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Apr 24, 2018

'Tree Hugger' Donald Trump Gets Mauled On Twitter Over Planting Ceremony
Folks online called out President Donald Trump over his contempt for the

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Apr 24, 2018

Trump Reportedly Uses Private Cell Phone More Often Amid Kelly's Waning Influence
President Donald Trump has reportedly increased his use of a private cell

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Apr 24, 2018

No, A Monkey Can't Copyright His Selfies, Federal Appeals Court Rules
A monkey can't sue over copyright infringement of his selfies because he's not

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Apr 24, 2018

Police Used a Taser on an American Airlines Passenger Accused of Touching a Woman Without Her Permission
Jacob Garcia became "combative" with law enforcement, according to the airline

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Apr 23, 2018

Kim's 'bitter sorrow' as N. Korea bus crash kills 32 Chinese
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has expressed his "bitter sorrow" after dozens of Chinese tourists were killed when a bus they were travelling in plunged off a bridge. Thirty-two Chinese tourists and four North Koreans perished in the accident south of Pyongyang Sunday night, Chinese officials and state media said. In a rare admission of negative news from North Korea's tightly controlled propaganda network, the KCNA news agency on Tuesday said Kim met personally with the Chinese ambassador in Pyongyang and later visited survivors in hospital.

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Apr 23, 2018

A Woman Says Smallville Actress Allison Mack Tried to Recruit Her Into an Alleged Sex Cult
Mack was arrested for her alleged involvement in controversial self-help group Nxivm, which one former member described as a "cult"

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Apr 23, 2018

Court sides with human in copyright fight over monkey selfie
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A U.S. appeals court on Monday favored humans over animals in a novel copyright lawsuit filed over a series of entertaining selfies taken by a monkey with a toothy grin.

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Apr 23, 2018

Saraland Police Stand By Controversial Arrest Of Woman At Waffle House
Police in Saraland, Alabama, said a disturbance at a Waffle House there very

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Apr 23, 2018

Toronto: Police name suspect in van attack that killed at least 10 as Alek Minassian
Police have named they suspect in a deadly van attack in Toronto as 25-year-old Alek Minassian. Authorities say Mr Minassain drove his car through a busy street in Toronto on Monday at 1:30pm local time, killing at least 10 people and wounding at least 15 others. The suspect came from the Toronto suburb of Richmond Hill, police said.

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Apr 23, 2018

Missing Virginia Girl Identified as Toddler Found Dead in Suitcase Along New Jersey Train Tracks
The toddler found dead in a suitcase in New Jersey has been positively identified as two-year-old Te`Myah Plummer from Richmond.

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Apr 23, 2018

Yemen rebels vow to avenge coalition killing of political head
Yemen's Huthi militias vowed Monday to avenge the killing of their top political leader in what they said was a Saudi-led coalition air strike, the highest-ranking rebel to die in the three-year conflict. Saleh al-Sammad, head of the Huthis' supreme political council, was "martyred" last Thursday in the eastern province of Hodeida, the Iran-allied rebels said via their Saba news agency. Sammad's death is a major blow to the Shiite rebels who have been fighting forces of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi backed by a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia.

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Apr 23, 2018

See Meghan Markle In A Wedding Dress Before The Royal Wedding
Meghan Markle is set to walk down the aisle at the royal wedding on May 19,

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Apr 23, 2018

9 Lovely Quotes About Parenting From The Duke And Duchess Of Cambridge
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have added another royal tot to their

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Apr 23, 2018

Pruitt's spending on security sweep draws fresh fire from lawmakers
By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's spending came under scrutiny again on Monday as congressional Democrats said a sweep last year for listening devices in his office was poorly done and the contractor improperly hired. In a letter chair of the House Oversight Committee Trey Gowdy, five Democrats in the Senate and House of Representatives cited documents they obtained from a whistleblower. The EPA did not respond to a request for comment about the security sweep.

