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• Feds accuse Silicon Valley firm of hiring bias

  26-09-2016 23:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The U.S. Department of Labor has filed a lawsuit accusing a high-flying Silicon Valley software company of systematically discriminating against Asian job applicants over the last five years.
  
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• Huskers' Rose-Ivey: Racist posts show protest is needed

  26-09-2016 23:49 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — A Nebraska football player who took a knee during the national anthem before the game at Northwestern on Saturday night said he and his family have received racially charged criticism on social media, and said the responses show why the protest is necessary.
  
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• Life without Duncan begins for the new-look Spurs

  26-09-2016 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — Life without Tim Duncan has officially begun for the San Antonio Spurs, even if they aren't quite ready to accept it.
  
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• Jupiter moon may have water plumes that shoot up 125 miles

  26-09-2016 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Hubble Space Telescope has spied what appear to be water plumes on one of Jupiter's icy moons shooting up as high as 125 miles.
  
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• Use of body cams questioned after Charlotte police killings

  26-09-2016 23:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer in Charlotte is only the latest shooting to raise questions about how the department uses body cameras.
  
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• Babcock and Krueger to match wits in World Cup of Hockey

  26-09-2016 23:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TORONTO (AP) — Mike Babcock scoffs at the notion that he simply shows up to coach the Canadians and they keep winning best-on-best games, a streak that has run to 14.
  
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• 76ers center Noel: Too many bigs on team, 'Just a logjam'

  26-09-2016 23:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CAMDEN, N.J. (AP) — Shortly after Philadelphia 76ers president and general manager Bryan Colangelo said he is not actively shopping any of his players, Sixers center Nerlens Noel openly wondered how he, Jahlil Okafor and Joel Embiid can co-exist as the team's three big men.
  
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• Correction: T25-College Football Poll story

  26-09-2016 23:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  In a story Sept. 25 about The AP Top 25 poll, The Associated Press, due to a technical error, said that TCU was No. 20 in the latest rankings. TCU is No. 21.
  
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• New car mileage estimates drop as EPA changes test formula

  26-09-2016 23:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (AP) — Highway gas mileage estimates for about one-third of all new vehicles sold in the U.S. will fall by one mile per gallon because the government has changed the way it calculates the numbers on the window sticker.
  
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• 'Surprising' Activity on Jupiter's Moon Europa

  26-09-2016 23:09 via nbcnews.com
  
  Hubble has found evidence of geysers on Jupiter's moon Europa.
  
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• Walking is medicine? It helped high-risk seniors stay mobile

  26-09-2016 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — It's not too late to get moving: Simple physical activity — mostly walking — helped high-risk seniors stay mobile after disability-inducing ailments even if, at 70 and beyond, they'd long been couch potatoes.
  
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• 'The Magnificent Seven' tops North American box office

  26-09-2016 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Los Angeles (AFP) - "The Magnificent Seven," a remake starring Denzel Washington of the classic 1960 Western, outgunned the competition at the North American box office in its debut week, industry data showed Monday.
  
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• Florida authorities seek causes of Jose Fernandez boat crash

  26-09-2016 23:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Investigators are trying to determine whether Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez was at the wheel of his sportfishing boat when it slammed into a jetty in the early-morning darkness, killing him and two others on board.
  
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• Clinton, Trump go head to head for first time

  26-09-2016 23:02 via cnn.com
  
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• LeBron will stand for anthem, says 'scary' to be parent now

  26-09-2016 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) — LeBron James has been horrified at the videos of police shootings and violence he's seen over the past few months. Like many Americans, he's anxious for change.
  
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• Pacers believe pieces are in place to play faster style

  26-09-2016 22:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana Pacers President Larry Bird spent most of his offseason trying to stitch together a championship contender.
  
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• US stocks slide as banks tumble on Deutsche Bank worries

  26-09-2016 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  U.S. stocks slumped Monday, and banks took the biggest losses. Deutsche Bank plunged as investors worried about the financial health of Germany's largest bank. Pfizer pulled drugmakers down after it announced ...
  
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• Mall shooting suspect charged with murder

  26-09-2016 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — The man accused of killing five people at Macy's store in a Washington state shopping mall before leading authorities on a nearly 24-hour manhunt was charged Monday with five counts of first-degree murder.
  
