| Trump makes headlines on another unpredictable day in office Posted: 05 Apr 2018 03:42 PM PDT  The real first sign that Thursday was going to be a particularly tumultuous day for Donald Trump came at the start of what was billed to be a West Virginia roundtable about tax reform.
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| Protesters Demand Justice For Saheed Vassell, Unarmed Black Man Shot By Cops In NYC Posted: 05 Apr 2018 05:17 PM PDT  Hundreds of people rallied in New York City on Thursday evening to call for
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| Mueller's team finds more Russia ties Posted: 04 Apr 2018 01:17 PM PDT  Lawrence O'Donnell looks at the New York Times report that a key cooperating witness in the Mueller probe has ties to Russia – and the special counsel's newest tactics to get information.
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| Mueller not done with Manafort, also scrutinizing Michael Cohen Posted: 05 Apr 2018 01:15 PM PDT  Rachel Maddow reports on new court filings that show that Robert Mueller's prosecutors have executed another search warrant on Paul Manafort as recently as a month ago...
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| PHOTOS: Immigrants caught crossing the U.S.-Mexico border Posted: 05 Apr 2018 11:48 AM PDT  Even though the Trump administration speaks of an immigration "crisis" on the U.S.-Mexico border, U.S. Border Patrol statistics show the fewest apprehensions of illegal immigrants on the border in 46 years. In the fiscal year that ended Sept. 30, 2017, there were 303,916 such arrests, the lowest level since fiscal 1971. Unable to get the U.S. Congress or Mexico to fully fund his border wall, President Donald Trump will post National Guard troops along the Mexican frontier, officials said. (Reuters)
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| Virgin Galactic tests rocket ship, three years after fatal accident Posted: 05 Apr 2018 11:50 PM PDT  At about 8 a.m. local time, The VMS Eve carrier plane took off from Mojave, California, carrying SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity before releasing it 46,500 feet (14,000 m) above ground, Virgin Galactic said in a statement. "Space feels tantalisingly close now," Branson Tweeted after the test flight.
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| Woman Who Says Mormon Church Failed To Discipline Her Abuser Files Lawsuit Posted: 05 Apr 2018 06:45 PM PDT  A woman who accused a former Mormon leader of rape filed a civil lawsuit
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| Search for missing children in California crash continues amid new evidence Posted: 05 Apr 2018 09:01 AM PDT  "I'm to the point where I'm no longer calling it an accident," said a Mendocino County Sheriff. "I'm calling it a crime."
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| Phil Bredesen is a Democrat who thinks he can win in Tennessee. He might be right. Posted: 05 Apr 2018 02:00 AM PDT  The former governor's surprise decision to jump into the race in December put Tennessee's Senate campaign on the national map, giving Democrats a slim chance at regaining control of the U.S. Senate this fall.
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| Atlantic Fires Kevin Williamson After Suddenly Realizing He Believes The Things He Says Posted: 05 Apr 2018 11:41 AM PDT  In an email to his staff Thursday afternoon, The Atlantic's editor-in-chief,
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| Democrats hope teacher strikes will mobilize support for midterms Posted: 05 Apr 2018 07:00 AM PDT  With public school teachers taking a stand over low pay and dwindling education budgets in several Republican majority states, Democrats are sensing another opportunity to make inroads in the 2018 midterm elections.
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| New York Attorney General Launches Investigation Into Police Killing Of Black Man Posted: 05 Apr 2018 08:45 AM PDT  The New York attorney general's office is opening an investigation into the
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| Iowa advances immigration bill banning 'sanctuary cities' Posted: 04 Apr 2018 06:22 PM PDT ![Iowa advances immigration bill banning 'sanctuary cities']( "Iowa advances immigration bill banning 'sanctuary cities'") DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa is set to become the latest Republican-led state to target so-called sanctuary cities by withholding money from local governments that don't comply with federal immigration laws, even though the plan could lead to court challenges.
