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• Toshiba ups ante in chip unit sale with attack on Western Digital

  09-05-2017 23:58 via yahoo.com
  
  By Makiko YamazakiTOKYO (Reuters) - Toshiba Corphas told Western Digital Corpnot to interfere in the sale of its prized chip unit, rejecting claims it has breached a joint venture contract and threatening legal action.The clash between Toshiba and Western Digital - both its business partner and one of the bidders for the chip unit - risks delaying or even quashing an auction that the Japanese conglomerate is depending on to plug a $9 billion hole in its accounts.Although the two companies jointl
  
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• Suspect in doctors' slayings once worked at their posh condo

  09-05-2017 23:55 via yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The man suspected of killing two engaged doctors in their luxury penthouse condominium once held a job there.
  
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• McConnell defends all-male health care working group: ‘Everybody’s at the table’

  09-05-2017 23:54 via yahoo.com
  
  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell speaks during a media briefing on Capitol Hill.WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Tuesday that “nobody” is being excluded from his conference’s meetings on health care after Democrats and even some members of his own party criticized him for assembling a working group on the issue consisting of 13 men and no women.“Well the working group that counts is all 52 of us, and we’re having extensive meeting
  
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• Watch the full CNN exclusive report

  09-05-2017 23:52 via cnn.com
  
  Toddlers gasping for air, their parents convulsing beside them- these were the horrors that befell a Syrian village struck by a deadly gas last month.
  
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• Feds want fired Tennessee teacher held until child sex trial

  09-05-2017 23:47 via yahoo.com
  
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a teacher accused of kidnapping his 15-year-old student and repeatedly having sex with her while fleeing to California should remain jailed as a flight risk until he's tried on a charge that could keep him in prison for life.
  
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• Here's A Roundup Of What Apple Could Announce At WWDC In June

  09-05-2017 23:43 via yahoo.com
  
  Apple is expected to hold its Worldwide Developers Conference next month and could announce its Siri speaker, iOS 11, tvOS11 and other updates. Here's what to expect.
  
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• Trump Approves Plan to Arm Key Ally in Battle for Syria

  09-05-2017 23:40 via nbcnews.com
  
  President Donald Trump has approved a plan to arm the Syrian Kurdish militia, an important United States ally in the fight against ISIS, two defense officials told NBC News. The plan's options include providing Kurds with rifles, ammunition and armor. Syria's six-year civil war has left nearly a half million people dead.
  
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• Groupthink: Why Did No One Call 911 for Dying Penn State Pledge?

  09-05-2017 23:38 via nbcnews.com
  
  While investigators are trying to determine why brothers failed to properly act, psychologists point to the case as an example of "groupthink."
  
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• German soldiers 'wanted to pose as asylum seekers in planned terror plot'

  09-05-2017 23:29 via theguardian.com
  
  Three suspects wanted to carry out attack ‘out of a rightwing extremist conviction’ that would have implicated asylum seekers, prosecutors sayGerman police have detained a second soldier suspected of involvement in a plan by an army officer and a student to carry out an attack, possibly on politicians who do not oppose immigration, the federal public prosecutor said.Prosecutors believe the three suspects wanted to implicate asylum seekers in their planned attack, in a case that has s
  
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• US to arm Kurdish fighters against Isis in Raqqa, despite Turkish opposition

  09-05-2017 23:28 via theguardian.com
  
  The US considers the Kurdish-led forces a critical battlefield partner in Syria, but Nato ally Turkey calls them a terrorist groupThe Trump administration has announced it will arm Syria’s Kurdish fighters “as necessary” to recapture the key Islamic State stronghold of Raqqa, despite intense opposition from Nato ally Turkey, which sees the Kurds as terrorists.The decision is meant to accelerate the Raqqa operation but undermines the Turkish government’s view that the Syri
  
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• 'You must watch, you must bear witness'

  09-05-2017 23:26 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Clarissa Ward reflects on why -- despite all she's witnessed covering the Syrian civil war -- these horrifying images of asphyxiating children are particularly hard to take in.
  
