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• Father of the Year: Rhino Donates Blood Each Week to His Unborn Calf

  16-06-2017 23:54 via yahoo.com
  
  Staff members say the 12-year-old rhino is a trooper about the whole process and seems to enjoy the constant attention.
  
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• Tillerson skips OAS meeting to focus on Gulf crisis

  16-06-2017 23:49 via yahoo.com
  
  US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Friday cancelled his attendance at next week's Organization of American States meeting in Mexico, opting to stay in Washington to focus on the diplomatic crisis in the Middle East.Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan will represent the United States at the regional meeting scheduled for Monday to Wednesday in the resort city of Cancun."The secretary of state will continue his efforts to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East region through in-person mee
  
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• Troop plan for Afghanistan seeks to regain battlefield edge

  16-06-2017 23:47 via yahoo.com
  
  WASHINGTON (AP) — A coming deployment of up to 4,000 more U.S. forces to Afghanistan, expected as part of a new Trump administration approach to America's longest war, reflects the Pentagon's view that beefing up its training-advising role and its counterterrorism effort can help turn around recent Taliban gains and snuff out a growing Islamic State threat.
  
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• 3 Teen Police Cadets Steal 2 Cruisers and Lead Officers on Wild Chase: Cops

  16-06-2017 23:43 via yahoo.com
  
  One of the cadets was allegedly wearing a police-issued bulletproof vest, taken from the stolen patrol car, when he was arrested.
  
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• Couple's dramatic 911 call after being held hostage by escaped inmates: 'Get the police out here'

  16-06-2017 23:40
  
  The inmates were on the run from Tuesday to Thursday.
  
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• The Latest: 'Hero' rejects label, says he never pulled gun

  16-06-2017 23:29 via yahoo.com
  
  SHELBYVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — The Latest on the capture of two escaped Georgia inmates accused of killing two guards on a prison bus (all times local):
  
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• Philando Castile: Police officer who fatally shot black man acquitted of all charges

  16-06-2017 23:26 via yahoo.com
  
  The Minnesota police officer who killed Philando Castile last year during a traffic stop has been acquitted of all charges he faced over the gruesome death that was broadcast live.Jeronimo Yanez shot Mr Castile after the black motorist informed him that he had a gun in his car.Mr Castile was licenced to have the weapon, and had been told to inform officers of the firearm in those situations for his safety.
  
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• Trump confirms he's under investigation

  16-06-2017 23:09 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump complained in a furious Friday morning tweet that he was being investigated for firing former FBI Director James Comey and seemed to accuse the deputy attorney general of overseeing a "witch hunt" against him.
  
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• Steve Scalise was 'as critical as he could be' after Virginia shooting, doctor says

  16-06-2017 23:04 via yahoo.com
  
  House Majority Whip Steve Scalise looks like he will make an “excellent recovery,” doctors say – but that wasn’t always the case.When the Representative entered MedStar Washington Hospital after a mass shooting at a Congressional baseball practice, his surgeon said, he was “as critical as he could be”."I would say that when he arrived he was in critical condition with an imminent risk of death,” Dr Jack Sava told reporters.
  
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• Here's How Many Jobs AI Will Create By 2021

  16-06-2017 22:58 via yahoo.com
  
  While previous reports and tech leaders claim robots will take over human jobs, the latest International Data Corporation data says artificial intelligence will create jobs.
  
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• Ex-Milwaukee officer won't testify at his shooting trial

  16-06-2017 22:58 via yahoo.com
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — A former Milwaukee police officer on trial in a fatal shooting that sparked riots in a predominantly black neighborhood said Friday he will not testify, as his attorneys prepare to begin presenting his defense.
  
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• Angry protests after London fire

  16-06-2017 22:53 via cnn.com
  
  "We want Justice" shouted furious protesters as they marched through London following the Grenfell Tower fire.
  
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• 2 in custody, 2 sought in death of boy at Arkansas day care

  16-06-2017 22:52 via yahoo.com
  
  WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (AP) — Two Arkansas day care workers were being held Friday on manslaughter charges and police were seeking two others in connection with the death of a 5-year-old developmentally disabled boy who was left in a sweltering van all day.
  
