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• Sprained thumb could leave struggling Bears without Cutler

  20-09-2016 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — The struggling Chicago Bears might have to get by without quarterback Jay Cutler.
  
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• Microsoft raises dividend, plans $40 billion share buyback

  20-09-2016 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp on Tuesday raised its quarterly dividend by 8 percent and said it would buy back up to $40 billion as part of a new share repurchase program. The new buyback program has no expiration date and may be terminated at any time, the company said on Tuesday. The company also said it was on track to complete its current $40 billion stock repurchase program by Dec. 31.
  
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• Is it what they eat?

  20-09-2016 23:54 via cnn.com
  
  The Mediterranean diet may be the secret to longevity!
  
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• US examines airstrikes said to have hit Syrian troops

  20-09-2016 23:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S.-led coalition monitored a target in Syria for two days and deemed it valid before launching the airstrikes that Russia says hit and killed Syrian government troops Saturday, a U.S. Central Command officer said Tuesday.
  
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• The Latest: Trump says Clinton emissary for globalism

  20-09-2016 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the 2016 presidential campaign (all times EDT):
  
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• UK's May uses UN address to portray dependable Britain

  20-09-2016 23:47 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  In her first U.N.
  
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• Tropical Storm Lisa strengthening slightly in the Atlantic

  20-09-2016 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Tropical Storm Lisa was strengthening slightly over the eastern tropical Atlantic on Tuesday and was expected to gain a bit more strength before weakening in a couple of days, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
  
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• FedEx beats Street forecasts with 1Q profit of $715 million

  20-09-2016 23:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DALLAS (AP) — FedEx is raising prices again as it continues to boost earnings.
  
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• Microsoft sets $40 billion stock buyback, raises dividend

  20-09-2016 23:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft Corp. says its board has approved a dividend increase and a new $40 billion stock buyback plan.
  
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• Trudeau: Growth can work for everyone

  20-09-2016 23:39 via cnn.com
  
  When Justin Trudeau swept to power last year amid a wave of positive change and optimism, he promised to bring Canada back to the global stage.
  
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• Trudeau: Growth can work for all

  20-09-2016 23:39 via cnn.com
  
  When Justin Trudeau swept to power last year amid a wave of positive change and optimism, he promised to bring Canada back to the global stage.
  
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• AP Power Rankings: Pats, Steelers tied for top spot

  20-09-2016 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Despite missing key players, the New England Patriots and Pittsburgh Steelers are off to fast starts so far this season.
  
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• Trump didn't make Lady Gaga a star, and other things he can't take credit for

  20-09-2016 23:34 via cnn.com
  
  It is incredibly difficult to overstate Donald Trump's influence on the 2016 presidential race.
  
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• Human skeleton found inside 2,000-year-old shipwreck

  20-09-2016 23:30 via cnn.com
  
  Off the coast of the isolated Mediterranean island of Antikythera in Greece lies one of the most puzzling shipwrecks in history. But now the wreck may finally be ready to reveal its secrets.
  
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• Innovation, safety sought in self-driving car guidelines

  20-09-2016 23:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Saying they were doing something no other government has done, Obama administration officials rolled out a plan Tuesday they say will enable automakers to get self-driving cars onto the road without compromising safety.
  
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• Pilot killed as U-2 spy plane crashes in California

  20-09-2016 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A US pilot was killed and another injured after they ejected from a U-2 spy plane on a training mission in rural California, the Air Force said Tuesday. The plane crashed around 9:00 am local time (1600 GMT) shortly after takeoff in an unpopulated area in Sutter, north of state capital Sacramento, the Air Force said. The plane was assigned to the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron at Beale Air Force Base, the facility said on Facebook.
  
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• NY Times teams with Google parent to tame comments

  20-09-2016 23:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The New York Times said Tuesday it was teaming with Google parent Alphabet in an effort to help filter its online reader comments to maintain a "civil and thoughtful" atmosphere. The newspaper said it would work with Jigsaw, a technology incubator at Alphabet, to improve and expand its comments section. "Maintaining a civil and thoughtful comments section is no easy undertaking, as evidenced by the number of publishers who have shut down their comment capabilities in recent years," said Kinsey W
  
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• Sources: Former President Bush to vote Clinton

  20-09-2016 23:25 via cnn.com
  
  His embrace of Clinton represents a dramatic new chapter in the complicated three-decade-old relationship between the two most prominent families in American politics.
  
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• Maryland, Ohio State take a break as Big Ten plays opens

  20-09-2016 23:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  There is something to be said about having a week off before delving into Big Ten play.
  
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• Mexican authorities: Suspect identified in priest killings

  20-09-2016 23:17 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Authorities in Mexico's Gulf coast state of Veracruz say they have identified a suspect in the killing of two priests.
  
