| White House Demands Border Wall, Changes To Immigration System In Return For DACA Posted: 08 Oct 2017 06:51 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― The White House told Congress on Sunday night that it wants a border wall and new limits on legal immigration in return for allowing people illegally brought into the United States as children to remain here ― demands top Democrats say renege on a deal President Donald Trump himself made with them last month.
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| Body-Cam Footage From Salt Lake City Police Shooting Continues To Raise Questions Posted: 08 Oct 2017 08:38 AM PDT  Salt Lake City police body-cam captured white officers shooting a black man who they say threatened them, but evidence of this remains unclear in footage of Patrick Harmon running away.
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| Richard Spencer And Fellow White Nationalists Return To Charlottesville Posted: 07 Oct 2017 05:29 PM PDT  Less than two months after violence broke out in Charlottesville, Virginia, white nationalists returned to Emancipation Park on Saturday evening to rally in support of Confederate statues.
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| Bannon to Target All Incumbent Senators Except Ted Cruz Posted: 08 Oct 2017 01:16 AM PDT  On the MTP Panel, Kristen Welker reports that former presidential adviser Steve Bannon is advancing the internal feud among Republicans by targeting almost every incumbent senator facing re-election.
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| Law enforcement continues to investigate Las Vegas mass shooting Posted: 09 Oct 2017 06:30 AM PDT ![Law enforcement continues to investigate Las Vegas mass shooting]( "Law enforcement continues to investigate Las Vegas mass shooting") Federal investigators returned to search the home of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock on Sunday, while the officers who raided his hotel room door the night of the shooting gave a harrowing account of a barricaded door they had to bust through and the booby-traps they feared they'd find.
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| Hollywood accused of hypocrisy over Harvey Weinstein sexual harassment allegations Posted: 07 Oct 2017 05:19 PM PDT  Hollywood has been accused of hypocrisy as allegations of sexual harassment against Harvey Weinstein, the volcanic-tempered movie mogul, were met with a "deafening silence" from A-list stars. Two days after the New York Times reported that Weinstein had reached at least eight legal settlements with women dating back decades, only a smattering of entertainment industry figures stepped up to condemn a man who has long held the power to make or break careers. Lisa Bloom, a feminist lawyer who had been criticised for her decision to advise Weinstein, announced on Saturday that she was resigning. But Rose McGowan, who reportedly settled a harassment case against Weinstein in 1997, said she had been expecting fellow actresses to speak out publicly. "Ladies of Hollywood, where are you?" she wrote on Twitter. "Ladies of Hollywood, your silence is deafening." Harvey Weinstein McGowan, 44, best known for her role in the TV series Charmed, accused the industry, including agents, directors, producers, studio heads, and the actor's union of a "30-year cover up" which seemingly continued. By Saturday night those yet to comment publicly on the scandal included a host of actresses who have starred in Weinstein movies. They included Nicole Kidman, Meryl Streep, and Gwyneth Paltrow, who won an Oscar for the Weinstein-produced Shakespeare in Love. Harvey Weinstein with his wife Georgina Chapman Only one A-list star, Jessica Chastain, appeared to show support, voicing "respect" for McGowan and Ashley Judd, who told the New York Times that Weinstein, 65, had sexually harassed her in a hotel room. Donald Trump said he was not surprised by allegations that Weinstein sexually harassed women for nearly three decades. "I've known Harvey Weinstein for a very long time, I'm not at all surprised to see it," the US president said. Anthony Bourdain, a high profile celebrity chef, called the Hollywood A-list "nauseating, chicken-hearted enablers all". He added: "Where's the loud, vocal support for these women? Mostly a shameful silence. I'm talking about all the people who knew and said nothing - and those who are STILL staying silent." Harvey Weinstein with Kylie Minogue According to the New York Times Weinstein targeted young actresses and his own staff, appearing naked in front of them, and asking them to massage him or watch him shower. Weinstein has admitted to having caused "a lot of pain" and apologised. He asked for a "second chance," saying he is undergoing therapy. He also threatened to sue the New York Times for "reckless reporting". In a separate development Lauren Sivan, a television reporter, alleged that Weinstein cornered her in the kitchen of a restaurant in New York, which left her deeply shocked. Weinstein, a father-of-two married to British fashion designer Georgina Chapman, has been a powerhouse in Hollywood for decades. He formed the Miramax production house in the late 1970s with his brother Bob, later selling it to Disney and going on to form The Weinstein Company. He helped propel Oscar-winning movies like Good Will Hunting, The Artist, and The King's Speech The Weinstein Company announced