| A Climate Change Litmus Test For Democrats Posted: 04 Mar 2018 05:00 AM PST  In April 2016, at a campaign stop on the campus of SUNY Purchase, just north of New York City, I filmed a short video of Hillary Clinton. The video quickly went viral, partly because of the outsized response from a famously tight-lipped politician, partly because it played so well into the Democratic primary narrative that pitted Clinton, buddy-buddy with Wall Street, against the people-powered challenge of Sen. Bernie Sanders. The furor that the video generated sprang from fissures in the Democratic Party that perfunctory resistance to President Donald Trump has only papered over.
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| At least eight dead after Nor’easter slams east coast Posted: 03 Mar 2018 07:55 AM PST  Massachusetts is under a state of emergency, with residents along the coast battling cold, wind and flooding, and more than a million across the Northeast are without power.
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| Gun debate roils U.S. Posted: 02 Mar 2018 11:52 AM PST  Nowhere in the world do citizens have access to guns as they do in America. Although the U.S. makes up 4.4 percent of the world's population, it owns nearly half the world's guns.
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| 5 Avalanche Victims Rescued At California's Squaw Valley Ski Resort Posted: 02 Mar 2018 09:52 PM PST  A powerful avalanche Friday at Squaw Valley Ski Resort above Lake Tahoe in Northern California buried five skiers and snowboarders, injuring two, officials reported. Officials are investigating what may have triggered the avalanche.
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| Police investigate why student gunned down his parents Posted: 04 Mar 2018 01:33 AM PST  Investigators were trying to figure out why a Central Michigan University student charged with fatally shooting his parents acted so strangely the day before the killings that he was taken to a hospital.
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| Defend Boyle Heights activists protest outside Dry River Brewing Posted: 02 Mar 2018 10:12 AM PST  Defend Boyle Heights activists go on protest tour calling for "gentrifying" businesses to get out of their neighborhood.
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| Democratic memo shows Carter Page investigation pre-dates dossier Posted: 02 Mar 2018 01:55 PM PST  Benjamin Wittes, editor in chief of Lawfare, talks with Rachel Maddow about why Paul Manafort shouldn't count on a presidential pardon, and why the Democratic rebuttal memo to Devin Nunes is a significant document.
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| Apparent explosive device found on Mexican ferry off Cozumel Posted: 02 Mar 2018 06:49 PM PST  PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (AP) — What appeared to be undetonated explosives were found on a ferry that runs between the Caribbean resorts of Playa del Carmen and the island of Cozumel, authorities said Friday, less than two weeks after a blast shook another ferry plying the same route.
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| Bronze stars for an elite team of Air Force surgeons Posted: 03 Mar 2018 08:13 AM PST  Members of the Air Force Special Operations Surgical Team can set up an operating room on the battlefield in just 15 minutes. Their skills are tested in Syria as they treat civilians, many of them children.
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| Trump joins mourners at funeral of U.S. evangelist Billy Graham Posted: 02 Mar 2018 10:16 AM PST  The faithful from small towns gathered on Friday with President Donald Trump and other powerful politicians in North Carolina for the funeral of evangelist Billy Graham, who preached to millions around the world in a 70-year career. The service for Graham, who died on Feb. 21 at age 99, comes after he lay in honor at the U.S. Capitol in recognition of a clergyman who counseled presidents and became the first noted evangelist to take his message to the Soviet bloc during a time when its communist regimes were hostile to organized religion. The North Carolina native will later be buried in a pine coffin made by a Louisiana prison inmate, and laid to rest next to his late wife, Ruth, at the Billy Graham Library in Charlotte.
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| Roy Moore Is Now Asking For Money On Facebook To Defend Himself Posted: 03 Mar 2018 09:46 AM PST  Former Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore has asked supporters for financial assistance to defend against a defamation lawsuit brought by an Alabama woman who accused him of sexually abusing her when she was 14 years old. In a Facebook post this week, Moore said his "resources have been depleted" and he has "struggled to make ends meet" due to legal fees and expenses. "I now face another vicious attack from lawyers in Washington D. C. and San Francisco who have hired one of the biggest firms in Birmingham Alabama to bring another legal action against me and ensure that I never fight again," he wrote in the lengthy screed.