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• Senators push Wells Fargo CEO on pay clawbacks after bogus accounts

  20-09-2016 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Senate lawmakers excoriated Wells Fargo & Co's chief on Tuesday for his oversight of the bank as it opened 2 million bogus customer accounts, potentially laying the groundwork for new rules and reviving questions of whether banks are "too big to fail." Chief Executive Officer John Stumpf told the Senate Banking Committee on Tuesday that customers who had bogus accounts opened in their name will be made whole and compensated for any damage to their credit rating, but some Democratic sena
  
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• Don't play blame game with Brangelina

  20-09-2016 23:15 via cnn.com
  
  After weeks of tabloid speculation, the announcement came Tuesday that Angelina Jolie has filed for divorce from husband of two years (and partner for 11-plus years) Brad Pitt. And the speculation on what went wrong has inevitably been closely followed by the related question of who is to blame?
  
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• Qatar's emir, a U.S. ally, assails Obama's Syria policy

  20-09-2016 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Qatar's emir criticized U.S. President Barack Obama's policy on Syria on Tuesday, highlighting the growing frustration among U.S. allies at what they perceive to be Washington's lackluster action towards the protracted civil war. Qatar, home to a U.S. base, is a vocal critic of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and, like the United States, has supported rebels seeking to topple Assad. Speaking to the United Nations General Assembly, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, criticized Obama's so-called "r
  
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• The Latest: Bomb suspect worked as unarmed security guard

  20-09-2016 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on explosive devices being found in New York and New Jersey (all times local):
  
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• Slow progress on bill to battle Zika and prevent shutdown

  20-09-2016 22:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Top congressional leaders said Tuesday that negotiators are making slow but steady progress on a must-do spending bill to prevent a government shutdown next week and fund the battle against the Zika virus. A handful of tricky issues remain, however, and the Senate's Republican leader again delayed a procedural vote on the measure.
  
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• The Latest: Pence defends Trump Jr. over Skittles 'metaphor'

  20-09-2016 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the 2016 presidential campaign (all times EDT):
  
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• Pipeline ready to reopen, carrying gasoline to 5 states

  20-09-2016 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATLANTA (AP) — Gasoline should begin flowing again Wednesday — through a temporary bypass on a critical pipeline — after a major leak in Alabama forced a shutdown that led to surging fuel prices and scattered gas shortages across the South, a company official said Tuesday.
  
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• Group says it has sued Dow over pesticide used in California

  20-09-2016 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FRESNO, Calif. (AP) — Chemical manufacturing giant Dow fails to warn people in farming communities throughout California when a potentially dangerous pesticide is applied to nearby fields, health advocates claimed in a lawsuit filed Tuesday.
  
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• Air Force: Pilot killed after ejecting in California

  20-09-2016 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  YUBA CITY, Calif. (AP) — The U.S. Air Force says one pilot was killed and another injured when they ejected from a U-2 spy plane shortly before it crashed in Northern California.
  
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• 21 US states sue to block expansion of overtime pay law

  20-09-2016 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A coalition of 21 states is suing the U.S. Department of Labor over a new rule that would make more higher-earning workers eligible for overtime pay.
  
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• Pilots eject as U-2 spy plane crashes in California

  20-09-2016 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two US pilots safely ejected from a U-2 spy plane on a training mission before the aircraft crashed in rural California, the Air Force said Tuesday. The plane came down shortly after takeoff in an unpopulated area in Sutter, north of state capital Sacramento, the Air Force said. The plane was assigned to the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron at Beale Air Force Base, the facility said on Facebook.
  
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• Mayor at heart of New Jersey bridge scandal testifies

  20-09-2016 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The Democratic mayor who prosecutors say was targeted by two former allies of Republican Gov. Chris Christie for a political vendetta told jurors Tuesday how he was courted by Christie staffers for more than three years before ultimately declining to endorse Christie's re-election.
  
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• US bomber suspect's wife in UAE

  20-09-2016 22:49 via cnn.com
  
  Could Ahmad Khan Rahami's wife provide clues about the bombing suspect and his plans?
  
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• FBI looked into New York bombing suspect in 2014, found no terrorism ties

  20-09-2016 22:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The father of the Afghan-born man arrested after weekend bombings in New York and New Jersey reported concerns about his son to the FBI in 2014, but it found no "ties to terrorism" and dropped its inquiry, the father and the agency said on Tuesday. U.S. authorities were investigating whether Ahmad Khan Rahami, the naturalized American citizen captured on Monday in New Jersey after a shootout with police, had accomplices in the bombings or if he picked up militant Islamic views during trips to Af
  
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• Syrian opposition: international ceasefire efforts lack credibility

  20-09-2016 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By John Irish and Yara Bayoumy NEW YORK (Reuters) - Syria's chief opposition coordinator Riad Hijab said on Tuesday that international efforts to achieve a ceasefire in Syria's civil war were doomed without any credible mechanism to designate blame or attribute consequences. Hijab, once a prime minister under Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, said in an interview that the failings in the ceasefire deal brokered by the United States and Russia were flawed from the outset.
  