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| Philippines tourism hotspot Boracay to be closed for six months after becoming 'cesspool' Posted: 04 Apr 2018 06:45 PM PDT  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the closure of the country's most famous tourist island, Boracay, paving the way for a major cleanup of what he had described as a "cesspool". Boracay, on the northern tip of central Panay island, is a top destination for local and foreign tourists and its sugary white sand, lively night scene and abundant water sports attracted nearly 2 million visitors last year. The island earns revenue from luxury hotels such as Shangri-La's five-star Boracay Resort & Spa and beachside restaurants and also employs thousands of local residents. Presidential spokesman Harry Roque announced Duterte's decision on Twitter, saying it would be closed for six months from April 26. He gave no more details. Duterte, whose leadership style has been criticised as dictatorial, has castigated the local government and residents for "overzealous" development and permitting beachfront building with inadequate sewage and water treatment facilities. At a glance | The Philippines' other best beaches Many businesses on the island have been releasing wastewater directly into the sea, violating rules on wastewater management, according to Environment Secretary Roy Cimatu. Senior Deputy Executive Secretary Menardo Guevarra described the discussion about Boracay's temporary closure during a cabinet meeting late on Wednesday as "exhaustive" and said affected companies would receive financial assistance. They also discussed ways to help about 17,000 workers who may be displaced, tourism undersecretary Frederick Alegre said on Thursday. "This is not about profit, it's about the political will to deal with years of neglect of the environment," Mr Alegre said. "We need to act swiftly to save the island and avert its further deterioration." Tourists takes photographs along local sailboats on the island of Boracay, central Philippines Credit: Reuters The closure, which is shorter than the one-year shutdown recommended by the environment ministry, comes just a few weeks after the government gave Macau casino operator Galaxy Entertainment Group Ltd permission to build a $500 million casino and resort in Boracay. Philippine Airlines said it would scale down its services to Caticlan and Kalibo airports, the gateways to Boracay, for six months from April following the government's decision. It will expand flights to other tourist and provincial destinations in the Philippines, it said in a statement. Boracay is one of a growing number of the globe's most stunning beaches that face temporary closure this summer as their ecosystems struggle to cope with the devastating impact of unfettered tourism. Thailand's Maya Bay, which rose to fame when it featured in the 1999 Leonardo DiCaprio movie The Beach, will be closed to the public for four months from June, to allow its battered coral reefs and sea life to recover.
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| Stranger finds young girl’s letter to late father, helps her achieve a dream Posted: 05 Apr 2018 09:09 AM PDT  After the death of her father, 11-year-old Emily started writing a yearly letter and sending it skyward to him with a balloon. After one was found miles away, the kindness of a stranger helped Emily accomplish her dream.
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| YouTube Shooter Was Enraged After Popular Video Earned Her Just 10 Cents Posted: 05 Apr 2018 10:27 AM PDT  Nasim Aghdam expressed her anger on her website after a video that was viewed 300,000 resulted in income of just a dime.
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| Trump to order National Guard to protect border with Mexico: official Posted: 04 Apr 2018 12:31 PM PDT  President Donald Trump will sign a proclamation on Wednesday ordering the deployment of the National Guard to help protect the border with Mexico, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen said. "The president has directed that the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security work together with our governors to deploy the National Guard to our southwest border to assist the Border Patrol," Nielsen said at a White House briefing.
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| Jaime King's 4-Year-Old Son Hit With Broken Glass In Bizarre Car Attack Posted: 05 Apr 2018 05:10 AM PDT  Actress Jaime King's 4-year-old son James was showered with glass as he sat
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| Earthquake hits off coast of Southern California, shaking felt in Los Angeles Posted: 05 Apr 2018 12:53 PM PDT  A magnitude 5.3 earthquake shook Southern California early Thursday afternoon, the strongest earthquake to rattle the region since 2014.
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| Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin: Teachers on strike are like 'teenagers who want a better car' Posted: 04 Apr 2018 11:28 AM PDT  Teachers going on strike to demand a salary increase are like "a teenager wanting a better car," according to Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin.
