| ‘The most horrible feeling’: Mother of missing Manchester concertgoer describes chaos of attack Posted: 23 May 2017 07:02 AM PDT  Many attendees at the concert that was hit by a bomb on Monday were young people. One distraught parent described her feelings as she waited for news.
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| Clinton Calls Trump Budget an 'Unimaginable Level of Cruelty' Posted: 23 May 2017 11:12 AM PDT  Hillary Clinton slammed President Trump's federal budget plan while giving a speech at the Children's Health Fund Annual Benefit.
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| Republicans and Democrats dismiss Trump’s budget as ‘dead on arrival’ Posted: 23 May 2017 12:48 PM PDT  The White House budget director began making his case for the 2018 budget Tuesday, but it met initial skepticism from members of both parties.
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| 'Terrorism Is Aimed at the People Watching' Posted: 23 May 2017 04:15 AM PDT  When an explosion killed 22 people at a concert in Manchester, England, late Monday, media organizations across the English speaking world rushed to break the news.
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| 12-Year-Old Girl Abducted by Teen Boys In 'Imminent Danger' Posted: 23 May 2017 10:50 AM PDT  McKenzie Wilson went missing from her upstate New York home early in the morning.
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| Massive slide buries stretch of iconic California highway Posted: 24 May 2017 12:15 AM PDT  A massive rockslide has buried a stretch of California's iconic seaside Highway 1 which had already been hit by a number of road closures caused by severe winter storms, state transportation officials said Tuesday. The slide on one of America's most picturesque highways took place on Saturday morning in a remote and largely uninhabited area known as Mud Creek. The road in that section of the highway had already been shut down before a million tons of earth came tumbling down from a hillside, burying a 1,500-foot (nearly half a kilometer) section of the highway, said Jim Shivers, a spokesman for the state's transportation agency.
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| The Latest: Leaders attack lawsuit over schools for blacks Posted: 23 May 2017 10:48 AM PDT  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The Latest on a lawsuit alleging that Mississippi is breaking federal law by providing unequal schooling to black students (all times local):
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| After Maryland student's speech, mockery and anger in China Posted: 24 May 2017 03:21 AM PDT ![After Maryland student's speech, mockery and anger in China]( "After Maryland student's speech, mockery and anger in China") When Chinese student Yang Shuping described how she ditched her five pollution masks upon discovering the "oddly luxurious" air of the United States, she drew a fierce online backlash, indignant newspaper columns and even a rebuttal from her hometown. On Wednesday, the official Xinhua news agency's English-language Twitter account broadcast a live-stream from Kunming, with two reporters interviewing passersby about air quality and whether they wore pollution masks. China's foreign ministry also weighed in, saying it was aware the issue was being widely discussed online, and that any Chinese citizen should "make remarks responsibly".
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| Manchester in Mourning: Bombing Victims Remembered Posted: 23 May 2017 08:31 AM PDT  An 8-year-old and a college student are among the 22 people who were killed in the terror attack at Manchester Arena following an Ariana Grande concert.
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| House Intel Staffing up to Follow Trump Money Posted: 23 May 2017 11:44 AM PDT  Congresswoman Jackie Speier talks with Rachel Maddow about how "follow the money" is proving to be fruitful guidance for the House Intelligence Committee's Trump-Russia investigation.
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| CBO score could roil Senate health care negotiations Posted: 23 May 2017 01:38 PM PDT  The Congressional Budget Office will release its prediction of the effects of the House-passed health care overhaul Wednesday afternoon, potentially stirring up more dissent among Senate Republicans who have spent much of this month attempting to hash out their own health care deal. The CBO will likely deliver a similar verdict for the American Health Care Act (AHCA) as it did for an earlier version of the House bill, which the office said would result in 24 million fewer Americans having health care coverage and $150 billion in deficit reduction over 10 years compared with Obamacare.
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| Killer whales charge toward blue whale off California coast Posted: 23 May 2017 11:06 PM PDT  A pod of killer whales appears to charge at blue whale off the coast of Monterey, California, in a rare encounter captured by a drone camera on May 18.
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| Newark airport reopens after engine fire prompts plane evacuation Posted: 23 May 2017 09:24 PM PDT  Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey has reopened after temporarily shutting down late Tuesday, following an engine fire that prompted the evacuation of an airplane, officials said. There were reports of five minor injuries, according to a statement posted on the airport's official Twitter account, with delays expected to persist through the night. "Newark Airport is temporarily closed due to deployment of emergency chutes on a plane with an apparent engine fire," an earlier post on the airport's official Twitter account had said.
