| California Considering Unprecedented Law Restricting Police Firearm Use Posted: 03 Apr 2018 12:34 PM PDT  On the heels of police officers shooting a young, unarmed black man to death
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| Police defend decision not to detain YouTube shooter hours before shooting Posted: 04 Apr 2018 11:07 AM PDT  Nasim Aghdam, whom Northern California police found sleeping in her car early Tuesday, had been reported missing by her family in San Diego. But they say she was calm and cooperative.
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| Anti-Semitism Is Rising, But Trump Won’t Fill A State Department Job To Fight It Posted: 03 Apr 2018 01:26 PM PDT  A State Department position designed specifically to focus on anti-Semitism
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| Martin Luther King Jr.'s Daughter Reveals Topic Of Scathing Sermon He Never Got To Give Posted: 04 Apr 2018 07:04 AM PDT  Two of Martin Luther King Jr.'s surviving children gave powerful sermons
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| Crews recover pilot's body in South Korean fighter jet crash Posted: 05 Apr 2018 06:36 AM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Searchers recovered the body of a South Korean pilot who was killed Thursday when his F-15K fighter jet crashed into a mountain in the country's rural south, the air force said. Workers planned to resume their search Friday for the co-pilot, who was also presumed dead.
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| Big shark swings by cops just doing their job Posted: 04 Apr 2018 08:03 PM PDT  Cops are used to surprises on the job, but seldom a casual great white shark. South Australian Police looking to breathalyse and check up on boat operators last Friday were greeted by the animal, who cruised around them for about 10 minutes. SEE ALSO: Try not to get hypnotized by this 'shark whisperer' and his calming powers It's estimated the shark, nicknamed Noah by police, measured around 4.5 to five metres (14 feet) long. "I told the boys to back off a bit because the shark was right next to us," fisherman Mark Oaks told ABC News. "For probably the next 10 or 15 minutes we just sat around. The police brought the big boat in, which is where the footage from above the shark has come from." "Noah wasn't keen on being breath tested and our Water Operations Unit officers were happy to oblige!" South Australia Police wrote in a Facebook post. The great white shark is arguably one of the most feared species in Australian waters due to its threat to humans. It is listed as vulnerable by the IUCN, however its exact population in the south-west of Australia remains unknown despite attempts to calculate it. WATCH: Jeff Goldblum is back in the amazing 'Jurassic World Evolution' video game
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| Airlines cut back flights as Philippine holiday hotspot braces for closure Posted: 05 Apr 2018 01:02 AM PDT  By Neil Jerome Morales MANILA (Reuters) - A decision by Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte to shut the holiday hotspot of Boracay, which he has called a "cesspool", prompted airlines to cut flights on Thursday, as hotels prepared for cancellations and businesses appeared resigned to a move the government said was non-negotiable. Duterte late Wednesday ordered the closure of Boracay for six months from April 26 in a bid to rescue from ruin a once idyllic island that drew 2 million tourists and generated over a billion dollars in revenue last year. Domestic airlines offered customers full refunds or flights elsewhere, but said they would still operate a limited number of flights to Boracay's gateways, Caticlan and Kalibo, to serve residents, which number about 50,000.
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| The Latest: Russian spokeswoman mocks Britain's allegations Posted: 03 Apr 2018 01:22 PM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — The Latest on the poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain (all times local):
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| Black Parkland Students Want Peers To 'Share The Mic' Posted: 05 Apr 2018 05:53 AM PDT  Black students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are calling out the
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| Palestinian shot dead by Israeli forces on Gaza border: ministry Posted: 03 Apr 2018 09:50 PM PDT  A Palestinian was shot dead by Israeli forces on the Gaza border Tuesday, the health ministry in the strip said, as tensions remained high days after 17 people were killed when a mass demonstration led to clashes. The ministry identified the dead man as 25-year-old Ahmed Arafa, saying he was shot in the chest during clashes east of Bureij in central Gaza.
