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• One-fifth of Americans find workplace hostile or threatening

  20-08-2017 23:30 via krqe.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — The American workplace is grueling, stressful and surprisingly hostile.
  So concludes an in-depth study of 3,066 U.S. workers by the Rand Corp., Harvard Medical School and the University of California, Los Angeles. Among the findings:
  — Nearly one in five workers — a share the study calls “disturbingly high” — say they face a hostile or threatening environment at work, which can include sexual harassment and bullying. Workers who have to face
  
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• Stunning video shows blue whale feeding, thanks to drone

  20-08-2017 23:02
  
  A stunning video shows the animal devouring a school of krill roughly as large as the whale itself.
  
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• Science Says: Lightning is zapping fewer Americans, not more

  20-08-2017 23:01 via krqe.com
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Lightning — once one of nature’s biggest killers —is claiming far fewer lives in the United States, mostly because we’ve learned to get out of the way.
  In the 1940s, when there were fewer people, lightning killed more than 300 people annually. So far this year, 13 people have died after being struck, on pace for a record low of 17 deaths. Taking the growing population into account, the lightning death rate has shrunk more than forty-fold
  
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• Tyson’s solar eclipse tip: Don’t video it, experience it

  20-08-2017 21:57 via krqe.com
  NEW YORK (AP) — Prominent astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has a suggestion for anyone with a view of next week’s solar eclipse: Put down your smartphone and take in the phenomenon yourself.
  Tyson told an audience at the American Museum of Natural History on Monday: “Experience this one emotionally, psychologically, physically.”
  The Aug. 21 event will be the first total solar eclipse in 99 years to cross a coast-to-coast swath of the United States. A total solar eclipse
  
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• Bear captured in Rio Rancho

  20-08-2017 21:54
  
  Officials say the 275 pound bear was found near Rust Medical Center early Sunday
  
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• Celebrities pay homage to comedian Jerry Lewis

  20-08-2017 21:14
  
  Comedians, actors and Hollywood elite paid their respects to actor Jerry Lewis, who passed away on Sunday.
  
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• Comedian Jerry Lewis dies at 91

  20-08-2017 21:05
  
  Jerry Lewis has passed away at 91.
  
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• Black bear captured in Rio Rancho

  20-08-2017 21:01 via krqe.com
  RIO RANCHO, N.M. (KRQE)– New Mexico Game and Fish along with Rio Rancho Police have captured a black bear that was seen roaming around Rio Rancho.
  The bear was captured late Sunday morning in the area of Wellspring Avenue and 20th.
  Game and Fish says they believe this is the same bear that sparked an hours long hunt on Friday in the area of Rainbow and Tulip.
  Officials say it took two tranquilizer darts to sedate the large bear.According to Game & Fish, there have been no reports of da
  
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• Lobo Men’s Soccer Wins final Exhibition match 2-0

  20-08-2017 20:18 via krqe.com
  ALBUQUERQUE N.M. (KRQE)- Lobo Men’s Soccer ended their preseason schedule on Saturday at UNM Soccer Complex. The Lobos took out Grand Canyon in a 2-0 shutout. The Lobos finish their preseason schedule 3-0, winning their games 3-1, 3-1, and 2-0.
  The Lobos once again waited until the 2nd half to find the net, but in a very competitive matchup on Saturday UNM looked good. They had two 2nd half goals from freshman Alex Vedamanikam and freshman Nick Taylor.
  The Lobos will now open their season
  
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• SpaceX launches experiments, ice cream to space station

  20-08-2017 20:07 via krqe.com
  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — A SpaceX capsule rocketed to the International Space Station on Monday, carrying tons of scientific research, plus ice cream.
  As has become customary on these cargo flights, SpaceX landed its leftover booster back at Cape Canaveral shortly after liftoff, a key to its long-term effort to recycle rockets and reduce costs.
  “Gorgeous day, spectacular launch,” said Dan Hartman, NASA’s deputy manager of the space station program.
  Experiments make up
  
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• Grand Teton park to escape Yellowstone’s shadow for eclipse

  20-08-2017 20:02 via krqe.com
  CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — It’s jagged, soaring peaks rise high over northwest Wyoming, but Grand Teton National Park is always in the shadow of its world-renowned neighbor, Yellowstone National Park.
  Thanks to the total solar eclipse Monday, Grand Teton is expected to outshine, and overshadow, one of the nation’s most popular parks — at least for the day. Grand Teton is directly in the path of the eclipse — where the sun is completely blocked by the moon.
  “We anti
  