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| Suicidal Man 'Unintentionally' Kills Girlfriend With Bullet That First Went Through His Own Head: Cops Posted: 23 May 2017 01:07 PM PDT  Victor Sibson survived the suicide attempt and was charged with second degree murder on Friday.
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| Big Game Hunter Dies After Being Crushed To Death By Elephant Posted: 22 May 2017 02:25 PM PDT  A well-known South African big game hunter was reportedly crushed to death Friday after his friends fatally shot an elephant.
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| Iran's president criticizes US after Trump's sharp words Posted: 22 May 2017 12:19 PM PDT  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's newly re-elected President Hassan Rouhani took barbed swipes at the U.S. and its ally Saudi Arabia on Monday, hitting back at both a day after President Donald Trump used his first foreign trip to the kingdom to call for further isolation of Iran.
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| Ariana Grande Says She's 'Broken' as Names of Manchester Victims Emerge Posted: 23 May 2017 05:58 AM PDT  The singer had just played to a sold out crowd, many of them young people, when police believe a suicide bomber attacked.
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| Sen. Van Hollen: Trump Budget ‘is Totally Fraudulent Accounting’ Posted: 23 May 2017 02:42 AM PDT  Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), member of the Senate Budget Committee, says the Trump budget has deep cuts to working people, but is great for millionaires.
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| Turkey summons U.S. envoy over Washington street brawl Posted: 22 May 2017 11:50 AM PDT  Turkey summoned the U.S ambassador on Monday to protest the treatment of Turkish security officials in the United States during a visit by President Tayyip Erdogan last week, the foreign ministry said. A brawl erupted between protesters and Turkish security personnel outside the Turkish ambassador's residence during Erdogan's visit to Washington to meet U.S. President Donald Trump. Turkey blamed the violence on demonstrators linked to the militant Kurdistan Workers Party while Washington's police chief described the incident as a "brutal attack" on peaceful protesters.
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| Sea Lion Drags Little Girl Into Water In Terrifying Viral Video Posted: 22 May 2017 01:34 PM PDT  The dramatic moment a sea lion dragged a little girl into the water at a wharf in British Columbia was caught on video.
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| Jakarta governor dropping appeal 'for sake of nation' Posted: 23 May 2017 12:38 AM PDT  The wife of Jakarta's Christian governor told a tearful press conference Tuesday her husband had withdrawn his appeal against a blasphemy conviction and two-year jail term for the good of Indonesia. Basuki Tjahaja Purnama was jailed this month for insulting the Koran while campaigning for re-election, a shock decision that stoked concern about rising religious intolerance in the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation. The blasphemy allegations against Purnama, Jakarta's first non-Muslim governor for half a century and first ethnic Chinese leader, sparked mass protests spearheaded by radicals.
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| The Latest: Slain student remembered at commencement Posted: 23 May 2017 08:06 AM PDT  COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — The Latest on the stabbing death of a black student visiting the University of Maryland (all times local):
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| Guy rescues 4 baby squirrels with their tails tangled together Posted: 23 May 2017 04:41 PM PDT  Today in WTF, nature? A kind samaritan stumbled across four baby squirrels that somehow got their tails stuck in a knot. Andrew Day of Bangor, Maine was looking out of the window at his parents' home on Sunday when he saw something strange. Upon closer inspection, Day discovered four baby squirrels joined together at the tail with a very curious cat lurking nearby, the Bangor Daily News reports. After shooing away the cat, Day called the Bangor Animal Control, but the office was closed over the weekend. The office instructed them to call the local game warden, but it was going to take over an hour for an officer to arrive. So, Day and his father decided to take matters into their own hands. They managed to get the "squirrel king" into a box, and after the babies calmed down, they were able to inspect the tails, and eventually cut them free using some scissors. "It was like a giant dreadlock," Day told the Daily News. "Intertwined with it was straw and twigs and there was some plastic." After consulting with the game warden, Day released them, and they scurried up a tree to be with their worried mother.
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| Pope asks Trump to be peacemaker, gives him environmental letter Posted: 24 May 2017 07:52 AM PDT  By Philip Pullella and Steve Holland VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis urged U.S. President Donald Trump to be a peacemaker at their first meeting on Wednesday after they exchanged sharp words last year, and Trump promised he would not forget the pontiff's message. Under clear blue skies, Trump received a tribute from the Swiss Guard in a Vatican courtyard when he arrived. Before the door of the wood-lined elevator closed, a Vatican protocol official was heard quipping to the president that it was not "like Trump Tower in New York".