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| Authorities: California family lived in filthy desert hovel Posted: 02 Mar 2018 05:28 PM PST  JOSHUA TREE, Calif. (AP) — The mounds of trash, old toys and furniture caught the attention of a Southern California sheriff's deputy passing through the desert earlier this week. As he approached, he spotted a hovel cobbled together with plywood and plastic sheeting.
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| Central Michigan University shooting suspect apprehended after manhunt Posted: 03 Mar 2018 07:57 AM PST  19-year-old James Eric Davis Jr. was taken into custody by law enforcement overnight, hours after his parents were shot and killed inside a Central Michigan University dorm room.
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| Iran says no missile talks unless West gives up its nuclear weapons Posted: 03 Mar 2018 05:22 AM PST  Iran's armed forces spokesman said on Saturday that there can be no talks on the country's missile programme without the West's destruction of its nuclear weapons and long-range missiles. "What Americans say out of desperation with regards to limiting the Islamic republic of Iran's missile capability is an unattainable dream," Brigadier General Masoud Jazayeri told the official IRNA news agency. US President Donald Trump has threatened to tear up a 2015 nuclear deal between Iran and world powers unless more is done to curb Iran's missile programme.
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| Delta To Georgia Lawmakers: 'Our Values Are Not For Sale' Posted: 02 Mar 2018 12:08 PM PST  The CEO of Delta Air Lines on Friday declared his company's "values are not for sale" after Georgia lawmakers retaliated against the airline for cutting ties with the National Rifle Association in the wake of last month's Florida school shooting. Bastian explained the decision to employees a day after Georgia lawmakers passed a tax bill that effectively punishes the airline for rescinding the discount for NRA members to travel to the group's annual meeting.
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| Hunt for missing Malaysian plane likely to end in June Posted: 03 Mar 2018 04:30 PM PST  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 by a U.S. company will likely end in June, a Malaysian official said, as families of passengers marked the fourth anniversary of the plane's disappearance with renewed hope that the world's biggest aviation mystery will be solved.
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| Steven Mnuchin Doesn't Want People To See Video Of His Heckled UCLA Talk Posted: 02 Mar 2018 05:56 PM PST  Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin doesn't want you to see what happened when he spoke at the University of California, Los Angeles on Monday. The Burkle Center for International Relations invited Mnuchin to speak with "Marketplace" public radio host Kai Ryssdal for an open discussion on the Trump administration, its policies and the U.S. economy at the university. The public event went so poorly, however, that Mnuchin asked UCLA not to publish any video of it, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
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| Dry River Brewing employee says he grew up in neighborhood too Posted: 02 Mar 2018 10:16 AM PST  Defend Boyle Heights activists go on protest tour calling for "gentrifying" businesses to get out of their neighborhood.
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| Leaked Emails Appear To Show A Top Trump Fundraiser Abusing His Power Posted: 02 Mar 2018 03:39 PM PST  Emails and documents an anonymous group leaked to HuffPost this week appear to show a Los Angeles lawyer asking for more than $80 million to scuttle a Department of Justice investigation into a multibillion-dollar scandal involving Van Gogh paintings, the movie "The Wolf of Wall Street," the prime minister of Malaysia — and the lawyer's husband, a Republican National Committee deputy finance chair Elliott Broidy, trying to use his influence with the Trump administration to help. Broidy and his wife, attorney Robin Rosenzweig, deny any wrongdoing. "It's definitely a hack," Rosenzweig said of the emails, which were first reported by The Wall Street Journal.
