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• The Latest: Vinci says she'll ponder retiring at year's end

  06-09-2016 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open (all times local):
  
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• Washington Post to roll out speedy mobile news site

  06-09-2016 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Washington Post announced Tuesday it was rolling out a "lightning-fast" mobile news site that would provide near-instant load times for both articles and advertising. The Post, purchased in 2013 by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, said in a statement was combining its own technology with Progressive Web Apps and the Google-led Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) technologies "to create a better user experience" for readers. Load times on the new mobile site will be near-instant at less than one second,
  
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• Children's author, illustrator of Llama Llama stories dies

  06-09-2016 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHESTER, Vt. (AP) — A best-selling children's author and illustrator who gained fame with her series of Llama Llama stories has died in Vermont. Anna Dewdney was 50.
  
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• Cosby could face multiple accusers at June assault trial

  06-09-2016 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Joseph Ax NORRISTOWN, Pa. (Reuters) - Bill Cosby's sexual assault trial in Pennsylvania has been scheduled for June, and if prosecutors have their way, more than a dozen accusers will take the stand to detail what they claim is a decades-long pattern of attacks. During a hearing on Tuesday, Court of Common Pleas Judge Steven O'Neill in Norristown, Pennsylvania, set Cosby's trial for June 5, 2017, setting up what will likely be months of fiercely fought legal battles over the scope of evidence
  
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• Clinton VP pick Kaine, Trump spar over who most able to handle Russia

  06-09-2016 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Steve Holland and Amanda Becker VIRGINIA BEACH, Va./WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Democratic vice presidential candidate Tim Kaine and Donald Trump on Tuesday traded barbs over Russia, with Kaine accusing the Republican nominee of encouraging espionage and Trump saying that Russian President Vladimir Putin “laughs” at Hillary Clinton, the Democratic nominee. Kaine lambasted Trump during a national security speech in North Carolina, criticizing his business dealings with Russia, the ties
  
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• Iran vessel 'harasses,' sails close to U.S. Navy ship in Gulf: U.S. officials

  06-09-2016 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. Navy coastal patrol ship changed course after a fast-attack craft from Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps came within 100 yards (91 meters) of it in the central Gulf on Sunday, U.S. Defense Department officials said on Tuesday. U.S. officials are concerned that these actions by Iran could lead to mistakes. Years of mutual animosity eased when Washington lifted sanctions on Tehran in January after a deal to curb Iran's nuclear ambitions.
  
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• Guilty plea, life sentence for Los Angeles airport shooter

  06-09-2016 23:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — An unemployed motorcycle mechanic who gunned down airport screening officers at Los Angeles International Airport in a 2013 attack that sent passengers running for their lives pleaded guilty Tuesday to murder and 10 other charges.
  
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• Clinton, Trump: He's a national security danger; no she is

  06-09-2016 23:30 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Hillary Clinton accused Donald Trump of insulting America's veterans and pressing dangerous military plans around the globe on Tuesday, seeking to undercut his appeal to service families in Southern voting battlegrounds. Trump declared "our country is going to hell" because of policies she would make even worse.
  
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• Man admits killing in boy's cold case

  06-09-2016 23:25 via cnn.com
  
  Danny James Heinrich,the child pornography suspect who led police to the remains of JacobWetterling, admitted in court today that he killed the 11-year-old Minnesota boy who disappeared 27 years ago,CNN affiliate WCCO reported.
  
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• Wait, math is racist?

  06-09-2016 23:24 via money.cnn.com
  
  It's no surprise that inequality in the U.S. is on the rise. But what you might not know is that math is partly to blame.
  
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• The Latest: Prosecutor: Jacob's killer not getting off easy

  06-09-2016 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The Latest on the abduction and killing of Jacob Wetterling (all times local):
  
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• High court temporarily blocks Senate subpoena over sex ads

  06-09-2016 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has temporarily blocked a Senate subpoena that seeks information on how the classified advertising website Backpage.com screens ads for possible sex trafficking.
  
