| Dreamers Need More Cities And States Ready To Defy Trump Posted: 04 Feb 2018 09:35 AM PST  Earlier this week, President Donald Trump sucker punched beneficiaries of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program by reminding them that he considers them to be nothing more than "illegal immigrants," simultaneously declaring that American citizens are the ones worthy of being called "Dreamers."
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| After Weeks of Build-Up, Mixed-Reaction to GOP's Controversial Memo Posted: 04 Feb 2018 01:05 AM PST  Ali Vitali joins Eugene Robinson to discuss the fallout from the House Republican's decision to release a controversial memo outlining intelligence practices.
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| 2-year-old girl dies after being found 'frozen' on family's front porch Posted: 05 Feb 2018 07:55 AM PST  The child was rushed to Akron Children's Hospital, where she was later pronounced dead. Neighbor Christal Lucas told WKYC that the unnamed mother has two young children, who she often sees roaming outside unsupervised.
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| A Suspected Serial Killer May Have Targeted Toronto's Gay Village For Years Posted: 03 Feb 2018 04:31 PM PST  Toronto police think they've caught a serial killer.
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| Brennan: Steele Dossier 'did not play any role whatsoever' in early intelligence assesements Posted: 03 Feb 2018 11:01 PM PST  In an exclusive interview on Meet the Press, former CIA Director John Brennan says that the so-called "Steele Dossier" wasn't the source of intelligence presented to President Obama and President-elect Trump
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| Oil tanker with 22 Indian crew missing in Gulf of Guinea since Friday Posted: 04 Feb 2018 09:17 AM PST ![Oil tanker with 22 Indian crew missing in Gulf of Guinea since Friday]( "Oil tanker with 22 Indian crew missing in Gulf of Guinea since Friday") By Edward McAllister and Rajendra Jadhav DAKAR/MUMBAI (Reuters) - A ship carrying 22 Indian crew and 13,500 tons of gasoline is missing in the Gulf of Guinea after contact was lost in Benin on Friday, the company and India's minister of external affairs said on Sunday. The Gulf of Guinea has become an increasing target for pirates who steal cargo and demand ransoms, even as piracy incidents fall worldwide, experts say. The Marine Express tanker, managed by Hong Kong-based Anglo-Eastern, was last see in Benin's waters at 3:30 a.m. GMT on Friday after which contact was lost, an Anglo Eastern spokesman told Reuters.
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| The Latest: 'Screams and crying' followed Amtrak train crash Posted: 04 Feb 2018 02:42 PM PST  CAYCE, S.C. (AP) — The Latest on a deadly Amtrak train crash in South Carolina (all times local):
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| Republican House Intel member says memo isn't an 'attack on Bob Mueller' Posted: 04 Feb 2018 04:14 AM PST  Rep. Will Hurd, R-Texas, weighs in on why he voted to release the controversial GOP memo that alleges abuse of the country's spying program, but not the Democratic counter memo.
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| An Actual Nazi Is About To Be The Only GOP Candidate In A Congressional Race Posted: 05 Feb 2018 02:37 AM PST  A former leader in the American Nazi Party is about to get the Republican nomination for a U.S. congressional seat in Illinois.
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| Mike Pence to stop North Korea 'hijacking' Winter Olympics, aide says Posted: 04 Feb 2018 07:30 AM PST  North and South Korea will march under one flag at the Games. The vice-president, Mike Pence, will stop North Korea "hijacking" the Winter Olympics, an aide said on Sunday, by using his own presence at the Games to remind the world "everything the North Koreans do at the Olympics is a charade to cover up the fact that they are the most tyrannical and oppressive regime on the planet".
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| Lost Mayan City Discovered Under Guatemala Jungle Posted: 03 Feb 2018 11:07 AM PST  The discovery suggests that millions more lived there than previously thought
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| Defiant Paris attacks suspect 'trusts in Allah' Posted: 05 Feb 2018 08:42 AM PST  The only surviving suspect in the 2015 Paris attacks accused a Belgian court on Monday of bias against Muslims, saying he put his "trust in Allah" as he went on trial for a deadly shootout with police. Salah Abdeslam, 28, cut a defiant figure at the court while refusing to stand for the judge or to answer questions about the bloody gunbattle in Brussels that led to his capture in 2016. The Belgian-born French national of Moroccan descent was transferred to Brussels under police escort from a jail near Paris to answer charges of attempted terrorist murder of police officers.
