| Clinton book says Bernie Sanders inflicted 'lasting damage' on her campaign Posted: 05 Sep 2017 08:13 AM PDT  "I am proud to be a Democrat," the former Democratic nominee writes in her upcoming campaign memoir. "And I wish Bernie were, too."
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| Girl Pulls Sword From Legendary Lake Of King Arthur's Excalibur Posted: 05 Sep 2017 08:57 AM PDT  England's got a new Queen ― that is, if Excalibur's legend is true.
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| Ohio Police Officer Accused Of Shooting News Photographer Posted: 05 Sep 2017 02:22 AM PDT  A photojournalist in the small Ohio town of New Carlisle was reportedly shot by a police officer on Monday night after his camera and tripod was "apparently [mistaken] for a weapon."
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| Handcuffed Utah Nurse: Police Need to Regain Public Trust Posted: 04 Sep 2017 08:46 AM PDT  In Salt Lake City, public anger is growing over a video that shows a police officer handcuffing a nurse who refused an order to illegally take a blood sample from a patient.
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| EPA Accuses Reporter of Hurricane Harvey ‘Fake News’ Posted: 04 Sep 2017 06:36 AM PDT  The Associated Press' retorted that the EPA was not on site at toxic chemical dumps around Houston, Texas.
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| Russian frigate fires cruise missiles at Islamic State targets near Syria's Deir al-Zor Posted: 05 Sep 2017 02:27 AM PDT  MOSCOW (Reuters) - The Russian frigate Admiral Essen fired Kalibr cruise missiles at Islamic State targets near the Syrian city of Deir al-Zor on Tuesday to help a Syrian army offensive in the area, the Russian Defence Ministry said. The strike, which was launched from the Mediterranean, destroyed command and communications posts, as well as ammunition depots, a facility to repair armored vehicles, and a large group of militants, the ministry said. The strike had targeted Islamic State fighters from Russia and the former Soviet Union, it added. ...
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| South Korea Simulates an Attack on North's Main Nuclear Test Site Posted: 03 Sep 2017 10:57 PM PDT  It comes a day after Pyongyang detonated its largest ever nuclear test explosion
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| Watch Flames Erupt From a Japan Airlines Flight After a Bird Strike Posted: 05 Sep 2017 05:57 AM PDT  A Japan Airlines flight made an emergency landing in Tokyo on Tuesday after a suspected bird strike to one of the plane's engines.
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| Melania Trump slammed for wearing $2,300 Italian dress in President Trump's 'American-Made' Labor Day post Posted: 05 Sep 2017 08:45 AM PDT  Labor Day Weekend was packed with public engagements for the first family, who traveled to Houston for the second time to lend their support to Hurricane Harvey victims. Along with her husband, first lady Melania Trump spent time in Texas with the storm evacuees, handing out food and water to the masses of displaced families. Later the next day, President Trump and FLOTUS traveled back to D.C. together for a church service and family time.
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| Debt, sanctions and disrepair: Venezuela's oil sector in agony Posted: 05 Sep 2017 09:38 AM PDT  After decades of being Venezuela's cash cow, the state oil company PDVSA is a ragged shadow of its former self: overburdened, underfed, and in hock to Russian and Chinese creditors. The woes of the group, whose full name is Petroleos de Venezuela S.A., look set to worsen because of US sanctions imposed last month restricting its access to credit. Oil production keeps declining and much of what is exported goes to repay billions of dollars in loans.
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| National park icons threatened by wind-frenzied wildfires Posted: 04 Sep 2017 04:46 PM PDT  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Winds wreaked havoc on wildfires that were threatening two crown jewels of the National Park Service on Monday, pushing the flames toward manmade and natural icons in and around Glacier and Yosemite national parks.
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| Above Devastated Houston, Armies of Drones Prove Their Worth Posted: 04 Sep 2017 04:00 AM PDT  After the hurricane, professional drone pilots get to work.
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| Putin calls tougher North Korea sanctions senseless, warns of 'global catastrophe' Posted: 05 Sep 2017 01:40 AM PDT  By Denis Pinchuk XIAMEN, China (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Tuesday that imposing tougher sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear missile programme would be counter-productive and said threats of military action could trigger "a global catastrophe". Putin, speaking after a BRICs summit in China, criticised U.S. diplomacy in the crisis and renewed his call for talks, saying Pyongyang would not halt its missile testing programme until it felt secure. "Russia condemns North Korea's exercises, we consider that they are a provocation ... (But) ramping up military hysteria will lead to nothing good.