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• AP EXCLUSIVE: Study finds inequality unchanged in Hollywood

  06-09-2016 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Despite widespread attention over diversity in the movie business, a new study finds that little is changing in Hollywood for women, minorities, LGBT people and others who continue to find themselves on ...
  
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• Congress returns to battle over Zika, keep government open

  06-09-2016 23:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Lawmakers returning to Washington after a seven-week break picked up right where they left off — feuding about legislation to battle the mosquito-borne Zika virus and deadlocked over the defense budget.
  
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• Don't do it, Apple!

  06-09-2016 23:06 via cnn.com
  
  Dropping the headphone jack on the new Apple iPhone would be a mistake, writes David Wheeler.
  
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• Why working class whites dig Trump

  06-09-2016 23:05 via cnn.com
  
  Paul Sracic says Trump has shown the potential to attract working class voters in the swing state of Ohio who otherwise might never vote for a Republican
  
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• Why some white working class voters back Trump

  06-09-2016 23:05 via cnn.com
  
  Paul Sracic says Trump has shown the potential to attract working class voters in the swing state of Ohio who otherwise might never vote for a Republican
  
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• U.S. says 'words matter' after Obama, Duterte meeting canceled

  06-09-2016 23:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Note: paragraphs 2 contains language that may offend some readers) WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's planned meeting with his Philippine counterpart was canceled because the tone of the Philippine leader's rhetoric raised questions about the chances for a productive talks, the U.S. State Department said on Tuesday. ...
  
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• Kaine touts foreign policy background, hits Trump in speech

  06-09-2016 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WILMINGTON, N.C. (AP) — In a rare policy address by a vice presidential nominee, Democrat Tim Kaine showcased his own foreign policy expertise Tuesday and painted Donald Trump as clueless and dangerous when it comes to world affairs.
  
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• Kelly not ready to give up on 2 QBs, at least not officially

  06-09-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SOUTH BEND, Ind. (AP) — Coach Brian Kelly isn't ready to declare the two-quarterback system dead yet at No. 18 Notre Dame. At least not officially.
  
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• Monfils overpowers Pouille to reach US Open semi-finals

  06-09-2016 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gael Monfils is back in a Grand Slam semi-final after an eight-year wait, pummelling fellow Frenchman Lucas Pouille 6-4, 6-3, 6-3 to reach the US Open last four. Tenth-seeded Monfils was in control throughout against the 22-year-old Pouille, who was coming off an epic fifth-set tiebreaker win over 14-time major winner Rafael Nadal. Whether it was a let-down after the biggest win of his career or sheer fatigue, his 44 unforced errors meant he never stood a chance against the dialed-in Monfils.
  
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• Feds take most humpback whales off endangered species list

  06-09-2016 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — Federal authorities are taking most humpback whales off the endangered species list.
  
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• Three giant exoplanets found orbiting twin stars

  06-09-2016 22:49 via cnn.com
  
  It's beginning to look a lot like Star Wars in our universe. Ours just happens to have even more Tatooine-like planets attached to multiple stars.
  
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• How he could win

  06-09-2016 22:49 via cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump is aiming to pull off one of the greatest political comebacks in history.
  
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• 3 giant exoplanets found orbiting twin stars

  06-09-2016 22:49 via cnn.com
  
  It's beginning to look a lot like Star Wars in our universe. Ours just happens to have even more Tatooine-like planets attached to multiple stars.
  
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• Police make arrest in fatal shooting at Caribbean carnival

  06-09-2016 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A man has been arrested in one of two fatal shootings that cast a pall over a carnival celebrating the city's Caribbean communities, police announced Tuesday.
  
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• 80 million unexploded bombs: Obama pledges US help for Laos

  06-09-2016 22:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  VIENTIANE, Laos (AP) — Declaring a "moral obligation" to heal the wounds of a secret war, President Barack Obama on Tuesday pledged help to clear away the 80 million unexploded bombs the U.S. dropped on Laos a generation ago — more than 10 for every one of the country's 7 million people.
  
