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• Trump says he has approved release from strategic petroleum reserve “if needed” after attack on Saudi oil facilities

  15-09-2019 23:59
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump says he has approved release from strategic petroleum reserve “if needed” after attack on Saudi oil facilities.
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• Jack Beckman races to first NHRA Funny Car victory of year

  15-09-2019 23:59
  MOHNTON, Pa. (AP) — Jack Beckman raced to his first Funny Car victory of the season Sunday, beating 70-year-old John Force in the Countdown-opening Mopar Express Lane NHRA Nationals to take the points lead.
  Beckman had a 3.958-second pass at 330.07 against Force at Maple Grove Raceway two weeks after losing to him in the U.S. Nationals for his fourth runner-up finish of the season.
  “In NHRA, you have zero control over what the car and driver in the other lane are doing,” Beckma
  
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• MLB: “Regret” over replay miscommunication in White Sox loss

  15-09-2019 23:54
  SEATTLE (AP) — Major League Baseball has expressed “regret” over a miscommunication that resulted in a 2-1 loss for the Chicago White Sox against the Seattle Mariners on Saturday night.
  Seattle’s Omar Narvaez hit a ball off the top of the wall in the bottom of the 10th inning that was ruled a home run by umpires. The ball did not clear the fence, and had a replay review been conducted, Narvaez would have been awarded a double and the game would have continued tied at 1.
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• DC United bests Timbers 1-0 for second straight road win

  15-09-2019 23:39
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An own goal put D.C. United up in the 25th minute and the team held on for a 1-0 victory over the Portland Timbers on Sunday.
  It was United’s second straight win after a three-game losing streak, with both victories coming on the road.
  United (12-10-9) was denied another goal before halftime. Television replays appeared to show the ball cross the goal line before Timbers midfielder Eryk Williamson cleared it out.
  The loss snapped a two-game winning streak for th
  
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• DC United bests Timbers 1-0 fir second straight road win

  15-09-2019 23:39
  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — An own goal put D.C. United up in the 24th minute and the team held on for a 1-0 victory over the Portland Timbers on Sunday.
  It was United’s second straight win after a three-game losing streak, with both victories coming on the road.
  United (12-10-9) was denied another goal before halftime. Television replays appeared to show the ball cross the goal line before Timbers midfielder Eryk Williamson cleared it out.
  The loss snapped a two-game winning streak for th
  
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• The Latest: Tropical Storm Humberto continues to strengthen

  15-09-2019 23:32
  MIAMI (AP) — The Latest on tropical weather in the Atlantic (all times local):
  5:15 p.m.
  Forecasters say Tropical Storm Humberto continues to strengthen, raising the risk of dangerous rip currents on the southeastern U.S. coast.
  The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami reports Sunday evening that Humberto is about 170 miles (270 kilometers) east-northeast of Cape Canaveral, Florida, and has maximum sustained winds of 70 mph (110 kph). The storm is moving north at 6 mph (9 kph).
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• The Latest: Humberto strengthens into Category 1 hurricane

  15-09-2019 23:32
  MIAMI (AP) — The Latest on tropical weather in the Atlantic (all times local):
  11 p.m.
  Forecasters say Humberto has strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane.
  The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami says in a Sunday night advisory that Hurricane Humberto is about 785 miles (1,260 kilometers) west of Bermuda and moving northeast at 3 mph (5 kph). The storm has maximum sustained winds of 75 mph (120 kph).
  The hurricane center expects Humberto’s outer bands to drop 1 to 2 inches (3 t
  
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• Tigers lose 104th game, move closer to first overall pick

  15-09-2019 23:28
  DETROIT (AP) — Edwin Jackson allowed five runs in five innings, and the Detroit Tigers took control of the race for the top pick in next June’s amateur draft with an 8-2 loss to the Baltimore Orioles on Sunday.
  Detroit (44-104) has lost two of the first three games of the four-game series against the Orioles (49-100), opening a 4½-game advantage for the worst record in the major leagues. Any combination of 10 Tigers losses and Orioles wins would clinch the top pick for Detroit
  
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• Packers ride Rodgers’ hot start to 21-16 win over Vikings

