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• Fendrich on Tennis: So does Wawrinka belong to a Big 5 now?

  12-09-2016 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — For years, the duo of Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal dominated men's tennis.
  
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• Obama sees "constructive work" to solve budget, Zika issues

  12-09-2016 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama and congressional leaders have wrapped up their Oval Office meeting, and the president says the talks leave him "encouraged by some of the constructive work that's being done" to keep the government from running out of money.
  
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• The Latest: Pence wants to meet with Cruz during DC visit

  12-09-2016 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):
  
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• What you should know about Syria truce

  12-09-2016 23:46 via cnn.com
  
  With sundown on Monday comes another ceasefire aimed at ending Syria's bloody conflict. But is this push for peace any different to previous attempts?
  
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• Court: Yelp not liable for negative rating 'stars' on site

  12-09-2016 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Online review site Yelp's star rating system does not make it liable for negative reviews posted on the site because it relies on reviews of businesses from users, a federal appeals court ruled on Monday, ...
  
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• Judge to victim: 'keep your knees together'

  12-09-2016 23:42 via cnn.com
  
  A judge in Canada is facing removal from the bench for his conduct when he asked a woman in a rape case why she couldn't "just keep [her] knees together."
  
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• Kevin Bacon loves Baconfest invite, is sorry he can't attend

  12-09-2016 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) — The town has struck out in its attempt to bring home the bacon — Kevin Bacon, that is.
  
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• Rules committee official: OSU error shouldn't prompt changes

  12-09-2016 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The officiating error that gave Central Michigan a chance to beat Oklahoma State is unlikely to lead to changes in the way officials enforce penalties at the end of games.
  
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• 'Sister Wives' appeal polygamy ruling to US Supreme Court

  12-09-2016 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A polygamous family from TV's "Sister Wives" filed a request Monday for the U.S. Supreme Court to hear their case for legalizing polygamy.
  
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• Syria cease-fire enters into effect, but rebels don't commit

  12-09-2016 23:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — A cease-fire came into effect in Syria at sunset Monday in the latest attempt led by the United States and Russia to bring some quiet in the 5 1/2-year civil war.
  
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• Serena Williams pens female-power poem for fashion show

  12-09-2016 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — "She turns her disappointment into triumph. Her grief into joy. Her rejections into approvals. If no one believes in her it does not matter. She believes in herself. Nothing stops her. No one can touch her. She is woman."
  
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• Congressman's wife calls prostitution claims 'false attacks'

  12-09-2016 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — The wife of Republican U.S. Rep. Charles Boustany is defending him against prostitution allegations raised in a new book, describing "false attacks" that she says are aimed at disrupting his bid for a U.S. Senate seat in Louisiana.
  
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• GM eyes growth in China as US auto sales ebb

  12-09-2016 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  As the US car boom begins to ebb, American auto giant General Motors is eyeing growth in China as an even more crucial component of its business. GM auto sales in China through the first eight months of the year jumped 8.1 percent to 2.38 million, compared with a 4.2 percent drop to 1.96 million in the US. "It has been a surprisingly strong year," said Matt Tsien, president of GM China.
  
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• Clinton scrambles to head off fallout from brutal weekend

  12-09-2016 23:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hillary Clinton's campaign is scrambling to head off lasting damage from her brutal weekend. Aides are promising to release more of her medical records following her bout of pneumonia and conceding they ...
  
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• Russia's Norilsk Nickel admits 'red river' responsibility

  12-09-2016 23:18 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Russian metals giant Norilsk Nickel admits one of its industrial plants is responsible for turning an Arctic river blood-red.
  
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• Obama tells insurers new enterprises have growing pains

  12-09-2016 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says he knows that progress in reducing the uninsured rate hasn't been without challenges.
  
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• Correction: Obit-Prince Buster story

  12-09-2016 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — In a Sept. 9 obituary on Jamaican ska pioneer Prince Buster, The Associated Press erroneously reported details about his marriages and children. Marriage records show that he was married to his wife, Mola Ali, for 27 years, not 47 years. The story also should have made clear that, according to one of Prince Buster's sons, he had seven children with a previous wife, Blossom Campbell.
  
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• Brazil ratifies Paris Agreement to reduce greenhouse gases

  12-09-2016 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — The Brazilian government on Monday ratified its participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change, a significant step by Latin America's largest emitter of greenhouse gases that could spur other countries to move forward.
  
