| Trump blasts New York Times over ‘lame hit piece they did on me and women’ Posted: 15 May 2016 10:02 AM PDT  The presumptive Republican presidential nominee is firing back at the Gray Lady over a front-page story that alleges he made "unwelcome advances" toward women over the past four decades.
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| Clinton campaigns in Kentucky before Tuesday's primary Posted: 15 May 2016 04:37 PM PDT  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Hillary Clinton is making a big final push in Kentucky, where rival Bernie Sanders hopes to extend his winning streak and further delay her clinching the Democratic presidential nomination.
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| Carson says Christie, Cruz, Kasich, Rubio and Palin are on Trump’s shortlist for VP Posted: 15 May 2016 08:25 AM PDT  Ben Carson says Donald Trump's list of possible running mates includes some awfully familiar names for anyone who's followed the 2016 presidential race: New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. "Those are all people on our list," Carson told the Washington Post.
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| Facebook's Zuckerberg to meet conservatives on political bias flap Posted: 15 May 2016 01:43 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg will meet this week with prominent conservatives in the media, a spokesman said on Sunday, to address allegations of political bias at the popular social networking site. Some 12 "conservative thought leaders" will join the meeting with Zuckerberg on Wednesday, a Facebook spokesman said. Among the invitees are media personality Glenn Beck, Fox News Channel's "The Five" co-host Dana Perino and Zac Moffatt, co-founder of Targeted Victory, a technology company that aims to bring transparency to media buying.
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| IS attack and bombings leave 29 dead across Iraq Posted: 15 May 2016 01:45 PM PDT  BAGHDAD (AP) — The Islamic State group launched a coordinated assault Sunday on a natural gas plant north of Baghdad that killed at least 14 people, while a string of other bomb attacks in or close to the capital killed 15 others, Iraqi officials said.
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| Police: Fake bomb at Man United left from training exercise Posted: 15 May 2016 03:45 PM PDT  MANCHESTER, England (AP) — A fake bomb left behind during a security exercise led police to evacuate Manchester United's home stadium on Sunday, disrupting the final day of the English Premier League season and bringing embarrassment to one of the world's best-known sports teams.
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| Reporter From 1991 Audio Recording Says Trump's Denials Raise Questions About Character Posted: 14 May 2016 10:23 PM PDT  The former People Magazine reporter who interviewed Donald Trump's alleged spokesman "John Miller" in 1991 -- and immediately felt it was actually Trump himself -- says his denials that he masqueraded as his own spokesman raise questions about his character. "I mean, he's punking me," Carswell said. In 1991, Carswell spoke with a Trump spokesman named "John Miller" while reporting on Trump's divorce from Ivana Trump and his relationship with Marla Maples.
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| Netanyahu says Iran 'preparing another Holocaust' Posted: 15 May 2016 04:56 AM PDT  The exhibition, totalling 150 entries from 50 countries, with many entries deriding Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government's Middle East policies, opened Saturday in Tehran. "Over the weekend Iran convened a special Holocaust-denial cartoon contest," Netanyahu said at the beginning of his weekly cabinet meeting.
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| Sports minister: Russia 'sorry' and 'ashamed' over doping scandal Posted: 15 May 2016 02:40 AM PDT  Vitaly Mutko apologized for the scandal that threatens the athletic superpower's participation in the Rio Olympics.
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| On more than one issue, GOP's Trump sounds like a Democrat Posted: 15 May 2016 04:25 PM PDT  As he tries to charm Republicans still skeptical of his presidential candidacy, he has a challenge.
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| Feds to probe South Texas bus crash that left 8 dead, 44 hurt Posted: 15 May 2016 04:31 PM PDT  The National Transportation Safety Board says it is sending a team to investigate the wreck.
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| Kerry in Saudi Arabia for talks on Syria, Libya, Yemen Posted: 15 May 2016 06:22 AM PDT  The talks come ahead of larger meetings on those crises in Europe this week.
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| Ex-London Mayor Boris Johnson compares the EU to Hitler Posted: 15 May 2016 04:39 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Ex-London Mayor Boris Johnson has compared the European Union's aims to those of Adolf Hitler, arguing that the 28-nation bloc is creating a superstate that mirrors the attempt of the Nazi leader to dominate the European continent.
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers cancel performance, Kiedis hospitalized Posted: 15 May 2016 04:43 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Red Hot Chili Peppers' lead singer Anthony Kiedis was taken to hospital on Saturday, forcing the cancellation of the band's show in Irvine, California. "Unfortunately due to illness the @ChiliPeppers were forced to cancel their set tonight at #WeenieRoast," Los Angeles radio station KROQ, which sponsors the annual event, said on Twitter. Officials at the Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre confirmed the band's performance had been canceled and that Kiedis had been hospitalized but gave no further details, media reports said.
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| Facebook exec Sandberg urges graduates to build resilience Posted: 14 May 2016 08:02 PM PDT  BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) — Facebook Chief Operating Officer Sheryl Sandberg encouraged graduating seniors at the University of California, Berkeley to persevere in life's challenging times, speaking publicly for the first time about her husband's death during a commencement speech.
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| Eurovision win lifts spirits in Ukraine, raises eyebrows in Russia Posted: 15 May 2016 07:16 AM PDT  By Alexei Kalmykov and Vladimir Soldatkin KIEV/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Ukrainians hailed their country's unexpected victory in the Eurovision song contest as a Europe-wide endorsement of Ukraine in its smouldering conflict with Russia, while Moscow said the contest had been hijacked by politics. Ukrainian singer Jamala overtook the bookmakers' favourites, Russia and Australia, to lift the prize with the song "1944" about the war-time deportations of ethnic Tatars from Ukraine's Crimea peninsula by Soviet dictator Stalin. The singer, herself of Crimean Tatar descent, had drawn parallels in interviews to Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014, which provoked Western condemnation of the Kremlin, and was opposed by many in the region's Tatar minority.
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| Official: Pilot dies in crash during performance at airshow Posted: 14 May 2016 07:28 PM PDT  ATLANTA (AP) — A pilot was killed Saturday when his biplane crashed while performing a stunt at a metro Atlanta airshow.
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