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• Coke Zero gets makeover as Coke Zero Sugar

  29-07-2017 23:38 via krqe.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Coke Zero is getting revamped as Coke Zero Sugar.
  The new name is intended to make clearer that the drink has no sugar, and a new recipe is intended to make the drink taste more like regular Coke. The company isn’t specifying what it’s changing aside from saying it tweaked the “blend of flavors.” It says the drink will use the same artificial sweeteners.
  Atlanta-based Coca-Cola Co. says the new cans and bottles, which will incorporate more red like r
  
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• Co-owner: Mechanical failure caused accident at fair that killed teenager

  29-07-2017 23:35
  
  He's convinced the Fire Ball accident was not a problem with the ride's operators or inspections and said the company is devastated.
  
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• JFK's global impact being captured with new interactive map

  29-07-2017 23:10
  
  Do you already have photos you can add?
  
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• Boy, 8, carries sister out of burning home

  29-07-2017 22:58
  
  Harrison Holt was named an honorary member of the local fire department.
  
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• FAA will have to address safety concerns about seat size, court says

  29-07-2017 22:30
  
  A judge referred to it as "the Case of the Incredible Shrinking Airline Seat."
  
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• Hop on! Wild rabbits surf on sheep to flee New Zealand flood

  29-07-2017 22:26 via krqe.com
  WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — It was a woolly ride, but three wild rabbits managed to escape rising floodwaters in New Zealand by clambering aboard sheep and surfing to safety on their backs.
  Ferg Horne, 64, says he’s been farming since he left school at age 15 and has never seen anything quite like it.
  He was trudging through pelting rain to rescue a neighbor’s 40 sheep from the floodwaters on Saturday at their South Island farm near Dunedin when he spotted some dark shapes f
  
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• Trump blasts Senate rules, threatens to end health insurance subsidies

  29-07-2017 21:35
  
  The president fumed over voting rules that allow "8 Dems to control the country."
  
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• Two sisters arrested for stabbing each other after a night of partying

  29-07-2017 21:33
  
  Police say a 5-year-old child was found covered in blood
  
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• Facebook’s ads just keep creeping into new apps

  29-07-2017 21:32 via krqe.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Scrolling through an ad-free Instagram is now a distant memory, much like the once ad-free Facebook itself. Soon, users of its Messenger app will begin to see advertisements, too — and WhatsApp may not be too far behind.
  Welcome to the Facebook ad creep.
  The world’s biggest social media company has squeezed about as many ads onto its main platform as it can. The fancy term for this is “ad load,” and Facebook warned investors back in 2016 that it has
  
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• Test shows North Korea missile could hit major US cities, experts say

  29-07-2017 21:15
  
  North Korea's latest missile could have the range to hit U.S. cities like Los Angeles and Denver.
  
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• Frowny face: 'The Emoji Movie' is getting crushed by critics

  29-07-2017 20:50
  
  The animated film barely avoided being among Rotten Tomatoes' worst-reviewed movies ever.
  
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• How life may find a way on Saturn's largest moon

  29-07-2017 20:18
  
  Humans might not be able to live on Titan, but the presence of a certain molecule may give a chance for "some exotic type of life."
  
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• Pressure mounts to curtail surgery on intersex children

  29-07-2017 20:04 via krqe.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Children whose sexual characteristics don’t neatly align with the norm have for decades faced surgery to rearrange their anatomy to resemble that of more typical boys and girls — long before they were old enough to have a say in the decision.
  But now the practice is under assault, as never before. The American Medical Association is considering a proposal discouraging it. Three former U.S. surgeons general say it’s unjustified. And on Tuesday, Human R
  
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• Artificial intelligence system makes its own language, researchers pull the plug

  29-07-2017 19:58
  
  Don't worry, the robot apocalypse is not nigh.
  
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• Nation's jails are getting into the opioid fight

  29-07-2017 19:25
  
  Two of the country's largest jails are joining the ranks of facilities who teach inmates how to use naloxone.
  
