| 2 People Injured In Indiana School Shooting Posted: 25 May 2018 07:00 AM PDT  At least two people have been injured in a school shooting in Indiana.
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| 'That’s ridiculous': Key Obama adviser dismisses Trump's 'Spygate' claim Posted: 25 May 2018 05:18 AM PDT  Avril Haines, who served as President Obama's deputy national security adviser, told the Yahoo News podcast "Skullduggery" that it's "ridiculous" for President Trump to claim that "Spygate" is one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. history.
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| Fmr CIA Director reacts to Flood and Kelly appearing at classified briefings Posted: 25 May 2018 04:46 AM PDT  Democrats and former intelligence officials are protesting the White House decision to have Chief of Staff John Kelly and attorney Emmet Flood show up at the onset of two classified briefings on the Russia probe - in which the president is a subject.
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| Woman Killed By Border Patrol Identified As Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzales, 20 Posted: 25 May 2018 06:56 PM PDT  The woman shot and killed by U.S. Border Patrol on Wednesday has been
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| Virginia congressional primary will be a test for an establishment Democrat, as party seeks to flip the House Posted: 24 May 2018 02:10 PM PDT  Before Virginia Democrats can pop the victory champagne, they first need to decide what kind of candidate, and race, they want to run.
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| 'It is happening everywhere' Texas mass shooting victims tell governor Posted: 24 May 2018 04:16 PM PDT  Victims and survivors of mass shootings in Texas choked back tears, recounted the bloodshed that unfolded before their eyes and pleaded with Governor Greg Abbott on Thursday to improve safety so that another massacre does not take place. "May 18th came around and it finally happened to our school and we weren't surprised," said Grace Johnson, a senior at Santa Fe High School, the latest campus in a string of deadly U.S. mass shootings that stoked a debate about the best ways to stop the carnage. "Why Santa Fe and we said why not.
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| Mystery wolf-like creature shot in US baffles experts: 'We have no idea' Posted: 26 May 2018 02:40 AM PDT  A mysterious wolf-like creature shot dead in the US has baffled wildlife experts who say they have "no idea" what it is. A farmer killed the animal after spotting it close to his livestock near Denton, Montana. "We have no idea what this is until we get a DNA report back," Bruce Auchly, spokesman with Montana's Fish, Wildlife and Parks (FWP) department, told the Great Falls Tribune newspaper.
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| Publix Suspends Contributions To NRA-Backed Politician Amid Protests Posted: 25 May 2018 02:55 PM PDT  Protests prompted supermarket chain Publix to suspend all political
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| Body of Long-Missing Kansas Boy, 5, Likely Found Under Bridge — and Stepmom Who Reported Disappearance Is Arrested Posted: 25 May 2018 02:00 PM PDT  A Kansas woman has been arrested after police found a body under a bridge believed to be that of her 5-year-old stepson, whom she had reported missing in February
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| 'Trump's son should be concerned': FBI obtained wiretaps of Putin ally who met with Trump Jr. Posted: 25 May 2018 04:12 PM PDT  The FBI has obtained wiretapped conversations involving Alexander Torshin ahead of his meeting with the president's son.
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| Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Teased, Again Posted: 25 May 2018 10:51 AM PDT  The super Mustang is seen overhead in this latest shot.
