| ISIS, driven out of Mosul, leaves behind a city in ruins and a society shattered by distrust Posted: 10 Jul 2017 04:39 AM PDT  The operation to retake Mosul from ISIS has been a success, but it has come at a heavy price of destruction and the displacement of hundreds of thousands of civilians.
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| Video shows SUV driver rammed cyclist in hit-and-run Posted: 10 Jul 2017 08:52 AM PDT  A driver in Tennessee is facing charges after crashing into a cyclist and driving away from the scene. The accident was caught on camera by the victim's friend.
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| ‘That is so illegal!’ Trump lashes out at Comey after report that memos may have been classified Posted: 10 Jul 2017 08:09 AM PDT  But in his Senate Intelligence Committee testimony in June, the ex-FBI director said the memo he shared with a friend contained no classified information.
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| Penn State Fraternity Death: Prosecutors Reveal Frat Members’ Texts Posted: 10 Jul 2017 08:39 AM PDT  Texts that were revealed in court Monday show that fraternity brothers knew almost immediately the gravity of the situation, prosecutors said.
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| The Latest: California wildfires send some 8K people fleeing Posted: 09 Jul 2017 04:05 PM PDT  SANTA MARIA, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on wildfires in the western U.S. and Canada (all times local):
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| Back in session, Senate Republicans weigh starting over with health care bill Posted: 10 Jul 2017 10:30 AM PDT  Some Senate Republicans weigh a fresh start on health care reform; the president adds pressure; and more from our ongoing coverage.
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| Pregnant woman loses baby at 'gender reveal' party shooting Posted: 10 Jul 2017 08:53 AM PDT  An expectant mother suffered a miscarriage after two people burst into a party to announce her baby's gender and opened fire. The woman was shot in leg as the gunman sprayed bullets in the house in Colerain, Ohio. "We're not sure if (the suspects) were allowed in or they forced entry at this point," said police Chief Mark Denney Denney.
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| Video Captures Horrific Moment Cyclist Is Struck - Allegedly by School Dean - in Hit and Run Posted: 10 Jul 2017 02:02 PM PDT  The suspect, Marshall Neely, was charged with reckless endangerment and leaving the scene of an accident.
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| Police Shoot People Dressed As The Joker And Harley Quinn Posted: 10 Jul 2017 01:42 PM PDT  About 40 heavily armed police officers entered the night club and shot them.
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| Republicans increasingly think colleges are harming the U.S. Posted: 10 Jul 2017 01:17 PM PDT  A majority of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents think that colleges and universities are having a negative impact on the United States.
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| Get Ready, Science Nerds: Incredible Jupiter Photos Are Coming Posted: 10 Jul 2017 07:52 AM PDT  NASA's Juno spacecraft will fly right over the planet's famous red spot
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| US high school student scores Mattis interview scoop Posted: 10 Jul 2017 09:02 AM PDT  A US high school student has scored an exclusive interview with Pentagon chief Jim Mattis after an aide of President Donald Trump inadvertently exposed the defense secretary's cell phone number. The Washington Post in May ran a photo of Trump and his bodyguard Keith Schiller walking outside the White House, with Schiller clutching a bunch of papers. Sharp-eyed readers noticed that atop the papers was a yellow sticky note that said "Jim, Mad Dog, Mattis" along with a phone number.
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| Syrian Observatory says it has 'confirmed information' that Islamic State chief is dead Posted: 11 Jul 2017 07:07 AM PDT  By Lisa Barrington and Ellen Francis CAIRO/BEIRUT (Reuters) - The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights told Reuters on Tuesday that it had "confirmed information" that Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi has been killed. The report came just days after the Iraqi army recaptured the last sectors of the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, which Baghdadi's forces overran almost exactly three years ago. Russia's Defence Ministry said in June that it might have killed Baghdadi when one of its air strikes hit a gathering of Islamic State commanders on the outskirts of the Syrian city of Raqqa.
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| Teen Survives Bear Attack After Waking To Animal 'Crunching' On His Head Posted: 10 Jul 2017 01:59 AM PDT  Dylan, 19, was sleeping at Glacier View Ranch — 48 miles northwest of Denver — when he woke up to a crunching sound on Sunday, and found his head inside the mouth of a bear.
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| Man, 20, linked to search for missing men held on $1M bail Posted: 10 Jul 2017 05:33 PM PDT  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A 20-year-old linked to the property where the FBI is searching for four missing Pennsylvania men was arrested Monday and held on $1 million bail on a gun charge, although authorities did not call him a suspect in the feared foul play.