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Apr 23, 2018

Van plows down multiple pedestrians in Toronto
The driver suspected of killing 10 people and injuring 15 others when he ploughed a rental van into pedestrians in Toronto will make his first court appearance on Tuesday when details of a motive for the attack were expected to emerge.

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Apr 23, 2018

Sean Hannity Defends Real Estate Empire Aided By HUD Loans
Fox News host Sean Hannity is speaking out following a report that he

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Apr 23, 2018

Police Arrest Waffle House Shooting Suspect, Ending Manhunt
Travis Reinking, the 29-year-old suspected of killing four people Sunday in a

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Apr 23, 2018

The Latest: UN chief says retreat 'cooled' Syria tensions
BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the Syria conflict (all times local):

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Apr 23, 2018

Canadian lynched by villagers in Peruvian Amazon after death of elderly healer
Police in Peru were last night preparing a series of arrests over the lynching of a Canadian man accused by villagers of murdering an 81-year-old medicine woman. Sebastian Woodruffe's body was found in a shallow grave on Saturday in a remote village in the Amazonian region of Ucayali. The 41-year-old had been accused by locals of the murder of Olivia Arevalo, a traditional healer of the Shipibo-Conibo tribe. She was shot twice and died on Thursday near her home, said Ricardo Palma Jimenez, the head of a group of prosecutors in Ucayali. Arevalo had been working with traditional plant medicine since the age of 15, and came from a long line of healers, according to the Temple of the Way of Light centre, where she worked. The centre published a YouTube video that shows her singing one of her curing songs. Ricardo Franco, Arevalo's nephew, described her to a Peruvian TV station as "the mother that protects the Earth in the jungle". He said she was "the most beloved woman" in the tribe. Woodruffe was believed to have been one of her clients, and some reports on social media suggested that she was killed for refusing to perform an ayahuasca ceremony - a hallucinogenic spiritual ritual increasingly popular with Westerners. Other reports indicated a row over debts. Arevalo's sons disputed both versions, however, saying that she had stopped performing ayahuasca ceremonies due to her health. Sebastian Woodroffe was found buried. Villagers in remote parts of Peru often

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Apr 23, 2018

Southwest airlines cancels dozens of flights for engine inspections after deadly midair explosion
Inspecting its 737 engines round-the-clock on Monday, Southwest canceled 3 percent of its total flights, inconveniencing several thousand passengers.

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Apr 23, 2018

Prince William and Kate Middleton welcome third child
The baby weighed 8 pounds, 7 ounces, and his name has not yet been announced.

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Apr 23, 2018

Rural districts are the new frontier for women running for office
Esther Roberts stands in her friend's field in Somers, Wis., which sits directly across the road from the massive Foxconn development site in Pleasant Prarie, WIs. At the moment when Esther Roberts decided to run for elected office, she was standing far from her home in Somers, Wisc., amid a sea of pink hats at the March for Women in Washington, D.C., in January 2017. Roberts is typical of the thousands of women who have entered the political arena in the past 18 months in the wake of Donald Trump's election.

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Apr 23, 2018

Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic accuses prosecutors of twisting his words
By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic asked U.N. judges on Monday to overturn his genocide conviction, accusing prosecutors of unfairly blackening his name and twisting his words at his trial. Karadzic was convicted two years ago for some of the worst war crimes committed as the former Yugoslavia broke apart in the 1990s, including the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in which around 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed.

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Apr 23, 2018

The Great Republican Tax Cut Backfire
Did you have a happy Tax Day? Are you feeling grateful for the Republican tax

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Apr 23, 2018

Two-year-old girl accidentally shot dead by mother in Ohio hotel, police say
A US woman with a permit to carry a concealed gun accidentally shot dead her two-year-old daughter, say police. Patrol officers and paramedics arrived at the Econo Lodge in Wickliffe at around 11pm to find the toddler with a bullet wound to the chest. The young girl later died in hospital despite the efforts of patrol officers and paramedics.