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| Fish Market Buys Freedom For Fred The 70-Pound Octopus Posted: 25 May 2018 12:07 PM PDT  A 70-pound octopus named Fred not only has eight arms, but possibly nine
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| US denies involvement in Syria missile strike which kills 12 Posted: 24 May 2018 03:17 PM PDT  A dozen pro-regime fighters were killed in an air strike on Syrian army positions a monitor said Thursday, claiming the attack was carried out by the US-led coalition, but the Pentagon denied the report. State media reported the overnight air raid in an area where both the regime and coalition have been battling holdout jihadists, but said it only caused material damage. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, which relies on a broad network of sources across Syria, said the strike had hit army positions south of Albu Kamal, a town on the border with Iraq. "At least three vehicles were destroyed by the strike," said Observatory chief Rami Abdel Rahman. He said the 12 pro-regime fighters killed were not Syrians, but he could not provide more details on their identity. A military source quoted by state news agency SANA said "some of our military positions between Albu Kamal and Hmeimeh were hit this morning in an aggression by American coalition warplanes". A United Nations Truce Supervision Organisation military observer uses binoculars near the border with Syria in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights Credit: BAZ RATNER/Reuters The Pentagon denied the strikes were carried out by the coalition fighting the Islamic State group. "These reports are false, the coalition did not strike any Syrian army positions in eastern Syria," said Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Kone Faulkner. "The coalition's mission is to defeat ISIS (IS) in designated parts of Iraq and Syria, and to set conditions for follow-on stability operations. This mission has not changed." Less than 24 hours after the overnight strikes, missiles targeted a weapons depot belonging to Lebanon's Hezbollah movement at an airbase in the central province of Homs, according to the Observatory. A member of the pro-government forces puts a portrait of the Syrian president on a military weapon Credit: LOUAI BESHARA/AFP Its director Abdel Rahman said the missiles "would have been fired by Israel". SANA said Syrian air defences had intercepted the missiles in Homs, but reported explosions in the area. Albu Kamal and Hmeimeh lie in Syria's eastern Deir Ezzor province, where Russian-backed Syrian troops and the US-led coalition have been waging separate offensives against IS. A "de-confliction" line in place along the Euphrates River since last year is meant to keep the two assaults from crashing into each other. Loyalist troops are present west of the river while the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) are on the east. A military source from forces allied to Syria's government said the strikes had targeted two regime military positions near a frontline with IS. Syrian security forces enter the town of Rastan in the central Homs province on May 16, 2018 after rebels and their relatives were evacuated Credit: LOUAI BESHARA/AFP "There are no Iranian or Lebanese fighters among the dead," the source said. Iraqi Shiite militia are also fighting alongside Syrian regime forces in the area. The Observatory said the government was sending reinforcements. It was not immediately clear whether jihadists were active in the area at the time, nor whether the pro-regime casualties may have been accidental. The coalition has carried out several deadly strikes against Syrian government forces and allied fighters in recent months. In February, coalition bombing raids in Deir Ezzor province killed at least 100 regime and allied fighters, including Russian nationals, in retaliation for an attack on SDF positions. And in September 2016, US-led strikes on regime military positions in the east left more than 60 Syrian troops dead. The coalition later said it had mistaken the fighters for IS jihadists. Syria: timeline of British involvement since 2013 The Islamic State group has lost nearly all the territory it once controlled in Syria and Iraq but it still holds some villages in the Euphrates Valley area. On Monday, Syrian troops and allied forces ousted IS from the last districts it held in the capital Damascus. After a fierce month-long battle, an evacuation deal saw the remaining jihadists bussed out of the city towards small pockets of land still held by IS in the Badiya, a vast desert area stretching from central Syria to its eastern border with Iraq. The day after the transfer, IS fighters in the Badiya attacked a nearby government position, leaving more than two dozen Syrian troops and allied fighters dead. The Observatory said the IS fighters responsible were from the group that had just been transferred out of the Yarmuk area in southern Damascus.
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| The Latest: So far, lava has destroyed 82 Hawaii structures Posted: 25 May 2018 06:32 PM PDT  HONOLULU (AP) — The Latest on the eruption of Kilauea volcano on Hawaii's Big Island (all times local):
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| Toronto restaurant bombing: Police hunt two men after 'IED' injures 15 diners Posted: 24 May 2018 10:44 PM PDT  Two unidentified men walked into a restaurant on Thursday in the Canadian city of Mississauga and set off a bomb, wounding more than a dozen people, and then fleeing, authorities said. The blast went off in the Bombay Bhel restaurant at about 10:30 p.m. Fifteen people were taken to hospital, three of them with critical injuries, the Peel Regional Paramedic Service said in a Tweet. The two male suspects went into the restaurant and detonated their improvised explosive device, Peel Regional Police said in a Tweet.
