| Here Are 6 Of John Bolton's Most Belligerent Op-Eds In Recent Years Posted: 22 Mar 2018 07:24 PM PDT  President Donald Trump named John Bolton, the former U.S. ambassador to the
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| Family Outraged After Police Fatally Shoot Man in Family's Backyard Posted: 21 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PDT  Authorities said officers believed he had a gun; he was holding a cellphone.
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| Think twice about tariffs, President Trump. Cheap imports keep your voters afloat. Posted: 22 Mar 2018 02:00 AM PDT  To the extent that Trump's tariffs jack up prices on imports at the big retailers, we're not just talking about an impact on household budgets. We're also pulling at one of the few remaining threads that may be keeping our society from spinning apart.
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| Surveillance video shows Vegas gunman methodically bringing suitcases of weapons to hotel room Posted: 22 Mar 2018 08:59 AM PDT  In the week before the Las Vegas mass shooting, Stephen Paddock brought at least 21 suitcases to his room at the Mandalay Bay hotel as he gradually amassed 23 guns and thousands of rounds of ammo.
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| Austin Bomber Is A Terrorist Of Our Own Making Posted: 23 Mar 2018 05:57 AM PDT  It's been a hell of a few weeks here in Austin, Texas, and the last one was
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| Sacramento Police release footage of fatal shooting of unarmed black man Posted: 22 Mar 2018 08:26 AM PDT  On Wednesday, the Sacramento Police Department in California released videos of the March 18 fatal shooting of Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man who was shot as many as 20 times by officers.
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| Retired 4-Star General: 'Simply Outrageous' That Jared Kushner Represents America Posted: 22 Mar 2018 02:35 AM PDT  Retired four-star Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey did not mince his words on
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| Man Rips School Superintendent During Board Meeting, Accusing Him of Bullying When They Were Students Posted: 22 Mar 2018 10:57 AM PDT  Gregg Barrett says he was tormented over his last name, Gay, by Dr. Lance Hindt, and even considered suicide at 13.
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| How Authorities Caught the Austin Bomber Mark Anthony Conditt Posted: 22 Mar 2018 06:58 AM PDT  Conditt's 'fatal mistake' was going into a FedEx store, police say
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| Dashcam Footage Of Fatal Autonomous Uber Crash Released [UPDATE] Posted: 21 Mar 2018 04:58 PM PDT ![Dashcam Footage Of Fatal Autonomous Uber Crash Released [UPDATE]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_vHCVkzBE018yr4Njx_xPSKDbIG0cDoy5ILYh7PLz-BCIWZNC02b8VGcdOSl9sWV9U1Zjnyq9qDR5UG_sdCCHpqsHnTm0r6ZRIxBZnxAzLPClBb10NS5wVAc0hbdzAp8PtV2kVI8xyruGBg9_p60ZgZ7Ea95zt7xNmVNsVgUNurWsC9DDbkeWm0nYYjKhXP0s5q4fZSMlE5i6KKXc83cvNWvUxjELAtlZBwXAqYuqf8m9SLTnAWvH9vIbmiVbDjiyJs3s5Us0bIGPEoKaR4KgAr94toDmFS=s0-d "Dashcam Footage Of Fatal Autonomous Uber Crash Released [UPDATE]") Driver and vehicle still not believed to be at fault.
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| Footage Shows The Moment Cops Fatally Shot Unarmed Black Man Stephon Clark Posted: 21 Mar 2018 04:55 PM PDT  Police helicopter and body camera footage shows the moment two California cops
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| Schiff: Bolton Likely to Exaggerate Trump's Dangerous Impulses Posted: 22 Mar 2018 02:05 PM PDT  Rep. Adam Schiff, top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, offers his reaction to the news that Donald Trump intends to make John Bolton his new national security adviser.
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| 44 African nations sign pact establishing free trade area Posted: 21 Mar 2018 11:42 AM PDT  Forty-four African countries have signed an agreement establishing a free trade area seen as vital to the continent's economic development, the head of the African Union said Wednesday. The creation of a free trade area -- billed as the world's largest in terms of participating countries -- comes after two years of negotiations, and is one of the AU's flagship projects for greater African integration. "We have come here to fulfil the aspiration of our peoples for integration and unity," said Moussa Faki Mahamat, chairman of the AU commission.
