| Draft of Comey Firing Letter Roils Trump Case Posted: 01 Sep 2017 11:13 AM PDT  Paul Butler, former federal prosecutor, talks with Joy-Ann Reid about news that Special Counsel Robert Mueller has a draft of Donald Trump's letter firing James Comey, which could have direct bearing on whether the firing was an act of obstruction of j...
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| Pope Francis Says Therapy Helped Him 'Clarify Some Things' Earlier In Life Posted: 01 Sep 2017 01:46 PM PDT  Pope Francis recently disclosed that he once attended therapy for six months to help him "clarify some things" in his life.
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| Residents in Harvey's path return to find devastation Posted: 01 Sep 2017 08:22 PM PDT  CROSBY, Texas (AP) — Silvia Casas' eyes welled with tears Friday as she surveyed the damage from Harvey to what once was a working class, mostly Hispanic neighborhood near Crosby, Texas.
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| Texas Mother Of Two Went Missing Just Before Hurricane Harvey Posted: 02 Sep 2017 10:18 AM PDT  The day before Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas, realtor and mother of two Crystal McDowell told her followers on Facebook to "stay safe out there!" Hours later, she would go missing herself
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| Hezbollah slams US over IS convoy stranded in Syria Posted: 02 Sep 2017 07:09 AM PDT  Lebanon's Hezbollah movement on Saturday accused US-led forces of stranding a convoy of Islamic State fighters and civilians headed for Syria's Deir Ezzor province under an evacuation deal. The convoy carrying hundreds of IS fighters as well as civilians was meant to travel from the Lebanon-Syria border to jihadist-held territory in eastern Syria under a deal Hezbollah helped broker.
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| Steve Bannon's right-hand woman remains in the White House Posted: 01 Sep 2017 01:22 PM PDT  Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon may have left the building, but one of his top aides, Julia Hahn, remains in the West Wing. Hahn is a 26-year-old former writer from Bannon's site, Breitbart News. Earlier this week, a source familiar with the situation told Yahoo News that Hahn was staying on in her position as a special assistant to the president and deputy strategist in the wake of Bannon's departure last month.
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| Temple Student Found Brutally Murdered After Leaving Bar With Suspect Posted: 03 Sep 2017 07:45 AM PDT  She was reported missing Friday.
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| Texas rangers subdue 12ft alligator in Houston floods Posted: 02 Sep 2017 12:18 PM PDT  Game wardens and state troopers were called in to capture a massive alligator after it was displaced by the flood waters caused by Hurricane Harvey. The Texas game wardens posted a tweet of the incident showing five lawmen sitting on top of the alligator. The flooding has forced many alligators in Texas to seek higher ground, in some cases putting them in close contact with humans.
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| This Woman’s Flooded Store Looks Brand New After She Refused To Give Up Hope Posted: 02 Sep 2017 02:52 PM PDT  Just a few days ago, Hanh Nguyen was waist-deep in water. The water started rising at her store, Marie's Seafood in Port Arthur, Texas, on Tuesday — the day that tropical storm Harvey dumped 26 inches of rain on the city, triggering flash flooding and causing thousands to evacuate. HuffPost visited Nguyen's store on Thursday, when the water was still up to her calves.
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| Gigi Hadid And Zayn Malik Adorably Spent Eid Al-Adha With Their Moms Posted: 02 Sep 2017 03:53 PM PDT  Fashion model Gigi Hadid and pop star Zayn Malik didn't shy away from spending an important holiday with family.
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| Victims of Harvey return to clean up their water-damaged homes Posted: 01 Sep 2017 01:02 PM PDT ![Victims of Harvey return to clean up their water-damaged homes]( "Victims of Harvey return to clean up their water-damaged homes") As water levels receded and search teams began checking abandoned homes for victims, Houston began a grim cleanup.