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| Tennessee parents charged in hot car death of 11-month-old Posted: 10 Jul 2017 10:09 AM PDT  Tennessee parents charged in hot car death of 11-month-old.
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| An Ill-Advised Lawsuit Against Black Lives Matter Activists Posted: 10 Jul 2017 07:50 AM PDT ![An Ill-Advised Lawsuit Against Black Lives Matter Activists]( "An Ill-Advised Lawsuit Against Black Lives Matter Activists") Last July, Gavin Long, a black, 29-year-old former Marine, ambushed police in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, killing three officers and wounding three more before being killed. Now one of the wounded, who was rendered permanently disabled in the shooting, has filed a federal lawsuit against the Black Lives Matter movement and activists including DeRay Mckesson and Johnetta Elzie, whom he blames for inciting the attack.
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| Trump trolls Chelsea Clinton in defense of letting Ivanka take his chair at G-20 Posted: 10 Jul 2017 06:48 AM PDT  President Trump defended his daughter Ivanka Trump after she was ridiculed for filling in for him at a G-20 summit meeting in Hamburg, Germany. In her defense the president invoked both German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Chelsea Clinton, the daughter of his former opponent, Hillary Clinton. "When I left Conference Room for short meetings with Japan and other countries, I asked Ivanka to hold seat.
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| 16 dead in US military plane crash in Mississippi: reports Posted: 11 Jul 2017 01:08 AM PDT  A US military aircraft crashed Monday in the southern state of Mississippi, killing 16 people, US media reported. The US Marine Corps confirmed that a "mishap" involving a KC-130 occurred in the evening, without providing additional details. The Clarion-Ledger newspaper and CNN cited Leflore County emergency management director Fred Randle as confirming the death toll of 16.
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| Casey Anthony 'Blacked Out' Daughter Caylee's Death, Lawyer Says Posted: 10 Jul 2017 08:35 AM PDT  "She didn't know what she was doing or what she was saying," said defense attorney Cheney Mason.
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| What Comes After ISIS? Posted: 10 Jul 2017 05:30 AM PDT  The jihadi group's defeat in Mosul and Raqqa is about to usher in a new era — and new conflicts — across the Middle East.
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| China says 'China responsibility theory' on North Korea has to stop Posted: 11 Jul 2017 02:38 AM PDT  China hit back on Tuesday in unusually strong terms at repeated calls from the United States to put more pressure on North Korea, urging a halt to what it called the "China responsibility theory", and saying all parties needed to pull their weight. U.S President Trump took a more conciliatory tone at a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday, but he has expressed some impatience that China, with its close economic and diplomatic ties to Pyongyang, is not doing enough to rein in North Korea. Asked about calls from the United States, Japan and others for China to put more pressure on North Korea, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said it was not China ratcheting up tension and the key to a resolution did not lie with Beijing.
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| 10-Year-Old Boy Gets Stuck in Tree While Rescuing Cat, Then Has to be Rescued Himself Posted: 10 Jul 2017 11:27 AM PDT  Aashir Alauddins remained in the tree for 20 minutes while the Hackensack Fire Department prepared to get him down.
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| Tiger Shark Bites Man's Hand After He Tried Grabbing Its Tail Posted: 10 Jul 2017 05:55 AM PDT  After being injured, the man is seen making his way to the shore of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, clutching his wounded hand.
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| Conway clashes with CNN’s Cuomo over Trump Jr.’s Russian lawyer meeting Posted: 10 Jul 2017 09:52 AM PDT  The president's counselor tried to defend Donald Trump Jr.'s pre-election meeting with a Kremlin-linked Russian lawyer.
