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• Higuain double as Juve move four clear of Roma

  08-01-2017 23:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Gonzalo Higuain hit a brace either side of Paulo Dybala's first-half spot-kick as Juventus moved four points clear of Roma on Sunday with a comfortable 3-0 win over Bologna in Turin. In their first competitive match since losing the Italian Super Cup to AC Milan in Doha days before Christmas, Juventus were without Gianluigi Buffon, Leonardo Bonucci, Dani Alves and Patrice Evra for the visit of Roberto Donadoni's men.
  
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• Fiat Chrysler to invest $1 billion in U.S. plants, add jobs

  08-01-2017 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fiat Chrysler Automobiles will invest $1 billion to retool and modernize two plants in the U.S. Midwest, including one that would be able to make the Ram heavy-duty pickup truck currently produced in Mexico, it said on Sunday. The automaker said the investment would create more than 2,000 production-related jobs. The company also said it planned to add three new Jeep models, including a pickup truck, to its product lineup and make them in the United States.
  
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• Fiat Chrysler to build 3 new Jeeps, create 2,000 jobs in US

  08-01-2017 23:51 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Fiat Chrysler will add three new Jeeps to its lineup including a pickup truck as it invests $1 billion in two U.S. factories, furthering its effort to increase production of hot-selling SUVs and pickup ...
  
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• President Obama Says 'Obamacare' Will Survive Beyond His Presidency

  08-01-2017 23:43 via abcnews.go.com
  
  “It may be called something else. And as I said, I don't mind," Obama said.
  
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• Obama Says He and Trump 'Are Sort of Opposites'

  08-01-2017 23:43 via abcnews.go.com
  
  But the president says they both have confidence.
  
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• Got $1,599? That's the price for a national title ticket

  08-01-2017 23:16 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — The College Football Playoff national championship game is a hot ticket.
  
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• Filming starts for movie on Japanese-American units in WWII

  08-01-2017 23:14 via news.yahoo.com
  
  HONOLULU (AP) — A new film will highlight two units in World War II that were made up mostly of Japanese-Americans.
  
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• Questions about hacking swirl as Trump enters critical week

  08-01-2017 23:13 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump and his aides are entering a crucial week in his presidential transition as he and his Cabinet nominees undergo public questioning about their approach to Russia and potential conflicts of interests.
  
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• ISIS claims 2 suicide bombings

  08-01-2017 22:52 via cnn.com
  
  At least 11 people were killed and 25 others were wounded when a suicide car bomb exploded in an outdoor busy market in eastern Baghdad on Sunday, local police officials in Baghdad told CNN.
  
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• Trump drops inauguration announcer

  08-01-2017 22:48 via cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump is breaking from 11 presidents' worth of tradition and benching Charles Brotman.
  
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• Higuain helps Juventus to record 26th straight home win

  08-01-2017 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  
  ROME (AP) — It's no coincidence that Juventus has won Serie A every season since the Juventus Stadium opened in September 2011.
  
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• "Big Three" power Steelers by Dolphins 30-12

  08-01-2017 22:45 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Injuries forced Ben Roethlisberger, Antonio Brown and Le'Veon Bell to wait three seasons for the chance to run onto the field together in the playoffs. The wait for the Pittsburgh Steelers' "Big Three" ...
  
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• Embiid, Covington lift 76ers over Nets for 10th win

  08-01-2017 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joel Embiid's 20 points and Robert Covington's gritty performance lifted the Philadelphia 76ers to a 105-95 NBA victory over the Brooklyn Nets on Sunday, their 10th win of the season matching their total of last year. Cameroonian rookie Embiid, still on restricted playing time after missing all of the past two seasons in the wake of two foot surgeries, connected on eight of 14 shots from the floor. Embiid finished off his 14th 20-point game by hitting two free throws, with Sixers fans chanting "
  
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• Missing duck hunters found dead

  08-01-2017 22:40 via cnn.com
  
  The bodies of three men who disappeared during a duck hunting trip on Texas' Gulf Coast have been found, authorities said Sunday.
  