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• Trump opens gilded Washington hotel ahead of November vote

  12-09-2016 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump will have an address on Pennsylvania Avenue whether or not he wins November's election, after his new super-luxury hotel opened on Monday, steps from the White House. Not everyone was applauding his name in large gold-colored letters adorning the 263-room, $212 million Trump International Hotel glinting in the bright morning sun. A crowd of protesters gathered to direct invectives toward the Republican presidential candidate's redevelopment of the capital's century-old landmark Old
  
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• Clinton's pneumonia fuels debate about candidate health data

  12-09-2016 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Anybody — no matter their age or how healthy they are — can develop pneumonia. And it's possible the campaign trail's grueling schedule, with its germy hand-shaking and selfie-taking, increased Hillary ...
  
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• Jane Goodall's latest mission to save chimpanzees

  12-09-2016 23:04 via cnn.com
  
  Jane Goodall is known across the globe as the world's leading primatologist and an animal rights activist.
  
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• Searchers find overdue hiker looking for "Into the Wild" bus

  12-09-2016 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE, Alaska (AP) — A 45-year-old man from Mexico was located unharmed Monday after failing to return on time from a hiking trip to an abandoned city bus in the Alaska wilderness made famous by the popular book and movie, both titled "Into the Wild."
  
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• Kevin Bacon loved Baconfest invite, is sorry he can't attend

  12-09-2016 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) — A Vermont town desperate to bring home Kevin Bacon for its third annual celebration celebrating all things bacon has struck out but impressed the actor nonetheless.
  
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• Engine blade on Southwest jet showed signs of cracking

  12-09-2016 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  Investigators say that an engine fan blade on a Southwest Airlines jet broke off and the stub of the blade showed signs of metal fatigue. The plane made a safe emergency landing last month in Florida after ...
  
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• Wall Street rallies as traders reassess Fed outlook; dollar slips

  12-09-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. stocks led global shares higher on Monday after Federal Reserve policymakers sounded cautious notes on near-term interest rate increases, while the U.S. currency slipped. Comments from Fed officials in the past few weeks had raised speculation of a U.S. rate increase this year and the European Central Bank and Bank of Japan recently refrained from further monetary policy easing, fuelling Friday's broad stocks selloff and rise in bond yields.
  
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• Illness hit Clinton campaign staff before she got pneumonia

  12-09-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — An outbreak of respiratory illness swept through Hillary Clinton's campaign in the weeks before she was diagnosed with pneumonia and fell ill at this year's 9/11 memorial ceremony, campaign aides said Monday.
  
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• 'Euthanasia option saved me from suicide'

  12-09-2016 22:59 via cnn.com
  
  For Marieke Vervoort, the power to take her own life is really what's keeping her alive.
  
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• Powerlifter gets drugs ban

  12-09-2016 22:57 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Saudi Arabian Paralympic powerlifter Mashal Alkhazai is banned for eight years after the second positive drugs test of his career.
  
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• No Bengals trash talking with Steelers ... not yet, anyway

  12-09-2016 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CINCINNATI (AP) — It took the Bengals a long time to get over that playoff loss to Pittsburgh. The trash talking on social media went on for many weeks, with neither side willing to give up the grudge.
  
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• San Diego man pleads guilty to lying about jihadist brother

  12-09-2016 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN DIEGO (AP) — A San Diego man pleaded guilty Monday to lying during a terrorism investigation of his brother, who was killed while fighting for the Islamic State in Syria.
  
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• Claims of new MH370 debris found in Madagascar

  12-09-2016 22:51 via cnn.com
  
  He's the man who has already made a name for himself by finding parts of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 but has Blaine Gibson unveiled a brand new mystery?
  
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• The struggle for a ceasefire in Syria

  12-09-2016 22:50 via cnn.com
  
  As new Syrian ceasefire came into effect on September 12, CNN's Nima Elbagir looks at what's needed for a ceasefire to hold in the country.
  
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• In historic move, California expands overtime to farmworkers

  12-09-2016 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Farmworkers in the nation's largest agricultural state will be entitled to the same overtime pay as most other hourly workers under a new law signed Monday by California Gov. Jerry Brown. Brown, a Democrat, ...
  
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• Confusion over cease-fire as US walks back Kerry comments

  12-09-2016 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Confusion reigned Monday over Syria's new cease-fire as Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States and Russia could permit President Bashar Assad's government to launch new airstrikes against al-Qaida-linked militants. The State Department quickly reversed itself.
  
