| Bill Browder Responds To 'Ludicrous' Putin Threat Against Him Posted: 17 Jul 2018 03:20 AM PDT  William Browder, CEO of Hermitage Capital and anti-Kremlin activist, found
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| Mandalay Bay Owner Sues Las Vegas Shooting Victims Posted: 17 Jul 2018 09:22 AM PDT  An attorney representing some of the victims of the Oct. 1 shooting massacre
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| US judge criticizes plan to reunify families split at border Posted: 15 Jul 2018 11:58 AM PDT  SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge, responding to a plan to reunify children separated at the border, said he was having second thoughts about his belief that the Trump administration was acting in good faith to comply with his orders.
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| Amazon Prime Day 2018: 25 best deals for under $25 Posted: 16 Jul 2018 12:43 PM PDT  Amazon Prime Day 2018 is finally here -- and from the looks of it, the sales
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| Operation by Nicaragua forces leaves at least 10 dead, rights group says Posted: 15 Jul 2018 03:27 PM PDT  Nicaraguan pro-government forces launched an operation in the country's south that left at least 10 people dead and around 20 injured on Sunday, a human rights group said. The operation by police and paramilitaries targeted the city of Masaya, the nearby Niquinohomo and Catarina communities and the Monimbo neighborhood. "This is a preliminary report," said ANPDH head Alvaro Leiva, adding that the names and ages of the deceased were still being investigated.
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| Papa John's Founder Accuses Media Agency Of Extorting Him Over Racial Slur Posted: 16 Jul 2018 02:15 PM PDT  Better ingredients, better pizza and now better scapegoats?
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| The Latest: Crews to try again to get body of firefighter Posted: 15 Jul 2018 04:02 PM PDT  MARIPOSA, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on wildfires in California (all times local):
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| Chinese woman 'detained' after tossing ink on Xi poster: activists Posted: 16 Jul 2018 10:30 PM PDT  A woman who live-streamed herself throwing ink onto a picture of Chinese President Xi Jinping has been detained, according to activists who accuse authorities of suppressing speech to protect a "cult of personality" around the country's leader. The US-based Chinese Human Rights Defenders (CHRD) activist network said authorities have also taken the woman's father and a Chinese artist into custody after they sought to publicise her plight on social media.
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| Forced To Choose Between Putin And His Own Government, Trump Picks Putin Posted: 16 Jul 2018 03:10 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Forced to choose between the Russian dictator who helped him win
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| Chicago police release video of shooting that sparked violent protests Posted: 15 Jul 2018 03:43 PM PDT  Chicago police on Sunday released body camera footage of officers shooting dead a black man as he reached for his concealed handgun, hoping to quell two days of violent and peaceful protests that had branded the incident a case of police brutality. The shooting on Saturday triggered violent clashes that night and more peaceful protests on Sunday in the latest in a string of U.S. police killings that have at times sparked nationwide demonstrations. Chicago had its own high-profile case leading to unrest in the 2014 police shooting of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald, who was holding a knife and shot dead as he walked away from police.
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| 'COUPON CARL': Black woman says CVS manager called police over wrong coupon Posted: 15 Jul 2018 06:50 PM PDT  CVS has issued an apology and said they are "actively investigating what happened."
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| Amazon Prime Day Vacuum Deals That Don't Suck Posted: 16 Jul 2018 03:04 PM PDT  Buying a new vacuum cleaner doesn't necessarily sit at the top of the list for
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| Judge Orders Government To Temporarily Stop Deporting Reunited Families Posted: 16 Jul 2018 10:19 AM PDT  A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Monday to temporarily stop
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| Anger over 'callous' Magufuli remarks on prisoners Posted: 16 Jul 2018 08:28 AM PDT  Amnesty International on Monday slammed Tanzanian President John Magufuli for ordering that prisoners be made to work "day and night" and be kicked if lazy. "All people deprived of their liberty must be treated with humanity and with respect for the inherent dignity of the human person," Amina Hersi, Amnesty International's East Africa campaigner told AFP. "President Magufuli's statement that lazy inmates should be 'kicked' is not only callous but if implemented would amount to cruel, inhumane or degrading treatment or punishment," she added.
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| Delayed arraignment for suspect in Massachusetts police shooting Posted: 16 Jul 2018 11:59 AM PDT ![Delayed arraignment for suspect in Massachusetts police shooting]( "Delayed arraignment for suspect in Massachusetts police shooting") A Massachusetts man suspected of killing a police officer and a bystander with the officer's pistol will not be formally charged on Monday because he is still recovering from wounds sustained during a gunfight with police, officials said. Suspect Emanuel Lopes, 20, was arrested early Sunday after police in Weymouth, Massachusetts, received a report of a person driving erratically. "The Norfolk District Attorney's Office has now been informed that Emanuel Lopes will not be medically available for arraignment today," David Traub, a spokesman for the Norfolk County District Attorney's Office, said in a statement.