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| Concussions and Protests: Football's popularity drops Posted: 03 Feb 2018 09:45 PM PST Poll numbers show the National Football League and, more broadly, the game of football itself facing real questions coming into 2018
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| U.S. forces begin reducing numbers in Iraq: Iraqi spokesman Posted: 05 Feb 2018 03:44 AM PST ![U.S. forces begin reducing numbers in Iraq: Iraqi spokesman]( "U.S. forces begin reducing numbers in Iraq: Iraqi spokesman") U.S. forces have begun reducing their numbers in Iraq after Iraqi authorities declared "victory" over Islamic State, an Iraqi government spokesman said on Monday. Iraqi forces backed by a U.S.-led international coalition last year captured all the territory that fell under Islamic State control in 2014 and 2015, including the northern city of Mosul, which served as the militants' de facto capital. "The American forces have begun reducing their numbers as victory has been achieved over Daesh," the spokesman told Reuters.
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| Black Lives Matter Protesters Arrested Blocking Transit To Super Bowl Posted: 04 Feb 2018 06:00 PM PST  Minneapolis police on Sunday apprehended Black Lives Matter protesters and supporters who blocked or chained themselves along a light rail transit line near U.S. Bank Stadium, temporarily halting trains carrying fans to the Super Bowl.
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| Ram Super Bowl Ad Used MLK Quote To Sell Trucks And People Are Not Happy Posted: 04 Feb 2018 06:40 PM PST  Dodge Ram tried to use a Martin Luther King Jr. speech to sell trucks in a Super Bowl advertisement on Sunday.
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| Man Charged With Selling Armor-Piercing Bullets to Las Vegas Shooter Stephen Paddock Posted: 03 Feb 2018 11:14 AM PST  He said he had no idea what Stephen Paddock would do.
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| North Korea slams Trump's State of the Union address Posted: 04 Feb 2018 06:26 AM PST  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Sunday slammed President Donald Trump's State of the Union address and said its nuclear capabilities would "deter Trump and his lackeys from showing off on the Korean peninsula."
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| Syrian rebels down Russian plane, kill pilot Posted: 03 Feb 2018 02:41 PM PST ![Syrian rebels down Russian plane, kill pilot]( "Syrian rebels down Russian plane, kill pilot") By Suleiman Al-Khalidi and Polina Devitt AMMAN/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Syrian rebels shot down a Russian warplane on Saturday and killed its pilot on the ground after he ejected from the plane, Russia's defense ministry and Syrian rebels said. The SU-25 came down in an area of northern Idlib province that has seen heavy air strikes and fighting on the ground between Syria's government forces backed by Russia and Iran, and rebel groups opposed to President Bashar al-Assad. Syrians opposed to Assad see Russia as an invading force they blame for the deaths of thousands of civilians since Moscow joined the war on the side of the government in 2015.
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| Warren Buffett on hand as Navy commissions newest warship Posted: 04 Feb 2018 03:37 AM PST  SAN DIEGO (AP) — The U.S. Navy on Saturday commissioned its newest warship, the USS Omaha, a futuristic, $440 million vessel named for the Nebraska hometown of billionaire Warren Buffett, who was on hand for the ceremony.
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| A Controversial Bill Would Allow Chemical Castration of Sex Offenders in Oklahoma Posted: 03 Feb 2018 01:03 PM PST  Only seven states have similar laws
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| Israel 'legalising' rogue settlement in response to murder: Netanyahu Posted: 04 Feb 2018 02:44 AM PST  Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said ministers would grant formal authorisation Sunday to a rogue West Bank settlement in response to the murder last month of a rabbi who lived there. "The government will today regularise the status of Havat Gilad to allow the continuance of normal life there," he said at the start of the weekly cabinet meeting, referring to the wildcat settlement in the occupied West Bank. Rabbi Raziel Shevah was shot dead near Havat Gilad, where he lived, on January 9.
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| Court hands Vietnam oil official another life sentence for corruption Posted: 04 Feb 2018 09:32 PM PST ![Court hands Vietnam oil official another life sentence for corruption]( "Court hands Vietnam oil official another life sentence for corruption") A high-profile former Vietnamese oil executive was sentenced to life in jail for embezzlement on Monday, two weeks after was also imprisoned for life on similar charges in a separate case, state media reported. Trinh Xuan Thanh, a former official whom Germany said was kidnapped by Vietnamese agents in a Berlin park in scenes reminiscent of the Cold War, was jailed for life for embezzling assets form Petroleum Power Property JSC (PV Power Land), the state-run Voice of Vietnam news website reported. Thanh was a former chairman of PetroVietnam Construction.