  15-09-2019 23:17
  GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP) — Aaron Rodgers threw two early touchdowns and the Green Bay Packers held on for a 21-16 win over the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday.
  On a day when the Packers honored late Hall of Famer Bart Starr at halftime, Rodgers put on quite a show — particularly early. Rodgers completed nine of his first 10 passes for 134 yards and two touchdowns and had a perfect 158.3 rating through the first quarter. He finished 22 of 34 for 209 yards.
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• Gray, Parker help Sparks eliminate Storm, advance to semis

  15-09-2019 23:16
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Chelsea Gray had 21 points and eight assists, Candace Parker added 11 points, 10 rebounds and six assists, and the Los Angeles Sparks beat Seattle 92-69 on Sunday to eliminate the defending-champion Storm from the WNBA playoffs.
  No. 3 seed Los Angeles advance to play second-seeded Connecticut, which earned a double-bye to the semifinals. The best-of-five series begins Tuesday in Connecticut. The WNBA said that they will pay for charter flights for the winners of the seco
  
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• Texans stop Jags’ 2-point conversion to get 13-12 win

  15-09-2019 23:00
  HOUSTON (AP) — Justin Reid stopped Leonard Fournette on a 2-point conversion attempt with 36 seconds left, and the Houston Texans held on to edge the Jacksonville Jaguars 13-12 on Sunday.
  Houston led by 7 in the fourth quarter when Jacksonville rookie Gardner Minshew led a long drive that included an 18-yard run on fourth-and-10, and he capped it with a 4-yard TD pass to DJ Chark.
  Instead of trying to tie it with an extra point, Jaguars coach Doug Marrone opted to go for the potential win
  
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• ‘Crazy Ex’ star Rachel Bloom wins Emmy, announces pregnancy

  15-09-2019 23:00
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Rachel Bloom has won an Emmy for writing music and lyrics, and soon she’ll be singing lullabies.
  The “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” creator and star announced backstage at the Creative Arts Emmy Awards on Saturday night that she and husband Dan Gregor are expecting a baby.
  Bloom won the Emmy, her sixth, along with Adam Schlesinger and Jack Dolgen for the song “Antidepressants Are So Not A Big Deal,” from her CW series that ended in April after four s
  
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• Jerry Kelly wins in Michigan for 2nd win of the year

  15-09-2019 22:58
  GRAND BLANC, Mich. (AP) — Jerry Kelly played bogey-free Sunday at Warwick Hills and closed with a 4-under 68 for a two-shot victory in the Ally Challenge, his second victory this year on the PGA Tour Champions.
  Kelly also won two months ago in his native Wisconsin at the American Insurance Family Championship.
  He started the final round with a one-shot lead over Charles Schwab Cup leader Scott McCarron and Woody Austin. McCarron fell apart with a 75. Austin remained within one shot until a
  
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• Wilson, Seahawks edge Steelers 28-26 as Roethlisberger exits

  15-09-2019 22:57
  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Russell Wilson threw for three touchdowns, including a 28-yard rainbow to DK Metcalf midway through the fourth quarter, and the Seattle Seahawks held off the Pittsburgh Steelers 28-26 on Sunday.
  The Steelers lost starting quarterback Ben Roethlisberger to a right elbow injury late in the first half and fell to 0-2 for the first time since 2013 despite solid play from backup Mason Rudolph, who threw a pair of second-half touchdown passes to Vance McDonald in relief.
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• Sánchez blanks Braves, Nationals salvage series finale 7-0

  15-09-2019 22:55
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Aníbal Sánchez beat his former team for the third time this season, Howie Kendrick homered and drove in three runs and the Washington Nationals prevented a three-game sweep, beating the NL East-leading Atlanta Braves 7-0 on Sunday.
  Washington, which clinched its eighth winning season in a row, ensured it would not lose ground in the wild card race. The Nationals entered the day as the NL’s first wild card, 1½ games ahead of Chicago and 2½
  
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• Betances, Montgomery make season debuts in Yanks’ loss

  15-09-2019 22:37
  TORONTO (AP) — Pitchers Dellin Betances and Jordan Montgomery made their season debuts for the Yankees after lengthy layoffs, and New York finished its longest road trip of the season with a 6-4 loss to Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday.
  Betances, a 31-year-old right-hander, was diagnosed with an impingement in his pitching shoulder after his fourth spring training appearance on March 17. His rehabilitation stopped when the team said June 11 that he had strained his right latissimus dorsi muscle
  