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• Baseball superfan has only missed 22 games in almost 50 years

  29-07-2017 19:15
  
  George Coury, 82, is arguably the Pittsburgh Pirates' number one fan.
  
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• George RR Martin working on next ‘Song of Ice and Fire’

  29-07-2017 18:57 via krqe.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — George RR Martin says the next “Song of Ice and Fire” book has a real chance of coming out in 2018.
  But don’t count on it yet.
  In a weekend posting on his website, Martin wrote that he’s working hard on “The Winds of Winter,” the long-awaited sixth volume in the series adapted into the HBO hit “Game of Thrones.” He added that he has “good days and bad days” and is still months away from finishing. Meanwhile, he thi
  
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• AI system makes its own language, researchers pull the plug

  29-07-2017 18:56
  
  Don't worry, the robot apocalypse is not nigh.
  
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• #abq4ward: The stories so far

  29-07-2017 18:26
  
  Nearly two weeks into our #abq4ward series focusing on the crime crisis in Albuquerque, KOB has informed you about crime trends, consequences and personal stories of victims that show just how much work we still have to do.
  
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• 'This is an epic fail': Health care failure could haunt GOP

  29-07-2017 18:06
  
  Party leaders, activists and political operatives are predicting payback for Republicans lawmakers if they don’t revive the fight.
  
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• Now hiring at Amazon: Thousands of people in 1 day

  29-07-2017 17:42 via krqe.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Amazon plans to make thousands of job offers in just one day as it holds a giant job fair next week at nearly a dozen warehouses across the U.S.
  Those offered jobs on the spot will pack or sort boxes and help ship them to customers. Nearly 40,000 of the 50,000 jobs will be full time. Most of these jobs will count toward Amazon’s previously announced goal of adding 100,000 full-time workers by the middle of next year.
  The hiring spree is yet another sign of Amazon&rsqu
  
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• Italy approves hotly contested mandatory vaccine program

  29-07-2017 17:00 via krqe.com
  MILAN (AP) — Italy’s parliament on Friday gave final approval to making a slate of childhood vaccinations mandatory for school children up to age 16, a move aimed at countering an anti-vaccine trend that officials have attributed to misinformation.
  The packet approved Friday was hotly contested in Italy, where the number of children being vaccinated has sunk since mandatory inoculations were dropped for school admissions nearly 20 years ago.
  Health Minister Beatrice Lorenzin hailed t
  
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• FDA to target addictive levels of nicotine in cigarettes

  29-07-2017 17:00 via krqe.com
  For the first time, the federal government is proposing cutting the nicotine level in cigarettes so they aren’t so addictive.
  U.S. Food and Drug Administration chief Scott Gottlieb on Friday directed the agency’s staff to develop new regulations on nicotine. The FDA has had the power since 2009 to regulate nicotine levels but hasn’t done so. Stocks of cigarette makers plunged after the announcement.
  As part of the new strategy, the FDA is giving e-cigarette makers four more yea
  
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• Appeals court blocks California gas facility from reopening

  29-07-2017 17:00 via krqe.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A California appeals court judge temporarily blocked a Los Angeles natural gas storage facility Friday from reopening a year and a half after a major blowout spewed methane that drove thousands of families from their homes.
  The order late in the day by Associate Justice Lamar Baker of the 2nd District Court of Appeal came after Los Angeles County lawyers unsuccessfully tried to get a lower court to stop Southern California Gas Co. from resuming operations at Aliso Canyon
  
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• McCain first saves, then kills health care repeal bill

  29-07-2017 16:59 via krqe.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — John McCain seemed poised to be the savior of the GOP health bill when he returned to the Capitol despite a brain cancer diagnosis.
  He turned out to be the executioner.
  The longtime Arizona senator stunned pretty much everyone Friday by turning on his party and his president and joining two other GOP senators in voting “no” on the Republicans’ final effort to repeal “Obamacare.”
  That killed the bill. And it also dealt what looks like a death
  