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| Rohingya Muslims flee as more than 2,600 houses burned in Myanmar's Rakhine Posted: 02 Sep 2017 01:35 PM PDT  COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - More than 2,600 houses have been burned down in Rohingya-majority areas of Myanmar's northwest in the last week, the government said on Saturday, in one of the deadliest bouts of violence involving the Muslim minority in decades. About 58,600 Rohingya have fled into neighbouring Bangladesh from Myanmar, according to U.N. refugee agency UNHCR, as aid workers there struggle to cope. Myanmar officials blamed the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army (ARSA) for the burning of the homes.
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| Iran Says West Won't Attack and Would Lose If It Tried Posted: 02 Sep 2017 10:14 AM PDT  Military leaders said they did not fear an invasion from the West, touting Tehran's growing military might at home and abroad.
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| 16-Year-Old Arrested For Allegedly Murdering 14-Year-Old With Hammer During Drug Deal Posted: 02 Sep 2017 01:02 PM PDT  Her body was later found in a landfill.
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| Trump says he's getting things done at a 'record' speed despite no major legislative victory Posted: 01 Sep 2017 01:24 PM PDT  When they return to Washington next week, legislators will have about 12 working days to raise the debt ceiling and approve a federal budget – two tasks that have been made difficult by the differing priorities of the administration and members of Congress. On top of that, if the Senate wants to pass a bill to overhaul Obamacare – otherwise known as the Affordable Care Act – with just 51 votes, it must do so by 30 September, according to the Senate parliamentarian. The Senate's Republican leaders suffered a colossal defeat in July when they failed to get enough members of their own party to vote for a bill that would have dismantled Barack Obama's healthcare law.
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| 6 Signs You're In A Band-Aid Relationship (And What To Do About It) Posted: 01 Sep 2017 04:01 PM PDT  It's hard to admit, but in romantic relationships, sometimes we settle for what we're familiar with rather than what we deserve.
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| 10-Year-Old Girl Escapes Tormentors After Being Beaten and Dragged by Car Posted: 02 Sep 2017 01:05 PM PDT  A 10-year-old girl who was beaten repeatedly, forced to run with heavy packs and dragged behind a car escaped her tormentors as they slept to ask a neighbor for help, police in central New York said Friday
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| Harry Potter Fans: You Can Ride On The Hogwarts Express In Real Life Posted: 01 Sep 2017 11:20 AM PDT  Hold on to your wands.
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| Another blow from Harvey: Houston home prices, rents likely to rise Posted: 01 Sep 2017 03:55 PM PDT ![Another blow from Harvey: Houston home prices, rents likely to rise]( "Another blow from Harvey: Houston home prices, rents likely to rise") By Daniel Trotta and Brian Thevenot HOUSTON/AUSTIN (Reuters) - It might seem like Houston's historic flood would make America's fourth-largest city a less desirable place to live, but it's going to get more expensive, real estate experts say. The supply of houses and apartments is expected to drop sharply with tens of thousands of homes destroyed and uncertain prospects for future flood insurance costs. Following a pattern seen in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, that's likely to drive up home prices and rents in high-and-dry neighborhoods.