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• Brissett spoils Titans’ opener, rallying Colts to 19-17 win

  15-09-2019 22:35
  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Another quarterback, another victory for the Colts against the Titans.
  Jacoby Brissett became the latest Indianapolis quarterback to top Tennessee, throwing a 4-yard touchdown pass to T.Y. Hilton with 4:38 left to lead the Colts to a 19-17 victory Sunday in the Titans’ home opener.
  Brissett had come up empty for Indianapolis against Tennessee, losing both games he started against the Titans in 2017. After Andrew Luck retired with a perfect 11-0 record against
  
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• Woman charged with making threat before youth game shooting

  15-09-2019 22:31
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Authorities have arrested the mother of a suspect they say opened fire at a North Texas youth football game.
  Fort Worth police say 39-year-old Chanita Nichole Holly called her son from Saturday’s game involving 8-year-old players, and that he later arrived and started shooting.
  Police say a woman was struck in the leg and a girl was grazed in the back.
  Holly was charged with making a terroristic threat after her arrest Monday night during a traffic stop.
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• 2 injured in shooting at youth football game in Texas

  15-09-2019 22:31
  FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Police in Texas say two people were injured when gunfire erupted at a youth football game.
  Authorities say a woman was struck in the leg and a girl was grazed in the back when shots rang out during the game among elementary school-aged children Saturday afternoon in Fort Worth. Both were transported to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
  Fort Worth police say the incident started as a dispute between parents at the game. Officer Jimmy Pollozani say
  
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• Indians trim Twins 7-5 to salvage Central series finale

  15-09-2019 22:27
  CLEVELAND (AP) — Roberto Perez’s three-run homer helped the Cleveland Indians salvage the finale of their AL Central showdown series with a 7-5 win over the big-swinging Minnesota Twins, who tied a major league home run record Sunday.
  Perez’s 417-foot shot to center field off Kyle Gibson capped a four-run rally in the sixth inning that began with Jason Kipnis hitting a double off Fernando Romero (0-1).
  Nick Wittgren (5-1) relieved starter Shane Bieber and held the Twins to one
  
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• Officials: Deputies fatally shoot man who pointed weapon

  15-09-2019 22:24
  OOLTEWAH, Tenn. (AP) — Officials say Tennessee deputies have fatally shot a man who pointed a weapon at them.
  The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation says in a statement that six Hamilton County deputies responded Saturday to a report of a suicidal man in Ooltewah. The statement says deputies shot 76-year-old James Hilton Glaze when he pointed the weapon at responding officers. Glaze died at the scene.
  The deputies who shot Glaze were not identified.
  The bureau says it will investigate the s
  
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• Vázquez homers twice, drives in 5, Red Sox beat Phillies

  15-09-2019 22:22
  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Christian Vázquez homered twice, including a grand slam, and drove in a career-high five runs to lead the Boston Red Sox to a 6-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies on Sunday.
  Andrew Benintendi had a pair of hits for the defending World Series champions, who have won three in a row. Boston began play trailing Tampa Bay by 10 games for the AL’s second wild card.
  Rick Porcello (13-12) allowed two runs on five hits with six strikeouts and a walk in five in
  
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• Garoppolo throws 3 TDs, 49ers roll over Bengals 41-17

  15-09-2019 22:20
  CINCINNATI (AP) — Jimmy Garoppolo tied his career high with three touchdown passes Sunday, and the San Francisco 49ers completed a sweet and satisfying week in the Buckeye State with a 41-17 victory over the Cincinnati Bengals that left them unbeaten for the long flight home.
  Rather than return to the West Coast after their opening 31-17 win in Tampa Bay, the 49ers headed to Youngstown, Ohio, where they worked out on a soccer field, enjoyed a local ice cream shop and rested at a Holiday In
  
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• Stafford overcomes mistakes to help Lions top Chargers 13-10

  15-09-2019 22:14
  DETROIT (AP) — Matthew Stafford and Darius Slay had a lot to do with the Los Angeles Chargers leading the Lions for three-plus quarters.
  And, both players bounced back in the final minutes to lift Detroit to a 13-10 victory Sunday.
  Stafford threw a go-ahead, 31-yard touchdown pass to Kenny Golladay midway through the fourth quarter and Slay made an interception in the end zone with 1:03 left.
  Detroit (1-0-1) overcame Stafford’s two interceptions, Slay getting outplayed by Keenan Alle
  
