| Trump hasn’t ruled out raising the national debt to cut taxes Posted: 30 Mar 2017 03:11 PM PDT  WASHINGTON — President Trump may be considering a tax-cut plan that could rankle Republican congressional leadership. While both House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell have pushed for deficit-neutral tax cuts, a senior White House official told Yahoo News the president could consider a plan that might add to the national debt. The official cautioned that Trump hasn't settled on a strategy for tax cuts and said it would be "premature" to say he's abandoned the deficit-neutral approach.
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| Eyewitnesses describe deadly airstrike in Iraqi neighborhood Posted: 29 Mar 2017 11:33 AM PDT  MOSUL — In the West Emergency Hospital in Irbil, 30-year-old Lina described the sound and the smell after an airstrike hit a house in the west Mosul neighborhood of Jadida. Lina's voice shook as she described the events to Yahoo News.
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| The Latest: Mexican man freed from detention thankful Posted: 29 Mar 2017 05:51 PM PDT  TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — The Latest on the case of a Mexican man arrested in the Seattle area despite participating in a program designed to protect those brought to the U.S. illegally as children (all times local):
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| Cards Against Humanity Creator Vows To Publish Browsing History Of U.S. Representatives Posted: 30 Mar 2017 11:16 AM PDT  The creator of Cards Against Humanity has promised to purchase and publish the browsing history of members of the United States Congress following a decision to repeal protections that prevented internet service providers from collecting and selling user information without permission.
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| Hiker Who Saved Baby Bear With CPR Has No Regrets Despite Jail Threat: 'He Was Fighting to Survive' Posted: 30 Mar 2017 01:46 PM PDT  Corey Hancock could have been fined $6,000 and even gone to jail for a year for interfering with wildlife.
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| Study: Distractions Lead to 11% Spike in Pedestrian Deaths Posted: 30 Mar 2017 08:46 AM PDT  In 2016, nearly 6,000 Americans were killed while walking, according to a new study. Experts say distracted drivers and pedestrians are both to blame.
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| Tillerson says Assad's fate up to Syrian people Posted: 30 Mar 2017 09:38 AM PDT  US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Thursday the fate of President Bashar al-Assad was up to the people of Syria, in the clearest indication yet of the new administration's policy in the war-torn country. "I think the... longer term status of president Assad will be decided by the Syrian people," Tillerson told a news conference with Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu.
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| Welcome to New York's Finest: Police academy graduates 100s of new men and women in blue Posted: 31 Mar 2017 05:53 AM PDT ![Welcome to New York's Finest: Police academy graduates 100s of new men and women in blue]( "Welcome to New York's Finest: Police academy graduates 100s of new men and women in blue") Over 600 men and women were sworn in as New York City police officers during their graduation ceremony at Madison Square Garden, March 30, 2017, in New York.
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| Read President Trump’s executive orders in full Posted: 30 Mar 2017 09:44 AM PDT  President Trump has begun his presidency with a number of executive orders released in a whirlwind of announcements. Below you'll find the full text along with summaries of some of the more notable declarations, as provided by the White House and Federal Register websites. Summary: To create a panel to combat America's opioid crisis.
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| India privately took Amazon to task over insulting flag doormat Posted: 30 Mar 2017 05:25 AM PDT  By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) - India's reaction to an Amazon.com website selling doormats resembling the country's flag involved an unprecedented public and private offensive against the U.S. company by Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government, a document shows. Foreign minister Sushma Swaraj publicly threatened in January to rescind visas of Amazon employees if the doormats were not removed from its Canadian website. India also escalated the matter to Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and prompted a global audit by the company to "ensure that such products are not listed on any of its other" websites around the world, according to the document.
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| 13 killed, 2 hurt when church bus and truck crash in Texas Posted: 29 Mar 2017 08:30 PM PDT  UVALDE, Texas (AP) — A small shuttle bus carrying Texas church members home from a retreat collided head-on with a pickup truck, killing 13 people and injuring two others Wednesday on a two-lane highway in southwestern Texas, officials said.
