| Trump says ‘many’ border crossers use children for ‘their own sinister purposes’ Posted: 29 Jul 2018 07:15 AM PDT  President Trump said many parents crossing the U.S.-Mexico border illegally are using their children for "their own sinister purposes" and threatened to shut down the government if Congress doesn't support his wall on the U.S. border with Mexico.
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| At Least 3 Dead, Several Injured In New Orleans Shooting Attack (UPDATED) Posted: 29 Jul 2018 01:41 AM PDT  UPDATE (July 30, 10:30 a.m.): New Orleans police said Sunday's deadly shooting
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| Malaysia Flight 370 Was 'Steered Off Course Deliberately,' Report Says Posted: 30 Jul 2018 04:40 AM PDT  MH370 vanished on March 8, 2014 with 239 people on board
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| Anger as MH370 families say official report offers no new information Posted: 30 Jul 2018 12:07 AM PDT  A long-awaited official report into the disappearance of Flight MH370 gave no new clues about why the plane vanished, relatives of those on board the aircraft said Monday, expressing anger and disappointment. Family members had been hoping that the official investigation team's report could provide them with some closure, over four years after the Malaysia Airlines flight carrying 239 people went missing. Some angry relatives walked out of the briefing.
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| Zimbabwe rivals promise victory in pitch for votes at final election rallies Posted: 28 Jul 2018 11:42 PM PDT  By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) - Zimbabwe's President Emmerson Mnangagwa and his rival Nelson Chamisa held final election rallies on Saturday and both vowed to rebuild an economy shattered by Robert Mugabe's long rule. Monday's vote is the first since Mugabe was forced to step down in November after a de facto coup and, as such, is a major national test. The run-up to the presidential and parliamentary election has been peaceful compared to previous polls but there are reports of intimidation and coercion in rural constituencies, and state media is biased towards the ruling ZANU–PF party.
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| What Was Rudy Giuliani Really Trying To Say With That "You" Tweet? Posted: 30 Jul 2018 08:28 AM PDT  Is it the new "covfefe"?
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| California wildfires: Six dead and tens of thousands forced to flee homes Posted: 29 Jul 2018 02:35 PM PDT  Firefighters are rushing against uncertain weather forecasts to contain a multitude of wildfires in northern California that have already claimed the lives of at least six people and forced 50,000 to flee their homes. With hot, dry conditions and high winds fuelling the blazes, 12,000 firefighters have been drafted in to try to contain 17 wildfires that have destroyed buildings in its path – including the home of a fire chief. As those firefighters continued to fight the blaze, families of the dead on Sunday told their harrowing tales of loss.
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| No, Bachelor Parties Are Not Why Millennials Can't Afford Houses Posted: 28 Jul 2018 04:48 PM PDT  "Study: Bachelor, bachelorette parties are why millennials can't afford
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| N.Y. Times publisher implores Trump to stop calling journalists 'enemy of the people' Posted: 29 Jul 2018 09:24 AM PDT  A.G. Sulzberger, the publisher of the New York Times, warned President Trump during a meeting at the White House that his anti-press rhetoric is "contributing to a rise in threats against journalists and will lead to violence."
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| Sacha Baron Cohen Punks Roy Moore With 'Pedophile Detector' Posted: 29 Jul 2018 10:18 PM PDT  When former GOP Senate nominee Roy Moore sat down for an interview with a man
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| Missouri duck boat crash: Family of victims from boat capsizing sue operator for $100m Posted: 30 Jul 2018 04:57 AM PDT  A duck boat operator has been sued for $100m in damages after a ship of theirs capsized in a lake, killing 17 passengers. The wrongful death lawsuit follows after one of the duck boats sank July 19 on a lake near Branson, Missouri. "The canopy of the Duck Boat entrapped passengers and dragged them to the bottom of the lake," the lawsuit says.
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| EU trying to 'swindle' UK in Brexit talks: report Posted: 29 Jul 2018 02:28 AM PDT  Italy's far right deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini has accused the European Union of attempting to "swindle" the United Kingdom out of the Brexit people voted for in the landmark 2016 referendum, The Sunday Times reported. "My experience in the European parliament tells me you either impose yourself or they swindle you", Salvini told the weekly as he urged prime minister Theresa May to take a harder stance in negotiations to sever ties with the trading bloc. May and her ministers are scrambling to forge agreements with each of the EU's 27 member states after a week which saw her already fragile "Chequers plan" for Brexit knocked back by Brussels chief negotiator Michel Barnier.