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• Cubs’ Rizzo exits with sprained right ankle

  15-09-2019 22:10
  CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago Cubs slugger Anthony Rizzo left Sunday’s game against the Pittsburgh Pirates in the third inning with a sprained right ankle.
  X-rays taken at Wrigley Field showed no broken bones. An MRI is scheduled for Monday to determine the severity of the injury.
  The first baseman suffered the injury while fielding a bunt.
  With a runner on second and none out, Pirates pitcher Trevor Williams bunted to the third-base side of the mound. Rizzo charged aggressively and rolled
  
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• Dak double: Cowboys’ Prescott beats Redskins with legs, arm

  15-09-2019 22:08
  LANDOVER, Md. (AP) — Dak Prescott carved up the Washington Redskins’ defense with his arm and his legs, completing 26 of 30 passes for 269 yards and three touchdowns and rushing for 69 yards in a 31-21 Dallas Cowboys victory Sunday to improve to 2-0.
  A week after putting up a perfect 158.3 QB rating, Prescott responded from an interception to lead Dallas on consecutive touchdown drives of 97, 83 and 75 yards. He’s the first Cowboys quarterback to compile seven touchdown passes
  
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• Saints sign Payton to extension through 2024

  15-09-2019 21:59
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — The Saints have signed coach Sean Payton to an extension running through the 2024 season.
  The club, which announced the extension before Sunday’s game against the Rams in Los Angeles, did not disclose financial details.
  Payton had been earning about $9 million per year in a contract that was due to expire after the 2020 season.
  Payton is the most successful coach in franchise history, having won the club’s only Super Bowl in the 2009 season and coached New Or
  
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• Algeria announces Dec. 12 date for presidential vote

  15-09-2019 21:46
  ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria’s interim leader has announced Dec. 12 as the date for the presidential election, in line with the army chief’s demand to fill the vacancy left when Abdelaziz Bouteflika was pushed out more than five months ago.
  Abdelkader Bensallah announced plans for elections during an address to the nation Sunday night.
  The powerful army chief, Ahmed Gaid Salah, has been pushing for elections as quickly as possible.
  A pro-democracy movement holding weekly pro
  
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• Boy beat up at school as other students watched and videotaped it

  15-09-2019 21:43
  FLORIDA (NBC News) – A boy was beaten up as his fellow middle school students in Florida watched and videotaped the incident, police and school officials said.
  The student who appears to strike the victim in the video is under investigation for simple battery, said Capt. Steven Pacheco of the Lakeland Police Department. He also was suspended for 10 days, said Jacqueline Byrd, superintendent of Polk County Public Schools.
  Others seen holding the victim and the students who videotaped t
  
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• Algeria’s interim leader sets Dec. 12 date for presidential election, following army chief’s demand

  15-09-2019 21:34
  ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) — Algeria’s interim leader sets Dec. 12 date for presidential election, following army chief’s demand.
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• Courts free more suspects in case of disappeared students

  15-09-2019 21:26
  MEXICO CITY (AP) — A Mexican official says courts have freed another 24 people who’d been implicated in the disappearance of 43 students — a case that created outrage across the country.
  Under-Secretary of Government Alejandro Encinas said Sunday the detainees were freed the previous evening.
  Seventy-seven of the 142 people arrested in the case have now been freed. Nobody has yet been convicted.
  Investigators say local police in the town of Iguala rounded up the leftist teacher
  
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• Watford draws with Arsenal on Flores return, Everton loses

  15-09-2019 21:19
  LONDON (AP) — After spells in charge of Espanyol in Spain and Shanghai Shenhua in China, Quique Sánchez Flores returned to the thrills and spills of the Premier League on Sunday as his Watford side drew with Arsenal 2-2.
  Flores, who left Watford in 2016 but returned to take over from the fired Javi Gracia, began his second reign as manager by leading the last-place team to just its second point from five games.
  But it could have been even more. The Spaniard was left holding his head
  
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• ‘Jojo Rabbit’ wins Toronto’s sought-after audience award

  15-09-2019 21:16
  NEW YORK (AP) — Taika Waititi’s Nazi Germany-set satire “Jojo Rabbit” has won the People’s Choice award at the Toronto International Film Festival, a prize that has historically been one of the most ironclad predicators of Academy Awards chances.
  Since so many of the top fall movies play in Toronto, the festival’s audience award is nearly prophetic. For more than a decade, every People’s Choice winner has gone on to score a best-picture Oscar nomination.
  
