| FBI opens criminal probe over police beating of North Carolina man for jaywalking Posted: 08 Mar 2018 07:59 AM PST  Body camera footage shows two police officers confronting Johnnie Rush, who was accused of jaywalking — with an officer tackling, punching and tasering Rush.
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| Former Trump Attorney Stuns 'Fox & Friends,' Says Stormy Daniels NDA Is Likely Invalid Posted: 07 Mar 2018 02:10 PM PST  A former attorney and adviser of Donald Trump stunned "Fox & Friends" anchors on Wednesday with a revelation about a lawsuit filed Tuesday by Stephanie Clifford (aka Stormy Daniels). Jay Goldberg, who represented the president in both of his divorces, told show hosts that Clifford may have a point that her nondisclosure agreement with Trump is invalid if he didn't sign it. After Goldberg's input, the "Fox & Friends" hosts quickly end the segment, but as you can see on the video below, it appears as if some life was sucked out of the room.
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| U.S. Government barring employees from traveling to Playa Del Carmen Posted: 08 Mar 2018 08:08 AM PST  American are still free to travel to the popular Mexican resort city, but after last month's ferry explosion that injured at least 25 people, the U.S. Government is urging caution.
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| Interior Department Spending $138,670 To Replace Doors In Zinke's Office Posted: 08 Mar 2018 02:12 PM PST  The agency awarded the contract to Conquest Solutions LLC, a Greenbelt, Maryland-based company that specializes in automation systems. The Interior Department also did not respond to HuffPost's inquiry.
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| UK police officer harmed by nerve agent now talking: minister Posted: 08 Mar 2018 12:35 AM PST  A British police officer who was harmed by a nerve agent used in an attack on a Russian ex-spy is now able to talk to people although his condition remains serious, interior minister Amber Rudd said on Thursday. Former double agent Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, were found unconscious on Sunday on a bench in the southern English city of Salisbury and have been in a critical condition in hospital since then. An unnamed police officer who was at the scene was also hospitalized.
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| 'Sudden turn' by US warship led to collision off Singapore: report Posted: 08 Mar 2018 01:35 AM PST  A "sudden turn" by the American warship USS John S. McCain led to a collision with a tanker last year off Singapore that left 10 sailors dead, a report by the city-state's government said Thursday. Singapore's transport ministry, releasing the results of its investigation into the incident, said a "series of missteps" by the destroyer's crew and insufficient action by those of the tanker, the Alnic MC, contributed to the accident. The commander of the John S. McCain is facing charges including negligent homicide and dereliction of duty, the US Navy said in January, after its own investigation into the incident found "multiple failures" by the ship's crew.
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| Volkswagen Is Killing Off the Beetle Posted: 07 Mar 2018 11:30 AM PST  VW confirmed today at the Geneva Motor Show it will not have a replacement for the current Beetle once it goes out of production.
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| 17-year-old girl killed in accidental shooting at Alabama high school Posted: 07 Mar 2018 04:07 PM PST  One student is dead and a second was critically injured in the shooting at dismissal time at a high school in Alabama's largest city.
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| Trump risks following Nixon mistake in talking with witnesses Posted: 07 Mar 2018 01:02 PM PST  Michael Beschloss, NBC News presidential historian, talks with Ari Melber about how New York Times reporting on Donald Trump talking to Robert Mueller witnesses compares to past presidents also taking such legally ill-advised action.
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| 'Guilty of being poor': does California couple's poverty amount to child abuse? Posted: 08 Mar 2018 12:01 AM PST  When police stumbled across the makeshift shelter in the Joshua Tree desert last week they made a shocking discovery: three children were living in a plywood box. There was no record of the children attending school. The parents, Mona Kirk, 51, and Daniel Panico, 73, were charged with three felony counts of child abuse and the children were put in care of social services.
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| A Shelter's Call For Old Chairs Goes Viral, And The Pets Couldn't Be Happier Posted: 09 Mar 2018 12:50 AM PST  "The shelter pets absolutely love their chairs!" the organization, a no-kill shelter, wrote on Facebook. "They love their chairs," Erin Buckmaster, the society's volunteer executive director told the "Today" show. "We never dreamed it would take off like this," Buckmaster said.