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| British caver considering legal action after Elon Musk 'pedo' tweet Posted: 16 Jul 2018 01:27 PM PDT  A British caver hailed a hero for helping to save the lives of 12 boys and their football coach trapped deep inside a Thai cave has said he may take action against Elon Musk after the billionaire entrepreneur called him a "pedo" online. The Tesla CEO lashed out on Sunday evening at Vernon Unsworth, 63, in an extraordinary tirade on Twitter after the cave diver scoffed at Mr Musk's offer of a specialised miniature submarine to evacuate the boys through a twisted and dangerously flooded underground passageway. Mr Unsworth, who has mapped the Tham Luang cave network for years and who played a pivotal role in the daring rescue operation to dive the boys to safety dismissed the submarine idea as a "PR stunt" in an interview with CNN, quipping that the entrepreneur could stick the invention "where it hurts." The Briton said that the six-foot submarine "wouldn't have made the first 50 metres in the cave" as it was rigid and would not have gone round any corners or obstacles in the difficult terrain. His comments were not well-received by Mr Musk, who had travelled to Thailand last week at the height of the crisis to present his submarine to the rescue teams. In a stream of bizarre tweets Mr Musk first told his 22 million-strong Twitter following that he "never saw this British expat guy who lives in Thailand (sus) at any point when we were in the caves." By "sus" Mr Musk was presumed to have meant "suspect", implying that a British man living in Thailand is in itself dubious. Musk later deleted the tweets calling Unsworth a pedo Credit: BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP He went on to dispute Mr Unsworth's claim that the submarine concept was unworkable, arguing that he would produce a video to prove that the device would have reached the children. "Sorry pedo guy, you really did ask for it," he said, without directly naming Mr Unsworth or providing any justification or explanation for the slur. Doubling down on his comments as criticisms rolled in, he said: "Bet ya a signed dollar it's true." The tweets have since been deleted and Musk has not responded to media requests for comment. Mr Unsworth told AFP on Monday he had not reviewed the tweets in full and had only heard about them. Asked if he would take legal action against the billionaire over the allegation, he said: "If it's what I think it is yes." The caver added that he would make a decision when he flies back to the UK this week, but said the episode with Musk "ain't finished". Mr Unsworth who lives close to the caves, in the city of Chiang Rai with his wife, was instrumental in forming the elite team of international divers who spearheaded a mission by the Thai Navy Seals to rescue the 'Wild Boars' football team who were sheltering in a dark cavern 2.5 miles inside the cave. When he realised the scale of the problem facing Thai rescue teams, Mr Unsworth immediately called on British world-class divers John Volanthen, Rick Stanton and Robert Harper, who were the first to discover the emaciated boys ten days after they had gone missing. Musk released images of a device by SpaceX and The Boring Company designed to help in the Thai cave rescue bid Credit: REUTERS The Brits were joined by specialists from Belgium, Scandinavia and Australia, including Dr Richard Harris, an anaesthetist tasked with assessing whether the boys were medically capable of making the life-threatening dive. The perilous mission was considered to be a last resort as looming monsoon rains threatened to flood the cave even further. Some divers have since admitted that they did not expect all of the boys, aged 11-16, to survive. It has now emerged that Dr Harris and Craig Challen, a retired vet and his diving buddy, were given diplomatic immunity ahead of the risky operation "in case something went wrong" , after negotiations between Australian and Thai government officials. "Doctor Richard Harris did his utmost on the medical mission he was responsible for, but if something went wrong he needed protection," Don Pramudwinai, the Thai Foreign Minister, said. "We provided this only to Dr. Richard Harris and two medical assistants. Only to the Australian medical team." All 12 boys and their coach, Ekapol Chanthawong, 25, beat the odds and survived. They are now recovering in hospital and are expected to be released on Thursday.
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| The Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship: Armed with New Torpedo Defenses Posted: 16 Jul 2018 05:40 AM PDT  Detecting torpedoes will naturally reduce risk for other ship assets, such as its vertical take-off Fire Scout drones and small boats, such as its 11-meter Rigid Inflatable Boats, or RIBs.