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| Another Cuba plane crash survivor dies, death toll rises to 112 Posted: 25 May 2018 06:38 AM PDT  One of the survivors of the plane crash just outside Havana airport last week died early on Friday, state-run media cited the Cuban government as saying, raising the death toll from one of Cuba's worst air disasters to 112. Emiley Sanchez, a 40-year old Cuban from the eastern city of Holguin where the Boeing 737 had been heading, died in a hospital in the capital due to "severe traumatic lesions and burns" suffered in the accident. "Her state was extremely critical with a unfavorable prognostic and on a progressive downwards path that we could not reverse," the Health Ministry said in a statement read on state-run radio station Radio Reloj.
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| People Are Rattled By How Much This Nigerian Man Looks Like Chadwick Boseman Posted: 25 May 2018 02:08 PM PDT  Suleiman Abdulfatai is a native of Nigeria, 31 years old, a graphic designer
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| Student in Custody After Allegedly Opening Fire at Indiana Middle School Posted: 25 May 2018 07:01 AM PDT  A suspect was taken into custody after an active shooter situation was reported at Noblesville West Middle School, the Noblesville Fire Department tweeted at 9:39 a.m.
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| Trump's New Executive Orders Make It Easier To Fire Federal Workers Posted: 25 May 2018 02:18 PM PDT  President Donald Trump on Friday signed a series of executive orders that
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| Australian nun in last-minute appeal of Manila deportation Posted: 25 May 2018 03:09 AM PDT  An elderly Australian nun facing deportation after angering Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte launched a last-minute appeal against the order on Friday, the deadline for her to leave the country. Sister Patricia Fox, 71, has been accused of illegally engaging in political activism as the government cracks down on foreign critics on its soil. Duterte, who accuses the Melbourne native of "disorderly conduct", had the immigration service detain her briefly last month, after which her missionary visa was cancelled.
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| All The Things The NRA Has Blamed For The Texas School Shooting Posted: 25 May 2018 12:56 PM PDT  It's been a week since the mass shooting at Santa Fe High School in Texas, and
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| Step Inside This Classic Watch Hill Home Posted: 26 May 2018 05:00 AM PDT |
| Pa. Father Saves Lives of Pregnant Daughter, Unborn Twins by Shielding Her From Gunfire on Her Wedding Night Posted: 25 May 2018 11:45 AM PDT  A Pennsylvania man is in critical condition after shielding his pregnant daughter from a hail of bullets intended for her on the night of her wedding
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| Kīlauea Volcano: Eruptions, lava flows continue to threaten residents Posted: 25 May 2018 12:20 PM PDT  As the eruption at Hawaii's Kīlauea Volcano continues to evolve, the multitude of dangerous threats to residents are showing no signs of subsiding.
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| The Latest: Putin denies Russia responsible for MH17 downing Posted: 25 May 2018 08:14 AM PDT  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — The Latest on the international reaction to a report on the downing of MH17 in 2014 (all times local):
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| Armed Citizen Kills a Shooter Who Opened Fire in an Oklahoma Restaurant Posted: 24 May 2018 08:42 PM PDT  A woman and a young girl were injured but expected to survive, police said
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| EPA spends 30 percent more on Pruitt's security, cites death threats Posted: 25 May 2018 12:56 PM PDT  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt's security detail has cost taxpayers about $3.4 million so far, up more than 30 percent from his predecessor during an equivalent period, according to details released by the agency, which said Pruitt's life had been threatened. Pruitt, who environmental groups have accused of lax enforcement and cozy ties with industry, requested 24-hour protection beginning on his first day in office. It was an unusual measure for the nation's top environmental regulator, and Pruitt and the agency have said it was justified by a high number of threats to his life.
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| Weird Father's Day Gifts Your Dad Doesn't Know He Wants (But He Does) Posted: 26 May 2018 05:00 AM PDT  As a dad, I take Father's Day seriously ― but not the gifts.
