| More Russian Hacking Uncovered Ahead Of Midterms — This Time Targeting Conservatives Posted: 21 Aug 2018 02:25 AM PDT  Microsoft announced Tuesday that it had uncovered -- and thwarted -- fresh
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| Trump Praises Border Patrol Agent Who 'Speaks Perfect English’ At Immigration Event Posted: 20 Aug 2018 02:11 PM PDT  President Donald Trump introduced a border patrol agent at the White House on
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| Venezuela rocked by strongest earthquake to hit country in 100 years Posted: 22 Aug 2018 12:15 AM PDT  Venezuela has been hit by its strongest earthquake in more than 100 years, knocking out power and toppling supermarket shelves. Damage from the 7.3-magnitude quake, which shook the nation's northeastern coast and parts of the Caribbean, was limited by the depth of tremors beneath the Earth's surface. The US Geological Survey measured the earthquake at a depth of 76 miles (123km), with an epicentre a few miles off the Cariaco peninsula.
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| Man Confesses To Abducting Mollie Tibbetts: Police Posted: 21 Aug 2018 06:43 AM PDT  Authorities in Iowa say they've arrested an undocumented immigrant in
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| Police seek protesters who toppled Confederate statue in North Carolina Posted: 21 Aug 2018 11:41 AM PDT  Protesters pulled the statue down with rope, cheering as it lay face down in the mud, its head and back covered in dirt. The university system's board chair, Harry Smith, and president, Margaret Spellings, denounced the toppling of the statue in a joint statement. North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper, a Democrat, said in a statement he shared protesters "frustration" over statues but condemned the violent destruction of public property.
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| Cruise ship survivor plucked out of sea 'a stupid woman' says mother of liner's boss Posted: 20 Aug 2018 01:30 PM PDT  A passenger who survived ten hours in the sea is a "stupid woman" who must have jumped off the ship, the mother of the cruise line's president has told the Telegraph. Kay Longstaff, 46, an air hostess, was accused of causing massive disruption to fellow passengers while costing Norwegian Cruise Line (NCL) hundreds of thousands of pounds in compensation. Allegations surfaced on Monday suggesting Miss Longstaff had been arguing with her boyfriend in the hours before she plunged into the Adriatic Sea from the seventh deck of the liner about 75 ft above the water. Fellow passengers expressed anger towards Miss Longstaff and Norwegian Cruise Line for the chaos and disruption her actions had caused. Many also suggested there was no way she could have accidentally fallen from the ship, insisting that the security barriers were simply too too high to topple over. The 83-year-old mother of Andy Stuart, the cruise company's president and chief executive, said her son had been dismayed by continuing reports that Miss Longstaff's "fell" off the back of the Norwegian Star. Kay Longstaff being rescued Mr Stuart telephoned his mother at her home in England from his office in Miami, Florida, to complain about Miss Longstaff's version of events, calling it 'fake news'. Miss Longstaff, who moved from Cheltenham, Gloucs, to Spain in 2016, had told a Croatian television news channel after being rescued: "I fell off the back of the Norwegian Star and I was in the water for ten hours... I was sitting at the back of the deck." Where Kay Longstaff went overboard Mr Stuart's mother contacted the Daily Telegraph to protest that her son's company was being wrongly blamed for the incident. His mother said: "She didn't fall off. She jumped. This has cost Norwegian Cruise Line $600,000. This stupid woman. "I spoke to Andrew at lunchtime. He phones me almost every day. What he said was 'this is fake news'. He said that she couldn't have fallen. You would have to take steps to climb over the railings. He said she jumped in the water." Norwegian Star His mother went on: "He [Andrew] doesn't get upset. But he is annoyed that it has been implied that NCL was at fault. He said NCL went to a lot of trouble. They delayed the progress of the ship and sent for the coastguard. If you think of the cost of the ship being delayed, passengers missing their connections, passengers waiting to embark. That has all amounted to more than $600,000. When you get criticism, it is highly unfair." Mr Stuart, 55, took up his role in 2015 and had been with NCL for 27 years. He earns a reported £1m a year in salary. Kay Longstaff falls overboard - Timeline of events According to reports, Miss Longstaff had been caught up in a row with her partner aboard the ship. He was asleep in their cabin when Miss Longstaff fell overboard at 11.45pm on Saturday night. It is understood that CCTV footage captured the incident and has established that no third party was involved. Daniel Punch, who works on the Norwegian Star in promotions, posted on Facebook according to reports: "She didn't fall, she jumped. It was on my ship. I spoke [to her] throughout the whole week. She was arguing with