| Trump Often Says He Has Proof For His Claims. But He Never Comes Through. Posted: 28 Oct 2017 10:07 AM PDT  One of the most stunning parts of the White House's debacle over Donald Trump's recent call to a Gold Star family was how it caught both the president and the chief of staff in outright lies.
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| Interior Secretary Zinke says he welcomes investigation into Puerto Rico reconstruction contract Posted: 27 Oct 2017 02:17 PM PDT  Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke said Friday he welcomed an investigation into a heavily criticized contract to rebuild Puerto Rico's power grid.
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| Why Nazis And White Supremacists Are Putting The Fear In Middle Tennessee This Weekend Posted: 28 Oct 2017 07:06 AM PDT  ― In post-Charlottesville America, any large gathering of racists and fascists becomes both spectacle and specter.
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| Florida Police Release Eerie New Surveillance Video In Hunt For Suspected Serial Killer Posted: 28 Oct 2017 09:27 AM PDT  Florida police have released a new surveillance video of a "person of interest" wearing a long jacket with a hood and repeatedly flipping open a cell phone in investigators' hunt for a suspected serial killer in a Tampa neighborhood.
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| Kurds, still hoping for independence, fight on after losing Kirkuk Posted: 27 Oct 2017 01:48 PM PDT  Iraqi Kurds, who voted for independence in a nonbinding referendum, have lost oil-rich Kirkuk to government forces, allegedly supported by Iranian militias. Kurdish leaders accuse the U.S. of helping their enemies, including known terrorists.
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| Barack Obama Plans To Serve America Again, This Time In The Courthouse Posted: 28 Oct 2017 07:28 AM PDT  Former President Barack Obama reportedly plans to show up for jury duty next month after being called to serve in Cook County, Illinois.
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| JFK files: Trump holds back information on Oswald's meeting with Russians and Cubans Posted: 27 Oct 2017 10:16 AM PDT  Files that could have shone further light on JFK assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's overseas meetings with Cubans and Russians just months before he killed the President were not included in the information dump ordered by Donald Trump. As historians pored over details included in the 2,800 files that were released to the public, some were disappointed that potentially insightful information may be among that still being withheld at the request of the US intelligence community. In addition to files relating to Oswald's six-day trip to Mexico, information about Dallas businessman Gordon McClendon, a radio station owner who is said to have spoken to Jack Ruby, shortly before he shot and killed Oswald two days after John F Kennedy's assassination, was not made public.
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| Huge Bearded Seal Blocks Airport Runway In Alaska Posted: 29 Oct 2017 06:18 AM PDT  When airport foreman Scott Babcock went out onto the runway at Wiley Post-Will Rogers Memorial Airport in Utqiagvik, Alaska, on Monday to clear some snow, he was surprised to find a visitor waiting for him on the asphalt: a 450-pound bearded seal chilling in the milky sunshine.
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| Astros Player Banned From 5 Games For Racist 'Slant-Eye' Gesture Posted: 28 Oct 2017 12:59 PM PDT  Houston Astros' first baseman Yuli Gurriel has apologized for making a racist gesture in the dugout during Friday night's Game 3 of the World Series.
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| Tricky legal questions around Kenya's repeat poll Posted: 28 Oct 2017 10:44 AM PDT  Kenya's repeated presidential election, held after an August 8 vote was annulled, has still not been completed after violence prevented voting Thursday in flashpoint opposition strongholds. The Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) is still busy processing and verifying results and has not said when the final numbers will be announced. The main problem is that voting did not take place in four of Kenya's 47 counties, all of them in the west: Homa Bay, Kisumu, Migori and Siaya.
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| Is There a Penalty If I Don't Have Health Insurance? Posted: 27 Oct 2017 10:04 AM PDT  Q: Am I still required to buy health insurance? And will I be penalized if I don't?—S. Paradise, Norfolk, Va. A. Yes, and yes. Everyone is still required to have health insurance that meets the m...