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| Democratic memo reveals another Carter Page meeting with FBI Posted: 02 Mar 2018 01:56 PM PST  Rachel Maddow talks about some of the new things learned about the Trump Russia investigation from the Democratic memo, including a March 2016 meeting with the FBI about his contacts with Russian intelligence.
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| Prominent Bangladeshi writer, teacher stabbed during lecture Posted: 03 Mar 2018 12:04 PM PST ![Prominent Bangladeshi writer, teacher stabbed during lecture]( "Prominent Bangladeshi writer, teacher stabbed during lecture") DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — An unidentified young man stabbed a prominent teacher, writer and promoter of secular values at a university in a northeastern city in Bangladesh on Saturday, police said.
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| NATO says Russian warnings against allies 'unacceptable' Posted: 02 Mar 2018 01:30 PM PST ![NATO says Russian warnings against allies 'unacceptable']( "NATO says Russian warnings against allies 'unacceptable'") By Robin Emmott BRUSSELS (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin's warnings to NATO allies are "unacceptable" and do not help efforts to calm tensions, the alliance said on Friday, a day after the Russian leader announced an array of new nuclear weapons. Already angry at NATO's expansion eastwards into its old Soviet sphere of influence, Putin said in a speech on Thursday that any attack on Moscow's allies would be regarded as an attack on Russia itself and draw an immediate response. While it was unclear which ally Putin had in mind, the U.S.-led NATO said the speech, one of the Russian leader's most bellicose in years, did not help calm tensions that have surged since Russia seized Ukraine's Crimea four years ago.
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| US mother breaks down at New York killer nanny trial Posted: 02 Mar 2018 02:33 PM PST  The devastated mother of two young children killed by their New York nanny broke down on the stand Friday, yelling that the former caregiver was "evil" and a "liar" before twice fleeing the court room. Yoselyn Ortega is on trial for murdering Lucia, six, and Leo, two, with a kitchen knife in the bathroom of their Upper West Side apartment on October 25, 2012. Marina Krim, 41, tearfully fled the stand twice while testifying for a second day -- once under cross-examination by the defense after becoming increasingly agitated by the questions -- and again while being questioned by the prosecution.
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| Swiss voters reject plan to end mandatory TV fees Posted: 04 Mar 2018 06:36 AM PST  GENEVA (AP) — Swiss voters on Sunday handily rejected a proposal brought by free-market advocates to end mandatory fees to finance publicly supported TV and radio programming, a result that brought a sigh of relief to Europe's state-backed broadcasters.
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| Turkey’s New Foreign Policy Is Hostage-Taking Posted: 02 Mar 2018 02:41 PM PST  The West knows what Ankara is up to, but won't call it by its name.
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| Philando Castile Charity Covers Entire School District's Lunch Debt Posted: 03 Mar 2018 07:03 PM PST  Two years after he was fatally shot by a police officer in Minnesota, Philando Castile is still helping students afford lunch. A charity created in Castile's honor has paid off the lunch debt for every student in the 56 schools in the St. Paul Public School District, including the school where Castile worked as a cafeteria supervisor. Castile had worked as a cafeteria supervisor at the J.J. Hill Montessori Magnet School in St. Paul for two years at the time he was killed.
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| Trump "unglued" amid White House chaos Posted: 02 Mar 2018 12:08 PM PST  Trump decided to start a trade war while angry and "unglued," NBC News reports. Ex-Obama economic adviser Austan Goolsbee says Trump "fired a shot" at our allies. USA Today's Susan Page and Neera Tanden join Ari Melber to react to the latest White House.
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| Nine California students hospitalized in possible opioid overdose Posted: 02 Mar 2018 04:45 PM PST ![Nine California students hospitalized in possible opioid overdose]( "Nine California students hospitalized in possible opioid overdose") Nine students from the University of California, Santa Barbara suffered an apparent mass overdose of prescription opioids at a party and were taken to a local hospital, police said on Friday. The incident began when sheriffs deputies and paramedics responding to an emergency call found a young man unconscious in the back seat of a car at about 10 p.m. Thursday night, the Santa Barbara County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. Other students at the gathering told deputies that the victim, who was rushed to a local hospital, had ingested alcohol along with unknown amount of the pain reliever Oxycontin, the sheriff's department said.
