Week In Review

By Michael Liedtke and Tali Arbel ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO — Verizon is buying Yahoo for $4.83 billion, marking the end of an era for a company that once defined the internet. It is the second time in as many years that Verizon, extending its digital reach, has snapped up the remnants of a fallen…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Lt. Brian Rice, left, one of the six members of the Baltimore Police Department charged in connection to the death of Freddie Gray, arrives with attorney Mike Davey, right, at a courthouse to hear a judge’s ruling in his trial in Baltimore, Monday, July 18, 2016. Rice is the fourth of the six…

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ABOVE PHOTOS: Deputy Brad Garafola (East Baton Rouge Sheriff’s Office via AP,)  Police Officer Montrell Jackson, holds his son Mason at a Father’s Day event (Courtesy of Trenisha Jackson via AP,) and Police officer Matthew Gerald  (Baton Rouge Police Dept. via AP.)   By Mike Kunzelman and Melinda Deslatte Associated Press BATON ROUGE, La. — A former Marine…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Diamond Reynolds, the girlfriend of Philando Castile of St. Paul, is consoled Thursday, July 7, 2016 outside the governor’s residence in St. Paul, Minn. Castile was shot and killed after a traffic stop by St. Anthony police in Falcon Heights, Minn. Wednesday night. A video shot by Reynolds of the shooting went viral. …

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Photos of the five police officers killed in Dallas last Thursday are highlighted during a service that include a memorial to the officers as well as a town hall meeting to discuss other recent shootings, at the The Potter’s House, Sunday, July 10, 2016, in Dallas.  (AP Photo/Eric Gay) By Darlene Superville associated press…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Philando Castile  (Photo: Facebook) By Kyle Potter associated press ST. PAUL, Minn. — The minutes after a black Minnesota man was shot and killed during a traffic stop in the Twin Cities — the second fatal shooting in the U.S. this week of a black man by police — were broadcast live by his…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  This undated photo shows Micah Johnson, who was a suspect in the sniper slayings of five law enforcement officers in Dallas Thursday night, July 7, 2016, during a protest over two recent fatal police shootings of black men. An Army veteran, Johnson tried to take refuge in a parking garage and exchanged gunfire…

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By Steve Karnowski Associated Press FALCON HEIGHTS, Minn. –The fatal shooting of a black man in his car by a Minnesota police officer went viral Thursday, its aftermath broadcast live over Facebook by the victim’s girlfriend, who cried that he had just been shot “for no apparent reason.” The shooting happened late Wednesday during a…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  In this Tuesday, July 5, 2016 photo made from video, Alton Sterling is held by two Baton Rouge police officers, with one holding a hand gun, outside a convenience store in Baton Rouge, La. Moments later, one of the officers shot and killed Sterling, a black man who had been selling CDs outside…

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ABOVE PHOTO:  Hillary Clinton  (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)  associated press WASHINGTON — FBI Director James Comey says the FBI will not recommend criminal charges in its investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server while Secretary of State. Comey made the announcement Tuesday, three days after FBI agents interviewed Clinton in a final step…

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