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| Former Milosevic defense lawyer killed in Belgrade Posted: 28 Jul 2018 01:52 PM PDT  A prominent Belgrade lawyer who in the past helped to defend late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic was shot dead, gangland-style, in front of his home on Saturday, police said. Dragoslav Ognjanovic, 57, was gunned down in front of his apartment building in the Novi Beograd neighborhood and his 26-year-old son was wounded in the right arm, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. As a prominent criminal lawyer, Ognjanovic served in the early 2000s on a legal team that helped to defend Milosevic at his war crimes trial before the U.N. tribunal for former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
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| Robert Mugabe: I won't vote for 'those who tormented me' in Zimbabwe elections Posted: 29 Jul 2018 04:27 AM PDT  Robert Mugabe, the former dictator of Zimbabwe, backed the main opposition candidate against his own party in a surprise intervention on the eve of today's historic general election. Mr Mugabe, 94, said he could not vote for Zanu-PF, the party he headed for four decades until he was deposed in November, and indicated he would back the opposition MDC alliance instead. "I cannot vote for the people who tormented me," Mr Mugabe said, referring the the current Zanu PF leader and incumbent president Emmerson Mnangagwa. "I will make my choice from the other 22 candidates." But he added: "Who is there left? I think it is just Chamisa." Mr Mugabe said he would accept the outcome of the election whoever won. It was not clear if Mr Mugabe's last-minute intervention would affect voting intentions. An apparent endorsement by the widely-hated dictator could erode some of Mr Chamisa's credibility as an oppositionist and candidate of change. However, he could pick up votes from traditional Zanu PF supporters dismayed at Mr Mugabe's treatment during the soft coup that ended his rule last year. Speaking at an impromptu press conference on the grounds of his sprawling mansion in northern Harare, Mr Mugabe, flanked by his wife Grace, said he had been illegally "sacked" in the coup and accused Mr Mnangagwa of destroying Zimbabwe's democracy. Mugabe made the unexpected intervention as Zimbabwe prepared for its first elections since he was removed from power in a soft coup Credit: JEKESAI NJIKIZANA/AFP/Getty Images "I hope the choice of voting tomorrow will throw, thrust away the military government and bring us back to constitutionality," he said. "Let tomorrow be the voice of the people to say never again shall we experience a period where the army is used to thrust one person into power." Mr Mugabe ruled Zimbabwe for 38 years until was he deposed in a largely bloodless military coup in November following a power struggle between Grace Mugabe and Mr Mnangagwa, a former vice president and intelligence chief. Monday's presidential election will be the first in which Mr Mugabe is not on the ballot paper since the end of white minority rule in 1980. Parliamentary and local government elections take place simultaneously. The poll is widely seen as a two-horse race between Mr Mnangagwa of the ruling Zanu PF and Mr Chamisa of the MDC Alliance, a grouping of seven opposition parties. Both candidates have promised radical economic and political reforms in a bid to convince voters that only they offer a break with the Mugabe years. The most recent poll by AfroBarometer, an international pollster, put Mr Chamisa on 37 percent of the vote and Mr Mnangagwa on 40 percent. Show of unity: Mugabe and his wife Grace Credit: Tsvangirayi Mukwazhi/AP Several prominent former members of the G40, the faction inside Zanu PF that backed Mrs Mugabe in her unsuccessful power struggle with Mr Mnangagwa, have openly endorsed Mr Chamisa. Mr Chamisa, 40, said he would not reject Mr Mugabe's indirect endorsement, but ruled out allowing Grace Mugabe a place in his cabinet. "I will accept any voter with a clear mind and a clean heart," he said at a press conference. "I need every support and this is not about the past. it's about the future. I must not gaze at the past. We are going forward and it is a waste of time watching internal fights in Zanu PF. The conduct and outcome of Monday's election will be seen as a key test of Mr Mnangagwa's promise to build a "New Zimbabwe" of democracy and political pluralism. The international community has demanded a free and fair vote as a condition for allowing