her fella the whole time." Miss Longstaff was found by Croatian coastguard at 9.45am on Sunday and taken to hospital for treatment in the Croatian resort of Pula. She said her yoga fitness and singing helped her to survive. Andy Stuart As she was released from hospital yesterday into the care of her partner, Italian sources suggested she had argued with her partner before he went back to his cabin and left her on the deck. "The footage has been viewed and you can clearly see she was there on her own when she fell," a source told SunOnline. "She was not pushed. The theory we are working on is that she most likely jumped." Kay Longstaff with Craig Rayment Irena Hrstic, director of Pula's City Hospital, said Ms Longstaff had refused to release a statement because she "can't understand why there is so much interest for her". David Radas, spokesman for Croatian Ministry of Maritime Affairs, said its investigation was continuing. On Sunday night, Mr Radas said that CCTV images had "left a suspicion whether it was a jump or a falling off". Miss Longstaff has posted photographs of herself on the Costa del Sol in Spain with Craig Rayment, an electrician, who she was dating as recently as June 15. It is not clear if Mr Rayment was on the cruise with her and he declined to comment yesterday. "I'm not interested in talking," he said. Miss Longstaff's father Ron Longstaff, 76, a retired chief superintendent with West Midlands Police, said he had no idea how his daughter had ended up in the sea. "She was certainly lucky. I am trying to work out what happened," said Mr Longstaff. Miss Longstaff after her rescue Bethany Joyce, 21, from Long Island, who was on board with her parents, said her mother planned to claim compensation as they had been forced to spend an extra two nights in Venice before the next available flight home. She told the Telegraph: "The cruise line was very unhelpful with helping us rebook travel plans. The only thing they gave us was 15 minutes of free WiFi to try and rebook travel arrangements. "Disembarkation was also a mess. We had to sit around for hours just waiting for vague instructions." Passengers said they arrived in Venice at around 2.30pm on Sunday but did not disembark until 5.30pm. Miss Longstaff Scott Bailey, a businessman from Derby, wrote on Twitter: "Just upsets me that she is there smiling away and loving the publicity saying she 'fell'. "The only way you could get off the ship is by climbing over the protective barriers and then jumping. Someone we spoke to said they had seen her crying earlier on." Another passenger, who called himself Eddiepal, also complained that he had missed his flights home to Boston meaning his holiday had a "rotten ending". Responding to suggestions that Miss Longstaff had somehow slipped into the water, he said "Next to impossible...take it from someone on board...." He accused the cruise line of mistreating passengers and leaving them stranded in Venice for several hours. NCL did not respond to requests for comment on passengers' complaints. Mr Stuart declined to comment on the contents of the call with his mother or the incident while an investigation remained ongoing. A former passenger wrote online: "I was on the Star recently and spent quite a long time on that Deck 7 Aft area.. and if this lady departed the ship there it was definitely not an accidental fall. There are no chairs and the side rails are much more than waist high." Miss Longstaff is thought to have worked for British Airways for some years before working as a flight attendant with a private jet company. She quit the UK to live in Spain in June 2016 posting a photograph on social media, captioned: "My new life."
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| Elizabeth Warren’s Far-Reaching New Bill Aims To Actually Drain The Swamp Posted: 21 Aug 2018 12:26 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) unveiled a sweeping plan on
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| Alligator Kills Woman Walking Dog In South Carolina: Police Posted: 20 Aug 2018 11:50 AM PDT  A woman died Monday morning in a suspected alligator attack on Hilton Head
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| Paul Manafort: from Trump campaign to prison Posted: 21 Aug 2018 06:26 PM PDT  Paul Manafort was riding high, raking in tens of millions of dollars as the strategic adviser to pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine. Just when his lavish tastes were squeezing him financially and the Ukrainian pipeline was running dry, Manafort landed a position as chairman of the presidential campaign of Donald Trump. What should have been his dream job ended up being his undoing, ultimately triggering the process that led to the 69-year-old's conviction in federal court on Tuesday on eight counts linked to making false tax declarations, bank fraud and failure to report foreign accounts.
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| Dad of slain pregnant woman breaks down in Colorado court as murder charges read against son-in-law Posted: 21 Aug 2018 10:05 AM PDT  Chris Watts is accused of killing his pregnant wife, Shanann Watts, and their two daughters, Celeste, 3, and Bella, 4, last week.
