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• Old Dominion student: 8-hour interrogation after campus rape

  13-10-2016 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An Old Dominion University student who reported she was raped in her dorm room is charging that campus police prevented her from getting a medical exam to preserve evidence until after she was interrogated for almost eight hours.
  
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• Florida IDs new Miami neighborhood as Zika zone

  13-10-2016 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  Health officials announced Thursday a new Zika zone in Miami — a setback less than a month after declaring the nearby Wynwood neighborhood cleared of the virus following aggressive mosquito spraying. Five ...
  
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• 'Fantastic Beasts' franchise grows to 5 films

  13-10-2016 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — J.K. Rowling's "Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them" isn't going to be a trilogy, it's going to be a pentalogy.
  
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• Airlines add 'fire containment bags' for overheating phones

  13-10-2016 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Some airlines are taking extra steps to prevent a disaster in case a passenger's device powered by a lithium ion battery catches fire during flight.
  
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• Fox's Lou Dobbs apologizes for tweeting accuser's info

  13-10-2016 23:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Fox Business Network's Lou Dobbs apologized Thursday for tweeting the address and phone number of a woman who alleged Donald Trump had groped her without her consent.
  
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• Trump rejects sexual assault 'lies,' first lady rebukes him

  13-10-2016 23:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump on Thursday savaged US media for reporting claims that he groped and forcibly kissed women -- allegations he said were "outright lies" -- as First Lady Michelle Obama blasted the Republican nominee in a campaign trail tirade. "Now is the time for all of us to stand up and say, enough is enough," Obama told a rally for Hillary Clinton in New Hampshire. Claims by at least six women have come to light in accounts reported by The New York Times, NBC, People Magazine and other outlets, m
  
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• Galaxy count just increased 10x

  13-10-2016 23:48 via cnn.com
  
  Turns out we were wrong; there aren't200 billion galaxies in the universe.
  
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• 1.8 trillion more galaxies than we thought

  13-10-2016 23:48 via cnn.com
  
  Turns out we were wrong; there aren't200 billion galaxies in the universe.
  
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• Threatens to sue NY Times

  13-10-2016 23:40 via money.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump threatened to sue The New York Times for publishing a bombshell report in which two women claimed the former real estate magnate had touched them inappropriately, according to the Times.
  
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• POLLS: Clinton's big leads

  13-10-2016 23:38 via cnn.com
  
  A trio of state polls released this week show Hillary Clinton's northern "blue wall" holding, as she carries commanding leads across a series of key states.
  
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• LSU-Florida gets rescheduled for Nov. 19 in Baton Rouge

  13-10-2016 23:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — LSU and Florida will play Nov. 19 at Tiger Stadium in Baton Rouge, a game rescheduled because of Hurricane Matthew.
  
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• Trump fights for survival as groping allegations grow

  13-10-2016 23:32 via cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump issued an apocalyptic call-to-arms to his supporters Thursday as he battled for political survival amid mounting allegations of sexual misconduct.
  
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• What if the Cuban Missile Crisis escalated?

  13-10-2016 23:13 via cnn.com
  
  The Cuban missile crisis, recalled Robert F. Kennedy, was "a confrontation between the two giant atomic nations, the US and the USSR, which brought the world to the abyss of nuclear destruction and the end of mankind."
  
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• 2 Polish mountain climbers die in the Himalayas

  13-10-2016 23:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Two members of a Polish team of climbers have died while scaling a Himalayan peak in India, the head of Poland's climbers' union said Thursday.
  
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• Trump comments prompt congresswoman to share assault story

  13-10-2016 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — U.S. Rep. Annie Kuster doesn't doubt Donald Trump used his fame to force himself on women with neither consent nor consequences. She says she experienced just that with a celebrity surgeon who assaulted her decades ago when she was a young staffer on Capitol Hill.
  
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• Patti LuPone, Christine Ebersole planning Broadway return

  13-10-2016 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — The new musical "War Paint," with stars Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole, will be moving to the bright lights of Broadway.
  
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• Michelle Obama and Donald Trump just made duelling speeches on women

  13-10-2016 23:04 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Michelle Obama and Donald Trump gave speeches within minutes of each other, and presented very different views on allegations about his treatment of women.
  
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• Coolio charged with a felony after gun found in bag at LAX

  13-10-2016 23:04 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Authorities say rapper Coolio has been charged with a felony after a gun was found in a backpack at Los Angeles International Airport.
  
