| White Supremacist Charged With Terrorism After Alleged Attempt To Derail Train Posted: 05 Jan 2018 07:13 PM PST  The FBI has charged a 26-year-old Missouri man with terrorism after agents say he attempted to derail an Amtrak train in Nebraska by triggering the train's emergency brakes.
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| GOP Senators Recommend Criminal Investigation Of Trump Dossier Author Posted: 05 Jan 2018 12:28 PM PST  The Senate Judiciary Committee, which is supposed to be probing whether the Russian government actively colluded with President Donald Trump's campaign team to influence the outcome of the 2016 election, made its first public criminal referral Friday, targeting a former British intelligence agent who sought to reveal that alleged collusion.
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| List of Trump administration Departures Grows Posted: 05 Jan 2018 01:15 PM PST  Rachel Maddow adds a new set of names to the already unprecedentedly long list of high-level Trump administration staffers who have left their positions, from the vice president's office to the NSA.
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| A U.S. Mountain Was Just The Second-Coldest Place On Earth Posted: 06 Jan 2018 01:17 PM PST  The temperature atop New Hampshire's Mount Washington plummeted early Saturday to an astonishing minus 36 degrees Fahrenheit, making it one of the coldest places on the planet.
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| Philly cheesesteak-loving dad measured his child with them for a year Posted: 05 Jan 2018 01:09 PM PST  Why record the growth of your newborn child the normal way when you could do it with your favorite food? Twitter user Brad Williams is getting a lot of notoriety for measuring his son in Philly cheesesteaks every month for the first year of his life. It's not only cute, but also ensured that he got a Philly cheesesteak once a month for a year. Sounds like a win-win. Image: strangework.comThe pictures turned out adorably. Image: strangework.comI wouldn't advise doing the same with your favorite food, however, especially if your favorite food is ribs like me. Image: strangework.comAt first his son doesn't seem to notice. But Williams said he, "was quickly growing a dislike for cheesesteaks." After Williams tried to photograph him with the sandwich again for his second birthday, he, "wasn't having it." All photos can be found on his blog and they are cute. In the meanwhile, Williams says he hopes he hasn't, "scarred the kid for life." Us too, Brad. WATCH: This cat litter box is just like a washing machine
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| Thieves steal estimated millions in jewelry in real-life ‘Italian Job’ heist Posted: 06 Jan 2018 08:32 AM PST  A manhunt is underway for thieves who were caught on camera stealing jewels and gold belonging to the royal family of Qatar. The heist happened Wednesday in Venice, Italy at the Doge's Palace Museum.
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| Palestinians attack car of Greek Patriarch in protest against land deals Posted: 06 Jan 2018 06:45 AM PST ![Palestinians attack car of Greek Patriarch in protest against land deals]( "Palestinians attack car of Greek Patriarch in protest against land deals") Palestinian Christians on Saturday pummeled the car of the Greek Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem during a visit to the occupied West Bank in protest against the church's decision to sell land to Jewish groups. The Greek Orthodox church is one of the biggest private landowners in the Holy Land and in recent years has stirred controversy both among Israelis and Palestinians by trying to sell prime assets to private investors. Hundreds of Palestinians blocked Patriarch Theophilos III's convoy as he drove to a church in Bethlehem to attend an Orthodox Christmas mass.
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| People rally in solidarity with anti-government protests in Iran Posted: 06 Jan 2018 03:35 PM PST ![People rally in solidarity with anti-government protests in Iran]( "People rally in solidarity with anti-government protests in Iran") Hundreds of Iranians held rallies on Saturday in support of the anti-government protests in Iran, in cities including Washington, D.C., Stockholm, London, Paris and Berlin.
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| Report: SEC Probing Kushner Company Role In Visas-For-Money Program Posted: 06 Jan 2018 11:43 PM PST  As Donald Trump battles to build a wall to keep Mexican immigrants out of America, the Securities and Exchange Commission is probing the real estate company owned by Jared Kushner's family and its link to a lucrative federal visa program, The Wall Street Journal reported.