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| We Need To Know Brett Kavanaugh's Role In Bush-Era Anti-Gay Marriage Amendment Posted: 21 Aug 2018 02:45 AM PDT  GOP leaders recently decided they wouldn't request records that Supreme Court
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| Texas deputy accused of child rape dies in apparent suicide Posted: 21 Aug 2018 01:19 PM PDT  SAN ANTONIO (AP) — A Texas sheriff's deputy accused of repeatedly sexually assaulting a 4-year-old girl and threatening her mother with deportation if she reported the abuse died in jail from an apparent suicide, according to authorities.
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| Malaysia's Mahathir cancels China-backed rail, pipeline projects Posted: 21 Aug 2018 01:53 AM PDT  KUALA LUMPUR/BEIJING (Reuters) - Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad said on Tuesday that the Chinese-funded $20 billion East Coast Rail Link (ECRL) project and a natural gas pipeline project in Sabah will be canceled for now, according to media reports. Mahathir made the comments while addressing the media in Beijing during his five-day trip to China. The Prime Minister's office confirmed the comments Mahathir made to reporters in Beijing.
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| Flash flood kills 10 hikers in Italian mountain gorge as rescuers say it hit like 'a tsunami' Posted: 21 Aug 2018 03:19 AM PDT  An eight-year-old girl survived a devastating flash flood in a canyon in southern Italy but was found next to a body that rescuers believe may be one of her parents. The girl, named as Chiara, was semi-conscious, covered in thick mud and suffering from hypothermia when she was found in the gorge in Calabria after it was hit by a "tsunami" of muddy water following a severe storm. The seven-mile-long canyon, located in Pollino national park, has 2,300ft-high sheer rock walls which in some places are just 13ft apart. At least two groups of hikers were caught up in the disaster on Monday. While some were able to scramble to higher ground, others were engulfed by the flash flood and drowned. Ten people were killed, with some bodies washed up to three miles downstream by the force of the torrent. Eleven people were injured, five of them seriously. Four children lost either one or both of their parents. A rescue helicopter in the gorge that was hit by a flash flood Credit: Francesco Arena/Ansa "She was semi-conscious but clearly in a state of shock. We found her next to a corpse and from what we know, her parents are almost certainly among the victims," said Pasquale Gagliardi, a doctor with the local helicopter rescue service. The little girl, who had swallowed mud and debris, was flown by helicopter to a hospital in Naples, hundreds of miles to the north. A girl is helped by a member of the National Alpine and Caving Rescue Squad as they (right) descend the gorge Credit: ANSA/AP "You're going to make it, little one," Dr Pasquale wrote on Facebook under a photograph of the girl's hand, covered in mud, on the shoulder of an alpine rescue specialist. The hand of the eight year old girl on the shoulder of an alpine rescue specialist Credit: Twitter The victims included a volunteer rescue worker who helped pull people alive from a hotel in central Italy that was hit by a deadly avalanche in January 2017. Antonio De Rasis, 32, was guiding hikers through the gorge when it was hit by the 8ft-high wall of water. "With his experience, he would definitely have tried to help the group as much as possible," said Antonio Carlomagno, the mayor of the town where Mr De Rasis came from. The flash flood also claimed the lives of two models, Miriam Mezzolla, 27, and Claudia Giampietro, 31, who were said to be inseparable and shared a passion for burlesque dancing. Rescuers work in the gorge of the Raganello stream in Civita Credit: WENN.com An investigation has been launched into the disaster, with questions asked about why people were allowed into the gorge when bad weather was forecast. "It was a real tsunami. These are events that happen once in a lifetime," said Giacomo Zanfei, a senior official with the mountain rescue service. Italy has experienced strange weather this summer, with torrid heat building up in the mornings and then giving way to thunder, lightning and torrential rain. Rescuers and citizens wait in the central square of Civita, a village in the Italian Calabria southern region Credit: AFP Climate experts say the summer is becoming less dry and more "tropical", with higher rainfall than before. "It is a shocking tragedy, linked to the terrible weather we've had this summer," said Mimmo Lo Polito, a local mayor. The canyoning disaster comes just a week after the collapse of the Morandi bridge in Genoa, which killed 43 people. Raganello gorges in Pollino National Park, Calabria Credit: DEA/V. GIANNELLA "Italy is tired of crying for the dead. Enough," said Sergio Costa, the environment minister, during a visit to the scene. "If what happened is the result of negligence, sloppiness or a lack of awareness of the risks, we are facing a serious situation that we need to get to the bottom of." "The whole country is deeply saddened by this new tragedy, which has caused many deaths and injuries in Pollino national park," said Sergio Mattarella, Italy's president.
