Sunday, March 6, 2016

IT News Head Lines (Yahoo News) 07/03/2016





Cruz gains steam against Trump, as Rubio fades in ‘Super Saturday’ voting




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UFC 196: Nate Diaz stuns Conor McGregor with second-round submission




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Donald Trump at CPAC: Out of sight, not out of mind




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Blustery storm brings rain, snow to dry California
Pedestrian cross the street in San Francisco, Friday, March 4, 2016. The National Weather Service says California's withering winter dry spell will end this weekend as a series of storms move through the state. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Steady rain fell in Northern California and fresh snow blanketed the Sierra Nevada as the first of several powerful storms expected to slam Western states this weekend made its way inland Saturday, ending a dry spell and raising hopes the drought-stricken state can get much needed precipitation.



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Team for Mexican drug lord 'El Chapo' launches PR blitz
MEXICO CITY (AP) — The once-secretive Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman has launched a public relations blitz, calling on his lawyers and even his common-law wife to keep his name in the news.



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Cruz, Trump each grab 2 wins; Dems divide states too
Supporters cheer for republican presidential candidate Donald Trump while he speaks during a campaign rally, Saturday, March 5, 2016, in Orlando, Fla. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)Ted Cruz claimed the first prize in Saturday's four-state round of Republican voting, triumphing in Kansas as front-runner Donald Trump tried to pad his delegate lead in the fractious race for president. Democrats in three states were choosing between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders.



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Taliban says rejects 'futile' Afghanistan peace talks
Head of U.S. delegation Michael Mckinley listens during a meeting in KabulThe Taliban said on Saturday it would not take part in peace talks brokered by representatives of Afghanistan, Pakistan, China and the United States, casting doubt on efforts to revive negotiations. The Taliban, ousted from power in a U.S.-led military intervention in 2001, has been waging a violent insurgency to try to topple Afghanistan's Western-backed government and re-establish a fundamentalist Islamic regime. Following a meeting of the so-called Quadrilateral Coordination Group made up of representatives of the four countries in Kabul in February, officials said they expected direct peace talks between the Afghan government and the Taliban to begin in early March.



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Flint crisis a campaign issue for Democrats, less so for GOP
FILE - In this Feb. 7, 2016 file photo, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton holds the hand of Flint Mayor Karen Weaver during a meeting with officials at the House Of Prayer Missionary Baptist Church in Flint, Mich. Flint, a majority-black impoverished community in a state run by Republicans, has become a dominant issue for the Democratic candidates before Tuesday’s primary in Michigan, so much so that they will return to the city for the seventh Democratic debate on Sunday. (AP Photo/Paul Sancya, File)The crisis has become a hot-button issue for Democratic presidential candidates.



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Musicians and media figures celebrate Murdoch-Hall wedding
Musicians and media figures celebrate Murdoch-Hall weddingRupert Murdoch and Jerry Hall celebrated their marriage Saturday alongside family members, media executives and music stars in a church considered the spiritual home of British journalism. The media mogul ...



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Trump rallies: Tense, racially charged, immensely successful
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump holds up a child he pulled from the crowd as he arrives to speak at a campaign rally in New Orleans, Friday, March 4, 2016. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)VALDOSTA, Ga. (AP) — Among the many ways Donald Trump has redefined presidential politics, he stands alone for how he has used large, protest-ridden rallies, often bubbling with raw anger, to fuel his candidacy.



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Police test knife found on property owned by O.J. Simpson
LAPD investigates knife purportedly found at OJ Simpson homeThe department is investigating the Buck knife with a retractable blade, which was apparently turned over to a police officer a number of years ago by a construction worker at the property, the Los Angeles Times newspaper reported, citing an unnamed law enforcement source. The knife was found on the grounds of the house where Simpson lived at the time of the murders. The house, in the posh Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles, has since been razed.



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Ben Carson announces he is ‘leaving the campaign trail’
Ben Carson announces he is ‘leaving the campaign trail’– The socially conservative doctor whose inspirational biography and deeply held faith galvanized the red blood of America this past fall officially announced that he is leaving the campaign trail Friday. With characteristic earnestness, Dr. Ben Carson assured the crowd at the American Conservative Union’s 2016 Political Action Conference (CPAC) that he would keep fighting on behalf of “We the People” – albeit not as a contender for commander-in-chief.



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FBI reveals details of $4.8M gold truck robbery
MIAMI (AP) — The FBI has revealed how thieves made off with gold bars worth $4.8 million in a truck robbery on Interstate 95 last year, and it reads like a heist fit for Hollywood.

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GOP candidates pledge to vote for man they call a liar, con-man and fraud




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Cruz, Rubio hit Trump on temperament, 'flexibility'




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N. Korea leader orders nuclear arsenal on 'standby'
Leader Kim Jong-Un has ordered North Korea's nuclear arsenal to be readied for pre-emptive use at any time, in an expected escalation of military rhetoric following the UN Security Council's adoption of tough new sanctions on Pyongyang. The North's nuclear warheads must be deployed "on standby so as to be fired at any moment," Kim was quoted as saying by the North's official KCNA news agency on Friday. Such bellicose rhetoric is almost routine for North Korea at times of elevated tensions.

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Trump on Romney: ‘He wants to be back in the game’




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Immunity granted to Clinton staffer who set up server: report
When it emerged last year that US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton used a private server and non-official address for all her email while secretary of state, her Republican rivals cried foulHillary Clinton's former staffer who helped set up the controversial private email server she used while secretary of state has been granted immunity in a criminal investigation into the affair, The Washington Post reported. The US Department of Justice granted immunity to Bryan Pagliano, who set up the server in 2009 and is now cooperating with the FBI, the Post said, citing a senior law enforcement official. Pagliano, who worked on Clinton's presidential campaign in 2008, had previously invoked his constitutional right to silence when asked to answer questions about the matter before a US House Committee in September.



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