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| Donald Trump Jr. Uses YouTube Shooting To Make Incoherent Rant About The Left Posted: 04 Apr 2018 12:53 AM PDT  Donald Trump Jr. sparked anger online after he used Tuesday's fatal shooting
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| Sacramento protesters demonstrate against police shooting of Stephon Clark Posted: 05 Apr 2018 08:15 AM PDT ![Sacramento protesters demonstrate against police shooting of Stephon Clark]( "Sacramento protesters demonstrate against police shooting of Stephon Clark") Black Lives Matter protesters took to the streets during a march and demonstration in front of the offices of District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert on April 4, 2018, in Sacramento, Calif. It's the latest in a series of protests following the March 18 police shooting of 22-year-old Stephon Clark.
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| CDC: 'Nightmare Bacteria' Pose Growing Threat Posted: 03 Apr 2018 12:25 PM PDT  "Nightmare bacteria" with unusual resistance to antibiotics of last resort were found more than 200 times in the United States last year in a first-of-a-kind hunt. (April 3)
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| Zach Braff face-swapped with Dax Shepard and the result must be seen to be believed Posted: 05 Apr 2018 02:28 AM PDT  It's a well known fact that Zach Braff and Dax Shepard are practically identical looking. SEE ALSO: Kristen Bell Shaved Dax Shepard's Butt for a Movie Role The two of them have even joked about it before: @zachbraff its been 2 hours since someone has pointed out that we look alike. I think twitter might be broken! — dax shepard (@daxshepard1) April 17, 2013 .@daxshepard1 Dax! I am honored to be as handsome as you. There's buddy-cop movie with Ray Ramano in this somewhere... — Zach Braff (@zachbraff) April 17, 2013 Well, now we have indisputable proof. On Wednesday, Braff shared a face-swap of the two of them that was apparently taken some years ago by Kristen Bell. Behold: Years ago @IMKristenBell took a FaceSwap picture of @daxshepard1 and I. I'm gonna get this put on a T-shirt. pic.twitter.com/La4fcHx9ie — Zach Braff (@zachbraff) April 4, 2018 If you find those images fascinatingly creepy, you're not alone. Am I the only one that finds this deeply disturbing but can't stop looking at it? — April Resists (@AprilDelRario) April 4, 2018 Nope. — dax shepard (@daxshepard1) April 4, 2018 Shepard, in particular, couldn't stop analysing the results. For me, it's really the pictures in the left colomn. I mean, it almost appears that there was no swap there. — dax shepard (@daxshepard1) April 4, 2018 Unsurprisingly, there were some A+ responses. If you Then youDon't love me Don't deserve meAt my At my pic.twitter.com/HXLSDZnZOM — multicoloured panda (@Running_84) April 4, 2018 You should post the result too, for comparison. — Nod Stork (@necromaunzer) April 4, 2018 HAHAHAHAHA — dax shepard (@daxshepard1) April 4, 2018 It's high time Hollywood gave these two their own TV series. WATCH: Memes are the best thing on this planet, change my mind
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| Agents arrest designer of Kansas water slide that killed boy Posted: 03 Apr 2018 01:01 PM PDT  DALLAS (AP) — One of the designers of a massive Kansas water park slide that decapitated a 10-year-old boy has been arrested in Texas, federal authorities said Tuesday.
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| You're Doubling The Glycemic Index Of A Sweet Potato When You Bake It Posted: 05 Apr 2018 02:46 AM PDT  A baked sweet potato is one of those rare things in life that's both good for
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| Four Marine helicopter crew presumed dead after California crash Posted: 04 Apr 2018 12:02 AM PDT  The helicopter was a Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion from the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing based at the Marine Corps Air Station in Miramar, Ca., according to a statement from the Marines. It is the largest and heaviest "heavy-lift" helicopter in the U.S. military.
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| Turkey, Russia, Iran urge 'lasting ceasefire' in Syria Posted: 04 Apr 2018 09:01 AM PDT  The presidents of Iran, Turkey and Russia vowed to work for a lasting ceasefire after over seven years of civil war in Syria, following a summit aimed at boosting both peace prospects and also their influence in the country. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, Iran's Hassan Rouhani and Russia's Vladimir Putin reaffirmed their commitment to cooperating for "the achievement of a lasting ceasefire between the conflicting parties", a joint communique said. The meeting in Ankara was the second such tripartite summit after the first hosted by Putin in November in the Black Sea city of Sochi, in a new symbol of an increasingly deep cooperation.