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| Ex-Christie associate gets two years in prison in 'Bridgegate' scandal Posted: 29 Mar 2017 09:56 AM PDT  By Joseph Ax NEWARK, N.J. (Reuters) - A former associate of New Jersey Governor Chris Christie was sentenced on Wednesday to two years in prison for his role in the "Bridgegate" lane closure scandal that played a part in torpedoing the Republican's White House ambitions. Bill Baroni, 45, the former deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey, was found guilty in November of plotting to close down access lanes at the heavily used George Washington Bridge in 2013 in an act of political retribution. Prosecutors said the massive traffic jam they deliberately created in the town of Fort Lee was intended to punish its Democratic mayor for refusing to back Christie's re-election bid, as the governor's aides tried to burnish his bipartisan credentials in advance of his run for president.
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| Russia expert says Trump strengthened Russian propaganda Posted: 30 Mar 2017 10:16 AM PDT  Clint Watts, of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, testifies before the Senate Intelligence Committee on Russia.
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| Teacher on the Run With 15-Year-Old Student May Be Posing as Missionary in Mexico: DA Posted: 30 Mar 2017 10:20 AM PDT  Brent Cooper, the district attorney for Maury County, Tenn., called Tad Cummins a "religious man."
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| Duterte threatens to humiliate news outlets for drug reports Posted: 30 Mar 2017 07:57 AM PDT ![Duterte threatens to humiliate news outlets for drug reports]( "Duterte threatens to humiliate news outlets for drug reports") MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine president unleashed an expletive-laden tirade Thursday against the country's leading newspaper and TV network and threatened to humiliate them and their owners, whom he accused of distorting news of his anti-drug crackdown.
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| White House finds more ‘material’ on surveillance and offers to share it with Congress Posted: 30 Mar 2017 12:18 PM PDT  The White House is offering to share with key congressional leaders "material that has come to light" about the handling of communications intercepts involving American citizens, press secretary Sean Spicer said Thursday. Spicer said the new material was discovered by national security staffers "in the ordinary course of business." He said a letter had been sent, offering to make the information available to House intelligence committee Chairman Devin Nunes and ranking member Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and to the top Republican and Democrat on the Senate intelligence committee. The announcement during Spicer's regular daily press briefing is the latest twist in the controversy that was touched off weeks ago by President Trump's tweet alleging wiretapping of Trump Tower.
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| A word of warning to anyone who hasn’t already updated to iOS 10.3 Posted: 30 Mar 2017 03:57 PM PDT 
Earlier this week, Apple put an end to the beta madness and released iOS 10.3 to the public. Don't worry, a new developer beta — iOS 10.3.2 — was promptly released the very next day. We already told you about all the best new features in iOS 10.3, and we also drew attention to one feature in particular, a hidden change that gives the iPhone and iPad a nice little speed boost. If you haven't already updated though, there's one feature that we should warn you about because we've received a handful of emails from people who have run into some serious problems. Among the behind-the-scenes changes in iOS 10.3, Apple's move to a new file system is clearly the biggest. Prior to iOS 10.3, all iOS devices used the popular HFS+ file system. Beginning with iOS 10.3, however, Apple has moved to the more modern Apple File System (APFS). There are a number of advantages to switching to Apple's new file system, but the big ones are better optimization for NAND flash storage and SSD storage, more accurate time stamping, and support for stronger encryption. HFS+ is 30 years old at this point, so it was clearly time for a change. Here's the problem, however: once you update your phone to iOS 10.3 and your file system is converted to APFS, you can no longer roll back without wiping your phone and reinstalling an older iOS build. Why is that significant? Because if something goes wrong and you roll back to an older build, you'll no longer be able to recover data because everything will have been converted to APFS. So, a word of warning: Back. Up. If you haven't already upgraded to iOS 10.3, be sure to back up all of your data before you do. This can be done either with iCloud (Settings > iCloud > iCloud Backup > Back Up Now) or by backing up using iTunes. It might take a little while, but waiting a few minutes while your iPhone backs up is much less aggravating than losing some or even all of your data.
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| California to seek death penalty in salon massacre Posted: 29 Mar 2017 07:09 PM PDT  California's attorney general said on Wednesday his office would press ahead in seeking the death penalty for a man who pleaded guilty to killing eight people in a 2011 shooting rampage, even though local prosecutors were sanctioned for acting improperly. The state's top elected law enforcement official assumed responsibility for the penalty phase of the case against Scott Dekraai after a California appeals court upheld a lower-court order recusing the Orange County District Attorney's Office over prosecutorial misconduct. Defense lawyers sought to remove local prosecutors and bar them from seeking the death penalty on grounds that jailhouse informants were improperly used to wring a confession from Dekraai.