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| Evacuation of more than 60,000 planned in Frankfurt while wartime 'blockbuster' bomb is defused Posted: 02 Sep 2017 07:30 PM PDT  At least 60,000 people will be forced from their homes in central Frankfurt on Sunday, as Germany begins an operation to defuse a huge unexploded World War II bomb dubbed "blockbuster". It will be the biggest evacuation of its kind in post-war Germany, Frankfurt's security chief Markus Frank said. The 1.8-tonne British bomb, which German media said was nicknamed "Wohnblockknacker" – or blockbuster – for its ability to wipe out whole streets and flatten buildings, was discovered on Tuesday during building works. Police have since been guarding the bomb site, which is close to the city centre and just some 2.5 kilometres (1.5 miles) north of the main Zeil shopping area. People near the sealed off area where a British World War II bomb was found during construction work in Wismarer Strasse, Frankfurt Main, Germany, Credit: Armando Barbani/EPA Frank said homes and buildings within a 1.5-kilometre radius of the site were to be cleared by 0600 GMT, and residents will likely need to stay away until 1800 GMT. "We must have this area completely cleared by 8am," Frank said. The Westend district is home to many of Frankfurt's top bankers, including European Central Bank chief Mario Draghi, who is known however to spend his weekends away from the German city. Two major hospitals are also within the evacuation zone, including one with a big ward of newborns. Staff at the affected hospitals began transferring patients and infants to other medical centres beginning Saturday. "We have almost finished the evacuation in the hospitals, but for retirement homes, it's going to take a bit more time," a spokesman for the city's firefighters said. Ambulance cars stand in front of the Buergerhospital clinic, from where patients are being moved to another hospital Credit: Frank Rumpenhorst/DPA The massive bomb in question is an HC 4000, a high capacity explosive used in air raids by Britain's Royal Air Force during World War II and contains 1.4 tonnes of explosives. Although police have said there is no immediate danger, the bomb's massive size prevents them from taking any chances during the disarming process. More than 70 years after the end of the war, unexploded bombs are regularly found buried in Germany, legacies of the intense bombing campaigns by the Allied forces against Nazi Germany. On Saturday, 21,000 people had to be evacuated from the western city of Koblenz as bomb disposal experts defused an unexploded American World War II shell. In May, 50,000 residents were forced to leave their homes in the northern city of Hanover for an operation to defuse several WWII-era bombs. One of the biggest such evacuations to date took place on Christmas Day 2016, when another unexploded British bomb, containing 1.8 tonnes of explosives, prompted the evacuation of 54,000 people in the southern city of Augsburg.
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| Philly Police Union President Calls Black Lives Matter Activists 'A Pack Of Rabid Animals' Posted: 02 Sep 2017 09:38 AM PDT  The president of a Pennsylvania police union responded to Black Lives Matter activists demanding accountability for the police killing of a black man by calling the group a "pack of rabid animals."
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| Russia says US threatened to break into trade mission Posted: 02 Sep 2017 08:33 AM PDT  An official at the Russian consulate in San Francisco tells firemen there is no problem after smoke was seen coming from the rooftop. Russia's trade mission in Washington also had a fire. Russia's foreign ministry has summoned a senior US diplomat in Moscow to hand him a note of protest over alleged plans to conduct searches in the trade mission complex in Washington, the ministry said in a statement claiming the United States had threatened to "break down the entrance door".
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| Tennessee Attorney General Backs Off Threat Over DACA Protections For Dreamers Posted: 01 Sep 2017 02:26 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― One of the 10 state attorneys general who threatened President Donald Trump with legal action over protections for young undocumented immigrants rescinded his threat on Friday and is now urging Congress to pass legislation to give so-called Dreamers a path to citizenship.
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| FCC’s Broken Comments System Could Help Doom Net Neutrality Posted: 02 Sep 2017 07:00 AM PDT  How spambots, fake names, and 2,000 "John Olivers" wreaked havoc on the net neutrality debate
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| Los Angeles hit by largest wildfire in its history, prompting hundreds of evacuations Posted: 02 Sep 2017 02:16 PM PDT  A wildfire on the northern edge of Los Angeles rapidly grew on Saturday into what the mayor called the largest blaze in the city's history, prompting the evacuation of hundreds of people and the closure of a major highway. The 5,000-acre (2,023-hectare) La Tuna Fire, named after the canyon area where it erupted on Friday, has led authorities to evacuate more than 700 homes in a north Los Angeles neighbourhood and in nearby Burbank and Glendale, officials said. "Other than that, no loss of any property," Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said at a news conference.
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| San Diego County declares emergency amid hepatitis outbreak Posted: 02 Sep 2017 11:21 PM PDT  SAN DIEGO (AP) — Officials in San Diego County have declared a public health emergency due to the spread of the liver disease hepatitis A.
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| Actress Stephanie March Marries Dan Benton — and Walks Down the Aisle to the Star Wars Theme! Posted: 01 Sep 2017 03:11 PM PDT  Actress Stephanie March, formerly of Law & Order: SVU, married tech investor Dan Benton on Friday at their home in Katonah, New York, surrounded by family and a few close friends
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| As Harvey Cleanup Begins, Half a Million Cars Reportedly Destroyed by Floods Posted: 01 Sep 2017 01:22 PM PDT  Many of the vehicles were submerged in driveways.