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| Bomb-sniffing dogs mistreated by US Army after returning from service in Afghanistan Posted: 03 Mar 2018 06:42 AM PST  Bomb-sniffing dogs were mistreated by the US Army after returning from duty in Afghanistan, according to an official report. Several dogs had to be rescued by the soldiers they served with during Operation Enduring Freedom. The Army allowed one dog described as having canine PTSD and another which may have received bite training to go to families with children.
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| Ohio inmate whose execution halted dies of natural causes Posted: 03 Mar 2018 01:26 PM PST  CLEVELAND (AP) — A twice-convicted murderer whose execution in November had to be halted when a usable vein couldn't be found to administer execution drugs died Saturday morning of natural causes, a spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said.
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| Celebrities Offer Support to Rick Ross Amid Hospitalization Reports Posted: 03 Mar 2018 07:19 AM PST  The rapper's family has denied reports he is on life support
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| MSF suspends medical work in Nigerian town after deadly raid Posted: 03 Mar 2018 12:40 AM PST ![MSF suspends medical work in Nigerian town after deadly raid]( "MSF suspends medical work in Nigerian town after deadly raid") The medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Friday it had suspended its work in the Nigerian town of Rann and evacuated national and international staff after a deadly raid. Suspected Boko Haram militants killed at least 11 people including three aid workers in an attack on a military barracks in Nigeria's northeastern Borno state late on Thursday, according to two security reports seen by Reuters. "Following a violent attack in Rann, Borno state, on Thursday 1 March, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) suspended its medical activities in the town and evacuated 22 national and international staff," MSF said in a statement.
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| Saudi crown prince sets off on maiden foreign tour Posted: 03 Mar 2018 02:29 AM PST  Saudi Arabia's crown prince lands in Egypt Sunday on the first leg of his maiden foreign tour as heir to the throne, a diplomatic charm offensive that follows his stunning rise to power. Prince Mohammed bin Salman's two-day visit to Cairo comes ahead of a scheduled trip to Britain on Wednesday for talks with Prime Minister Theresa May and the United States from March 19-22. The son of Saudi King Salman is already seen as the country's de facto ruler controlling the major levers of government.
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| Woman Arrested For Allegedly Throwing Popcorn And Hitting Toddler With Container During Movie Posted: 04 Mar 2018 08:05 AM PST  The toddler suffered a bruise to the head.
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| Trump's Tariff Can't Start A Trade War Because It Started Years Ago Posted: 03 Mar 2018 01:13 PM PST  President Donald Trump's announcement that he would place tariffs on steel and aluminum imports has economists cringing. Conservative Republicans are dusting off the principles they learned in Econ 101, liberal Nobel laureate Paul Krugman is warning that Trump will start an economically destructive trade war, and prominent world leaders are vowing to prove Krugman right. On Friday, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker threatened to retaliate against "unfair" U.S. tariffs with new levies on American motorcycles, bourbon and blue jeans.
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| John Kelly: I have 'nothing to even consider resigning over' Posted: 02 Mar 2018 11:20 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Defending himself weeks after the fact, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly on Friday insisted he had done "nothing to even consider resigning over" in his handling of domestic abuse allegations against a former top aide by the staffer's two ex-wives.
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| Amandla Stenberg Passed On ‘Black Panther’ To Make Way For Darker-Skinned Actors Posted: 02 Mar 2018 02:33 PM PST  Amandla Stenberg put a lot of thought into not entering the Marvel cinematic universe. Last week, "The Hunger Games" actress explained to CBC Arts that she was in the running for a lead part in "Black Panther" but decided to back out because she didn't want to take the role from a darker-skinned actor. The biracial actress said she put a lot of thought into rejecting a role in which she'd play a purely African woman.