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• Polling firm projects outsider candidate Kais Saied as ranked 1st in Tunisia presidential vote, ahead of jailed magnate

  15-09-2019 21:15
  TUNIS, Tunisia (AP) — Polling firm projects outsider candidate Kais Saied as ranked 1st in Tunisia presidential vote, ahead of jailed magnate.
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• Paul says he won’t back Cheney if she runs for Senate

  15-09-2019 21:14
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul says that he won’t back GOP congresswoman Liz Cheney if she decides to run for the Senate from Wyoming.
  He confirmed Sunday on CNN that he’s supporting Republican Cynthia Lummis, a former House member, after days of bickering with Cheney over what he calls her support for “endless wars.” Cheney, meanwhile on NBC, doubled down on her contention that Paul’s approach “blames America first” for conflicts.
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• Aquarium: Beached whale on Maryland coastline is dead

  15-09-2019 21:05
  OCEAN CITY, Md. (AP) — A beached whale that initially drew a large crowd of Maryland oceanfront onlookers is dead.
  The National Aquarium in Baltimore sent a team to Ocean City on Sunday morning to assess the condition of the juvenile sperm whale.
  The aquarium said in an afternoon news release that aquarium veterinarians determined the whale has died. It says the Maryland Department of Natural Resources and Ocean City police will remove the animal from the beach. The department will perform
  
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• Average US price of gas down 3 cents per gallon

  15-09-2019 21:04
  CAMARILLO, Calif. (AP) — The average U.S. price of regular-grade gasoline has dropped 3 cents per gallon (3.8 liters) over the past three weeks to $2.63.
  The price is 20 cents lower than what it was in mid-July.
  However, industry analyst Trilby Lundberg of the Lundberg Survey says Sunday she expects the trend to reverse after Saturday’s drone attack on Saudi Arabia’s key oil processing facility.
  There was no immediate impact on global oil prices from the attacks as markets were
  
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• Fighting leukemia, Mihajlovic inspires Bologna to 2nd place

  15-09-2019 20:50
  ROME (AP) — Sinisa Mihajlovic’s fight against leukemia continues to inspire Bologna, which has surprisingly surged into second place three rounds into Serie A.
  The coach was absent from a 4-3 comeback win over 10-man Brescia on Sunday but his halftime speech via telephone made a resounding impact.
  “We’re playing like this thanks to his mentality. At the end of the first half he transmitted his anger to us,” Bologna forward Rodrigo Palacio said. “In the second
  
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• Gun control must include background checks, Dems tell Trump

  15-09-2019 20:46
  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic leaders in Congress are telling President Donald Trump that any proposal on gun control must include a House-passed bill to expand background checks for gun purchases.
  In a statement, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer say they spoke Sunday with President Donald Trump, who may announce as soon as this coming week what measures he supports.
  The Democrats say any proposal lacking the House legislation “will not get the job
  
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• Union votes to strike at General Motors’ US plants

  15-09-2019 20:44
  DETROIT (AP) — The United Auto Workers union announced Sunday that its roughly 49,000 workers at General Motors plants in the U.S. would go on strike just before midnight because contentious talks on a new contract had broken down.
  About 200 plant-level union leaders voted unanimously in favor of a walkout during a meeting Sunday morning in Detroit. Union leaders said the sides were still far apart on several major issues and they apparently weren’t swayed by a GM offer to make new
  
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• The Latest: Juul reviewing NY ban, agrees action needed

  15-09-2019 20:31
  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo pushing for a ban on the sale of flavored e-cigarettes (all times local):
  2:25 p.m.
  The largest player in the e-cigarette market says it’s reviewing an announcement from New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo that would ban the sale of flavored e-cigarettes, but agrees there’s a need for “aggressive category-wide action.”
  Juul Labs Inc. spokesman Austin Finan says in a statement Sunday the company would “fully compl
  
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• Lawyers seek testimony for US woman charged with aiding ISIS