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| Roger Moore's best quotes as 007 Posted: 23 May 2017 09:24 AM PDT  British actor Roger Moore played James Bond in a record seven films, more than any other man to date.
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| Christina El Moussa Got the Sweetest Tattoo Honoring Her Kids Posted: 23 May 2017 11:43 AM PDT  Check out her new ink.
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| Former CIA Director Brennan was aware of 'interactions between Russian officials and U.S. persons involved in Trump campaign' Posted: 23 May 2017 08:24 AM PDT  Former CIA Director John Brennan testified before the House intelligence committee regarding the Russian campaign meddling probe. "I encountered and am aware of information and intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between Russian officials and U.S. persons involved in Trump campaign," Brennan said.
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| Husky Caught on Surveillance Shoplifting a Loaf of Bread, Then Returning With an Accomplice Posted: 23 May 2017 09:06 AM PDT  Cops said the dog will not be facing any charges.
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| Police: Man slays neo-Nazi roommates over Islam disrespect Posted: 22 May 2017 07:10 PM PDT  A Florida man told police he killed his two roommates because they were neo-Nazis who disrespected his recent conversion to Islam, and investigators found bomb-making materials and Nazi propaganda after he led them to the bodies.
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| APNewsBreak: Leaks found on Dakota Access pipeline system Posted: 22 May 2017 01:27 PM PDT  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The Dakota Access pipeline and a feeder line leaked more than 100 gallons of oil in North Dakota in separate incidents in March as crews prepared the disputed $3.8 billion pipeline for operation.
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| India fires on Pakistani military posts, army says Posted: 23 May 2017 06:00 AM PDT  India announced Tuesday it had fired mortars at Pakistani army posts across their disputed border in Kashmir, a rare public disclosure of such a pre-emptive assault against its neighbour. Troops fired at military camps in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir which were being used to harbour militants, an Indian army spokesman said. "As part of our counter-terror operations, punitive fire assaults across LoC (Line of Control, the de facto border) are being undertaken by the Indian army," Major-General Ashok Narula told a briefing in New Delhi.
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| Teen Girl Throws Herself In River For 'Blue Whale' Suicide Challenge Posted: 23 May 2017 01:04 PM PDT  The girl reportedly jumped into a turbulent river to complete a suicide challenge referred to "Blue Whale."
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| Retirement Savings Is a Bigger Crisis Than Health Care Posted: 24 May 2017 07:12 AM PDT ![Retirement Savings Is a Bigger Crisis Than Health Care]( "Retirement Savings Is a Bigger Crisis Than Health Care") Everyone talks about how health care is the biggest crisis facing retirees, but unfortunately that crisis takes a distant second to another, far more serious issue. A 2015 National Institute on Retirement Security study found that the median working-age household has just $14,500 in retirement savings -- woefully short of the hundreds of thousands in savings truly needed to retire in the first place. One of the authors of the 2015 NIRS study, Ilana Boivie, agrees that the $14,500 figure is startlingly low.
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| Sanders and Schumer say Trump’s budget takes a ‘sledgehammer to the middle class’ Posted: 23 May 2017 01:05 PM PDT  Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., criticized President Trump's 2018 budget proposal for cuts to domestic programs. Schumer said, "The Trump budget takes a sledgehammer to the middle class and to working-class Americans."
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| British police name suicide bomber, threat level raised to critical Posted: 23 May 2017 02:18 PM PDT  By Michael Holden and Andy Bruce MANCHESTER, England (Reuters) - British police on Tuesday identified the suicide bomber who killed 22 people, including children, in an attack on a crowded concert hall in Manchester, and said they were trying to establish whether he had acted alone or with help from others. The man suspected of carrying out Britain's deadliest bombing in nearly 12 years was named as Salman Abedi, aged 22, but police declined to give further details about him.
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| Fossils cast doubt on human lineage originating in Africa Posted: 22 May 2017 03:08 PM PDT ![Fossils cast doubt on human lineage originating in Africa]( "Fossils cast doubt on human lineage originating in Africa") By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Fossils from Greece and Bulgaria of an ape-like creature that lived 7.2 million years ago may fundamentally alter the understanding of human origins, casting doubt on the view that the evolutionary lineage that led to people arose in Africa. Scientists said on Monday the creature, known as Graecopithecus freybergi and known only from a lower jawbone and an isolated tooth, may be the oldest-known member of the human lineage that began after an evolutionary split from the line that led to chimpanzees, our closest cousins. The premolar was found in south-central Bulgaria in 2009.