it was launching an investigation and bringing in an outside legal firm to conduct it. Harvey Weinstein has threatened legal action after a bombshell expose of sexual harassment claims Amid suggestions Weinstein would be suspended the company later said he would be on "indefinite leave". Discussions were said to have been typically heated and a third of the nine-member board resigned. In a statement the company said: "As Harvey has said it is important for him to get professional help for the problems he has acknowledged. "Next steps will depend on Harvey's therapeutic progress, the outcome of the board's independent investigation and Harvey's own personal decisions." In an unconfirmed report the New York Post suggested that Bob Weinstein could have leaked details of his brother's history of harassment cases. "Bob's wanted Harvey out for years," a former employee told the New York Post. Later, Mika Brzezinksi, a high profile morning television host, said she was not going ahead with a three-book deal she had signed with Weinstein Books. She said: "Authors, actors, and movie-makers should not work for any Weinstein company until he resigns. Not a close call." Bloom had come under fire for her decision to advise Weinstein. The high profile lawyer previously represented accusers of Bill O'Reilly, the former Fox News host who was revealed to have settled harassment cases. She described Weinstein's behaviour as "gross" but said she had been "blunt" with him, and he was a "dinosaur" who was changing. Bloom's mother, the equally high profile lawyer and women's rights campaigner Gloria Allred, had offered to represent accusers of Weinstein "even if it meant that my daughter was the opposing counsel".
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| South of New Orleans, Nate spares parish devastated by Hurricane Katrina Posted: 08 Oct 2017 10:52 AM PDT  By Jessica Resnick-Ault BELLE CHASSE, La. (Reuters) - Residents of Louisiana's lower Plaquemines Parish, the swampy peninsula that shadows the Mississippi River as it empties into the Gulf of Mexico, know Nate let them off very easy, certainly when compared with hurricanes of years past. As the Category 1 storm approached this weekend, memories of the devastation of Katrina 12 years ago, and to a lesser extent, Issac in 2012, loomed large in the scattered hamlets that cling to the few spots of terra firma that line the river south of New Orleans. "I had prayed for this - that we would be spared," said Amos Cormier, president of the parish, Louisiana's equivalent to a county.
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| 5 Young Native Americans On What Indigenous Peoples Day Means To Them Posted: 09 Oct 2017 04:01 AM PDT  On Monday, as people across the country celebrated the controversial Columbus Day holiday, young Native Americans in Los Angeles marked Indigenous Peoples Day for the first time in their city.
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| Scalise: Gun Rights are Unlimited Thanks to Founding Fathers Posted: 07 Oct 2017 11:26 PM PDT  In an exclusive interview with Meet the Press, Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) told Chuck Todd that he would have potentially opposed gun control laws that are already on the books.
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| Rapper Nelly Denies That He Sexually Assaulted a Woman While on Tour After Early Morning Arrest Posted: 07 Oct 2017 11:25 AM PDT  Early Saturday morning, rapper Nelly was arrested following a woman's claim that the rapper had allegedly sexually assaulted her on his tour bus while in Washington
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| Trump lists demands on immigration in exchange for DACA Posted: 09 Oct 2017 06:48 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump has told congressional leaders that his hard-line immigration priorities must be enacted in exchange for extending protection from deportation to hundreds of thousands of young immigrants, many of whom were brought to the U.S. illegally as children.
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| U.S. and Turkey Suspend Visitor Visa Services After Diplomatic Fall Out Posted: 08 Oct 2017 08:50 PM PDT  Tensions continue to escalate between after the arrest of a U.S. consulate employee.
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| Student Gets Suspended For Sitting During Pledge Of Allegiance Posted: 08 Oct 2017 09:09 PM PDT  A Houston student was suspended from school for refusing to stand during the pledge of allegiance.
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| Merkel says to begin three-way German coalition talks next week Posted: 09 Oct 2017 03:35 AM PDT ![Merkel says to begin three-way German coalition talks next week]( "Merkel says to begin three-way German coalition talks next week") Chancellor Angela Merkel said her conservative bloc would begin exploratory talks next week on forming a three-way German coalition government with the pro-business Free Democrats (FDP) and the environmentalist Greens. Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and their Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU), would hold talks with the FDP and Greens separately next Wednesday, she said. "Then on Friday, October 20th we will have a first round of exploratory talks with all partners," Merkel told a joint news conference with CSU leader Horst Seehofer on Monday.