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Apr 23, 2018

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Apr 23, 2018

Russia's S-300 or S-400: F-35 Killer or Overhyped?
The Pentagon is casting doubt on the effectiveness of Russian-made air defense systems. The Pentagon's move appears to be aimed at deterring Turkey from purchasing the Russian-made S-400. Until the Pentagon's April 19 press briefing, the Defense Department would routinely scaremonger how the S-400 would effectively turn an area into an anti-access/area denial (A2/AD) bubble.

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Apr 23, 2018

Professor Who Sold Facebook Data To Cambridge Analytica 'Sincerely Sorry'
Aleksandr Kogan, the University of Cambridge psychology professor who

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Apr 23, 2018

Century-old sunken ship preserved in perfect condition beneath Lake Superior
These stunning images reveal the remains of a more than century-old sunken ship that has been preserved beneath freezing Lake Superior. The ship looks almost exactly the same as it did the day it sunk beneath waves all those years ago.

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Apr 23, 2018

Vision Mercedes-Maybach Ultimate Luxury Teased One Last Time
The concept is expected to preview a Maybach-branded GLS being prepared for the SUV's next generation.

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Apr 23, 2018

Nicaraguan journalist shot dead on Facebook Live while covering protests
A journalist was gunned down during a Facebook Live broadcast as he covered an anti-government protest in Nicaragua. Angel Gahona was describing damage to a cash machine at a bank in the town of Bluefields on the country's southern Caribbean coast, when a shot rang out and he fell to the ground, bleeding from the head. Another reporter in the area, Ileana Lacayo, said Mr Gahona, who worked for the Meridiano news show, died before reaching the hospital.

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Apr 23, 2018

Police probe Korean Air chairman's wife over abuse
Seoul police on Monday launched a probe into whether the wife of Korean Air's chairman illegally abused employees -- the latest accusation against a powerful, wealthy family with members known for their tantrums. The hot-tempered clan landed in hot water earlier this month after chairman Cho Yang-ho's second daughter was accused of throwing water into an advertising agency manager's face in a fit of rage during a business meeting. The incident was dubbed "nut rage", prompting the sister's case to be described as "water rage".

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Apr 23, 2018

Russia, China to obstruct U.S. attempt to sabotage Iran nuclear deal: TASS
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said on Monday he had agreed with his Chinese counterpart that Moscow and Beijing would try to block any U.S. attempt to sabotage the Iran nuclear deal, Russian state news agency TASS reported. "We are against revising these agreements, we consider it very counter productive to try to reduce to zero years of international work carried out via talks between the six major powers and Iran," TASS quoted Lavrov as saying after talks with Wang Yi, China's top diplomat, in Beijing. ...

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Apr 23, 2018

A Canadian Man Was Lynched in the Amazon After Being Accused of Murdering a Shaman
Sebastian Woodroffe's body was found after a video of his lynching surfaced on social media

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Apr 23, 2018

36 dead, mostly Chinese, in North Korea traffic accident
BEIJING (AP) — A traffic accident in North Korea has killed 32 Chinese tourists and four North Koreans, Chinese officials said Monday.

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Apr 23, 2018

A Traffic Accident in North Korea Has Killed 36 People, Mostly Chinese Tourists
Details on the number of dead and injured weren't immediately available

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Apr 23, 2018

New Ford Focus ST Reportedly Coming In 2019 With Bigger Engine
The hot hatch is expected to eschew the automatic transmission to go manual-only.

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Apr 23, 2018

The Man Who Snatched an AR-15 From the Waffle House Shooter Says 'It Was Life or Death'
James Shaw Jr, who snatched an AR-15 rifle from a gunman at a busy Tennessee restaurant, says his was a "selfish" act of self-preservation

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Apr 23, 2018

Prince William, Duchess Kate Welcome Baby Boy to the Royal Family
Siblings Prince George and Princess Charlotte were seen walking into the hospital for a visit.

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Apr 22, 2018

Islamic State suicide bomber kills 57 in Afghan capital
KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Islamic State suicide bomber attacked a voter registration center in Afghanistan's capital on Sunday, killing 57 people and wounding more than 100 others, officials said.

