| Sens. McCain and Ernst, both veterans, oppose Trump’s ban on transgender military service Posted: 26 Jul 2017 10:07 AM PDT  Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, quickly announced their opposition Wednesday to President Trump's Twitter announcement that the U.S. military would not "accept or allow" transgender military service members.
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| Minneapolis Police Department Announces New Bodycam Policy Following Fatal Shooting of Australian Woman Posted: 26 Jul 2017 05:33 AM PDT  In the aftermath of the fatal shooting of Justine Damond, the Minneapolis Police Department announced new bodycam policies for officers.
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| Senate GOP’s endgame on health care: the lowest common denominator Posted: 26 Jul 2017 12:42 PM PDT  Republicans are abandoning their ambitions to repeal and replace the ACA, instead hoping they can get 50 votes for a so-called skinny repeal of aspects of current law.
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| New Developments in Case Where Driver Livestreamed Deadly Car Crash Posted: 25 Jul 2017 09:00 PM PDT  Obdulia Sanchez allegedly kept livestreaming on Instagram after the accident even as her sister lay dying; she pleaded not guilty to charges including manslaughter while intoxicated.
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| Condemned killer arrives at death house ahead of execution Posted: 25 Jul 2017 11:07 AM PDT  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — A condemned killer in Ohio arrived at the death house a day ahead of his scheduled execution Wednesday with several requests for a delay pending before the U.S. Supreme Court.
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| Syrian civilians fleeing IS in Raqa turn to smugglers Posted: 26 Jul 2017 02:30 AM PDT  Civilians fleeing the Islamic State group's Syrian bastion of Raqa are paying smugglers to lead them out of the city safely, only to find themselves caught up in harrowing attacks. Tens of thousands of civilians have fled Raqa and the surrounding province since the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) began an offensive to capture the jihadist stronghold last year. In the Ain Issa camp, where thousands of people displaced from Raqa have sought refuge, many civilians say they were promised safe passage by smugglers who ended up leading them into deadly situations.
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| LGBTQ Service Members, Activists React to Trump's Transgender Ban Posted: 25 Jul 2017 09:00 PM PDT  President Trump's Twitter announcment that transgender people wouldn't be allowed to serve in the military was met with wide backlash.
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| White House threatens to shut down briefing over questions on transgender policy shift Posted: 26 Jul 2017 01:06 PM PDT  WH press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders threatened to shut down Wednesday's briefing after several reporters asked for details on President Trump's new policy
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| Man stabbed woman he met on dating site 119 times after she told him she was transgender Posted: 26 Jul 2017 04:21 AM PDT  Dwanya Hickerson, 21, "lost it" after learning Dee Whigham, 25, had been born a man. Mississippi's Jacksonville Circuit Court heard that he knifed Ms Whigham multiple times in the face and slashed her throat in a hotel room before showering and leaving her for dead. The hospital nurse picked him up at the gates of Keesler Air Force Base, where he was training to be a weather forecaster, and drove them to her hotel, the court heard.