  15-09-2019 20:23
  HAMMOND, Ind. (AP) — Attorneys for an Indiana woman accused of providing support to the Islamic State group received a judge’s approval to seek depositions from three Yazidis who were taken as slaves by her husband, who she says died while fighting for IS. The Post-Tribune reports that a federal judge in Hammond on Tuesday gave Samantha Elhassani’s lawyers permission to seek depositions from the two Yazidi women and young boy in hopes of bolstering her defense. The three are in
  
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• Bishop: $1.2M from sale will go to help sex abuse victims

  15-09-2019 20:22
  WHEELING, W.Va. (AP) — Officials say $1.2 million from the sale of the diocesan home of former West Virginia Catholic Bishop Michael J. Bransfield will go to assist victims of sexual abuse in West Virginia. The Intelligencer reports Bishop Mark E. Brennan released the information in a letter Friday to Catholics in the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston.
  Real estate records show the home was sold in August to David H. and Meredith McKinley.
  Brennan says proceeds from the sale will be put into a
  
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• AP Top 25: Cal, Arizona St move in to give Pac-12 6 ranked

  15-09-2019 20:08
  California and Arizona State have moved into the AP Top 25 college football poll to give the Pac-12 six ranked teams, the most for the conference in almost four years.
  A weekend filled with blowouts left the top half of the AP media poll presented by Regions Bank mostly unchanged.
  Clemson remains No. 1, with 57 of the 62 first-place votes, as the top nine held their spots Sunday. Alabama was No. 2, receiving five first-place votes, followed by Georgia, LSU, Oklahoma, Ohio State, Notre Dame, Aubu
  
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• Utah jumps to No. 10, California and Arizona State give Pac-12 six teams in Top 25; Clemson, Alabama 1-2.

  15-09-2019 20:02
  NEW YORK (AP) — Utah jumps to No. 10, California and Arizona State give Pac-12 six teams in Top 25; Clemson, Alabama 1-2.
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• Primoz Roglic wins Spanish Vuelta for 1st Grand Tour title

  15-09-2019 20:02
  MADRID (AP) — Former ski jumper Primoz Roglic has comfortably won the Spanish Vuelta for his first Grand Tour title.
  The Slovenian finished the three-week race 2 1/2 minutes ahead of world champion Alejandro Valverde in Sunday’s 21st stage.
  Following custom, riders respected the leader’s lead on the last day when the race made its traditional finish in Madrid.
  Roglic in his red leader’s jersey was flanked by yellow-clad Jumbo-Visma teammates as they arrived in the Spanish
  
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• New York moves to enact statewide flavored e-cig ban

  15-09-2019 20:01
  NEW YORK (AP) — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo is pushing to enact a statewide ban on the sale of flavored e-cigarettes amid growing health concerns connected to vaping, especially among young people.
  The Democrat announced Sunday that the state health commissioner would be making a recommendation this week to the state Public Health and Health Planning Council. The council can issue emergency regulations that would go into effect as soon as they are voted on and start being enforced in as so
  
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• Flores sees Watford fight back in 2-2 draw with Arsenal

  15-09-2019 19:55
  WATFORD, England (AP) — Quique Sánchez Flores returned for his second reign as Watford manager and watched his team fight back to earn a well-deserved 2-2 draw against visiting Arsenal on Sunday in the Premier League.
  Flores, who left Watford in 2016 but returned to take over from the fired Javi Gracia, was left holding his head as Arsenal goalkeeper Bernd Leno denied Abdoulaye Doucouré what would have been a dramatic winner in injury time.
  Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang scored tw
  
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• Satellite images examined by AP appear to show damage at heart of attacked Saudi oil processing facility

  15-09-2019 19:49
  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Satellite images examined by AP appear to show damage at heart of attacked Saudi oil processing facility.
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• “It” is tops again; “Hustlers” full of flash at box office

  15-09-2019 19:36
  LOS ANGELES (AP) — It wasn’t quite enough to take down Pennywise the clown, but Jennifer Lopez and the scheming strippers of “Hustlers” topped even its high expectations at the weekend box office.
  “It: Chapter Two” brought in $40.7 million to keep the top spot in its second week and has earned a total of $153.8 million. The original had earned more than $200 million at the same point two years ago.
  “Hustlers,” riding stellar reviews, festival buzz
  
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