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| Pakistan opens terrorism investigation against ex-PM's party 10 days before election Posted: 15 Jul 2018 03:00 PM PDT  By Mubasher Bukhari and Kay Johnson LAHORE, Pakistan/ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistani authorities have opened a criminal investigation into leaders of jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's political party under an anti-terrorism law, 10 days before a hotly contested general election, according to police documents. The case relates to a march staged by the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) on July 13, when Sharif returned to Pakistan, which defied a ban on holding public rallies on a Friday. Copies of two separate First Information Reports (FIR), which mark the formal opening of a criminal investigation, named PML-N leader Shehbaz Sharif, who is Nawaz Sharif's brother, and a number of other key figures.
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| Demi Moore Destroys Bruce Willis In Surprise Roast Appearance Posted: 16 Jul 2018 07:08 AM PDT  Nobody has better material than a former spouse.
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| Syrian government targets rebels near Israel-occupied Golan Posted: 15 Jul 2018 02:08 PM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government forces unleashed hundreds of missiles on a rebel-held area near the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights on Sunday, activists said, the latest phase in an offensive to clear southern Syria of insurgents.
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| Chicago police release body cam video of deadly officer-involved shooting Posted: 15 Jul 2018 05:13 PM PDT  Authorities released the identity of a man who was fatally shot by Chicago police on Saturday.
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| 8 Things You Need To Know From The Trump-Putin Presser Posted: 16 Jul 2018 10:57 AM PDT  President Donald Trump met face-to-face with Russian President Vladimir Putin
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| Obama speech to mark 100 years since Mandela's birth Posted: 16 Jul 2018 10:10 PM PDT  Former US president Barack Obama will deliver a speech to a crowd of 15,000 people in South Africa on Tuesday as the centrepiece of celebrations marking 100 years since Nelson Mandela's birth. Obama has made relatively few public appearances since leaving the White House in 2017, but he has often credited Mandela for being one of the great inspirations in his life. Mandela, who died in 2013, remains a global icon for his long struggle against white-minority apartheid rule and for his message of peace and reconciliation after being freed following 27 years in prison.
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| Salvadoran mother separated from son to remain in custody Posted: 16 Jul 2018 01:56 PM PDT  TACOMA, Wash. (AP) — A Salvadoran woman who was separated from her 8-year-old son when she entered the U.S. must remain in custody, prolonging her reunification wait, under a ruling Monday by an immigration judge.
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| NASA commercial crew program for space station faces delays, report says Posted: 16 Jul 2018 07:27 AM PDT ![NASA commercial crew program for space station faces delays, report says]( "NASA commercial crew program for space station faces delays, report says") Plans to launch the first NASA astronauts since 2011 to the International Space Station from the United States look set to be delayed due to incomplete safety measures and accountability holes in the agency's commercial crew program, according to a federal report released on Wednesday. SpaceX and Boeing Co are the two main contractors selected under the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's commercial crew program to build spacecraft that had been expected to send U.S. astronauts to space as soon as 2019.
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| Mike Pompeo rejects EU appeal for exemptions in sanctions against Iran Posted: 16 Jul 2018 09:06 AM PDT  Mike Pompeo, the US Secretary of State, has rejected a high-level appeal from the EU for exemptions from sanctions against Iran, throwing into doubt billions of euros worth of trade. Senior officials from Britain, France and Germany had pleaded with the US not to impose sanctions next month on European companies which do business with Iran. In a letter to the nations' finance and foreign ministers, Mr Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin rejected the appeal, saying America wanted to exert "unprecedented financial pressure" on Tehran after President Donald Trump pulled out of the nuclear deal in May. Mr Pompeo added that the US will not ease the sanctions until it sees a "tangible, demonstrable and sustained shift'' in Iran's policies. "The president withdrew from the [Iran nuclear deal] for a simple reason - it failed to guarantee the safety of the American people,'' Mr Pompeo and Mr Mnuchin wrote in a letter leaked to the press on Sunday night. "We are thus not in a position to make exceptions to this policy except in very specific circumstances where it clearly benefits our national security.'' The letter was a response to an appeal from the three European countries last month, in which they said they "strongly regret" the US decision to withdraw. Some of Europe's biggest firms rushed to do business with Iran after the nuclear deal was implemented in 2015 and last year the EU exported €10.8bn (£9.5bn) in goods and services to Iran. Imports from Iran were also worth €10.1bn (£8.8bn). The other countries that reached the nuclear agreement with Iran - the UK, France, Germany, Russia and China - pledged to continue to honour the nuclear agreement to lift economic sanctions in return for curbs on Iran's nuclear program. However the US withdrawal may make that a practical impossibility. Iran has said it will stay in the deal if it still receives the economic benefits. The EU nations had sought a host of exemptions, including assurances that secondary sanctions on companies that deal with Iran would not be applied to EU businesses and individuals. However, one EU diplomat said they had not realistically expected to get sanctions relief from the US, and a number of companies such as Peugeot and Total have already cut back their business with Iran for fear of jeopardising their business prospects in the US. The first set of US sanctions, which take effect on August 6, will target Iran's automotive sector, trade in gold and in other key metals. The remaining sanctions are due to come into effect on November 4 and will target Iran's energy sector, in particular its oil trade, and transactions with the Central Bank of Iran.