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| Cops: Man got girl out of school 10 times; now both missing Posted: 08 Mar 2018 12:30 PM PST  ALLENTOWN, Pa. (AP) — A 45-year-old man managed to sign a 16-year-old girl out of her school 10 times in the last few months, and now the two are missing, police said.
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| Police officer hospitalised as Scotland Yard reveals nerve agent was used in Russian spy case Posted: 07 Mar 2018 12:45 PM PST  A police officer remains seriously ill in intensive care after being poisoned by a nerve agent when he came to the aid of a Russian spy targeted in Salisbury. The unnamed officer was one of the first on the scene on Sunday when double agent, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter, Yulia, were attacked by would-be assassins in shopping arcade in the city centre. He was initially treated in hospital as a precaution and then discharged, but his condition soon deteriorated and he was readmitted on Tuesday and taken into intensive care. The disclosure that a police officer is seriously ill following the nerve agent attack will add to growing pressure on the British government to take a hardline approach against Russia if state involvement is confirmed. Last night Boris Johnson, the Foreign Secretary described the events in Salisbury as "very troubling". He said: "If this does turn out to be in any way the result of hostile activity by another government, or directed, led, by another government, then the people of this country can be absolutely sure that the UK will respond robustly." CCTV dated approximately one week before the attempted murder of Sergei Skripal shows the former Russian spy purchasing goods in a Salisbury convenience store. Security sources said the substance was something that was only held in a "very small number of places" around the world, making it easier to identify where it might have come from. Mr Skripal, who spied for Britain in the 1990s, before moving here in 2010 as part of a prisoner exchange, remained in a critical condition in hospital last night, alongside his 33-year-old daughter. Investigators outside the Zizzi restaurant in Salisbury Credit: Eddie Mulholland For The Telegraph In a statement Assistant Commissioner Mark Rowley, the head of national Counter Terrorism Policing, said: "This is being treated as a major incident involving attempted murder by the administration of a nerve agent. "We believe the two people who originally became unwell were the specific targets and are focused on identifying and finding those responsible. "Hundreds of detectives from the Counter Terrorism Policing Network have been deployed in relation to this investigation." Video: Home Secretary gives update after crisis talks He added: "A police officer who was among the first responders also remains in hospital in a serious condition and is continuing to receive intensive care. We are keeping the Chief Constable in Wiltshire regularly updated in relation to our investigation." While detectives continued to hunt for the would be assassins, Whitehall sources said the fact a police officer had been injured ramped up the seriousness of the situation, with some directly laying the blame at Russia's door. One Whitehall source told the Telegraph there was now a widespread feeling in Government that "Putin's hands are all over this". A police officer in a protective suit and gas mask in Salisbury on Tuesday evening Credit: Peter Macdiarmid/LNP The source said: "It's one thing to for a former Russian spy to be struck down by this, but when it starts filtering out and affecting normal British people going about their day to day jobs, there's going to be tough questions asked of the Government in terms of its response. "There's an appetite among some of the cabinet that Britain can't just do nothing. A stand has to be taken." The incident has echoes of the murder of WPC Yvonne Fletcher, who was shot dead in 1984 while standing outside the Libyan embassy in London. Colonel Sergei Skripal was given refuge in the UK as part of a spy swap Her murder led to a complete breakdown of diplomatic relations between the two countries. Sir Andrew Wood, who was Britain's Ambassador to Russia between 1995 and 2000, said the fact a police officer had been injured intensified matters. He told the Telegraph: "This makes the assassination attempt even more serious. If it is true that this is, in some fashion the Russian State, it obviously makes it even harder to believe the Russian State is worth anything or is to be trusted. "The fact they targeted his daughter, and that a policeman is seriously ill, makes it emotionally difficult, but it does not alter the fact that this was an attempted assassination on British soil." Police outside the Zizzi restaurant in Salisbury on Wednesday morning Credit: Andrew Matthews /PA Sir Andrew said the options diplomatically could involve expelling the Russian Ambassador to Britain. Marina Litvinenko, the widow of the murdered Russian dissident, Alexander, said: "It is awful. It is absolutely shocking. If the British authorities had taken my husband's case more seriously when it happened then maybe this would not have taken place. I didn't want this to happen again