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Apr 22, 2018

Merkel denounces new anti-Semitism from Arab refugees
German Chancellor Angela Merkel denounced the emergence of "another form of anti-Semitism" from refugees of Arab origin in Germany, in an interview with Israeli television broadcast on Sunday. "We have a new phenomenon, as we have many refugees among whom there are, for example, people of Arab origin who bring another form of anti-Semitism into the country," Merkel told the private Channel 10 network. In the interview, Merkel said the German government had appointed a commissioner to fight against anti-Semitism.

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Apr 22, 2018

Police: Woman exposes 'left breast' during investigation into crash that killed 2-year old
A 2-year-old boy has died after the toddler was thrown from a car during a crash in northwest Houston, police say.

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Apr 22, 2018

Failed talks with North Korea may lead to war
Jung Pak, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, says there is little to fall back on if talks between President Trump and Supreme Leader Kim Jong-un fail.

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Apr 22, 2018

Sen. Bob Corker Not That Excited About The Leading Republican To Replace Him
Retiring Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) could muster up only lukewarm praise for

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Apr 22, 2018

GOP strategist says Cohen investigation 'could be the end of (Trump's) presidency'
The "This Week" Powerhouse Roundtable debate the week in politics, including the legal issues facing President Trump.

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Apr 22, 2018

Cevallos: Cohen is under ‘all the pressure that could possibly be'
The case against President Trump's attorney, Michael Cohen, is one of many legal battles the White House is facing. The panel talks with MSNBC Anchor Ayman Mohyeldin about the strategies being utilized for Cohen's problems.

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Apr 22, 2018

Chinese, Indian leaders to meet this week
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet in central China this week, Beijing announced Sunday, as the Asian powers work to improve strained ties. The two leaders will hold an "informal summit" in the city of Wuhan on Friday and Saturday, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said after talks with his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj. Xi and Modi "will set a general direction, identify new goals and create a new dynamic for the growth of China-India relations.

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Apr 22, 2018

Controversy over police response to teen trapped by van seat
Newly released body camera footage shows police officers looking for 16-year-old Kyle Plush, who called 911 twice before his death, but does not show them getting out of their patrol car.

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Apr 22, 2018

As chemical weapons inspectors reach Douma, Syria claims suspected attack was fake
The chemical weapons inspectors reached the city of Douma, now under Russian and Syrian control, two weeks after the suspected attack took place.

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Apr 22, 2018

Iran's Top Diplomat Says 'All Options Are On The Table' If U.S. Pulls Out Of Nuclear Deal
Iran's top diplomat warned President Donald Trump to not pull out of the 2015

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Jan 31, 2018

May in China: The hunt for post-Brexit trade
Britain is seeking a free trade agreement with China, Prime Minister Theresa May said as she flew to the country for talks with Chinese leaders. Rosanna Philpott reports.

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Jan 30, 2018

The Latest: Arizona man confirms selling ammo to shooter
LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Latest on court orders by Nevada judges to release documents that had been sealed in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history (all times local):

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Jan 30, 2018

Lockheed Martin Has Delivered 265 F-35s (And the Profits are Pouring In)
The future is looking bright for Lockheed Martin's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, which is set for massive growth as the program finally reaches maturity and enters into full rate production. "Our F-35 program, during the fourth quarter we met our joint government and industry commitment by delivering the 66 aircraft in 2017," Marillyn Hewson, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Lockheed Martin, told investors. Lockheed Martin expects that the program will continue to expand in 2018.

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Jan 30, 2018

Trump borrows Clinton's words for State of the Union address
President Trump is set to borrow a term from a 2010 Hillary Clinton speech in his State of the Union address. "This is our ‘new American moment,'" Trump will say, according to an excerpt of the speech released by the White House Tuesday evening. "There has never been a better time to start living the American Dream."

