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• Could Boston breeze ruffle PGA battle?

  04-09-2016 23:49 via cnn.com
  
  Golfers have been spared the worst of the remnants of Hurricane Hermine -- for now -- with only a stiff breeze to trouble the players in the third round of the Deutsche Bank Championship Sunday.
  
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• These aren't the same Broncos who won it all

  04-09-2016 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Broncos quarterback Trevor Siemian will throw his first pass as a pro Thursday night when the Super Bowl champs kick off the 2016 season against the Carolina Panthers.
  
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• LAX terminal evacuated after traffic stop raises concerns

  04-09-2016 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A terminal at Los Angeles International Airport was temporarily evacuated and some flights were delayed after a traffic stop caused a security breach Sunday.
  
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• UK PM May charts collision course with Brexiteers over immigration

  04-09-2016 23:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By William James HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - British Prime Minister Theresa May cast doubt on Sunday on the effectiveness of 'points-based' immigration systems that screen applicants on the basis of factors like education and skills, setting up a potential conflict with some of her own ministers. Foreign minister Boris Johnson and trade minister Liam Fox were part of the 'Brexit' camp that argued that voting to leave the European Union would free Britain from the duty to admit all EU nationals w
  
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• Angels' Matt Shoemaker leaves after being hit by line drive

  04-09-2016 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Los Angeles Angels pitcher Matt Shoemaker left Sunday's game against the Seattle Mariners after being hit in the head by a line drive off the bat of Kyle Seager.
  
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• Riding on India's 'intense' trains

  04-09-2016 23:22 via cnn.com
  
  As the scenes outside India's trains shift from the lush tea gardens of northeastern Assam to the Arabian Sea along India's western coast, the snack offerings at the stations vary from mitha dahi (sweet yogurt) to idli (steamed rice cakes).
  
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• California jail reviews security after unarmed officers shot

  04-09-2016 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — A central California jail was examining security measures after an ex-convict shot and wounded two unarmed officers in the lobby, but officials said Sunday that they did not plan any immediate changes.
  
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• Mueller, Kimmich fire Germany past Norway

  04-09-2016 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Bayern Munich team-mates Thomas Mueller and Joshua Kimmich fired title-holders Germany to a commanding 3-0 win away to Norway in their opening 2018 World Cup qualifier on Sunday. Mueller struck in the 16th minute at the Ullevaal Stadion in Oslo before Kimmich netted Germany's second goal on the stroke of half-time. Mueller then scored again on the hour to ensure a winning start for Joachim Loew's team in Group C as the world champions set off on the road to the finals in Russia.
  
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• Merkel in trouble after election debacle for her pro-refugee stance

  04-09-2016 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Erik Kirschbaum BERLIN (Reuters) - A humiliating state election defeat for Angela Merkel in her own backyard on Sunday and another drubbing that looms in two weeks in Berlin are casting an ominous shadow over the Chancellor's hopes of winning - or even running - for a fourth term in 2017. Analysts expect Merkel to weather the storm brewing over the debacle in the rural state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern on Sunday, where her Christian Democrats (CDU) fell to a shock third place behind the center-
  
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• Dixon wins IndyCar race at Watkins Glen; Power crashes

  04-09-2016 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WATKINS GLEN, N.Y. (AP) — Watkins Glen International is a special place for Scott Dixon. He showed why again Sunday.
  
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• US Open: Sevastova's unlikely win

  04-09-2016 23:01 via cnn.com
  
  Unseeded Latvian Anastasija Sevastova, currently ranked 48th in the world, created an upset Sunday when she knocked out the British 13th seed Johanna Konta.
  
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• Investigators' persistence leads to break in abduction case

  04-09-2016 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — To crack Minnesota's biggest cold case — the 1989 abduction of 11-year-old Jacob Wetterling — authorities went back to the early days of the investigation.
  
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• Trump's hypocrisy towards blacks

  04-09-2016 22:48 via cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump has been telling African-Americans he wants our vote. He hasn't been saying it to us, exactly -- he said it last week in West Bend, Wisconsin, which is 1% black -- but we all heard about it on the news.
  
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• The Latest: Tsonga beats American Sock in US Open 4th round

  04-09-2016 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open (all times local):
  
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• Opinion: Trump's hypocrisy towards blacks

  04-09-2016 22:48 via cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump has been telling African-Americans he wants our vote. He hasn't been saying it to us, exactly -- he said it last week in West Bend, Wisconsin, which is 1% black -- but we all heard about it on the news.
  
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• Turns out our dogs may understand what we say

  04-09-2016 22:33 via cnn.com
  
  A recent study at Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest found that dogs can actually make sense of human speech.
  
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• Umpire warns US Open player for using cellphone during match

  04-09-2016 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Like a schoolkid chastised by a teacher for texting in class, a player at the U.S. Open was caught using his cellphone during a changeover and was admonished by the chair umpire.
  