on British soil and now it has." Mr Skripal was convicted of spying for Britain in 2006 and was sentenced to 13-years in prison. But he was pardoned by the Russian President, Dmitry Medvedev, in 2010 and granted asylum in the UK as part of a prisoner exchange, which included the glamorous agent, Anna Chapman being returned to Moscow. Police outside the home of former Russian spy Sergei Skripal in Salisbury Credit: Eddie Mulholland for The Telegraph Experts initially cast doubt on whether the Russians could have been behind the attack, because protocols signed during the prisoner exchange would have meant he was "off limits". But one fellow political refugee claimed that Mr Skripal was still working in cyber security and was in regular contact with military intelligence officials at the Russian embassy. Valery Morozov, a former construction magnate who fled Russia after revealing corruption, said he had decided to steer clear of Mr Skripal because of his activities. He told Channel 4 News: "Frankly speaking I thought that this contact may be not very good for me because it could bring some questions from British officials." It also emerged that the British agent who recruited Mr Skripal to work for MI6 in the 1990s has links to Christopher Steel, the intelligence agent who helped compile the infamous Donald Trump dossier. The agent now lives in Salisbury and that is why Mr Skripal moved to the Wiltshire city when he defected to Britain in 2010. As the police investigation widened locals in Salisbury were warned to seek immediate medical advice if they started to feel ill. Two women working in an office close to a restaurant where Mr Skripal had eaten shortly before taking ill, were rushed to hospital after becoming unwell yesterday lunchtime. Sergei Skrpial profile The Russian Embassy said it was "completely untrue" to suggest the country's special services were involved and criticised Mr Johnson for speaking "in such a manner as if the investigation was already over". A later statement added: "The Foreign Secretary's strongly anti-Russian statement in Parliament yesterday looks more like an attempt to send the investigation upon a political track. "Although absolutely no facts were provided to the public, we see the issue being translated into the domain of Russia-UK relations, with an active support by the media." The Defence Science and Technology Laboratory in nearby Porton Down, which has state-of-the-art equipment to look for trace amounts of substances, is believed to have been involved in examining what could have caused Mr Skripal and his daughter to fall ill. Mr Skripal was found along with his daughter on a bench in The Maltings in Salisbury after police were called by a concerned member of the public at around 4.15pm on Sunday. The pair did not have any visible injuries and were taken to Salisbury District Hospital, where they are being treated in intensive care. Officers subsequently "secured" a number of scenes - including the Zizzi restaurant on Castle Street and the Bishop's Mill pub in The Maltings. Police cordon in Salisbury on Tuesday Credit: Paul Grover for the Telegraph At least two people left a contamination tent inside the cordon wearing protective suits and gas masks on Tuesday night. People could also be seen inside Zizzi's restaurant wearing protective gear and masks. Two police vans were parked outside Zizzi's restaurant on Castle Street early on Wednesday, blocking the windows, but the lights inside the Italian chain pizzeria were lit. Was deadly VX nerve agent used in Salisbury? Scientists from the government's chemical defence laboratory at Porton Down, just six miles from where Sergei Skripal was targeted in Salisbury, have been analysing the substance at the centre of the Russian spy attack. One theory being explored was that the substance could be the deadly nerve agent, VX, which was used last year in the murder of Kim Jong-nam - the estranged half brother of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. Police have not confirmed which nerve agent was used in the attack. The chemical was first developed by the British firm, ICI, in the 1950s, but was put to deadly use by Saddam Hussein in an attack against the Kurds in 1988. Kim Jong-nam was killed last February at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, when two women approached him and smeared cloths soaked with VX nerve agent across his face. Deadly toxins The fast acting toxin began to attack his nervous system and despite being able to alert officials, he was dead within 20 minutes. The United States formally concluded on Tuesday that North Korea ordered the murder of Kim Jong-nam with the VX nerve agent. VX, which is the most deadly of all nerve agents, was first developed in the 1950s and is a tasteless and odorless liquid, which can be fatal for humans on skin contact. It penetrates the skin and disrupts the transmission of nerve impulses, leading to a loss of consciousness, paralysis and eventually fatal respiratory failure. Alexander Perepilichnyy, who died in mysterious circumstances Credit: PA Counter terror police, who are now leading the investigation into the Salisbury poisonings, will also be examining the 2012 death of Russian whistleblower, Alexander Perepilichnyy, who died in mysterious circumstances. He was initially thought to have died of natural causes while out jogging but traces of a deadly chemical was later found in his stomach. 