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| Bangladesh police hunt man who married Rohingya refugee Posted: 08 Oct 2017 04:10 AM PDT  Bangladesh police were Sunday searching for a man who defied a ban and married a Rohingya refugee, hundreds of thousands of whom have fled across the border to escape violence in Myanmar. More than half a million Rohingya refugees have flocked to Bangladesh since an army crackdown began on August 25 in Myanmar's Rakhine state, a process the UN has described as ethnic cleansing. Shoaib Hossain Jewel, 25, and his 18-year-old Rohingya bride Rafiza have been on the run since marrying last month, said police in Jewel's home town of Singair.
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| What You Don't Get To See When Your Plane Is Landing Posted: 09 Oct 2017 01:01 AM PDT  There's no better window seat than the one in the cockpit.
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| India bans Diwali firecrackers in Delhi in bid to reduce toxic smog Posted: 09 Oct 2017 05:18 AM PDT  India's Supreme Court has temporarily banned the sale and distribution of firecrackers in the federal capital New Delhi ahead of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights, in a bid to control escalating air pollution. The court ruled on Monday that the ban would last till Nov 1, 13 days after Diwali. But it declared that those who had already bought firecrackers would be allowed to set them off. The order came in response to several petitions, including one by children, demanding a ban on polluting firecrackers which last year saw Delhi's air reaching hazardous levels and the closure of all city schools for three days. Around 50,000 tons of crackers are let off every year in Delhi on and around Diwali to celebrate the victory of good over evil. "We are the most vulnerable when it comes to air pollution, especially from suspended particles and toxins from firecrackers," stated the children's petition, adding that these led to lung disease, asthma, bronchitis and cognitive impairment. Tens of thousands of firecrackers are sold and set off every year Credit: AP "This is a nice step, let us look at other sources of air pollution too," tweeted global environmental group Greenpeace, echoing the feelings of many Delhi residents. But others dismissed the Supreme Court ban as an infringement of tradition and custom, and vowed to defy the firecracker ban. "The court cannot impose a ban on bursting firecrackers during Diwali as that is the essence of this festival," said housewife Shakuntla Devi. "We will get firecrackers somehow, and celebrate in traditional style," she added. Critics say the tradition has exacerbated Delhi's existing pollution levels, among the world's highest. Delhi tops the list of 20 most polluted cities in the country, and 1.2 million people die each year due to air pollution, according to a recent report by Greenpeace India. Smog envelopes New Delhi, one of the worst polluted cities in the world Credit: AFP Pollution levels in the city recently reached their worst level in nearly two decades, almost 15 times over the permissible limit, according to official estimates. The situation is aggravated further by smoke emanating from thousands of farmers burning unwanted vegetation on their farms in neighbouring Haryana and Punjab states, ahead of planting their winter wheat crop. Visibility in the smog-choked city of over 17 million people is normally low, with tens of thousands of residents regularly donning gas masks, complaining of breathlessness, watering eyes and of wheezing. Doctors in Delhi said spending a day outdoors in the city is akin to smoking a packet and a half of cigarettes and warn that if these conditions persisted, the atmosphere could turn carcinogenic. The report by Greenpeace also claimed that fatalities due to air pollution were only a "fraction less" than those caused by tobacco usage.
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| Obama's Middle East Policy Is Causing Problems for Donald Trump Posted: 07 Oct 2017 07:29 PM PDT  Left untouched, the nuclear agreement ensures—rather than prevents—Iran from getting nuclear weapons within the next few years. President Trump reluctantly agreed to recertify the nuclear deal with Iran in July, but he indicated that he would not do so again in October. Trump will likely keep his word and not certify the agreement again because it is not in the U.S. national-security interest to do so, according to recent media reports.
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| US-backed Syrian fighters preparing for final push in Raqqa Posted: 09 Oct 2017 09:03 AM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — U.S.-backed fighters in northern Syria are preparing for a final offensive on neighborhoods still held by the Islamic State group in the city of Raqqa, a spokesman for the group said Monday. A U.S. official affirmed that the battle for Raqqa is now approaching its last phase.
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| Ashley Graham Shares The Awful Comments She Gets When She Works Out Posted: 09 Oct 2017 07:05 AM PDT  Model Ashley Graham is the poster child for body positivity.