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• Clash of the titans: Clinton, Trump go head to head

  26-09-2016 22:53 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump face off Monday in one of the most consequential presidential debates in modern US history with up to 100 million viewers set to tune in. The stakes could not be higher: the first woman to win the White House nomination for a major US party, against a New York tycoon turned reality star who has upended the political establishment. Commentators call it a clash of the titans: a 90-minute test of endurance between Clinton the Democrat, arguably the most experienced
  
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• FBI data show increase in murder, violent crime in 2015

  26-09-2016 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Are Americans safer? It depends on where you live.
  
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• Testimony: Christie pals OK'd gridlock, campaign chief knew

  26-09-2016 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — A political revenge scheme to create traffic gridlock near the George Washington Bridge in 2013 was approved by two former allies of Republican Gov. Chris Christie on trial for fraud and shared with Christie's then-campaign manager, the government's key witness testified Monday.
  
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• Colombia, FARC to sign historic peace deal

  26-09-2016 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Colombia's government and the leftist FARC rebels prepared to sign a peace accord Monday to end a half-century civil war that has killed hundreds of thousands of people. A solemn ceremony on the Caribbean coast witnessed by international dignitaries will set the seal on a four-year process to end Latin America's last major armed conflict. "Today we are experiencing the happiness of a new dawn for Colombia," President Juan Manuel Santos wrote on Twitter.
  
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• New evidence of water plumes on Jupiter's moon Europa

  26-09-2016 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  More evidence of possible water plumes erupting from the surface of Jupiter's icy moon Europa has been spotted using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope, the US space agency said Monday. Europa, one of more than 50 moons circling the gas giant, is considered by NASA as a "top candidate" for life elsewhere in the solar system because it is believed to possess a massive, salty, subsurface ocean that is twice the size of Earth's. The latest finding has given scientists fresh hope that a robotic spacecraf
  
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• Saudis petition to end male guardianship

  26-09-2016 22:23 via cnn.com
  
  Saudi Arabian women's rights campaigners are calling for an end to the country's male guardianship system by sending telegrams and a petition to King Salman this week.
  
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• Saudi women petition for autonomy

  26-09-2016 22:23 via cnn.com
  
  Saudi Arabian women's rights campaigners are calling for an end to the country's male guardianship system by sending telegrams and a petition to King Salman this week.
  
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• Marlins don late pitcher's jersey in tribute

  26-09-2016 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Miami Marlins planned a somber tribute to their late star pitcher Jose Fernandez, with the team wearing his No. 16 on the back of their jerseys when they take the field late Monday. Local news reports said the Marlins decided to wear the jersey of their 24-year old pitching ace, who died in a boating accident Sunday, when the team plays the New York Mets -- a game that Fernandez had been scheduled to pitch. Ahead of the game at Marlins Park, the grounds crew also painted Fernandez's No. 16 n
  
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• Obama says US making progress on Native American issues

  26-09-2016 22:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the U.S. has made significant progress improving conditions for Native Americans but has more work to do.
  
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• Green candidate escorted from debate

  26-09-2016 22:11 via cnn.com
  
  Green Party presidential nominee Jill Stein was escorted off the Hofstra University campus Monday after her prearranged media interviews because she didn't have credentials to be there.
  
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• Palmer's impact: Grand Slam, endorsements, TV, private jets

  26-09-2016 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHASKA, Minn. (AP) — Jack Nicklaus, Tiger Woods and Jordan Spieth all chased the Grand Slam, golf's holy grail of winning all four majors in one year.
  
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• Body camera use questioned in fatal shootings in Charlotte

  26-09-2016 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — The fatal shooting of a black man by a police officer in Charlotte is only the latest shooting to raise questions about how the department uses body cameras.
  
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• Debate pitfalls and hurdles for Clinton, Trump

  26-09-2016 22:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump can expect tough questions during their first presidential debate Monday night on the blunders and controversies incurred in their race for the White House. -- Trust: Many voters say they simply don't trust Clinton. -- "Deplorables": Clinton used the colorful expression during a fundraising event to describe Trump's backers.
  
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• GAFFES: Unforgettable debates

  26-09-2016 21:59 via cnn.com
  
  Presidential debates are about ideas, tough questions -- and gaffes.
  
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• Rio police kill drug suspect who made bold hospital escape

  26-09-2016 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazilian police have shot dead a suspected drug trafficker who stunned Rio de Janeiro by pulling off a violent escape from a hospital.
  