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| McDonald's worker puts everyone off ice cream with 'disgusting' photos Posted: 27 Jul 2017 01:41 AM PDT  A former McDonald's worker has turned the stomach of fast food fans by sharing 'disgusting' photos from inside a mouldy ice cream maker. Teenager Nick, who did not disclose his surname, shared the photos on Twitter, claiming: "This came out of McDonald's ice cream machine in case y'all were wondering…" This came out of McDonald's ice cream machine in case y'all were wondering... pic.twitter.com/DTXXpzE7Ce— nick (@phuckyounick) July 14, 2017 This is the side of the ice cream machine! It's not from a grease trap pic.twitter.com/nMpnFxAvZ4— nick (@phuckyounick) July 17, 2017 The 18-year-old says he worked at a McDonald's outlet in Louisiana for five months, telling BuzzFeed he posted the photos to let people know "how disgusting the conditions are". Nick claims he lost his job shortly after posting the photos "exposing McDonald's", but tweeted that he already had another one lined up when he decided to post them online. Since I'm exposing McDonald's I might as well show y'all what y'all really eating... fresh out the freezer. pic.twitter.com/KZ7Ao1kWsR— nick (@phuckyounick) July 18, 2017 Nice and dirty... pic.twitter.com/vjxuVLJpgF— nick (@phuckyounick) July 18, 2017 McDonald's said in a statement the equipment seen in the photos does not come into contact with any food. "We are committed to running great restaurants that provide our customers with high quality food, service and a clean environment," a spokesperson said. "This is a part of our soft serve equipment that does not come into contact with any food and is required to undergo regular and timely cleaning." Extraordinary floating McDonald's restaurant left abandoned for 30 years How Twitter reacted How does your tweet about ONE franchise of McDonald's justifies all McDonald's?? pic.twitter.com/64ryGc8mG7— Girinator (@amiegirin) July 18, 2017 Thanks for ruining my day, I just had an ice cream cone from them ����♀️ pic.twitter.com/s7OcTdzxt4— هانا �� (@h_annaah_) July 16, 2017 Meanwhile at Wendy's...�� pic.twitter.com/2Djg3WSeSi— imari✨ (@_esstco) July 16, 2017 The employees telling us the machine is down pic.twitter.com/kLpivUpD4c— Covfefí Champu (@CuddleSweet) July 16, 2017 pic.twitter.com/O08LuxKapY— Trust in Hue (@dawg_pound69) July 17, 2017 Revealed: The real reason McDonald's hamburgers 'never rot' mcdonalds secret menu
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| Portugal battles raging wildfires Posted: 27 Jul 2017 09:19 AM PDT ![Portugal battles raging wildfires]( "Portugal battles raging wildfires") More than ten villages in central Portugal have been evacuated as forest fires rage in the provinces of Castelo Branco and Santarem. Almost 5,000 firefighters supported by water-dropping aircraft are deployed across central and northern areas of Portugal as the country continues its annual summertime battle against wildfires. "The intensity of the wind is diabolical," said Jaime Marta Soares, saying new fires keep popping up away from the main fires. (Reuters)
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| The Latest: Man slain at protest in western Venezuela Posted: 26 Jul 2017 12:59 PM PDT  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The latest on Venezuela, where a two-day national strike has been called beginning Wednesday to protest President Nicolas Maduro's plans to rewrite the country's constitution (all times local):
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| Snapchat Video Shows 3 Women Driving Drunk Before Car Crash Posted: 25 Jul 2017 10:33 PM PDT  Having no designated driver or a paid transport, the three women got into the vehicle after consuming shots of alcohol at a bar.
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| Warrant in Minnesota police shooting says woman slapped squad car Posted: 25 Jul 2017 02:43 PM PDT  The detail came in an application for a search warrant, made public Monday in court documents, from state investigators examining what led to the July 15 shooting of Sydney native Justine Damond, 40. The fatal incident outraged the public in Australia and Minnesota, and led to the resignation of Minneapolis' police chief.
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| US-backed Syria force ousts IS from half of Raqa Posted: 26 Jul 2017 02:16 PM PDT  A US-backed alliance has ousted Islamic State group jihadists from half of their Syrian bastion Raqa, a monitor said Wednesday, as the escalating fighting drove up the civilian death toll. The SDF "are now in control of 50 percent of Raqa city despite the fierce resistance mounted by IS", Rami Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, told AFP. The SDF assault has been backed by air strikes, special forces advisers, equipment and weapons from the US-led coalition fighting IS in Syria and neighbouring Iraq.
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| Rick Perry duped into 22-minute interview with pranksters known as ‘Russian Jerky Boys’ Posted: 26 Jul 2017 06:27 AM PDT  The U.S. energy secretary thought he was discussing American energy interests with Ukraine's prime minister during a lengthy phone call last week. But Perry got punked.
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| Orca whale repeatedly rams fishing boat, Alaska man says Posted: 25 Jul 2017 07:28 PM PDT  SITKA, Alaska (AP) — An Alaska man said his boat was attacked over the weekend by an orca during a salmon fishing excursion with his 14-year-old son and two other people.
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| John Boehner says Republicans will 'never' repeal and replace Obamacare Posted: 25 Jul 2017 10:41 AM PDT  Former Speaker of the House John Boehner has said that Republicans will "never" repeal and replace Obamacare. At a business gathering in Las Vegas, Mr Boehner said Americans have grown accustomed to the law passed in 2010 while he was the House's Republican leader. Mr Boehner's comments are a departure from Donald Trump's rhetoric saying "Obamacare is death".