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Jan 30, 2018

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Jan 30, 2018

Amazon, eBay Remove 'Chinese Boy' Costumes Featuring Racist 'Slant-Eye' Images
Amazon UK and eBay UK have received immense backlash after social media users recently noticed "Chinese Boy Fancy Dress Costumes" for sale through the e-commerce sites.

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Jan 30, 2018

Kentucky Mother Dragged Out of Court After Lunging at Laughing Defendant Accused of Killing Her Sons
The mother said she "just flipped out" at seeing the man charged with killing her sons.

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Jan 30, 2018

FEMA criticized for plan to end storm aid in Puerto Rico
WASHINGTON (AP) — Plans by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to halt hurricane relief supplies to Puerto Rico drew criticism Tuesday from members of Congress and the mayor of the island's largest city.

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Jan 30, 2018

New attractions coming to Disney Parks
Toy Story Land, Marvel Land, and Star Wars Land are all coming to Disney Parks.

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Jan 30, 2018

Rocky Syria talks in Russia end, ignore key opposition demands
By Kinda Makieh and Maria Tsvetkova SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - A Syrian peace conference in Russia ended on Tuesday with a statement calling for democratic elections, but ignoring key opposition demands after a day marred by squabbles and heckling of the Russian foreign minister. The participants also agreed to set up a committee to rewrite the Syrian constitution at the conference, which much of the opposition said aimed to serve the interests of President Bashar al-Assad and his close ally, Moscow. A final statement said Syrians must decide their future through elections, but did not say whether Syrian refugees would be allowed to take part, something sought by Assad's opponents and Western states.

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Jan 30, 2018

India's 'Unwanted' Girls Number In The Millions, New Report Finds
Indian families' traditional preference for sons over daughters has led to the existence of millions of "unwanted" girls in the country, a new government report estimates.

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Jan 30, 2018

GOP Rep. Paul Gosar asks Capitol Police to arrest undocumented immigrants at State of the Union
Some Democratic lawmakers are set to bring "Dreamers" as guests to President Donald Trump's State of the Union address on Tuesday night, and Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Ariz.)

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Jan 30, 2018

Turkish air strikes pound Kurdish fighters in Syria
Turkish air strikes pounded the Syrian border region of Afrin on Tuesday and fighting raged on two fronts as Ankara pursued its offensive against the Kurdish enclave. A monitoring group and Kurdish sources said Turkey's air force had stepped up its raids on the 10th day of operation "Olive Branch", which sees Turkey providing air and ground support to Syrian opposition fighters in an offensive against Kurdish militia in northwestern Syria. Ankara has pushed forward with the operation to force the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) from the region despite international concerns and reports of rising civilian casualties.

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Jan 30, 2018

Trump Takes Shot at Mueller in Sotu
Lawrence O'Donnell points out that Donald Trump's call for removing federal employees who undermine the public trust is a thinly veiled shot at Robert Mueller's investigation of Trump.

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Jan 30, 2018

Paul Ryan defends Republican memo release
On Tuesday, January Paul Ryan defended the vote by the U.S. House Intelligence Committee to release a classified memo the GOP says shows anti-Trump bias by the FBI and DOJ

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Jan 30, 2018

Suspect faces murder charges in killing of Missouri couple, daughter
Drew Atchison, 24, was charged with three counts of first degree murder, kidnapping and other crimes, after the bodies of the three victims were found on Monday in Butler County, Missouri, about 130 miles south of St. Louis, authorities said. The couple, Harley Million, 24 and Samara Kitts, 23, were murdered at their home in neighboring Wayne County on Thursday following a dispute between Atchison and Million, the Butler and Wayne County Sheriff's Offices said. Atchison is currently being held in Wayne County, the Sheriff's office said.

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Jan 30, 2018

State Officials Fire Employee Who Sent False Missile Alert In Hawaii
The emergency worker responsible for sending a false missile alert to people in Hawaii earlier this month actually believed there was an incoming ballistic missile, The Washington Post reports.

