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• California's drought divide _ rainy north, dry south

  04-11-2016 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Among the changing red and yellow fall leaves of Yosemite National Park, nature artist Penny Otwell is marveling at the fullest rushing waterfalls and rivers she's ever painted there in autumn. But down in the dry Southern California suburbs, David Cantuna laments the same dead and dying grass in his backyard.
  
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• Chicago Goes All Out Celebrating World Series Champion Cubs

  04-11-2016 23:57 via nbcnews.com
  
  It was the party the city of Chicago had been waiting to throw since 1908, as millions of fans from around the world converged on Grant Park to celebrate the World Series champions.
  
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• Turkey draws Western condemnation over arrest of Kurdish lawmakers

  04-11-2016 23:56 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Turkish authorities arrested the leaders of the country's main pro-Kurdish opposition party in a terrorism investigation on Friday, drawing strong international condemnation of a widening crackdown on dissent under President Tayyip Erdogan. Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, co-leaders of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), were jailed pending trial after being held in overnight raids, officials said. Ten other HDP lawmakers were also detained, although some were later released.
  
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• Does Trump Get a Pass on Lies Because He's a Man?

  04-11-2016 23:49 via nbcnews.com
  
  America trusts Donald Trump more than Hillary Clinton. Could it be because one candidate is a man, and one is a woman?
  
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• Three injured, including suspect, in Rutgers University stabbing

  04-11-2016 23:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Two people were stabbed and their suspected attacker was injured at Rutgers University's business school in New Jersey on Friday, the school said. A suspect was taken into custody after the incident that started at about 2:30 p.m. EDT at Rutgers' New Brunswick campus, which includes locations in nearby Piscataway Township, the school said in a statement. "All three individuals were transported to a local hospital for treatment of their injuries," Antonio Calcado, senior vice president of institu
  
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• WATCH: President Obama Defends Trump Protester at Clinton Rally

  04-11-2016 23:42
  
  President Obama turned the tables on the crowd at a Hillary Clinton rally -- sticking up for the free speech rights of a Donald Trump supporter who interrupted him today in Fayetteville, NC.
  
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• WATCH: Standing Rock Sioux Leader Talks Dakota Access Pipeline

  04-11-2016 23:39
  
  Dave Archambault II calls for people concerned about the pipeline to stay focused on protecting water.
  
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• Philadelphia transit union to fight injunction to end strike

  04-11-2016 23:39 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Transit union officials in Philadelphia say they will fight "tooth and nail" against management's bid to have a judge end a four-day strike that has idled subway cars, buses and trolleys and ...
  
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• Packers' Datone Jones fined $36K for roughing Falcons' Ryan

  04-11-2016 23:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Green Bay linebacker Datone Jones was fined $36,464 by the NFL on Friday for his roughing-the-passer penalty against Atlanta last week.
  
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• The Final 15: Latest Polls in the Swing States

  04-11-2016 23:35
  
  These states total 184 electoral votes, enough to swing the election either way.
  
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• WATCH: Mel Gibson on Returning to Directing and Overcoming Controversy

  04-11-2016 23:34
  
  Gibson appears on "Popcorn with Peter Travers" to talk about his newest film "Hacksaw Ridge."
  
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• Sarandon: Take a stand on Dakota pipeline

  04-11-2016 23:32 via cnn.com
  
  You've shared the protest videos and checked in at Standing Rock Indian Reservation on Facebook.
  
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• Sarandon: Empty your bank account over Dakota pipeline

  04-11-2016 23:32 via cnn.com
  
  You've shared the protest videos and checked in at Standing Rock Indian Reservation on Facebook.
  
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• The Latest: WA Democratic elector won't vote for Clinton

  04-11-2016 23:28 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the U.S. presidential race (all times EDT):
  
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• Washington state elector says he won't vote for Clinton

  04-11-2016 23:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A Democratic elector in Washington state said Friday he won't vote for Hillary Clinton even if she wins the popular vote in his state on Election Day, adding a degree of suspense when the Electoral College affirms the election results next month.
  
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• WATCH: Obama Says He's 'Relaxed' About Sasha and Malia Dating: 'They Have Secret Service'

  04-11-2016 23:22
  
  President Obama says both of his daughters, Malia and Sasha, are already on the dating scene. But there are two reasons why he's "pretty relaxed" about it.
  
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• WATCH: Election Cycle Pedals Through Most Gerrymandered Political District in America

  04-11-2016 23:19
  
  North Carolina's 12th congressional district has been redrawn five times since 1993.ABC News' Michael Koenigs pedals its unusual perimeter.
  
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• Jurors review video of officer killing unarmed fleeing man

  04-11-2016 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — A fired police officer's defense team couldn't keep jurors from seeing a cellphone video Friday that shows him killing an unarmed man who was running away, so they spent much of the day trying to discredit the man who recorded it.
  
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• WATCH: Man Who Filmed Walter Scott's Death Testifies in Court

  04-11-2016 23:15
  
  Feidin Santana, 25, who filmed the video, was called to testify by the prosecution today, recounting the moments before, during and after he witnessed the deadly shooting.
  