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| A year later, injured turtle returns to man who fixed his shell Posted: 10 Jul 2017 03:14 PM PDT  A turtle's shell is essential to their protection. A damaged shell makes the creature vulnerable, and can even sometimes be fatal. Luckily, there are heroes that care about the wellbeing of our scaly friends, like this Reddit user's father. SEE ALSO: This adorable baby turtle blob is bringing hope to Southeast Asia On Monday, Daniel Hollenback — who goes by the username Sublimebro — uploaded photos to Reddit of a turtle whose injuries were healed thanks to his father's efforts. The tiny turtle came back a year later looking better than ever. Adorably, the Reddit user's father — presumably the above mentioned Ken — marked a "Ken's Body Shop" on the putty patch. Although Ken's writing didn't survive, the turtle thankfully did, and people made car repair jokes about it. Comment from discussion Muppetude's comment from discussion "Last year my Dad patched up a turtle's cracked shell with body putty. Look who has returned healthy a year later!". Comment from discussion salvagebanana's comment from discussion "Last year my Dad patched up a turtle's cracked shell with body putty. Look who has returned healthy a year later!". Comment from discussion Oryan_18's comment from discussion "Last year my Dad patched up a turtle's cracked shell with body putty. Look who has returned healthy a year later!". Most importantly, Hollenback's father handled the situation just like an animal lover should. Comment from discussion cloudsareneat's comment from discussion "Last year my Dad patched up a turtle's cracked shell with body putty. Look who has returned healthy a year later!". This dad apparently has a history of performing heroic animal deeds. Hollenback uploaded a video of his father playing with a raccoon that they rescued from their attic with the intention to relocate. Faith in humanity and animals has been restored. WATCH: Korean families separated for more than 60 years are reunited
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| Rebels say they shot down Syria warplane near ceasefire zone Posted: 11 Jul 2017 03:39 AM PDT  Rebel groups shot down a Syrian government warplane on Tuesday near a ceasefire zone in the country's south, the factions and a monitoring group said. Two rebel groups that operate in southeast Syria, the Lions of the East Army and the Ahmad al-Abdo Forces, issued a joint statement on Tuesday saying they had downed the aircraft. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitor confirmed that the rebel groups had hit the plane near a village on the administrative border between the provinces of Rural Damascus and Sweida.
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| Museum finds cases of 2-century-old wine in its cellar Posted: 10 Jul 2017 12:40 PM PDT  UNION, N.J. (AP) — A restoration project at a New Jersey museum unearthed cases of wine nearly as old as the United States.
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| U.S. Marine Corps confirms 16 service members killed in military plane crash Posted: 11 Jul 2017 08:31 AM PDT  By Idrees Ali WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Sixteen service members were killed after a U.S. military transport plane crashed in rural northern Mississippi on Monday evening, the U.S Marine Corps said on Tuesday. The KC-130 Hercules aircraft disappeared from air traffic control radar after taking off from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in North Carolina, the Marine Corps said in a statement. It plunged into a field at approximately 4 p.m. CDT (5 p.m. EST) on Monday in Mississippi's LeFlore County, about 100 miles (160 km) north of Jackson, the state capital.
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| Man Allegedly Killed Stepfather, Posed With Body for Pictures Posted Online: Report Posted: 10 Jul 2017 08:57 AM PDT  Police responding to a 911 call discovered the body of Ronald Pinkney, 60, in the garage of his home on Dalby Court in Bowie at about 8 a.m. Saturday.
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| White House defends meeting between Russian lawyer and Trump’s inner circle Posted: 10 Jul 2017 02:29 PM PDT  A June 2016 meeting that involved members of Trump's campaign and a Kremlin-linked lawyer was routine, as the White House sees it.
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| How Much Do Boeing Airplanes Cost To Make? Posted: 10 Jul 2017 09:10 PM PDT  Building the world's most popular aircraft doesn't come cheap.
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| Scientists say 'prelude' to the sixth mass extinction is happening right now Posted: 10 Jul 2017 12:20 PM PDT  When plant and animal species go extinct, it's usually a clear sign that humans have messed up. We've over-hunted, destroyed habitats, polluted waterways, and altered the climate by burning fossil fuels, wiping species off the planet for good. We tend to study extinctions to understand just how much we have disrupted the planet's ecosystems. But in a new scientific study published on Monday, scientists said we're not paying nearly enough attention to the "prelude" to global extinction — as in, the dwindling population sizes and ranges of existing species that can be a warning sign of a bigger extinction event to come. SEE ALSO: 800 wildlife species at risk from Trump's 'beautiful' border wall As with extinctions, these declines have serious consequences for the natural systems we all depend on for clean air and water, food, and shelter. "This is the case of a biological annihilation occurring globally, even if the species these populations belong to are still present somewhere on Earth," Rodolfo Dirzo, the study's co-author and a biology professor at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment, said in a press release. TROPICAL FOREST LOGGING HAS CONTRIBUTED TO POPULATION DECLINES IN MANY ANIMALS, INCLUDING THE BORNEAN GIBBON, KNOWN FOR ITS WHOOPING CALL.Image: GERARDO CEBALLOS/UNAMFor their analysis, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Dirzo and his colleagues