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• US strikes in Yemen risk wider entanglement in civil war

  13-10-2016 23:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The direct U.S. entry into Yemen's civil war, for now a limited response to rebel missile fire on a U.S. Navy ship, risks a wider entanglement that could leave the next American president embroiled in a yet another unwanted Middle East war with broad implications for the region and beyond.
  
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• New Zika zone identified in Miami

  13-10-2016 23:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Florida has identified a new area in Miami where the mosquito-borne Zika virus is being transmitted locally, in addition to a previously described zone in Miami Beach, officials said Thursday. The new area spans about one square mile (2.6 square kilometers) in the northwestern part of the city, said a statement by Governor Rick Scott. "Pregnant women are advised to avoid non-essential travel to the impacted areas in Miami-Dade County," said the Department of Health.
  
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• Portugal's Guterres appointed as next UN chief

  13-10-2016 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  United Nations (United States) (AFP) - The UN General Assembly on Thursday appointed Antonio Guterres as the new secretary-general of the United Nations, in a shift towards a more high-profile leadership of the world body.
  
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• Kendall Jenner says she was terrified at stalking scene

  13-10-2016 22:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Kendall Jenner testified Thursday at the trial of a man accused of stalking her that she was terrified when he followed her up the driveway of her Hollywood Hills home and repeatedly knocked on the window of her car.
  
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• The Latest: Clinton 'doesn't care' if Trump attacks her

  13-10-2016 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):
  
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• Spacecraft, mini-drones and robotic arms: Obama nerds out

  13-10-2016 22:54 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — President Barack Obama has a confession: He's a science geek, a nerd, and he's not apologizing to anyone.
  
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• His moment of reckoning

  13-10-2016 22:54 via cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump has reached his moment of reckoning -- and it is hard to imagine how his campaign will regain its footing with just 26 days to Election Day.
  
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• 2 Polish mountain climbers die in the Himalayas in India

  13-10-2016 22:53 via feeds.foxnews.com
  
  Polish mountain climbing authorities says two members of a Polish team have died while scaling a Himalayan peak in India.
  
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• 'How does it feel?' - Bob Dylan wins Nobel literature prize

  13-10-2016 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Alistair Scrutton and Scott Malone STOCKHOLM/BOSTON (Reuters) - Bob Dylan, a powerful voice of social turmoil in the United States from the 1960s onward, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday in a surprise decision that made him the first singer-songwriter to win the honor. The 75-year-old Dylan, who won the prize for "having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition," joins a long line of novelists, poets and playwrights including Octavio Paz, A
  
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• Religious leaders slam Clinton

  13-10-2016 22:50 via cnn.com
  
  Catholic and evangelical groups slammed Hillary Clinton's campaign in a statement Thursday over comments revealed in the WikiLeaks emails hack between two high-level campaign officials.
  
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• Peace is top priority for next UN chief Antonio Guterres

  13-10-2016 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Antonio Guterres pledged Thursday to make the pursuit of peace in a conflict-torn world his "over-arching priority" after being elected the next secretary-general of the United Nations.
  
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• Nats' Baker says Strasburg wouldn't be available for NLCS

  13-10-2016 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Nationals manager Dusty Baker says injured right-hander Stephen Strasburg would not be available for the NL Championship Series if Washington were to advance.
  
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• AFCA picks Oklahoma St as 1945 coaches' national champion

  13-10-2016 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The American Football Coaches Association has retroactively named Oklahoma State its 1945 national champion.
  
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• Wall Street dips with financials, weak China data

  13-10-2016 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. stocks slipped on Thursday led by falls in financial shares and following weak Chinese economic data but a late-day rebound in oil prices limited the day's decline.
  
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• DeVry agrees to stop using ad claim that it couldn't back up

  13-10-2016 22:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DeVry University is dropping one of its marquee advertisement claims after the federal government found there was no evidence to support it.
  
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• Brazil opens Latin America's 1st elephant refuge

  13-10-2016 22:42 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHAPADA DOS GUIMARAES, Brazil (AP) — Maia grunts and nervously moves her huge body back and forth while being released from a transport container to a new home. Here, there are no gawking crowds for the Asian elephant that has spent her life in captivity. There are no blows from bull hooks, no one demanding tricks like people did when she was in the circus.
  
