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OLYMPICS
Lochte apologizes, team mate pays fine for lying to Brazil police
MIAMI/RIO DE JANEIRO - U.S. Olympic gold medallist swimmer Ryan Lochte issued an apology on Friday and his teammate Jimmy Feigen agreed to pay 35,000 reais ($11,000) to a charity after Brazilian police said they lied about being robbed at gunpoint at the weekend. (OLYMPICS-RIO/LOCHTE (UPDATE 2, PIX, TV), moved at 12:06 p.m., by Cassandra Garrison and Caroline Stauffer, 850 words) See also: OLYMPICS-RIO/LOCHTE-REACTION (PIX, TV), moved at 12:56 p.m., by Jill Serjeant, 517 words and OLYMPICS-RIO/LOCHTE-FLIGHT (EXCLUSIVE), moved, by Cassandra Garrison, 500 words
U.S. women seek sixth gold with a win over Spain
RIO DE JANEIRO - The United States women's basketball team will be out to prove their credentials as one of the Olympics' great sporting dynasties on Saturday when they take on Spain in the gold-medal final. (OLYMPICS-RIO-BASKETBALL/ (PREVIEW, PIX), moved at 12:51 p.m., by Steve Keating, 388 words)
Lin misses out on Olympic hat-trick
RIO DE JANEIRO - It wasn't quite the slam dunk finish Lin Dan wanted for his career, but after his remarkable eight-year Olympic reign was ended by Malaysian top seed Lee Chong Wei in the Rio semi-finals, the Chinese great was simply "relieved." (OLYMPICS-RIO-BADMINTON-M-SINGLES/CHINA-LIN, moved at 11:54 a.m., 286 words) See also: OLYMPICS-RIO-BADMINTON-M-DOUBLES/ (PIX), moved at 1:22 p.m., 128 words and OLYMPICS-RIO-BADMINTON-W-SINGLES/ (UPDATE 2, PIX), moved at 1 p.m., 240 words)
Soccer great Pele to play no role at closing ceremony
RIO DE JANEIRO - Pele will not appear at the Olympics closing ceremony on Sunday, organizers said on Friday, meaning Brazil's most famous sportsman has played no formal part in the Games. (OLYMPICS-RIO/PELE (TV), moved at 11:43 a.m., by Karolos Grohmann, 225 words)
Russia's prayer is answered with fifth team gold
RIO DE JANEIRO - Their eight pairs of lean legs batting out of the water in the form of praying hands, Russia's synchronized swimming team swept to their fifth consecutive Olympic gold medal on Friday. (OLYMPICS-RIO-SYNCHRONISED-TEAMS/ (UPDATE 1, PIX), moved at 1:26 p.m., by Alexandra Ulmer, 350 words)
Olympic official held in Brazilian maximum-security prison
RIO DE JANEIRO - International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Pat Hickey was sent to Brazil's Bangu maximum security prison on Friday while police investigate his involvement in a plot to illegally resell Olympic tickets, civil police said. (OLYMPICS-RIO/HICKEY-PRISON (UPDATE 1), moved at 12:40 p.m., by Ossian Shine, 446 words) See also: (OLYMPICS-RIO-SECURITY/RETIRED (PIX), moved at 11:15 a.m., by Alexandra Ulmer, 394 words)
Doping suspension casts shadow on canoe racers
RIO DE JANEIRO - The suspension of canoe sprinter Serghei Tarnovschi, Moldova's first medal winner of the Rio Games, for failing a drugs test has disappointed fellow competitors who are alarmed by the frequency of doping cases in the sport. (OLYMPICS-RIO-CANOESPRINT/DOPING, moved at 1:43 p.m., by Amy Tennery, 421 words)
Polish athlete puts Olympic medal up for sale to help boy with cancer
WARSAW - Polish discus thrower Piotr Malachowski has put up for sale the silver medal he won at the Rio Olympics to help raise funds for a boy with a rare cancer, the athlete said on Friday. (OLYMPICS-RIO/POLAND-MALACHOWSKI (PIX), moved at 1:21 p.m., 222 words)
TOP STORIES
Trump campaign manager Manafort resigns after troubled stretch
Paul Manafort resigned as chairman of Donald Trump's U.S. presidential campaign on Friday, no longer enjoying the full confidence of a Republican candidate who is trying to boost his flagging White House bid. (USA-ELECTION/ (UPDATE 4, PIX, TV, GRAPHIC), moved at 2:23 p.m., by Steve Holland and Emily Flitter, 773 words)