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Jan 30, 2018

Correction: Ex-Stanford Swimmer Rape story
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In a story Jan. 29 about a sexual assault victim deciding not to participate in the creation of a plaque marking where she was attacked on the Stanford University campus, The Associated Press reported erroneously when her assaulter was sentenced. Santa Clara County Judge Aaron Persky sentenced Brock Turner in June 2016, not in January 2016.

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Jan 30, 2018

Aly Raisman Thinks 175 Years For Larry Nassar Is ‘Not Enough'
Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman said she's not satisfied with the 40- to 175-year prison sentence for former USA Gymnastics and Michigan State University team doctor Larry Nassar, who has been accused of sexually abusing more than 150 girls.

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Jan 30, 2018

Also in the House for Trump's speech: Dreamers and refugees
Korean student Esder Chong is one of two dozen people affected by Trump's immigration policies who will attend the State of the Union speech. Chong hopes to show that DACA is more than a Latino issue.

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Jan 30, 2018

US Air Force sergeant removed from post after expletive-filled Facebook rant about ‘black females'
An Air Force sergeant is under investigation after a profanity-laced Facebook tirade in which she denigrated "black females" who are of lower rank than her. Tech Sgt Geraldine Lovely has been "removed from her supervisory role" after the Facebook post went viral over the weekend, officials at Nellis Air Force Base near Las Vegas have said. "It pisses me the f*** off that they have no respect and constantly have attitude," Ms Lovely says in the video.

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Jan 30, 2018

The Latest: NY trial opens for reputed Philadelphia mob boss
NEW YORK (AP) — The latest from the New York fraud trial of a reputed Philadelphia mob boss (all times local):

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Jan 30, 2018

Nearly 80 undocumented immigrants found crammed in truck near US-Mexico border
Immigration authorities have found nearly 80 people crammed into the back of a truck trying to enter the US without proper documents. The truck was travelling on highway in Laredo, Texas, near the US-Mexico border when the driver was pulled over. At least 13 were found to be unaccompanied children.

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Jan 30, 2018

Amazon, Berkshire, JP Morgan join forces to tackle health care
Three titans of American business announced Tuesday they are joining forces to tackle one of the most enduring problems in the country: quality affordable health care. Billionaire Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway and Jeff Bezos' retail behemoth Amazon will link with financial giant JP Morgan to create a nonprofit health care plan to "provide US employees and their families with simplified, high-quality and transparent health care at a reasonable cost," the companies said. "The ballooning costs of health care act as a hungry tapeworm on the American economy," Buffett said in a statement.

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Jan 30, 2018

Louvre displays art looted by Nazis, hopes to find owners
PARIS (AP) — The Louvre Museum is putting 31 paintings on permanent display in an effort to find the rightful owners of those and other works of art looted by Nazis during World War II.

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Jan 30, 2018

Iranian opposition cleric accuses Khamenei of abuse of power
By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin LONDON (Reuters) - Instead of blaming others Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei should take responsibility for Iran's economic and political shortcomings, an opposition leader under house arrest said in a letter published on Tuesday. In rare public criticism of Khamenei, Mehdi Karroubi accused Iran's hardline top authority of abusing power and urged him to change the way he runs the Islamic Republic before it is too late. "You have been Iran's top leader for three decades, but still speak like an opposition," Karroubi said in an open letter to Khamenei published on Saham News, the official website of his reformist political party.

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Jan 30, 2018

Russian fighter jet flies within 5ft of US Navy surveillance aircraft
A Russian fighter jet came within 5ft of a US surveillance plane as it flew over the Black Sea, in what the US called an "unsafe interaction". The flight path of the Russian jet forced the US Navy aircraft, which was flying in international airspace, to end its mission prematurely, a US official said. "This is but the latest example of Russian military activities disregarding international norms and agreements," the US State Department said in a separate statement.

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Jan 30, 2018

Trump refuses to impose new Russia sanctions despite law passed by US Congress over election hacking
The Trump administration has announced it will not impose additional sanctions on Russia, despite Congress passing a law allowing the President to do so. With Monday the deadline for the White House to impose any new measures, the US State Department insisted the threat of sanctions was already acting as a deterrent. The new sanctions would have required the US Treasury Department to penalise foreign governments and companies doing business with Russia's defence and intelligence sectors.