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| American who joined, escaped Islamic State gets 20 years Posted: 27 Oct 2017 02:18 PM PDT  ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — More than 100 people in the U.S. have been charged with trying to help the Islamic State, or trying to join it, but Mohamad Khweis stood out because he succeeded.
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| The Real Reason U.S. Troops Are in Niger Posted: 27 Oct 2017 10:37 AM PDT  Hint: This is a local and regional conflict, not a global one.
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| At The Women's Convention, A Clear Message: Follow Black Women In 2018 Posted: 28 Oct 2017 02:50 PM PDT  DETROIT— Hard conversations about race have been at the heart of the Women's March from the moment it began to take shape last fall, and at the Women's Convention in Detroit this weekend, they were front and center once again.
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| One-on-one with Gov. Chris Christie Posted: 29 Oct 2017 05:10 AM PDT  New Jersey governor and former federal prosecutor Chris Christie sits down with George Stephanopoulos on "This Week."
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| Donald Trump Met Reporters' Kids, And It Was More Trick Than Treat Posted: 27 Oct 2017 02:18 PM PDT  President Donald Trump briefly met with children of the White House press corps on Friday as part of a Halloween celebration, and things got weird pretty quickly.
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| 34 Pasta Salads That Will Kill At Your Next Cookout Posted: 27 Oct 2017 12:11 PM PDT |
| Conservative site with GOP ties funded Trump research Posted: 28 Oct 2017 07:04 AM PDT  A conservative website with strong ties to the Republican establishment triggered the investigation into Donald Trump's past that ultimately produced the dossier that alleged a compromised relationship between the president and the Kremlin.
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| British Navy fires nine from nuclear submarine over failed drugs tests Posted: 28 Oct 2017 07:28 AM PDT  Nine British sailors assigned to a nuclear submarine have been discharged from the Royal Navy after failing compulsory drug tests, Britain's ministry of defence has confirmed. The service personnel, stationed aboard HMS Vigilant -- one of four Royal Navy submarines equipped with nuclear missiles -- were dismissed after all tested positive for an illegal substance. "We do not tolerate drugs misuse by service personnel," a Royal Navy spokesperson said.
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| World War III: This is How the U.S. Military Would Have Invaded Cuba in 1962 Posted: 27 Oct 2017 06:22 PM PDT  Attention, people of Cuba: Obey the orders of the U.S. Army, or suffer the consequences. This is what the Cubans would have been told, had the United States invaded the island during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. "Resistance to the United States armed forces will be forcefully stamped out.
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| Science Says: Jack Frost nipping at your nose ever later Posted: 27 Oct 2017 01:09 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Winter is coming ... later. And it's leaving ever earlier.
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| Trump Ally Roger Stone Suspended From Twitter After Vicious Attacks On CNN Journalists Posted: 28 Oct 2017 06:17 PM PDT  Twitter has suspended the account of Roger Stone ― a notorious Republican political operative and longtime friend and former adviser to Donald Trump ― after Stone went on a vicious, profane tirade against several CNN journalists.
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| E! News Host Ken Baker Accused Of Sexual Harassment By Former Employees Posted: 27 Oct 2017 12:36 PM PDT  E! News senior correspondent Ken Baker has been accused of sexual harassment after speaking at length about the allegations surrounding Harvey Weinstein on the network, according to The Wrap.