'Traitors will kick the bucket': How Putin threatened Russians double agents Vladimir Putin threatened that Russians who betrayed secrets to the West would die, during a television interview at the time of the Col Skripal spy swap. The Russian President's threats came after a Russian spy ring was broken up in the US in 2010, leading to the exchange of agents held by Moscow, including Mr Skripal who had been convicted in 2006 of spying for the British. Russian President Vladimir Putin issued the threat on television Credit: Mikhail Svetlov /Getty Asked on Russian television at the time who might have betrayed the US spy ring, Mr Putin said: "Traitors will kick the bucket. Trust me. "These people betrayed their friends, their brothers in arms. Whatever they got in exchange for it, those 30 pieces of silver they were given, they will choke on them." Col Skripal was living under own name in Salisbury after pardon Mr Skripal had not adopted a new identity and was living under his own name in Salisbury after being released in the 2010 spy swap, reports Ben Farmer. Another Russian, Igor Sutyagin, who came to Britain in the same exchange also retains his identity. Both had been pardoned after the swap by the then president, Dmitry Medvedev. Kier Giles, a Russia expert at the Chatham House think tank, said: "In the context of this particular spy swap, that does seem to be the norm. "They were living openly under their own names. They reached the conclusion, with or without advice from the British government, that it was safe to do so. They possibly thought the state pardon that they received under the president Medvedev was an additional indication that no one would be coming after them." How the FSB deals with Russia's enemies with absolute impunity But he said the Medvedev pardon "would not hold much water when it comes to the FSB deciding what it wants to do about things". In earlier Cold War incidents, Russian spies who defected to Britain were given entirely new identities and lived in hiding.
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| Wynn Resorts to pay $2.6 billion to settle lawsuit with Japan's Universal Posted: 09 Mar 2018 07:45 AM PST  Wynn Resorts Ltd has agreed to pay $2.6 billion to settle a lawsuit brought by Japan's Universal Entertainment Corp and its U.S. unit, ending a six-year old dispute that pitted casino mogul Steve Wynn against his former associate Kazuo Okada. The size of the compensation was lower than market expectations and sent shares in Universal, a maker of Japanese-style slot machines and the operator of a casino in the Philippines, plunging 16 percent in Thursday trade in Tokyo. The lawsuit relates to Wynn Resorts' 2012 forced redemption of a stake held by Universal's unit Aruze USA at a 30 percent discount after an internal investigation by former FBI director Louis Freeh alleged Okada had violated U.S. anti-corruption laws.
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| Former Sikh militant sorry for Canada PM Trudeau embarrassment in India Posted: 08 Mar 2018 12:47 PM PST  A former Sikh militant apologized Thursday for causing embarrassment to Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau during his trip to India. Jaspal Atwal, who was part of a movement that supported an independent Sikh nation in the 1980s and went to prison for the attempted murder of a visiting Indian minister in 1986, was invited to a dinner with Trudeau in New Delhi causing consternation among his hosts. Trudeau's visit to India had already been dogged by suspicions that Canada was soft on Sikh separatists.
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| North Korea Experts Stunned Yet Cautiously Optimistic About Trump-Kim Meeting Posted: 08 Mar 2018 09:26 PM PST  North Korea policy analysts reacted with a mixture of cautious optimism and outright disbelief after South Korean officials announced Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump would meet with North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un sometime over the next few months. As the news broke on Thursday evening, some foreign policy experts reacted with stunned missives posted to social media and immediately began contemplating just what the North Koreans hoped to gain from the meeting, and why now. Trump has long pledged to wage a campaign of maximum pressure on North Korea in an effort to convince the regime to abandon its rapidly developing nuclear weapon program.
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| Chaos of school shooting shown in 911 calls, radio traffic Posted: 08 Mar 2018 08:21 PM PST  FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — In the minutes after a gunman opened fire in a Florida high school, killing 17, frantic students and parents begin flooding 911 with calls.
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| U.S. issues travel warning to popular Mexican resort city Posted: 08 Mar 2018 09:34 PM PST  The U.S. has issued a travel warning for the Mexican city of Playa del Carmen, a popular travel destination for students traveling for spring break.
