| Palin on being Trump’s VP nominee: ‘I wouldn’t want to be a burden on the ticket’ Posted: 08 May 2016 07:52 AM PDT  The former Alaska governor says she'd be open to being the presumptive Republican nominee's running mate, but doesn't want to hurt his chances the way many believe she did for John McCain in 2008.
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| New prison for drug boss 'El Chapo' seen as less secure Posted: 08 May 2016 04:38 PM PDT  Questions arose on both sides of the border about the decision to relocate convicted drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to a region that is one of his cartel's strongholds, and a Mexican security ...
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| Afghan official: 52 dead after buses collide with tanker Posted: 08 May 2016 04:48 PM PDT  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Two buses and a fuel tanker collided Sunday on a major highway in Afghanistan, killing 52 people, officials said.
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| Raging Canada fires now threaten second province, authorities say Posted: 08 May 2016 11:07 AM PDT  Wildfires that ravaged a vast area of western Canada's Alberta province now are threatening a neighboring region, authorities said Sunday, as the inferno -- which doubled in sized in the space of a day -- continued its advance. The ruthless blaze, fanned by high winds and fueled by tinder-dry conditions, devastated the region around the city of Fort McMurray, and could now spread to neighboring Saskatchewan province some 35 miles (60 kilometers) away.
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| Unconventional #11: Trump’s plan to put some pizzazz in the GOP convention, the search for a third-party #NeverTrump challenger (and more!) Posted: 06 May 2016 02:41 PM PDT Photo Illustration: Yahoo News, photos: AP, Everett Collection, Getty Images (2). Unconventional is Yahoo News' complete guide to what could be the craziest presidential conventions in decades. Here's what you need to know today. 1. Marble! |
| Clinton: No one from FBI has 'reached out' yet on emails Posted: 08 May 2016 05:25 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Hillary Clinton says "no one has reached out to me yet" from the FBI to discuss the investigation into her use of a private email server while she was secretary of state.
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| London's new Muslim mayor joins Holocaust memorial Posted: 08 May 2016 09:40 AM PDT  DUBLIN (AP) — London's newly elected Muslim mayor paid respect Sunday to the millions of Jews slain in the Holocaust as his first public engagement in office — and received a hero's welcome from London's Jewish community at the end.
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| Republican National Convention by the numbers: How Cleveland is planning city security Posted: 06 May 2016 02:35 PM PDT  For example, nearly 2,000 protestors, bystanders, legal observers and journalists were arrested when New York City hosted the Republican National Convention in 2004. Donald Trump, the boisterous GOP presumptive nominee, predicted trouble if he's denied the party's nomination in July. The Secret Service recently had to squash the attempts of nearly 55,000 people who signed a petition to allow the open carrying of firearms inside Cleveland's Quicken Loans Arena during the convention.
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| Prince Harry condemns 'incessant' media focus on his private life Posted: 08 May 2016 03:50 AM PDT  Prince Harry criticised what he called an "incessant need" of the media to delve into his private life, saying he would work hard to protect the line dividing his public and personal life. Harry's mother, the late Princess Diana, was often pursued by the press and died in a car crash in 1997 as she was chased by tabloid photographers.
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| One winning ticket sold in $429 million Powerball lottery Posted: 07 May 2016 10:03 PM PDT  (Reuters) - One winning ticket matched the numbers drawn on Saturday night for the multi-state Powerball jackpot for a payout estimated at $429.6 million, the ninth-highest U.S. lottery prize in history, officials said. Lottery officials said one ticket, purchased in New Jersey, had the winning combination, according to media reports. Winners of huge lottery payouts sometimes do not come forward publicly for months.
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| Trump says no need for Republican unity Posted: 07 May 2016 10:03 PM PDT  There may be much Republican hand-wringing over Donald Trump's presumptive nomination to face the Democratic candidate for the White House, but the boastful billionaire says he doesn't care, and it doesn't matter. A growing chorus of senior Republican leaders have joined the "anyone but Trump movement," including 2012 Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney and the last two Republican presidents, George W. Bush and George H.W. Bush. "Does it have to be unified?" Trump asked about the Republican Party.
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| 3 Spanish reporters home after 10 months captivity in Syria Posted: 08 May 2016 11:09 AM PDT  MADRID (AP) — Three Spanish freelance journalists held captive in Syria for nearly 10 months returned home Sunday, tearfully hugging relatives as they got off a military jet sent to Turkey to bring them back.
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| N. Korea leader sets five-year economic plan, vows nuclear restraint Posted: 08 May 2016 04:33 AM PDT  By James Pearson PYONGYANG (Reuters) - North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said his country would not use nuclear weapons unless its sovereignty is infringed by others with nuclear arms, in a speech broadcast on Sunday, and set a five-year plan to boost the secretive state's moribund economy. The North "will faithfully fulfil its obligation for non-proliferation and strive for global denuclearization", Kim said on Saturday at the rare congress of the ruling Workers' Party, although the speech only aired on Sunday on state television. Pyongyang was also willing to normalize ties with states that had been hostile towards it, Kim said.
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