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| Oxford Muslim convert 'Jihadi Jack' charged with being member of Isil Posted: 28 Oct 2017 01:53 AM PDT  A man from Oxford who converted to Islam and travelled to Syria has been charged with being a member of islamic State. Jack Letts, 21, dubbed "Jihadi Jack", was arrested by Kurdish forces in northern Syria after fleeing the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) stronghold of Raqqa. A statement from the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria (DFNS) - a self-declared autonomous region - said Mr Letts had been taken to a prison in Qamishli, Rojava, northern Syria. Letts travelled to Syria in 2014 - having earlier converted to Islam while at school in Cherwell - and is understood to have been captured in May 2017. He was pictured with long hair and beard in Isil territory in Syria holding his index finger up to the sky, an Islamic gesture used by Isil as a symbol of their cause. John Letts and his wife Sally Lane arrive at Westminster Magistrates Court in June 2016 Credit: SWNS He married in Iraq and now has a child. In a conversation with the BBC in June from his prison cell, he said he hired a smuggler to help him escape the caliphate by motorbike before walking through a minefield into Kurdish territory. Letts says he doesn't want anything to do with Isil. "I hate them more than the Americans hate them," said. 'I realised they were not upon the truth so they put me in prison three times and threatened to kill me." His parents have denied he went to Syria to fight with Isil, and started a petition to protest his innocence. Foreign Office minister Rory Stewart asserted last week that the only way to deal with British Isis fighters in Syria would be "in almost every case, to kill them". Mr Letts' parents, Sally Lane and John Letts, criticised Mr Stewart for "arbitrarily [calling] for extrajudicial killings on uncharged British citizens", adding that the minister appeared to be "supported by Downing Street". The couple are awaiting trial following claims that they funded terrorism by sending money to their son - charges which they deny.
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| Iran says to continue developing ballistic missiles Posted: 29 Oct 2017 04:58 AM PDT  Iran's president on Sunday said his country would continue building weapons including developing missiles as the United States prepares new sanctions over its ballistic missile programme. "To defend our nation and territorial integrity, we will build all the weapons we will need," Hassan Rouhani told parliament in statements broadcast on state television. Recent Iranian missile launches have triggered US sanctions and accusations they violate the spirit of a 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and major powers.
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| Strong winds batter central Europe, killing at least five Posted: 29 Oct 2017 06:45 AM PDT  By Jason Hovet and Andrea Shalal PRAGUE/BERLIN (Reuters) - Strong winds battered northern and central Europe on Sunday, killing two people in Poland, two in the Czech Republic and one in Germany, with rail traffic in large sections of Germany to remain suspended until Monday. The victims in Poland and the Czech Republic were killed by falling trees.
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| Niger is the perfect example of the US state of perma-war | Trevor TImm Posted: 27 Oct 2017 09:53 AM PDT  The vast majority of Americans probably had no idea that the US even had military troops participating in combat missions in Africa before the incident in Niger in the beginning of October that left four American soldiers dead. Donald Trump has been involved in a bizarre public feud with the families of the fallen soldiers, which has dominated headlines and cable television for weeks.
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| Witness: I put $60,000 bribe in union boss's designer bag Posted: 27 Oct 2017 03:43 PM PDT ![Witness: I put $60,000 bribe in union boss's designer bag]( "Witness: I put $60,000 bribe in union boss's designer bag") NEW YORK (AP) — The government's chief witness in a trial of New York City's former jail guard union boss described putting a $60,000 cash bribe in a luxury bag for him so he'd feel good about it as he took fresh swipes Friday at Mayor Bill de Blasio and former police officials.
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| They Were Homeless In California. Then The Fires Came. Posted: 28 Oct 2017 04:00 AM PDT  It's 2:00 p.m. on a Wednesday afternoon and Fernando Gomez doesn't know where he and his one-year-old daughter will sleep tonight.
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| Why Russia's New 'Stealth' Submarines Have a Big Problem Posted: 28 Oct 2017 05:50 PM PDT  Moscow failed to develop key AIP propulsion technology for its "new" diesel submarines. Russian media has been trumpeting plans to launch two additional Lada-class diesel-electric submarines, two decades after the hull of the lead boat, the St. Petersburg, was laid down. Left delicately unstated in some of the press releases is that these new boats will lack the Air Independent Propulsion (AIP) systems that were intended to be the class's defining feature.