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• Rare crocodile eggs hatched at Cambodian conservation center

  20-08-2017 19:09 via krqe.com
  PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Nine eggs of an endangered crocodile species found in the wild in June and taken to a conservation center in southern Cambodia have hatched, conservationists announced Tuesday.
  The New York-based Wildlife Conservation Society and Cambodia’s Fisheries Administration said the eggs of nine Siamese crocodiles have hatched at the Koh Kong Reptile Conservation Center after being retrieved from the wild to protect them from poachers and predators.
  The WCS says th
  
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• 'The Hitman's Bodyguard' beats 'Logan Lucky' at box office

  20-08-2017 19:02
  
  Despite largely mediocre reviews, 'The Hitman's Bodyguard' bested Steven Soderbergh's well-reviewed heist pic 'Logan Lucky.'
  
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• Pet of the week: Taco

  20-08-2017 18:14
  
  Pet of the week: Taco
  
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• Police investigate homicide at MCM Elegante Hotel

  20-08-2017 18:11
  
  Man found dead early Sunday morning
  
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• Police: Man found dead at Northeast Albuquerque hotel

  20-08-2017 18:03 via krqe.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – A homicide investigation is underway after a man was found dead at an Albuquerque hotel.
  APD says the man was found just after 1:30 a.m. Sunday at the MCM Elegante Hotel.
  Police are asking anyone with information to call Crimestoppers.
  The identity of the deceased has not yet been release.
  No other information is available at this time. KRQE will provide updates as details are made available.
  Filed under: Albuquerque - Metro, Crime, Home, News
  
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• Police investigate after man found dead at northeast Albuquerque hotel

  20-08-2017 18:03 via krqe.com
  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE)– Police are conducting a homicide investigation after a man was found dead at an Albuquerque hotel.
  APD says the man was found just after 1:30 a.m. Sunday morning at the MCM Elegante Hotel.
  Police are asking anyone with information to call Crimestoppers.
  The identity of the deceased has not yet been release.
  No other information is available at this time.
  KRQE will provide updates as details are made available.
  Filed under: Albuquerque - Metro, Crime, Home, News
  
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• 7-year-old confirmed dead after Barcelona attack

  20-08-2017 17:52
  
  Julian Cadman, the 7-year-old boy reported missing in the aftermath of the Barcelona attack, has been confirmed dead by his family.
  
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• Man facing 1st-degree murder charge in Kissimmee officer’s death

  20-08-2017 17:22
  
  A 45-year-old man faces a first-degree murder charge in the shooting death of a Kissimmee police officer, authorities said.
  
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• Finland stabbings ‘a likely terror act;’ Ties to Spain eyed

  20-08-2017 17:07 via krqe.com
  HELSINKI (AP) — The knife attack in western Finland that left two people dead and seven others wounded is “a likely terror act,” Finland’s intelligence agency said Saturday, while police said Europol was investigating if it had any ties to deadly vehicle attacks in Spain.
  The suspect — an 18-year-old Moroccan asylum-seeker — was shot and wounded in the thigh by police during his rampage Friday in the city of Turku. He was hospitalized under guard — still
  
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• Counter-protesters block neo-Nazi march to Berlin prison

  20-08-2017 17:07 via krqe.com
  BERLIN (AP) — Left-wing groups and Berlin residents prevented more than 500 far-right extremists from marching Saturday to the place where high-ranking Nazi official Rudolf Hess died 30 years ago.
  Police in riot gear kept the neo-Nazis and an estimated 1,000 counter-protesters apart as the two sides staged competing rallies in the German capital’s western district of Spandau.
  Far-right protesters had planned to march to the site of the former Spandau prison, where Hess hanged himself
  
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• Trump remarks could sidetrack Democrats from other issues

  20-08-2017 17:05 via krqe.com
  ATLANTA (AP) — President Donald Trump’s widely criticized response to white supremacist violence in Virginia has left Democrats in a quandary: how to seize the moral high ground without getting sucked into a politically perilous culture war.
  Democrats have denounced Trump for blaming “both sides” for deadly protests in Charlottesville, Virginia, and, more recently, for defending Confederate monuments.
  But the party faces a complex task: While addressing race and history i
  
