| ‘Well, history’: Fox’s Shep Smith says he tries to avoid quoting Kellyanne Conway Posted: 13 Mar 2017 01:32 PM PDT  Fox News anchor Shep Smith dismissed White House counselor Kellyanne Conway's credibility on air Thursday, saying, "We don't really quote [her] anymore, because, well, history." The barbs were in response to Conway's defense of President Trump's unsubstantiated claim that President Obama ordered a wiretap of the phones in Trump Tower. "There are many ways to surveil each other," Conway said in a Sunday interview with the Record, a New Jersey newspaper.
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| North Korea Threatens ‘Merciless’ Attacks Over U.S. Military Drills Posted: 14 Mar 2017 03:44 PM PDT  Just as Sec. of State Tillerson is set to arrive in Japan, joint military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea have exacerbated tensions with North Korea.
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| Key GOP senator: House may change bill after CBO projected hikes for seniors Posted: 14 Mar 2017 01:57 PM PDT  President Trump, flanked by Rep. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, left, and Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., at a White House meeting on health care March 10. WASHINGTON — House Republicans apparently told antsy senators in a closed-door meeting Tuesday they may try to amend their health care bill to address concerns that it would significantly increase costs for seniors. Sen. Bill Cassidy, R-La., told reporters after the meeting that Reps. Kevin Brady, R-Texas, and Greg Walden, R-Ore., chairmen of the powerful Ways and Means and Energy and Commerce Committees, said they realized the legislation's projected premium hikes for older Americans was an issue that must be addressed.
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| US Air Force Plane Crashes In New Mexico Posted: 14 Mar 2017 11:03 PM PDT  The crash occurred during a training exercise Tuesday evening and those on board are feared dead, according to local reports.
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| Sheriff's Deputies Heroically Save Jet Skiers in the Path of Cruise Ship in the Nick of Time Posted: 13 Mar 2017 03:02 PM PDT ![Sheriff's Deputies Heroically Save Jet Skiers in the Path of Cruise Ship in the Nick of Time]( "Sheriff's Deputies Heroically Save Jet Skiers in the Path of Cruise Ship in the Nick of Time") A tourist filmed the dramatic rescue from the deck of the cruise ship as it approached.
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| Apple rumored to have new iPad coming Posted: 15 Mar 2017 02:33 AM PDT  An online tech report says new iPad will have a 10.5 inch screen and higher resolution display.
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| U.S. Plains wildfires ravage ranches in three states Posted: 15 Mar 2017 07:38 AM PDT ![U.S. Plains wildfires ravage ranches in three states]( "U.S. Plains wildfires ravage ranches in three states") When the Schwerzenbach family saw a wildfire racing toward their remote ranch in Lipscomb, Texas, there was no time to run. "We had a minute or two and then it was over us," said 56-year-old Nancy Schwerzenbach. The fire, moving up to 70 miles per hour (112 kph), was one of several across more than 2 million acres (810,000 hectares) that hit the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma and Kansas last week, causing millions of dollars of damage and killing thousands of livestock.
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| After killing TPP, Trump to meet Xi, reassure allies Posted: 13 Mar 2017 02:51 PM PDT  President Trump will host Chinese President Xi Jinping early next month, a potentially pivotal summit as the White House tries to reassure allies that the United States will stay engaged in the region after backing out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade deal. The two leaders are tentatively expected to meet April 7-8, potentially at Trump's luxury Mar-a-Lago private club in Florida, a U.S. official confirmed on Monday. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will lock down the exact dates on his trip to Asia this week, the official added.
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| White House insists President Trump is ‘proud of’ the health care bill even though ‘it’s not his’ Posted: 14 Mar 2017 02:22 PM PDT  White House press secretary Sean Spicer distanced President Trump from the GOP health care bill in his daily briefing Tuesday while insisting the commander in chief is "proud of it." The plan, which would replace Obamacare, has come under fire from Democrats and conservatives. While Trump and his administration have backed the bill, it is the brainchild of House Speaker Paul Ryan, and contradicts many of the health care promises Trump made during his presidential campaign.
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| Mexican official: 250 skulls found in clandestine graves Posted: 14 Mar 2017 04:48 PM PDT  MEXICO CITY (AP) — More than 250 skulls have been found over the last several months in what appears to be a drug cartel mass burial ground on the outskirts of the city of Veracruz, prosecutors said Tuesday.