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• CNN's Ward on Syria: 'You have to bear witness'

  09-05-2017 23:26 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Clarissa Ward reflects on why -- despite all she's witnessed covering the Syrian civil war -- these horrifying images of asphyxiating children are particularly hard to take in.
  
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• Workers at Nuclear Plant 'Take Cover' After Tunnel Collapse

  09-05-2017 23:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  Hundreds of workers at the Hanford nuclear production complex in Washington state were ordered to "take cover" Tuesday after a tunnel collapsed.
  
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• The iPhone 8 may be impossible to find at launch

  09-05-2017 23:14 via yahoo.com
  
  Apple's upcoming iPhone 8 is without question the company's most anticipated product in years. Said to feature an edge-to-edge OLED display, the hype surrounding Apple's next-gen iPhone seems to get more intense with each passing month. And with good reason: the iPhone 8 will introduce a radical new form factor, a welcome change in light of the fact that the current iPhone design has more or less remained unchanged since Apple rolled out the iPhone 6 in 2014.Typically, Apple introduces a new iPh
  
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• US postpones decision on whether to withdraw from Paris climate agreement

  09-05-2017 23:07 via yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump has yet to make a decision on whether to withdraw from the Paris Agreement on climate change as global talks continue in Bonn, Germany.White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said during a news conference that the decision would not be announced until after the Group of Seven (G7) meeting in Italy later this month.Mr Trump had said many times that he wanted to “cancel” the Paris Agreement.
  
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• Nigeria spokesman says 1 Nigeria Chibok girl refused release

  09-05-2017 23:04 via yahoo.com
  
  ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — One of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 and who had the opportunity to be released on Saturday chose to stay with her husband, the spokesman for Nigeria's president said Tuesday.
  
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• White House slams Sally Yates as ‘a political opponent’

  09-05-2017 22:44 via yahoo.com
  
  A day after Yates testified that she had warned the Trump administration that former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn was vulnerable to blackmail by Russian, the White House attempted to cast the career federal prosecutor who has worked in both Democratic and Republican administrations as a partisan operative.
  
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• Aaron Hernandez Lawyers Don't Think Death Was Suicide

  09-05-2017 22:44 via yahoo.com
  
  Two of Hernandez's lawyers have voiced skepticism about whether his death was a suicide.
  
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• Meet the Lionel Messi doppelganger

  09-05-2017 22:30 via cnn.com
  
  What's it like to be soccer superstar Lionel Messi? Iranian Reza Parastesh is rapidly finding out.
  
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• Money to prep poor kids for college? Sorry, wrong font

  09-05-2017 22:28 via yahoo.com
  
  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Dozens of universities and organizations that applied for federal grants to help young people from poor families prepare for college were turned down by the U.S. Education Department because of mistakes that consisted mostly of incorrect margins, the wrong font or lack of double-spacing.
  
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• Michael Flynn kept security clearance after warning of Russia blackmail risk

  09-05-2017 22:24 via theguardian.com
  
  White House took no steps to limit the former national security adviser’s access to classified information after being told of potential compromise by Russia Mike Flynn at risk of Russian blackmail, Sally Yates warned White House
  The White House took no steps to limit former national security adviser Mike Flynn’s access to classified information after being informed that Flynn was potentially compromised by Russia, Sean Spicer said on Tuesday.The White House press secretary insisted
  
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• Chelsea Manning envisions life after prison: 'I can see a future for myself'

  09-05-2017 22:24 via theguardian.com
  
  The army whistleblower, who is set for release 17 May after seven years, thanked supporters in statement and looked forward to living as a transgender womanChelsea Manning, the army private who released a vast trove of US state secrets to WikiLeaks, has issued an emotive statement eight days before her release from military prison thanking her supporters and rejoicing that she can at last see a future for herself as a transgender woman. Related: Chelsea Manning: to those who kept me alive all th
  
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• Spicer calls Sally Yates a 'political opponent' of Trump administration – video

  09-05-2017 22:16 via theguardian.com
  
  Spokesman Sean Spicer called the former US acting attorney general a ‘political opponent’ of the White House because she had been appointed under Barack Obama and was a supporter of Hillary Clinton. Yates was fired at the end of January for not defending Trump’s travel ban on seven Muslim-majority countries Continue reading...
  