Zimbabwe to rejoining the Commonwealth and for the lifting of US sanctions that currently block IMF loans. Mr Mnangagwa, who orchestrated violent crackdowns against the MDC on previous elections, has promised a "non-violent, peaceful" election and international observers and journalists have been allowed into the country for the first time in years. The number of people leaving Zimbabwe has steadily increased under Mugabe The state-owned media and many privately owned but Zanu-controlled outlets have openly backed Mr Mnangagwa, depriving the opposition of much publicity. Mr Chamisa has accused Zanu PF of planning to rig the vote, and has told supporters that a defeat would be proof the election was crooked. Opposition activists have complained that a new electoral roll includes thousands of suspicious entries that could be "ghost voters" used for ballot rigging. The EU, which partially funded the compilation of the new voters roll, which according to a review has no crucial irregularities. Mr Mnangagwa said Mr Mugabe's comments revealed Mr Chamisa had "forged a deal" to act as a proxy of the former dictator. Profile | Emmerson Mnangagwa "The choice is clear. You either vote for Mugabe under the guise of Chamisa or you vote for a New Zimbabwe under my leadership and Zanu PF," he said in a video statement on Sunday evening. The Zimbabwe Election Commission said it has reported Mr Chamisa to the police for holding a press conference on Sunday, which it said broke a law forbidding campaigning on the day before and election.
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| Mother and 5 of her children die in Michigan motel fire Posted: 28 Jul 2018 01:13 PM PDT  SODUS TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — A fire that swept through a southwestern Michigan motel early Saturday killed five children and their mother, authorities said.
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| 'Erratic' winds, dry conditions fuel deadly California fires Posted: 29 Jul 2018 01:07 PM PDT  Around 12,000 firefighters battled Sunday to contain wildfires in California that have killed six people -- but authorities warned "erratic" winds and dry conditions have caused the flames to grow and spread. "Very hot and dry conditions will continue over the West coast states through Sunday," the National Weather Service said early Sunday.
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| HHS Official Ximena Barreto Resigns After Scandal Over Anti-Muslim Comments Posted: 29 Jul 2018 02:37 PM PDT  A Department of Health and Human Services official who shared bigoted memes
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| Mike Pence Defends White House Banning CNN Reporter From Press Event Posted: 29 Jul 2018 10:39 AM PDT  Vice President Mike Pence stood by the White House's decision to ban a CNN
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| Twitter's Lock On Users With Elon Musk's Name Means A Nazi Ban Is Possible Posted: 30 Jul 2018 08:56 AM PDT  If you're on Twitter and you change your unverified account's display name to
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| Minneapolis police release body cam footage from Thurman Blevins shooting Posted: 30 Jul 2018 08:29 AM PDT  Minneapolis police have released body cam footage of the moment a black man was shot from behind while running from police. The death of 31-year-old Thurman Blevins ignited a familiar debate around police violence in his community, where family members have called for the officers involved to be prosecuted. The incident is under investigation by the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, but Minneapolis Mayor Jacob Frey released the body cam footage early, under pressure from Minneapolis residents and all 13 city council members.
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| After Indonesian earthquake terror, hundreds trek down from volcano Posted: 30 Jul 2018 03:16 AM PDT  By Agustinus Beo Da Costa and Fergus Jensen JAKARTA (Reuters) - Nearly 700 trekkers headed down Mount Rinjani on Indonesia's tourist island of Lombok on Monday, a day after a powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.4 terrified the climbers as boulders tumbled down the slopes of the volcano. Officials said the death toll from Sunday's earthquake, which was centered on the northern part of Lombok, but was also felt on the resort island of Bali to the west, stood at 16. "I thought I was going to die," said John Robyn Buenavista, a 23-year-old American, who was at the summit when the quake hit.
