roman Catholic Jesuit order, will create an institute to study the history of slavery at the school. "This original evil that shaped the early years of the republic was present here," Georgetown Pres
  
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• VW appeals order to bargain with UAW workers in Tennessee

  01-09-2016 23:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  German automaker Volkswagen on Thursday said it was challenging an order from US labor regulators to open negotiations with unionized workers in Tennessee. The move came after the National Labor Relations Board ruled that Volkswagen had illegally refused to negotiate with maintenance workers at a Chattanooga assembly plant after they voted in December to join the United Automobile Workers. In a statement, Volkswagen said it believed all the plant's workers, not simply its maintenance employees,
  
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• Will quarterback stand for anthem this time?

  01-09-2016 23:49 via cnn.com
  
  San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is set to continue his protest by sitting during the national anthem.
  
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• Will QB star stand for anthem?

  01-09-2016 23:49 via cnn.com
  
  San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is set to continue his protest by sitting during the national anthem.
  
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• Dallas police chief, face of city's tragedy, to retire

  01-09-2016 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Dallas police chief David Brown, who came under the spotlight for his response to the fatal ambush of five officers in the US city, announced his retirement on Thursday. Chief Brown will step down on October 22, ending a 33-year career which saw him emerge as a national figure as the Texas city reeled from last month's deadly attack. Brown was thrust into public view after a gunman shot and killed five officers in Dallas on July 7, just as a crowd of peaceful protesters was concluding a march ag
  
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• The Latest: Venus Williams cruises into US Open 3rd round

  01-09-2016 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open (all times local):
  
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• AP Exclusive: Review of convictions underway in N. Carolina

  01-09-2016 23:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DURHAM, N.C. (AP) — Advocates are undertaking a massive review of convictions in a North Carolina county where one prosecutor was disbarred for misconduct in the Duke University lacrosse case and another was suspended for ethics violations.
  
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• Penn St adds plan to mark Paterno debut; sparks fury online

  01-09-2016 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  STATE COLLEGE, Pa. (AP) — Penn State's athletic department on Thursday announced plans to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Joe Paterno's first game as coach, a move that sparked backlash on social networks by people critical of Paterno's role in the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
  
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• Chicago police: August homicides highest in 20 years

  01-09-2016 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago saw its deadliest month in two decades in August, recording 90 homicides for the month, the city's police department said Thursday.
  
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• Bears swim, rummage through garbage while roaming LA suburb

  01-09-2016 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PASADENA, Calif. (AP) — Three black bears treated a suburban California neighborhood like a resort, taking a dip in a backyard pool and helping themselves to a dumpster buffet.
  
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• Lineup announced for inaugural Essence Festival Durban

  01-09-2016 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Singers Kelly Price and Estelle will join comedian and television host Steve Harvey, civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton and fitness expert Shaun T at the inaugural Essence Festival Durban in South Africa.
  
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• The Latest: Hawaii Island schools to re-open after Madeline

  01-09-2016 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HILO, Hawaii (AP) — The Latest on tropical weather systems threatening Hawaii (all times local):
  
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• Trump's wife files suit against blogger, Daily Mail over 'escort' reports

  01-09-2016 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Melania Trump, wife of U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, on Thursday filed a lawsuit against two media entities for libel over reports that she was an "escort" in the 1990s. "Melania Trump filed suit today in the state circuit court for Montgomery County, Maryland against Mail Media, Inc. which publishes the Daily Mail Online, and against Webster G. Tarpley who publishes a weblog in Montgomery County, Maryland," Melania Trump's attorney, Charles Harder,
  
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• 'Step Up All In's' Trish Sie to direct 'Pitch Perfect 3'

  01-09-2016 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — "Step Up All In" director Trish Sie is stepping up to direct "Pitch Perfect 3." Producer and "Pitch Perfect 2" director Elizabeth Banks tweeted the news Thursday.
  
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• 'Biggest demo in decades' pressures Venezuela president

  01-09-2016 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Opponents of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro claimed to have mobilized a million demonstrators Thursday in the biggest rally in decades, demanding a referendum on removing him from power. The leader of the opposition Democratic Unity Roundtable, Jesus Torrealba, told AFP it was the "biggest rally in recent decades" with "between 950,000 and 1.1 million people" taking part. The rallies come at a highly volatile time for Venezuela, where a plunge in prices for oil exports has caused shortages,
  
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• Democrats: Dinner for donors to Brown-backed campaigns

  01-09-2016 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Gov. Jerry Brown is making a priority of beating a November proposition on funding of state mega-projects, including offering intimate gubernatorial dinners to donors who help fight the measure, the state Democratic Party is telling potential contributors.
  
