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• Who is Shimon Peres?

  14-09-2016 23:59 via cnn.com
  
  Shimon Peres has been involved in Israeli politics for over 50 years. He's held every major position in Israel's Cabinet.
  
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• For Donald Trump, projection emerges as top campaign tactic

  14-09-2016 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Racist. Divisive. Lacks policy details.
  
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• Clinton releases new medical info ...

  14-09-2016 23:54 via cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton's campaign released additional medical information Wednesday after questions about her health intensified.
  
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• Clinton releases new medical info

  14-09-2016 23:54 via cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton's campaign released additional medical information Wednesday after questions about her health intensified.
  
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• 'President Trump' would cost US $1 trillion

  14-09-2016 23:50 via money.cnn.com
  
  His presidency would cost the U.S. economy $1 trillion over the next five years, according to Oxford Economics a British forecasting firm with offices in the United States.
  
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• How much 'President Trump' would cost

  14-09-2016 23:50 via money.cnn.com
  
  His presidency would cost the U.S. economy $1 trillion over the next five years, according to Oxford Economics a British forecasting firm with offices in the United States.
  
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• The Latest: Trump lobs Clinton's criticisms back at her

  14-09-2016 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):
  
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• Mel Brooks, Morgan Freeman to get National Medal of Arts

  14-09-2016 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama plans to honor actors Mel Brooks and Morgan Freeman with the 2015 National Medal of Arts.
  
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• Pastor interrupts Trump to halt attack on Clinton

  14-09-2016 23:44 via cnn.com
  
  The pastor who hosted Donald Trump at her church in Flint, Michigan, interrupted the Republican presidential nominee during his speech Wednesday to ask him to refrain from attacking his rival Hillary Clinton.
  
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• Plans for huge sculpture in New York public plaza unveiled

  14-09-2016 23:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The developer behind a cluster of skyscrapers rising near the Hudson River raised eyebrows when he boasted the project would be anchored by a monumental sculpture that would be the city's Eiffel Tower.
  
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• US arms pact for Israel shows enduring ties trump recent tension

  14-09-2016 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States and Israel put aside the antagonism between their leaders and reaffirmed their strategic bond on Wednesday, when Washington promised its ally an unprecedented $38 billion military aid package. As Israel's national security advisor and a senior US diplomat signed the 10-year deal there was no sign of the distrust that has soured relations between President Barack Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. In recent weeks Washington has toughened its criticism of Israel's accel
  
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• NY Fashion Week: Kors, Maxwell, Lhuillier, Coach, Simmons

  14-09-2016 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Kors wants us all to be a little more optimistic, while Kimora Lee Simmons went with a low-key office presentation Wednesday during New York Fashion Week.
  
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• Car plows into police, sending officers flying , scrambling

  14-09-2016 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Three Phoenix police officers, including a rookie on his first night on patrol, were on a routine patrol in front of a convenience store when they became the target of an unimaginable attack.
  
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• Doctor: Other than pneumonia finding, exam normal

  14-09-2016 23:32 via cnn.com
  
  Hillary Clinton's campaign released additional medical information Wednesday after questions about her health intensified.
  
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• Carla Hayden Makes History Heading Library of Congress

  14-09-2016 23:25 via nbcnews.com
  
  Carla Hayden spoke with NBC News to discuss heading the Library of Congress. She's the first woman and first African-American in the role.
  
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• Tony-winning stage, screen director Jack Hofsiss dies at 65

  14-09-2016 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Stage and screen director Jack Hofsiss, who won a Tony Award in his first outing on Broadway while helming "The Elephant Man" and kept working despite an accident that left him without the use of his arms and legs, died Tuesday, according to producer and longtime friend Elizabeth McCann. He was 65.
  
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• Bayer sets $66 bn deal for Monsanto after lengthy pursuit

  14-09-2016 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  German chemicals giant Bayer announced Wednesday a $66 billion deal to buy controversial US seeds and pesticides firm Monsanto, triggering immediate criticism from farmers and environmentalists. After a months-long pursuit, Bayer said its US peer had accepted an improved offer of $128 per share for Monsanto in an all-cash transaction, avoiding the need to resort to a hostile takeover. "The combination with Monsanto represents the kind of revolutionary approach to agriculture that will be needed
  
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• 13 nations to take aim at fishing subsidies at WTO

  14-09-2016 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States and 12 other countries on Wednesday announced the start of a drive at the World Trade Organization to eliminate harmful fishing subsidies that contribute to ocean depopulation. The announcement fell on the eve of an annual conference in Washington on ocean governance and environmental preservation. In a joint statement, the representatives of the 13 nations, which included Australia, Norway, Singapore and landlocked Switzerland, said they would begin talks to develop a WTO agre
  
