| Bernie Sanders: Voters see Hillary Clinton as ‘lesser of two evils’ against Donald Trump Posted: 22 May 2016 10:49 AM PDT  According to an NBC/Wall Street Journal poll released Sunday, 58 percent of registered voters view Trump unfavorably, while 54 percent view Clinton the same way — the highest unfavorable ratings for likely general election candidates in the history of the survey. "We need a campaign, an election, coming up which does not have two candidates who are really very, very strongly disliked," Sanders said.
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| Egypt sends submarine to hunt for crashed jet's black boxes Posted: 22 May 2016 01:43 PM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Egypt sent a submarine Sunday to join the hunt for the flight recorders from the EgyptAir jetliner that crashed in the Mediterranean and killed all 66 people aboard, while hundreds of Coptic Christian mourners filled a church in Cairo to pray for their relatives among the dead.
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| New data backs argument that Trump has not expanded the GOP Posted: 22 May 2016 09:00 AM PDT  Trump has boasted that he is drawing new voters to the the GOP, but new analysis refutes the claim and suggests increased primary numbers won't help in November.
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| Police officer fatally shot in traffic stop; suspect on run Posted: 22 May 2016 03:17 PM PDT  AUBURN, Mass. (AP) — A manhunt was underway Sunday for a suspect who shot and killed a police officer during a traffic stop in central Massachusetts, authorities said.
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| Austria's next president could be a right-wing Eurosceptic Posted: 22 May 2016 12:57 PM PDT  VIENNA (AP) — With direct ballots counted but a final result still outstanding, Sunday's elections for Austria's presidency were too close to call a winner between a right-wing politician and a challenger whose views stand in stark opposition to his rival's anti-immigrant and Eurosceptic message.
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| Top US commander makes secret visit to Syria Posted: 22 May 2016 11:19 AM PDT  NORTHERN SYRIA (AP) — On a secret trip to Syria, the new commander of U.S. forces in the Middle East said he felt a moral obligation to enter a war zone to check on his troops and make his own assessment of progress in organizing local Arab and Kurd fighters for what has been a slow campaign to push the Islamic State group out of Syria.
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| Israeli defense minister steps down Posted: 22 May 2016 11:51 AM PDT  TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — Israel's defense minister officially stepped down on Sunday, capping a tumultuous week of politics that is expected to result in the replacement of the former military chief with an inexperienced hard-liner in the sensitive post.
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| 'Smoke on board' EgyptAir plane before crash Posted: 21 May 2016 07:39 PM PDT  Smoke detected inside the plane shortly before it plunged into the Mediterranean offered clues but no answers as to why it crashed.
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| Afghan leaders see Taliban leader's death as hopeful sign Posted: 22 May 2016 01:04 PM PDT  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — A senior commander with the Afghan Taliban says the militant group's leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour has been killed in a U.S. drone strike.
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| Dutch, Australian climbers die after reaching Everest summit Posted: 21 May 2016 08:33 PM PDT  KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Dutch man and an Australian woman died of apparent altitude sickness while descending from the summit of Mount Everest in the first deaths this year on the world's highest mountain.
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| Clinton, Sanders duel over Latino vote in California Posted: 22 May 2016 05:58 AM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bernie Sanders' image gazes out from a corner storefront in Boyle Heights, a Hispanic enclave known for its plump burritos and a plaza where mariachis strum guitars. It's here that his campaign is going house to house to cut into Hillary Clinton's advantage with Latino voters.
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| Three dead, 11 injured in concert shooting in Austria Posted: 22 May 2016 01:00 AM PDT  A man shot dead two people and wounded 11 others before turning the gun on himself at a concert organized by a motorcycle club in western Austria on Sunday, a police spokeswoman said. The shooting took place at around 3 a.m. (2100 GMT) at the concert in Nenzing, a market town near the border with Liechtenstein.
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| 7 dead after volcano erupts in western Indonesia Posted: 22 May 2016 05:56 AM PDT  GAMBER, Indonesia (AP) — The death toll in the eruption of a volcano in western Indonesia rose to seven on Sunday, with two other people in critical condition, as an official warned of more eruptions.
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| Elvis guitar fetches $334,000 at New York auction Posted: 22 May 2016 12:44 AM PDT  A guitar given to Elvis Presley by his father in 1969 went under the hammer for $334,000 in New York during an auction that also saw a Michael Jackson vest fetch $256,000. Vernon Presley is said to have changed the finish of the Gibson Dove acoustic guitar to ebony after his son earned his black belt in karate. During a 1975 concert in Asheville, North Carolina, Presley had given the guitar to fan Mike Harris, who had kept it until now.
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