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• Unconventional #14: Can Republicans really change the rules in Cleveland to block Trump’s nomination?
• Hillary Clinton Says 'No,' Bill Won't Serve in Her Cabinet
• Official: Radio transmissions distracted Amtrak engineer
• Supreme Court Sends Health Law Contraception Case Back to Lower Courts
• Baby bison euthanized after tourists put it in car
• Trump’s ex-girlfriend disputes NYT article: ‘I did not have a negative experience with Donald Trump’
• Sinead O'Connor found safe after going missing in Chicago area: police
• 5 Republicans who’d seriously consider being  Trump’s VP
• Trump's questioning of the value of data worries Republicans
• World powers ready to arm Libya in fight against IS
• Supreme Court Seeks Compromise in Birth Control Case
• Senate report on CIA torture is one step closer to disappearing
• Megyn Kelly Says Donald Trump Needs to Do Better With Women
• Trump says he expects poor relationship with UK leader
• Former GOP lawyer: Military acted properly on Benghazi

Unconventional #14: Can Republicans really change the rules in Cleveland to block Trump’s nomination? Posted: 16 May 2016 01:01 PM PDT Can Republicans really change the rules in Cleveland to block Trump's nomination? In a story titled "Five Ways the Republican Convention Could Still Be Contentious," Jeremy Peters of the New York Times reported Sunday that at least some Republicans "hostile" to Donald Trump continue to daydream about derailing his nomination at the last minute in Cleveland.

Hillary Clinton Says 'No,' Bill Won't Serve in Her Cabinet Posted: 16 May 2016 04:50 PM PDT During a visit to the Lone Oak Little Castle diner in Paducah, Ky., Hillary Clinton was asked twice to expand on what Bill Clinton's role in the White House would be.Clinton ignored it each time, but when asked if her husband would be in her Cabinet, she shook her head and mouthed, "No. ...

Official: Radio transmissions distracted Amtrak engineer Posted: 16 May 2016 04:52 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — An Amtrak engineer whose speeding train jumped the tracks along a curve in Philadelphia last year, killing eight people, was distracted by radio transmissions, a U.S. official briefed on the investigation said Monday.

Supreme Court Sends Health Law Contraception Case Back to Lower Courts Posted: 16 May 2016 04:11 PM PDT The Supreme Court said today it would not rule in the Zubik v. Burwell case, one of the most controversial legal challenges this year involving employer-sponsored health insurance and a woman's right to contraception under the Affordable Care Act. "Given the gravity of the dispute and the substantial clarification and refinement in the positions of the parties, the parties on remand should be afforded an opportunity to arrive at an approach going forward that accommodates petitioners' religious exercise while at the same time ensuring that women covered by petitioners' health plans 'receive full and equal health coverage, including contraceptive coverage,'" the justices wrote in the decision.

Baby bison euthanized after tourists put it in car Posted: 16 May 2016 01:18 PM PDT Yellowstone National Park managers warned visitors to leave wildlife alone after a string of events that led to the bison calf's death.

Trump’s ex-girlfriend disputes NYT article: ‘I did not have a negative experience with Donald Trump’ Posted: 16 May 2016 06:43 AM PDT Rowanne Brewer Lane, one of the women quoted by the paper, says she "never felt demeaned" by the presumptive Republican nominee.

Sinead O'Connor found safe after going missing in Chicago area: police Posted: 16 May 2016 01:48 PM PDT Irish-born singer Sinead O'Connor turned up safe at an undisclosed location on Monday, hours after being reported missing in Illinois by a caller who told authorities she had failed to return from a bicycle ride, police said. O'Connor, 49, who was reported missing in Wilmette, a suburb north of Chicago, has publicly acknowledged a history of mental illness. Six months ago, she said in a grief-wracked Facebook post that she had deliberately taken a drug overdose.

5 Republicans who’d seriously consider being  Trump’s VP Posted: 16 May 2016 05:40 AM PDT "I will be open to any way I can help. I'm not going to say no," promises one former presidential hopeful.

Trump's questioning of the value of data worries Republicans Posted: 16 May 2016 11:38 AM PDT Donald Trump says he plans to win the White House largely on the strength of his personality, not by leaning heavily on complex voter data operations that have become a behind-the-scenes staple in modern ...

World powers ready to arm Libya in fight against IS Posted: 16 May 2016 11:29 AM PDT The United States, Italy and Libya's friends and neighbours agreed Monday to arm the war-torn country's fledgling unity government to fight the Islamic State threat. US Secretary of State John Kerry said a 25-member group had agreed to exempt the Government of National Accord from the UN arms embargo imposed to halt the Libyan conflict. Along with Italy's Foreign Minister Paolo Gentiloni, Kerry said there are no plans to deploy an international military force in Libya to support the new government.

Supreme Court Seeks Compromise in Birth Control Case Posted: 16 May 2016 08:06 AM PDT They asked lower courts to search for a compromise between faith-based groups and the Obama administration

Senate report on CIA torture is one step closer to disappearing Posted: 16 May 2016 02:00 AM PDT The CIA inspector general's office — the spy agency's internal watchdog — has acknowledged it "mistakenly" destroyed its only copy of a mammoth Senate torture report at the same time lawyers for the Justice Department were assuring a federal judge that copies of the document were being preserved, Yahoo News has learned. While another copy of the report exists elsewhere at the CIA, the erasure of the controversial document by the office charged with policing agency conduct has alarmed the U.S. senator who oversaw the torture investigation and reignited a behind-the-scenes battle over whether the full unabridged report should ever be released, according to multiple intelligence community sources familiar with the incident. The deletion of the document has been portrayed by agency officials to Senate investigators as an "inadvertent" foul-up by the inspector general.

Megyn Kelly Says Donald Trump Needs to Do Better With Women Posted: 16 May 2016 07:43 AM PDT Kelly says her interview with Trump shows him "as you haven't seen him before"

Trump says he expects poor relationship with UK leader Posted: 16 May 2016 07:23 AM PDT LONDON (AP) — U.S. presidential candidate Donald Trump says he may have a poor relationship with Prime Minister David Cameron in light of the British leader's criticism of Trump's call for all Muslims to be temporarily banned from entering the United States.

Former GOP lawyer: Military acted properly on Benghazi Posted: 16 May 2016 01:48 PM PDT WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. military acted properly on the night of the deadly 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, according to leaked testimony from a retired, three-star Army general who served as chief lawyer for Republicans on the House committee investigating the attacks.

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