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• WATCH: Pittsburgh Mayor 'Gonna Turn This Mother Out' for Clinton

  04-11-2016 23:12
  
  Mayor Bill Peduto rallied the crowd with lines made famous by George Clinton.
  
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• The closer the race, the more likely a legal challenge

  04-11-2016 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DENVER (AP) — Donald Trump has notoriously refused to say he would accept a loss to Hillary Clinton in the Nov. 8 election, raising the prospect of a prolonged legal fight that could roil the nation. Legal battles over voting results are rarely successful but they do happen — most famously in 2000, when a 537-vote margin separated Democrat Al Gore and Republican George W. Bush in the must-win state of Florida. In that case, it took a Supreme Court ruling along party lines to resolve
  
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• Ex-Vanderbilt football player gets 17 years for campus rape

  04-11-2016 23:11 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former Vanderbilt football player who encouraged his teammates to rape an unconscious female student was sentenced Friday to 17 years in prison under a law requiring aggravated rape convicts to serve 100 percent of their time behind bars.
  
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• US election: Voters voice worst-case scenarios

  04-11-2016 23:09 via bbc.co.uk
  
  We asked Clinton and Trump supporters the worst case scenario if their candidate loses.
  
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• Millions celebrate winning Chicago Cubs with parade, rally

  04-11-2016 23:09 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CHICAGO (AP) — November blazed like dazzling springtime in Chicago during a massive parade and rally Friday to honor the Cubs' first World Series title in 108 years and fulfill more than a century of pent-up dreams.
  
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• SUPREME COURT NOTEBOOK: Scalia lauded at high-court ceremony

  04-11-2016 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The late Justice Antonin Scalia was a towering legal figure and a powerful writer — but he was also technologically challenged.
  
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• Illinois election judge allegedly sent dead husband's ballot

  04-11-2016 23:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  EDWARDSVILLE, Ill. (AP) — An election judge from southern Illinois was charged Friday with voter fraud for allegedly sending in an absentee ballot in her late husband's name.
  
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• Judge Says North Carolina Illegally Purged Voter Lists

  04-11-2016 23:03 via nbcnews.com
  
  Judge Loretta Biggs said the right to vote "cannot be sacrificed when citizens through no fault of their own have been removed from the voter rolls."
  
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• Diamondbacks hire Lovullo as manager

  04-11-2016 23:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PHOENIX (AP) — Boston Red Sox bench coach Torey Lovullo has been hired as manager of the Arizona Diamondbacks and will be introduced at a news conference on Monday.
  
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• Wall Street scion Caspersen gets 4 years in prison for $38.5 million fraud

  04-11-2016 22:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Nate Raymond NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Wall Street executive Andrew Caspersen was sentenced on Friday to four years in prison for engaging in what prosecutors say was a Ponzi-like scheme to defraud investors including family members and friends out of $38.5 million. Caspersen, who worked at a unit of investment banker Paul Taubman's PJT Partners Inc before his arrest in March, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Jed Rakoff in Manhattan after pleading guilty to charges including securities
  
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• After election, vote monitors urge change in Belarus

  04-11-2016 22:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior European official on Friday urged the government of the ex-Soviet state of Belarus to move forward with democratic reforms after a parliamentary election where Western observers noted minor progress.
  
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• Islamic State claims responsibility for Turkey car bomb: Amaq

  04-11-2016 22:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CAIRO (Reuters) - Islamic State claimed responsibility for a car bomb in the southeastern Turkish city of Diyarbakir on Friday that killed eight people and wounded more than 100, the group's Amaq news agency said. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim said earlier on Friday that Kurdish militants were responsible for the attack, and that one suspected member of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) was also killed in the blast. (Reporting by Ahmed Tolba; Writing by Ahmed Aboulenein; Editing by Kev
  
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• Turkey jails Kurdish party leaders as attack kills nine

  04-11-2016 22:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Turkey on Friday jailed the two leaders of the country's main pro-Kurdish party and several other MPs, in an unprecedented crackdown as a bombing killed nine in the Kurdish-dominated southeast. A court in the southeastern city of Diyarbakir remanded in custody Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-leaders Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag after they were detained along with 10 of its MPs, the state-run Anadolu news agency said. Including Demirtas and Yuksekdag, nine of the 12 HDP MPs were pla
  
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• At rally for Clinton, Obama speaks up for protester supporting Trump

  04-11-2016 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  President Barack Obama chastised supporters at a rally for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton in North Carolina on Friday as tensions spiked when a supporter of Republican opponent Donald Trump stood up and began shouting. Obama was interrupted when a white-haired white man in a beret and suit jacket with what appeared to be military patches stood up with a Trump sign and started yelling. Obama repeatedly told the at-capacity crowd jammed into a gym at Fayetteville State University
  
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• State Department Releases 285 Pages of Former Secretary Clinton's Emails

  04-11-2016 22:41
  
  The emails were given to State by the FBI after the bureau uncovered them.
  