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• Scalise's vital signs have 'stabilized,' hospital 'encouraged' by 'improvement' in last 36 hours

  16-06-2017 22:49
  
  The House majority whip will require additional operations.
  
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• Ex-Trump adviser Roger Stone: White House should scrap ‘draconian’ drug laws

  16-06-2017 22:48 via yahoo.com
  
  Roger Stone, a longtime informal adviser to President Trump, vowed to continue to urge Trump to allow states to legalize marijuana use without enforcing federal drug laws.
  
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• Israeli officer killed, three Palestinian attackers shot dead: police

  16-06-2017 22:47 via yahoo.com
  
  An Israeli policewoman was stabbed and killed in an attack outside Jerusalem's Old City on Friday and security forces shot dead three suspected Palestinian assailants, police said.The attack took place as Muslims marked the end of the third Friday of the fasting month of Ramadan, during which tens of thousands of Palestinians from east Jerusalem and the West Bank attended prayers at the nearby Al-Aqsa mosque compound, Islam's third-holiest site."Female border policewoman injured critically in at
  
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• Unsolved double murder of teens not random act: Police

  16-06-2017 22:43
  
  Shadi Adi Najjar, 17, and Artem Ziberov, 18, were found shot dead June 5.
  
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• Health Care Declassified: Behind the Senate’s secrecy

  16-06-2017 22:43 via yahoo.com
  
  The words on everyone’s lips in Washington in recent weeks have been health care, as congressional Republicans work to craft a bill to replace the Affordable Care Act.Enter Yahoo News’ Health Care Declassified, where we will attempt to take you inside this often complicated debate, dispelling myths and giving you the facts about how Congress will affect your health care coverage.Following in the footsteps of their House colleagues, who passed the Affordable Health Care Act, Repu
  
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• Couple in London fire made heartbreaking final call home

  16-06-2017 22:42 via cnn.com
  
  Architect Gloria Trevisan was on the phone with her family in Italy when she became part of a grim statistic -- another victim of this week's inferno at London's Grenfell Tower.
  
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• Was Otto Warmbier Set Up? Roommate Doesn't Believe U.S. Student Did Anything Wrong

  16-06-2017 22:38 via yahoo.com
  
  The tour company that Otto Warmbier used is also coming under fire for claiming North Korea is "extremely safe."
  
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• Trump keeps rolling back Obama legacy by tightening travel and trade with Cuba

  16-06-2017 22:30 via theguardian.com
  
  The new rules will stop individual travel to Cuba and seek to restrict the flow of payments to the many Cuban companies owned by the regime’s security forces
  Donald Trump has announced a partial rollback of his predecessor’s rapprochement with Cuba, tightening travel and trade rules on the grounds of what he said was a worsening human rights situation on the island.
  The new rules will stop individual travel to Cuba and seek to restrict the flow of payments to the many Cuban companies
  
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• The Latest: Prosecutor: No winner in text suicide conviction

  16-06-2017 22:23 via yahoo.com
  
  TAUNTON, Mass. (AP) — The Latest on the manslaughter conviction of a Massachusetts woman who sent her suicidal boyfriend a barrage of text messages urging him to kill himself (all times local):
  
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• Key moments after the police shooting of Philando Castile

  16-06-2017 22:21 via yahoo.com
  
  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Philando Castile was fatally shot by a police officer during a July 6 traffic stop in a St. Paul suburb after he told the officer he was armed. St. Anthony officer Jeronimo Yanez, who is Latino, was acquitted of manslaughter on Friday. A timeline of some key events that unfolded after the shooting:
  
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• Police officer who shot dead Philando Castile acquitted of all charges

  16-06-2017 22:11 via theguardian.com
  
  Jury finds Jeronimo Yanez not guilty of manslaughter and two lesser chargesFamily reacts angrily and mother says: ‘I will continue to say murder’A Minnesota police officer was acquitted of manslaughter on Friday in the shooting death of Philando Castile, a black motorist whose girlfriend streamed the aftermath live on Facebook. Outside the courthouse, Castile’s mother said the officer got away with “murder”. Related: Black Lives Matter: birth of a movement | Wesley
  
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• 'Breatharian' Couple Eliminates Food From Diet

  16-06-2017 22:05 via yahoo.com
  
  A 'breatharian' purposefully chooses not to eat as they survive off of the world's energy.
  