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• A look at Zimbabwe’s first lady, who is accused of assault

  20-08-2017 17:05 via krqe.com
  JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African model’s claims of assault have drawn attention to Zimbabwe’s increasingly outspoken first lady Grace Mugabe, who has been viewed as a possible successor to her 93-year-old husband. Grace Mugabe and President Robert Mugabe returned to Zimbabwe Sunday, despite calls by a South African legal group and protesters for the Zimbabwean first lady to be denied diplomatic immunity.
  Here’s a look at the wife of the world’s oldest head of sta
  
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• Police say 39 people detained over neo-Nazi march in Berlin

  20-08-2017 17:04 via krqe.com
  BERLIN (AP) — Berlin police say 39 people were detained Saturday in connection with a far-right march commemorating the 30th anniversary of the death of high-ranking Nazi official Rudolf Hess.
  More than 500 neo-Nazis had attempted to march to the site of the former prison in Berlin’s western district of Spandau where Hess died in 1987, but were blocked by left-wing groups and local residents.
  Police said Sunday that 35 of those detained belonged to the far-right march, while four wer
  
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• Merkel stands by her 2015 decision to open German borders

  20-08-2017 17:04 via krqe.com
  BERLIN (AP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Sunday stood by her decision to open Germany’s borders to hundreds of thousands of refugees two years ago, a move she has previously defended as a necessary response to a humanitarian emergency.
  Asked during a pre-election television event with voters whether she would do things differently if faced with the same situation, Merkel said in retrospect, “I still think my decision was right.”
  She added that her government had t
  
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• Merkel ally drops call for cap on refugees entering Germany

  20-08-2017 17:04 via krqe.com
  BERLIN (AP) — A key ally of German Chancellor Angela Merkel says he’s no longer making a cap on refugees a condition for coalition talks after next month’s election.
  Horst Seehofer, who leads the Christian Social Union that dominates politics in the southern state of Bavaria, called for an upper limit on the number of refugees Germany takes following the massive influx in 2015.
  Seehofer’s party traditionally forms a conservative bloc with Merkel’s Christian Democrat
  
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• Merkel ally backs away from cap on refugees entering Germany

  20-08-2017 17:04 via krqe.com
  BERLIN (AP) — A key ally of Angela Merkel appeared to back away from his long-standing call for a cap on refugees — a major point of friction with the German chancellor.
  Horst Seehofer, who leads the Christian Social Union that dominates politics in the southern state of Bavaria, called for Germany to set an upper limit of 200,000 refugees per year in response to the unprecedented influx that happened in 2015, when more than four times as many people entered the country seeking refug
  
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• Recall Rundown: Everything pulled from shelves Aug. 13 to 19

  20-08-2017 17:01
  
  Did you miss any of these recalls last week?
  
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• Sierra Leone churches hold services for mudslide victims

  20-08-2017 16:58 via krqe.com
  FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Churches across Sierra Leone held special services Sunday in memory of the more than 450 people who were killed in mudslides and flooding earlier this week.
  More than 600 people remain missing and rescue officials have warned that the chances of finding survivors are decreasing each day.
  The Inter-Religious Council called for the services to be held Sunday in honor of the deceased, as special prayers and recitals were offered in mosques Friday and Sunday.
  The
  
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• Hospital officals: Nearly 500 dead in Sierra Leone mudslides

  20-08-2017 16:58 via krqe.com
  FREETOWN, Sierra Leone (AP) — Churches across Sierra Leone held special services Sunday in memory of those killed in mudslides and flooding earlier this week, as hospital officials announced the toll had risen to nearly 500 bodies collected.
  More than 600 people remain missing and rescue officials have warned that the chances of finding survivors are decreasing each day. The death toll earlier stood at 450.
  The Inter-Religious Council called for the services to be held Sunday in honor of t
  
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• The Latest: Police probe if body in car is 15th Spain victim

  20-08-2017 16:57 via krqe.com
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The Latest on the two vehicle attacks in Barcelona and the nearby seaside resort of Cambrils (all times local):
  7:00 p.m.
  Spanish police say they are trying to establish if a man found dead inside a car on the outskirts of Barcelona is another victim of the extremist attack in the city.
  Senior regional police officer Josep Lluis Trapero said Sunday that investigators haven’t yet linked the man discovered inside a car that struck two officers at a police checkp
  