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| Malaysia says Kim body embalmed to halt decomposition Posted: 14 Mar 2017 02:40 AM PDT  Malaysia said Tuesday that the body of Kim Jong-Nam has been embalmed to stop it decomposing, as it lies unclaimed in a Kuala Lumpur morgue a month after his assassination. Deputy Prime Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi also announced the deportation of 50 North Korean workers in an apparent exception to a departure ban imposed after the killing of the half-brother of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-Un.
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| Democrats blast ‘Trumpcare’ after CBO finds GOP plan would leave millions without coverage Posted: 14 Mar 2017 08:50 AM PDT  Top congressional Democrats fiercely denounced the Republican-backed American Health Care Act (AHCA) on Tuesday, a day after the Congressional Budget Office predicted that the GOP plan would leave 14 million more Americans without health insurance by 2018 than under Obamacare, and by 2026, 24 million would be uninsured. House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi of California, and Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer of New York speak to reporters about the Congressional Budget Office projection that 14 million people would lose health coverage under the House Republican bill dismantling former President Barack Obama's health care law, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March, 13, 2017.
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| SpaceX Is Launching a Satellite Into Orbit on Tuesday Posted: 14 Mar 2017 10:22 AM PDT  But this launch won't have a landing.
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| Family in Hilarious BBC Interview Speak Out About Viral Experience Posted: 14 Mar 2017 03:57 PM PDT "That never happened before, obviously," Prof. Robert Kelly said when explaining the moment his daughter waltzed into his office, as he analyzed South Korean politics live on the BBC.
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| California's desert blooms as drought comes to an end Posted: 14 Mar 2017 09:25 AM PDT ![California's desert blooms as drought comes to an end]( "California's desert blooms as drought comes to an end") Southern California's deserts and hillsides are ablaze with color after a wet winter spurred what scientists say is the biggest wildflower bloom in years. "Plentiful rains in December, January and February have encouraged the development of a spectacular showing of annual plants in the flower fields north of town, along trails in western canyons, and even in the badlands," naturalists wrote on Anza-Borrego's website. Before the state's devastating five-year drought, Southern California families often made an annual trek to see wildflowers at Anza-Borrego and other destinations - some as close as a freeway exit in the high desert.
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| Russia Denies Reports It Deployed Special Forces In Egypt Posted: 13 Mar 2017 11:05 PM PDT  Amid growing concerns of the U.S., Russia has reportedly made it clear that it will go to any extent to establish its role in the war-torn North African nation.
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| Police detained congressman who refused to leave ICE office Posted: 14 Mar 2017 09:47 AM PDT ![Police detained congressman who refused to leave ICE office]( "Police detained congressman who refused to leave ICE office") Police placed Rep. Luis Gutiérrez (D) of Illinois in handcuffs briefly on Monday after he refused to leave a federal immigration office without getting answers about the fate of several detainees facing deportation. Mr. Gutiérrez says he met with the regional Immigration Customs Enforcement, or ICE, director at a Chicago immigration office. After receiving several warnings from officials, the congressman and other demonstrators were placed in plastic handcuffs and briefly detained.
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| Texas executes man who killed 2 and tried to attack judge Posted: 14 Mar 2017 05:26 PM PDT  HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — Texas executed on Tuesday a man convicted of the 1987 killings of a father and his infant son and who three years later at his capital murder trial grabbed a loaded gun from a drawer in the courtroom and tried to attack the judge.
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| Vietnam seizes 100 kgs of rhino horn from Kenya Posted: 14 Mar 2017 09:33 AM PDT  Vietnam police seized more than 100 kilograms of rhino horn smuggled into the country in suitcases from Kenya on Tuesday, the latest illegal haul in the wildlife trafficking hub. Vietnam is a hot market for rhino horn, believed to have medicinal properties and is in high demand among the communist nation's growing middle class. The country is a popular transit point for illegal animal products, which often move from Africa through Vietnam to other parts of Asia.
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| White House: Microwave is 'not a sound way of surveilling someone' Posted: 14 Mar 2017 12:38 PM PDT  During Tuesday's White House press briefing, press secretary Sean Spicer said that a microwave is "not a sound way of surveilling someone" and that previous comment made by the White House suggesting otherwise was made "in jest."
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| GOP Rep. Barton tells man to ‘shut up’ in testy town hall Posted: 14 Mar 2017 12:46 PM PDT  A Texas congressman told a constituent to "shut up" in a heated moment caught on video. Rep. Joe Barton, R-Texas, was holding a town hall last weekend in the city of Frost, the Dallas Morning News reported, when a man confronted him about his voting record pertaining to violence against women. "Given your voting record opposing protecting women from violence, will you make a commitment to us today — make a promise — that you will reach out to Congresswoman Jackie Speier and work with her to see this bill successfully through Congress?" the man asked, drawing applause from the crowd.