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| WHAT'S HAPPENING: FBI rechecks Vegas gunman's house Posted: 09 Oct 2017 12:25 AM PDT  LAS VEGAS (AP) — Federal investigators returned to search the home of the Las Vegas gunman for "re-documenting and rechecking."
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| Child Sex Offender Awarded Joint Custody Of Victim’s Kid: Attorney Posted: 09 Oct 2017 09:51 AM PDT  A Michigan woman who was just 12 years old when she says an 18-year-old held her captive for days and raped her now faces the prospect of sharing joint custody with her attacker, according to the victim's lawyer.
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| Decision time in P&G boardroom brawl Posted: 07 Oct 2017 10:24 PM PDT  A costly months-long battle over the direction of one of America's biggest companies culminates on Tuesday with a shareholder vote at Procter & Gamble headquarters in Cincinnati. The fight pits the maker of Gillette razors and Olay soap against activist investor Nelson Peltz, 75, a billionaire hedge fund chief who has pitched himself as the outsider needed to reignite P&G, the largest company by market capitalization ever to face a proxy battle. P&G counters that Peltz's campaign is based on an outdated perspective on the company and ignores key hires of outsiders as well as progress since its decision in 2014 to divest dozens of underperforming products in order to target giant brands that resonate best with consumers.
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| Kitten Rescued With Homemade Pole After Being Trapped in Pipe, 25 Feet Underground Posted: 08 Oct 2017 10:32 AM PDT  "Animals don't always understand that we are there to help, so making the grab is never easy," one of the rescuers said.
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| Trump says Tillerson could be tougher, but they have good relationship Posted: 07 Oct 2017 02:58 PM PDT  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Saturday he had a good relationship with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson but that Tillerson could be tougher. Trump, who made the comment to reporters at the White House, did not elaborate. NBC reported this week that in a session with Trump's national security team and Cabinet officials at the Pentagon, Tillerson had openly criticized the president and referred to him as a "moron." Tillerson on Wednesday said he had never considered resigning and was committed to Trump's agenda, but failed to address whether he had referred to the president as a "moron," as NBC reported.
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| Turkey shells Syria's northern Idlib province Posted: 08 Oct 2017 10:45 AM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — Turkish forces on Sunday shelled areas along its border with Syria's northwestern province, an area dominated by al-Qaida-linked militants, as Turkey's president says an operation in the area to enforce a "de-escalation" zone was underway "without problems."
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| The U.S. Army Is Building a New Tank in a Very Sneaky Way Posted: 09 Oct 2017 05:27 AM PDT  The U.S. Army just got a new tank. On Oct. 4, 2017, the Army's program office for ground vehicles announced that the service had accepted the first M-1A2SEPV3 "on schedule and on budget." General Dynamics Land Systems builds the tank in Lima, Ohio, using existing M-1 hulls as a starting point. The Army asked to buy 58 M-1A2SEPV3 tanks in 2018, against a total requirement for around a thousand of the new vehicles — enough to equip all of the branch's active-duty tank brigades.
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| Murder Trial Set to Begin for Teen Who Was Burned Alive and Left to Die Posted: 08 Oct 2017 06:50 AM PDT  Jessica Chambers had burns on 98 percent of her body when police found her
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| Gal Gadot Gets Help From Leslie Jones In Her First 'SNL' Monologue Posted: 07 Oct 2017 09:23 PM PDT  "Wonder Woman" star Gal Gadot hosted her very first "Saturday Night Live" episode and got a little help from another powerful woman, Leslie Jones.
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| Gunman kills two guards at Saudi royal palace Posted: 07 Oct 2017 06:47 PM PDT  A gunman shot dead two Saudi guards and wounded three others at the gate of the royal palace in the Red Sea city of Jeddah on Saturday, the interior ministry said. Royal guards killed the gunman, identified by the ministry as a 28-year-old Saudi national armed with a Kalashnikov and three grenades. "An outpost of the royal guard came under fire by a person who got out of a Hyundai car," the ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
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| Kellyanne Conway Denies Mike Pence's Expensive NFL Exit Was A 'Political Stunt' Posted: 09 Oct 2017 07:40 AM PDT  Kellyanne Conway is pushing back against claims that Vice President Mike Pence's early exit from an NFL game Sunday was a "political stunt."