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| Dozens charged with conspiring to launder drug cartel money Posted: 08 Mar 2018 02:27 PM PST ![Dozens charged with conspiring to launder drug cartel money]( "Dozens charged with conspiring to launder drug cartel money") SAN DIEGO (AP) — Dozens of people across the U.S. have been charged in connection with an international conspiracy to launder tens of millions of dollars in drug money for Mexican cartels, federal prosecutors said Thursday.
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| General says China’s control of a port in Djibouti could have ‘significant’ repercussions for US Posted: 07 Mar 2018 01:11 PM PST  The top US general for Africa Command (Africom) said the military could face a "significant" ramifications if China takes control of a port in Djibouti. Marine General Thomas Waldhauser explained during a House Armed Services Committee hearing that the port was important for re-supplying the US base in the country as well as a fuelling stop for Navy ships. China has already built a military base in the small east African nation because of its geographic importance as a route to the Suez Canal.
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| Malaysia says MH370 report to be released after latest search ends Posted: 07 Mar 2018 07:51 PM PST ![Malaysia says MH370 report to be released after latest search ends]( "Malaysia says MH370 report to be released after latest search ends") The full investigation report into the disappearance of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 will be released after the latest search efforts are completed, officials said on Thursday, four years after the aircraft first went missing. Flight MH370, carrying 239 people onboard, became one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries when it disappeared on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on March 8, 2014. Malaysia agreed in January to pay U.S. firm Ocean Infinity up to $70 million if it found the plane during an offshore search effort that is underway and expected to end in June.
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| Turkey clears key obstacle in tough Syria operation Posted: 08 Mar 2018 09:06 AM PST  Turkey has reached a key milestone in its operation against Kurdish militia inside Syria by taking the town of Jandairis, boosting its chances of successfully completing a tough campaign that has claimed the lives of dozens of Turkish troops. Ankara launched operation "Olive Branch" against the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) on January 20, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowing it would be "finished in a very short time".
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| The 20 Funniest Tweets From Women This Week Posted: 09 Mar 2018 08:15 AM PST  The ladies of Twitter never fail to brighten our days with their brilliant ― but succinct ― wisdom. Each week, HuffPost Women rounds up hilarious 280-character musings. To see this week's great tweets from women, scroll through the list below. Then visit our Funniest Tweets From Women page for our past collections.
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| Exclusive: Here's Jeff Sessions’ Draft Master Plan For The Justice Department Posted: 08 Mar 2018 02:54 PM PST  WASHINGTON ― Attorney General Jeff Sessions is rapidly shifting the Justice Department's focus from Obama-era goals such as civil rights enforcement and criminal justice reform to conservative priorities. A draft version of the department's five-year strategic plan obtained by HuffPost shows the Trump administration's plans for the DOJ include cracking down on undocumented immigrants, aggressively prosecuting national security leaks, zeroing in on campus speech issues, targeting the MS-13 gang and restoring the "rule of law" throughout the country. The special counsel investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and President Donald Trump's attacks on Sessions have grabbed headlines in the attorney general's first year in office.