Florida governor confirms Zika transmission in Miami Beach
MIAMI - Florida Governor Rick Scott Scott on Friday said health officials have identified a new area of Zika virus transmission through local mosquitoes in a small area in Miami Beach, the second area in Miami-Dade county where the virus is spreading. (HEALTH-ZIKA/MIAMI (UPDATE 2, PIX), moved at 1:51 p.m., by Zachary Fagenson, 590 words)
Firefighters gain ground on Southern California wildfire
LOS ANGELES - Firefighters were gaining ground on Friday against a wildfire burning in a Southern California mountain pass that forced tens of thousands of residents to flee their homes and consumed dozens of structures. (CALIFORNIA-FIRE/ (UPDATE 1, PIX, TV), moved at 1:57 p.m., by Alex Dobuzinskis, 310 words)
Syrian Kurds evacuate city as battle with Assad intensifies
BEIRUT - Syrian Kurdish authorities evacuate thousands of civilians from Kurdish areas of a city in northeastern Syria on a second day of government air strikes, a spokesman for the Kurdish YPG militia says. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-HASAKA (UPDATE 2), moved, by Tom Perry, 514 words)
Putin flies into Crimea amid war games and tension
BELBEK AIR BASE - Vladimir Putin flew into annexed Crimea on Friday a day after staging war games there, and said he hoped Ukraine would see "common sense" when it came to resolving a diplomatic crisis over the peninsula. (UKRAINE-CRISIS/PUTIN (UPDATE 1, TV, PIX), moved at 11:09 a.m., by Olesya Astakhova and Andrew Osborn, 559 words)
Russia warships in Mediterranean fire missiles at targets near Aleppo
Russian warships in Mediterranean Sea fire cruise missiles at targets near Aleppo, further sign of Moscow's military effort in Syria days after it begins to fly bombing missions from air base in Iran. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA (WRAPUP 1, PIX, TV), moving shortly, 500 words)
CAMPAIGN
Trump tours flooded Louisiana, in spite of governor's 'photo op' admonishment
BATON ROUGE - U.S. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and his running mate toured the flood-damaged city of Baton Rouge on Friday, despite the Democratic Louisiana governor's urging not to make political stops in areas affected by recent deadly rains. (USA-WEATHER/ (UPDATE 2, PIX, TV), moved at 1:19 p.m., by Bryn Stole, 0 words)
WASHINGTON
U.S. Army fudged its accounts by trillions of dollars, auditor finds
NEW YORK - The United States Army's finances are so jumbled it had to make trillions of dollars of improper accounting adjustments to create an illusion that its books are balanced. (USA-AUDIT/ARMY, moved at 11:03 a.m., by Scot J. Paltrow, 784 words)
AT&T, Apple, Google to work on 'robocall' crackdown
WASHINGTON - More than 30 major technology companies are joining the U.S. government to crack down on automated, prerecorded telephone calls that regulators have labeled a "scourge." (USA-ROBOCALLS/ (UPDATE 1), moved at 11:21 a.m., by David Shepardson, 397 words)
OTHER U.S. NEWS
Massachusetts to tax ride-hailing apps, give the money to taxis
BOSTON - Massachusetts is preparing to levy a 5-cent fee per trip on ride-hailing apps such as Uber and Lyft and spend the money on the traditional taxi industry, a subsidy that appears to be the first of its kind in the United States. (MASSACHUSETTS-UBER/, moved at 1:54 p.m., by David Ingram, 532 words)
NBA moves all-star game to New Orleans over transgender law
NEW YORK - The NBA awarded its 2017 All-Star Game to New Orleans on Friday, a month after removing the game from Charlotte, North Carolina, to protest a state law forcing transgender people to use public restrooms matching their gender assigned at birth. (NORTH CAROLINA/LGBT-NBA (UPDATE 1), moved at 1:22 p.m., 382 words)
Starr leaves Baylor University faculty post after sex assault scandal