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• Hamburg stabbing suspect known as radical, mentally unstable

  29-07-2017 16:59 via krqe.com
  BERLIN (AP) — A Palestinian man who allegedly stabbed one person to death and wounded six others in Hamburg was known to authorities as a suspected Islamic radical but is also psychologically unstable, German officials said Saturday.
  The suspect, a 26-year-old who had no identity papers other than a birth certificate showing he was born in the United Arab Emirates, was quickly overwhelmed by passers-by and arrested after Friday’s attack at a supermarket in Hamburg’s Barmbek dis
  
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• A look at who might be Pakistan’s next prime minister

  29-07-2017 16:59 via krqe.com
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — With Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif disqualified by the country’s top court and out of his job, questions are swirling over who will succeed him as head of government.
  The Supreme Court’s decision to dismiss the thrice-elected Sharif followed a petition by the country’s opposition, which had levelled corruption allegations against the prime minister and his family members. Sharif promptly resigned after Friday’s ruling and will now face crimi
  
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• Ohio Star Fair reopening kiddie, other “low-impact” rides

  29-07-2017 16:50 via krqe.com
  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Rides at the Ohio State Fair’s Kiddieland and some elsewhere in the amusement park reopened Friday with the OK of inspectors two days after the governor shut them all down following a thrill ride malfunction that killed a teen who had recently enlisted in the Marines.
  The 18-year-old man’s girlfriend was among seven other people who were injured when the Fire Ball flung riders — some still strapped in their seats — through the air Wednesday nig
  
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• Bettis takes the mound for the Isotopes a second time

  29-07-2017 16:50 via krqe.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – Colorado Rockies pitcher Chad Bettis had his fourth rehab start Friday night, the second one with the Albuquerque Isotopes. Bettis is still working his way back from testicular cancer.
  The former Texas Tech Red Raiders pitcher tossed 71 pitches in five and a third innings, giving up five hits and four runs. The Albuquerque Isotopes fell a run short against the Omaha Storm Chasers, losing 5-4.
  The two teams split the series at two wins each. The Isotopes will now
  
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• Venezuela leader: Will use new assembly to go after foes

  29-07-2017 16:43 via krqe.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — President Nicolas Maduro pledged Saturday evening to go after his political foes with the virtually unlimited powers of a constitutional assembly being elected Sunday, while Venezuela’s opposition made a last-ditch effort to flood streets across the country in defiance of hundreds of thousands of soldiers and police.
  In an address on state-run television, Maduro made clear he wants the assembly to strip opposition legislators of their constitutional immunity
  
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• Venezuela crisis enters new phase with Sunday vote

  29-07-2017 16:43 via krqe.com
  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Despite four months of deadly protests and the threat of U.S. sanctions, Venezuela on Saturday found itself 24 hours away from a consolidation of government power that appeared certain to drag the OPEC nation deeper into a crisis that has entire neighborhoods battling police and paramilitaries while the poor root for scraps in piles of trash.
  In the opposition strongholds of relatively wealthy eastern Caracas, skinny teenagers manned barricades of tree branches, g
  
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• Lifetime movie ‘Flint’ dramatizes city’s water crisis

  29-07-2017 16:43 via krqe.com
  BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Melissa Mays, a resident of Flint, Michigan, came armed to discuss the city’s tainted water crisis and a new Lifetime TV movie dramatizing it.
  Mays, speaking to a TV critics’ meeting Friday, pointed to several bottles she had filled with her tap water and challenged the room to taste or even smell it. There were no immediate takers.
  The activist, who said the battle over water safety continues, is among the residents portrayed in Lifetime’s mo
  
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• Ship sets record for earliest crossing of once-forbidding Northwest Passage

  29-07-2017 16:38
  
  Scientists predict the fabled route will be largely ice free in the summer by 2050 if current levels of warming continue.
  