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| Mammoth Antarctic iceberg is on the move, while the ice shelf it left behind grieves its loss Posted: 26 Jul 2017 12:21 PM PDT  The Delaware-sized iceberg that calved off the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica sometime between July 10 and July 12 is drifting farther from its former home, while breaking into smaller pieces. More importantly, new cracks are appearing in the ice shelf that could portend the creation of additional icebergs and the possible destabilization of larger parts of the ice sheet, which holds back land-based ice from flowing into the sea and raising sea levels. Satellite imagery from the Landsat 8 satellite as well as the the camera aboard the European Space Agency's (ESA) Sentinel-1 satellite are helping scientists keep tabs on the gargantuan iceberg despite the shroud of darkness during the Antarctic winter season. SEE ALSO: One of the largest icebergs ever recorded just broke free of Antarctica Images released by NASA and the ESA show the iceberg's evolution and the beginnings of how the ice shelf is responding to losing such a large piece of itself. According to NASA, the main iceberg, known as A-68A, continues to move northward, away from the Larsen C Ice Shelf. Meanwhile, it has already lost several small chunks. Recent satellite photos also show three small icebergs forming to the north of where the main iceberg had been attached to the ice shelf. #A68 update: New #Sentinel1 time series 6-24 July: the #iceberg continuing to break up and drift further from #LarcenC ice shelf. ️❄️ pic.twitter.com/prV8t03CT9 — ESA EarthObservation (@ESA_EO) July 25, 2017 If it seems like we're paying unusually close attention to this one particular iceberg, despite the multitude of other icebergs and glaciers that exist worldwide, well, it's because we are. To some extent, we're keeping a close eye on the iceberg because we can. Technology, in the form of advanced satellites, is enabling us to do this in ways that were never before possible. But there's another reason why scientists have their sights set on the Larsen C Ice Shelf. The ice shelf is located in the Antarctic Peninsula, which is one of the most rapidly warming areas of the globe, and two of its neighbors, Larsen A and Larsen B, have already collapsed due in part to human-caused climate change. Because of that, there is tremendous scientific interest in seeing how Larsen C responds to losing about 12 percent of its area in a single, trillion-ton iceberg. While the iceberg calving event itself is not likely caused specifically by climate change, it nevertheless threatens to speed up the already quickening pace of ice melt in the region due in large part to global warming. Series of satellite images showing the breakup of the Larsen C iceberg and forming of new cracks and rifts in its wake.Image: nasaScientists have watched since 2014 as a fissure in the ice carved out a slice of the Larsen C Ice Shelf as if someone were taking a giant X-Acto Knife to the ice. That fissure finally set free the approximately 2,400-square-mile iceberg, which has since shrunk slightly in area as pieces have broken off. Researchers affiliated with a U.K.-based initiative, known as Project MIDAS, report that a new rift appears to be developing in the ice shelf that could extend to a higher elevation point, known as the Bawden Ice Rise. That area is considered to be "a crucial point" for stabilizing the ice shelf, and if it were to be weakened in some way it could speed the breakup of the shelf. WATCH: It's official, 2016 was Earth's warmest year on record
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| Federal authorities to announce charges in cruise ship death Posted: 27 Jul 2017 01:10 AM PDT  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Federal authorities planned to announce charges Thursday in what was described as a domestic dispute aboard a cruise ship in U.S. waters off Alaska that led to the death of a 39-year-old Utah woman.
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| L.A. man accused of smuggling king cobras in potato chip cans Posted: 25 Jul 2017 05:37 PM PDT  A Los Angeles man was arrested on Tuesday after federal prosecutors said he arranged to smuggle into the United States three live, highly venomous king cobra snakes hidden in potato chip canisters. Rodrigo Franco, 34, was charged with illegally importing merchandise into the country in connection with a parcel from Hong Kong that was intercepted by U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents on March 2 containing the 2-foot (0.61 meter)-long snakes concealed inside the canisters. Three albino Chinese soft-shelled turtles were also found in the package, prosecutors said, adding that Franco on that same day mailed a box to Hong Kong with six protected turtles inside.