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| Strikes blamed on Israel killed 9 pro-regime fighters in Syria: monitor Posted: 16 Jul 2018 12:49 AM PDT  At least nine pro-regime fighters died in a suspected Israeli missile strike overnight in northern Syria, a monitor said Monday. Syrian state media had accused Israel of bombing a military position in Aleppo province late Sunday, in what would be a rare Israeli strike so far north in the war-ravaged country. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based war monitor, said the base was being used by the Syrian regime's arch-ally Iran.
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| The Latest: Details emerge on gunman's death, earlier case Posted: 15 Jul 2018 06:06 PM PDT ![The Latest: Details emerge on gunman's death, earlier case]( "The Latest: Details emerge on gunman's death, earlier case") KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Latest on the shooting of three Kansas City police officers (all times local):
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| I Deleted All My Social Media Accounts Last Year. Here’s How My Life Has Changed. Posted: 17 Jul 2018 05:31 AM PDT  In the seven years since I first begged my mom for permission to create a
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| Trump Told Woman Charged As Kremlin Agent He'd Drop Russia Sanctions Posted: 16 Jul 2018 06:33 PM PDT  In an early campaign video, then-presidential candidate Donald Trump told a
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| Parade Of 70 Land Rovers Celebrates 70 Years At Goodwood Posted: 16 Jul 2018 02:16 AM PDT  Examples of all of the company's previous models were on hand.
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| Woman survives for a week after crashing car off 200-foot cliff Posted: 16 Jul 2018 04:50 AM PDT  An Oregon woman has a spectacular story of survival to tell after she crashed her Jeep off a cliff and survived for a week before being discovered by hikers on Friday.
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| Eritrea reopens embassy in Addis Ababa in fresh sign of thaw with Ethiopia Posted: 16 Jul 2018 05:27 AM PDT  By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Eritrea reopened its embassy in Ethiopia on Monday in further evidence of a rapid thaw between two countries that a week ago ended two decades of military stalemate over a border war in which tens of thousands died. Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrea's President Isaias Afwerki re-opened the embassy in the capital Addis Ababa in a brief ceremony, a Reuters witness said. One week ago the leaders declared their "state of war" over and Isaias spent the weekend in Ethiopia.
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| Last Kurd forces leave Syria's Manbij, allied fighters say Posted: 15 Jul 2018 01:24 PM PDT  The last members of a Kurdish militia pulled out on Sunday from the Syrian town of Manbij, allied Arab fighters said, under a deal reached to avoid clashes with Turkey. The Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) led the victorious 2016 offensive to rid Manbij of the Islamic State group and had kept military advisers in the town to train local forces. It announced last month it would begin withdrawing from the town as the local Manbij Military Council was capable of holding it on its own.
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| April Tinsley Case: Man Tied to 8-Year-Old's 1988 Murder Through Genealogy Website, DNA Technology: Cops Posted: 16 Jul 2018 09:44 AM PDT  April Tinsley was abducted on April 1, 1988, as she walked to a friend's house, just two blocks away from her Fort Wayne, Indiana, home.
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| Sassy Merriam-Webster Trolls Trump On 'Foe' Posted: 15 Jul 2018 06:41 PM PDT  The increasingly saucy writers behind the Merriam-Webster Dictionary Twitter
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| Turkey marks 2nd anniversary of thwarting violent coup Posted: 15 Jul 2018 01:34 PM PDT  ISTANBUL (AP) — With prayers and other events, Turkey on Sunday commemorated the second anniversary of thwarting a coup against the Turkish president and the government that left nearly 290 people dead and hundreds wounded.
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| Italy to take some migrants after EU countries offer to help Posted: 15 Jul 2018 11:59 AM PDT  By Francesca Landini MILAN/BERLIN (Reuters) - Italy will allow some migrants to disembark in Sicily from two ships which picked up 450 asylum seekers from an overcrowded boat, Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said on Sunday on TV channel RaiNews24. The minister's comments came after Germany, France and Malta pledged to host in total 150 migrants from the two ships, responding to a request for help by Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte on Saturday. Conte said in a tweet on Sunday that Spain and Portugal had also promised to accept 50 asylum seekers each.
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| Aston Martin Takes to the Skies with Volante Vision Concept Posted: 16 Jul 2018 08:49 AM PDT  Aston Martin Volante Vision concept
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