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• The Latest: Notre Dame holds Mass for world’s attack victims

  20-08-2017 16:57 via krqe.com
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The Latest on the two vehicle attacks in Barcelona and the nearby seaside resort of Cambrils (all times local):
  11:00 p.m.
  Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris has held a Mass dedicated to the victims of the suspected Islamic extremist attacks around Barcelona.
  The service also honored victims of other attacks and natural disasters around the world this summer.
  The archbhishop of Paris, Cardinal Andre Vingt-Trois, said in announcing Sunday’s gesture: “Unfortuna
  
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• The Latest: Barcelona fans, players remember attack victims

  20-08-2017 16:57 via krqe.com
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The Latest on the two vehicle attacks in Barcelona and the nearby seaside resort of Cambrils (all times local):
  9:35 p.m.
  Fans and players have held a minute’s silence in homage to Spain’s extremist attack victims prior to a soccer match between FC Barcelona and Betis at Camp Nou stadium.
  Before the minute was up, tens of thousands of fans broke into a massive round of applause and began shouting the chant “I’m Not Afraid” that has beco
  
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• The Latest: Australian-British boy, 7, among Barcelona dead

  20-08-2017 16:57 via krqe.com
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The Latest on the two vehicle attacks in Barcelona and the nearby seaside resort of Cambrils (all times local):
  4:40 p.m.
  Spanish authorities say they have positively identified three more victims of the van attack in Barcelona, including a 7-year-old boy who has been missing since the rampage Thursday.
  The Catalonia region’s emergency services said Sunday that a boy with dual Australian-British nationality was one of the 13 people killed when a van swerved th
  
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• The Latest: Attackers had stored over 100 gas tanks to use

  20-08-2017 16:57 via krqe.com
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The Latest on the two vehicle attacks in Barcelona and the nearby seaside resort of Cambrils (all times local):
  3 p.m.
  A top Spanish police official says those behind the attacks on pedestrians had stored more than 100 gas tanks and explosive ingredients at a house in Alcanar that they accidently blew up.
  Police official Josep Lluis Trapero told reporters at a news conference Sunday that the radical cell of 12 people “had planned one or more attacks with explo
  
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• Massive counterprotest upstages Boston “free speech rally”

  20-08-2017 16:57 via krqe.com
  BOSTON (AP) — Thousands of demonstrators chanting anti-Nazi slogans in a public rejection of white nationalism upstaged a small group in Boston that planned a “free speech rally” a week after a violent clash rocked Virginia and reverberated across the U.S.
  Counterprotesters marched through the city on Saturday to historic Boston Common, where conservatives had planned to deliver a series of speeches but soon left. Police vans later escorted the conservatives out of the area, as
  
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• Penn Jillette apologizes to Newfoundland for insult comedy

  20-08-2017 16:56 via krqe.com
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Penn Jillette is apologizing profusely for his wisecracks insulting Newfoundland.
  The talkative half of the Penn & Teller magic and comedy act called Newfoundland “a euphemism for stupid” during Friday’s “Overtime with Bill Maher.”
  Jillette also said that residents of the frozen North, in his words, “club seals” and are his people. Jillette has said he has family roots in Newfoundland, which is part of the Canadian province i
  
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• MLB umpires wear wristbands to protest ‘abusive’ treatment

  20-08-2017 16:56 via krqe.com
  Major League Baseball umpires wore white wristbands during games Saturday, protesting “abusive player behavior” after Detroit second baseman Ian Kinsler was fined but not suspended for his recent verbal tirade against ump Angel Hernandez.
  The World Umpires Association announced the action, saying the union strongly objected to the response by the commissioner’s office. Kinsler said this week that Hernandez was a bad umpire and “just needs to go away.”
  “The Off
  
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• Germany welcomes release of writer sought by Turkey

  20-08-2017 16:56 via krqe.com
  BERLIN (AP) — Germany’s foreign minister welcomed the release Sunday of a German writer detained in Spain on a Turkish warrant.
  Turkish-born writer Dogan Akhanli, who has German citizenship, was arrested Saturday while on holiday in southern Spain.
  Akhanli was conditionally released after a court hearing, but ordered to remain in Madrid while Turkey’s extradition request is considered, his lawyer said.
  It wasn’t immediately clear what Akhanli is accused of, but the author
  