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• Obama, meeting with Suu Kyi, says U.S. ready to lift Myanmar sanctions

  14-09-2016 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jeff Mason and Timothy Mclaughlin WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Myanmar's Aung San Suu Kyi called on Wednesday for the lifting of economic sanctions against her country, and President Barack Obama, in their first White House meeting since she became leader, said the United States was ready to do so. "It is the right thing to do in order to ensure that the people of Burma see rewards from a new way of doing business and a new government," Obama said with Suu Kyi sitting next to him in the Oval Office
  
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• US plans to take in 110,000 refugees next year

  14-09-2016 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The White House has unveiled plans to increase refugee admissions to 110,000 next year, amid a fraught US debate over the appropriate numbers to take in. Ahead of a summit on the global refugee crisis at the United Nations next week, White House spokesman Josh Earnest said a goal has been set of admitting around 30 percent more refugees in the coming fiscal year. Nearly five million Syrians have fled their country since war broke out in 2011, and the United States has committed to resettling 10,
  
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• Doctor: Hunger-striking ex-Gitmo prisoner slips into coma

  14-09-2016 23:18 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MONTEVIDEO, Uruguay (AP) — A former Guantanamo prisoner on a hunger strike slipped into a coma Wednesday, said a doctor in Uruguay, where the ex-detainee was taken in as a refugee nearly two years ago but has been demanding to move elsewhere to reunite with his family.
  
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• The Latest: Gunman shoots 3 at a complex before killing self

  14-09-2016 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — The Latest on a shooting that led to the deaths of two people at a senior citizens apartment complex (all times local):
  
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• Update from Clinton's doctor: Democrat is 'fit to serve'

  14-09-2016 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. (AP) — Hillary Clinton is "recovering well" from pneumonia and remains "fit to serve as President of the United States," her doctor said in a letter released Wednesday by her campaign.
  
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• New poll: Candidates neck-and-neck nationally

  14-09-2016 23:12 via cnn.com
  
  Bill Clinton's effort to help his recuperating wife Wednesday may have instead caused her another political headache when he said Hillary Clinton was suffering from the flu, not pneumonia, as her campaign has said.
  
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• House moves ahead on bill to make it easier to fire at VA

  14-09-2016 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Republican-led House is moving ahead on a bill aimed at making it easier for the Department of Veterans Affairs to fire employees for misconduct or poor performance — a source of ongoing tension with the Obama administration.
  
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• Nearly half of Americans ‘very concerned’ about Clinton emails: Reuters/Ipsos poll

  14-09-2016 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Chris Kahn NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nearly half of American adults are "very concerned" about two issues that have hounded Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign this year: her use of a private email server to conduct government business and donations to her family's charitable foundation, according to a Reuters/Ipsos opinion poll released on Wednesday. During that time, she used an unauthorized private email server to conduct government business - something that the Federal Bureau of Investigat
  
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• US official: Difficult to alter US elections through hacking

  14-09-2016 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama's homeland security adviser said Wednesday that it would be very hard for someone to hack into America's voting systems in a way that could alter an election outcome.
  
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• In leaked emails, Powell calls Trump a 'national disgrace'

  14-09-2016 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a trove of newly leaked emails, former Secretary of State Colin Powell calls Donald Trump "a national disgrace" and suggests his own Republican Party is "crashing and burning." Powell ...
  
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• Tough Phoenix sheriff may have new foe: George Soros

  14-09-2016 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joe Arpaio, the self-proclaimed toughest sheriff in America who could face criminal charges for ignoring a judge's order to stop targeting Latinos in anti-immigration roundups, may now have a new foe as ...
  
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• Prosecutors: Brazil's Silva 'commander' of graft scheme

  14-09-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian investigators on Wednesday charged former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva with money laundering and corruption, calling him the "maximum commander" of the mammoth graft scandal roiling Latin America's largest nation.
  
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• As Suu Kyi visits, US announces lifting of Myanmar sanctions

  14-09-2016 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama said Wednesday the U.S. is lifting economic sanctions and restoring trade benefits to former pariah state Myanmar as he met with Aung San Suu Kyi, a former political prisoner who is now the nation's de facto leader.
  
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• The New iMessage Is the Most Fun You've Ever Had Texting

  14-09-2016 22:56 via nbcnews.com
  
  Apple's iOS 10 was rolled out on Tuesday and although there were some snags, for many users it felt like an early holiday gift.
  
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• Brazil's ex-pres hit with corruption charges

  14-09-2016 22:56 via cnn.com
  
  Brazilian prosecutors on Wednesday presented charges of corruption against ex-President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his wife, Marisa Leticia da Silva, according to state-run news agency Agencia Brasil.
  