Kenneth Starr said on Friday he is leaving his law professor post at Baylor University in Waco, Texas, months after being removed as president at the large Christian university for not taking sufficient action against sexual assaults. (TEXAS-BAYLOR/, moved at 1:08 p.m., moved, 191 words)
MIDDLE EAST
Syria rebels guardedly welcome truce idea in "nightmarish" Aleppo
BEIRUT/GENEVA - The main umbrella group for the Syrian opposition on Friday cautiously welcomed a proposal for a weekly pause in fighting in Aleppo to allow aid to reach besieged areas, provided this would be monitored by the United Nations. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-ALEPPO, moved at 10:15 a.m., 517 words)
Turkey takes aim at bank inspectors and financing in latest purge
ISTANBUL - Turkish authorities detained dozens of bank inspectors and academics on Friday and the government vowed to cut off financing to companies suspected of having ties to last month's failed coup. (TURKEY-SECURITY/ (UPDATE 2), moved at 9:24 a.m., by Ebru Tuncay and Tuvan Gumrukcu, 535 words)
IS pulls families out of towns in Syrian north
BEIRUT - Islamic State fighters have evacuated their families from a Syrian town at the Turkish border near a city that they recently lost to U.S.-backed militias, a monitor group said on Friday, a sign they may be preparing to face an attack there. (MIDEAST-CRISIS/SYRIA-ISLAMIC STATE, moved at 11:41 a.m., 301 words)
WORLD
Victims of clashes overwhelm hospital in Indian Kashmir
SRINAGAR - More than 40 days of clashes between protesters and security forces have overwhelmed the main hospital in Indian-administered Kashmir, where some patients with severe injuries said they had been beaten in their homes by troops. (INDIA-KASHMIR/ (UPDATE 1, PIX), moved at 10:18 a.m., by Cathal McNaughton and Fayaz Bukhari, 522 words)
Maduro says any Venezuela coup bid would meet tougher reaction than Turkey's
CARACAS - Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro said the purge by Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan meted out on rivals after a failed coup would look like child's play compared with the action he would take if opposition tried something similar in the OPEC nation. (VENEZUELA-MADURO/TURKEY (TV, PIX), moved at 12:25 p.m., 209 words)
German conservatives call for partial ban on face veil
BERLIN - German Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives have agreed that women should be banned from wearing the face veil in schools and universities and while driving, Interior Minister Thomas de Maiziere says. (RELIGION-BURQA/GERMANY (UPDATE 1, TV), moved, by Caroline Copley and Michelle Martin, 625 words)
After years of delay, London's "night Tube" trains start running
LONDON - The world's oldest underground rail network takes a big step forward this weekend when the "Tube" starts all-night Friday and Saturday services after years of obstruction and delay. (BRITAIN-UNDERGROUND/NIGHT (PICTURE), moved, by Costas Pitas, 325 words)
U.S. judge upholds U.N. immunity in Haiti cholera case
BOGOTA - A U.S. federal appeals court has upheld the United Nations' immunity from a damage claim filed by human rights lawyers on behalf of thousands of Haitians killed or sickened by a cholera epidemic they blame on U.N. peacekeepers. (HAITI-CHOLERA/, moved at 10:48 a.m., by Anastasia Moloney, 490 words) See also: HAITI-CHOLERA/UN (PIX, TV), moved at 1:37 p.m., by Michelle Nichols, 395 words
Nigeria's hungry grow with downturn, Boko Haram attacks - UN
GENEVA - Nigeria's economic slowdown, compounded by ongoing Boko Haram attacks, could lead to 5.5 million people needing food aid in the volatile northeastern region by next month, double the current number, the United Nations warns. (NIGERIA-SECURITY/UN (TV), moved, by Stephanie Nebehay, 400 words)
Three Syrian children drown when boat sinks off Libyan coast