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| Klan's Ambition Finds Foothold With Trump Posted: 04 Sep 2017 11:40 AM PDT  Rachel Maddow looks back at how the Ku Klux Klan flexed its muscles in national American politics in the 1920s and how those same racist political ambitions are finding accommodation with Donald Trump.
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| Girl, 16, Is Suspected Mastermind In Home Invasion Murder of MMA Fighter: Cops Posted: 05 Sep 2017 06:05 AM PDT  A Florida girl in 11th grade has been charged along with two 18-year-old men in the July 3 murder of Aaron Rajman.
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| Syria army nears regime enclave besieged by IS Posted: 04 Sep 2017 12:55 PM PDT  Syria's army battled the Islamic State group on the edges of Deir Ezzor Monday, seeking to break the siege of a government enclave and oust the jihadists from a key stronghold. The jihadist group has already lost more than half of its nearby bastion of Raqa to attacking US-backed forces, and the loss of Deir Ezzor city and the surrounding oil-rich province would leave it with only a handful of isolated outposts. Deir Ezzor province borders Iraq, where IS has also been expelled from former strongholds Mosul and Tal Afar.
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| Denmark's Corporate Sector Just Sold Off Its Last Oil Company Posted: 04 Sep 2017 10:58 AM PDT  REYKJAVIK, Iceland ― Denmark's biggest company is selling off the country's last oil firm as the world's top wind turbine-producing nation transitions to renewable energy.
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| Receding Floodwaters Reveal Extent Of Houston Area's Post-Harvey Destruction Posted: 03 Sep 2017 12:36 PM PDT  HOUSTON ― Recovery and repair are going to take a long time.
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| School Apologizes For Telling Students No Trump Shirts Posted: 04 Sep 2017 03:34 PM PDT  The students were wrongly told their outfits violated the school dress code.
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| Lego looks wobbly after building itself high Posted: 05 Sep 2017 09:30 AM PDT  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — For Lego, it's time to break down the blocks and start again.
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| Cambodian leader gets China's backing as West condemns crackdown Posted: 04 Sep 2017 08:09 AM PDT  By Prak Chan Thul PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen won words of support from China on Monday after the United States and European Union condemned the arrest of his main rival and a widening crackdown on his critics before next year's election. A day after Kem Sokha was arrested in a midnight raid on his house, one of his deputies said donor countries should open their eyes to Cambodia's "false democracy" and put more pressure on Hun Sen. When asked about Kem Sokha's arrest at a press briefing in Beijing, Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said China "supports the Cambodian government's efforts to protect national security and stability." Opposition politicians, rights groups and independent media have come under growing pressure as next year's election approaches.
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| 'Preserve rule of law': Obama's inauguration letter to Trump revealed Posted: 04 Sep 2017 12:25 AM PDT  Donald Trump and Barack Obama after Trump took the oath of office on the West Front of the US Capitol on 20 January, 2017. Barack Obama warned Donald Trump to uphold the rule of law and not undermine the "international order" in a newly revealed letter from the 44th US president to his successor.
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| K-9 Officer Alerts Border Control To Pair Being Smuggled Into U.S. in Trunk Posted: 03 Sep 2017 01:31 PM PDT  All four people, including two Americans, in the car were arrested.
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| Aspiring Pastor Accused Of Murdering Wife Blames It On Cough Syrup Posted: 04 Sep 2017 03:51 PM PDT  A man in Raleigh, North Carolina, said that after he awoke from "a dream" early Friday morning, he found his wife "dead on the floor" and, as he told a 911 dispatcher, "I think I did it."
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| Suu Kyi and Myanmar face chorus of anger over Rohingya crisis Posted: 04 Sep 2017 06:31 AM PDT  Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai and mainly Muslim countries in Asia led a growing chorus of criticism on Monday aimed at Myanmar and its civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi over the plight of the Rohingya Muslim minority. Nearly 90,000 Rohingya have flooded into Bangladesh in the past 10 days following an uptick in fighting between militants and Myanmar's military in strife-torn western Rakhine state. The recent violence, which began last October when a small Rohingya militant group ambushed border posts, is the worst Rakhine has witnessed in years, with the UN saying Myanmar's army may have committed ethnic cleansing in its response.