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| Texas couple ordered to pay enslaved nanny $121,000 Posted: 05 Jan 2018 07:49 PM PST ![Texas couple ordered to pay enslaved nanny $121,000]( "Texas couple ordered to pay enslaved nanny $121,000") HOUSTON (AP) — A Houston-area couple who pleaded guilty to federal charges related to forcing a Nigerian woman to work nearly 20 hours taking care of their home and five children without pay for two years was ordered Friday to pay her more than $121,000 in restitution.
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| Staff Interacted Several Times With Vegas Mass Shooter, Hotel Says Posted: 05 Jan 2018 08:33 PM PST  The staff at the Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino in Las Vegas either interacted with mass shooter Stephen Paddock or entered his room at least 10 times before the night he killed 58 people at a music festival from his suite, a hotel representative has reportedly revealed.
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| Plane Makes Emergency Landing Because of Man 'Spreading Feces Everywhere’ Posted: 05 Jan 2018 03:33 PM PST  Sometimes flying can be a dirty business — just ask the passengers on United Airlines flight 895
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| GOP tax change sparks creative counters in high-tax locales Posted: 06 Jan 2018 08:28 AM PST  Lawmakers in traditional Blue States are looking to morph taxes into "donations" so they can still be deducted from Federal returns after the new law limits deductibility.
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| Turkish Cypriots vote in snap legislative polls Posted: 07 Jan 2018 12:24 AM PST  Turkish Cypriots on Sunday voted in a snap parliamentary election overshadowed by last year's failure to reach a peace deal for the divided island in UN-backed talks. More than 190,500 people are registered to vote in the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC), established in the wake of Turkey's 1974 invasion of the island in response to an Athens-backed coup. The vote comes ahead of presidential polls later this month in the internationally recognised Greek-majority Republic of Cyprus with peace efforts on hold until both sets of elections are over.
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| Iran stages pro-government rallies, cleric urges punishment for protest leaders Posted: 05 Jan 2018 03:47 PM PST ![Iran stages pro-government rallies, cleric urges punishment for protest leaders]( "Iran stages pro-government rallies, cleric urges punishment for protest leaders") By Parisa Hafezi ANKARA (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of government supporters rallied across Iran on Friday, swearing allegiance to the clerical establishment and accusing arch-enemy the United States of instigating the biggest anti-government protests for nearly a decade, state TV reported. Tehran's Friday prayer leader called on authorities to deal "firmly" with those responsible for igniting over a week of demonstrations, in which 22 people have died and more than 1,000 have been arrested, according to Iranian officials. Khatami also called on the government to "pay more attention to people's economic problems." Protests erupted on Dec. 28 in the holy Shi'ite city of Mashhad after the government announced plans to raise fuel prices and cut monthly cash handouts to lower-income Iranians.
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| California Lawmakers Ready To Fight Against Federal Offshore Drilling Plan Posted: 05 Jan 2018 03:57 PM PST  Hours after President Donald Trump's administration unveiled plans to massively expand offshore drilling, California lawmakers announced they'll re-introduce legislation to block the federal government from doing so ― at least near their shores.
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| University of Illinois expert helps Puerto Rico libraries Posted: 05 Jan 2018 02:14 PM PST ![University of Illinois expert helps Puerto Rico libraries]( "University of Illinois expert helps Puerto Rico libraries") CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (AP) — A University of Illinois expert is helping libraries in Puerto Rico assess and repair collections that were damaged by Hurricane Maria.
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| Climate Change Has Quadrupled Ocean 'Dead Zones,' Researchers Warn Posted: 05 Jan 2018 09:03 PM PST  The size of oxygen-starved ocean "dead zones," where plants and animals struggle to survive, has increased fourfold around the world, according to a new scientific analysis.
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| Haley on North Korea: 'We want to always remind them, we can destroy you, too' Posted: 07 Jan 2018 04:25 AM PST  U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley discusses President Trump's response to North Korea on "This Week."
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| Little Boy's First Time Experiencing Snow Captured in Touching Video: 'Wow!' Posted: 05 Jan 2018 11:05 AM PST  While many were dreading the snowstorm that slammed the East Coast this week, Clayton Watkins was not among them.