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| EU court rejects 'open-door' policy and upholds right of member states to deport refugees Posted: 26 Jul 2017 04:34 AM PDT  In a ruling which could have far-reaching consequences for how the European Union deals with migrants in future, the European Court of Justice on Wednesday upheld the right of member states to deport asylum-seekers to the first EU country they enter. The ruling amounted to an effective rejection of Angela Merkel's controversial "open-door" refugee policy, which saw more than one million asylum-seekers flood into Germany. The court ruled that the EU's Dublin regulations, under which refugees must seek asylum in the first member state they enter, still apply despite the unprecedented influx of 2015. In doing so, the court ignored the advice of Eleanor Sharpston, its British advocate-general, who warned that the system could leave border states "unable to cope". The court ruled on the cases of two Afghan sisters and a Syrian man who entered the EU during the 2015 crisis. The Jafari sisters, Khadija and Zainab, entered the EU through Croatia after fleeing Afghanistan with their children. At the time, Mrs Merkel had opened Germany's borders to migrants and Austria was operating a similar policy. Croatia allowed the sisters and their children to cross its territory in order to reach one of the two countries. Peter Foster talks about Merkel's migrant crisis one year on 01:52 They claimed asylum in Austria, but the Austrian government later reversed its position and returned the families to Croatia, ordering them to seek asylum there. The sisters challenged the decision, arguing they should be given asylum in Austria as they had been allowed to cross Croatia and had not entered its territory illegally. In a second case, an unnamed Syrian man challenged his deportation from Slovenia to Croatia under similar circumstances. The court rejected the challenges, ruling that the fact Croatia had allowed the migrants to cross its territory did not mean the Dublin rules had been waived. The ruling will be welcomed in central European countries like Austria and Slovenia, where there is considerable political resistance to letting in more migrants. But it will cause concern in the countries where most migrants first enter the EU, Italy and Greece, which complain the system leaves them to shoulder too much of the burden. FAQ | Dublin Regulation The court's decision was unexpected, after the judges took the unusual step of ignoring the advice of the advocate-general. In a written opinion issued last month, Ms Sharpston warned that the Dublin system "was simply not designed to cover such exceptional circumstances". "If border member states, such as Croatia, are deemed to be responsible for accepting and processing exceptionally high numbers of asylum-seekers, there is a real risk that they will simply be unable to cope with the situation," she wrote. While the ruling will be seen as a victory by many in central Europe, Hungary and Slovakia suffered a setback in a separate case over EU quotas for sharing asylum-seekers between member states. In an opinion presented to the court, Yves Bot, another advocate-general, said the court should reject a bid by the two countries to have the quota system overturned.
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| Wasserman Schultz fires IT staffer following fraud arrest Posted: 27 Jul 2017 06:25 AM PDT  Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz has fired an information technology staffer following his arrest on a bank fraud charge at a Virginia airport where he was attempting to fly to Pakistan.
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| Trump Blindsides Pentagon in Transgender Policy Shift Posted: 26 Jul 2017 09:59 AM PDT  Just weeks after the Pentagon chief launched a new study on the issue, POTUS announces transgender ban
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| The Latest: Plane crash kills 2 couples leaving on vacation Posted: 26 Jul 2017 05:20 PM PDT  SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — The Latest on a plane that crashed on a Utah highway and killed four aboard (all times local):
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| Iran claims successful rocket test, move likely to anger U.S. Posted: 27 Jul 2017 08:22 AM PDT  Iran has successfully tested a rocket that can deliver satellites into orbit, state television reported on Thursday, an event likely to raise tensions with the United States because of its potential use in a ballistic missile. Washington has said Iran is defying a U.N. resolution calling on it not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons. "The Imam Khomeini Space Centre was officially opened with the successful test of the Simorgh (Phoenix) space launch vehicle," state television said.
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| It's the End of Coke Zero as We Know It and the Internet Is Shocked Posted: 26 Jul 2017 02:02 PM PDT  Coca-Cola Zero Sugar will be sold in August
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| China is 'landlord' to Hong Kong says justice chief Posted: 27 Jul 2017 03:23 AM PDT  Controversy over a new cross-border rail link which will see mainland laws enforced in a Hong Kong train station escalated Thursday after the justice chief likened China to the city's "landlord". It comes at a time when fears are worsening that Hong Kong's freedoms are under threat from an increasingly assertive Beijing. The high-speed rail line between Hong Kong and the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, 80 miles away, is due to open in 2018.