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| 3-Year-Old Sits Down to Have Dinner With Police Officer Who Was Eating Alone Posted: 29 Mar 2017 10:51 AM PDT  The two have a future "playdate" planned.
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| Spicer dodges question about bill allowing Internet providers to sell users’ browsing history Posted: 29 Mar 2017 11:31 AM PDT  At Wednesday's press briefing, press secretary Sean Spicer declined to discuss why the administration supports a bill, passed by Congress on Tuesday, that will allow Internet service providers to sell users' Web data.
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| Austria Refuses To Accept Refugees Posted: 29 Mar 2017 12:47 PM PDT  Austria delivered another blow to the EU's refugee resettlement program.
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| At least 14 dead in IS truck bomb at Baghdad checkpoint Posted: 30 Mar 2017 03:12 AM PDT  At least 14 people were killed when a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-rigged vehicle at an entrance to Baghdad, in an attack claimed by the Islamic State group, officials said Thursday. The blast, which hit the checkpoint at the main southern entrance to the city on Wednesday night, also wounded at least 36 people, the officials said. The jihadist group overran large areas north and west of Baghdad in 2014, but Iraqi forces backed by US-led air strikes have since regained much of the territory they lost.
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| Pregnant Giraffe Keeps Anxious Viewers Waiting Posted: 31 Mar 2017 06:17 AM PDT  By the morning of March 27, April was "relaxed," and the animal frequently raised and lowered her tail, and experienced "significant mammary change," her caregivers posted on Facebook. Giraffe mothers carry their young for about 15 months, and while April's caregivers observed breeding behavior between April and her mate, Oliver, in the middle of October 2015, it is hard to tell for sure if conception occurred, AAP owner Jordan Patch told Live Science in February. AAP shared photos on March 27 on Facebook that showed the whitish plugs, which look "like dried toothpaste at the end of a tube," Patch added.
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| Warning: Don’t believe phone scammers who say your iCloud account was hacked Posted: 30 Mar 2017 08:43 AM PDT 
There's a group of hackers out there that claims it can reset hundreds of millions of iPhones by using stolen iCloud credentials. The attack should occur on April 7th unless Apple pays a ransom, but the iPhone maker denied having its servers breached. If the threat is real, it uses data taken from previous breaches. Information gained from previous hacks might be used to reset iPhones, a report showed, but it's not clear what the scope of the attack would be. So far, the hackers seem to be interested in getting as much publicity as possible. But other scammers have developed a different iCloud con, one that's getting more traction thanks to all the news detailing the potential attack on April 7th. The scammers call unsuspecting iPhone users to tell them their iCloud accounts have been hacked. Whatever you may think, don't believe them — your iCloud account is probably safe. The scammers pretend to call you from Apple's support department, Business Insider explains, and many people posted on Twitter to detail their experiences with this new iCloud con. https://twitter.com/steffartnieee/status/846480180923183104 The callers, who seem to be targeting users at random, will tell you that your iCloud account was hacked, and they will ask for your credentials to verify your identity. The log-in information can then be used by an attacker to sign into the victim's iCloud account, make purchases, access protected messages and backups, and more. Furthermore, Macworld points out that scammers may insist on installing antivirus software on your computer, which is likely malware ready to steal more data from unsuspecting victims. https://twitter.com/HenryKIRO7/status/847238485580718080 If you believe that your iCloud account was hacked, change the password yourself on a machine you know to be secure, and consider enabling two-factor authentication. You can even contact Apple yourself, but don't fall for this scam.
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| A window into the plight of America’s railways: Are Amtrak’s long-distance routes coming to an end? Posted: 30 Mar 2017 09:49 AM PDT ![A window into the plight of America's railways: Are Amtrak's long-distance routes coming to an end?]( "A window into the plight of America's railways: Are Amtrak's long-distance routes coming to an end?") Earlier this month, President Trump proposed $16.2 billion for the Department of Transportation's discretionary budget for fiscal year 2018, a reduction of 13 percent. The budget proposal would affect the California Zephyr and other long-distance rail lines run by national rail operator Amtrak.
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| 12 Dead in Head-On Crash of Church Bus Carrying Senior Citizens from Bible Retreat Posted: 29 Mar 2017 06:34 PM PDT  The head-on collision was between a truck and a church bus carrying seniors, authorities said.