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| U.S. judge denies tribe's request to stop oil flow in Dakota Access pipeline Posted: 14 Mar 2017 04:33 PM PDT ![U.S. judge denies tribe's request to stop oil flow in Dakota Access pipeline]( "U.S. judge denies tribe's request to stop oil flow in Dakota Access pipeline") A U.S. District Court judge on Tuesday denied a request by a Native American tribe to issue an emergency injunction to prevent oil from flowing through part of the Dakota Access Pipeline, saying such a move would be against the public interest.
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| Japan, South Korea, and U.S. Begin Drills off North Korea Posted: 14 Mar 2017 12:32 PM PDT  China is displeased.
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| Headphone batteries explode on flight to Australia Posted: 15 Mar 2017 02:54 AM PDT  A woman whose headphones caught fire on a plane suffered burns to her face and hands, Australian officials said Wednesday as they warned about the dangers of battery-operated devices in-flight. The passenger was listening to music on her own battery-operated headphones as she dozed about two hours into the trip from Beijing to Melbourne on February 19 when there was a loud explosion. "As I went to turn around I felt burning on my face," she told the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) which investigated the incident.
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| 2-Year-Old Left Brain Dead After Alleged Brutal Beating From 17-Year-Old Babysitter Posted: 14 Mar 2017 11:36 AM PDT  Police said more charges are forthcoming.
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| Israel closes Palestinian map bureau, arrests head Posted: 14 Mar 2017 11:18 AM PDT  Israeli police on Tuesday closed a Palestinian research centre in Jerusalem and briefly arrested its director, a prominent cartographer, accusing him of working for the Palestinian security services. The office of cartography in occupied east Jerusalem was shut down for six months, a police statement said. Israeli officials accused its head Khalil Tafakji of working with the Palestinian Authority to monitor the sale of land by Palestinians to Israeli Jews in east Jerusalem.
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| Arctic Sea Ice Is Rapidly Melting, But Some Of It May Be Normal Posted: 14 Mar 2017 12:05 PM PDT  Researchers have found that 30-50 percent of sea ice melt is natural.
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| Investigation into 2012 Nigeria plane crash faults pilots Posted: 14 Mar 2017 09:29 AM PDT  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The pilots of a Nigerian airliner failed to follow emergency procedures and didn't land after one of the plane's two engines lost power only minutes into the flight, according to a government investigation into the June 2012 crash that killed 153 on board and others on the ground.
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| Veteran U.S. diplomat Patterson out of running for Pentagon post Posted: 14 Mar 2017 03:21 PM PDT ![Veteran U.S. diplomat Patterson out of running for Pentagon post]( "Veteran U.S. diplomat Patterson out of running for Pentagon post") Veteran U.S. diplomat Anne Patterson is out of the running to under secretary of defense for policy, U.S. officials said on Tuesday, depriving Defense Secretary Jim Mattis of his choice for his top policy adviser. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the officials said Patterson ran into resistance on Capitol Hill that might have made it hard for her to win confirmation by the U.S. Senate. The Washington Post first reported that Patterson, who had previously served as the top U.S. diplomat for the Middle East and as ambassador to Egypt, Pakistan, Colombia and El Salvador, was no longer a candidate.
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| California's Plan to Eliminate Student Debt Posted: 14 Mar 2017 09:19 AM PDT ![California's Plan to Eliminate Student Debt]( "California's Plan to Eliminate Student Debt") While a national policy on higher education has yet to be decided, it's clear where California stands. On Monday, the state's Democrats released a financial-aid plan that covers both tuition and living expenses, with the end goal of eliminating student loans among 400,000 students enrolled in the University of California and California State systems.
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| White House Seeks to Cut Billions in Funding for United Nations Posted: 13 Mar 2017 01:40 PM PDT  U.S. retreat from U.N. could mark a "breakdown of the international humanitarian system as we know it."
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| Rethinking Your Career for a Better Retirement Posted: 15 Mar 2017 06:50 AM PDT ![Rethinking Your Career for a Better Retirement]( "Rethinking Your Career for a Better Retirement") No matter where you are in your career, it's never too late to make a change. While you might decide to move to an industry you simply like better, there are many other good reasons to switch jobs. If you find a position with better benefits, you might be able to set yourself up for a more comfortable retirement.
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| 911 dispatcher in Tamir Rice case suspended for 8 days Posted: 14 Mar 2017 07:46 PM PDT  CLEVELAND (AP) — A 911 dispatcher who took a call that led to a white police officer's fatal shooting of a 12-year-old black boy outside a recreation center has been suspended for eight days.