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| Senior Catholic cleric resigns after secret family revealed Posted: 08 Oct 2017 07:09 AM PDT  The former rector of a prominent Legion of Christ seminary in Rome is leaving the priesthood after admitting to having a secret family, including two children of his own, which he concealed for years from Roman Catholic authorities. The conservative Catholic order announced this weekend that Father Oscar Turrion, a popular 49-year-old Spanish priest who was made rector of the Pontifical Maria Matter Ecclesiae International College in Rome in 2014, will leave the priestly ministry in order to dedicate more time to a family he has raised clandestinely until now. Back in March, Father Turrion first told his superiors at the Pontifical Maria Matter Ecclesiae International College, which houses approximately 100 male diocesan seminarians from around the globe, that he had recently fathered a daughter. As Roman Catholic priests are bound to a vow of celibacy, the order offered him a "period of reflection," and then in August appointed a substitute rector. The Legion revealed this week that Father Turrion told authorities in a letter he had decided to leave the ministry after admitting that his infant daughter is in fact the second child he fathered with a woman he fell in love with several years ago when the order was going through a period of turmoil. He kept the first-born child, a son reportedly born eight years ago, and the ongoing relationship with the child's mother, a closely guarded secret for years, including during the period he was being considered for rector. In a letter released by the Legion, Turrion asked for prayers and "foregiveness for the scandal . . for my bad example." Popular and passionate about football, Father Turrion was one of the few ordained priests invited each year to join the seminarians on the field in the Clericus Cup, an annual football tournament between teams from the Rome seminary colleges. The shock revelation has rattled the institution, which said in a statement it was saddened and "conscious of the impact that the negative example" had set to seminarians and the Christian faithful. The order faced a similar scandal in 2013, when American priest Thomas Williams, a professor of moral theology at the Legion's university in Rome and a prominent TV commentator, also announced he would leave the priesthood after admitting he had fathered a child. And in 2006 the Vatican sentenced its founder, Mexican Father Marcial Maciel Delgollado to a life of "prayer and penance" after discovering he had sexually abused seminarians and fathered at least three children out of wedlock. Today, the subject of how to manage priests secretly fathering children is gradually becoming less taboo inside the Vatican, thanks in part to the persistent efforts of Vincent Doyle, an Irish Catholic psychotherapist who discovered that his father had been a priest and went on to found the Coping International support group for children of priests, who he said often face emotional, psychological and financial difficulties after years of living with "guilty secrets." Earlier this year Irish Catholic bishops passed new guidelines for "the principles of responsibility regarding priests who father children while in the ministry," urging the wellbeing of the child to be put first, personally, legally and financially.
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| Iran promises 'crushing' response if U.S. designates Guards a terrorist group Posted: 09 Oct 2017 08:35 AM PDT  By Bozorgmehr Sharafedin LONDON (Reuters) - Iran promised on Monday to give a "crushing" response if the United States designated its elite Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist group. The pledge came a week before President Donald Trump announces a final decision on how he wants to contain the Islamic Republic. Trump is also expected to designate Iran's most powerful security force, the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) as a terrorist organization, as he rolls out a broader, more hawkish U.S. strategy on Iran.
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| Washington Man Sentenced to 65 Years in Prison for Fatally Torturing His Girlfriend’s Son with Autism Posted: 09 Oct 2017 06:30 AM PDT  A Washington man convicted of torturing his girlfriend's son with autisim to death and abusing her younger son was sentenced to 65 years in prison, according to multiple reports
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| Teen Son Of Radio Host Delilah Dies of Suicide After 'Battling Depression' Posted: 08 Oct 2017 08:07 AM PDT  Syndicated radio host Delilah Rene has announced that her teenaged son, Zachariah, took his life last week after "battling depression for some time."
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| California Lowers the Penalty for Knowingly Exposing Someone to HIV Posted: 07 Oct 2017 02:42 PM PDT  "California took a major step toward treating HIV as a public health issue"
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| Philippines: NY 'plotter' was allegedly doctor to pro-IS gunmen Posted: 09 Oct 2017 01:45 AM PDT  A Filipino doctor wanted over a foiled jihadist plot targeting New York's subway and Times Square previously treated pro-Islamic State (IS) group militants in the mountains of southern Philippines, the military said on Monday. Russell Salic, 37, had links to the Maute group, which since May had been occupying parts of the Philippines' most important Islamic city of Marawi in a bid to establish an IS caliphate in Southeast Asia, Philippine authorities said. "He was among those who were treating wounded members of the Maute group," military spokesman Colonel Edgard Arevalo told AFP.