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• The Latest: Seoul, Washington to talk over missile limits

  29-07-2017 16:15 via krqe.com
  PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — The Latest on North Korea’s launch of its second intercontinental ballistic missile (all times local):
  3:55 p.m.
  South Korea says it plans to hold talks with the United States on increasing the warhead limit for South Korean missiles following North Korea’s second flight test of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
  South Korean President Moon Jae-in’s chief secretary Yoon Young-chan said Saturday that Washington accepted Seoul’s propo
  
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• Pakistan ruling party meets to consider PM successor

  29-07-2017 16:15 via krqe.com
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — The ruling party of deposed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif will choose his successor Saturday, a day after Pakistan’s Supreme Court removed the premier from office after finding that he and his family concealed their assets, officials said.
  The move comes amid a serious political crisis that has gripped Pakistan, with constitutional experts and lawmakers wondering who is running the government after Sharif’s disqualification.
  “Unfortunately, we are without a
  
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• Pakistan names Abbasi interim prime minister

  29-07-2017 16:15 via krqe.com
  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan’s ruling party named senior lawmaker Shahid Khaqan Abbasi as successor to the deposed prime minister on Saturday, a day after the Supreme Court removed Nawaz Sharif from office for concealing assets.
  Sharif proposed Abbasi as interim prime minister at the meeting of Pakistan Muslim League party in Islamabad. His request was endorsed by lawmakers from his party.
  Because Sharif’s party enjoys a comfortable majority in the parliament, his longtime loyalis
  
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• Abbas gets clean bill of health after hospital checkup

  29-07-2017 16:15 via krqe.com
  RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, 82, underwent a checkup at a West Bank hospital on Saturday and his doctors said the results were good.
  Abbas underwent routine checks, including blood tests and X-rays at the private Al Istishari Hospital near the West Bank town of Ramallah, and left after 90 minutes, said the hospital director, Dr. Fathi Abu Mughli.
  “The results are good,” Abu Mughli told The Associated Press, but did not elaborate.
  Abbas was fla
  
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• Leading Disney parks ‘Imagineer’ Martin Sklar dies at 83

  29-07-2017 16:14 via krqe.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Martin A. “Marty” Sklar, a right-hand man of Walt Disney and central figure in the development and expansion of his company’s theme parks around the world, has died.
  Disneyland spokeswoman Suzi Brown confirmed Sklar’s death for The Associated Press. He died Thursday at his Hollywood Hills home at age 83, a company statement says. No details were released on his cause of death.
  “Here you leave today and enter the world of yesterday, tomorrow
  
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• Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood buy wedding gifts for fans

  29-07-2017 16:13 via krqe.com
  LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — Married country stars Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood are sharing the love by handing out wedding gifts to fans.
  Jude and Jamie Blanchard attended Brooks’ show in Lafayette, Louisiana, last month with a sign that read: “Best Week Ever. Garth this Friday, our wedding next Friday.” Brooks took notice and serenaded them with “To Make You Feel My Love.” He also asked if they wanted anything off their wedding registry, and Jamie passed along
  
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• Linkin Park singer’s widow opens about husband’s death

  29-07-2017 16:11 via krqe.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — The widow of late Linkin Park singer Chester Bennington says she’s feeling the love from the rocker’s fans but she’s also feeling the loss.
  Talinda Bennington said in a statement late Thursday she wants “to let my community and the fans worldwide know that we feel your love. We feel your loss as well.”
  Chester Bennington hanged himself from a bedroom door in his home near Los Angeles last week. His death was ruled a suicide.
  “One week ago
  
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• White House aide’s tirade tests editors and producers