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• Grace Mugabe returns to Zimbabwe despite assault claim

  20-08-2017 16:55 via krqe.com
  HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — The wife of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe returned home from South Africa on Sunday despite calls that she be prosecuted for allegedly assaulting a young model at a luxury hotel in Johannesburg.
  A report by Zimbabwean state broadcaster ZBC showed Grace Mugabe greeting government and military officials at the Harare airport after returning on an Air Zimbabwe flight with her husband, who had attended a summit of southern African leaders in Pretoria.
  The South Afr
  
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• Grace Mugabe gets diplomatic immunity, returns to Zimbabwe

  20-08-2017 16:55 via krqe.com
  HARARE, Zimbabwe (AP) — Granted diplomatic immunity by South Africa, the wife of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe returned home from Johannesburg on Sunday despite calls that she be prosecuted for allegedly assaulting a young model at a luxury hotel there.
  Zimbabwean state broadcaster ZBC showed Grace Mugabe greeting government and military officials at the Harare airport after returning on an Air Zimbabwe plane with her husband, who had attended a summit of southern African leaders in P
  
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• Attack victims came from around world to celebrate Barcelona

  20-08-2017 16:55 via krqe.com
  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The victims of attacks in Barcelona and a nearby resort came from around the world and across generations — a Canadian with an adventurous spirit, a Portuguese woman celebrating her 74th birthday, a 3-year-old Spanish boy enjoying a day out with his family.
  They are among 14 people killed and more than 120 others wounded in Barcelona and the nearby town of Cambrils on Thursday and Friday. They came from nearly three dozen countries, where loved ones are in mou
  
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• 1979 Klan-Nazi attack survivor hopes for a ‘justice river’

  20-08-2017 16:55 via krqe.com
  GREENSBORO, N.C. (AP) — The Rev. Nelson Johnson needs no reminders of the massacre of five of his labor-activist friends almost 40 years ago — he still has the faded scar on his left arm, left by a Nazi who stabbed him as white supremacists descended on a march for workers through black neighborhoods in Greensboro.
  But the violence surrounding the Aug. 12 march by Ku Klux Klansmen and Nazis in Charlottesville, Virginia, and the death of a young woman hit by a car there, brought the e
  
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• Egypt archaeologists discover tombs dating back 2,000 years

  20-08-2017 16:44 via krqe.com
  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s antiquities ministry says that archaeologists have discovered three tombs dating back more than 2,000 years, from the Ptolemaic Period.
  The discovery was made in the Nile Valley province of Minya south of Cairo, in an area known as al-Kamin al-Sahrawi.
  Tuesday’s statement by the ministry says the unearthed sarcophagi and clay fragments suggest that the area was a large necropolis from sometime between the 27th Dynasty and the Greco-Roman period.
  One of the
  
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• Sex offenders can live next door to victims in some states

  20-08-2017 16:38
  
  A woman who was 7 when a relative molested her discovered that the convicted sex offender can live next door to her.
  
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• You're more likely to be struck by lightning than win the Powerball

  20-08-2017 16:31
  
  You're more likely to get struck by lightning than win the $650 million Powerball.
  
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• Jackpot climbs to $650 million

  20-08-2017 14:52
  
  No winner was drawn on Saturday, which means there's still a chance to win the grand prize. What would you do with $650 million?
  
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• Man driving forklift falls through sidewalk into underground garage

  20-08-2017 14:47
  
  A man driving a forklift crashed through a sidewalk into an underground garage.
  
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• Why preferring Coke over Pepsi can negatively impact relationships

  20-08-2017 14:20
  
  Relationship problems? Blame it on your partner's brand preferences.
  
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• US military leaders await Trump decision on Afghan mission

  20-08-2017 13:46 via krqe.com
  CAMP MOREHEAD, Afghanistan (AP) — Signaling that the U.S. military expects its mission to continue, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan on Sunday hailed the launch of the Afghan Army’s new special operations corps, declaring that “we are with you and we will stay with you.”
  Gen. John Nicholson’s exhortation of continued support for the Afghans suggested the Pentagon may have won its argument that America’s military must stay engaged in the conflict in order
  
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