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| Protests Shut Down Sacramento Kings Game, Freeways Over Stephon Clark's Death Posted: 22 Mar 2018 09:49 PM PDT  Outraged over the latest police shooting of an unarmed black man, hundreds of
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| The Latest: EU recalls envoy for consultations on spy attack Posted: 22 Mar 2018 05:49 PM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — The latest on the poisoning of an ex-Russian spy in Britain (all times local):
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| Mercury Is Entering Retrograde Again. This Is Why So Many People Care Posted: 22 Mar 2018 06:00 AM PDT  Apparent retrograde motion of planets has been seen for centuries, but there's a reason more people have started to care in recent years
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| In court, oil company admits reality of human-caused global warming, denies guilt Posted: 22 Mar 2018 08:10 AM PDT  On Thursday, in a packed federal courthouse in San Francisco, U.S. District Court Judge William Alsup donned a space-themed tie and listened as scientists and lawyers formally presented the fundamentals of climate science. The hearing, dubbed a "tutorial" by Judge Alsup, marked the first time a judge has ever asked for and heard a presentation of climate science for the purposes of deciding a court case. The case Alsup is presiding over involves several fossil fuel companies and two major cities — San Francisco and Oakland. The cities are suing the world's oil giants — Chevron, BP, Shell, and others — for extracting and selling fuels that the companies knew would stoke climate change and sea level rise. Adapting to these changes requires massive infrastructure undertakings, such as building formidable concrete sea walls, and the coastal cities want Big Oil to pay. SEE ALSO: What you learn by giving 200 Senate speeches on climate change Judge Alsup gave each side two hours to present charts, data, and research on both the history of climate science and "the best science now available on global warming, glacier melt, sea rise, and coastal flooding." Although Alsup made clear from the outset that the event was not a trial of climate science — but a climate lesson for himself — the evidence provided likely foreshadows the arguments both sides will make during the actual trial. While admitting the reality of human-caused global warming, lawyers for Chevron (the other oil giants have two weeks to tell Alsup if they agree with Chevron's science presentation) presented outdated science and repeatedly emphasized uncertainties about how fossil fuel emissions will affect global warming. They also presented climate change as a global problem requiring a global solution, foreshadowing a defense strategy of arguing that no single company should be held liable for climate change-related damages. "Oil companies basically went from a climate deniers playbook," said Kassie Siegel, director of the Climate Law Institute , in an interview . "They overemphasized and overstated really narrow issues of uncertainty about the effects of global warming." Glad I got here early! Big crowd for climate science hearing in SF today #ClimateTrial pic.twitter.com/5YvwUI0D9J — Amy Westervelt (@amywestervelt) March 21, 2018 For instance, the oil companies' lawyer, Ted Boutrous, cited a U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report from 1990, which stated that the observed increase in global temperature could just be due to natural shifts in the planet's climate. Nearly three decades have since passed, however, and confidence has grown about tying increasing temperatures to fossil fuel burning. A federal climate report published in late 2017, for example, found that there is no natural explanation for recent global warming. "This assessment concludes, based on extensive evidence, that it is extremely likely that human activities, especially emissions of greenhouse gases, are the dominant cause of the observed warming since the mid-20th century," the report said. "For the warming over the last century, there is no convincing alternative explanation supported by the extent of the observational evidence." As Don Wuebbles, a former White House climate science advisor and atmospheric scientist, said during the tutorial, 17 of the last 18 years have been the warmest years on record. The instrumental climate record began in the late 1800s, although researchers have far longer climate timelines gleaned from tree rings, ice cores, and other so-called "proxy" sources. While three climate scientists presented climate science basics for the plaintiffs, the defendants relied exclusively upon Boutrous, who has previously defended both Walmart and the Standard Fire Insurance Company before the U.S. Supreme Court, to inform the judge about the nuances of climate science. "I don't know if Ted Boutrous has a background in climate science, but he has a background in spin," Siegel said. Alsup grilling Chevron on rate of change of sea level rise. Chevron says sea level has been rising for centuries, nothing new. Plaintiffs' experts presented evidence that it's dramatically increased in recent years, fueled by climate change. #ClimateTutorial @ClimateLawNews — Amy Westervelt (@amywestervelt) March 21, 2018 Chevron and the other oil companies may have a difficult time finding scientists who will, in a federal court, make scientific statements about climate change that oil companies find agreeable. "The oil companies are now in a real pickle," said Siegel, noting that climate scientists have previously made false or misleading statements on behalf of oil companies. Publicly, most of these companies now admit that climate change is occurring, even if they continue to sell more oil and gas that contributes to the problem. "It's a lot harder to lie to the court under penalty of perjury," said Siegel. Richard Wiles, Executive Director of the Center for Climate Integrity, agrees. "The fact that Chevron's