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| Touchdown! Hall of Fame Quarterback Troy Aikman Marries ‘the Love of My Life’ in California Posted: 04 Sep 2017 12:30 PM PDT  Troy Aikman is a married man!
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| Trump Supporters Flip Out After Completely Misreading NPR Headline Posted: 04 Sep 2017 09:07 PM PDT  It was a simple report about a health study, but the headline took on a life of its own on social media.
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| Frankfurt defuses massive WWII bomb after evacuating 60,000 Posted: 03 Sep 2017 10:26 AM PDT  By Tom Sims FRANKFURT (Reuters) - German explosives experts defused a massive World War Two bomb in the financial capital of Frankfurt on Sunday after tens of thousands of people were evacuated from their homes. The compulsory evacuation of 60,000 people was Germany's biggest such maneuver since the war, with more than a thousand emergency service workers helping to clear the area around the bomb, which was discovered on a building site last week. The evacuation area included two hospitals, care homes, the Opera House and Germany's central bank, the Bundesbank, where $70 billion in gold reserves are stored underground.
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| Putin says Trump 'not my bride, and I'm not his groom' Posted: 05 Sep 2017 06:22 AM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin refrained from criticizing U.S. President Donald Trump at a news conference in China on Tuesday, but said a decision to shutter Russian diplomatic outposts in the U.S. was poorly handled.
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| 5 Things to Know About Oil Changes for Your Car Posted: 04 Sep 2017 03:00 AM PDT  If you're confused about motor oil—the right time to change it, how often to change it, what's the best oil for your car—Consumer Reports' chief mechanic, John Ibbotson, can set you straight. 1. ...
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| Man charged over missing French nine-year old girl after 'DNA found in car' Posted: 04 Sep 2017 01:01 AM PDT  A 34-year old man has been charged and remanded in custody over the disappearance of a nine-year-old girl during a wedding in the Alps, say prosecutors. Maelys de Araujo was last seen in the early hours of Sunday August 27 at a community hall where the wedding was held in Pont-de-Beauvoisin, a village some 30 miles north of Grenoble. The suspect has told investigators that she "got into his car", his lawyer told AFP, but denies abducting her. The vehicle had previously caught the attention of investigators, as the owner had washed it after the wedding, he said in order to sell it. Maelys de Araujo went missing in the early hours of Sunday morning Credit: Gendarmerie Nationale Sniffer dogs lost the scent from Maelys's cuddly toy in a car park outside the venue, raising fears she was kidnapped and whisked away by car. She has not been found despite intense searches in the heavily wooded area where the wedding took place. Grenoble's prosecutor said that the suspect has been charged with "kidnapping, illegal confinement or arbitrary detention of a minor of less than 15 years" following a police probe. He was at the wedding during which the little girl - who was attending the event with her parents - went missing, the statement said. French gendarmes search through a forest in Pont-de-Beauvoisin on August 30 Credit: PHILIPPE DESMAZES/AFP The charged man is one of two suspects who were detained on Thursday over inconsistencies in their statements, but then released on Friday evening. Fresh evidence uncovered during the police probe had led to the suspect, who had been released, being recalled and questioned again, said the prosecutor. "Brought before investigating judges at the end of the afternoon, he contested the facts. Confronted with testimony, findings and scientific evidence, he persisted in his denials and explanations," the statement said. "This did not convince the investigative judges, who decided to hold him," it added. "After the debate... between the prosecutor and the defence," the man was placed "in provisional detention," the statement added. A group of citizens walks before taking part in a research operation, seven days after Maelys, 9, was reported missing on September 2 Credit: PHILIPPE DESMAZES/AFP Police technical and forensic teams found DNA evidence and were trying to determine whether the missing girl had been in the suspect's car, said a source close to the investigation. The DNA was found on the dashboard of the suspect's Audi, his lawyer confirmed on Monday. The lawyer, Bernard Méraud, said that his client had told investigators that Maelys had got into his car that night, but that he denied the charges "He declared that the little girl got into the vehicle with a little boy, on the back seat, to see if (the suspect's) dog was in the boot." They were able to do so because all of the car's windows were open, he said. But he added: "One should avoid drawing any clear conclusions." He stressed that his client "continues to totally deny" any involvement in her disappearance and that the DNA on the dashboard "may have been transferred" from someone else. The suspect's mother had earlier played down the significance of the DNA findings, saying wedding guests took part in party games organised that evening. "The little girl touched (the games). He touched them afterwards, then he goes in his car and touches his car and that's how you find tiny (DNA) traces. If they found something very significant I'd understand, but we're talking about tiny traces," she told RMC. Police have interviewed many of the 250 guests at the wedding, with partygoers from two other events in the area also being questioned. Along with search and rescue teams, divers and cavers, they have spent the past week trawling through the heavily wooded area near where the wedding was held for signs of her - to no avail.