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| 'El Chapo' prison conditions worst in U.S., prevent proper defense: lawyers Posted: 30 Mar 2017 01:22 PM PDT  Held without access to sunlight or his relatives, Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is under more restrictive captivity than any other U.S. prisoner and it is difficult to mount a defense, his court appointed lawyers said on Thursday. Mexico extradited Guzman, who is the head of Sinaloa Cartel, to New York in January, a few hours before U.S. President Donald Trump took office. Guzman, who escaped from two Mexican prisons and was a key figure in a bloody drug war, is seen as a flight risk by the U.S. government.
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| Venezuela's Maduro decried as 'dictator' after Congress annulled Posted: 30 Mar 2017 04:41 PM PDT  By Diego Oré and Andrew Cawthorne CARACAS (Reuters) - Opposition leaders branded Venezuela's socialist President Nicolas Maduro a "dictator" on Thursday after the Supreme Court took over the functions of Congress and pushed a lengthy political standoff to new heights. There was swift and widespread international condemnation of the de facto annulment of the National Assembly, where the opposition won a majority in late 2015 amid an unprecedented economic crisis that has seen Maduro's popularity plummet. The head of the 34-nation Organization of International States (OAS), Luis Almagro, said the Venezuelan court had dealt the final blows to democracy and accused Maduro's "regime" of carrying out a "coup." Brazil, Argentina, Mexico, Colombia, Chile, Guatemala and Panama expressed strong concerns while Peru withdrew its envoy after what it termed a rupture of democracy.
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| Houthi rebels in Yemen threatening strategic strait: US official Posted: 29 Mar 2017 11:37 AM PDT  Houthi rebels in Yemen are threatening free movement into and out of the Red Sea with missiles, mines and other sophisticated defenses on a key strait, a top US general said Wednesday. The Bab el-Mandeb Strait connects the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean, a strategic passage for world trade. Bordering it to the east, Yemen is locked in a deadly civil war between government forces backed by an Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the Iran-supported Houthis.
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| Ex-Obama Lawyer Calls Ivanka Trump's White House Job Unlawful Posted: 30 Mar 2017 12:37 AM PDT  Norman Eisen cited the nepotism law passed in 1967, which states that "no public official from the president down to a low-level manager at a federal agency may hire or promote a relative."
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| 9 paid iPhone apps on sale for free today Posted: 30 Mar 2017 09:10 AM PDT 
Wednesday's post covering paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free for a limited time was a great one, and there are still some freebies in there if you want to go back and check them out. We've got a fresh new list for you on Thursday, of course, and it's packed with nine new app sales for you to flip through. These are paid iPhone and iPad apps that have been made available for free for a limited time by their developers. There is no way to tell how long they will be free. These sales could end an hour from now or a week from now — obviously, the only thing we can guarantee is that they were free at the time this post was written. If you click on a link and see a price listed next to an app instead of the word "get," it is no longer free. The sale has ended. If you download the app, you will be charged. Repost and Save for Instagram 
Normally $2.99. Repost'n'Roll for Instagram let you share and repost your favorite Instagram posts from your friends, including the newly released Stories. Repost'n'Roll is the only app that allows you to repost Instagram Stories! When you login to the app, you will see the latest stories posts made by the people you follow, and you will be able to repost photos and videos while giving credit to the original poster. You can even repost your friends story to your own story, or you can do the classic reposting on your Instagram feed.
Download Repost and Save for Instagram Flash Player 
Normally $1.99. Flash browsing support
- Browser allows you to play Flash games such as free Facebook games, use Flash apps and watch Flash video inline using its remote cloud browse mode.
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- Read news that require Flash support.
- Press the "Lightning" icon on the bottom right navigation bar when you encounter a Flash website on the iPhone or iPod Touch.
- Combines fast native browsing for normal websites and remote browsing for Flash websites. Switch between the 2 modes using the lightning bolt button (for Flash) or the web globe button (for native browsing).
- Support different mode such as pointer mode for precision that makes your iPhone acts like a mouse pad. Supports touch mode for scrolling and touch/click. Supports drag mode for dragging around game maps.