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• The Latest: Clinton's doctor says she's 'fit to serve'

  14-09-2016 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):
  
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• US confidence in media hits fresh low: Gallup

  14-09-2016 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Americans' trust in the media has sunk to a new low, and a bitter presidential race may be to blame, a Gallup survey showed Wednesday. The poll asking whether the media report the news "fully, accurately and fairly" found just 32 percent of Americans have a great deal or fair amount of trust, the lowest level in Gallup polling history and eight percentage points below last year.
  
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• Ryan Lochte protesters defend TV show ambush after arrest

  14-09-2016 22:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The protesters who ambushed Ryan Lochte on "Dancing with the Stars" are defending their actions after being released from jail.
  
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• What we know about Trump's health

  14-09-2016 22:40 via cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump, the man whose doctor claims would be the "healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency," doesn't exercise, wants to lose at least 15 pounds and is on medication to control his cholesterol.
  
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• ... while Trump gives his to TV doc

  14-09-2016 22:40 via cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump, the man whose doctor claims would be the "healthiest individual ever elected to the presidency," doesn't exercise, wants to lose at least 15 pounds and is on medication to control his cholesterol.
  
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• US archer with no arms jokes about buying first bow

  14-09-2016 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A man with no arms walks into a shop selling bows and arrows -- yes, US Paralympic star archer Matt Stutzman agrees this could sound like the start of a joke. Feeling "depressed" by his inability to contribute to the family or work while his wife Amber scrambled with two jobs, Stutzman decided in 2009 on an unlikely solution. First Stutzman, who was born without arms, had to go to a store.
  
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• French, German ministers in Ukraine to revive peace deal

  14-09-2016 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MOSCOW (AP) — French and German foreign ministers visited Ukraine Wednesday in a bid to shore up a 2015 peace deal that has floundered amid continuing fighting in eastern Ukraine.
  
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• Fed jitters and oil pull Wall Street lower; Apple rallies

  14-09-2016 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Wall Street edged lower on Wednesday as investors stewed about future interest rate hikes and cheaper oil dragged down energy shares, although Apple surged to its highest level this year.
  
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• Museum under fire for 'sexist' brain quiz

  14-09-2016 22:30 via cnn.com
  
  The Science Museum in London has come under fire for an exhibit that apparently tells you whether your brain is male or female.
  
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• Man charged in North Carolina cop's slaying to be arraigned

  14-09-2016 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  COVENTRY, R.I. (AP) — A wounded fugitive wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of a police officer in North Carolina was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday evening, hours after he was captured by police in Rhode Island, state police said.
  
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• 12 nations to take aim at fishing subsidies at WTO

  14-09-2016 22:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The United States and 11 other countries on Wednesday announced the start of a drive at the World Trade Organization to eliminate harmful fishing subsidies that contribute to ocean depopulation. The announcement fell on the eve of an annual conference in Washington on ocean governance and environmental preservation. In a joint statement, the representatives of the 12 nations, which included Australia, Norway, Singapore and landlocked Switzerland, said they would begin talks to develop a WTO agre
  
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• At memorial for lawmaker, Biden speaks of his own grief

  14-09-2016 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Speaking of his own experience after his son Beau's death, Vice President Joe Biden consoled the family of the late Rep. Mark Takai on Wednesday, telling them to "hang on to each other" to make it through the rough days.
  
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• Oregon sheriff says occupiers warned of armed invasion

  14-09-2016 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — The occupiers who took over a national wildlife refuge warned an Oregon sheriff that his county would be "invaded" by armed citizens if he didn't protect his constituents from the federal government, the law officer testified Wednesday.
  
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• Poll: Trump gains in critical states

  14-09-2016 22:15 via cnn.com
  
  With eight weeks to go before Election Day, Donald Trump holds a narrow lead over Hillary Clinton in Ohio and the two are locked in a near-even contest in Florida, according to new CNN/ORC polls in the two critical battleground states.
  
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• Strongest storm on Earth makes landfall in China

  14-09-2016 22:05 via cnn.com
  
  China has issued its highest warning for high ocean waves as Typhoon Meranti slices its way toward the mainland after pounding Taiwan.
  
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• Captured ports handed over to Libya oil company

  14-09-2016 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Forces opposed to Libya's unity government handed management of four vital oil ports to the National Oil Company on Wednesday after seizing them in a blow to fragile peace efforts. Prime minister-designate Fayez al-Sarraj called for urgent talks after the ports were captured by forces loyal to Field Marshal Khalifa Haftar, who supports a rival administration in the country's east. The offensive in the so-called oil crescent was a major setback for Sarraj's UN-backed Government of National Accord
  
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• Teen at center of California police sex scandal out of jail

  14-09-2016 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The teenager at the center of a northern California police sex scandal was released Wednesday from a Florida jail after pleading no contest to a misdemeanor assault charge.
  
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