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| Rohingya rebel ambush in Rakhine wounds 3: Myanmar army Posted: 06 Jan 2018 02:55 AM PST  Two Myanmar security officers and a driver were wounded by Rohingya rebels who ambushed their vehicle in northern Rakhine state, the army said Saturday, the first apparent insurgent attack to hit the violence-scarred region in weeks. Rakhine was plunged into crisis last August after a series of militant raids that killed at least a dozen officials prompted a brutal military crackdown that sent some 650,000 Rohingya Muslims fleeing to Bangladesh. While the army insists it only targeted Rohingya rebels, the UN has accused Myanmar troops of waging an ethnic cleansing campaign against the persecuted minority.
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| Trump's Vote Fraud Panel Won't Give Voter Information To Homeland Security Posted: 05 Jan 2018 09:05 PM PST  A lawyer for President Donald Trump's voter fraud commission indicated Friday that the panel will not turn over voter information it collected from states to the Department of Homeland Security.
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| Sculptures From This International Ice And Snow Festival Are Mind-Boggling Posted: 05 Jan 2018 03:13 PM PST  The world's largest ice festival began this week in Harbin, a city in the northeastern part of China.
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| Tiffany Trump says her father ‘wishes’ he ate McDonald's in bed every night Posted: 07 Jan 2018 01:50 AM PST  Tiffany Trump has said her father "wishes" he was able to eat McDonald's in bed every single night. Donald Trump's youngest daughter, who was raised separately from her siblings, was questioned about Michael Wolff's new book about life inside her father's White House. In Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House, Mr Wolff claims most days the US president prefers to be in bed by 6.30pm watching his three TV sets while eating a cheeseburger and speaking to confidants and friends on the phone.
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| Orlando shooter's wife 'knew he was planning attack', reports say Posted: 06 Jan 2018 11:13 AM PST  The wife of Omar Mateen, the gunman who killed 49 at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in June 2016, allegedly knew he was preparing for the deadly attack, according to reports of a handwritten statement she gave to the FBI. Hours after the shooting, Noor Salman is said to have told agents that she knew her husband's plans and that he was going to target the Orlando club when he left their home. "My fears had come true and he did what he said he was going to do. I was in denial and I could not believe that the father of my child was going to hurt other people," she wrote. "He said if he did jihad everybody would know who he is." The mother of one added that during the two-years before the attack, Mateen would look at jihad websites almost every day and watch beheading videos. He was angry and frustrated about treatment of Muslims in the Middle East and talked about retaliating against Americans. An undated file photo showing mass murderer Omar Mateen Credit: AFP/Getty Images However, it appeared the 12 page statement, which was released among a batch of papers relating to the case at the end of December and obtained by the Orlando Sentinel, was made without a lawyer present and before she was read her legal rights. Her lawyers have been fighting against the use of it in court. Prosecutors have said she was not under arrest and that all of her statements were voluntary. Ms Salman was arrested last year charged with providing material support to a terrorist and tampering with evidence and pleaded not guilty, claiming she was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. At that time she said Mateen abused her and that she was unaware of his plans. But in the earlier statement she wrote that Mateen bought a rifle about four days before the attack. She saw it in the trunk of his car and asked him about it. He told her not to say "anything to anybody," covered it up then said it was for his security guard job. Days ahead of the attack, Mateen, who died in the attack, bought ammunition and went to the shooting range "a lot," Ms Salman wrote. He also spent a large amount of money and made Ms Salman a beneficiary on his bank accounts, telling her it was "in case something happened," she wrote. In the statement, she described driving slowly by several destinations, including Disney World and Pulse nightclub, before the shooting. He asked Ms Salman when driving by Pulse, "How upset are people going to be when it gets attacked?" the statement said. Two days before the shooting, Ms Salman saw Mateen looking at the website for the club. When she saw what he was doing, he said, "this is my target," the statement reads. Ms Salman told FBI agents, "I knew that the time to attack the club was close." The night before the attack, he left the house and looked "pumped up," she wrote in the statement, adding he told her, "This is the one day." He had a handgun in a holster around his waist and put on a backpack that had ammunition inside, she wrote, adding she knew "this was the time that he was going to do something bad." "I knew when he left the house he was going to Orlando to attack the Pulse nightclub,"
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| Drug charity halts patient aid after U.S. health agency pulls approval Posted: 05 Jan 2018 10:52 AM PST ![Drug charity halts patient aid after U.S. health agency pulls approval]( "Drug charity halts patient aid after U.S. health agency pulls approval") One of the largest patient assistance charities in the United States said it will not provide financial aid in 2018 after the government revoked its approval to do so because of concerns that drugmakers had improper influence over the charity. Caring Voice Coalition's decision prompted the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Inspector General on Friday to announce it would allow drugmakers to provide free drugs in 2018 to patients the charity had helped.