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Download Flash Player Blyss 
Normally $0.99. Blyss launched on iOS with Editor's Choice in 78 countries and Worldwide feature! "As clever and creative as it is simple and minimalist, Blyss will have you coming back for more time and time again"
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Travel through Beautiful mountains, serene valleys and harsh deserts solving Blyss' unique and self-evolving puzzles. The endless puzzle adventure along with musical ambient themes will keep you hooked for hours as you write your own high scoring saga. Features : - Procedurally generated Unqiue and Unlimited Puzzles
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Normally $0.99. The #1 creative writing prompts app for iPhone and iPad just got a whole lot better. "Getting stuck with writer's block is a huge pain. Prompts provides inspiration." - Mashable More than 300,000 unique writing starting lines and creative writing prompts to inspire you and give you ideas for creative writing. Whether it's poetry writing, journal writing, storytelling, or anything else! Prompts is great for students in the classroom, amateur writers, or professionals who want to free write often. ** Part of the Apple Education program, so teachers and schools get a discount when buying this app! ** • Prompts gets you writing, even when you don't know where to start or if you feel blocked
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• Adjustable font size and styling
• Share your writing by email, Twitter, or Facebook, and more Why use Prompts for creativity writing? • Prompts is full of unique writing prompts. Feeling stuck or creatively blocked? Press the lightning bolt at any time and you'll be presented with a prompt to help inspire you. • Even if you don't know where to start writing, just open the app and press the plus button to get a random and totally unique idea in the form of a starting line. There are hundreds of completely original ideas to start from. • On the bus, in the break room, anywhere you are, Prompts helps you become a better writer and build a writing habit with just a few minutes a day. • Share your writing by email, Twitter, Facebook, Evernote, or Day One Write full screen and swipe down to bring the menu back into view. It's a great way to write without distractions, using as much of the screen as possible! Set daily reminders to keep your writing habits healthy, bookmark the projects you're working on, and even monitor your writing stats to see which days and times you're at your best. Adjust font style and size to match your writing style, whatever style that is for you. Whether you want to write more just for fun or if you write for a profession, you are going to love how Prompts helps you write. Prompts is perfect for writers, bloggers, journalists, educators and students (college or kids), copywriters, marketers, or anyone who just likes to write.
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Normally $0.99. ### Over 10,000 downloads! Calculator that sounds amazing! ### Classicalc is a unique, the most classy calculator app on the App Store. It's designed to be beautiful and simple, but also… to sound amazing! Each color theme has its own, actual Grand Piano major scale! It's Chopin-awesome! Underneath it beautiful simplicity, there's some serious technology powering Classicalc: ## Instant Calculation calculates the formula as you type, so you never have to use the equals sign. We spare you one unnecessary tap at a time. ## You can start your calculations on your iPhone, then Continue on your Apple Watch, and the other way around. ## Your most recent equation is always saved, even if you shut the app. When you run it again, The formula is instantly there. ## 14 great-looking backgrounds with related actual Grand Piano major scales ## Change colors and major scales on iPhone app to change on Apple Watch ## In case the numbers bore you, you can always play a song. It's Chopin-awesome!
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Normally $0.99. Here comes an authentic cartoon art style 2D infinity action! Can your fingers catch the infinity arena? Many obstacles, including evil ninjas, ninja dogs, monsters, demi-humans, zombies will prevent your adventure! ▪ Select among four ninjas!
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Normally $2.99. "This game is a home run! I love this [BLEEP] game. In my top 5 all time games. No BS." - Touch Arcade Forums A cloudy moon illuminates the quiet planet. With practiced precision, you carefully navigate mazes of deadly traps to reach your goal: a small landing target outside the dark city. If you survive, you must choose to cash in your points or risk it all on another run. Do you have what it takes to become a leaderboard legend? Thank you all for the wonderful feedback. Here's what people are saying about Rocket Valet! Galaxy Landing Service: "Seriously the most fun game I've played in a while on the iPhone. Love the leaderboards and the disks." "They nailed the controls on this game!" "There should be a warning label on this game." "I'm officially addicted." "Well done. I just played this for an hour straight!" "This game is friggin addicting as all get out!"
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| 8 Things Emily Ratajkowski Does to Stay in Shape Posted: 30 Mar 2017 06:21 PM PDT  Want to know the secret to Emily Ratajkowski's killer body? Check out 8 things she does to stay fit.