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| Russia's Navy Might Be Modernizing—But It's Overstretched Posted: 03 Mar 2018 06:17 PM PST  President Vladimir Putin's speech on the first of March revealed a whole panoply of new nuclear capabilities, from cruise missiles with nearly unlimited range to unmanned undersea vehicles also operating with extraordinary range, together with unprecedented speed and depth capabilities. Along the maritime periphery of Russia, tensions continue to escalate. Russian warships sortied en masse into the Baltic Sea on 20 February as part of a readiness drill, and in January, Russian news reported that a U.S. drone made a long-range intelligence-gathering sortie along Russia's Black Sea border in the vicinity of Kerch, Sochi, and the Crimea.
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| 6 Smart-Home Upgrades to Help Sell Your House Posted: 02 Mar 2018 02:53 PM PST  The stock advice for homeowners putting a house on the market used to go like this: Give the exterior, or the front door, a fresh coat of paint; tame unruly shrubs; and swap out a few light fixtu...
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| 'It Is My Greatest Fear.' Superintendents Are Shutting Down School Districts Nationwide Over Shooting Threats Posted: 02 Mar 2018 11:53 AM PST  School administrators are trying to strike a difficult balance between protection and education
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| Equifax breach could be most costly in corporate history Posted: 02 Mar 2018 02:57 PM PST  NEW YORK/TORONTO (Reuters) - Equifax Inc said it expects costs related to its massive 2017 data breach to surge by $275 million this year, suggesting the incident at the credit reporting bureau could turn out to be the most costly hack in corporate history. "It looks like this will be the most expensive data breach in history," said Larry Ponemon, chairman of Ponemon Institute, a research group that tracks costs of cyber attacks. Equifax on Thursday reported fourth-quarter profit that topped Wall Street forecasts and disclosed that it uncovered an additional 2.4 million people whose data was stolen in the attack.
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| Fractured Ethiopia parliament endorses emergency decree Posted: 03 Mar 2018 12:28 PM PST  Ethiopia's parliament approved a nationwide state of emergency on Friday despite unusual opposition from some lawmakers, in the latest sign of fractures within the all-powerful ruling coalition. The council of ministers made the emergency declaration last month, one day after Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn's surprise resignation amid a growing political crisis and divisions in the ruling party. The six-month decree, which required approval from two-thirds of lawmakers, has been condemned by several of Ethiopia's allies including the United States and the European Union.
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| Michigan man cleared of murder now fights for compensation Posted: 04 Mar 2018 07:47 AM PST  DETROIT (AP) — David Gavitt spent 26 years in prison for the deaths of his wife and two daughters before a prosecutor agreed that the evidence behind his arson conviction was no longer credible. The case helped inspire a Michigan law aimed at compensating the wrongfully convicted.
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| Ex-CIA Boss Brennan Rattled About National Security After Trump's Alec Baldwin Tweet Posted: 02 Mar 2018 04:55 PM PST  Brennan was asked by Nicolle Wallace on MSNBC if he thought Trump was "too unstable" to possess the nuclear codes that would allow him to launch an attack. Brennan responded that he was rattled by the president's strange focus on Baldwin the morning after Russian President Vladimir Putin boasted of his nation's nuclear capabilities to strike anywhere in the world, including the U.S. A simulated video presented by Putin appeared to depict next-generation nuclear missiles striking Florida.
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| Marcador de la jornada 29 de la Premier League Posted: 03 Mar 2018 09:16 AM PST ![Marcador de la jornada 29 de la Premier League]( "Marcador de la jornada 29 de la Premier League") Marcador de la vigésima novena jornada de la Premier League:
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| Mike Huckabee speaks out after quitting country music board Posted: 02 Mar 2018 04:49 PM PST  After facing backlash, Mike Huckabee resigned from the country music organization, citing political and religious intolerance; the former Arkansas governor speaks out on 'The Story.'
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