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| As YouTube Shooting Unfolded, Fake News Spread Like Wildfire On Twitter Posted: 03 Apr 2018 06:31 PM PDT  During crisis situations, Twitter can be a useful resource for people seeking
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| Graphic Street Art Of Trump Shooting Schoolchildren Sparks Outcry Posted: 04 Apr 2018 02:54 AM PDT  Mystery surrounds who is behind an Alabama mural that depicts President Donald
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| Sri Lankan PM survives no confidence vote Posted: 04 Apr 2018 12:10 PM PDT  By Shihar Aneez and Ranga Sirilal COLOMBO (Reuters) - Sri Lankan Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Wednesday survived a no confidence vote in parliament after a majority of legislators voted to support his coalition government but the instability caused may damage its reform agenda. The opposition, eyeing fractures within the ruling alliance, had sponsored the trust vote against Wickremesinghe blaming him for failing to prevent an alleged scam https://www.reuters.com/article/sri-lanka-bond-arrest/sri-lanka-police-arrest-two-over-alleged-bond-scam-idUSL4N1PU07C in the bond market, and for failing to stop anti-Muslim riots https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sri-lanka-clashes-insight/police-politicians-accused-of-joining-sri-lankas-anti-muslim-riots-idUSKBN1H102Q that occurred last month.
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| How Did a Miles-Long Crevice Appear in the Earth Overnight? Posted: 04 Apr 2018 10:35 AM PDT  Scientists are torn about why the crack in the earth suddenly appeared outside Nairobi, Kenya.
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| How Dwayne Johnson is training to be President Posted: 05 Apr 2018 06:00 AM PDT  Dwayne Johnson revealed to Rolling Stone how he's trying to learn from the best politicians to one day, maybe & probably, run for office.
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| APNewsBreak: Woman says she reported abuse in 2013 Posted: 03 Apr 2018 07:57 PM PDT  SEATTLE (AP) — A woman said Tuesday that she told Oregon child welfare officials in 2013 that Jennifer and Sarah Hart — who plunged off a California cliff with their children last month in an SUV — had been depriving the kids of food as punishment.
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| How To Hit Sinclair Where It Hurts, According To An Anonymous Sinclair Anchor Posted: 04 Apr 2018 12:57 PM PDT  Last week, ThinkProgress and Deadspin both posted video compilations of
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| There's a whole meme community that doesn't think Mark Zuckerberg is human Posted: 05 Apr 2018 04:00 AM PDT  There's a whole subreddit poking fun at Mark Zuckerberg's supposed power complex. The Facebook CEO is currently in some hot water for the Cambridge Analytica data mining scandal, and the company has been a PR nightmare as people delete their accounts and flee the social media giant. Overall, there's a pretty universal distrust of Mark Zuckerberg right now. Comment from discussion Zuck memes horribly undervalued.. But a community of Redditors has shared that distrust for a while now — six months ago, Redditor u/SirLotsaLocks created r/ZuckMemes after positive feedback from r/MemeEconomy. According to its description, "Mark Zuckerberg is the human founder of the massive social media website called Facebook." The subreddit, which has just under 19,000 subscribers, mocks Zuckerberg's flowery, sappy posts about how he's just an average guy and instead insists that he's a robot learning to assimilate with humans. Like this post from last July. "If you eat meat, you should know where it comes from," Zuckerberg mused in a live Facebook video. He explained that he challenged himself to be vegetarian for a year unless he was involved in killing and butchering the animal himself. One of the side effects, he said, was that he got really into preparing meats himself, which is how we were blessed with this nice chat with Zuckerberg while he smoked meats in his backyard. In the livestream, Zuckerberg answered questions from commenters, discusses revolutionizing education, charmingly tried to convince his wife Priscilla to join him in the video. In the r/zuckmemes take, Zuckerberg enjoys "charring meat inside of an unpressurized vessel behind my domicile." "Once the animal carcass reaches a temperature sufficient to destroy bacteria and viruses that would pose a threat to my empire," the fake post