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• Flight MH370's new mystery?

  12-09-2016 22:45 via cnn.com
  
  He's the man who has already made a name for himself by finding parts of the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 but has Blaine Gibson unveiled a brand new mystery?
  
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• Judge names special prosecutor in 'Making a Murderer' appeal

  12-09-2016 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MADISON, Wis. (AP) — A judge has appointed a special prosecutor to represent the state of Wisconsin in a request for extensive testing in the case of a man featured in the Netflix series "Making a Murderer."
  
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• Oscar winner wants court to protect Bergdahl interview tapes

  12-09-2016 22:40 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A lawyer for an Oscar-winning screenwriter says a judge should block a military effort to get hours of interviews he recorded with Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl.
  
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• Senate set to approve water projects, $220M for Flint

  12-09-2016 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate is set to move forward on a $10 billion water projects bill that includes $220 million in emergency funding for Flint, Michigan, and other communities beset by lead-contaminated water.
  
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• In the luminous 'La La Land,' a shot in the arm for movies

  12-09-2016 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TORONTO (AP) — Movies aren't what they were. I'll wait for it on Netflix. Television is so much better right now.
  
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• 178 prisoners take over French prison wing

  12-09-2016 22:31 via cnn.com
  
  Inmates rioted and set a fire at a prison in western France after one grabbed a set of keys and unlocked cells, a spokeswoman for the facility said Monday.
  
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• 'Last chance' Syria ceasefire takes effect

  12-09-2016 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A US- and Russia-brokered ceasefire dubbed by Washington as maybe the "last chance to save Syria" took effect at sundown on Monday, amid scepticism over how long it would hold. An initial 48-hour truce came into force at 7:00 pm local time (1600 GMT) across Syria except in areas held by jihadists such as the Islamic State group. AFP correspondents in Syria's devastated second city Aleppo, divided between the rebel-held east and regime-controlled west since mid-2012, said fighting appeared to hav
  
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• Fed official's speech lowers expectations for hike next week

  12-09-2016 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Investors, at least, suddenly seem more confident about what the Federal Reserve will announce when it meets next week: Nothing. Stocks soared Monday after an influential Fed policymaker indicated she ...
  
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• Broncos' Marshall unfazed after losing 2nd endorsement

  12-09-2016 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ENGLEWOOD, Colo. (AP) — Broncos linebacker Brandon Marshall says he'll kneel again for the national anthem even though he lost a second endorsement deal for joining Colin Kaepernick's protest of social injustice.
  
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• The Latest: Biden says Clinton should have heeded doctors

  12-09-2016 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT): 4:03 p.m. Vice President Joe Biden says Hillary Clinton "should have listened to the doctors" and rested after her pneumonia diagnosis. ...
  
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• Hungarians auction their state awards to protest columnist

  12-09-2016 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — More than a dozen Hungarians auctioned off their state awards on Monday, saying they no longer wanted them after a journalist and writer known for his anti-Semitic and racist references was granted a similar distinction last month.
  
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• Car bomb attack hits Turkey ruling party

  12-09-2016 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A car bomb exploded Monday outside the provincial HQ of the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in the eastern Turkish city of Van, wounding more than 50 people, including four police, local authorities said. Turkish officials blamed the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which has waged a three-decade insurgency against the Turkish state and is considered a terrorist group by Ankara and its Western allies.
  
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• Governor signs legislation making California first state to extend same overtime pay to farmworkers as others

  12-09-2016 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Governor signs legislation making California first state to extend same overtime pay to farmworkers as others .
  
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• For Trump, health comments underscore new discipline

  12-09-2016 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — This time, for nearly 24 hours, Donald Trump was quiet.
  
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• Berkshire is accused in NY lawsuit of workers' comp 'siphoning'

  12-09-2016 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Berkshire Hathaway Inc has been sued by a New York bicycle courier company over an alleged illegal scheme to cheat employers buying workers' compensation policies. The complaint, filed late Friday by Breakaway Courier Systems, came as Berkshire's Applied Underwriters unit faces scrutiny over its workers' compensation policies, including some that have been banned by California, Vermont and Wisconsin. Breakaway, with about 300 employees, accused Berkshire and Applied of "siphoning" premiums throu
  
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• Russian defense minister lashes back at his US counterpart

  12-09-2016 22:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's defense minister has lashed out at his U.S. counterpart, who has accused Moscow of sowing seeds of global instability.
  
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