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| Erdogan angers Dutch with Srebrenica jibe Posted: 14 Mar 2017 02:49 PM PDT  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan prompted a fresh outcry in The Netherlands on Tuesday with a jibe about the Srebrenica massacre, warning of retaliation in a spiralling diplomatic crisis. Keeping an uncompromising tone in a tumultuous dispute that risks wrecking the entire Ankara-Brussels relationship, Erdogan said a 'yes' vote in a April 16 referendum on expanding his powers would be the best response to Turkey's "enemies". Ankara had a day earlier announced it was suspending high-level relations after The Netherlands prevented two Turkish ministers from holding rallies to woo expatriate support ahead of the referendum.
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| Passenger Burns Herself In Flight After Wearing Headphones Posted: 15 Mar 2017 04:23 AM PDT  After Samsung's Galaxy Note 7 burst into flames in October 2016 during a flight journey, in another incident, on a flight journey from Beijing to Melbourne a passenger's headphones blew up.
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| Humane Society Offers Nearly $50,000 for Arrest of Suspect Who Tortured Cat That Later Died Posted: 15 Mar 2017 07:33 AM PDT  The cat was missing for four days.
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| OAS head says Venezuela should hold elections or face suspension from bloc Posted: 14 Mar 2017 06:55 PM PDT ![OAS head says Venezuela should hold elections or face suspension from bloc]( "OAS head says Venezuela should hold elections or face suspension from bloc") By Diego Oré CARACAS (Reuters) - The head of the Organization of American States (OAS) on Tuesday said that crisis-wrought Venezuela should be suspended from the regional diplomatic body if it does not hold general elections "as quickly as possible." Venezuela's election board in October suspended the opposition drive for a recall referendum against President Nicolas Maduro despite the OPEC nation's crushing economic crisis, the government's unpopularity and public opinion in favor of a plebiscite. Luis Almagro, secretary general of the OAS and a former foreign minister of Uruguay, stressed that elections are key to allowing Venezuela to overcome severe food shortages and spiraling inflation. "What's happened doesn't leave any doubts," Almagro said on Tuesday.
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| Ex-member corrects, challenges Vatican over sex abuse board Posted: 14 Mar 2017 06:19 AM PDT  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The clash between a former member of Pope Francis' sex abuse advisory commission and the Vatican heated up Tuesday, as prominent Irish abuse survivor Marie Collins challenged a top Vatican cardinal over his claims that his office had cooperated with the commission.
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| Six Years Later, People Are Moving Back to Fukushima Posted: 14 Mar 2017 10:22 AM PDT  But hunting radioactive wild boar is now a civic duty.
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| Photos of the day - March 14, 2017 Posted: 14 Mar 2017 01:21 PM PDT ![Photos of the day - March 14, 2017]( "Photos of the day - March 14, 2017") A cow stands in pasture during a winter snowstorm in Salisbury, Pa.; children ride on swings in Kabul, Afghanistan; and Ahmed Moustafa is hugged by his parents after being released from Tora prison in Cairo, Egypt.
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| Republican senators criticize CBO, welcome health-care plan Posted: 14 Mar 2017 11:46 AM PDT ![Republican senators criticize CBO, welcome health-care plan]( "Republican senators criticize CBO, welcome health-care plan") WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said on Tuesday the Congressional Budget Office report on a Republican healthcare plan indicated a path to lower insurance premiums, a lower deficit and significant entitlement reform. McConnnell said the Senate would bring up the House of Representatives legislation and have it open to amendment before passing it. At the same news briefing, Republican Senator Roy Blunt said the CBO is "notoriously bad" at anticipating what will happen in the marketplace. ...
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| Woman in 2001 Israel pizza shop bombing on FBI 'Most Wanted' list Posted: 14 Mar 2017 02:51 PM PDT  The US Federal Bureau of Investigation placed a Jordanian woman who assisted in the 2001 suicide bombing of a Jerusalem pizza parlor on its "Most Wanted Terrorist" list on Tuesday. The Justice Department unveiled charges against Ahlam Aref Ahmad Al-Tamimi, who was jailed in Israel for eight years in the attack that killed 15, before gaining release in an Israeli prisoner swap with Hamas in 2011. US authorities had hoped to have Tamimi extradited from Jordan but said they were frustrated by laws that ban extradition of Jordanian nationals.
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| Celebrate Pi Day! Posted: 14 Mar 2017 09:51 AM PDT  March 14 honors the mathematical constant pi, which is the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter. It is celebrated on March 14 because the first three numbers of the equation are 3.14.
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