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• Dress Like Dad on the Beach This Father's Day With These Matching Swim Trunks

  16-06-2017 22:03 via yahoo.com
  
  If you don't want DNA to be the only match this Father's Day weekend, consider this swimwear.
  
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• What Trump's new Cuba travel restrictions mean, according to an expert

  16-06-2017 21:55 via yahoo.com
  
  President Donald Trump is rolling back a number of his predecessor’s policy changes toward Cuba, making good on a campaign pledge he made that likely helped secure votes from conservatives in Florida.The President plans on tightening travel restrictions for Americans who would head to Cuba, and on tightening restrictions for American investment in the island country in order to keep US money from flowing into the hands of the government.The aim, Mr Trump said, is to get more money into the
  
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• Former German Chancellor Kohl dies

  16-06-2017 21:50 via cnn.com
  
  German statesman Helmut Kohl, the architect of German reunification after the end of the Cold War, has died, his Christian Democratic Union party announced with a memorial message Friday. He was 87.
  
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• When Trump promises, we're left waiting

  16-06-2017 21:49 via cnn.com
  
  President Trump often promises actions within "weeks," but usually it doesn't work out.
  
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• The Latest: Ex-Milwaukee cop won't testify in shooting trial

  16-06-2017 21:49 via yahoo.com
  
  MILWAUKEE (AP) — The Latest on the trial of a former Milwaukee police officer charged in the death of a black man last year (all times local):
  
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• In Malaysia fund scandal, DiCaprio returns Oscar won by Brando

  16-06-2017 21:49 via yahoo.com
  
  Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio confirmed Friday that he has turned over an Oscar won by Marlon Brando, along with other gifts, amid an inquiry into a multibillion-dollar money-laundering scheme involving a Malaysian sovereign wealth fund.US authorities are seeking to recover billions in money and assets allegedly embezzled by businessmen with political connections in Malaysia.The scandal has rocked the Malaysian governing class, exposing Prime Minister Najib Razak to allegations of corruption,
  
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• Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl dies at 87

  16-06-2017 21:38 via yahoo.com
  
  Helmut Kohl, the physically imposing German chancellor whose reunification of a nation divided by the Cold War put Germany at the heart of a united Europe, died Friday at his home in Ludwigshafen. He was 87.
  
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• Donald Trump's Lawyer Lawyers up

  16-06-2017 21:20 via yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump's lawyer now has a lawyer for the Russia investigation – as Trump himself hires another attorney: this one, a high-profile criminal attorney, as the special counsel appears to expands his probe.
  
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• Obama sparked a tidal wave of change in Cuba. Trump’s new policy misses the point.

  16-06-2017 21:12 via yahoo.com
  
  Two years of Obama’s engagement did more to pry Cuba out of its shell than anything else. Engagement worked exactly because the Castro dictatorship gives no one their rights.
  
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• Trump's Tweets Destroying His Presidency

  16-06-2017 21:10 via yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump's Twitter feed is interfering with his presidency, and his Twitter attack on his Deputy AG is just the latest in a series of harmful online tirades likely setting back his legislative agenda
  
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• Woman, 20, guilty in text suicide case

  16-06-2017 21:08 via cnn.com
  
  In a case that hinged largely on a teenage couple's intimate text messages, Michelle Carter was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter Friday in the 2014 death of her boyfriend, who poisoned himself by inhaling carbon monoxide in his pickup truck, a Massachusetts judge ruled.
  
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• 7 Things Twitter Thinks Jeff Bezos Should Spend His Money On

  16-06-2017 21:06 via yahoo.com
  
  A brand new car! Just kidding.
  