says, "I will consume the flesh to replenish my stores of energy." In this Zuck meme, the Facebook CEO attempts to order from a food truck. "The animal's flesh was warm." How could he not be a human? Look at him eat normal toast, like a normal human! (Turn your volume up to hear the very human sound effects.) Both of these clips were modified from a video in which Zuck, aka Zucc, showed off his home named AI Jarvis. But the weirdness of the original video was ripe for the Zuck meme community. The memes also make fun of Zuckerberg's "profound" posts about interacting with underrepresented groups, like this one. Last year, Zuckerberg sat down for dinner with a group of Somali refugees in Minneapolis and wrote a poignant post about the meaning of home. "I left impressed by your strength and resilience to build a new life in an unfamiliar place," his caption said, "And you are a powerful reminder of why this country is so great." The Redditors who frequent r/zuckmemes don't see his posts as a sentimental reflection on the real meaning of America. They joke about Zuckerberg's need for power trips. In the highest rated post on r/zuckmemes, the robotic Zuck bullies an elderly Alabaman editor into eating an entire newspaper, threatening to buy out the Selma Times-Journal and turn it into an "anime fanzine." "For 43 minutes I had total power over that man," the fake posts says. "I'd never felt more alive. I bet that's what being president feels like." According to r/zuckmemes, Zuckerberg has a wild god complex. This fake Elon Musk posts talks about both tech billionaires' idea of a fun activity. For Musk, it's a jetpack paint ball fight with "Don't Stop Believing" playing in the background. For Zuckerberg, it was paying off a man's student loans in exchange for beating him. There's even a handy guide to creating Zuck memes, which involves editing Facebook in HTML to make realistic looking posts from the CEO himself. r/zuckmemes peaked in popularity about six months ago, but since the Cambridge Analytica scandal happened, people have been straying away from the usual meme format to joke about Facebook's privacy breaches. Will the god-king Mark Zuckerberg ever learn to assimilate with humans? Or will he always be a secret lizard person? Although there were rumors that Zuckerberg was seeing a behavioral therapist to appear more human, take it with a grain of salt. The Facebook CEO hasn't publicly spoken about the memes or about his public persona. Until then, Zuckerberg will continue to be the lizard robot human philanthropist, innovator and family man he says he is. r/zuckmemes, though, will for sure be keeping an eye on him. WATCH: 5 Instagram pro tips you probably didn't know about
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| Putin launches Turkey nuclear project, vows faster arms delivery Posted: 03 Apr 2018 12:31 PM PDT  Russian President Vladimir Putin Tuesday launched the construction of Turkey's first nuclear power station and vowed to accelerate the delivery of air defence systems to Ankara, in a new tightening of an increasingly close alliance that has alarmed NATO. Putin held several hours of talks with Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on the first of a two-day visit to Ankara that will see the two strongmen leaders joined on Wednesday by Iranian President Hassan Rouhani for a summit devoted to Syria.
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| Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey Calls Out Trump Over 'Thoughts And Prayers' Tweet Following Shooting Posted: 03 Apr 2018 10:38 PM PDT  President Donald Trump tweeted his "thoughts and prayers" following Tuesday's
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| Negotiating with Israel would be big mistake: Iran's Supreme Leader Posted: 04 Apr 2018 11:19 AM PDT  Any move to negotiate with Israel would be an "unforgivable mistake", Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Wednesday, after Saudi Arabia's crown prince said Israelis were entitled to live peacefully on their own land. Saudi Arabia - birthplace of Islam and site of its holiest shrines - does not officially recognize Israel, but Mohammed bin Salman's comments, quoted in the U.S. magazine The Atlantic, are a further sign of an apparent thawing in bilateral ties.
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| Women Who Kill: America's Most Shocking Female Mass Shooters Posted: 04 Apr 2018 09:39 AM PDT  After Nasim Aghdam opened fire at the YouTube headquarters, a list of other women mass shooters.