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| Bishop Michael Curry Joins Christian March To White House To 'Reclaim Jesus' Posted: 25 May 2018 10:35 AM PDT  Bishop Michael Curry, the Christian leader who emerged as an unexpected star
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| China, Burkina Faso establish ties following Taiwan snub Posted: 26 May 2018 06:15 AM PDT  China and Burkina Faso signed an agreement to establish diplomatic relations on Saturday, days after the west African nation cut ties with Taiwan in yet another victory for Beijing in its campaign to isolate the island. A communique on establishing relations was signed in Beijing by Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and his counterpart Alpha Barry. Burkina Faso broke off ties with Taiwan on Thursday, becoming the second country to do so within a month and leaving the democratically ruled island with only 18 diplomatic allies around the world.
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| Survey reveals most popular habits of road-trippers in time for Memorial Day weekend Posted: 25 May 2018 07:31 AM PDT  The all-American road-trip season kicks off this Memorial Day weekend in the US, and that means the inevitable backseat tussle between crabby kids and disagreements on what to listen to in the car.
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| PHOTOS: More eruptions and lava flows as blue flames burn at Kīlauea Volcano Posted: 26 May 2018 05:57 AM PDT  Kīlauea continues to disrupt life on Hawaii's Big Island as a third lava flow reaches the ocean and methane gas causes flames to burn blue.
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| Putin meets Macron, says North Korea summit end regrettable Posted: 24 May 2018 01:59 PM PDT  ST. PETERSBURG, Russia (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin, meeting with French counterpart Emmanuel Macron, said Thursday that North Korea fulfilled its promises ahead of the canceled summit between President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un.
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| Technology Advances Lead to Arrest in 1979 Murder of 18-Year-Old Texas Newlywed: Police Posted: 25 May 2018 09:48 AM PDT  Michael Anthony Galvan was indicted Thursday on one count of capital murder and one count of murder in the death of Debra Sue Reiding, Austin police said.
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| FCA Recalls 4.8M Vehicles For Cruise Control That Might Not Turn Off Posted: 25 May 2018 11:43 AM PDT  A short circuit while the cruise control accelerates causes the problem.
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| Pakistan ends colonial-era arrangement as it brings restive tribal border area into mainstream politics Posted: 24 May 2018 10:46 AM PDT  Pakistan's lower house has voted for landmark reform that would end draconian colonial era laws making the country's restive tribal areas subject to collective punishment and beyond the protection of courts. The national assembly voted to bring the semi-autonomous border areas at the centre of the war on Islamist terrorism into the mainstream political fold by incorporating them into a neighbouring province. The move would usher in widespread political reform and see the writ of Pakistan's courts extend into areas currently ruled by all powerful political agents in a throwback to the British Raj. After independence Pakistan has continued to govern the seven tribal districts making up the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) with directly appointed agents wielding nearly total power. It has also kept the colonial-era Frontier Crimes Regulations which left residents with no recourse to courts and liable to face collective punishment for the crimes of tribe members. FATA has been a notorious haven for Islamist militants since the 9/11 attacks and the site of regular military operations to weed out terrorist groups from the districts along Afghanistan's border. The amendment, which now passes to the senate and ultimately still needs presidential approval, will see FATA officially merged into neighbouring Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. The tribal districts -- Bajaur, Khyber, Kurram, Mohmand, North Waziristan, Orakzai and South Waziristan -- are home to some five million residents, mainly ethnic Pashtuns. They have long complained they are denied aid and investment because of their special status. "Today this house has approved a historic bill, which will have very positive effects for Pakistan. I thank the opposition for their support," Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi told the assembly. "We need to provide [FATA residents] with all those facilities which are available to the people in the rest of Pakistan," he added. Rahimullah Yusufzai, a regional analyst and an expert on the tribal areas, told AFP: "Pakistan's tribal areas have long been neglected. The government has taken this decision very late." But Ayaz Wazir, a former ambassador and analyst originally from FATA said the districts were unready for the change. He said: "The way the FATA legislation was done quickly, there will be no political and economic improvement for the people of FATA". "There is no infrastructure in FATA to serve people there is no police, courts or administrative structure. How will people address their issues? In the past they were resolving through political agents and jirgas and after this legislation there is no immediate substitute".
