| Live updates from the New York primary Posted: 19 Apr 2016 03:22 PM PDT Join the Yahoo News team for everything you need to know about New York's Republican and Democratic primaries. Beginning at 9 p.m. ET, Katie Couric will host live coverage with Matt Bai and Olivier Knox, along with supporters of all five remaining presidential candidates. The live blog - with reporters across New York - will kick off at 6 p.m. |
| Trump has a 9/11 problem — and it’s not ‘7/11’ Posted: 19 Apr 2016 10:27 AM PDT  Trumps's assertion that he helped clear rubble in the search for 9/11 survivors — an anecdote meant to show his "New York values" — is fraught with questions.
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| Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders battle for momentum in New York’s Democratic primary Posted: 19 Apr 2016 07:31 AM PDT  Bill Clinton starkly laid out the stakes for New York's Democratic presidential primary at an event in the Long Island suburb of Elmont earlier this month. This election in so many ways psychologically is coming down to New York," he said. Indeed, while Hillary Clinton has racked up enough delegates in earlier primaries to put her on a path to victory, the race in New York remains crucial to her campaign.
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| No prison time for NYPD officer in stairwell shooting case Posted: 19 Apr 2016 03:15 PM PDT  A former police officer who shot an unarmed man to death in a darkened stairwell was spared prison time Tuesday, and a judge reduced his manslaughter conviction to a lesser charge in a case that became ...
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| At encryption hearing, lawmakers search in vain for workable solutions Posted: 19 Apr 2016 01:01 PM PDT  The nearly four-hour hearing comes less than a month after the FBI abandoned a controversial case against Apple involving the iPhone of a San Bernardino shooter.
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| Obama: Top intel official reviewing secret 9/11 material Posted: 19 Apr 2016 12:19 AM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama says the top-ranking U.S. intelligence official is reviewing classified material in a Sept. 11 report that families of attack victims and some lawmakers are demanding be made public. |
| MH17 families mulling lawsuit against Malaysia Airlines Posted: 19 Apr 2016 08:47 AM PDT  Dozens of families of those killed when a missile shot down Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine two years ago are considering suing the carrier for compensation, their lawyer told AFP Tuesday. All 298 passengers and crew -- the majority of them Dutch -- died when the Boeing 777 was hit by a Russian-made BUK anti-aircraft missile over war-torn eastern Ukraine on July 17, 2014. Under a 1999 international accord dubbed the Montreal Convention, the families have until the second anniversary of the disaster -- July 17 -- to decide if they want to press a lawsuit.
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| Clinton trips up in the Big Apple. New Yorkers can relate Posted: 19 Apr 2016 05:06 AM PDT  Clinton, attempting to use the subway. Earlier this month, a little more than two weeks before New York's Tuesday primary, Hillary Clinton decided to take the subway. "You can tell Hillary hasn't done the subway in a while since she's talking to people," Chuck Ross, a reporter at the Daily Caller, tweeted, nodding to an unspoken rule of silence among New York commuters.
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| Trump and the NY ‘establishment’: If you can’t join ’em, beat ’em Posted: 19 Apr 2016 05:16 AM PDT  NEW YORK—Donald Trump was having a moment. Dressed in a tuxedo jacket and bow tie, the real estate mogul and former reality television star took the stage at last week's New York State Republican Gala as the unlikely frontrunner for the GOP presidential nomination. Instead, as he scanned the crowd of nearly 1,000 Republican donors and party officials, including many from the Manhattan social orbit he'd been circling just outside of for decades, Trump sought a different kind of validation: one focusing on his business achievements.
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| Afghan Taliban kill at least 28 in major attack in central Kabul Posted: 19 Apr 2016 09:11 AM PDT  By Josh Smith and Hamid Shalizi KABUL (Reuters) - A Taliban suicide bomb and gun assault on a government security building during Tuesday morning rush hour in central Kabul killed at least 28 people and wounded more than 320, in the deadliest single attack in the Afghan capital since 2011. President Ashraf Ghani condemned the assault "in the strongest possible terms" in a statement from the presidential palace, located only a few hundred meters away from the scene of the blast. The insurgency led by the Afghan Taliban has gained strength since the withdrawal of most international combat troops at the end of 2014, and the Islamist group is believed to be stronger than at any point since it was driven from power by U.S.-backed forces in 2001.
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| Clinton, Trump tipped to win as New York votes Posted: 19 Apr 2016 02:13 PM PDT  New Yorkers went to the polls Tuesday in the state's most decisive presidential primary in decades with Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump firm favorites in the race to clinch the Democratic and Republican nominations. Polls show that Clinton -- the former secretary of state, first lady and New York senator -- has a double-digit lead over her Brooklyn-born challenger, Bernie Sanders, even if nationwide surveys put them neck-and-neck. Trump, the 69-year-old Manhattan billionaire whose controversial campaign has appalled the Republican establishment, is well ahead of his evangelical rival Ted Cruz and Ohio Governor John Kasich.
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| Homes damaged, at least 5 dead in massive Houston flooding Posted: 18 Apr 2016 09:32 PM PDT  More than a foot of rain had fallen by Monday evening in parts of Houston, submerging scores of subdivisions and several major interstate highways, forcing the closure of schools and knocking out power to thousands of residents who were urged to shelter in place. Sylvester Turner, mayor of the nation's fourth-largest city, told residents to stay home to fend off a weather system he called "stubborn." More rain was projected over the next two to three days, although heavy downpours had subsided and only another half-inch was expected through Monday night, he said. Rain gauges in parts of Harris County, which includes most of Houston, showed water levels approaching 20 inches since late Sunday night, with slightly smaller amounts elsewhere in Southeast Texas as bayous and creeks overflowed their banks.
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| Doris Roberts, Star of 'Everybody Loves Raymond,' Dies at 90 Posted: 17 Apr 2016 09:00 PM PDT  The five-time Emmy winner excelled at playing motherly types. "I'm not some celebrity thinking, 'I'm greater than anybody else,' " she once said.
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| Dramatic rescue amid rubble gives Ecuador hope for survivors Posted: 18 Apr 2016 07:05 PM PDT  Rescuers pull three people out alive Monday after they had been trapped for more than 32 hours.
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