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| What Really Happened To Luke At The End Of 'Star Wars: The Last Jedi' Posted: 06 Jan 2018 06:01 AM PST  Warning! "Star Wars: The Last Jedi" spoilers below.
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| Egypt Copts mark Christmas Eve after bloody year Posted: 06 Jan 2018 12:17 PM PST  Coptic Orthodox Christians packed Egypt's newly built Nativity of Christ Cathedral on Saturday for a Christmas Eve mass after a bloody year for a minority repeatedly targeted by jihadists. Police had bolstered security around the country's churches for days, especially at the cathedral east of Cairo where President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi came to pay his respects to the ancient community. Sisi said the cathedral, in a new administrative capital Egypt is building, was a "message to the world, a message of peace and a message of love".
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| Nikki Haley’s Diplomacy of Revenge Targets U.N. Relief Agency Posted: 05 Jan 2018 02:28 PM PST  The United States threatens to pull the plug on hundreds of millions of dollars in funding to the Palestinians.
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| Judge rejects request for new vote in Virginia House race Posted: 05 Jan 2018 05:36 PM PST  ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — A federal judge on Friday rejected a request for a new election that might have forced a 50-50 split in Virginia's House of Delegates, calling ballot mistakes cited by Democrats a "garden-variety" problem that doesn't merit federal intervention.
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| Just off Israeli highway, 500,000-year-old site found Posted: 06 Jan 2018 04:23 PM PST ![Just off Israeli highway, 500,000-year-old site found]( "Just off Israeli highway, 500,000-year-old site found") Israeli archaeologists announced Sunday they have uncovered a rare site dating back some half a million years -- just next to a modern highway and only several metres underground. Archaeologists envision the site at Jaljulia, northeast of Tel Aviv, as a sort of "paradise" for prehistoric hunter-gatherers, with a stream, vegetation and an abundance of animals. "It's hard to believe that between Jaljulia and highway 6, five metres below the surface, an ancient landscape some half of a million years old has been so amazingly preserved," Ran Barkai, head of Tel Aviv University's archaeology department, which participated in the dig, said in a statement.
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| Saudi king orders new allowances to offset rising cost of living Posted: 05 Jan 2018 03:09 PM PST  Saudi Arabia's King Salman on Saturday ordered a monthly payment of 1,000 riyals ($267) to state employees over the next year in compensation for rising cost of living after the government hiked domestic gas prices and introduced value-added tax (VAT). In a royal decree published by state news media, the king also ordered the payment of 5,000 riyals to military personnel serving at the front lines with Yemen where the kingdom is fighting a nearly three-year-old war. A 5 percent VAT on a broad range of goods and services came into effect the same day.
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| What to Know About and How to Buy Tron, the Latest Surging Cryptocurrency Posted: 05 Jan 2018 12:54 PM PST  Given its connections, this one is especially intriguing.
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| Past of 'cocaine cowboys' pilot may come back to haunt him Posted: 05 Jan 2018 10:35 AM PST  MIAMI (AP) — The colorful past of a pilot who has long bragged about flying loads of drugs for Colombian cartels during Miami's "cocaine cowboys" era in the 1980s may come back to haunt him in an auto fraud case.
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| United flight diverted to Alaska after man spreads feces in lavatories Posted: 05 Jan 2018 03:20 PM PST ![United flight diverted to Alaska after man spreads feces in lavatories]( "United flight diverted to Alaska after man spreads feces in lavatories") "We received a report of a passenger who had messed up the bathrooms with his own feces," Anchorage Airport Police Lieutenant Joe Gamache said by telephone. The man, a 22-year-old Vietnamese passport holder with U.S. residency, was escorted off the plane in handcuffs on Thursday night and met by law enforcement in the terminal, Gamache said. After being interviewed by authorities through a translator, he was transported to an Anchorage hospital for a mental evaluation.