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• At least four killed in Palestinian truck attack in Jerusalem

  08-01-2017 22:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Jeffrey Heller and Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) - A Palestinian rammed his truck into a group of Israeli soldiers on a popular promenade in Jerusalem on Sunday, killing four of them in an attack that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said was likely inspired by Islamic State. It was the deadliest Palestinian attack in Jerusalem in months and targeted officer cadets as they disembarked from a bus that brought them to the Armon Hanatziv promenade, which has a panoramic view of the walled Old C
  
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• 'Rogue One' shoots down box office foes for fourth week

  08-01-2017 22:32 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Los Angeles (AFP) - "Rogue One," the latest chapter in the "Star Wars" intergalactic saga, kept the box office force for the fourth consecutive week, industry estimates for North America showed on Sunday.
  
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• 3 deadly prison riots in 1 week

  08-01-2017 22:18 via cnn.com
  
  Four people died Sunday in a riot at a prison in Brazil, the nation's third deadly prison uprising in seven days.
  
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• Senate to act this week on Obamacare repeal, McConnell says

  08-01-2017 22:10 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Toni Clarke WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Senate will take its first steps toward repealing President Barack Obama's signature healthcare reform act by the end of the week, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Sunday. Speaking on CBS's "Face the Nation," McConnell said: "There ought not to be a great gap" between repealing the act and replacing it and that Republicans would be "replacing it rapidly after repealing it." McConnell did not define what he meant by "rapidly.
  
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• Mariah Carey on New Year's Eve performance: 'They foiled me'

  08-01-2017 22:06 via news.yahoo.com
  
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Mariah Carey is blaming producers for her bungled performance on "Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve," saying, "They foiled me."
  
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• Florida airport shooting suspect appears in new video

  08-01-2017 22:05 via news.yahoo.com
  
  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — A day before the suspect in the Fort Lauderdale airport rampage was to appear in court, a website released footage that appears to show him calmly drawing a pistol and opening fire in the baggage claim area.
  
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• FCA to invest $1 billion in U.S. plants, make Jeep pickup truck

  08-01-2017 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  
  DETROIT (Reuters) - Fiat Chrysler Automobiles said on Sunday that it will invest $1 billion on retooling and modernizing two plants in the Midwestern U.S., one of which will be able to produce the Ram heavy-duty pickup truck currently produced in Mexico. The automaker said the investment will create more than 2,000 production-related jobs. The company also said it planned to add three new Jeep models to its product lineup, including a pickup truck. (Reporting by Bernie Woodall and Nick Carey; Ed
  
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• US gas prices jump 12 cents over 3 weeks to $2.38 a gallon

  08-01-2017 22:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average price of regular-grade gasoline has surged 12 cents nationally over the past three weeks, to $2.38 a gallon.
  
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• Clinton will never run for office again: confidante

  08-01-2017 21:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Hillary Clinton will never run for office again after losing the US presidential election to Donald Trump in November after the most divisive campaign in memory, a confidante of the Democrat said on Sunday. "I think she's going to figure out ways to help kids and families," Neera Tanden, president of the Center for American Progress, a Democratic Party-connected think-tank told CNN. "But I don't expect her to ever run for any elected office again," she added.
  
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• Stranded motorists pulled from flooded roads in California

  08-01-2017 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Stranded motorists were pulled from cars stuck on flooded Northern California roads as thunderstorms arrived Sunday as part of a massive winter storm that could be the biggest to slam the region in more than a decade.
  
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• Alabama dynasty rolls into another champ game with Clemson

  08-01-2017 21:57 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Nick Saban and Alabama are on the verge of leaving college football history behind.
  
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• Massive storm hits western U.S. with rain, snow and ice

  08-01-2017 21:52 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A powerful storm lashed California and other parts of the western United States on Sunday, bringing flooding and the risk of dangerous mudslides to a state that has struggled with drought for years. As of late morning, the storm was dumping between one-half and three-quarters of an inch (1.3 to 1.9 cm) of rain per hour in parts of California and was set to continue for several hours, according to meteorologist Kenny James of the National Weather Service's Weather Prediction Center in Maryland. I
  
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• Young new car Jackson Storm tries to dominate in 'Cars 3'

  08-01-2017 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  The third movie in Disney Pixar's "Cars" animated series features an aggressive newcomer to the race circuit who challenges wily veteran Lightning McQueen. Pixar unveiled new character Jackson ...
  