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| Pope tells bishops not to accept gay seminarians: report Posted: 24 May 2018 10:55 AM PDT  Pope Francis warned Italian bishops this week to vet carefully applicants to the priesthood and reject anyone they suspected might be homosexual, local media reported on Thursday. "Keep an eye on the admissions to seminaries, keep your eyes open," the pope was quoted as saying by newspaper La Stampa's Vatican Insider service. "If in doubt, better not let them enter." The Vatican did not immediately respond to a request for a comment on the remarks, which Vatican Insider and Il Messaggero said were made at a closed-door gathering on Monday.
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| US-Turkey agree 'roadmap' on Kurd-held Manbij in Syria Posted: 25 May 2018 01:42 PM PDT  Turkish and US officials on Friday agreed on a "roadmap" for further cooperation to ensure the security of a Kurdish-held city which became a major headache between the NATO allies, according to a joint statement. The northern city of Manbij is held by the People's Protection Units (YPG) Kurdish militia, a group which Ankara says is the "terrorist" offshoot of Kurdish hardliners in Turkey. The US has a military presence in Manbij and has provided military support to the YPG in the fight against the Islamic State (IS) extremist group, causing anger among Turkish officials.
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| Man's sledgehammer rampage caught on CCTV Posted: 24 May 2018 10:03 AM PDT  A road rage suspect who hit a man with a sledgehammer is being sought by police in Philadelphia. The assailant then leaves his pickup truck with a sledgehammer and smashes the driver's side window of an SUV. The attacker then hits the passenger with the sledgehammer as he limps off to get back into the SUV.
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| What's the Greatest Concept Car of All Time? Posted: 25 May 2018 08:30 AM PDT  Automakers have come up with some truly wild concepts over the years. Which is your favorite?
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| Nikki Bella ‘Has Massive Baby Fever’ but Wants to Wait Until She Can Afford a ‘Night Nurse and a Nanny’ Posted: 25 May 2018 09:58 AM PDT  "Total Bellas" airs Sundays at 9PM ET on E!
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| Prosecutors add lewd conduct charges to tortured kids case Posted: 24 May 2018 03:20 PM PDT ![Prosecutors add lewd conduct charges to tortured kids case]( "Prosecutors add lewd conduct charges to tortured kids case") FAIRFIELD, Calif. (AP) — Prosecutors on Thursday added four charges of lewd conduct against a father accused of torturing his children in a Northern California home where prosecutors say 10 children lived in filth and neglect.
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| School bus driver in crash that killed 2 appears in court Posted: 25 May 2018 11:15 AM PDT  MORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) — Hunched over, shackled at the hands and ankles, and walking slowly, the driver of a school bus that collided with a dump truck on a New Jersey highway last week, killing a student and teacher, appeared in court Friday on death-by-auto charges.
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| Mane paints hometown red by donating 300 Liverpool shirts Posted: 25 May 2018 12:48 AM PDT  (Reuters) - Liverpool forward Sadio Mane has despatched 300 club jerseys to supporters in his home village of Bambali in Senegal ahead of Saturday's Champions League final against Real Madrid. Mane's family still live in the village of 2,000 inhabitants, which is expected to come to a standstill as their favourite son looks to help the Premier League club claim a sixth European Cup in Kiev's Olympic Stadium.
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| Two killed in fresh Nicaragua clashes after talks collapse Posted: 24 May 2018 04:06 PM PDT  León (Nicaragua) (AFP) - At least two people were killed and 50 wounded as clashes flared in Nicaragua after peace talks between the government and opposition collapsed, the Red Cross and victims' relatives said Thursday. Since protests began on April 18, 76 people have been killed and more than 800 wounded, according to a preliminary report of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, submitted before Wednesday's clashes. Initially triggered by now-aborted reforms to the near-bankrupt social security system, the unrest broadened into a rejection by many Nicaraguans of Ortega his wife, Rosario Murillo, seen as autocratic.
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