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| Not just boy and girl; more teens identify as transgender Posted: 04 Feb 2018 10:18 PM PST  CHICAGO (AP) — Far more U.S. teens than previously thought are transgender or identify themselves using other nontraditional gender terms, with many rejecting the idea that girl and boy are the only options, new research suggests.
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| Wild Scene In Philadelphia After Eagles Win Super Bowl Posted: 04 Feb 2018 09:12 PM PST  Fans in Philadelphia promptly took to the streets on Sunday night after the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the New England Patriots, 41-33, for the team's first Super Bowl championship.
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| Russian pilot killed after plane downed over Syria Posted: 03 Feb 2018 06:20 PM PST  A Russian pilot was killed Saturday in fighting with Islamists after his warplane was downed over northwest Syria, Russia's defence ministry and a monitor said. Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), a powerful jihadist-dominated alliance said, on an affiliated media channel it had shot down the plane but made no mention of the pilot.
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| Congo rebel leader extradited from Tanzania to face trial Posted: 05 Feb 2018 02:33 AM PST ![Congo rebel leader extradited from Tanzania to face trial]( "Congo rebel leader extradited from Tanzania to face trial") A renegade Congolese colonel who had threatened to depose President Joseph Kabila has been extradited from Tanzania and will be prosecuted for rebellion, Congo's defence minister told Reuters on Monday. In a video circulated on social media last month, John Tshibangu, who had been based in the east of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), gave the president a 45-day ultimatum to leave or "we are going to take Kabila down". "John Tshibangu is in Kinshasa.
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| Mexico: 300 migrants found in dangerously cramped trucks Posted: 03 Feb 2018 01:29 PM PST ![Mexico: 300 migrants found in dangerously cramped trucks]( "Mexico: 300 migrants found in dangerously cramped trucks") MEXICO CITY (AP) — Three hundred Central American migrants being transported in dangerous conditions in tractor-trailers were rescued in two Gulf coast states, Mexican authorities reported Saturday.
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| Hyundai reveals world-first driverless fuel cell vehicle Posted: 05 Feb 2018 05:06 AM PST  Hyundai is a motor manufacturer that's certainly not afraid to try something new, whether it's dipping its toe into a new segment of the market or trying out some cutting-edge new technology. Well, now the South Korean automaker has just achieved a world-first by driving a fleet of level 4 autonomous vehicles powered by hydrogen fuel cells completely autonomously on a 118-mile journey from Seoul to Pyeongchang. Until this groundbreaking feat was achieved, driverless vehicles had only been demonstrated at limited speed on specially selected sections of South Korea's roads.
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| Europe must brake mounting nuclear arms race: Germany Posted: 04 Feb 2018 09:33 AM PST  Europe must lead the way in pushing for nuclear disarmament after Washington proposed upgrading and expanding the United States' nuclear arsenal, German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel said Sunday. "As in the times of the Cold War, we in Europe are especially endangered" by "a renewed nuclear arms race", Gabriel said. Gabriel was responding to a so-called Nuclear Posture Review released Friday by the Pentagon that details the US military's vision of nuclear threats and its response in the coming decades.
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| US investigator of ivory, rhino horn trade killed in Kenya Posted: 05 Feb 2018 09:49 AM PST  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Esmond Bradley Martin, a Kenya-based American conservationist whose dogged investigations of the elephant ivory and rhino horn trades over decades were seen as critical in efforts to protect the threatened species, was found stabbed to death in his Nairobi home, Kenyan authorities said Monday.
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| Trump's Super Bowl Party Features Scantily Clad Cheerleaders And Melania Posted: 04 Feb 2018 05:40 PM PST  President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump greeted cheerleaders as the couple hosted a Super Bowl watch party at Trump International Golf Club near West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sunday.
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| 5-Year-Old Girl Permanently Disfigured in Voodoo Ritual, Police Say Posted: 03 Feb 2018 01:15 PM PST  The little girl was permanently disfigured as a result of the burns
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| Chicago West Makes Her Debut In Kylie Jenner's Baby Announcement Posted: 05 Feb 2018 06:42 AM PST  After months of speculation, Kylie Jenner announced Sunday that she and boyfriend Travis Scott welcomed a baby girl on Feb. 1.