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• Hermine lurks off U.S. East Coast, could regain hurricane strength

  04-09-2016 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Daniel Trotta and Chris Prentice NEW YORK (Reuters) - Storm Hermine lurked off the U.S. Middle Atlantic Coast on Sunday, threatening to regain hurricane strength after carving a path of destruction through the South while so far sparing the Northeast from the worst of its wind, rain and sea surge. Overnight, the center of the storm moved farther east and away from the coast than previously forecast, said Rick Knabb, director of the National Hurricane Center (NHC), in a webcast. "Hermine expec
  
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• Kaepernick Jersey Sales Soar Amid Controversy

  04-09-2016 22:26 via abcnews.go.com
  
  Sales soared from the 20th-most popular shirt in the 49ers store to first.
  
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• Saban not speculating about Alabama's fresh QBs after opener

  04-09-2016 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Nick Saban had a moment early in top-ranked Alabama's season opener when he wondered if it really had been a good idea to go with two freshman quarterbacks.
  
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• Philippines blast: 14 dead in 'heinous' attack

  04-09-2016 22:23 via cnn.com
  
  Police in the Philippines are looking for a man and two women they want to question in connection with theblast at a crowded market in Davao City that killed 14 people.
  
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• IS ousted from Turkey border as Syria army besieges Aleppo

  04-09-2016 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Ankara (AFP) - Islamic State jihadists were expelled from their last positions along the Turkish-Syrian border, Turkey said Sunday, as Syrian forces again laid seige to rebel strongholds in war-torn Aleppo.
  
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• Earnhardt Jr. said lingering symptoms kept him from racing

  04-09-2016 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DARLINGTON, S.C. (AP) — Dale Earnhardt Jr. returned to Sprint Cup success after a concussion in 2012. He's betting he'll do it once more in 2017 and beyond.
  
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• Fire at Ukrainian TV headquarters amid protest; no injuries

  04-09-2016 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — A Ukrainian television station has been forced to broadcast from outside its own building after the building caught fire amid a protest.
  
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• Israel targets Syrian army after errant fire hits Golan

  04-09-2016 21:42 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  The Israeli military says it has fired at Syrian army cannons in the Syrian Golan Heights in response to mortar fire from Syria that hit the Israeli-held Golan Heights.
  
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• Eastern gorilla gets added to critically endangered list

  04-09-2016 21:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The world's largest living primate has been listed as critically endangered, making four of the six great ape species only one step away from extinction, according to a report released Sunday at the World ...
  
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• New air links raise hopes in Washington and Cuba

  04-09-2016 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SANTA CLARA, Cuba (AP) — The first off JetBlue 387 were the TV cameramen, the U.S. secretary of transportation and the airline executives.
  
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• German minister sees aid for families as key 2017 election issue

  04-09-2016 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Germany's Social Democrats say they will make aid for families a central issue in next year's election if Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives block their proposals for higher children's allowances and subsidies for working parents. Family minister Manuela Schwesig, a Social Democrat, told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper she was continuing to push for 1 billion euros ($1.1 billion) in subsidies to help working parents cut their hours. The plan is opposed by Merkel's Christian Democrats, the se
  
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• German anti-immigrant party beats Merkel in her home district

  04-09-2016 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Erik Kirschbaum and Andrea Shalal BERLIN (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democrats were beaten into third place by the anti-immigrant and anti-Islam Alternative for Germany (AfD) party in a north-eastern state election on Sunday, TV exit polls showed. In a stinging defeat for Merkel in her home district that could weaken her chances of a fourth term in next year's federal elections, the upstart AfD took 21.9 percent of the vote behind the center-left Social Democrats (
  
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• World's largest gorillas 'one step from going extinct'

  04-09-2016 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The world's largest gorillas have been pushed to the brink of extinction by a surge of illegal hunting in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and are now critically endangered, officials said Sunday. With just 5,000 Eastern gorillas (Gorilla beringei) left on Earth, the majestic species now faces the risk of disappearing completely, officials said at the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) global conference in Honolulu. Four out of six of the Earth's great apes are now critically
  
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• Hermine spins away from US East Coast, regains strength

  04-09-2016 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NORFOLK, Va. (AP) — Hermine spun away from the East Coast on Sunday, removing the threat of heavy rain but maintaining enough power to churn dangerous waves and rip currents and keep beaches off-limits to disappointed swimmers and surfers during the holiday weekend.
  
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• Dodgers ace Kershaw set to return Friday in Miami

  04-09-2016 21:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw is scheduled to pitch Friday at Miami after spending more than two months on the disabled list with a herniated disk.
  
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• Pastor wrong to invite Trump

  04-09-2016 21:16 via cnn.com
  
  Bishop Wayne Jackson adhered to one of the most important principles of the African-American church by inviting Donald Trump to speak before his congregation. He also illustrated how faith is almost always diminished when it is used for crass political purposes.
  
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• Trump's cash problem

  04-09-2016 21:07 via cnn.com
  
  Trump's fund-raising dilemma, Clinton's return from summer "vacation," competing election forecasts and how Pence fits into the GOP Senate strategy: It's all a part of our 'Inside Politics' forecast.
  