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• Lawrence on 'the Cancer on the Trump Presidency'

  16-06-2017 21:01 via yahoo.com
  
  Donald Trump tweeted an apparent attack on his Deputy Attorney General, Rod Rosenstein – another sign the president is more frustrated than ever with the Russia probe as a new report says he’s yelling at White House TVs over coverage of the investigation.
  
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• 3 Ways Amazon Has Already Changed the Way You Shop for Food

  16-06-2017 20:58 via yahoo.com
  
  Consumer Reports has no relationship with any advertisers on this website. Amazon’s planned purchase of organic-food chain Whole Foods for $13.7 billion is one more sign that the born-and-raised ...
  
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• Meet Rachel Brand, the Justice Department official who could inherit the Russia probe

  16-06-2017 20:52 via yahoo.com
  
  If President Trump fires Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Rachel Brand would take over special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia probe and reported investigation into obstruction of justice.
  
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• Trump pulls back Obama's outreach to Cuba

  16-06-2017 20:48 via cnn.com
  
  President Donald Trump slammed former President Barack Obama's dealings with the communist regime in Cuba on Friday in Miami, charting his own course of more confrontational relations with the Castro-led government.
  
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• Bill Cosby sexual assault trial

  16-06-2017 20:42 via yahoo.com
  
  Bill Cosby thanked his fans and supporters on Friday as a jury deliberated sexual assault charges that could send him to prison for the rest of his life, tweeting shortly after the panel asked to review his testimony about giving drugs to women he wanted to have sex with.
  
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• Girlfriend convicted in US texting suicide trial

  16-06-2017 20:40 via yahoo.com
  
  A 20-year-old US woman was convicted of involuntary manslaughter Friday for ordering her teenage boyfriend to follow through on his long-planned suicide and for failing to save him from harm.Michelle Carter broke down in tears and sobbed into a tissue during the 20-minute juvenile court hearing in Massachusetts, which is likely to break new ground in a state that has no law against encouraging someone to commit suicide.Conrad Roy, 18, was found dead from carbon monoxide poisoning in his pickup t
  
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• Ethiopian families missing after fire

  16-06-2017 20:38 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Several Britons of Ethiopian origin are missing, the Ethiopian embassy says.
  
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• Trump Is Letting America Get Pushed Around by Saudi Arabia

  16-06-2017 20:36 via yahoo.com
  
  If Washington doesn’t protect its interests in Qatar, nobody else will.
  
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• Trump Twitter Rants Worsen His Situation

  16-06-2017 20:35 via yahoo.com
  
  Bob Bauer, former White House counsel, talks with Rachel Maddow about how Donald Trump hurts himself with rash tweets, and whether Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein needs to recuse himself from the obstruction part of the Trump Russia investigation.
  
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• President Trump announces reversal of Obama’s Cuba policy

  16-06-2017 20:34 via yahoo.com
  
  Speaking in Little Havana in Miami, Fla., President Trump announced he is “canceling” the Obama administration’s policy opening up relations with the Cuban government.
  
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• New Alloy Material May Make Solar Panels More Efficient, Reduce Cost

  16-06-2017 20:30 via yahoo.com
  
  Researchers say a new alloy could help make solar panels twice as efficient and far less expensive.
  
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• Helmut Kohl obituary

  16-06-2017 20:18 via theguardian.com
  
  Dour and imperturbable German chancellor for 16 years who was the main architect of the country’s reunificationHelmut Kohl, who has died aged 87, will be remembered for his pivotal role in two extraordinary events: the fall of the Berlin wall and the rise of the euro. He devoted his entire adult life to Christian Democratic Union (CDU) politics and was Germany’s longest-serving chancellor of the 20th century.Superficially, sheer physical bulk apart, Kohl bore unlikely comparison
  
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• Gal Gadot's Husband Wears 'Wonder-ful' Shirt

  16-06-2017 20:15 via yahoo.com
  
  Gal Gadot's relationship with her husband is 'wonder'ful.
  
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