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| Crikey! Photographer gets up close with dangerous crocs Posted: 21 Aug 2018 12:41 PM PDT ![Crikey! Photographer gets up close with dangerous crocs]( "Crikey! Photographer gets up close with dangerous crocs") Alex Suh has traveled to Mexico's Banco Chinchorro reef twice in the past three years to get into the waters and capture the crocodiles in their natural habitat.
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| This Is Why Red Delicious Apples Suck So Hard Posted: 22 Aug 2018 02:46 AM PDT  The Washington Apple Commission describes the Red Delicious on its website as
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| Famously Thicc, High-Maintenance Cat Finds New Human As Extra As He Is Posted: 21 Aug 2018 02:43 PM PDT  Bruno is off the market, guys.
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| Hamas leader: 'On our way' to ending Israel blockade Posted: 20 Aug 2018 05:53 PM PDT  Hamas leader Ismail Haniya said Tuesday that an end to Israel's more than decade-long blockade of Gaza was "around the corner", as talk of a possible truce deal intensifies. Indirect negotiations between Gaza's Hamas rulers and Israel brokered by Egyptian and UN officials have reportedly included discussion on easing the blockade, but by no means a complete lifting of it. Speaking to thousands of Palestinians during prayers for the Muslim Eid al-Adha holiday, Haniya did not directly address the possibility of a truce, mooted in Israeli and Palestinian media for weeks.
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| Donald Trump Reacts To Guilty Verdict In Paul Manafort Trial: 'Such Respect For A Brave Man!' Posted: 22 Aug 2018 06:39 AM PDT  President Donald Trump responded Wednesday to the guilty verdicts against his
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| Christopher Watts Formally Charged With Murder of Wife and Daughters Posted: 20 Aug 2018 04:21 PM PDT  The Colorado father was charged with first-degree murder
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| Bahrain stops issuing visas for Qatari nationals Posted: 21 Aug 2018 06:50 AM PDT ![Bahrain stops issuing visas for Qatari nationals]( "Bahrain stops issuing visas for Qatari nationals") Bahrain's interior ministry said on Tuesday that it would stop issuing new visas to Qatari nationals, escalating measures against Qatar more than a year into a diplomatic row. Bahrain, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Egypt cut diplomatic, transport and trade ties with Qatar in June 2017, accusing it of financing terrorism. In October, Bahrain said it would impose entry visas on Qatari nationals as a security measure.
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| North Carolina: protesters pull down Confederate statue at university Posted: 21 Aug 2018 09:25 AM PDT  Police stand guard after the Confederate statue known as 'Silent Sam' was toppled by protesters. Police are investigating after the controversial "Silent Sam" Confederate statue on the campus of the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill was toppled by protesters. Local TV reported that more than 300 people gathered at the Peace and Justice Plaza close to campus at about 7.30 on Monday evening before marching to the Confederate statue's base and calling for its removal.
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| Missouri Teen Killed On Birthday Just An Hour After ‘I Made It To 17’ Facebook Post Posted: 21 Aug 2018 03:19 PM PDT  A Missouri teenager was senselessly killed after posting to Facebook about how
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| Authorities expected to release affidavit explain why they think Watts killed his family Posted: 20 Aug 2018 11:16 AM PDT  On Monday, authorities in Colorado are expected to release an affidavit explaining why investigators believe 33-year-old Christopher Watts killed his pregnant wife and two young daughters.
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| 'Crazy Rich Asians' author wanted in Singapore over national service Posted: 22 Aug 2018 12:51 AM PDT  The author of "Crazy Rich Asians", which has been adapted into a hit Hollywood movie, is wanted in his native Singapore for allegedly dodging mandatory national service, authorities said Wednesday. Kevin Kwan, who has lived in the US since he was 11 but is still a Singapore citizen, faces up to three years in jail and a hefty fine if convicted, the city-state's defence ministry said. The movie adaption of his bestseller, which focuses on the glamorous world of Singapore's super-rich, was released in the United States last week and has been hailed as a watershed for Hollywood diversity due to its mostly Asian cast.