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| Dad of Times Square crash victim leaves note at her memorial Posted: 22 May 2017 01:58 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The father of a Michigan tourist killed by an out-of-control driver in Times Square left a note at a memorial for his daughter, thanking New Yorkers for their support and saying her loss was a hole in his heart "that can never be filled."
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| Man Wrongly Convicted Of Murder To Be Set Free After 24 Years Posted: 23 May 2017 08:31 AM PDT  Shaurn Thomas was sentenced to life in prison for a murder that occurred when he was just 16.
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| North Korea says ready to deploy, mass-produce new missile Posted: 22 May 2017 05:15 PM PDT  TOKYO (AP) — North Korea said Monday it is ready to start mass-producing a new medium-range missile after a weekend test-launch confirmed its combat readiness.
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| 2018 Volvo XC60: First Drive Posted: 22 May 2017 10:33 AM PDT  The first member of Volvo's new 60 series has some big shoes to fill, but having the latest semi-autonomous technologies might just make it the safest and most comfortable family car you can buy.
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| Don’t let that ugly iPhone 8 model scare you – this is what the real thing will look like Posted: 24 May 2017 07:31 AM PDT 
Apple's upcoming next-generation iPhone 8 is now about four months away from being announced. As we've come to expect in light of all the leaks we've seen in previous years, Apple's new iPhone becomes less mysterious with each passing day. Countless rumors and reports have been flooding the web for months now, and there are a number of things that are consistent across nearly all of them. We know the iPhone 8 will be far smaller than the iPhone 7 Plus, yet it will feature a larger display. We also know that display will be an OLED panel, and it'll take up nearly all of the phone's front side thanks to reengineered internal components and the removal of the physical home button. Last week, we gave the world its first real-word look at what sources say is Apple's final iPhone 8 design. Then, just this morning, a similar iPhone 8 3D model was shown on video for the first time. People seem to be a bit concerned that these mockups are a bit ugly, but we're about to show you why you really shouldn't be worried. Apple's iPhone designs have changed a great deal over the years, but there's one thing that has remained consistent: the iPhone is always a stunning device. Even now, with an iPhone design that is three years old, the iPhone 7 and 7 Plus are still among the sleekest phones available. In fact, last year Google and HTC still loved Apple's old iPhone design so much that they decided to replicate it on the Pixel and Pixel XL. In 2017, Apple's flagship iPhone 8 will get a top-to-bottom design makeover. The front and back will be made of rounded glass while polished stainless steel is expected to surround the perimeter. We've seen this rumored design mocked up, but initial mockups never seem to properly capture the refinement of real iPhones. For that, we turn to Instagram user "appleidesigner," whose recent iPhone 8 renders were emailed to us by a reader on Wednesday morning. In the images posted by appleidesigner, we see a sleek and smooth iPhone 8 that for the most part aligns with the dummies we've seen — but these new renders show the fit and finish of an actual Apple product. See for yourself in the images below. 
Apple's iPhone 8 is expected to be unveiled in September alongside new iPhone 7s and iPhone 7s Plus models.
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| U.S. government sues Fiat Chrysler over excess emissions Posted: 23 May 2017 08:44 PM PDT  By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government filed a civil lawsuit on Tuesday accusing Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV of illegally using software to bypass emission controls in 104,000 diesel vehicles sold since 2014. The U.S. Justice Department lawsuit, filed in U.S. District court in Detroit, is a procedural step that may ramp up pressure on Fiat Chrysler and comes amid growing scrutiny of diesels by regulators around the world. VW admitted to intentionally cheating while Fiat Chrysler denies wrongdoing.
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| Venezuela prosecutor decries Maduro plan, unrest worsens Posted: 22 May 2017 06:23 PM PDT  By Alexandra Ulmer and Maria Ramirez CARACAS/PUERTO ORDAZ, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela's state prosecutor has panned unpopular President Nicolas Maduro's plan to create a grassroots congress, deepening a rare public split among the ruling Socialists as the death toll from two months of unrest hit 51. Chief State Prosecutor Luisa Ortega stunned the crisis-hit country in March when she lambasted the Supreme Court for annulling the powers of the opposition-led National Assembly. Since then, she has been a wild card within the publicly homogenous Venezuelan government, whose foes accuse it of seeking to dodge elections by creating a parallel assembly with powers to rewrite the constitution.
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