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| Adam Rippon Says He Received Death Threats For Being Gay Olympian Posted: 05 Apr 2018 03:25 AM PDT  Adam Rippon's skating skills and brash personality turned him into one of the
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| Venezuelan presidential candidate claims physical harassment Posted: 03 Apr 2018 07:07 PM PDT  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — An independent presidential candidate running against Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro says government supporters physically attacked his campaign.
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| NASA's X-Plane is designed to fly at supersonic speeds without the sonic boom Posted: 03 Apr 2018 12:19 PM PDT  NASA wants to prove that it can fly a plane faster than the speed of sound without blasting American neighborhoods below with sonic booms. Previously, commercial supersonic travel had been limited to the Atlantic Ocean, where people wouldn't be jarred awake by planes traveling overhead at more than 760 miles per hour. But with an innovative plane design that might subtly morph in the air to tame sound waves, NASA hopes to build a quieter supersonic plane that would revolutionize travel. Our cross-country flight times would be cut in half. NASA calls it the X-Plane, and the agency just awarded the aerospace and defense company Lockheed Martin the $247.5 million contract to build the first one. SEE ALSO: Finding alien life won't cause chaos and panic, according to scientists At a news conference Tuesday morning, NASA said that this first X-Plane is a data-collecting experiment expected to take flight in 2021. The plane will be 94-feet-long, smaller than today's medium-sized commercial aircraft, like the popular Boeing 737. It will typically cruise around speeds of 1.4 Mach, which is approximately 940 mph when traveling at 55,000 feet, according to a NASA spokesperson. A conceptual graphic of what the NASA X-Plane prototype might look like.Image: NASAToday's commercial airliners typically travel between 550 and 590 miles per hour, far short of the 767 mph speed of sound. NASA aeronautics engineers underscored that this plane isn't a prototype for a defense mission or a private jet — but an experimental plane intended to fly over American communities and see if it is quiet enough to be a real, usable technology. NASA's goal is to not produce a sonic boom at all, but something that sounds more like a soft thud. "I'm trying not to use the word sonic boom," said Peter Coen, project manager for NASA's Commercial Supersonics Technology Project. "I'm trying to ban that from everyone's vocabulary." Getting a plane to produce a thud, as opposed to a thunderous blast, broadly means controlling the strength and position of the shock waves produced by the supersonic-speeding plane as it zooms through the air. NASA's slick X-Plane graphic.Image: NASAThis is something Lockheed Martin and NASA flight engineers will spend the next couple years developing, so by the time a sound wave hits the ground — possibly in a neighborhood near you — it's weakened to a thump, "not a boom," said Coen. Lockheed Martin has already designed much of the sleek plane. If all goes as planned, the experimental plane will make its first flight in 2021. Then, after NASA ensures the plane is safe and passes "acoustic validation tests," the aircraft will begin flying over a variety of U.S. communities in 2023. These flight tests will run through 2025. "We'll be flying over medium-sized cities, urban towns, and rural populations," said Ed Waggoner, program director for NASA's Integrated Aviation Systems Program. "It will be representative of populations that will be exposed to these sounds." NASA uses cameras with special filters (hydrogen alpha) to capture images of how supersonic planes move through the air and create booms.Image: NASAThe X-Plane tests will fly over large 50-square-mile areas, giving NASA a diversity of Americans to survey about the low-booms they're hearing — and if they notice them at all. Today, civilian supersonic flights over land are banned. But once NASA gets feedback from the public, this information can be used to not just advise plane manufacturers in the U.S. of how to build low-boom planes, but engineers all over the world. "One thing we hope this data will give the international community is that noise level," said Coen. "If your airplane produces less than X [sound decibels], it's okay to fly over land." WATCH: NASA needs you to send them pictures of clouds
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| China to hit US soybeans, cars, planes with retaliatory tariffs Posted: 04 Apr 2018 02:43 AM PDT  China Wednesday announced plans to hit the United States with new tariffs of 25 percent on soybeans, aircraft, cars and other imports worth $50 billion, hours after Washington unveiled its own target list. China's commerce ministry listed 106 products to be targeted and said a date for the implementation of the tariffs would be announced separately. The new tariffs mark a significant escalation of the brewing trade war between the world's two largest economies -- with the $100 billion worth of goods cumulatively targeted representing about 17 percent of the $580 billion in two-way trade last year.