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| What the revelations from the new JFK files mean for the main conspiracy theories Posted: 27 Oct 2017 10:10 AM PDT  The publication of thousands of classified US Government files on the death of President John F. Kennedy has unearthed some fascinating details and colourful anecdotes surrounding the assassination. Some of the more intriguing revelations include a mysterious call made to a British newspaper minutes before the shooting and the FBI warning the Dallas police there were threats against Lee Harvey Oswald the day before he was gunned down by nightclub operator Jack Ruby while in police custody. Yet the files do not appear to have revealed anything that sheds real light on the enduring mysteries around the murder of the 35th US President. This is unsurprising in light of the fact that President Donald Trump withheld the most sensitive files at the last minute, bowing to pressure from the CIA and FBI. Mr Trump said he had made the decision to hold back on around 200 files over national security concerns. "I have no choice," the US president said in a memo, citing "potentially irreversible harm" to national security if he were to allow all records out now. He was placing those files under a six-month review. As well myriad outlandish conspiracy theories around President Kennedy's shooting there are still legitimate questions that have never been fully answered. Four unanswered questions from the JFK conspiracy As reporters and historians continue to pore over the new files, here is what the revelations that have emerged so far tell us about those unanswered questions. What did the security agencies know about Oswald? One of the key questions is how much the FBI and CIA knew about President Kennedy's shooter, Lee Harvey Oswald. The 24-year-old former US Marine was on the radar of both agencies due to his open Communist views and attempts to move to the USSR. Lee Harvey Oswald in police custody after the shooting Credit: Reuters The new files reveal that FBI agents were actively discussing Oswald just weeks before the shooting An FBI memo, which came from the bureau's New Orleans office in late October 1963, said: "Will maintain contact with Cuban sources for any indication of additional activity on the part of subject organisation which appears to have become inactive since the departure from New Orleans of Lee Harvey Oswald." The organisation referred to was the Pro-Castro "Fair Play for Cuba Committee". It adds: "If Oswald has relocated in the Dallas territory it is possible he may inaugurate a FPCC branch in that area." An inside job? A common strain of conspiracy is that Oswald, who was found to be a lone wolf by various public inquiries, was a fall guy for a shadowy wider conspiracy to kill the president. The new files have not done much to debunk this genre of speculation. A document from 1975 contains a partial deposition by Richard Helms, a deputy CIA director under Kennedy who later became CIA chief, to the Rockefeller Commission, which was studying unauthorised CIA activities in domestic affairs. Commission lawyers appeared to be probing for information on what foreign leaders might have been the subject of assassination attempts by or on behalf of the CIA. A lawyer asks Helms: "Is there any information involved with the assassination of President Kennedy which in any way shows that Lee Harvey Oswald was in some way a CIA agent or agent" - here the document ends, short of his answer. JFK Files | Why now? Was Oswald working for a foreign nation? A key area of interest for historians is Oswald's contacts with enemy nations in the run-up to the shooting. The avowed Marxist had moved to the USSR in 1959, but ultimately failed to obtain citizenship and returned to the US in 1962. Weeks before the shooting he went to Mexico City and had meetings at the USSR embassy and Cuban consulate. A full picture of what happened in those meetings has never emerged and they became a fertile breeding ground for conspiracies suggesting Cuba or the USSR had a hand in the assassination. Previously unreleased files shed new details on JFK assassination 01:48 The files have confirmed that Oswald did meet Valeriy Vladimirovich Kostikov, a KGB agent who worked for the KGB's 13th department, which was responsible for assassinations, during his stay in Mexico City. However nothing is known about what they discussed and the CIA believes Oswald's meetings at the embassy and consulate were over renewed efforts to gain USSR citizenship. #JFKFiles-Lee Harvey Oswald met with #Communist#USSR#KGB#Assassination grp in #MexicoCity nearly 2 months before murder of President #JFKpic.twitter.com/QZ9vJBxDDo— R.E.A.L Human Rights (@realhumanrights) October 26, 2017 The files also show the FBI learned USSR officials thought Oswald was a "maniac". A document from the bureau written after President Kennedy's death read: "According to our source, Soviet officials claimed that Lee Harvey Oswald had no connection whatsoever with the Soviet Union. "They described him as a neurotic maniac who was disloyal to his own country and everything else. They noted that Oswald never belonged to any organisation in the Soviet Union and was never given Soviet citizenship." Aftermath and 'cover-up' Conspiracists have often accused the US Government of varying cover-ups over the shooting and the fact 200 files remain classified will do little to dampen down those suspicions. President John F. Kennedy with Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy and FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover (centre) in May 1963 Credit: FBI Yet the released files have shown that the security agencies were aware that Oswald's death in police custody before he could answer for his crimes was liable to fuel conspiracy. FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover vented his frustration in a formerly secret report found in the files. It opened: "There is nothing further on the Oswald case except that he is dead." He added: "The thing I am concerned about, and so is (deputy attorney general) Mr. Katzenbach, is having something issued so we can convince the public that Oswald is the real assassin".