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| Aid convoy reaches battered Eastern Ghouta amid lull in bombing Posted: 09 Mar 2018 03:00 AM PST  A humanitarian convoy managed to deliver more aid to the besieged Syrian enclave of Eastern Ghouta on Friday despite getting caught up in mortar fire. "Taken aback by renewed violence in Douma, Eastern Ghouta," Robert Mardini, director of the International Committee for the Red Cross (ICRC), tweeted moments after the shelling began, in what was the second time the Syrian regime had broken a guarantee of safe passage. The convoy of 13 trucks loaded with 2,400 food parcels was supposed to go into Eastern Ghouta on Thursday but the delivery was called off because of the intensive bombing. Hadi al-Bahra, a member of the Syrian Negotiation Commission, an opposition umbrella group, said that some of the food that reached Eastern Ghouta had been spoiled by delays in getting through. The aid convoy was interrupted on Monday and postponed on Thursday Credit: STRINGER/AFP/Getty Images Residents shared pictures of their small aid bundles, which included a kilo and half of rice, half a kilo of sugar, three tablespoons of butter and lentils for each family. The deliveries have not been nearly enough for the roughly 380,000 in the pocket, leaving some - trapped in underground shelters and deprived of food and water - to decide whether to risk going out to seek supplies or staying inside. The regime assault on Eastern Ghouta began on February 18 and has continued almost ceaselessly for nearly three weeks, killing some 1,000 people and injuring 3,000 more. The UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said that strikes had stopped in the early hours of Friday morning, giving residents their calmest night in some time. But not for long. The Red Cross hopes to make a larger delivery next week Credit: Photo by Mouneb Taim /Anadolu Agency/Getty Images "People were hopeful after the bombardment decreased and went out onto the streets," Moayad al-Hafi, a man in the neighbourhood of Saqba. "But then air strikes began again, and there are still people under the rubble that we couldn't get out." Ingy Sedky, a spokeswoman for the ICRC, said the group was hopeful they could make a larger aid delivery next week. "We also have some positive indications that a bigger convoy with additional supplies including medical items might happen next week," she said. Syrian regime troops and allied militias have captured several districts in the east of the opposition-held pocket and are moving to sever the last narrow corridor of territory connecting the northern and southern parts. If Eastern Ghouta is divided in two by Bashar al-Assad's troops it would leave the Failaq al-Rahman rebel group in control of the southern portion, along with several smaller factions, while the Jaish al-Islam would retain control of Douma and the northern area. State media has reported people in Eastern Ghouta raising Syrian government flags and holding small protests in support of Assad and calling for an end to the fighting.
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| 4 Things to Look for During the Job Interview Posted: 08 Mar 2018 08:41 AM PST ![4 Things to Look for During the Job Interview]( "4 Things to Look for During the Job Interview") Are you obsessed with how you'll sell yourself during the interview? Highlighting your skills, talents and abilities is certainly important, but equally important is finding a job that will be a good fit for you. You are interviewing to assess the job opportunity, your potential manager and the company. So how do you do this? You ask questions. You can, and should, level the playing field by asking questions which will turn the interview into a mutually beneficial exchange of information.
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| San Francisco police kill robbery suspect in trunk of car Posted: 07 Mar 2018 04:14 PM PST  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — San Francisco police investigating an armed robbery shot and killed a man who was hiding in the trunk of a car where a gun was later found, authorities said Wednesday.
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| States' rights rancher Ryan Bundy to run for Nevada governor Posted: 08 Mar 2018 05:16 PM PST  Ryan Bundy, who was at the forefront of two armed confrontations between right-wing militia activists and the U.S. government over the past four years, said on Thursday he planned to run for Nevada governor on a states' rights platform. Bundy, 45, said in a telephone interview he would mount a petition drive to qualify for the November ballot as an independent candidate, and canvass the state to gather support in "face-to-face conversations" with voters. "I intend to secure the sovereignty of the state of Nevada and its land and resources for the people of Nevada," he said.
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| Chinese Students in America Say “Not My President” Posted: 07 Mar 2018 04:07 PM PST  Young overseas Chinese make a rare show of dissent against Xi Jinping's power grab.
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| Slain Salvador Archbishop Romero to be a saint, pope decrees Posted: 07 Mar 2018 01:28 PM PST  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has cleared the way for Archbishop Oscar Romero to be made a saint, declaring that the churchman murdered by El Salvador's right-wing death squads for standing up for the poor and oppressed should be a model for today's church.
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| Oakland Mayor Dings Trump After He Calls It A 'Disgrace' That She Tipped Off Immigrants Posted: 08 Mar 2018 07:19 PM PST  "I'm so appreciative of the Oakland community ... the feelings of being supported, of being heard, of being stood up for, those have been really wonderful for me to hear," she added. After learning late last month that Immigration and Customs Enforcement was planning local raids, Schaaf warned residents to take precautions, saying it was her "duty and moral obligation" to warn her constituents. Oakland is a "city of law-abiding immigrants and families who deserve to live free from the constant threat of arrest and deportation," Schaaf said.
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| Pritzker prize goes to Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi Posted: 07 Mar 2018 12:04 PM PST  Indian architect Balkrishna Doshi, a pioneer of low-cost housing design, won the prestigious Pritzker Prize on Wednesday, considered architecture's Nobel equivalent. The 90-year-old Doshi -- one of the last living architects to have apprenticed with the Franco-Swiss trailblazer Le Corbusier -- distinguished his work by committing to sustainable architecture and inexpensive housing, bringing modernist design to an India rooted in traditionalism.