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| Battle over bodies rages quietly in Iraq's Mosul long after Islamic State defeat Posted: 05 Feb 2018 01:45 AM PST ![Battle over bodies rages quietly in Iraq's Mosul long after Islamic State defeat]( "Battle over bodies rages quietly in Iraq's Mosul long after Islamic State defeat") By Raya Jalabi MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - The Iraqis who have come home to Mosul's Old City knew it would be hard living in the rubble left by the battle against Islamic State, but there is one aspect of their surroundings they are finding unbearable seven months on. "I don't want my children to have to walk past dead bodies in the street every day," said Abdelrazaq Abdullah, back with his wife and three children in the quarter where the militants made their last stand in July against Iraqi and U.S.-led coalition forces. "We can live without electricity, but we need the government to clear the corpses – they're spreading disease and reminding us of the horrors we've just lived through." The stench of death wafts from rubble-filled corners in the dystopian wasteland of what was once West Mosul, from rusting cars still rigged with explosives and from homes abandoned as those who could, fled the bloody end of the militants three-year rule.
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| Man dies after rescuing 9-year-old son from aqueduct in Hesperia Posted: 04 Feb 2018 11:49 PM PST  The body of a man was found by dive teams in the California Aqueduct in Hesperia on Sunday after he jumped in to save his child.
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| Top Asian News 5:32 p.m. GMT Posted: 05 Feb 2018 09:32 AM PST ![Top Asian News 5:32 p.m. GMT]( "Top Asian News 5:32 p.m. GMT") TOKYO (AP) — A Japanese military helicopter crashed in southwestern Japan on Monday, killing one of its two crewmembers and ripping the top floor off a house and setting it on fire, officials said. The other crewmember was missing and one resident of the house was injured slightly. The Boeing AH-64 combat helicopter, belonging to the Ground Self-Defense Force's Metabaru training camp, crashed in Kanzaki city in Saga prefecture seven minutes after taking off on a test flight after routine maintenance, defense officials said. The Defense Ministry said the copilot suffered heart and lung failure and was later pronounced dead, and the pilot was missing.
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| Bodies of around 20 migrants recovered from sea: Spanish official Posted: 04 Feb 2018 02:17 AM PST  Moroccan rescue services have recovered the bodies of around 20 migrants in the Mediterranean, a spokeswoman for the Spanish enclave of Melilla said Sunday. The bodies of the migrants, from sub-Saharan Africa, were spotted Saturday by a Spanish ship, which alerted the rescue services of both countries, the spokeswoman said. Late Saturday, a Spanish police patrol boat found one more body, which was taken to Melilla, a Spanish enclave bordering Morocco.
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| China slams "wild guesses" in US nuclear review Posted: 04 Feb 2018 03:45 AM PST  China said Sunday it is "firmly opposed" to the United States' new nuclear weapons policy statement, describing its speculation about Chinese intentions as "wild guesses". The US Defense Department's Nuclear Posture Review released Friday outlines the Pentagon's nuclear ambitions under President Donald Trump, while spelling out how it foresees nuclear threats in the coming decades. Although the review largely focuses on Russia, several sections are dedicated to the lack of transparency in China's nuclear buildup.
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| School system's appeals process leaves some minorities out Posted: 03 Feb 2018 02:45 PM PST  McLEAN, Va. (AP) — It's an annual rite in Fairfax County, which has one of the wealthiest, best-educated populations in America: Hundreds of second-graders troop off to private psychologists for IQ tests to prove they're worthy of advanced academic programs in the public schools.
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| Indianapolis Colts' Edwin Jackson Killed By Suspected Drunk Driver Posted: 05 Feb 2018 03:23 AM PST  Indianapolis Colts linebacker Edwin Jackson and another man were struck and killed on the side of an Indiana interstate highway early Sunday by a suspected drunk driver, police said.
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| Hitler book, supremacist flag found in Italy suspect's home Posted: 04 Feb 2018 05:47 PM PST  MILAN (AP) — A right-wing extremist suspected of shooting six Africans in central Italy was "lucid and determined, aware of what he had done" and exhibited no remorse, an Italian law enforcement official said Sunday.
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| House intelligence panel to take up Democratic memo Posted: 05 Feb 2018 07:09 AM PST ![House intelligence panel to take up Democratic memo]( "House intelligence panel to take up Democratic memo") The House Intelligence Committee prepared on Monday to take up a Democratic response to a recently released Republican memo that alleges FBI bias against President Donald Trump, who accused the panel's top Democrat of leaking confidential information. The Republican memo, declassified by the White House on Friday, has fueled a battle between Trump and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which argued against the document's release, citing concerns over its accuracy and the omission of facts.
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