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| The Latest: New Yorkers rally against police shooting Posted: 05 Apr 2018 06:50 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the fatal New York City police shooting of a man who was brandishing a metal pipe (all times local):
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| US F-16 crashes near Las Vegas, third crash in two days Posted: 04 Apr 2018 03:43 PM PDT  An American F-16 fighter jet crashed on Wednesday near Las Vegas, the third US military aircraft crash in two days. "An Air Force F-16 assigned to Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, crashed at approximately 10.30 am during routine training on the Nevada Test and Training Range," the Air Force said in a statement. "The condition of the pilot is not known at this time," it said. The crash followed two others the day before. In California, a Marine Corps CH-53E helicopter crashed with four crew aboard. A United States Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion Helicopter like that which crashed in California, sits at North Island Naval Air Station Coronado Credit: Louis Nastro/Reuters "The status of all four is presumed dead pending positive identification," the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing said. And in Djibouti, a Marine AV-8B Harrier jet crashed after the pilot ejected during takeoff. "Doctors said the pilot was in stable condition," US Naval Forces Central Command said. US Defense Department chief James Mattis secured a record budget last month for the Pentagon, which will allow investments that have been on hold for several years, including in the Navy, which is overstretched in foreign theaters, and the Air Force, which suffers rapid pilot turnover due to more lucrative private sector options.
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| Watch Ted Cruz's Reaction When Asked To Take A DNA Test To Prove He's Human Posted: 04 Apr 2018 10:01 PM PDT  Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) was issued an unusual challenge on Tuesday night when
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| Philippine tourist island in chaos as shutdown looms Posted: 06 Apr 2018 01:51 AM PDT  The Philippine tourism industry scrambled Friday to manage the fallout from the temporary shutdown of its world-famous Boracay island, which threw into chaos trips planned by hundreds of thousands of tourists. President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the once-idyllic white-sand resort closed to tourists for up to six months from April 26, after describing the country's top tourist attraction as a "cesspool" tainted by raw sewage. Hundreds of Boracay hotels, as well as restaurants, tour operators and business establishments were on Friday unwinding bookings for rooms, flights, weddings and other events and facilities.
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| Tired of winning yet? You're not alone. Posted: 05 Apr 2018 02:00 AM PDT  Donald Trump warned us that we'd win so much, we'd eventually grow tired of winning. But winning, in Trump's mind, wasn't about us. It was about him.
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| Brazil jaguars find safe haven from floods in rainforest trees Posted: 05 Apr 2018 09:19 AM PDT ![Brazil jaguars find safe haven from floods in rainforest trees]( "Brazil jaguars find safe haven from floods in rainforest trees") Brazilian jaguars, imperiled by hunters, ranchers and destruction of their habitat, have learned to survive at least one menace — flooding in the Amazon. They take to the trees!
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| Bollywood Star Salman Khan Has Been Convicted of Poaching Protected Antelopes Posted: 05 Apr 2018 02:40 AM PDT  Khan, one of Bollywood's biggest stars, was sentenced to five years in prison
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| The Latest: Israeli fire kills Palestinian at Gaza border Posted: 06 Apr 2018 06:02 AM PDT  KHUZAA, Gaza Strip (AP) — The Latest on the Gaza Palestinians protest march and the violence along the Gaza-Israel border (all times local):
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| Shooting motivated by video blogger's anger with YouTube, police say Posted: 04 Apr 2018 03:50 PM PDT  An Iranian-born woman who blogged about surviving in a world filled with "injustice and diseases" opened fire at YouTube's California headquarters because she was angry at a site she believed was suppressing her videos, police said on Wednesday. In a series of Persian and English-language online postings, Nasim Najafi Aghdam, 39, had railed against the video-sharing site owned by Alphabet Inc's Google before wounding three people and killing herself on Tuesday at its offices in San Bruno, just south of San Francisco. In an English-language video posted to her YouTube account before the channel was deleted on Tuesday, Aghdam said, "I am being discriminated.