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• Questions about hacking swirl as Trump enters crucial week

  08-01-2017 21:46 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEW YORK (AP) — Donald Trump and his aides are entering a crucial week in his presidential transition as he and his Cabinet nominees undergo public questioning about their approach to Russia and potential conflicts of interests.
  
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• New storm hits West as South, New England slow to thaw

  08-01-2017 21:44 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A winter storm that spread ice and snow from Mississippi to Maine is leaving behind cold so bitter that businesses and schools are closing in the South because the region still hasn't thawed.
  
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• Mexico arrests man in shooting of US consular official

  08-01-2017 21:41 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Mexican authorities have arrested the alleged gunman who shot and wounded an official from the US consulate in the western city of Guadalajara, prosecutors said Sunday. The official was shot on Friday in a brazen attack by a man wearing a black wig and a blue nurse uniform outside a shopping center's garage in Mexico's second biggest city. A special unit "detained the attacker of the consular official," the Jalisco state prosecutor's office said on Twitter, without specifying when he was cau
  
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• Embiid on fire as 76ers beat Nets for 10th victory

  08-01-2017 21:37 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Joel Embiid scored 20 points in 24 minutes Sunday as the Philadelphia 76ers dominated the Brooklyn Nets 105-95, matching their win total of last season with their 10th victory of the current NBA campaign. Cameroonian rookie Embiid, still on restricted playing time after missing all of the past two seasons in the wake of two foot surgeries, connected on eight of 14 shots from the floor. Embiid finished off his 14th 20-point game by hitting two free throws, with Sixers fans chanting "Trust the Pro
  
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• Cal fires coach Dykes after 4 seasons, 1 bowl appearance

  08-01-2017 21:36 via news.yahoo.com
  
  BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — California fired coach Sonny Dykes in a surprise move on Sunday after four seasons that produced just one bowl appearance.
  
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• The Latest: Bell breaks Harris' playoff record from 1975

  08-01-2017 21:35 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The Latest on the NFL's wild-card Sunday. (All times Eastern)
  
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• Video shows Florida airport shooter open fire, passengers scatter

  08-01-2017 21:33 via news.yahoo.com
  
  The gunman who killed five people at a Florida airport walked calmly through the baggage claim area before wordlessly pulling a handgun from his waistband and shooting at victims who fled or dived to the floor in panic, video showed. The 20 seconds of footage published on Saturday by website TMZ, apparently from a security camera, shows the suspect carrying a bag and clothing in his left hand as he strolled with other passengers past luggage carousels at Fort Lauderdale's airport. Without warnin
  
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• Trump acknowledges Russia role in U.S. election hacking: aide

  08-01-2017 21:29 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Toni Clarke and Dustin Volz WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President-elect Donald Trump accepts the U.S. intelligence community's conclusion that Russia engaged in cyber attacks during the U.S. presidential election and may take action in response, his incoming chief of staff said on Sunday. Reince Priebus said Trump believed Russia was behind the intrusions into the Democratic Party organizations, although Priebus did not clarify whether the president-elect agreed that the hacks were directed by Rus
  
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• Trump drops longtime inauguration announcer

  08-01-2017 21:27 via cnn.com
  
  President-elect Donald Trump is breaking from 11 presidents' worth of tradition and benching Charles Brotman.
  
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• Mom, boyfriend charged in teenage girl's dismemberment death

  08-01-2017 21:26 via news.yahoo.com
  
  NEWTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A woman whose teenage daughter's dismembered remains were found in the woods last fall has been charged along with her boyfriend with killing the girl in a "rape-murder fantasy" the couple shared, a prosecutor said Sunday.
  
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• Boris Johnson arrives in US for Trump

  08-01-2017 21:19 via cnn.com
  
  UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson arrived in the US on Sunday for what his office said was a series of meetings with President-elect Donald Trump's closest advisers and congressional leaders.
  
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• Boris Johnson arrives in US for talks with Trump

  08-01-2017 21:19 via cnn.com
  
  UK Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson arrived in the US on Sunday for what his office said was a series of meetings with President-elect Donald Trump's closest advisers and congressional leaders.
  