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• Clinton, Trump target two different Americas in final push

  04-11-2016 22:38 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ATKINSON, N. H. (AP) — Hillary Clinton sped across battleground states Friday trying to seal a historic presidential victory powered by minorities and women, while Donald Trump traveled to small-town America to fire up the white, working-class voters he insists will bring the crown to his outsider campaign.
  
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• Two stabbed at New Jersey's Rutgers University, suspect injured

  04-11-2016 22:34 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Laila Kearney NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two people were stabbed and their suspected attacker was injured at the Rutgers University business school in New Jersey on Friday, the school said. A suspect was taken into custody after the attack at Rutgers' New Brunswick campus, which includes locations in nearby Piscataway Township, at about 2:30 p.m., the school said in a statement.
  
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• Three U.S. trainers shot dead at Jordan base - military source

  04-11-2016 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Three U.S. military trainers were shot dead in Jordan on Friday when their car failed to stop at the gate of a military base and was fired on by Jordanian security forces, a Jordanian military source said. The incident occurred at the Prince Faisal air base in the south of Jordan, which is a close strategic ally of the United States. Two trainers died immediately and the third later in hospital.
  
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• Authorities say 1 New York police sergeant shot dead, another wounded after confrontation with suspect

  04-11-2016 22:27 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say 1 New York police sergeant shot dead, another wounded after confrontation with suspect.
  
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• Jimmie Johnson drive for 5 at Texas before shot at 7th Cup

  04-11-2016 22:21 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Jimmie Johnson gets to make a drive for five in Texas with no pressure before going for his record-tying seventh NASCAR championship.
  
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• Ex-executive at NY bank gets 4 years in prison in $38M fraud

  04-11-2016 22:17 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — A former executive at a New York investment bank who admitted defrauding investors of more than $38 million has been sentenced to four years in prison.
  
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• Judge: NC counties must restore voters removed from rolls

  04-11-2016 22:15 via news.yahoo.com
  
  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — A federal judge has ordered local elections boards in North Carolina to restore voters to the rolls after they were purged too close to Election Day.
  
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• Reporter, Rolling Stone Found Liable in UVA Defamation Suit

  04-11-2016 22:11
  
  The debunked 2014 article detailed sexual assault at the University of Virginia.
  
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• Millions flood Chicago streets for Cubs victory parade

  04-11-2016 22:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The streets of Chicago were bathed in Cubs blue Friday as millions of tearful, elated baseball fans cheered their World Series-winning team -- who brought the championship home for the first time in 108 years. Parts of downtown Chicago, the third-largest US city, were shut down as an estimated five million people lined the miles-long parade route from Wrigley Field to Grant Park, where the players were hailed at a huge rally. "We've all dreamed of this so many times over the years, and this has
  
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• Ohio Judge Blocks Trump Supporters from 'Exit Polling'

  04-11-2016 22:04 via nbcnews.com
  
  An Ohio Judge Blocks Trump Supporters from 'Exit Polling' on Friday.
  
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• NJ Transit head: Phone use, other violations unacceptable

  04-11-2016 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — Federal regulators have found numerous safety violations on New Jersey's troubled commuter system, including the lack of on-board emergency tools and working fire extinguishers, trains stopping too close to each other and workers using cellphones when they shouldn't have.
  
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• Eiffel Tower lit green in honor of Paris climate change deal

  04-11-2016 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — The Eiffel Tower and the Arc de Triomphe in Paris have temporarily been lit in green as a reminder to the world to enact the Paris Agreement on climate change.
  
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• 2 more Clinton emails classified at lowest level

  04-11-2016 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The State Department on Friday classified portions of two more emails sent to Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state, in its last release of documents from her private server before Tuesday's presidential election.
  
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• Exclusive: Chipotle, Ackman talks intensify with confidentiality agreement

  04-11-2016 22:02 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Svea Herbst-Bayliss and Lisa Baertlein BOSTON/LOS ANGELES(Reuters) - Billionaire investor William Ackman and Chipotle Mexican Grill have signed an agreement to engage in confidential discussions, a source familiar with the matter said, in a sign that the activist may be able to force change at the burrito chain without a costly and drawn-out proxy contest. Ackman, who took a nearly 10 percent stake in the beleaguered fast casual food chain two months ago and has not disclosed his strategy, wa
  
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• Global stocks slip on U.S. election worries; oil prices dip

  04-11-2016 22:00 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Saqib Iqbal Ahmed NEW YORK (Reuters) - Global equity markets slipped on Friday on investor fears about the outcome of Tuesday's U.S. presidential election, while oil prices fell on worries about surging inventories and whether OPEC members will adhere to planned production limits. Election-related jitters sent the U.S. dollar to a more than one-month low against the safe-haven Swiss franc, while weakness in oil prices raised concerns about low inflation and pushed U.S. Treasury prices higher.
  
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• Wall Street scion Caspersen gets four years in prison for $38 million fraud

  04-11-2016 21:59 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former Wall Street executive Andrew Caspersen was sentenced on Friday to four years in prison for engaging in what prosecutors say was a Ponzi-like scheme to defraud investors including family members and friends out of $38.5 million.
  
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