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| 6 Things The World's Most Beautiful Kitchens Have In Common Posted: 26 Jul 2017 09:47 AM PDT  You can join the club, too — even on a small budget.
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| Video Shows Texas Police Officer Harassing Black Teen For Mowing Grass Posted: 25 Jul 2017 11:59 PM PDT  A black teen in Texas recorded his confrontation with a police officer who harassed him for cutting out grass and distributing business cards. The teen also alleged that the officer attacked him at his home.
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| Oxford University a 'school for stupid people', says Philippines president Rodrigo Duterte Posted: 26 Jul 2017 09:06 PM PDT  The Philippines' fiery President Rodrigo Duterte has lashed out at Oxford University as a "school for stupid people" after it published a study claiming he had paid for a cyber army to increase his popularity on social media. The study, "Troops, Trolls and Troublemakers: A Global Inventory of Organised Social Media Manipulation", looked at the strategies used by political parties and candidates in 28 different countries to spread their party messaging and inflate social media engagement numbers. It claims that Duterte's camp paid $200,000 (£150,000) in 2016, the year he was elected, for a social media campaign that used citizens and groups to promote and defend him online. Graduates pose for a photograph outside the Sheldonian Theatre after a graduation ceremony at Oxford University Credit: Reuters Duterte has admitted to paying people to defend him on social media but said this only happened during the campaign season, strongly denying it continued after he was elected. "Now I do not need it. I do not need to defend myself against attacks. I stated my piece during my inauguration and my campaign," he said, according to local news outlet, Rappler. "Oxford University? That's a school for stupid people." Duterte, a former mayor from the southern city of Davao, won the 2016 election with a populist message that targeted drug trafficking. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte delivers his State of the Nation Address earlier this week Credit: Barcroft Images His subsequent support of extra-judicial killings of suspected drug dealers and users has since been strongly criticised by human rights groups. The report documents how cyber troops have been used to silence political dissent online and on how trolling can lead to real-life threats and reputational damage. In the Philippines it asserts that "many of the so-called "keyboard trolls" hired to spread propaganda for presidential candidate Duterte during the election continue to spread and amplify messages in support of his policies now he's in power." In quotes | Rodrigo Duterte, President of the Philippines
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| New Battery Tech Could Let Electric Cars Charge in Mere Minutes Posted: 26 Jul 2017 09:56 AM PDT  Solid-state batteries are the key.
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| Donald Trump's approval rating has plummeted in 11 US states he won in the election Posted: 27 Jul 2017 02:52 AM PDT  Donald Trump's approval rating has slipped below 50 per cent in more than a third of the states that voted for him in last year's election. The President's worst rating was 26 per cent in Vermont, followed by 29 per cent in Massachusetts. Six in 10 people surveyed in West Virginia and 59 per cent in North Dakota said he was doing a good job, his best ratings.
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| The Latest: Mom: Man shot by cops dealt with 'mental issues' Posted: 26 Jul 2017 03:11 PM PDT  RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Latest on a Virginia man who was shot by police after authorities say he attacked an officer with an ax (all times local):
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| This American-Made 3-Wheeler Is an Absolute Blast Posted: 26 Jul 2017 09:43 AM PDT |
| Qatar says new terror list is "disappointing surprise" Posted: 26 Jul 2017 06:29 AM PDT  By Aziz El Yaakoubi DOHA (Reuters) - Qatar said on Wednesday a decision by four Arab states to add 18 groups and individuals allegedly linked to Doha to their "terrorist" lists was "a disappointing surprise" and that it was doing all it could to fight extremism. Saudi Arabia, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain put another nine groups based in Yemen and Libya and nine people from several Arab countries on the blacklist, saying all were associated with Qatar. "(The new list) comes as a disappointing surprise that the blockading countries are still pursuing this story as part of their smear campaign against Qatar," Sheikh Saif Bin Ahmed al-Thani, director of the Gulf kingdom's Government Communications Office, said in a statement sent to Reuters.