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• NY Times to Trump: Go ahead, sue us

  13-10-2016 22:41 via money.cnn.com
  
  Donald Trump threatened to sue The New York Times for publishing a bombshell report in which two women claimed the former real estate magnate had touched them inappropriately, according to the Times.
  
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• Billy Bush: The worst kind of bystander

  13-10-2016 22:39 via cnn.com
  
  The most powerful man on the "Access Hollywood" bus wasn't Donald Trump. It was Billy Bush.
  
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• News Guide: Trump faces fresh accusations from women

  13-10-2016 22:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Potentially damaging new allegations have hit Donald Trump, pushing his treatment of women to the forefront of his presidential bid. In the past 24 hours, women have come forward telling stories of sexual assault, groping and unwanted advances. Trump and his campaign strongly deny the accusations.
  
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• AP Exclusive: Woman: 8-hour interrogation after campus rape

  13-10-2016 22:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — An Old Dominion University student who reported she was raped in her dorm room is charging that campus police prevented her from getting a medical exam to preserve evidence until after she was interrogated for almost eight hours.
  
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• 'Hard Brexit' or 'no Brexit' for Britain - Tusk

  13-10-2016 22:35 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Britain's only alternative to a "hard Brexit" is "no Brexit", European Council President Donald Tusk says.
  
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• Early voting offers positive signs in key states for Clinton

  13-10-2016 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Advance voting shows positive signs for Hillary Clinton in two states that could help her lock up the presidency, North Carolina and Florida, as the election enters a critical, final stretch.
  
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• Cops: Man abducted co-worker, possibly tortured her to death

  13-10-2016 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  STROUDSBURG, Pa. (AP) — Evidence found in the home of a man long considered a person of interest in his co-worker's disappearance suggests she might have been tortured or otherwise met with a violent death, officials said.
  
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• 17 years after devastation, historic town floods again

  13-10-2016 22:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TARBORO, N.C. (AP) — Amanda Brown clutched a green folder with personal documents while she waited to speak to a FEMA representative along the banks of the river threatening to inundate her town.
  
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• Florida health officials identify new Miami neighborhood as Zika transmission zone

  13-10-2016 22:31 via news.yahoo.com
  
  MIAMI (AP) — Florida health officials identify new Miami neighborhood as Zika transmission zone.
  
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• Verizon says massive Yahoo hack could impact deal

  13-10-2016 22:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Verizon said Thursday the massive breach affecting 500 million Yahoo customers could have a "material" effect on the $4.8 billion deal to acquire key assets of the Internet group. The comments from Verizon general counsel Craig Silliman suggest the US telecom giant could seek to reduce the purchase price or walk away from the deal. "I think we have a reasonable basis to believe right now that the impact is material and we're looking to Yahoo to demonstrate to us the full impact." Silliman told a
  
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• Clown: Creepy clowns ruining our profession

  13-10-2016 22:28 via cnn.com
  
  To begin the discussion of the so-called "scary clowns" that have been frightening and threatening people across the country: It should be stated that these people are NOT clowns, they are impostors. They wear masks rather than makeup, and they bring fear, not fun!
  
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• Why Trump needs to win

  13-10-2016 22:26 via cnn.com
  
  "For of all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been.'"
  
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• London Zoo: Escaped gorilla back in enclosure; no one hurt

  13-10-2016 22:25 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LONDON (AP) — A potentially dangerous incident involving an escaped gorilla ended peacefully at the London Zoo Thursday evening after visitors were briefly locked down in a cafeteria and heavily armed officers were summoned to help workers hunt down the animal.
  
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• The Latest: Dylan's home state proud over Nobel Prize

  13-10-2016 22:23 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Latest on the awarding of the Nobel Prize in literature to American singer-songwriter Bob Dylan (all times local):
  
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• Some Republican officials stick with Trump, cite the issues

  13-10-2016 22:22 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Some key Republican officeholders and candidates reaffirmed their support for Donald Trump Thursday despite new allegations from women that he groped and assaulted them. The Republicans argued that Trump would still be better on key issues like energy and the Supreme Court than Democrat Hillary Clinton.
  
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• Trump lashes accusers as 'horrible, horrible liars'

  13-10-2016 22:19 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Donald Trump heatedly rejected new allegations of sexual assault as "pure fiction" on Thursday, hammering his female accusers as "horrible, horrible liars" as the already-nasty 2016 presidential campaign sank further into charges and countercharges of attacks on women.
  
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