mapped the ranges of 27,600 species of birds, amphibians, mammals, and reptiles worldwide. The sample represents nearly half of all known land-based vertebrate species. Scientists estimated that, of these species, nearly one-third of the vertebrates are declining in population size and range. Shrinking ranges mean animals — especially migratory species — have less room to hunt, breed, and hunker down. As ranges decline, population numbers also dwindle, pushing a species closer to the edge of extinction. Tropical regions saw the greatest number of decreasing species, particularly in south and southeast Asia. In Thailand and Myanmar, for instance, illegal hunting and logging of rosewood trees has drastically reduced the population of Indochinese tigers. Indonesia's Sumatran orangutan has lost roughly 60 percent of its habitat as farmers burn and drain swamp forests to produce palm oil. Temperate regions had similar or higher proportions of decreasing species compared to tropical regions, according to the study. A Kakapo flightless parrot seen in January 2011.Image: Shane McInnes/REX/ShutterstockDirzo and his co-authors also looked at 177 well-analyzed mammal species and examined population losses between 1990 and 2015. Within this group, all have lost 30 percent or more of their geographic ranges. Some had been hit especially hard: more than 40 percent of the species have lost over 80 percent of their ranges. "It is a prelude to the disappearance of many more species and the decline of natural systems that make civilization possible," Gerardo Ceballos, the study's lead author and an ecology professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, said in the press release. Monday's research adds to the broader scientific debate about the "sixth extinction" — which is likely happening to the planet right now, and might be the biggest mass extinction since the dinosaurs disappeared 66 million years ago. During Earth's 4.5-billion-year history, five major extinction events have wiped out nearly all the species on the planet, the geological record shows. Asteroid strikes, volcanic eruptions, and natural climate shifts were likely to blame for those past events. Asian giant softshell turtle.Image: YOEUNG SUN/WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETYHowever, this sixth mass die-off is largely due to human activities, such as population growth, habitat destruction, pollution, and climate change. In their paper, Dirzo, Ceballos, and Stanford professor Paul Ehrlich suggested that billions of animal populations that once roamed the Earth are gone. A separate 2016 study by World Wildlife Fund said global populations of vertebrates have declined by 58 percent between 1970 and 2012. The authors of Monday's paper said their research shows "Earth's sixth mass extinction has proceeded further than most assume." They added that the steep population declines amount to a "massive erosion of the greatest biological diversity" in Earth's history. WATCH: China's big, beautiful, green 'vertical forests' will suck up toxic smog
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| Is Volkswagen to beat Tesla at its own game? Posted: 10 Jul 2017 09:51 AM PDT  By the time Volkswagen begins delivering its first standalone battery-powered electric car in 2020, Tesla expects to be building and selling at least one million units of its own electric vehicles per year. Despite this, Volkswagen believes it's still better placed than Tesla to become the dominant force in the global automotive market when it comes to all-electric vehicles. Herbert Diess, who's in charge of the VW Group's namesake brand, believes that what Volkswagen lacks in first-mover advantage compared to Tesla can be more than made up for by its global scale and its greater manufacturing expertise and experience.
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| Inmate who paused to chew gum while killing guard gets life Posted: 10 Jul 2017 03:04 PM PDT  SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — A prison inmate who briefly stopped his fatal bloody stabbing attack on a guard to clean his hand and chew gum from the dying guard's pocket has been spared the death sentence.
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| U.S. carrier group leads biggest yet drills with India and Japan Posted: 10 Jul 2017 03:32 AM PDT  By Sanjeev Miglani NEW DELHI (Reuters) - A U.S. aircraft carrier strike group began naval exercises with India and Japan on Monday that the U.S. navy said would help the three countries tackle maritime threats in the Asia-Pacific region. The annual exercises named Malabar are being held off India. Japan was later included.
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| North Korea Calls US Practice Bombing Run a Provocation Posted: 10 Jul 2017 12:57 PM PDT  North Korea conducted its first ever intercontinental-ballistic-missile test last week, which experts have said could reach Alaska, reports Business Insider.
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| 3 Ways the LSAT Prepares Students for Law School Posted: 10 Jul 2017 07:00 AM PDT ![3 Ways the LSAT Prepares Students for Law School]( "3 Ways the LSAT Prepares Students for Law School") The exam plays a large role in your law school admissions results and requires extensive studying. With the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and Harvard University Law School accepting GRE scores in lieu of the LSAT, aspiring J.D.s may hope that other programs will follow suit. Here are three ways your LSAT preparation pays dividends beyond test day .
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| Trump Has Picked America’s Enemies in Russia Over Its Friends in Europe Posted: 09 Jul 2017 09:48 AM PDT  After his most recent trip abroad, the president deserves credit for consistency — but not much else.
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| Holly Bobo Murder Trial Delay Sparks Reaction Among Locals Posted: 10 Jul 2017 11:52 AM PDT  The 19-year-old nursing student's mother reportedly broke down in court when the announcement was made.
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