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• Carter says defense relationship with Philippines is strong

  06-09-2016 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said on Tuesday that the defense relationship with the Philippines was a "strong" and "longstanding" one, when asked about the Philippines' president's insult toward U.S. President Barack Obama. Carter, speaking to reporters as he was landing in London, also described the Philippines' new defense minister, Delfin Lorenzana, as someone who was "very knowledgeable about all the things that we do together". President Rodrigo Duterte called Obama a "son of a bitc
  
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• Monfils tops Nadal's conqueror to reach Open SF; Kerber wins

  06-09-2016 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Beating Rafael Nadal at the U.S. Open took a lot out of Lucas Pouille, and Gael Monfils took full advantage, reaching his first Grand Slam semifinal since 2008.
  
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• Pelosi to Ryan: Don't use hacked documents in campaigns

  06-09-2016 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi wants House Speaker Paul Ryan to not use hacked documents in this year's election campaigns.
  
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• Children's author and illustrator of Baby Llama stories dies

  06-09-2016 22:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A best-selling children's author and illustrator who gained fame with her series of Baby Llama stories has died. Anna Dewdney was 50. A spokeswoman for her publisher, Penguin Young Readers, says Dewdney ...
  
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• AP Exclusive: Defying downturn in coal, 2 new mines planned

  06-09-2016 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — Mines are closing and the coal industry is facing a run of bankruptcies and other bad news, but a company backed by a $90 million investment is defying conventional wisdom by preparing to open two new mines in Appalachia, the hardest-hit coal region.
  
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• Box office top 20: 'Don't Breathe' stays no. 1 again

  06-09-2016 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The low-budget home invasion horror film "Don't Breathe" led the box office for the second straight week, topping all films over the Labor Day weekend with a four-day haul of $19.7 million.
  
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• Trump, Clinton not planning to campaign on 9/11

  06-09-2016 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Neither of the two New Yorkers vying for the White House is expected to commemorate the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11th terror attacks with a visit to ground zero.
  
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• UN Council condemns North Korea missile tests

  06-09-2016 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The UN Security Council on Tuesday issued a strong condemnation of North Korea's latest missile tests and threatened to take "further significant measures" against Pyongyang. North Korea test-fired three ballistic missiles Monday as world powers gathered for a G20 meeting in China, with leader Kim Jong-Un hailing the tests as "perfect," and US President Barack Obama warning it would only up the pressure. "These launches are in grave violation of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's intern
  
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• Disgraced Bill Cosby faces June 5 sex assault trial

  06-09-2016 22:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Disgraced US megastar Bill Cosby will stand trial June 5, 2017 for allegedly sexually assaulting a woman at his Philadelphia home more than a decade ago, a judge ruled Tuesday. Up to 13 other women may testify at the trial if Montgomery County prosecutor Kevin Steele gets his way, although Cosby's legal team will likely put up fierce resistance to any such attempt. Dressed in a pinstripe jacket and gray pants, Cosby had appeared animated and engaged in conversation with his lawyers before Tuesda
  
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• New York state opens antitrust probe of Mylan's EpiPen

  06-09-2016 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  New York state has launched an antitrust probe into Mylan's sale of the EpiPen anti-allergy injector to local school systems, New York's attorney general announced Tuesday. A preliminary review by the New York office concluded that Mylan may have inserted anticompetitive terms into EpiPen sales contracts with local school systems, said Attorney General Eric Schneiderman. "No child's life should be put at risk because a parent, school, or healthcare provider cannot afford a simple, life-saving de
  
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• The Latest: Man who beat Nadal loses to Monfils in Open QFs

  06-09-2016 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. Open (all times local):
  
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• Kvitova sacks second coach this year

  06-09-2016 22:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two-time Wimbledon champion Petra Kvitova said Tuesday she had parted ways with Frantisek Cermak after the US Open, the second coach she has sacked this year. "After coming back from America, we have agreed with Frantisek Cermak to end our cooperation," the 26-year-old Czech world number 16 said in a press release. "For now I will train without a coach like at the beginning of the season, but of course that's not the final state of things," added the 2011 and 2014 Wimbledon winner.
  
