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• Seattle police have arrested nine people in connection with May Day protests in the city on Sunday, after a peaceful march rocks and bottles were thrown and five officers injured.
• Texas is drying out today after flooding and tornadoes killed six over the weekend as severe storms rattled the Midwest, more rain is expected later this week.
• US Secretary of State John Kerry says negotiations for renewing a cease fire in Syria are promising as he seeks to extend the break in fighting to include the embattled city of Aleppo. 
• Oil services giant Halliburton has called off its $28 billion merger with rival Baker Hughes, after heavy legal pressure from antitrust regulators in both the US and Europe.
• Verizon is blaming striking union workers for not only failing to maintain network equipment during the strike, but purposely sabotaging it as well as the strike enters its third week.