  29-07-2017 16:10 via krqe.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — A presidential aide’s explosion of profanity while talking to a reporter about his new White House colleagues tested newsroom leaders Thursday, forcing decisions about whether to use the graphic language or leave much of what he said to the imagination of readers and viewers.
  Anthony Scaramucci, the incoming White House communications director, aimed his tirade at chief of staff Reince Priebus and chief strategist Steve Bannon. An account of his conversation late Wedn
  
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• ‘Time to move on’ from health care, Senate GOP leader says

  29-07-2017 16:10 via krqe.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The resounding Senate crash of the seven-year Republican drive to scrap the Obama health care law has led to finger-pointing but also has left the party with wounded leaders and no evident way ahead on an issue that won’t go away.
  In an astonishing cliff-hanger, the GOP-run Senate voted 51-49 on Friday to reject Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s last ditch attempt to sustain their drive to dismantle President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul with a st
  
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• Ship sets record for earliest crossing of Northwest Passage

  29-07-2017 16:10 via krqe.com
  NUUK, Greenland (AP) — After 24 days at sea and a journey spanning more than 10,000 kilometers (6,214 miles), the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica has set a new record for the earliest transit of the fabled Northwest Passage.
  The once-forbidding route through the Arctic, linking the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans, has been opening up sooner and for a longer period each summer due to climate change. Sea ice that foiled famous explorers and blocked the passage to all but the hardiest ships ha
  
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• North Korea says 2nd ICBM test puts ‘entire’ US in range

  29-07-2017 16:10 via krqe.com
  PYONGYANG, North Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Saturday the second flight test of an intercontinental ballistic missile demonstrated his country can hit the U.S. mainland, hours after the launch left analysts concluding that a wide swath of the United States, including Los Angeles and Chicago, is now in range of North Korean weapons.
  The Korean Central News Agency said that Kim expressed “great satisfaction” after the Hwasong-14 missile reached a maximum hei
  
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• Icebreaker sets mark for earliest Northwest Passage transit

  29-07-2017 16:10 via krqe.com
  NUUK, Greenland (AP) — After 24 days at sea and a journey spanning more than 10,000 kilometers (6,214 miles), the Finnish icebreaker MSV Nordica has set a new record for the earliest transit of the fabled Northwest Passage.
  The once-forbidding route through the Arctic, linking the Pacific and the Atlantic oceans, has been opening up sooner and for a longer period each summer due to climate change. Sea ice that foiled famous explorers and blocked the passage to all but the hardiest ships ha
  
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• 'Insurance in a jar' helps K-9 officer find missing woman

  29-07-2017 15:51
  
  Scent preservation kits provide an effective tool for authorities and their K-9 partners.
  
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• Trump blasts Senate rules in morning tweets

  29-07-2017 15:26
  
  The president fumed over voting rules that allow "8 Dems to control the country."
  
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• How did astronomers miss this?

  29-07-2017 15:15
  
  It's hard to see everything in Earth's neighborhood, even when it's three times as close as the moon.
  
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• Las Cruces Police Chief Jaime Montoya to retire in December

  29-07-2017 15:03 via krqe.com
  LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) – Las Cruces Police Chief Jaime Montoya has set his retirement date for later this year.
  City Manager Stuart Ed announced Friday that Montoya will retire on Dec. 23.
  He was named police chief in December 2013. Montoya is a 26-year veteran of the Las Cruces Police Department.
  He holds a bachelor’s degree from New Mexico State University and graduated from the Las Cruces Police Academy in 1991.
  During his career, Montoya served as a patrol officer, traffic officer
  
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• Trump’s six-month stall sparks a White House shake-up

  29-07-2017 14:58 via krqe.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Six months into his presidency, Donald Trump is saddled with a stalled agenda, a West Wing that resembles a viper’s nest, a pile of investigations and a Republican Party that is starting to break away.
  Trump on Friday indirectly acknowledged the troubled state of his unconventional White House, abruptly replacing his chief of staff with hard-nosed retired Gen. John Kelly, until now the president’s Homeland Security secretary. Kelly will take the desk of Reince
  
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