| Mitch McConnell Is Keeping The Senate Rule That Lets Dems Block Trump's Judges Posted: 11 Oct 2017 09:58 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) will continue to honor the blue slip rule ― an arcane but hugely consequential Senate tradition that lets lawmakers block a president's judicial nominees from their home states ― even though a news article suggested he would get rid of it, his spokesman said.
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| Trump Dossier Holding Up Despite GOP Attacks Posted: 11 Oct 2017 11:33 AM PDT  Mark Hosenball, Reuters national security correspondent, talks with Rachel Maddow about portions of the Trump Russia dossier that have turned out to be true, and the Republican effort to undercut the Russia investigation by discrediting the dossier.
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| Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie allege Harvey Weinstein harassed them Posted: 10 Oct 2017 10:26 AM PDT  Gwyneth Paltrow and Angelina Jolie are the latest women to come out with stories of Harvey Weinstein's alleged sexual harassment. On Tuesday, following The New Yorker's bombshell new report that alleged Weinstein raped multiple women, the New York Times followed up their initial report last week with a new exposé with comments from Paltrow, Jolie and a handful of other women who shared similar stories of Weinstein's unwanted advances.
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| Horrifying Drone Footage Shows Wildfire Devastation In Santa Rosa Posted: 11 Oct 2017 11:39 AM PDT  Wildfires have turned entire neighborhoods in Santa Rose, California, to ash, according to drone footage The Association Press posted Tuesday.
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| Police Video Shows Officers Open Fire as Car Lunges Toward Them Posted: 10 Oct 2017 09:00 PM PDT  Salt Lake City detective fired after arresting a hospital nurse who refused to draw blood from an unconscious patient.
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| Australian woman casually picks up stranded shark with her bare hands Posted: 11 Oct 2017 04:25 AM PDT  An Australian woman has found online fame after a clip of her casually picking up a stranded shark was posted on Facebook. Melissa Hatheier, a Sydney-based estate agent, rescued the lost shark from a rock pool by picking it up "like a toddler" and throwing it back in the sea. The amateur shark wrangler swam into action after her mother called her about the shark episode in the beachside suburb of Cronulla. Thankfully, it turned out to be a Port Jackson shark, which are "considered harmless to humans", according to the Australian Museum. "So I came down, there was a bit of a crew here, and had a look and he was a little Port Jackson and was doing laps of the pool ..." she told Channel 9's Today show. Melissa Hatheier wrestles with the shark Credit: Facebook "I jumped in and I thought, 'I reckon I can probably get him out.' And mum called 000, so the police came down as well. "And they didn't know what to do. So I said, I think I can just grab him. So I herded him into the shallows and then I just sort of got on my knees. With his fins, I picked him up and helped him back. "He was getting stressed because he was bumping into the rocks and I was thinking I just need to put him back where he is meant to be." The footage has been a hit on social media, with one joking: "In Australia we carry sharks like dogs." Sam Soutar wrote: "Not all heroes wear capes." Another posted: "Well done to Mel. That shark owes its life to you. Most people would have killed it." Earlier this year, an incredible underwater photo captured a shark in a fish 'tornado'.
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| Watch Girl's Touching Reaction to Finding Out She's Finally Being Adopted: 'I Felt So Happy' Posted: 11 Oct 2017 02:47 PM PDT  Her sweet reaction was captured on cameras inside her school.
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| Couple Uncovers Hidden Cameras In Nightmare Airbnb Stay: Police Posted: 11 Oct 2017 10:18 AM PDT  It was an Airbnb nightmare for a couple vacationing in Florida after they say they found their rental unit rigged with hidden cameras ― something experts tell HuffPost is happening more often, but there are ways to detect.
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| 'High-level Hollywood exec' groped Terry Crews in public: 'This whole thing with Harvey Weinstein is giving me PTSD' Posted: 10 Oct 2017 02:00 PM PDT  In the wake of bombshell accusations about disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein, Terry Crews is finally speaking out about his own encounter with a powerful Hollywood executive.
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| A Japanese Volcano Erupted For the First Time in Six Years Posted: 11 Oct 2017 11:17 PM PDT  A volcano in southwestern Japan has erupted for the first time in six years and spread ash in nearby cities and towns.
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| Boy Scouts Of America Announces Plans To Let Girls Join Posted: 11 Oct 2017 10:20 AM PDT  Following a unanimous vote by its board of directors, Boy Scouts of America announced Wednesday that the organization would be allowing girls to join its Cub Scout program.