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| How 'wi-fi' connects human brains and explains why people have 'gut feelings' Posted: 06 Jan 2018 01:30 PM PST  Humans brains are interconnected through type of 'wi-fi' which allows us to pick up far more information about other people than we are aware of, a leading professor claims. Prof Digby Tantum, Clinical Professor of Psychotherapy, at the University of Sheffield, believes that language plays only a part of in how humans communicate and that actually the brain is working hard to pick up tiny micro-signals that communicate what a person is thinking. It explains how people often have a 'gut feeling' or intuition about a person or situation even if they cannot logically determine why. And it may be the reason why commuters find it so difficult to maintain eye contact on a busy train. Too many people overloads the brain with too much subliminal information. In addition, it may also explain why laughter is infectious. Prof Digby Tantum Prof Tantum describes the phenomenon as 'The Interbrain' and outlines the theory in a new book of the same name. "We can know directly about other people's emotions and what they are paying attention to," he said. "It is based on the direct connection between our brains and other people's and between their brain and ours. I call this the interbrain. "One of its advantages is that the connection exists in the background. We take it for granted unless it is brought to the surface of our minds. "People with autism have little or no interbrain connection. They are often able to pick up or learn what expressions mean and yet that doesn't seem to solve the problem of that lack of human connection." Prof Tantum believes that the communication between brains may happen as an 'inadvertent leak' and it may be linked to smell. Areas of the brain which have the most activity of neurons are located in the prefrontal cortex, and are linked with smelling. They also are situated where they follow the gaze. Slight changes in a person's chemistry could, for example emit molecules which signal fear, illness or sexual arousal even if they are not saying or doing anything to suggest those states. Brain gain: 10 ways to think yourself younger "The input from the eyes gets carried to the back of the brain for processing but the receptors in the nose contact a thin extrusion of the brain tissue directly," added Prof Tantum. "The area of the brain that is closest to the nose is the orbitofrontal cortex. It might be there because so many of our most basic connections to other people are via smell." Prof Tantum also argues that the interbrain is the reason people are drawn to religions or feel the need to come together in huge crowds at football matches or concerts. "The experience of transcendence is one and this might be the root of spirituality and indeed what many people would consider the meaning of life," he said. "Being in crowd mode may also make us experience what it would be like to transcend out perspective, our time, our place and our capacity, to feel for a moment, like a driving being. It also may explain why some people commit atrocities like murder and terrorism. The book argues that feelings of hate, disgust, rage and contempt effectively switch off the interbrain, making it impossible to see a situation from another person's point of view. However Prof Tantum believes the internet could have a damaging effect on such communication, which has evolved over millions of years, and what probably sets humans apart from other animals "The face looking at you in the video chat is the face of someone seconds before," he said. "Even if you and they have excellent bandwith connection it is their face milliseconds before. "Emotional contagion occurs at the speed of light, not the speed of electronic transmission. Face-to-face visual input is accompanied by sound, by gesture, by the smell of sweat, by the possibility of touch, and by a connect. "So what is lacking in this vast network is an interbrain connection between its human participants."
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| Homeless clampdown sparks UK royal wedding row Posted: 05 Jan 2018 07:02 PM PST  In picturesque Windsor, in the shadow of the castle where Queen Elizabeth II spends her weekends, a dozen homeless people shelter from the cold in a jumble of blankets and cardboard boxes. Simon Dudley, the Conservative leader of the Royal Borough of Windsor and Maidenhead council, has urged the local Thames Valley Police force to take action against their "aggressive begging and intimidation". "A large number of adults that are begging in Windsor are not in fact homeless," he wrote in a letter, while those that were genuinely homeless had rejected secure accommodation in order to keep begging.
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| JLo and Alex Rodriguez’s Night Out With Their Kids Posted: 06 Jan 2018 11:10 AM PST  Jrod continues to showcase their beautiful blended family
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| Iran mocks Trump 'blunder' as government supporters rally Posted: 06 Jan 2018 05:43 AM PST  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — Iran's state TV on Saturday showed government supporters rallying a day after the foreign minister said a U.S. move to call an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting to discuss anti-government protests was another Trump administration "blunder."
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