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• The Latest: Some Hispanic advisers betrayed by Trump speech

  01-09-2016 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential election (all times EDT):
  
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• Florida finds Zika in local mosquitoes, bromeliads blamed

  01-09-2016 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Florida has found the Zika virus in three groups of mosquitoes trapped in Miami Beach — the first time this has happened in the continental U.S. — and authorities are blaming a particular flower for making mosquito control much more difficult.
  
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• Florida braces for 'life-threatening' Hurricane Hermine

  01-09-2016 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Tropical Storm Hermine strengthened into a hurricane Thursday and steamed toward Florida's Gulf Coast, where people put up shutters, nailed plywood across store windows and braced for the first direct ...
  
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• Obama says he supports veterans' health care recommendations

  01-09-2016 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he supports a congressional panel's recommendation to create a veterans' health care system that coordinates government and private care.
  
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• Last US cluster-bomb maker to cease production

  01-09-2016 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The last US maker of cluster bombs will cease producing the controversial weapons, which are banned by most governments because of their capacity to kill or maim civilians. In a little-noticed announcement Tuesday, the Rhode Island-based aerospace company Textron said it would no longer be making its "Sensor Fuzed Weapon" -- the trade name for its cluster bomb -- because of falling sales. The bomb "is a smart, reliable air-to-ground weapon that is in full compliance with the US Defense Departmen
  
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• Dallas chief who oversaw response to sniper attack to retire

  01-09-2016 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — Dallas police Chief David Brown announced his retirement Thursday, bringing an end to a tenure marked by clashes with police unions but perhaps most notably by widespread praise for his response to a July sniper attack that killed five officers.
  
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• Criminal probe against Franz Beckenbauer launched

  01-09-2016 22:58 via cnn.com
  
  German football legend Franz Beckenbauer is to face a criminal investigation by Swiss prosecutors relating to Germany's successful bid to host the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
  
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• Criminal probe against football legend

  01-09-2016 22:58 via cnn.com
  
  German football legend Franz Beckenbauer is to face a criminal investigation by Swiss prosecutors relating to Germany's successful bid to host the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
  
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• Troopers release names of 5 killed in Alaska midair crash

  01-09-2016 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Authorities have released the names of four Alaskans and a Montana man who were killed in a midair collision of two small planes in western Alaska, and responders said Thursday that rough terrain is complicating efforts to recover the bodies.
  
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• Report documents decades of abuse at elite boarding school

  01-09-2016 22:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — The elite boarding school St. George's became a kind of "private hell" for dozens of students in the 1970s and '80s who were manipulated and sexually abused by faculty and staff, according to a report issued Thursday by an independent investigator.
  
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• US takes key step to implement sage grouse conservation plan

  01-09-2016 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Federal land managers have issued new guidelines that will help determine what restrictions are imposed on oil and gas drilling, livestock grazing and other activities in the West to protect the greater ...
  
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• Stocks, starting September on a quiet note, notch tiny gains

  01-09-2016 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks staged a late recovery Thursday and finished mostly higher, led by technology and metals companies. However energy companies continued to fall with the price of oil.
  
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• Peña Nieto got 'punked'

  01-09-2016 22:46 via cnn.com
  
  In a delirious attempt to divert attention from the fact that he is perhaps the most unpopular President in the history of Mexico, Enrique Peña Nieto invited Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump to visit him at Los Pinos.
  
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• Pope: 'Sin' to act against environment

  01-09-2016 22:45 via cnn.com
  
  Pope Francis proposed on Thursday that caring for the environment be added to the traditional seven works of mercy that Christians are called to perform, which include feeding the hungry and sheltering the homeless.
  
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• US auto sales fall 4 percent in August

  01-09-2016 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. sales of new cars and trucks fell in August, ending summer on a low note for the auto industry and making it less likely that this year's auto sales will match the record set in 2015. General Motors' ...
  
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• Hawaii dodges Madeline damage, prepares for second storm

  01-09-2016 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HILO, Hawaii (AP) — A tropical storm left parts of Hawaii's Big Island soggy but intact Thursday as residents of the island state prepared for a second round of potentially volatile tropical weather.
  
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• Venezuelan oppositions vows to keep up pressure on Maduro

  01-09-2016 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's opposition is vowing to keep up pressure on President Nicolas Maduro after flooding the streets of Caracas with demonstrators Thursday in its biggest show of force in years.
  
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• Gabon erupts in post-election violence

  01-09-2016 22:36 via cnn.com
  
  Dramatic scenes unfolded this week on the streets of Gabon's capital city of Libreville, as protesters clashed with police following the announcement of the presidential election results.
  