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| US announces multimillion dollar reward for Hezbollah operatives over ‘homeland threat’ Posted: 11 Oct 2017 10:38 AM PDT  Donald Trump's administration is offering millions of dollars in rewards for two senior Hezbollah operatives because of growing fears of a "homeland" threat to the US, the State Department has announced. A total of $12 million (£9 million) is on offer for information leading to the arrest of Talal Hamiyah and Fuad Shukr, National Counterterrorism Centre Director Nicholas Rasmussen told reporters in Washington DC on Tuesday - the first such bounties on the heads of Hezbollah leaders in more than a decade. "While I'm not here today to speak publicly about any specific, or credible, or imminent threat to the homeland," Mr Rasmussen told reporters, "We in the intelligence community do in fact see continued activity on behalf of Hezbollah here inside the homeland.
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| Parents Leave Child At Corn Maze, Don't Realize It Until Next Day: Cops Posted: 11 Oct 2017 01:00 PM PDT  A visit to a holiday corn maze turned into a truly scary scenario for a 3-year-old boy after police say he was left behind by his parents, who didn't realize until the next day.
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| Could Vegas police have taken down the gunman sooner? Posted: 10 Oct 2017 07:53 PM PDT  The revised timeline given by investigators for the Las Vegas massacre raises questions about whether better communication might have allowed police to respond more quickly and take out the gunman before he could kill and wound so many people.
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| Woman Raped By Neighbor, Who Then Offered to Do Yard Work: Cops Posted: 11 Oct 2017 05:21 PM PDT  An 18-year-old raped his neighbor, then offered to do lawn chores to make it up to her, cops say.
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| No, The Lesson Of Harvey Weinstein Isn't That Men Shouldn't Meet With Women Posted: 11 Oct 2017 09:45 AM PDT  Harvey Weinstein is facing more than 20 allegations of sexual misconduct, harassment and assault, and stories continue to trickle out.
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| Palestinian rivals Fatah, Hamas sign reconciliation accord Posted: 12 Oct 2017 08:10 AM PDT  By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Omar Fahmy GAZA/CAIRO (Reuters) - Rival Palestinian factions Hamas and Fatah signed a reconciliation deal on Thursday after Hamas agreed to hand over administrative control of Gaza, including the key Rafah border crossing, a decade after seizing the enclave in a civil war. The deal brokered by Egypt bridges a bitter gulf between the Western-backed mainstream Fatah party of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas, an Islamist movement designated as a terrorist group by Western countries and Israel.
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| Deadly California Wildfires May Get Much Worse Posted: 12 Oct 2017 01:31 AM PDT  "It's going to continue to get worse before it gets better," the state fire chief said Wednesday
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| More security, less soccer, for China Communist Congress Posted: 10 Oct 2017 09:53 PM PDT  China is tightening security and discipline to ensure a landmark Communist Party meeting passes off flawlessly. The gathering is expected to hand President Xi Jinping a second five-year term as general secretary of the Communist Party, solidifying his position as the most powerful Chinese leader in a generation. Red banners that "warmly welcome" the 19th Party Congress have appeared across Beijing and officials hope to clear the capital's notoriously smoggy skyline when more than 2,300 delegates gather.
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| Bella Hadid Gave The Most Awkward Interview And Twitter Noticed Posted: 10 Oct 2017 10:02 AM PDT  "If homeboy is coming through with these, it's quiet for him... but if he comes through in like, these... homeboy is gonna, like, get it," is not something people generally expect Bella Hadid to say.
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| Trump threatens NBC broadcast license after report he wanted increase in U.S. nukes Posted: 11 Oct 2017 08:20 AM PDT  "With all of the Fake News coming out of NBC and the Networks, at what point is it appropriate to challenge their License?" Trump tweeted. "Bad for country!"
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| The Latest: Government rests in Sen. Menendez bribery trial Posted: 11 Oct 2017 09:12 AM PDT  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The Latest on the bribery trial of U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez and a wealthy friend (all times local):
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| The Heirs to the Walmart Fortune Just Made $5 Billion in One Day Posted: 11 Oct 2017 12:38 PM PDT  The Walton's are the owners of Wal-Mart and they're killing it in the stock market.
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| Ben Affleck Says He Is Sickened By Harvey Weinstein Allegations Posted: 10 Oct 2017 10:19 AM PDT  Longtime Harvey Weinstein friend and film partner Ben Affleck has issued a statement on the allegations of sexual assault and harassment against the executive, saying they "made me sick."
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| 23 Halloween Snacks To Hold You Over Until Candy Time Posted: 26 Jun 2017 10:07 AM PDT |
| Thousands evacuated in Vietnam as floods, landslides kill 46 Posted: 12 Oct 2017 04:46 AM PDT  By Mai Nguyen HANOI (Reuters) - Heavy rain in northern and central Vietnam triggered floods and landslides that killed 46 people and 33 people were missing in the worst such disaster in years, the search and rescue committee said on Thursday. Vietnam often suffers destructive storms and floods due to its long coastline. "In the past 10 years, we haven't suffered from such severe and intense floods," state-run Vietnam Television quoted agriculture minister Nguyen Xuan Cuong as saying.