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• Ryan faces protest, Pink Floyd exhibit, protests & more — it happened today: May 9 in pictures

  09-05-2017 22:12 via yahoo.com
  
  The photos of the day include images from protests in New York and South Africa, an exhibition in London, and more.
  
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• Meet the Iranian Messi doppleganger

  09-05-2017 22:12 via cnn.com
  
  Leo Messi is one of the greatest footballers of all-time and is recognized the world around. That's a problem for an Iranian man who looks just like him.
  
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• More questions than answers in killings of Boston doctors

  09-05-2017 22:11 via cnn.com
  
  Richard Field sent a friend a chilling text message, saying a gunman had entered his South Boston penthouse and asking that police be notified.
  
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• White House says Trump will ‘fully eliminate’ global threats to U.S., allies

  09-05-2017 22:07 via yahoo.com
  
  As the president weighs sending more troops to Afghanistan, Sean Spicer said Trump aims to “fully eliminate” threats “around the globe.”
  
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• Persistent Bear With Taste for Brownies Refuses to Leave Woman's Home

  09-05-2017 22:07 via yahoo.com
  
  No amount of screaming, noise or yelling was enough to get this bear to scram.
  
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• Microsoft just released an emergency patch to fix a devastating new vulnerability

  09-05-2017 22:04 via yahoo.com
  
  For many Windows users, Microsoft's own built-in malware protections are the only thing standing between them and the many bad actors pushing for control of their systems. Today, the company is issuing an emergency update to fix a new, extremely scary vulnerability in the operating system's anti-malware software that not only has the power to bypass those protections, but to effectively hand over complete control of a user's computer to a hacker.The exploit, which was discovered a
  
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• Nuclear site evacuated after tunnel collapse

  09-05-2017 22:03 via cnn.com
  
  The federal government evacuated some workers Tuesday at the Hanford Site, a former nuclear weapons production site in Washington state, after soil collapsed over a tunnel containing contaminated material.
  
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• Harrowing video shows Syria's war on its own children

  09-05-2017 22:01 via cnn.com
  
  Editor's note: This story contains extremely graphic images of dead children.
  
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• Spicer calls Sally Yates a ‘political opponent of the president’

  09-05-2017 21:58 via yahoo.com
  
  During Tuesday’s daily briefing, press secretary Sean Spicer explained that the White House did not act immediately on Sally Yates’ warning about Gen. Michael Flynn because they didn’t want to “jump the gun and go take an action” based on concerns raised by a person considered a “political opponent of the president.”
  
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• Teen arrested in recorded death of Utah girl

  09-05-2017 21:56 via yahoo.com
  
  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah teenager was arrested for investigation of murder after using cellphone video to record the death of a 16-year-old girl found hanged from a tree, authorities said Tuesday.
  
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• 'You have to watch, you have to bear witness'

  09-05-2017 21:54 via cnn.com
  
  CNN's Clarissa Ward reflects on why -- despite all she's witnessed covering the Syrian civil war -- these horrifying images of asphyxiating children are particularly hard to take in.
  
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• Safety concerns for one in three US drugs

  09-05-2017 21:54 via yahoo.com
  
  Almost one in three newly approved drugs in the United States turns out to have a safety issue after it is allowed on the market, US researchers said Tuesday.While these issues are rarely serious enough to get the drug pulled from the marketplace, researchers said new drugs should be monitored for years after they are released to the public.Cutting-edge therapies known as biologics, psychiatric drugs, and medicines that were fast-tracked by the US Food and Drug Administration were most like
  
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• Gasping for life: Syria's merciless war on its own children

  09-05-2017 21:53 via cnn.com
  
  Toddlers gasping for air, their parents convulsing beside them- these were the horrors that befell a Syrian village struck by a deadly gas last month.
  
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• Irish police halt investigation of Stephen Fry for blasphemy

  09-05-2017 21:43 via theguardian.com
  
  Police could not find enough people outraged at actor’s anti-God remarks on TV after only one viewer complainedIrish police have halted an investigation of Stephen Fry for blasphemy because the Garda Síochána could not find enough people to be outraged over the actor’s anti-God remarks on Irish TV.
  Only one viewer made a formal complaint against Fry over comments he made on a programme with Irish broadcasting legend Gay Byrne back in 2015. Continue reading...
  