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Jan 30, 2018

North Korea has stepped up executions, says top US commander
North Korea has stepped up its executions, the top commander of US troops on the Korean Peninsula said on Monday, amid increasing strain on the its military from international economic sanctions. "We're seeing some increase in executions, mostly against political officers who are in military units, for corruption," General Vincent K Brooks, the top US commander in South Korea told the Wall Street Journal. He added that the actions "are really about trying to clamp down on as much as possible on something that might be deteriorating and keeping it from deteriorating too quickly." In recent months the South Korean press has reported the possible execution of Park In-young, the official in charge of Pyongyang's nuclear test facilities, and former military chief, General Hwang Pyong-so, who was accused of allegedly taking bribes. General Brooks also noted a recent shift in the pattern of defections from the North. "We're seeing defections happening in areas where we don't generally see them, for example crossing the DMZ (Demilitarised Zone on the border)," he said. Meanwhile, North Korea has been cutting back on its winter military drills as harsh sanctions over its nuclear and weapons programme begin to bite, say analysts. The military exercises, which usually run from December to March, got started late and aren't as extensive as before, the Journal reported. The United Nations has placed major restrictions on imports of oil and refined petroleum products to North Korea, which may have led to a reduc

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Jan 30, 2018

Tom Brady Has This Wish For Radio Host Who Insulted His 5-Year-Old Daughter
New England Patriots quarterback Tom Brady said Monday night that he doesn't want radio station WEEI to sack the host who called his 5-year-old daughter Vivian "an annoying little pissant."

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Jan 30, 2018

ICE Deports Palestinian Man Living In The U.S. For Almost 40 Years Despite Outcry
Weeks of confusion and inconsistencies from immigration officials ended on Monday after authorities deported a Palestinian man who had been living in the U.S. for nearly 40 years.

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Jan 30, 2018

Wife of Taiwan activist jailed in China barred from visiting
The wife of a Taiwanese democracy activist who was jailed in China in a case which further strained relations was Tuesday barred from boarding a flight to visit him in prison. Human rights and democracy activists have been targeted in Chinese President Xi Jinping's crackdown on dissent since he took power in 2012. Taipei had called Lee's jailing "unacceptable" and a serious blow to cross-strait relations, while his wife Lee Ching-yu called his trial a "political show".

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Jan 30, 2018

Hamas official dies three weeks after 'accidental' shooting
A senior Hamas official has died in Gaza three weeks after shooting himself in the head in what officials described as an accident, the Palestinian Islamist group announced Tuesday. Imad al-Alami, a former member of Hamas's highest political body and its ambassador to Iran, died overnight, a Hamas statement said. Alami was wounded on January 9 while "inspecting his personal weapon in his home" in Gaza, Hamas said at the time.

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Jan 30, 2018

Elon Musk Says He's Sold 10,000 Flamethrowers Through His Boring Co. Website
Entrepreneur Elon Musk has captured the world's imagination with his electric cars, space rockets and renewable energy systems, and now the billionaire is looking to corner the market in a slightly less benevolent area: flamethrowers.

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Jan 29, 2018

North Korea Pulls Out of a Cultural Event With South Korea Ahead of the Winter Olympics
North Korea pulled out of a joint cultural event with South Korea planned for at the North's Diamond Mountain on Feb. 4

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Jan 29, 2018

Blue moon, supermoon, total lunar eclipse rolled into one
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The moon is providing a rare triple treat this week.

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Jan 29, 2018

US, Qatar reach agreement on subsidy spat with airlines
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States and Qatar have reached a deal to resolve a years-old quarrel over alleged airline subsidies, seven individuals familiar with the deal said Monday, as Qatar's government works to defuse tensions with the Trump administration.