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| GE, Invenergy build wind farm in Oklahoma, biggest in the U.S. Posted: 26 Jul 2017 03:59 PM PDT ![GE, Invenergy build wind farm in Oklahoma, biggest in the U.S.]( "GE, Invenergy build wind farm in Oklahoma, biggest in the U.S.") (Reuters) - Power development company Invenergy LLC and General Electric Co on Wednesday announced plans to build the largest wind farm in the United States in Oklahoma, part of a $4.5 billion project to provide electricity to 1.1 million utility customers in the region. The 2-gigawatt Wind Catcher wind farm is under construction in the Oklahoma panhandle and will come online in 2020. The facility will be linked to a 350-mile dedicated power line that will send the wind farm's electricity to Tulsa.
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| North Dakota Woman Threatens 3 Somali Women In Walmart Parking Lot Posted: 26 Jul 2017 06:39 PM PDT  The Somali-American women were approached at a Walmart Supercenter's parking lot in Fargo on Tuesday.
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| US and China report progress on new North Korea sanctions Posted: 25 Jul 2017 05:15 PM PDT  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The United States and China said Tuesday they are making progress on a new U.N. resolution that would impose additional sanctions against North Korea following its test of an intercontinental ballistic missile.
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| Moscow, EU warns US after House votes for new Russia sanctions Posted: 25 Jul 2017 05:21 PM PDT  Moscow and the European Union hit out at the United States on Wednesday after an overwhelming vote by the House of Representatives to impose new sanctions on Russia left President Donald Trump facing a tough call. The package, which targets Russia, Iran and North Korea, "tightens the screws on our most dangerous adversaries in order to keep Americans safe," House Speaker Paul Ryan said after it passed on Tuesday by 419 votes to three. It now heads to the Senate before Trump faces the tricky choice of whether to veto the bill, which has been opposed by the White House and considerably constrains his ability to lift the penalties.
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| Who is serial killer Joanna Dennehy? Posted: 27 Jul 2017 01:12 AM PDT  Psychopathic serial killer Joanna Dennehy is serving a whole life sentence for murdering three men before randomly selecting and attempting to kill two others. But who is she and how did the Home Counties schoolgirl become a cold-blooded killer? Who is Joanna Dennehy? Joanna Dennehy Credit: AP Photo/ Cambridgeshire Police Dennehy murdered Lukasz Slaboszewski, Kevin Lee and John Chapman in and around Peterborough over a 10-day period in March 2013. Police launched a nationwide hunt to find her after the bodies were discovered in remote ditches in Cambridgeshire, but she went on to drive 140 miles to Hereford where she repeatedly stabbed two dog walkers entirely at random. Miraculously they survived. Born in 1982 in St Albans, Hertfordshire, she was raised in a four-bedroom house in the affluent commuter town of Harpenden, Hertfordshire. A regular fixture on the school hockey and netball teams, the mother-of-two doesn't fit the bill of an archetypal serial killer. However she has been diagnosed with several psychopathic and anti-social disorders, including borderline personality disorder. After her arrest she was also diagnosed with paraphilia sadomasochism, where sexual excitement is derived from pain and humiliation. With a history of low-level crime, she was continuously on the police's radar. However no one could have guessed she was to become one of Britain's most notorious killers. Who were her victims? Lukasz Slaboszewski Lukasz Slaboszewski Credit: SWNS.com Her first victim was Lukasz Slaboszewski, 31, a Polish national. Dennehy had met Slaboszewski just days before killing him, at a property in Orton Goldhay, Peterborough on or soon after March 19. He had told friends he had met an "English girlfriend" and it is thought he went to meet Dennehy expecting sex. After being coaxed to meet Dennehy by a series of text messages, the killer stabbed Slaboszewski in the heart before storing his body in a wheelie bin - at one point smirking as she showed the corpse to a teenage girl. John Chapman John Chapman Credit: SWNS.com Dennehy's second victim was John Chapman, who she killed on 29 March. The 56-year-old Falklands veteran lived at a bedsit in the same run-down property as her. High on drink and drugs, he was "at the mercy" of Dennehy as she stabbed him to death. After Dennehy killed him, jurors at Cambridge Crown Court heard that she contacted her accomplice, the 7ft 3in Gary Richards - also known as Gary Stretch - and told him: "Oops, I've done it again." With the help of Stretch and friend Leslie Layton, she