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• Victims struggle to breath after Aleppo chemical attack

  06-09-2016 22:13 via cnn.com
  
  More than 80 people were suffering severe breathing difficulties in Syria's embattled city of Aleppo after another chemical attack Tuesday on a rebel-held neighborhood, said the Syrian Civil Defense, a volunteer rescue group.
  
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• ITT Tech shutters all campuses after federal aid sanctions

  06-09-2016 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The for-profit college chain ITT Technical Institute is shutting down all 130 of its U.S. campuses, saying Tuesday it can't survive recent sanctions by the U.S. Department of Education. In a letter to ...
  
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• Red truck, red truck! Town's mundane webcam grips YouTube

  06-09-2016 22:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JACKSON, Wyo. (AP) — If you're driving a red truck through downtown Jackson, Wyoming, you could be internet famous.
  
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• Police in Brazil arrest 2 suspected terror supporters

  06-09-2016 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian police have detained two people for allegedly pledging allegiance to the Islamic State group on social media.
  
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• Patty Wetterling: 'Incredibly painful' to learn of son Jacob's last hours alive

  06-09-2016 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Patty Wetterling: 'Incredibly painful' to learn of son Jacob's last hours alive.
  
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• US judge sets Cosby sex assault trial for June 5

  06-09-2016 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Disgraced US megastar Bill Cosby will go on trial June 5, 2017 accused of sexually assaulting a woman at his Philadelphia home more than a decade ago, a judge said Tuesday. Montgomery County prosecutor Kevin Steele said he wanted to bring up to 13 other women also allegedly assaulted by Cosby to testify. Cosby allegedly plied Andrea Constand with pills and wine, then sat her down on a couch, where the actor allegedly assaulted her in 2004.
  
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• Like father, like son: Nickerson Jr. setting tone for Illini

  06-09-2016 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Illinois coach Lovie Smith got a fantastic two-for-one deal when he hired Hardy Nickerson as his defensive coordinator. Once Nickerson arrived in Champaign, his son decided to follow as a graduate transfer from California.
  
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• Three Turkish soldiers killed in IS attack in Syria

  06-09-2016 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Three Turkish soldiers were killed and four wounded on Tuesday in a rocket attack by Islamic State (IS) militants in northern Syria, in the first deadly attack on Ankara's armed forces to be blamed on the jihadists in Turkey's cross-border incursion. Turkey launched an unprecedented operation inside Syria on August 24. Dubbed Euphrates Shield, it backs pro-Ankara opposition fighters in the goal of rooting out IS jihadists and Kurdish militia from the border area.
  
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• Phyllis Schlafly: 'Aunt Tom' or liberator?

  06-09-2016 22:00 via cnn.com
  
  The death of anti-feminist activist Phyllis Schlafly on Monday brought commiserations from the GOP ticket. Donald Trump tweeted that she was "truly great." Mike Pence called her "the First Lady of the Conservative Movement." Pence wasn't exaggerating.
  
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• Iran flexes muscles against US Navy

  06-09-2016 22:00 via cnn.com
  
  Seven Iranian fast-attack boats were involved in an unsafe encounter with the USS Firebolt over the weekend, with one Iranian craft coming to a stop in front of the American ship, a US defense official told CNN Tuesday.
  
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• How Phyllis Schlafly gave us Sarah Palin

  06-09-2016 22:00 via cnn.com
  
  The death of anti-feminist activist Phyllis Schlafly on Monday brought commiserations from the GOP ticket. Donald Trump tweeted that she was "truly great." Mike Pence called her "the First Lady of the Conservative Movement." Pence wasn't exaggerating.
  
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