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| Somehow this guy accidentally kept his neighbour's cat hostage for five days Posted: 11 Oct 2017 10:48 PM PDT  Sometimes it can be hard to distinguish your pet from others that look like it. It's something that happened to one New Zealander, although it took them five days to realise they had accidentally kept their neighbour's cat hostage. Oops. SEE ALSO: Get your fluffy cat snuggles without the cat The debacle was chronicled by Clarke Gayford on Twitter, posting two different pictures of cats on Tuesday. One cat belonged to his friend, and had just walked in. The other, was the kidnapped cat. a mate spent $130 at vet on his cat then had to lock it in his bedroom for 5 days recovery, and JUST NOW HIS ACTUAL CAT WALKED IN �� pic.twitter.com/TyeiFfARJK — Clarke Gayford (@NZClarke) October 10, 2017 To add to the problem, the neighbour had been looking for her missing cat. He just told me a neighbour had come looking for her missing black cat and he said 'Na, sorry just my cat in here!'I actually snort laughed — Clarke Gayford (@NZClarke) October 10, 2017 And to make matters worse, Gayford's friend had fed the kidnapped cat anti-anxiety medication, on the prescription of a vet. OMG so he told vet it did seem to be acting strange so vet prescribed it anti-anxiety meds. MY MATE HAS KIDNAPPED AND BEEN DRUGING A KITTEH! pic.twitter.com/CkbVqWYgiA — Clarke Gayford (@NZClarke) October 10, 2017 Eventually, the mistake had been atoned, and fortunately the neighbour was cool about the whole catnapping thing. "Just thought I'd let you know, pussy doesn't seem to have been traumatized by his confinement at your house," a text message reads. And now this from neighbour...... and um well of course your cat is chilled out MY MATE HAS BEEN FEEDING YOUR CAT DRUGS!! pic.twitter.com/vIoJbTLajV — Clarke Gayford (@NZClarke) October 10, 2017 Of course, this case of mistaken kitty is no isolated incident, with other people sharing stories of pet mix-ups. It's too damn easy to mess it up. One time our dog was in the street covered in mud. Dragged him inside, washed him, dried him, then discovered our actual dog in his kennel. — Kate McDermott (@MsKateMcD) October 10, 2017 Neighbour brought in our cat & said sorry she had just run over him. Hours later, my daughter screamed. OUR cat was at the top of the stairs — TheSaltySeaCat (@TheSaltySeaCat) October 11, 2017 I rescued MY dog from the pound. Three days later I had two dogs with identical markings. �� — Lady Sandy Beach (@atsandybeach) October 11, 2017 WATCH: Ever wonder what it'd sound like if animals could talk?
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| Imagine This: Almost Every Russian Warship Armed with Hypersonic Missiles Posted: 11 Oct 2017 07:12 AM PDT  If everything goes according to plan, sometime in the mid-2020s the Russian Navy will adopt an anti-ship cruise missile called the Zircon. Once zooming through the air, the scramjet sucks in and compresses air already traveling at supersonic speeds to propel the vehicle further at velocities lesser engines can't handle. Provided Russia can figure out those engineering issues, and they are significant, then it will field one of the deadliest anti-ship missiles in the world.
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| Healthy Meals for Weight Loss Posted: 11 Oct 2017 09:53 AM PDT  There are many weight-loss plans out there—high-protein, low-carb, intermittent fasting, paleo. But which one gives you the best results? Answer: the one you stick with. Breakfast Pick one (350 ...
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| 22 Pumpkin Bars That Will Make You Forget All About Pie Posted: 11 Oct 2017 12:57 PM PDT |
| Trump Threatens To Yank FEMA Responders From Hurricane-Ravaged Puerto Rico Posted: 12 Oct 2017 05:40 AM PDT  President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to withdraw federal aid from Puerto Rico as the U.S. territory continues struggling to recover from back-to-back hurricanes.
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| Police: Possibly drunk student killed after car hits officer Posted: 10 Oct 2017 03:00 PM PDT  MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (AP) — A possibly intoxicated 22-year-old Temple University student in town to celebrate her birthday drove her BMW into a Florida police officer and was fatally shot by another officer in Miami Beach in front of a crowd of onlookers, police said.
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| Tamron Hall Calls Weinstein Allegations Horrifying, Says She Spoke To Him Directly Posted: 10 Oct 2017 04:43 PM PDT  Former "Today" host Tamron Hall said that she called Harvey Weinstein at 5 a.m. after decades of sexual harassment allegations were reported by The New York Times last week and that she is now speaking with her agents about next steps on the development deal she signed with The Weinstein Co. for a daytime talk show.