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• Mall victims include Macy's worker, teen, probation officer

  26-09-2016 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SEATTLE (AP) — Five people were killed in a shooting this weekend at a Macy's store in a mall north of Seattle. Authorities do not plan to make their identities public until Tuesday, but details about four of the victims have been reported by some of their employers and Washington state media.
  
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• The Latest: EU removing Colombia's FARC from terror list

  26-09-2016 21:50 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CARTAGENA, Colombia (AP) — The Latest on the signing of a historic peace deal in Colombia (all times local):
  
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• LePage's documents don't back up claims on blacks, Hispanics

  26-09-2016 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — Maine Gov. Paul LePage has released his informal documentation on drug arrests and they don't back up his claim that out-of-state blacks and Hispanics account for "90-plus percent" of heroin-trafficking arrests.
  
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• Arnold Palmer: The King and his mulligan

  26-09-2016 21:46 via cnn.com
  
  Eliott C. McLaughlin remembers his brush with the late Arnold Palmer, 'The King', at Augusta's Par-3 Contest.
  
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• Army fires Fort Riley commander as investigation continues

  26-09-2016 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Army says it has fired the commander of Fort Riley and is continuing an investigation opened last week at the Kansas base. No details have been provided.
  
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• Orgeron: Coaching LSU 'a dream,' offense will be 'tweaked'

  26-09-2016 21:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — As much as Ed Orgeron might have preferred a different route to the top coaching job at LSU, the Louisiana native was never going to be able to hide his enthusiasm for his new opportunity — and didn't try.
  
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• LeBron James: 'Scary' to think of my son getting pulled over by police

  26-09-2016 21:44 via cnn.com
  
  LeBron James has three children. And while his oldest, LeBron Jr. just started the sixth grade, that hasn't stopped the Cleveland Cavaliers forward from thinking about what it could be like if he was old enough to drive.
  
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• LeBron James: 'Scary-ass situation' if my son gets pulled over

  26-09-2016 21:44 via cnn.com
  
  LeBron James has three children. And while his oldest, LeBron Jr. just started the sixth grade, that hasn't stopped the Cleveland Cavaliers forward from thinking about what it could be like if he was old enough to drive.
  
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• LeBron James: 'Scary-ass situation'

  26-09-2016 21:44 via cnn.com
  
  LeBron James has three children. And while his oldest, LeBron Jr. just started the sixth grade, that hasn't stopped the Cleveland Cavaliers forward from thinking about what it could be like if he was old enough to drive.
  
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• The Latest: Complex manager says suspect upset recently

  26-09-2016 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on a shooting at in Houston neighborhood (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Boat in crash was registered to Marlins pitcher

  26-09-2016 21:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — The Latest on baseball ace Jose Fernandez's death in a boating accident (all times local):
  
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• The Latest: Suspect in mall shooting charged with murder

  26-09-2016 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MOUNT VERNON, Wash. (AP) — The Latest on a deadly mall shooting in Washington state (all times local):
  
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• Official: One-third of calls to VA suicide hotline roll over

  26-09-2016 21:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — More than one-third of calls to a suicide hotline for troubled veterans are not being answered by front-line staffers because of poor work habits and other problems at the Department of Veterans Affairs, according to the hotline's former director.
  
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• Banks tumble with interest rates, leading a US stock slide

  26-09-2016 21:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — U.S. stocks are slumping Monday and banks are taking the biggest losses. Shares of Deutsche Bank hit an all-time low and interest rates are moving lower. Pfizer is pulling drugmakers down after it announced it won't break up into two companies.
  
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• Venezuela opposition to push 2016 recall despite ruling

  26-09-2016 21:24 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela's opposition vowed Monday to press forward with its bid to recall President Nicolas Maduro this year and promised street demonstrations should the government continue to stymie the vote.
  
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• Saudi king slashes salaries of ministers, employee bonuses

  26-09-2016 21:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AP) — Saudi Arabia's King Salman is reducing the salaries and benefits of senior officials and the Cabinet cut bonuses for public employees on Monday, as lower oil prices continue to pinch the kingdom's economy.
  
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• LeBron supports Kaepernick but will stand during anthem

  26-09-2016 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  INDEPENDENCE, Ohio (AP) — LeBron James says he plans to stand during the national anthem, but he supports San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick's decision to kneel in protest.
  
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