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| Big turnout at Myanmar pro-army rally defies Rohingya outcry Posted: 29 Oct 2017 02:26 AM PDT  Military songs rang out across downtown Yangon Sunday as tens of thousands rallied in defence of Myanmar's army, an institution accused by the global community of driving Rohingya Muslims from the country. More than 600,000 Rohingya have fled western Rakhine state to Bangladesh since late August when raids by militants from the minority group were met with ruthless army "clearance operations". The United Nations has led global condemnation, calling the crackdown a "textbook" example of ethnic cleansing.
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| 33 Awesome Halloween Costume Ideas For Kids Who Use Wheelchairs Posted: 27 Oct 2017 12:49 PM PDT  Halloween presents the opportunity for children to nurture their creativity with fun, imaginative costumes.
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| 15 Seriously Awesome Steak Sandwiches Posted: 27 Oct 2017 03:28 PM PDT |
| Man drives car into crowd protesting Trump immigration policy Posted: 27 Oct 2017 11:21 AM PDT  A California man has been charged with assault after driving his car into a crowd of protesters outside of a congressman's office. Demonstrators had gathered outside the Brea office of Republican Ed Royce, seeking to draw attention to Donald Trump's move to revoke a special status protecting certain immigrants from deportation, when Daniel Wenzek slowly drove his car into the crowd, according to the Brea Police Department, 30 miles south east of Los Angeles. People began "beating on Wenzek's car" in response, the police department said, after which Mr Wenzek was arrested and charged.
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| Why one major 'Stranger Things' star was missing at the Season 2 premiere this week Posted: 28 Oct 2017 10:11 AM PDT  One Stranger Things star was notably absent from Thursday's Season 2 premiere in Los Angeles. British actor Charlie Heaton, who plays creepy photo stalker man Jonathan Byers in the Netflix series, was barred entry to the U.S. last Saturday. SEE ALSO: Netflix is making a 'Stranger Things' after-show to feed the obsession The reason? A drug-sniffing dog reportedly picked up on something that prompted a search of Heaton's luggage, at which point authorities discovered "a small amount of cocaine," according to the Associated Press. Heaton was neither arrested nor charged, but he was barred from entering the U.S. and promptly sent back to London. It's worth noting here that the AP's report comes via an anonymous source — an official who "couldn't discuss the matter publicly." A Friday night report from People contains the same information, via an unnamed law enforcement source. That story also includes a vague statement from U.S. Customs and Border Protection which lays out the federal agency's rules for handling foreign nationals in violation of controlled substance laws. It read: "A violation, conspiracy to violate or simply an attempt to violate any U.S. State, federal or any foreign government controlled substance violation renders a foreign national inadmissible to the United States." Heaton hasn't yet made any public statements on the matter, though this would explain his absence from Thursday's premiere. WATCH: Alicia Silverstone served us that '90s nostalgia by resurrecting her Cher costume
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| 'Hand of God' saved Indonesian teen from fatal factory fire Posted: 27 Oct 2017 08:55 PM PDT  TANGERANG, Indonesia (AP) — The explosion came first, shocking 17-year-old Fitriyah and sending her running for the only exit of the Indonesian fireworks factory where she started work just the week before.
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| Mika Brzezinski responds to ‘disturbing’ Halperin harassment allegations Posted: 28 Oct 2017 08:02 AM PDT  A day after being criticized for her reaction to political journalist and NBC News contributor Mark Halperin's alleged sexual harassment of female colleagues, "Morning Joe" cohost Mika Brzezinski issued a lengthy statement about the embattled journalist who was a fixture on her show.
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