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• Obama jabs Trump at last UN speech

  20-09-2016 22:42 via cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama took to the most prominent international stage Tuesday to deliver a stark warning to American voters of the dire global consequences they face should they embrace isolationism and ultra-nationalism in November.
  
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• Obama jabs Trump at last speech to UN General Assembly

  20-09-2016 22:42 via cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama took to the most prominent international stage Tuesday to deliver a stark warning to American voters of the dire global consequences they face should they embrace isolationism and ultra-nationalism in November.
  
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• Obama jabs Trump at last speech to UN

  20-09-2016 22:42 via cnn.com
  
  President Barack Obama took to the most prominent international stage Tuesday to deliver a stark warning to American voters of the dire global consequences they face should they embrace isolationism and ultra-nationalism in November.
  
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• Court rejects class-action over lawyers for immigrant kids

  20-09-2016 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — A federal appeals court panel on Tuesday rejected a class-action lawsuit brought on behalf of children who go without lawyers in deportation proceedings, despite saying that having kids represent themselves in such complex matters is "an extremely difficult situation."
  
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• US stocks creep higher as Federal Reserve meeting starts

  20-09-2016 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. stocks inched higher Tuesday in another cautious day of trading as investors kept an eye on central banks in the U.S. and Japan. Health care and household goods companies led the way while energy ...
  
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• Top Ron Paul aides avoid prison for 2012 campaign violations

  20-09-2016 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Two top aides to Ron Paul's 2012 presidential bid were sentenced Tuesday to probation and home confinement rather than prison for their roles in a scheme to cover up campaign payments to a former Iowa state senator who agreed to endorse their boss.
  
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• UN suspends Syria aid convoys after 'savage' attack

  20-09-2016 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BEIRUT (AP) — Volunteers were still dousing the fires from an overnight attack on an aid convoy that killed 20 civilians as the U.N. announced Tuesday it was suspending overland aid deliveries in Syria, jeopardizing food and medical security for millions of besieged and hard-to-reach civilians.
  
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• Court hears challenges to Washington's gun-carry law

  20-09-2016 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A US federal appeals court heard challenges Tuesday to Washington's strict gun-carry law, a battle in the debate over firearms that has divided the country and the two presidential candidates. Lawyers representing the District of Columbia (DC), the other name for the US capital Washington, faced tough questions from the appeals court judges. The city, home to the White House, Congress, political organizations and international bodies such as the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund, ma
  
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• Judge rules Rose accuser must reveal her name publicly

  20-09-2016 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A Los Angeles federal judge has ruled a woman accusing NBA star Derrick Rose of rape cannot remain anonymous at her upcoming civil trial.
  
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• Clinton, Trump joust on domestic security after weekend attacks

  20-09-2016 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Amanda Becker and Emily Flitter WASHINGTON/HIGH POINT, N.C. (Reuters) - Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton consulted national security advisers on Tuesday after weekend bomb blasts renewed fears of domestic attacks, as Republican rival Donald Trump accused her of pushing policies that made the United States less safe. Clinton spoke by phone with former Defense Department official Michele Flournoy, former CIA deputy head Mike Morell and other advisers, her campaign said in an em
  
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• The Latest: Christie among possible bridge scandal witnesses

  20-09-2016 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The Latest on testimony on the second day of the George Washington Bridge lane-closing trial (all times local):
  
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• Task force looking into security, pipeline protesters' clash

  20-09-2016 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A joint task force of North Dakota and federal officials is investigating a clash between Dakota Access pipeline protesters and private security guards earlier this month, a county sheriff announced Tuesday.
  
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• Food, medicine bound for Aleppo

  20-09-2016 22:29 via cnn.com
  
  The brazen strike on an aid convoy in Syria prompted a fierce denunciation Tuesday from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who called the attack "sickening, savage and apparently deliberate."
  
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• Wall Street ends flat with Fed, BOJ up next

  20-09-2016 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Bank of Japan is expected to further ease its ultra-loose policies, according to a Reuters poll of economists. "Not many think the Fed is going to hike tomorrow, but whether they change the language to get a little more hawkish, there’s been conversation around that," said Walter Todd, chief investment officer at Greenwood Capital in Greenwood, South Carolina. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 9.79 points, or 0.05 percent, to 18,129.96, the S&P 500 gained 0.64 points, or 0.03 p
  
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• Tribal leaders to meet with feds in push against drug abuse

  20-09-2016 22:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — American Indian tribal leaders from northern New Mexico — an area of the country devastated by heroin and opioid addiction — are meeting with the U.S. Justice Department over ways to combat opioid abuse amid high overdose deaths among Native Americans.
  
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