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| Zimbabwe's Mugabe backs opposition on eve of election Posted: 29 Jul 2018 06:36 AM PDT  By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) - Former President Robert Mugabe said he would vote for Zimbabwe's opposition in Monday's election, turning on one-time allies in the government ahead of the first vote since they ousted him in a de facto coup. The election will see 75-year-old President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a long-time Mugabe ally, face 40-year-old Nelson Chamisa, a lawyer and pastor who is vying to become Zimbabwe's youngest head of state. Polls, which are unreliable, give former intelligence chief Mnangagwa only a slim lead over Chamisa, making a runoff on September 8 a possibility.
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| 2 children, great-grandmother perish in California wildfire Posted: 28 Jul 2018 02:14 PM PDT  REDDING, Calif. (AP) — The death count from a rapidly growing Northern California wildfire rose to five Saturday after two young children and their great-grandmother who had been unaccounted for were confirmed dead.
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| A Democratic Wave In The Midterms Is Looking More And More Likely Posted: 29 Jul 2018 02:12 PM PDT  Can we really expect a blue-wave election in November, with Democrats taking
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| In Rare Interview, Charles Koch Suggests Political Spending May Dip Posted: 29 Jul 2018 01:22 PM PDT  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. ― Charles Koch, the libertarian megadonor who leads a
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| Minneapolis Police Release Bodycam Video From the Fatal Blevins Shooting Posted: 29 Jul 2018 09:33 PM PDT  Footage shows the man shot from behind after a frenetic foot chase
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| Stripping zeros not the answer to save Venezuelan economy, say analysts Posted: 28 Jul 2018 09:00 PM PDT  Zapping five zeros off Venezuela's almost worthless currency is nothing but a half-hearted measure and won't solve the country's chronic hyperinflation, analysts have told AFP. President Nicolas Maduro initially announced in March that he would strike three zeros off the bolivar bank notes, before upping that to five. Having predicted earlier this year that Venezuela's inflation would hit 14,000 percent in 2018, the International Monetary Fund adjusted that projection earlier this week to a mind-boggling one million percent.
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| Terrifying first-person footage shows just how devastating the wildfires in Greece are Posted: 29 Jul 2018 12:50 PM PDT  First-person footage of flames engulfing a neighborhood shows just how devastating the wildfires in Greece are. A man trying to save his friend's cat caught the wildfire on video as it burned through the trees surrounding his home. Within the video's short span of time, just three-and-a-half minutes, the fire approaches and starts to consume the house. SEE ALSO: Devastating photos show the impact of deadly wildfires in Athens According to an English-language version of a local paper, the Cyprus Times, the person who recorded the video is safe. The severe wildfires near Athens has claimed 91 lives over the past week, the Associated Press says. A number of victims drowned in the sea while trying to flee the fire. According to the Centre for the Research on Epidemiology of Disasters in Brussels, this is the deadliest wildfire Europe has seen since 1900. The fire started on July 23 in Mati, a small village just outside of Athens, and spread without warning. Since then, it's ravaged the coast and prompted Greece to ask for aid from the European Union. During a Sunday memorial service at the local church in Mati, the Holy Synod — a ruling body of bishops in the Greek Orthodox Church — said in a letter that "everyone bears responsibility for protecting the environment from haphazard development." The unprecedented heat waves scorching Europe have been boosted by climate change. According to NOAA, Greece is experiencing one of its hottest years on record. Thanks to a lack of steady rainfall, heavy winds, and extremely dry forests, Greece's "tinderbox conditions" make wildfires almost inevitable. Rising temperatures are an international issue — although we're just over halfway through 2018, global warming is already apparent. WATCH: Veterinarians are using fish skin to help heal bear paw burns from wildfires
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| Cambodia's ruling party claims victory in much-criticized election Posted: 29 Jul 2018 07:58 AM PDT  By Prak Chan Thul and Tom Allard PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) said on Sunday that it had won a general election that rights groups said was neither free nor fair due to voter intimidation and the absence of any significant challenger to Prime Minister Hun Sen. With no real opposition to speak of, Hun Sen was widely expected to win. CPP spokesman Sok Eysan said the party won an estimated 100 out of 125 parliamentary seats.