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• Turkish-backed rebels clear IS from Turkey's Syrian border

  04-09-2016 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By David Dolan and Orhan Coskun ISTANBUL/ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish-backed rebels on Sunday cleared Islamic State from Turkey's Syrian border, securing a 90 km (55 miles) corridor and marking a substantial gain in Ankara's plan to drive out Sunni militants and stop the advance of Syrian Kurdish fighters. The rebels, mainly Syrian Arabs and Turkmen fighting under the banner of the Free Syrian Army, took charge of the frontier between Azaz and Jarablus after seizing 20 villages from the Sunni hard
  
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• Un-retired Sevastova beats Konta, into US Open quarterfinals

  04-09-2016 21:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Latvian tennis player Anastasija Sevastova wore a Yankees cap to her news conference after she reached her first major quarterfinal.
  
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• The Latest: Wozniacki beats Keys for 1st Slam QF since 2014

  04-09-2016 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open (all times local):
  
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• Authorities to provide details in 1989 Minnesota abduction

  04-09-2016 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Law enforcement agencies plan to release more information this week on the discovery of the remains of Jacob Wetterling.
  
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• Syrian forces besiege rebel-held Aleppo as Turkish-backed fighters drive Islamic State from border

  04-09-2016 20:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By John Davison and Roberta Rampton BEIRUT/HANGZHOU, China (Reuters) - Syrian government forces and their allies again laid siege to rebel-held eastern Aleppo on Sunday, while Turkish-backed fighters drove Islamic State from all the areas along its border, in two significant but separate developments in the multi-sided conflict. The fighting - two potential turning points in the conflict if the gains can be sustained - complicated efforts by the United States and Russia to reach a ceasefire deal
  
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• Clinton's Late Summer Swoon Doesn't Help Trump

  04-09-2016 20:45 via nbcnews.com
  
  After a polling bump in early August, Hillary Clinton's lead has dwindled. But her support has moved to third party candidates and not her chief rival.
  
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• Correction: Fans Rush Stage-Philly story

  04-09-2016 20:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — In a story Sept. 3 about fans rushing the stage during the Made in America festival in Philadelphia, The Associated Press erroneously reported that more than 30 artists are performing at the two-day festival. A spokeswoman for Made in America organizer Jay Z says 70 artists are performing.
  
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• Nationalists overtake Merkel's party in German state vote

  04-09-2016 20:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BERLIN (AP) — A nationalist, anti-immigration party performed strongly in a German state election Sunday in the region where Chancellor Angela Merkel has her political base, overtaking her conservatives to take second place amid discontent with her migrant policies, projections indicated.
  
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• Hermine again gains force, threatening northeast US coast

  04-09-2016 20:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Post-tropical storm Hermine is again nearing hurricane strength, the US National Weather Service said Sunday, posing a "danger of life-threatening inundation" from New Jersey to Connecticut. Hermine has killed two people since striking the Florida coast as a hurricane on Friday before weakening to tropical-storm status as it moved northward off the US East Coast. As of midday Sunday, Hermine was about 325 miles (520 kilometers) east-southeast of Ocean City, Maryland, in the mid-Atlantic region -
  
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• The Latest: Russian, Turkish leaders meet to discuss Syria

  04-09-2016 20:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Latest on the G-20 summit in China (all times local): 1:45 a.m. Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish leader Recep Tayypip Erdogan have met on the sidelines of the G-20 summit to discuss both ...
  
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• Federal Prison-Owned 'Factories With Fences' Face New Scrutiny

  04-09-2016 20:22 via nbcnews.com
  
  Federal Prison Industries pays prisoners low wages to produce everything from military helmets to t-shirts — a business model facing new scrutiny.
  
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• Ex-convict behind bars in shooting of corrections officers

  04-09-2016 20:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — An ex-convict accused of shooting and wounding two unarmed officers inside a central California jail is behind bars, facing charges of attempted murder and possessing a handgun as a felon, authorities said.
  
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• Family remembers boy killed by alligator at Disney World

  04-09-2016 20:20 via news.yahoo.com
  
  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Parents of the toddler who was killed by an alligator at Walt Disney World in Florida say they will always remember their sweet little boy.
  
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• Report: 2 dead, 79 rescued in Turkey tourist boat capsizing

  04-09-2016 20:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ISTANBUL (AP) — A Turkish news agency says two people have drowned and 79 others have been rescued after a tourist boat capsized off the coast near the southern resort of Antalya.
  
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• Ex-soccer star Holiday faces tumor with husband Jrue's help

  04-09-2016 20:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Former U.S. soccer star Lauren Holiday has been diagnosed with a brain tumor while pregnant, and her husband, New Orleans Pelicans guard Jrue Holiday, is taking indefinite leave from the NBA club to care for his wife, the Pelicans said Sunday.
  
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• Sculpture honoring fallen soldiers scandalizes Egyptians

  04-09-2016 19:50 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  A provincial governor in Egypt has ordered changes to a sculpture honoring fallen soldiers after many on social media said it appeared to depict an unwanted advance on a woman symbolizing the country.
  
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