| Legendary Artist Prince Found Dead at 57 Posted: 21 Apr 2016 10:50 AM PDT  Prince, a dizzylingly prolific multi-instrumentalist and virtuosic performer, was found dead at his home and recording studio in Minnesota early on Thursday, his publicist, Yvette Noel-Schure, told The Hollywood Reporter. He was 57.
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| Prince dead: Live developments and reaction on the musician’s passing Posted: 21 Apr 2016 10:04 AM PDT Iconic musician Prince died Thursday morning at his Paisley Park estate in suburban Minneapolis, police said. He was 57. A cause of death has not been revealed. Yahoo News is following the latest developments and reaction in the live blog below. |
| Obama will break Armenian genocide promise (again) Posted: 21 Apr 2016 01:18 PM PDT  Breaking a campaign promise, President Obama won't use the term "genocide" on Armenian Remembrance Day. For the eighth and final time, President Obama this year will break his unambiguous 2008 campaign promise to declare that the mass killings of Armenians at the hands of Ottoman Turks in 1915 and 1916 amounted to "genocide," a leading Armenian-American activist told Yahoo News on Thursday. But officially designating the Ottoman Turks' actions as "genocide" would have deeply angered Turkey, a NATO ally and a pivotal player in the coalition Obama has assembled to wage war on the Islamic State in neighboring Syria.
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| Driver deaths on flooded Houston-area roads prompt review Posted: 21 Apr 2016 04:23 PM PDT  HOUSTON (AP) — The deaths of eight drivers whose bodies were pulled from vehicles inundated by this week's torrential rains in the Houston area have prompted local leaders to push for improvements in how they warn people about the dangers of flooded roads.
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| Trump and the nomination Matrix Posted: 21 Apr 2016 02:00 AM PDT  Any reporter who has ever spent time on a presidential campaign has heard the perennial rant about "process stories." That's when the candidate tells you that really he is desperate to illuminate in numbing and nuanced detail his plan to reverse the decline of American manufacturing (which consists of about 500 words of boilerplate blather on his website), but all we in the media ever ask about is how he intends to win, so he can't. Bernie Sanders rails against a rigged system supported by "superdelegates" and "closed" primaries.
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| Ex-WWE wrestler Joanie 'Chyna' Laurer dead at 46 Posted: 21 Apr 2016 08:31 AM PDT  Chyna was found dead in her California home Wednesday afternoon, according to her manager.
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| Harriet Tubman to be first African-American on U.S. currency Posted: 20 Apr 2016 04:11 PM PDT  Anti-slavery crusader Harriet Tubman will become the first African-American on the face of U.S. paper currency, and the first woman in more than a century, when she replaces former President Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill. The U.S. Treasury Department said on Wednesday that Tubman, who was born into slavery in the early 1820s and went on to help hundreds of slaves escape, would take the center spot on the bill, while Jackson, a slave owner, would move to the back. Introduced alongside a slew of changes to the $5 and $10 notes as well, the redesign gives the Treasury "a chance to open the aperture to reflect more of America's history," Treasury Secretary Jack Lew said.
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| ESPN fires Curt Schilling after latest controversy Posted: 20 Apr 2016 05:15 PM PDT  ESPN announces it has terminated MLB broadcaster Curt Schilling for conduct that was unacceptable.
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| Up to 500 feared dead in Mediterranean shipwreck last week Posted: 20 Apr 2016 01:29 PM PDT  As many as 500 people are feared dead after a shipwreck last week in the Mediterranean Sea, two international groups said Wednesday, describing survivors' accounts of panicked passengers who desperately tried to stay afloat by jumping between vessels. The disaster happened in waters between Italy and Libya, based on accounts from 41 survivors who were rescued Saturday by a merchant ship, according to the U.N refugee agency and the International Organization for Migration. The tragedy ranks among the deadliest in recent years on the often-treacherous sea voyage along the central Mediterranean by refugees and migrants from Africa, the Middle East and beyond who have traveled in droves hoping to reach relatively peaceful and wealthy Europe.
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| First round of criminal charges emerge from Flint water crisis Posted: 20 Apr 2016 03:07 PM PDT The first criminal charges stemming from the Flint water crisis are made against three government officials. |