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| Betsy DeVos Mulls The Fate Of Guidance Designed To Reduce Racial Bias In Schools Posted: 04 Apr 2018 10:33 AM PDT  Education Secretary Betsy DeVos met with a group of civil rights leaders,
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| Trump's Trade Rhetoric Is Unhinged. His Tariffs Aren't. Posted: 04 Apr 2018 03:46 PM PDT  Before Donald Trump was elected president, the large and expanding American
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| Africa Is Splitting in Two, and Here's the Proof Posted: 04 Apr 2018 01:12 PM PDT  A piece of East Africa is expected to break off the main continent in tens of millions of years. The enormous crack appeared on March 19 and measures more than 50 feet (15 meters) wide and several miles along, Face2Face Africa and other news sources reported. The rift is likely a sign of things to come as the plate tectonics under Africa rearrange themselves.
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| 2018 Ford Expedition | Why Buy? Posted: 05 Apr 2018 06:00 AM PDT  A contemporary take on the hottest segment of the 90s.
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| Poisoned spy's pets are dead, UK confirms Posted: 05 Apr 2018 05:09 PM PDT  A cat and two guinea pigs owned by the former double agent poisoned in the UK are dead, the British government confirmed late Thursday after questions were raised by Russia. Nearly a month after Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were attacked with a nerve agent in the English city of Salisbury, prompting a global diplomatic crisis, the fate of the ex-spy's pets was made public. "When a vet was able to access the property, two guinea pigs had sadly died," a spokeswoman for Britain's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs told AFP.
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| US seizes pot-growing houses tied to China-based criminals Posted: 04 Apr 2018 05:14 PM PDT  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Hundreds of federal and local law enforcement agents have seized roughly 100 Northern California houses purchased with money wired to the United States by a Chinese-based crime organization and used to grow massive amounts of marijuana illegally, authorities said Wednesday.
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| Researchers to boycott South Korean university over AI weapons work Posted: 04 Apr 2018 04:44 PM PDT ![Researchers to boycott South Korean university over AI weapons work]( "Researchers to boycott South Korean university over AI weapons work") Over 50 top Artificial Intelligence researchers on Wednesday announced a boycott of KAIST, South Korea's top university, after it opened what they called an AI weapons lab with one of South Korea's largest companies. The researchers, based in 30 countries, said they would refrain from visiting KAIST, hosting visitors from the university, or cooperating with its research programmes until it pledged to refrain from developing AI weapons without "meaningful human control".
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| Eighty-six US teenagers have been killed by gun violence in the 50 days since Parkland, Florida school shooting Posted: 05 Apr 2018 11:19 AM PDT  At least 86 teenagers have been killed by bullets in America in the 50 days since the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida. Taken together, the stories of the dead paint a tragic portrait of gun violence that threatens teenagers across the United States. Data detailing accidental discharges, domestic violence, robberies gone awry and a number of other events, appears random in its geography and the cultural class affected, but chillingly predictable in the volume year after year.
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| Donald Trump Is Now Selling Freedom For Your Head And It Only Costs $35! Posted: 06 Apr 2018 02:54 AM PDT  President Donald Trump is hawking a brand new $35 "Freedom Hat."
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| UFC president calls McGregor's actions 'disgusting' Posted: 06 Apr 2018 12:19 AM PDT  'I don't think anybody is going to be huge Conor McGregor fans after this,' White says
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| DeVos joins debate on racial inequities in school discipline Posted: 04 Apr 2018 03:04 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Education Secretary Betsy DeVos on Wednesday entered a heated national debate on racial disparities in school discipline, meeting with educators as a government watchdog said in a report that African-American students continue to be punished more often than their peers.
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| Is America's Greatest Fear Coming True? Is a Russia-China Alliance Forming? Posted: 04 Apr 2018 05:29 PM PDT  Russia and China are drawing closer together as Washington ratchets up pressure on Moscow and Beijing. In recent months, the United States has enacted sanctions against Moscow and has imposed a series of trade tariffs on Beijing, antagonizing both great powers simultaneously. As result of American pressure, the two powers—which already had grievances against Washington—have formed a strategic partnership to balance against the U.S-led liberal hegemony.
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