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| US, Turkey strain for deal on key element of anti-IS fight Posted: 30 Mar 2017 11:03 AM PDT  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Trump administration and Turkey appeared no closer Thursday to resolving a dispute over the Kurds' role in defeating the Islamic State group in Syria, as U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited America's often nettlesome NATO ally for the first time.
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| Storm Chasers Killed in Collision While Tracking Tornado Posted: 29 Mar 2017 09:41 AM PDT  All three men involved - Kelley Gene Williamson, Randall Delane Yarnall and Corbin Lee Jaeger - were pronounced dead at the scene, officials said.
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| Britain does not expect 50 billion pound Brexit bill: Davis Posted: 30 Mar 2017 01:34 AM PDT  Brexit minister David Davis said he did not expect Britain to have to pay 50 billion pounds ($62 billion) to the European Union as part of the Brexit process and said the era of huge sums being paid to Brussels was coming to an end. British media reports have suggested that Britain could have to pay around 50 to 60 billion pounds in order to honor existing budget commitments as it negotiates its departure from the bloc. "We haven't actually had any sort of submission to us from the Commission.
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| Former PM Valls endorses Macron for French presidency Posted: 29 Mar 2017 11:14 AM PDT  France's former prime minister Manuel Valls endorsed the presidential bid of centrist Emmanuel Macron on Wednesday, becoming the most high-profile Socialist to back the ex-banker over the party's own nominee. Valls' nod comes less than a month before the first round of the election on April 23, in which polls show Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen running neck-and-neck. The former premier cited the "risks" of a Le Pen victory in confirming his support for Macron, in an interview with BFM TV.
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| Tesla CEO Elon Musk launches Neuralink venture to merge human brain with AI Posted: 30 Mar 2017 01:00 PM PDT  First it was electric cars, and then came the mission to conquer space exploration and Mars. Now, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has set his sights on yet another lofty venture called Neuralink. According to The Wall Street Journal (subscription required), Neuralink's mission is to help human beings merge with artificial intelligence and software to allow for improved memory, interfacing with computer devices, and even potentially help alleviate those sufferings from various illnesses and diseases.
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| Protests Erupt At Immigration Town Hall Posted: 29 Mar 2017 10:46 AM PDT  "I spent five and a half years in concentration camps, for one reason and one reason only — because we picked on people."
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| This is the Safest (And Easiest) Way to Clean Granite Countertops Posted: 29 Mar 2017 11:32 AM PDT  Here's how to avoid breaking down the countertop's sealant.
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| This Is the 2018 Jeep Wrangler, Can You Spot the Changes? Posted: 30 Mar 2017 10:14 AM PDT  JL Wrangler Forums seems to have gotten images of the all-new 2018 Jeep Wrangler in production form. It looks, well, familiar.
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| U.S. priority on Syria no longer focused on 'getting Assad out': Haley Posted: 30 Mar 2017 06:25 PM PDT ![U.S. priority on Syria no longer focused on 'getting Assad out': Haley]( "U.S. priority on Syria no longer focused on 'getting Assad out': Haley") By Michelle Nichols NEW YORK (Reuters) - The United States' diplomatic policy on Syria for now is no longer focused on making the war-torn country's president, Bashar al-Assad, leave power, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations said on Thursday, in a departure from the Obama administration's initial and public stance on Assad's fate. The view of the Trump administration is also at odds with European powers, who insist Assad must step down. "You pick and choose your battles and when we're looking at this, it's about changing up priorities and our priority is no longer to sit there and focus on getting Assad out," U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley told a small group of reporters.
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The tower would be in eccentric geosynchronous orbit, and would "travel" between hemispheres on a regular daily schedule, and in a figure eight pattern. The architects say the tower would spend much of its time over New York City thanks to its planned trajectory. The building could remain completely disconnected from the surface indefinitely by drawing power from solar panels situated above cloud level. Water would be filtered within the structure in a semi-closed loop, but the tower could also capture its own water while in-flight. 
As far as traveling to and from the tower, the concept suggests that people could just parachute down to Earth whenever they needed to leave. As for getting back home, the company doesn't seem to have nailed down exactly how that will work, but by the time the tower is actually built we'll probably have teleportation pads, too.
While such a design may make sense in a world where cars are fully autonomous, the reality is that many drivers today not only want, but need quick and easy access to pertinent information like range, speed and more. Addressing this, Musk took to Twitter once again where he explained that the final Model 3 design will display such information on the center console. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/847178475970547712 