lawyer, rather than an actual climate scientist, provided the court with its version of climate history suggests that the industry could not find a scientist willing to carry its water," Wiles said in a statement. NASA satellite data observations showing sea level rise from 1993 to the present.Image: nasaOnly scientists, however, presented evidence for the plaintiffs. Along with Wuebbles, geoscientist Myles Allen, who leads Oxford University's Climate Dynamics Group, and Gary Griggs, a professor of earth sciences at University of California at Santa Cruz, presented climate science information to Alsup. Griggs noted that significant sea level rise has been measured just miles from the courthouse near the San Francisco shore, and Allen delivered quotes from Svante Arrhenius, a scientist who in 1895 noted that carbon dioxide emissions could have a warming effect on the Earth. As for what comes next, the oil companies have filed a motion asking Alsup to dismiss the case. If this were to happen, there would be no trial, said Michael Burger, executive director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law at Columbia University, via email. But if things proceed, the next step will likely be discovery, wherein plaintiffs and defendants exchange information that will be used as evidence in the trial. During the past few years, as climate change-related litigation has increased, oil companies have gone to great lengths to avoid the discovery process, since it could reveal what oil companies knew about climate change, when they knew it, and what they told the public and their shareholders about it. The tutorial event may have been unprecedented, but the case is just one of many current lawsuits against oil companies. Across the country, New York City is also suing the same oil companies for damage caused by human-caused climate change. "Taxpayers around the country should ask themselves whether they want to foot the bill for climate impacts that scientists now attribute directly to the oil and gas industry or demand that polluters pay for the damages they've caused," Wiles said. WATCH: 'Supercolony' of 1.5m penguins discovered in Antarctica
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| Man Dies After Getting Head Stuck In Movie Theater Seat Posted: 21 Mar 2018 11:44 AM PDT  A man who got his head stuck in a reclining movie seat has died as a result of
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| Chinese navy to carry out combat drills in South China Sea Posted: 23 Mar 2018 12:15 AM PDT ![Chinese navy to carry out combat drills in South China Sea]( "Chinese navy to carry out combat drills in South China Sea") China's navy will carry out combat drills in the South China Sea, the military's official newspaper said on Friday, describing the move as part of regular annual exercises. Taiwan's defense ministry said this week it had shadowed a Chinese aircraft carrier group traversing the Taiwan Strait in a southwesterly direction - meaning into the disputed South China Sea - in what Taiwan judged to be a drill. China's navy and air force frequently carry out drills in the South China Sea, where the government has been building man-made islands and constructing airstrips and other facilities, unnerving the region.
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| Police officers save life of choking baby in body camera footage Posted: 22 Mar 2018 06:01 AM PDT  A police body camera captured the moment two officers saved the life of a two-month-old girl who was choking on milk. Officers Ryan Sidders and Alex Oklander rushed to help the baby, who had stopped breathing, after noticing her mother in distress at the roadside in Ohio. In the footage, Mr Oklander is seen pulling the baby out of her car seat as his partner is heard saying "she's choking".
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| Former Mormon Missionary Center Leader Accused Of Sexual Assault Posted: 22 Mar 2018 04:07 PM PDT  Years-old sexual abuse allegations against a former Mormon missionary leader
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| Lone Nigerian captive refused to convert for Boko Haram Posted: 22 Mar 2018 01:04 PM PDT  LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — The mother of the only Nigerian schoolgirl still in Boko Haram captivity after the extremists released 104 classmates said Thursday her daughter was blocked from boarding the vehicle to freedom and told to convert to Islam.
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| At Least 13 People Have Died in a Fire at a High-Rise Apartment Building in Vietnam Posted: 23 Mar 2018 12:14 AM PDT  Officials have yet to determine what caused the condominium fire
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| Mark Zuckerberg Says He May Never Be 'The Right Person' To Testify Before Congress Posted: 22 Mar 2018 12:09 PM PDT  When will Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg agree to answer questions
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| Latest: Shooting victim dies after removal of life support Posted: 23 Mar 2018 07:05 AM PDT  GREAT MILLS, Md. (AP) — The Latest on a shooting at a southern Maryland school (all times local):
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| China should prepare for military action over Taiwan: Chinese paper Posted: 22 Mar 2018 10:59 AM PDT  By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - China should prepare for military action over self-ruled Taiwan and pressure Washington over cooperation on North Korea after the United States passed a law to boost ties with Taiwan, a widely read Chinese state-run newspaper said on Thursday. Beijing was infuriated when U.S. President Donald Trump signed legislation last week that encourages the United States to send senior officials to Taiwan to meet Taiwanese counterparts and vice versa. Beijing has also been upset by Trump's threats to impose trade restrictions on China over its huge trade surplus with the United States.