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Jan 29, 2018

House panel votes to release Republican memo alleging anti-Trump bias
By Patricia Zengerle and John Walcott WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House Intelligence Committee voted along party lines on Monday to release a classified memo that Republicans say shows anti-Trump bias by the FBI and the Justice Department in seeking a warrant to conduct an intelligence eavesdropping operation. In approving the release under a rule never before invoked, the Republican majority ignored a warning from Assistant Attorney General Stephen Boyd that making the document public would be "extraordinarily reckless" without submitting it to a security review. The move added new fuel to bitter partisan wrangling over investigations by congressional committees and Special Counsel Robert Mueller into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

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Jan 29, 2018

Trial starts for woman charged with killing her twin
WAILUKU, Hawaii (AP) — A murder trial began Monday for a woman accused of deliberately driving off a cliff in Hawaii and killing her identical twin sister.

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Jan 29, 2018

Toronto landscaper killed five people and buried them on clients' land - police
‘The city of Toronto has never seen anything like this,' a police spokesman said. Police in Canada have accused a Toronto landscaper of murdering at least five people and burying their remains in large flower planters on his clients' properties, in a case that has sparked an "unprecedented" investigation. "The city of Toronto has never seen anything like this," Hank Idsinga of the Toronto police told reporters on Monday.

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Jan 29, 2018

Chris Christie To Join ABC News As A Contributor
Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is coming to a small screen near you.

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Jan 29, 2018

Republicans Beg Supreme Court To Let Them Keep Using An Unconstitutional Map
Republicans from Pennsylvania and six other states on Monday offered a slew of reasons why the U.S. Supreme Court should give the Keystone State permission not to comply with the Pennsylvania Supreme Court's order to draw new congressional districts ahead of the 2018 election.

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Jan 29, 2018

Iran's Relationship With Qatar Could Be Crumbling
Qatar has sought to enjoy the benefits of maintaining a membership in the GCC and close relations with Iran. Tensions between the Gulf states and Qatar developed into an outright feud last June as a result of Qatar's drift toward Iran, which led the Saudis and their partners to impose a boycott and cut off air, sea, and land routes to Qatar. Instead of responding positively to a demand that it cut ties with Tehran, Qatar defiantly restored full diplomatic relations with Iran.

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Jan 29, 2018

Police look at phone records for clues in jealousy shooting
Police on Monday were focusing on phone records to try to piece together how a group of friends wound up at a Pennsylvania self-serve car wash, where a gunman lying in wait in the early morning hours killed four of them and injured one who managed to hide.

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Jan 29, 2018

Michigan AG seeks university emails, texts in Nassar review
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — State Attorney General Bill Schuette is asking Michigan State University for emails and text messages related to Larry Nassar, an initial salvo in his investigation into how the college handled complaints against the longtime campus sports doctor who was sentenced to decades in prison last week for sexually assaulting female athletes.

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Jan 29, 2018

House Republicans Vote To Release Classified Memo They Wrote Attacking Russia Probe
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump's Republican allies in Congress advanced their monthslong assault on special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election on Monday, voting along partisan lines to release a classified memo slamming officials from the Justice Department and Federal Bureau of Investigation who have investigated the Trump campaign's ties to Russia.

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Jan 29, 2018

Joy Behar Challenges Kirsten Gillibrand: Why'd You Push Out Al Franken?
Joy Behar kicked off an interview with Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) on Monday by confronting the lawmaker for calling on Sen. Al Franken to resign after being publicly accused of sexual misconduct.

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Jan 29, 2018

Lawmakers To Bring Sexual Assault Survivors And Activists To State Of The Union
At least eight members of Congress plan to bring sexual assault survivors or activists to the State of the Union address Tuesday night.

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Jan 29, 2018

GOP Rep. Gaetz joins the 'Infowar' against the FBI
"We're called conspiracy theorists because we see this cabal right in front of us," said Gaetz. "We aggregate these data points and show what was really going on."

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Jan 29, 2018

7-year-old boy handcuffed after allegedly attacking teacher
A 7-year-old boy in Miami was taken to a hospital in handcuffs after he allegedly attacked his teacher.

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