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| White tiger cubs maul keeper to death in India Posted: 08 Oct 2017 04:15 AM PDT  Two white tiger cubs have mauled their keeper to death at a wildlife national park in southern India, an official said on Sunday. Anji, 40, was killed late Saturday at Bannerghatta Biological Park on the outskirts of Bangalore when the two cubs attacked him as he herded them into their enclosure, park chief Santosh Kumar told AFP. The tigers were eventually driven off by park staff but the victim was already dead.
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| CBS Reporter Sparks Uproar By Mistakenly Claiming Kaepernick Wouldn't Kneel Posted: 08 Oct 2017 04:58 PM PDT  CBS sports reporter Jason La Canfora sparked outrage on Sunday when he falsely reported that former NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick would stand for the national anthem if signed to a team.
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| Poles pray en masse at border; Some see anti-Muslim agenda Posted: 07 Oct 2017 01:35 PM PDT  GDANSK, Poland (AP) — Polish Catholics held rosaries and prayed together Saturday along the country's 3,500-kilometer (2,000-mile) border, appealing to the Virgin Mary and God for salvation for Poland and the world in a national event that some felt had anti-Muslim overtones.
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| Ken Starr Predicts Indictments Over Russia Probe Posted: 07 Oct 2017 12:32 PM PDT  The former special counsel involved in Whitewater said he expected it.
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| Kremlin says S-400 missile talks with Saudi Arabia on track Posted: 09 Oct 2017 04:58 AM PDT  The Kremlin said on Monday that talks with Saudi Arabia over Moscow supplying Riyadh with advanced S-400 air defense missile systems had gone well so far despite talk of a possible U.S.-Saudi arms deal. Russian President Vladimir Putin hosted Saudi Arabia's King Salman for talks at the Kremlin last week during which Saudi Arabia said it had signed a memorandum of understanding on the purchase of the S-400s. A day later, the Pentagon said the U.S. State Department had approved the possible sale of a THAAD anti-missile defense system to Saudi Arabia at an estimated cost of $15 billion.
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| A Pair of Photographer Moms Created a Mock Wedding Photo Shoot With Their Children Posted: 07 Oct 2017 11:07 AM PDT  The kids had a blast.
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| How high is air pollution in your city and how does it compare to the most polluted cities in the world? Posted: 09 Oct 2017 12:18 AM PDT  Pollution is a greater global threat than Ebola and HIV, according to warnings by the World Health Organisation. According to its recent report, one in four deaths among children aged under five are now due to environmental hazards such as air pollution and contaminated water. Previously this year, air pollution levels in London were worse than those in Beijing for a brief period - with the UK capital's pollutants frequently breaking UK limits. Now, the UK Government plans to tackle such dangers by banning diesel and petrol cars by 2040. But how bad is air pollution in other areas of the UK? Search for your postcode to see how bad air pollution is in your area How high is air pollution in your area? How does the UK compare to the world? According to the World Health Organisation (WHO), London is just a mid-table city when it comes to the international league table of polluted places. London only ranked 1,389th out of the nearly 3,000 cities and towns around the world monitored in the WHO's database of annual air pollution readings. Which cities have the worst air pollution levels? WHO guidelines state that cities should aim to have an annual average of no more than 10 micrograms of PM2.5 (very fine particulate matter) for every cubic metre of air. London had an annual PM2.5 average of 15 μg/m3 in 2013, far lower than Beijing's average of 85.2 μg/m3. These particles are very small in diameter and are classed as carcinogenic by leading health organisations. Thousands of deaths a year are attributable to air pollution in the UK. London pollution - what causes it and how can you stay safe? 01:33 Which cities have the highest air pollution levels worldwide? According to the WHO, the most polluted city in the world is Zabol in Iran. Zabol's PM2.5 measurements were found to average a massive 217 μg/m3 for the latest available year - more than 20 times higher than the recommended level. The next two entries on the list are both located in India (Gwalior and Allahabad) while the first non-Asian city on the list is Bamenda in Cameroon which came in eighth place. Tetovo in Macedonia was the most polluted European city in the database, followed by Tuzla in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The most polluted city in the UK isn't actually London. Glasgow topped that list, followed by Scunthorpe and Leeds with London in sixth place. However, given that these rankings are based on figures taken in 2013, the situation may have changed since. London may also experience greater peaks in air pollution but these figures are all annual averages. Table - The 100 most air polluted cities in the world
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