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• After Firing FBI Director Comey, Trump Slams Sen. Schumer

  09-05-2017 21:43 via yahoo.com
  
  Pres. Trump avoided Twitter for most of the day after firing Comey – but then attacked Sen. Chuck Schumer by calling him names after Schumer promised to push for an independent investigation. Neera Tanden and David Frum join Lawrence O'Donnell.
  
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• 2017 Mazda 3 2.0L Automatic Sedan

  09-05-2017 21:35 via yahoo.com
  
  Not even our favorite 3 . . . and still good.
  
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• Obama Says He's 'Captive to Selfies' Since Leaving Office

  09-05-2017 21:34 via nbcnews.com
  
  Former President Barack Obama gave his first speech abroad since leaving office in Milan, Italy, on Tuesday, and talked about climate change, selfies and the future.
  
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• The Latest: Colleagues say slain doctor was 'compassionate'

  09-05-2017 21:20 via yahoo.com
  
  BOSTON (AP) — The Latest on the killings of two engaged Boston doctors (all times local):
  
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• Aaron Hernandez's Family Could Get His Patriots Pension

  09-05-2017 21:19 via yahoo.com
  
  “We’re in discussions with his agents to see where he stands," said his lawyer Jose Baez.
  
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• These Scientists Want to Put 10 Million Windmills in the Arctic. Here's Why

  09-05-2017 21:17 via nbcnews.com
  
  This may be the most audacious plan yet to ease global warming and its consequences.
  
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• Venezuela's infant mortality, maternal mortality and malaria cases soar

  09-05-2017 21:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Country’s economic crisis takes heavy toll on public health, with infant death rate up 30%, maternal mortality up 65%, and malaria cases up 76% in 2016Venezuela’s infant mortality rose 30% last year, maternal mortality shot up 65% and cases of malaria jumped 76%, according to government data, sharp increases reflecting how the country’s deep economic crisis has hammered at citizens’ health. The statistics, issued on an official website after nearly two years of data silen
  
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• US to give 'limited arms' to Kurds in Syria

  09-05-2017 21:07 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump has authorized the limited arming of Syrian Kurds to help in the fight against ISIS, the Pentagon announced Tuesday, in a move bound to antagonize Turkey.
  
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• US defies Turkey to arm Kurds against Syria

  09-05-2017 21:07 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump has authorized the limited arming of Syrian Kurds to help in the fight against ISIS, the Pentagon announced Tuesday, in a move bound to antagonize Turkey.
  
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• Now I Get It: Why South Korea held its presidential election early

  09-05-2017 21:04 via yahoo.com
  
  South Koreans have elected a new president, Moon Jae-in, who is a liberal. The election wasn’t supposed to happen until December, but former President Park Geun-hye was ousted from office and now sits behind bars awaiting trial. Yahoo News and Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryga looks at how South Korea’s first female president ended up here.
  
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• U.S. Republican Graham curious on Trump business deals

  09-05-2017 20:53 via yahoo.com
  
  U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham said on Tuesday he wants to know more about President Donald Trump's business dealings in relation to Russia, but that congressional investigations may have to avoid the matter if they conflict with an FBI probe.Graham asked former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper at a Senate Judiciary subcommittee hearing on Monday whether he had concerns about Russian ties to Trump's business interests.Clapper said he could not comment because the issue cou
  
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• Jonathan Cristol: Dealing with N. Korea is not an option

  09-05-2017 20:50 via cnn.com
  
  The election of Moon Jae-in as President of South Korea has the potential to upend the US relationship with a key regional ally. Moon does not appear to share the hard line toward North Korea of his recent predecessors and seeks greater distance and autonomy from the United States.
  
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• Dealing with North Korea is not an option

  09-05-2017 20:50 via cnn.com
  
  The election of Moon Jae-in as President of South Korea has the potential to upend the US relationship with a key regional ally. Moon does not appear to share the hard line toward North Korea of his recent predecessors and seeks greater distance and autonomy from the United States.
  
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