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| 2019 BMW M2 Competition Posted: 29 Jul 2018 03:01 PM PDT  2019 BMW M2 CS
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| US government approves aid as California battles raging wildfires Posted: 28 Jul 2018 06:31 PM PDT  The US federal government approved aid Saturday for California as thousands of firefighters battled to contain a series of deadly raging wildfires that have killed six people, including two young children and their great grandmother, and destroyed hundreds of buildings. The largest of the fires menacing the state has nearly doubled in size, while another pushed thousands of people to flee and a third forced the partial closure of the popular Yosemite National Park. Melody Bledsoe, 70, and her two great-grandchildren James and Emily Roberts -- aged just five and four respectively -- died as the fire consumed their rural trailer home.
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| Democratic Socialists Endorse Cynthia Nixon For Governor Of New York Posted: 29 Jul 2018 05:36 PM PDT  The New York City chapter of the Democratic Socialists of America endorsed
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| These 56 Summer Cocktails Belong On Your Drinking Bucket List Posted: 30 Jul 2018 07:23 AM PDT |
| 3 Killed, 7 Injured in New Orleans Strip Mall Shooting, Police Say Posted: 29 Jul 2018 06:27 AM PDT  No suspects have been taken into custody
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| CBS weighs Moonves suspension over assault claims: report Posted: 29 Jul 2018 06:45 PM PDT  CBS directors are weighing whether chairman and chief executive Leslie Moonves should step aside as the US television network investigates claims he sexually harassed women, The Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. The CBS board is expected to choose a special committee that would oversee the probe, which will include an examination of the company's workplace culture, people familiar with the matter told the Journal. Board members meet via conference call on Monday.
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| US midterms set to be most expensive ever as advertising sales pass $1bn mark Posted: 28 Jul 2018 03:21 PM PDT  The 2018 US elections are expected to be the most expensive midterms in history as advertising passes the $1bn (£760m) mark just 100 days before the election. Campaigns, political parties, and outside groups have purchased television advertising months before the November ballot casting which is hotly contested in several districts and states as Republicans hold a slim majority. The 2014 midterm elections hold the existing title as the most expensive, when candidates spent a collective $3.8bn in an effort to gain votes.
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| 'Come and get me,' boy pleaded before California fire death Posted: 30 Jul 2018 07:27 AM PDT  A young boy pleaded for rescue before he died along with two others in a California wildfire, an anguished relative recounted on Monday, while other shaken survivors told of their flight from a "tornado" of fire. The worst blaze, in the US state's north, has killed six people since Thursday, including a 70-year-old woman and her two great-grandchildren aged four and five. "I talked to Junior on the phone till he died," Melody's husband Ed Bledsoe told CNN, recounting the last words of the boy, his sister, and Bledsoe's wife.
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| Elon Musk Just Debuted an Eco-Friendly Tesla Model 3 Fast Delivery System Posted: 30 Jul 2018 03:51 AM PDT  The new process comes as Tesla is boosting capacity.
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| As U.S. pushes for Mideast peace, Saudi king reassures allies Posted: 29 Jul 2018 06:02 AM PDT  By Stephen Kalin RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia has reassured Arab allies it will not endorse any Middle East peace plan that fails to address Jerusalem's status or refugees' right of return, easing their concerns that the kingdom might back a nascent U.S. deal which aligns with Israel on key issues. King Salman's private guarantees to Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and his public defense of long-standing Arab positions in recent months have helped reverse perceptions that Saudi Arabia's stance was changing under his powerful young son, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, diplomats and analysts said. This in turn has called into question whether Saudi Arabia, birthplace of Islam and site of its holiest shrines, can rally Arab support for a new push to end the Israeli-Palestinian dispute, with an eye to closing ranks against mutual enemy Iran.
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| Thomas Markle Attacks Meghan Markle, Royal Family In Brutal Interview Posted: 30 Jul 2018 06:56 AM PDT  Despite assurances he would stop giving interviews about his daughter Meghan,
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| Russia's Deadly Su-35 Needs Some Enemies to Kill Posted: 29 Jul 2018 11:00 PM PDT  While the Su-35S has performed well over Syria, the aircraft has not had an opportunity to face off against other enemy aircraft and show off its potential.
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| New Ford Focus Looks The Way It Does Because Of China Posted: 28 Jul 2018 11:00 AM PDT  China wanted wider doors, so Ford complied.
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