then transported the bodies in a car registered in the false company name Undertakers and Sons, before burying them. Kevin Lee Kevin Lee Credit: Newsteam Later that day Dennehy murdered her third victim, her landlord and lover Kevin Lee, 48. Stabbed in the neck and chest, Lee's body - wearing a black sequin dress and arranged in a sexual pose - was discovered in a roadside ditch near Newborough on March 30. Four days later, a farmer found the corpses of Slaboszewski and Chapman in a remote dyke five miles away. Lee, a married father-of-two, apparently once likened the serial killer to "Uma Thurman from Kill Bill and the woman from the Terminator". During the trial, Mr Justice Spencer told Dennehy: "The way in which his body was dumped was part of the playing out of your sexual and sadistic motivation." Robin Bereza and John Rogers As police launched a triple murder investigation and appealed for information about their whereabouts, Dennehy, Stretch and friend Mark Lloyd went on the run, driving to Hereford. Dennehy made it clear to the men she wanted "a man with a dog"; upon seeing Robin Bereza, 64, walking his dog she jumped out of the car and launched a frenzied attack on the retired firefighter. Describing the attack, Mark Lloyd said in court: "I thought she was going to mug him but then it twigged on me. I thought 'You just want blood'." After driving on, Dennehy then targeted John Rogers, 56, who was walking his pet lurcher. Both men suffered severe injuries but survived the attacks. Afterwards she climbed back into the car carrying Rogers' whippet and told the pair: "It's me only friend." Dennehy's accomplice, Gary Stretch Credit: SWNS.com What led her to kill? At the time of the murders neighbours claimed Dennehy had been involved in a row over the rented property she was living in. Slaboszewski and Chapman were said to have lived with Dennehy in a shared house, which was owned by property developer Mr Lee. All of her victims had been stabbed repeatedly with a 3in (9cm) pocket knife which, by the end of her spree, was apparently black with blood Credit: SWNS.com Mr Lee had been trying to evict Slaboszewski, Chapman and Dennehy in the weeks before the killings. Toni Roberts, who used to live in the house, told the court that the tenants had been served an eviction notice by him ordering them out by April 25 so the house could be renovated. The court was told that the serial killer then had a "thirst for blood" and while on the journey to Hereford the court heard that Dennehy told Stretch and Lloyd: "I want to have my fun", bragged that she and Stretch were "like Bonnie and Clyde" and said she "wanted nine victims". How was she caught? Dennehy was caught after two days on the run, on the day she attacked Bereza and Rogers and the day before the bodies of Slaboszewski and Chapman were found. Police used CCTV footage of the killer as she was driven across the country, as well as when she stopped to buy tobacco and at a service station. Upon her arrest, Dennehy was soon assessed as a psychiatric risk and taken to a mental health unit. Dennehy while on the run Credit: SWNS.com What happened in court? Judge Mr Justice Spencer told the Old Bailey on the day she was sentenced: "Within the space of ten days you murdered three men in cold blood. Although you pleaded guilty, you've made it quite clear you have no remorse." He added: "You are a cruel, calculating, selfish and manipulative serial killer." The judge described how Dennehy had sent him a letter saying she was not sorry for the murders. Joanna Dennehy Credit: Priscilla Coleman/MB Media He added that she told a psychiatrist: "I killed to see how I would feel, to see if I was as cold as I thought I was, then it got more-ish." Dennehy was ordered to serve the rest of her life in prison, while the killer laughed and smirked. She is one of just three women - alongside Myra Hindley, who is now deceased, and Rosemary West - in English history to be told that she can never be released. Stretch, Layton and Robert Moore, who provided accommodation to the killer for two nights, were also sentenced for helping in her killing spree. Joanna Dennehy: Killing for Kicks airs on Thursday 27 July on Channel 5 at 9pm
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| The 2018 Ford Mustang Starts at $25,585 Posted: 26 Jul 2017 09:58 AM PDT  The EcoBoost is actually cheaper than the 2017 model, but the GT's price rises by $2000.
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| China denies its jets operated dangerously in US encounter Posted: 25 Jul 2017 05:48 PM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — China on Tuesday denied its fighter jet pilots operated dangerously during an encounter with a U.S. surveillance plane in international airspace in which the American pilot took evasive action to avoid a possible collision.
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