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| Jury Finds Adam Shacknai Responsible for Rebecca Zahau’s Hanging Death in San Diego Mansion Posted: 04 Apr 2018 11:06 AM PDT  The hanging death of Rebecca Zahau in the Spreckles Mansion created a long-lasting mystery.
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| CNN Legal Analyst Jeffrey Toobin Has An Ominous New Warning For Trump Posted: 03 Apr 2018 08:21 PM PDT  CNN legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin warned the White House not to celebrate a
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| Nasim Aghdam: YouTube shooting suspect visited firing range hours before attack on California campus Posted: 04 Apr 2018 09:44 AM PDT  Hours before YouTube employees were sent fleeing from a shooter on their campus, the suspected assailant practised her aim at a shooting range. Shortly afterwards Nasim Najafi Aghdam, 39, strode into the video streaming giant's headquarters and opened fire with a legally obtained Smith and Wesson semiautomatic handgun before fatally shooting herself, authorities said. An emerging timeline suggests that Ms Aghdam travelled from southern California to Silicon Valley in the days before the shooting, propelled by a sense of grievance at YouTube.
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| Shout 'Dilly Dilly' At The Masters And You'll Be Thrown Out On Your Can Posted: 04 Apr 2018 09:39 AM PDT  To combat disruptive fan behavior at golf tournaments, the Masters has banned
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| The Latest: US forces setting up positions in north Syria Posted: 04 Apr 2018 08:34 AM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the Syrian conflict (all times local):
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| Ex-New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani and wife Judith divorcing: media Posted: 04 Apr 2018 01:12 PM PDT  Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who rose to national fame in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 attacks, and his third wife, Judith, are divorcing, the New York Post reported on Wednesday. After a 15-year marriage, Judith Giuliani, 63, filed a contested divorce proceeding in state Supreme Court in Manhattan, indicating an expected fight over their assets, including properties in New York and Palm Beach, Florida. "It is with great sadness I can confirm that Judith and I are divorcing," Rudy Giuliani, 73, told the Post.
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| Bollywood star Salman Khan sentenced to five years for killing antelopes Posted: 05 Apr 2018 07:01 AM PDT  Bollywood superstar Salman Khan was sentenced to five years prison on Thursday for killing endangered wildlife nearly 20 years ago, stunning India's film industry and his die-hard fans. Khan, regarded as the bad boy of Indian cinema, was taken into police custody and driven to jail after the sentencing amid chaotic scenes outside the court in Rajasthan state. Much of the evidence on record was not properly dealt with," Mahesh Bora, one of Khan's lawyers, told reporters outside the court in the northwestern city of Jodhpur.
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| Russian spy chief says feels like Cold War is back Posted: 04 Apr 2018 07:06 AM PDT  Russia's foreign intelligence agency chief presents at a security conference in Moscow and says it is possible to speak of a return to the Cold War era. Rough cut (no reporter narration).
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| This 4,000-Year-Old Mummy Just Solved a Century-Old Mystery Posted: 04 Apr 2018 01:09 PM PDT  A team of forensic scientists has managed to extract DNA from a 4,000-year-old mummy, and their finding has solved a century-old mystery of its ransacked tomb. The Egyptian mummy wasn't a fully preserved corpse, but rather a decapitated, mutilated, bandage-wrapped head that archaeologists found on top of a coffin when they excavated a tomb back in 1915. As the researchers explained in a paper published March 1 in the journal Genes, the tomb belonged to an Egyptian Middle Kingdom governor named Djehutynakht.
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| What to expect from the new generation Ford Focus Posted: 04 Apr 2018 09:41 AM PDT  On Tuesday, April 10, 2018, the American manufacturer will unveil the new generation Ford Focus. The new Focus will be available in the usual versions (hatchback, sedan and estate), but with slightly modified shapes. Under the hood, the 2019 Ford Focus is expected to benefit from a new three cylinder EcoBoost engine, and in time will be offered in hybrid and even 100% electric versions, as was the case with previous generations.
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