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| See How These Recent Eindhoven Graduates Are Changing The Game Posted: 23 Mar 2018 05:00 AM PDT |
| Charles Lazarus, Founder of Toys R Us, Dies at 94 Posted: 22 Mar 2018 12:04 PM PDT  Charles Lazarus opened what would become the first Toys R Us store in 1948.
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| Sacramento Police Said They Were Making Changes. Then They Killed Stephon Clark. Posted: 22 Mar 2018 11:29 AM PDT  Twenty times. Sacramento Police officers shot Stephon Clark, a young black
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| John Dowd Resigns As Trump's Lead Lawyer In Russia Probe Posted: 22 Mar 2018 08:37 AM PDT  John Dowd resigned Thursday as President Donald Trump's lead attorney assigned
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| Here's What Kim Cattrall Has to Say About Her Sex and the City Co-Star Cynthia Nixon's Run for Governor Posted: 22 Mar 2018 12:16 PM PDT  From Sex and the City to running the city
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| How To Cook A Precooked Ham Posted: 23 Mar 2018 02:45 AM PDT  If an Easter ham is the crowning glory of your table every spring, it may be
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| Vietnam halts South China Sea oil drilling project under pressure from Beijing Posted: 23 Mar 2018 04:30 AM PDT  By James Pearson and Henning Gloystein HANOI/SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Vietnam has halted an oil drilling project in the "Red Emperor" block off its southeastern coast licensed to Spanish energy firm Repsol following pressure from China, three sources with direct knowledge of the situation told Reuters on Friday. It would be the second time in less than a year that Vietnam has had to suspend a major oil development in the busy South China Sea waterway under pressure from China. A source with direct knowledge of the situation said government ministries in Vietnam had paused the project while the decision-making politburo debates whether to suspend or indefinitely terminate the contract.
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| Pacific plastic dump far larger than feared: study Posted: 22 Mar 2018 10:06 AM PDT  The vast dump of plastic waste swirling in the Pacific ocean is now bigger than France, Germany and Spain combined -- far larger than previously feared -- and is growing rapidly, a study published Thursday warned. Researchers based in the Netherlands used a fleet of boats and aircraft to scan the immense accumulation of bottles, containers, fishing nets and microparticles known as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" (GPGP) and found an astonishing build-up of plastic waste. "We found about 80,000 tonnes of buoyant plastic currently in the GPGP," Laurent Lebreton, lead author of the study published in the journal Scientific Reports, told AFP.
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| In world first, Air India crosses Saudi airspace to Israel Posted: 22 Mar 2018 11:04 PM PDT  Air India launched on Thursday the first scheduled service to Israel to be allowed to cross Saudi airspace, a sign of a behind-the-scenes improvement in ties between the Arab kingdom and the Jewish state. "It is the first time that there is an official connection between the state of Israel and Saudi Arabia," he said in Hebrew. There will now be three flights weekly in each direction, ending a decades-long Saudi ban on the use of its airspace for commercial flights to Israel.
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| Fired officer who killed unarmed black man to get back pay Posted: 22 Mar 2018 05:30 PM PDT  CINCINNATI (AP) — A white police officer fired after he fatally shot a black unarmed motorist will get about $344,000 in back pay and legal fees from the University of Cincinnati, the school said Thursday.
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| Trump's Next National Security Adviser, John Bolton, Is As Dangerous As You Remembered Posted: 22 Mar 2018 03:36 PM PDT  WASHINGTON -- John Bolton, who President Donald Trump said on Thursday will
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| Spending Bill Would Prevent Employers From Pocketing Workers' Tips Posted: 22 Mar 2018 09:07 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Tucked into the $1.3 trillion spending bill unveiled by
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| United Gives Passenger a Staggering $10,000 Voucher to Give Up Seat Posted: 23 Mar 2018 05:38 AM PDT  Allison Preiss was shocked at the offer.
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| Petersen Automotive Museum to host ‘Outlaw’ Porsche Panel Posted: 22 Mar 2018 02:08 PM PDT  Celebrating all things underground Porsche culture with a new 'Outlaw' panel, the Petersen Automotive museum will host craftsmen and icons from the Porsche Hot Rod world during an exclusive event
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| These Are The Biggest Marches In U.S. History Posted: 22 Mar 2018 02:04 PM PDT  On Feb. 14, a lone gunman entered the halls of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High
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