Three movie financiers charged for operating $12 million fraud

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Three movie financiers were arrested on Tuesday on charges they defrauded investors of $12 million that was provided to produce films starring, among others Harry Connick Jr and Willie Nelson.

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Report Drags Clinton Back Into Benghazi Mire

The long-anticipated Benghazi report may not have produced a smoking gun on Hillary Clinton. But it could exacerbate one of her key weaknesses.

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Mom Who Killed Kids Was Struggling at Home, Work: Boss

'She was separated and she lived in an apartment, and her husband and daughters lived in the home that they all lived in where the incident happened.'

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Economic espionage a 'tremendous problem': U.S. attorney general

PHOENIX (Reuters) - U.S. Attorney General Loretta Lynch said on Tuesday fighting economic espionage was a priority for the Department of Justice.

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Fact-Checking Trump's Speech on Trade

Donald Trump touted his trade and economic plans in Monessan, Pennsylvania on Tuesday.

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Trump Pledges to Regain U.S. 'Economic Independence'

Donald Trump told supporters it's time for the U.S. regain its "economic independence" and promised to reverse decades-worth of U.S. trade policies pushed by Hillary Clinton.

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Explosions Rock Istanbul Airport, Multiple Injuries Reported

A Turkish official says two explosions have rocked Istanbul's Ataturk airport, wounding multiple people.

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California man charged with 10 counts of attempted murder of police

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A Los Angeles-area man was charged with 10 counts of attempted murder of a peace officer on Tuesday stemming from an eight-hour armed standoff with police that began when a motorcycle cop was shot while conducting a sobriety checkpoint, prosecutors said.

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Supreme Court Refuses to Rehear Public Union Challenge

The U.S. Supreme Court declined Tuesday to rehear a challenge to the power of public sector unions.

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Competency exam ordered for Ohio man accused of threatening military

(Reuters) - A federal judge has ordered an Ohio man charged with soliciting the murders of U.S. military personnel after professing support for Islamic State to undergo a psychiatric examination to determine if he is competent to stand trial.

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Search for entangled blue whale resumes off California

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Marine mammal rescue teams were hoping on Tuesday to renew their attempt to disentangle a blue whale found enmeshed in fishing line off the Southern California coast a day after initial efforts to free the giant creature failed.

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Rescuers Try to Save Entangled Blue Whale Off SoCal Coast

Rescuers tried in vain Monday to free a blue whale from a life-threatening tangle of fishing line off the coast of Southern California.

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Remembering Pat Summitt's Pioneer Spirit

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Two adults, four children killed in fiery California car crash

(Reuters) - Two adults and four children were killed early on Tuesday after their minivan was struck from behind by a tractor-trailer and burst into flames as it tumbled down an embankment north of Los Angeles, the California Highway Patrol said.

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6 Takeaways From Benghazi Committee Report

House Republicans released a report Tuesday into the exhaustively investigated Benghazi attacks of 2012.

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Hillary Clinton: 'Time to Move On' After Benghazi Report

Hillary Clinton said it is "time to move on" after the release of a Congressional report on the 2012 Benghazi attacks.

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Teens on Tram Caught Hurling Anti-Immigrant Abuse

It was the most explosive burst of anti-immigrant sentiment since Britain stunned the world on Friday by voting to leave the European Union.

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First baby with Zika-related birth defect microcephaly born in Florida

(Reuters) - A Haitian woman in Florida has delivered the first baby in the state born with the birth defect microcephaly caused by the Zika virus, Florida's health department said on Tuesday.

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'Bad Guy Down': 911 Logs Chronicle Orlando Horror

From "shots fired" to "subj down," the entries lay bare the fear and carnage.

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Two Trains Collide Head-On in Fiery Crash in Texas

Officials said the city was draining its water supply to fill fire trucks' tanks as it desperately tried to quell the flames.

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Two freight trains collide, catch fire in north Texas

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Two freight trains collided in northern Texas on Tuesday, causing a huge fire and sending one worker to the hospital as rescue teams tried to free three other railroad workers on board the trains, a railroad official said.

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President Obama Warns Against Brexit 'Hysteria'

President Obama urged calm after shocking Brexit vote and predicted no "cataclysmic changes."

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What to Know About European Union's Divorce Clause

The history of the exit clause that became Article 50 of the 2009 Treaty of Lisbon is full of ironies.

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Ex-Gottex accountant charged in U.S. with embezzling $3.4 million

(Reuters) - A former accountant for Gottex Fund Management Holdings Ltd has been criminally charged with embezzling nearly $3.4 million over a four-year period from the Swiss hedge fund firm.

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Taylor Swift Fans in China Are Betting on Her Relationships

Thanks to Taobao, China's biggest online marketplace, 'Swifties' can now purchase 'breakup insurance.'

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Supreme Court Declines to Hear Pharmacy's Religious Objections Case

The Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge to a Washington state law banning pharmacies from refusing to dispense meds for religious reasons.

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District of Columbia mayor signs $15/hour minimum wage into law

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The District of Columbia's mayor has signed a $15-an-hour minimum wage into law, a rate adopted by a growing number of U.S. cities and states seeking to battle income inequality.

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Supreme Court rejects pharmacists' religious claim

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A divided U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal filed by pharmacists in Washington state who objected on religious grounds to providing emergency contraceptives to women.

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Supreme Court declines to rehear union fees dispute

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected a request by public school teachers in California asking the justices to rehear a major challenge to fees that unions collect from non-members on which the court split 4-4 in March.

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Supreme Court to weigh Miami predatory lending lawsuit

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday agreed to decide whether Miami can pursue lawsuits accusing major banks of predatory mortgage lending to black and Hispanic homebuyers resulting in loan defaults that drove down city tax revenues and property values.

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