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| Judge who granted custody to paedophile after 12-year-old victim gave birth to his child revokes access Posted: 11 Oct 2017 10:50 AM PDT  The joint custody was granted by a judge in Sanilac County, Michigan without the knowledge of the boy's mother. Probate Judge Gregory Ross set aside the ruling which he originally issued on 22 September, according to The Detroit News. According to the victim and her attorney, Rebecca Kiessling, the custody was given after the victim filled out a questionnaire seeking reimbursement of child support.
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| Makeup Artist Annamarie Tendler Claims Ben Affleck Groped Her At 2014 Party Posted: 12 Oct 2017 08:29 AM PDT  Annamarie Tendler wants an apology from Ben Affleck after he allegedly groped her at a Hollywood party.
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| North Korean special forces use paragliders in simulated attack on South Korean-US military HQ Posted: 10 Oct 2017 08:50 PM PDT  North Korean special forces have carried out an exercise in which they used paragliders to simulate infiltrating behind South Korean lines and launch an attack on the headquarters of the joint South Korean-US military command. Officials of Seoul's Defence Ministry told Yonhap news that the exercises were conducted over a number of days in mid-September and were the first time that the tactic had been tested by the North. Special forces troops used paragliders to land on a training ground where a mock-up of the South Korea-US Combined Forces Command in Seoul had been constructed. The new infiltration technique has caused concern in Seoul, where a defence source said that existing radar systems would be unlikely to detect such small targets crossing the border. Paragliders can also travel swiftly and in silence and would allow the North's special forces to carry out an attack with little warning, particularly at night. "A paraglider flies at low altitude without making a sound", the official said. It could be useful for making a surprise attack, like a drone. The replica presidential house (Blue House) Credit: EPA "I believe that North Korean special forces are adopting amazing methods of infiltration with limited resources". The North is clearly attempting to develop its own "decapitation" capabilities, aimed at the joint South Korean-US command and control capabilities in the event of war breaking out on the peninsula. Seoul has made no secret of its development of a specialised unit that will be tasked with eliminating the leadership of the North should war appear to be imminent. South Korea and the US responded to the exercises by staging short-range air defence drills close to the border. North Korea has carried out previous demonstrations of its special forces' capabilities, with Kim Jong-un, the North Korean leader, in December overseeing an assault by commandos on a full-scale mock-up of the Blue House, the official residence of the South Korean president. South Korea flexes its military muscle after Norths nuclear test In footage broadcast on national television, troops used ropes to descend from helicopters before commencing their attack, with the replica of the Blue House later pictured wreathed in smoke. The images also showed attackers firing semi-automatic weapons into the building. Mr Kim was also pictured standing in front of heavily armed members of the unit. He also ordered the unit to be ready to "conduct bold combat actions with the southern part of Korea as their theatre", state-run media reported.
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| Climber Kills Himself a Day After Girlfriend Dies in Avalanche While Pair Skied Together Posted: 11 Oct 2017 11:00 AM PDT  The climber had lost other friends to the sport.
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| U.S. NIH, 11 drugmakers partner to accelerate cancer therapy research Posted: 12 Oct 2017 09:26 AM PDT ![U.S. NIH, 11 drugmakers partner to accelerate cancer therapy research]( "U.S. NIH, 11 drugmakers partner to accelerate cancer therapy research") The Trump Administration threw its support behind a public-private partnership with 11 drug companies to advance a new class of drugs that uses the body's immune system to fight cancer. The five-year collaboration is part of the Cancer Moonshot, a program started during the Obama administration and led by former Vice President Joe Biden, whose son Beau died of brain cancer. The Partnership for Accelerating Cancer Therapies or PACT will devote $215 million to identify and test chemical signatures in the body that will help predict which patients will benefit from cancer immunotherapy.
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| 7 Ways to Save Your Skin in Your 50s and Beyond Posted: 11 Oct 2017 02:50 PM PDT  It doesn't take much to look your best, no matter your number. Here's a concise (yet comprehensive) skin-care syllabus.
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| Mensa Offers To Give IQ Tests To Donald Trump And Rex Tillerson Posted: 10 Oct 2017 07:28 PM PDT  President Donald Trump bragged on Tuesday that he could beat Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on an IQ test.
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| Wednesday's Morning Email: What You Need To Know About The New Harvey Weinstein Rape Allegations Posted: 11 Oct 2017 04:06 AM PDT  TOP STORIES (And want to get The Morning Email each weekday?
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| House GOP moves to revamp law on national monuments Posted: 11 Oct 2017 03:30 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — House Republicans are moving to restrict the president's ability to protect millions of acres of federal land considered historic, geographically significant or culturally important.
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