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| Adam Rippon says he will talk to Mike Pence Posted: 08 Mar 2018 01:58 AM PST  U.S. Olympic medalist Adam Rippon says he turned down an invitation to meet Vice President Mike Pence during the Olympics but now he's open to a discussion.
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| Bachelor Fans Bought a Bunch of Billboards to Bash Arie Luyendyk Jr. After the Finale Posted: 07 Mar 2018 01:29 PM PST  "Arie...Not okay. Just leave."
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| Fact box about the trial of Danish inventor Peter Madsen Posted: 08 Mar 2018 01:30 AM PST ![Fact box about the trial of Danish inventor Peter Madsen]( "Fact box about the trial of Danish inventor Peter Madsen") COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Danish inventor Peter Madsen goes on trial Thursday for the killing of journalist Kim Wall in his submarine. A look at the key facts in the case:
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| Syrian government forces poised to slice eastern Ghouta in two: commander Posted: 08 Mar 2018 10:55 AM PST  By Laila Bassam and Suleiman Al-Khalidi BEIRUT/AMMAN (Reuters) - Syria's army is poised to slice rebel-held eastern Ghouta in two as forces advancing from the east link up with troops at its western edge, a pro-Damascus commander said on Thursday. The government, backed in the war by Russia and Iran, is seeking to crush the last major rebel enclave near the capital in a ferocious campaign that the aid agency Medicins Sans Frontieres (MSF) says has killed more than 1,000 people. Rebels, who accuse the government of "scorched earth" tactics, said they were deploying more guerrilla-style ambushes in lost territory, trying to stop further advances.
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| Sea level rise could be even worse for San Francisco than previously thought Posted: 07 Mar 2018 04:31 PM PST  A large swathe of the San Francisco Bay Area will become especially susceptible to flooding as climate change pushes sea levels higher, while subsidence causes land levels to drop, according to a new study. Previous research has already established that densely inhabited coastal areas are at risk as sea levels rise, a phenomenon that shows signs of accelerating. Subsidence is in part a function of geology, with areas built on landfill more prone to sinking.
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| Xi Jinping's latest tag: living Buddhist deity, Chinese official says Posted: 08 Mar 2018 12:38 AM PST  President of China, head of its Communist Party, commander-in-chief of the military and now living Buddhist deity - Xi Jinping has added another title to his growing collection, at least in the eyes of some ethnic Tibetans. Speaking on Wednesday on the sidelines of China's annual meeting of parliament, the party boss of the remote northwestern province of Qinghai, birthplace of the Dalai Lama, said Tibetans who lived there had been saying they view Xi as a deity. Wang Guosheng said the province had been following Mao Zedong's advice about inspiring the masses to love the party and its leader, distributing "images of the leader" to people in poverty-stricken areas being moved into new homes.
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| Lara Trump: Democrats have no message or real leader Posted: 08 Mar 2018 11:16 AM PST  President Trump's daughter-in-law and Trump for President senior adviser talks Democratic opposition to the president, the Pennsylvania special election and outreach to women voters.
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| US 'a long way' from negotiations with N.Korea: Tillerson Posted: 08 Mar 2018 05:39 AM PST  Washington's top diplomat Rex Tillerson said Thursday the United States was "a long way from negotiations" with North Korea, which this week made a shock offer to discuss denuclearisation. Tillerson, who is in Ethiopia on his first-ever Africa tour, said the signals from Pyongyang may be positive but stressed negotiations with Kim Jong Un's regime were not going to happen soon. "I think as President Trump has indicated, (there are) potentially positive signals coming from North Korea by way of their intra-Korean dialogue with South Korea," he told journalists.
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| Charlize Theron Explains How Her Mom Became Her Weed Dealer Posted: 08 Mar 2018 08:27 AM PST  The 42-year-old "Gringo" actress revealed during an appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" Wednesday that her mom, Gerda, recently started buying her weed. It all started because the two have trouble sleeping, Theron said. They wanted to try a strain of weed that would help, rather than their usual sleep medication. "Last week she showed up at my house, literally drove in in her little tennis outfit, and brought me a little container and just left it on my kitchen table," Theron said.
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