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• The Latest: Storm emergency in some North Carolina counties

  01-09-2016 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — The Latest on Tropical Storm Hermine, which forecasters say could make landfall as a hurricane in Florida: (all times local):
  
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• Polygamous sect member allowed to write leader Warren Jeffs

  01-09-2016 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A polygamous sect member who believes writing to imprisoned sect leader Warren Jeffs is essential to his eternal salvation will be allowed to continue sending monthly letters while he awaits trial on food stamp fraud charges.
  
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• Denver Post reporter dies after being hit in crosswalk

  01-09-2016 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DENVER (AP) — The Denver Post is mourning the loss of a reporter who died after being hit by a vehicle while crossing a street.
  
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• Murray muscles through to US Open third round

  01-09-2016 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  World number two Andy Murray made himself heard at the US Open on Thursday, downing tenacious Spaniard Marcel Granollers in straight sets to reach the third round. With pounding rain creating a din under the new $150 million roof of the Arthur Ashe stadium, Murray battled through a tense first set to triumph 6-4, 6-1, 6-4. "We're lucky that we get to play under the roof because otherwise there'd be no tennis," said Murray, whose match went on as all action stopped on the outside courts.
  
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• Tarantulas looking for love in California; hikers warned

  01-09-2016 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Tarantulas are out looking for love, and hikers in Southern California's Santa Monica Mountains are warned to watch out for the hairy spiders.
  
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• Football star's protest socks

  01-09-2016 22:18 via cnn.com
  
  San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick is set to continue his protest by sitting during the national anthem.
  
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• Zika-carrying mosquitoes lands in US

  01-09-2016 22:15 via cnn.com
  
  Mosquitoes carrying the Zika virus have been identified in Miami Beach, the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services said Thursday.
  
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• 7 Ways the New Siri Can Work Harder for You

  01-09-2016 22:12 via nbcnews.com
  
  Apple opened up Siri to developers in June, allowing them to create new experiences for the virtual assistant in the upcoming iOS 10
  
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• Tough road ahead for world's ninth largest economy

  01-09-2016 22:07 via cnn.com
  
  Brazil's problems cannot be solved merely by a change at the top. Even with Dilma Rousseff out as President, the road ahead for Brazil won't be easy. She leaves behind an economy in its second straight year of recession, an unemployment rate of nearly 11% and a multimillion-dollar looming statewide corruption scandal that leaves almost no politician unscathed. Here's a deeper look at the major obstacles ahead for the world's ninth largest economy:
  
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• Brazil's new leader inherits all the same problems as its ousted president

  01-09-2016 22:07 via cnn.com
  
  Brazil's problems cannot be solved merely by a change at the top. Even with Dilma Rousseff out as President, the road ahead for Brazil won't be easy. She leaves behind an economy in its second straight year of recession, an unemployment rate of nearly 11% and a multimillion-dollar looming statewide corruption scandal that leaves almost no politician unscathed. Here's a deeper look at the major obstacles ahead for the world's ninth largest economy:
  
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• Syria's children should be a global priority

  01-09-2016 22:04 via cnn.com
  
  We've all seen the gut-wrenching photo of the 5-year-old Syrian child -- -- pulled out of the rubble in Aleppo and placed in an ambulance, his young face reflecting an obliviousness to the misery around him and the dismal future ahead.
  
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• US astronauts complete spacewalk for ISS maintenance

  01-09-2016 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two US astronauts aboard the International Space Station successfully completed a spacewalk Thursday to make repairs and install new equipment. "NASA astronauts completed all planned tasks + a few extra," the US space agency said on Twitter. Americans Jeff Williams, 58, and Kate Rubins, 37, completed their mission at 1841 GMT after six hours and 48 minutes in space.
  
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• Clinton raises a combined $143 million in August

  01-09-2016 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton hauled in $143 million in August for her presidential bid and the Democratic party, her best month yet in a fundraising push that lays the groundwork for her fall campaign.
  
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• France divided on burkini ban

  01-09-2016 21:54 via cnn.com
  
  With a recent poll suggesting that 64% are opposed to women wearing burkinis in France, the country's beaches have become the ground zero for the battle over its ban.
  
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• Every bird on this island eats plastic

  01-09-2016 21:53 via cnn.com
  
  CNN gained rare access to Midway Atoll to see the shocking amounts of plastic that makes its way across the Pacific Ocean and into our food chain.
  
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• Protesters: 'We are dying --this has to end'

  01-09-2016 21:50 via cnn.com
  
  Police presence grew in Venezuela's capital Thursday as tensions simmered and protests loomed.
  
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