President Obama declared a major disaster in Louisiana earlier this week, ordering the Federal Emergency Management Agency to respond to the flooding that left at least 12 people dead and forced the evacuation of tens of thousands of people. “Last week, as torrential rains brought death, destruction and misery to Louisiana, the president continued his vacation at Martha’s Vineyard, a playground for the posh and well-connected,” the Advocate wrote in a Thursday editorial. “We’ve seen this story before in Louisiana, and we don’t deserve a sequel.

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Down Ticket is Yahoo News’ complete guide to the most fascinating House, Senate and governors’ races of 2016. North Carolina was supposed to be a purple state. If you want to understand the larger dynamics at play in the 2016 election — and how they are reshaping the clash between Republicans and Democrats in real time, from the top of the ticket to the bottom — there’s no better place to look than North Carolina.
Now it’s time for Simone Biles, Aly Raisman, and the rest of the Final Five superstar Olympic gymnasts to reap the rewards of their gold-medal success. Biles told ABC News that they’ll go on “a couple” vacations. “We all want to go to Belize together and then after that, we’ll probably do family vacations,” she said.
At the annual Pebble Beach concours, new cars tend to pale before the classics—but not the Vision Mercedes-Maybach 6 concept. This cherry-red stretch of billionaire’s taffy recalls history’s most over-the-top coupes, even as it couches a modern Tesla threat with electric drive, ultra-fast charging and an interior that adjusts to human vital signs. Unveiled at Mercedes’ Star Lounge, a shanked drive off the third tee of the famed Pebble Beach Golf Links, the boat-tail Maybach coupe thumbs its lengthy nose at critics who see the current Maybach S600 sedan as merely a tarted-up S-Class—even if the tart in question starts from $190,000.

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Twenty other people were killed during the incident at a ranch in the western Mexico state of Michoacan, while one police officer died, an imbalance that had raised questions about what happened on May 22, 2015. The National Human Rights Commission said Thursday that in addition to 22 unjustified slayings, there were also two cases of torture and four more deaths caused by excessive force by federal police. “The investigation confirmed facts that show grave human rights violations attributable to public servants of the federal police,” commission President Luis Raul Gonzalez Perez said.
Taking a look back at this week's top stories, including thousands of California residents forced out of their homes due to ferocious wildfires. Look back at the week gone by from devastating fires and floods to of course the thrill of Olympic gold and
Sifting through the rubble of the Islamic State’s abandoned strongholds, wartime remnants are revealed as coalition forces take control of cities in Syria and Iraq — blindfolds, handcuffs, burnt-out prison cells, containers for making explosives, car parts to prepare car bombs, tripods and a projector in a media center, bags of niqabs used by religious police, and rocket-propelled grenades are just some of the items left behind. (Reuters, Yahoo News) See more news-related photo galleries and follow us on Yahoo News Photo Tumblr .

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If you were one of the many who were shot down by the Blue Oval after applying to buy one of its shiny new $450,000 super cars, you might soon be granted a second chance. Ford is adding two years to GT production, giving loyal brand enthusiasts and social media influencers alike another opportunity to be considered for ownership. Originally, Ford planned on producing the 600-plus horsepower Ford GT for two years, building just 500 of the supercars in the process. Wishful potential GT owners who already applied but were declined or wait-listed by Ford will have to wait until the first round of production ends in 2018 to reapply.
A Connecticut state worker fired after he was caught smoking marijuana on the job was punished too harshly and should get his job back, the state Supreme Court ruled Friday. Gregory Linhoff was fired from his maintenance job at the University of Connecticut Health Center in Farmington in 2012 after a police officer caught him smoking pot in a state-owned vehicle. The state appealed and a Superior Court judge overturned the arbitrator's decision on the grounds that it violated Connecticut's public policy against marijuana use.
It’s been just under a week since news that Ryan Lochte and three other Americans were held at gunpoint spread across the internet like wildfire. Discrepencies in Lochte’s stories were already growing when surveillance footage surfaced showing Ryan and his companions vandalizing a gas station.

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