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| Trump’s Pick To Head NASA Doesn’t Believe Humans Cause Climate Change Posted: 05 Sep 2017 07:48 AM PDT  President Donald Trump has finally made his choice for NASA's next chief, but the nominee has been met with opposition from scientists and politicians on both sides of the aisle.
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| BRICS meets in shadow of North Korea bombshell Posted: 03 Sep 2017 03:10 PM PDT  Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday opens an annual summit of BRICS leaders that already has been upstaged by North Korea's latest nuclear weapons provocation. The BRICS -- Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa -- had gathered in the southeastern Chinese city of Xiamen hoping to counter accusations that the group of big emerging economies was drifting apart and becoming irrelevant.
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| Small boy's body found encased in concrete in Kansas house Posted: 04 Sep 2017 12:42 PM PDT ![Small boy's body found encased in concrete in Kansas house]( "Small boy's body found encased in concrete in Kansas house") WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police are investigating after the body of a small child was discovered encased in concrete inside a rental home in Wichita, Kansas.
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| Hundreds of People Displaced By Hurricane Harvey Fed After Couple Postpones Wedding Posted: 03 Sep 2017 10:28 AM PDT  The food was scheduled to be used for the couple's welcome dinner.
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| Janis Ian From 'Mean Girls' Got Married And It Looked So Fetch Posted: 04 Sep 2017 05:45 PM PDT  "Mean Girls" actress Lizzy Caplan had a beautiful wedding.
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| Mummified Dog And Other Oddities 'Shatter Your Senses' In New Ripley's Book Posted: 04 Sep 2017 09:48 AM PDT  In case you haven't noticed, it's a weird world out there.
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| Rohingya Continue to Pour Into Bangladesh With Stories of Indiscriminate Killing Posted: 05 Sep 2017 01:25 AM PDT  Some 87,000 Rohingya Muslims have entered Bangladesh, fleeing violence in western Myanmar that erupted Aug. 25.
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| 8 Home Inspection Nightmares from the Pros Who Survived Them Posted: 05 Sep 2017 08:08 AM PDT |
| Philippine army says taking fire from women, children in Marawi battle Posted: 04 Sep 2017 01:49 AM PDT  By Manuel Mogato MARAWI CITY, Philippines (Reuters) - Philippine troops fighting Islamic State-linked rebels in a southern city have encountered armed resistance from women and children, the military said on Monday, as troops make a final push to end a conflict that has raged for more than 100 days. Ground forces were braced for higher casualties amid fierce fighting in Marawi City on the island of Mindanao, where the field of battle has shrank to a small area in a commercial heart infested with snipers, and littered with booby traps. "Our troops in the field are seeing women and children shooting at our troops so that's why it seems they are not running out of fighters." More than 800 people have been killed in the battle, most of them insurgents, since May 23 when the militants occupied large parts of the predominantly Muslim town.
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| Trump Reportedly To End DACA With 6-Month Delay Posted: 03 Sep 2017 06:38 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump plans to fulfill a campaign promise to end an Obama-era program that protects young undocumented immigrants from deportation, according to reports by Politico and Reuters.
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| Cambodia opposition leader charged with treason, espionage Posted: 05 Sep 2017 02:51 AM PDT  A Cambodian court on Tuesday charged opposition leader Kem Sokha with treason and espionage over an alleged conspiracy with unnamed foreigners, as strongman premier Hun Sen intensifies his assault on his political enemies. Opponents of Hun Sen, as well as NGOs and the critical press, have increasingly been smothered by court cases and threats before a crucial general election next year. Kem Sokha, 64, a veteran opposition politician who has formally led the Cambodia National Rescue Party (CNRP) since March, is accused of conniving in a "secret plan" with foreign entities which began in 1993, according to a court statement.
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