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| This Spoken Word Poem Is A Beautiful Love Letter To 'Undocumented People' Posted: 02 Sep 2017 05:46 PM PDT  If you want to understand the struggles, fears and boundless strength of undocumented immigrants in America, watch the spoken word video above.
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| Joel Osteen's Megachurch Gives Collection Plates To Congregation Including Hurricane Victims Posted: 02 Sep 2017 11:22 PM PDT  The video was not missed by people on social media who wasted no time in expressing outrage that the pastor was asking for money from a community that has recently suffered losses of their belongings and homes in the flood.
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| Magnitude 5.3 earthquake hits southeastern Idaho: USGS Posted: 02 Sep 2017 06:33 PM PDT ![Magnitude 5.3 earthquake hits southeastern Idaho: USGS]( "Magnitude 5.3 earthquake hits southeastern Idaho: USGS") WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A magnitude 5.3 earthquake hit southeastern Idaho on Saturday about 63 miles (101 km) from the city of Pocatello, the U.S. Geological Survey reported.
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| North Korea Attacks Adverse Media, Just Like Trump Posted: 02 Sep 2017 04:02 AM PDT  Pyongyang has slammed South Korean media as a threat, while Donald Trump has previously called journalists "enemies of the American people."
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| Maths teacher, 52, ‘confesses affair with teenage student after her daughter reports her’ Posted: 03 Sep 2017 05:16 AM PDT  A maths teacher confessed to having a year-long affair with a teenage student after her own daughter reported her to police, prosecutors say. Alberta Padilla, 52, started a sexual relationship with the 17-year-old boy while she gave him personal tuition at the Lady Bird Johnson High School in San Antonio, Texas, it is claimed. Ms Padilla allegedly had sex with the teen in a public park and bought him gifts including food, clothes and a mobile phone after they started meeting to have sex.
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| The Latest: US may resume some visa work at Russia outposts Posted: 01 Sep 2017 11:03 AM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — The Latest on a diplomatic spat between the United States and Russia (all times local):
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| This Twitter Thread Satirizing How Men Talk About Women Is Too Good Posted: 02 Sep 2017 09:19 PM PDT  What if we talked about male historical figures in the same way we talk about female historical figures?
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| Religious tourism: the white gold of Saudi Arabia Posted: 02 Sep 2017 07:21 AM PDT  With global oil prices flailing, Saudi Arabia is turning to another natural resource: billions of dollars gained from religious tourism as the kingdom hosts the annual hajj pilgrimage. Shops line the packed esplanade of the Great Mosque of Mecca, one of the holiest sites in Islam, lowering their awnings only at prayer time and re-opening their doors minutes after the mosque empties. Saudi authorities have reported 2.35 million Muslims are participating in this year's hajj, the pilgrimage to the western Saudi Arabian city of Mecca that forms one of the five pillars of Islam.
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| Frankfurt to evacuate thousands as huge WWII bomb defused Posted: 01 Sep 2017 11:59 AM PDT  Frankfurt city officials have warned that Germany's financial capital could grind to a halt on Monday if residents don't heed orders to vacate their homes to allow the defusing of a massive World War Two bomb. On Sunday, the city will evacuate some 60,000 people in the nation's biggest such maneuver since the war while officials disarm the British bomb discovered on a building site this week in Frankfurt's leafy Westend, where many wealthy bankers live. Fire and police chiefs, at a hastily called press conference on Friday, said they would use force and incarceration if necessary to clear the area of residents.
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| Cyclist Shows Off For Google's Street View Camera, Becomes Online Hero Posted: 02 Sep 2017 03:11 AM PDT  UPDATE ― Sept. 2: Google has apparently scrubbed the image of the cyclist from its Street View map, which originally showed the person dabbing for the camera on a street in Melbourne.
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