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• Baldwin trolls Trump -- in Russian

  08-01-2017 21:13 via cnn.com
  
  Alec Baldwin has been satirically portraying Donald Trump on "Saturday Night Live," but even with the program on break,he's still managed to poke fun at the President-elect.
  
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• Alec Baldwin trolls Trump -- in Russian

  08-01-2017 21:13 via cnn.com
  
  Alec Baldwin has been satirically portraying Donald Trump on "Saturday Night Live," but even with the program on break,he's still managed to poke fun at the President-elect.
  
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• Mexican agents arrest suspect in shooting of U.S. consular official

  08-01-2017 21:08 via news.yahoo.com
  
  A suspect in the shooting of a U.S. consular official in the Mexican city of Guadalajara was arrested on Sunday, the state prosecutor's office said. The Jalisco state prosecutor said on Twitter that special agents made the arrest, but did not provide further details including the name of the suspect or any motive. The consular official, later identified by a Mexican security official speaking on condition of anonymity as Christopher Ashcraft, was shot by a gunman on Friday as he was leaving a ci
  
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• Iraqi forces reach Tigris in Mosul as suicide bombs hit Baghdad

  08-01-2017 21:07 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Stephen Kalin and Ahmed Rasheed MOSUL, Iraq/BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iraqi special forces battling Islamic State reached the eastern bank of the Tigris river in Mosul on Sunday for the first time in a three-month, U.S-backed offensive to capture the city from the militants, who still control its entire western half. The group also claimed attacks at two Baghdad markets in which 20 people were killed, the latest in a spate of bombings, tactics to which Islamic State is resorting as it comes under p
  
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• Florida suspect's gun once seized

  08-01-2017 21:07 via cnn.com
  
  When Esteban Santiago was in an Alaska FBI office in November, saying his mind was being controlled by US intelligence, he left two things in the car.A gun and his newborn child.
  
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• Iran ex-president Rafsanjani dies

  08-01-2017 21:01 via news.yahoo.com
  
  Former Iranian president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a pugnacious moderate who survived for decades despite challenging his own turbaned elite, died on Sunday after suffering a heart attack. Rafsanjani, who was 82, was a pivotal figure in the foundation of the Islamic republic in 1979, and served as president from 1989 to 1997. "Despite the efforts of the doctors he died" at Shohadaa Hospital in northern Tehran, said Reza Soleimani, a speaker of the Expediency Council, Iran's main political arbitr
  
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• Israeli diplomat boasts about setting up political groups in UK – video

  08-01-2017 21:00 via theguardian.com
  
  Israeli embassy official Shai Masot is filmed by al-Jazeera undercover reporter as he talks about having established several groupsRelated: Israeli diplomat caught on camera plotting to ‘take down’ MPs Continue reading...
  
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• Ethics office: Trump picks still unvetted

  08-01-2017 21:00 via cnn.com
  
  Several of President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees have still not been properly vetted less than one week before hearings begin on Capitol Hill, the Office of Government Ethics said in a letter to Democratic senators Friday.
  
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• Hillary Clinton for NYC mayor? Probably not, but rumors persist

  08-01-2017 20:58 via news.yahoo.com
  
  By Joseph Ax NEW YORK (Reuters) - In the weeks since Hillary Clinton's shock election defeat to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump, a rumor has taken hold among New York City's political chattering class: could she challenge Mayor Bill de Blasio's reelection bid this year? Discussion of a possible Clinton campaign intensified last week when conservative news website Newsmax reported that Democrats unhappy with de Blasio were pressing her to run. Stories soon appeared in various outlets, including
  
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• Rafsanjani, Iran leader whose life mirrored nation's, dies

  08-01-2017 20:55 via news.yahoo.com
  
  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's former President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani died Sunday after a decades-long career in the ruling elite, where his moderate views were not always welcome but his cunning guided him through revolution, war and the country's turbulent politics.
  
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• Israeli media report new details of Netanyahu probes

  08-01-2017 20:47 via news.yahoo.com
  
  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli media on Sunday reported that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tried to negotiate a deal for more positive coverage by a major Israeli newspaper two years ago.
  
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