ROME - Three Syrian children drowned along with three adults when a wooden boat trying to carry war refugees to Europe capsized off the coast of Libya, a humanitarian rescue group said on Friday. (EUROPE-MIGRANTS/ITALY (UPDATE 1, TV, PIX), moved at 1:04 p.m., 319 words)
HEALTH AND SCIENCE
Even with insurance, less affluent kids miss out on eye care
Middle- and lower-income children don't visit eye doctors as often as wealthier kids, and as a result, thousands of them may have undiagnosed sight-threatening conditions, U.S. researchers say. (HEALTH-EYECARE/NETWORTH-KIDS, moved at 11:08 a.m., by Madeline Kennedy, 689 words)
Up to 270 microcephaly cases expected in Puerto Rico due to Zika-officials
CHICAGO - U.S. health experts estimate that as many as 270 babies in Puerto Rico may be born with the severe birth defect known as microcephaly caused by Zika infections in their mothers during pregnancy. (HEALTH-ZIKA/PUERTORICO-MICROCEPHALY, moved at 11 a.m., by Julie Steenhuysen, 426 words)
Seniors who feel 'old' more likely to have memory problems
The older that seniors feel relative to their actual age, the greater their odds of cognitive decline in the coming years, a recent study finds. (HEALTH-AGING/COGNITIVE-DECLINE, moved at 12:34 p.m., by Linda Thrasybule, 531 words)
U.S. astronauts prepare station for commercial space taxis
Two NASA astronauts left the International Space Station on Friday for a 6-1/2-hour spacewalk to install a parking spot for upcoming commercial space taxis, which will end U.S. reliance on Russia for rides to the orbiting outpost. (SPACE-SPACEWALK/ (PIX, TV), moved at 10 a.m., by Irene Klotz, 255 words)
Helmets prevent severe head injuries in bike accidents
Despite some criticism of bike helmets for not being protective enough, they do cut the risk of severe traumatic brain injury (TBI) by half when riders suffer a head injury, a U.S. study suggests. (HEALTH-BICYCLES/HELMETS, moved at 11:42 a.m., by Linda Thrasybule, 526 words)
ENTERTAINMENT AND LIFESTYLE
Fair and foul: Shakespeare in many guises at Edinburgh Festival
EDINBURGH - Rapping, drunkenness and "Star Wars" are some of the twists given to William Shakespeare's plays at the Edinburgh festival this year, marking the 400th anniversary of his death. (BRITAIN-SHAKESPEARE/ (PIX), moved at 9:06 a.m., by Elisabeth O'Leary and Zoe Daniel, 359 words)
BUSINESS AND MARKETS
Oil drags on Dow, S&P; Nasdaq boosted by Applied Materials
The Dow Jones and S&P 500 were lower on Friday afternoon, pulled down by energy stocks as oil prices dropped, while the Nasdaq was little changed as Applied Materials boost technology stocks. (USA-STOCKS/ (UPDATE 4), updating till close, 418 words) See also: GLOBAL-MARKETS/ (WRAPUP 5), updating throughout the day, 530 words
Fed guessing game moves up a gear as Yellen takes stage
MADRID - Will they or won't they? The debate over whether the U.S. Federal Reserve is readying an interest rate hike will get its umpteenth airing over the coming week, with all eyes on Chair Janet Yellen to provide some clarity. (ECONOMY-GLOBAL/WEEKAHEAD (CORRECTED), moved at 11:14 a.m., by Sarah White, 639 words)
Deere shares jump on quarterly results, cost cuts
Deere & Co shares rose nearly 12 percent on Friday after the world's largest farm equipment manufacturer posted a much smaller-than-expected drop in quarterly profit and highlighted its cost-cutting measures. (DEERE-RESULTS/ (UPDATE 4, PIX), moved at 1 p.m., by Meredith Davis, 436 words)
U.S. private prison shares rebound as fears of industry's demise ebb
Shares of publicly-traded U.S. prison operators rebounded on Friday as investors bet that an Obama administration decision to phase out the use of some private corrections facilities would not cascade throughout the country. (USA-PRISONS/STOCKS (UPDATE 2), moved at 1:04 p.m., by Nick Carey and Mica Rosenberg, 616 words)
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