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| Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's trial in Alexandria, Va. Posted: 21 Aug 2018 08:00 AM PDT ![Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's trial in Alexandria, Va.]( "Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort's trial in Alexandria, Va.") The jury began a fourth day of deliberations Tuesday in the trial of Donald Trump's former campaign chief Paul Manafort, the first resulting from the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
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| Georgia County Can't Back Up Its Excuse For Plan To Disenfranchise Black Voters Posted: 22 Aug 2018 07:43 AM PDT  Officials in a majority-black Georgia county accused of trying to close almost
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| Trump's EPA unveils weaker alternative to Obama power plant rule Posted: 21 Aug 2018 02:10 PM PDT  The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposal would require states to submit plans for improving efficiency of coal-fired power plants. The federal government will set carbon emission guidelines, but states will have the leeway to set less-stringent standards, taking into account a facility's age and the cost of upgrades. The rule also could allow power plant owners to sidestep costly permits for those improvements.
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| 300 migrants storm Spanish enclave border fence, 116 get in Posted: 22 Aug 2018 08:30 AM PDT  MADRID (AP) — A group of around 300 migrants stormed fences separating Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta from Morocco on Wednesday, and 116 of them made it onto European soil, authorities said.
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| GOP Rep. Duncan Hunter, Wife Indicted On Campaign Finance Fraud Charges Posted: 21 Aug 2018 03:28 PM PDT  U.S. Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) and his wife, Margaret Hunter, were
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| 2 Teens Found Dead in a Field Are Latest Victims of Chicago Violence Posted: 20 Aug 2018 03:59 PM PDT  They were missing for days and were found shot to death in a field on Chicago's South Side
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| 'Heroic' Toddler Climbed Out of Overturned Car to Find Help for Baby Brother After Mom Died in Crash: Police Posted: 22 Aug 2018 05:05 AM PDT  It's believed they were in the vehicle for days before little Kylen took action.
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| German schools in crisis amid teacher exodus Posted: 20 Aug 2018 12:35 PM PDT  Unqualified retirees and trainees are filling a gap left by teachers exiting the profession due to rising class sizes and difficulties with foreign languages of new pupils, teachers groups in Germany have warned. The "dramatic shortage" of teachers is the worst Germany has seen for nearly three decades, Heinz-Peter Meidinger, president of the German Teachers Association, said in comments published across German media on Monday. "There are currently around 10,000 teaching positions left unoccupied, and there are about 30,000 posts that are provisionally filled by non-teachers, newcomers, retirees and students," Mr Meidinger said. In Berlin and Saxony the situation is particularly bad, according to Mr Meidiner. "In Berlin, 70 per cent of newly hired primary school teachers are without any educational background," he told the Passauer Neue Presse newspaper. He added that a "whole generation" of school pupils will be harmed by the shortage. Teachers in the country are under increasing pressure, Marlis Tepe, president of the The German Union of Education and Science (GEW) told Germany's tagesschau24 television channel earlier in August. The job has become more demanding, with bigger classes being filled with children who are at different levels, Ms Tepe said. Many children also have language difficulties, she said. As a result, a lot of new teachers don't last long in the profession. To solve the problem, GEW says there needs to be room for more pupils in schools. "In the short term, however, we have to resort to extra measures," Ms Tepe said. "Colleagues without a teacher training course need at least a crash course of several weeks to prepare." If the crisis is not addressed, the already "drastic situation" will only intensify, GEW warns. Well-trained teachers will move to good schools, while already struggling schools will be left to make do with inexperienced people teaching in classrooms. Schools in Germany have also been slammed for not doing enough to tackle anti-semitism, which has grown in classrooms in recent months. Josef Schuster, president of The Central Council of Jews in Germany, on Sunday criticised the use of "anti-Semitic stereotypes" in school textbooks. Mr Schuster said teachers must now be given special training to stamp it out.
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| Facebook stops misinformation campaigns tied to Iran, Russia Posted: 21 Aug 2018 06:45 PM PDT  Facebook said Tuesday it stopped stealth misinformation campaigns from Iran and Russia, shutting down accounts as part of its battle against fake news ahead of elections in the United States and elsewhere. Facebook removed more than 650 pages, groups and accounts identified as "networks of accounts misleading people about what they were doing," according to chief executive Mark Zuckerberg. While the investigation was ongoing, and US law enforcement notified, content from some of the pages was traced back to Iran and from others linked to groups previously linked to Russian intelligence operations, the social network said.
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| Melania Trump's Anti-Cyberbullying Tweet Does Not Go Over Well Posted: 21 Aug 2018 01:42 AM PDT  Melania Trump's "Be Best" campaign continues to receive an icy reception.
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| Democrats Suing To Stop GOP Congressman Calling Himself A ‘Farmer’ On Ballot Posted: 20 Aug 2018 03:17 PM PDT  A California Democrats group wants to stop Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Calif.) from
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| Taiwan's last Africa ally tells China 'no desire' to switch ties Posted: 22 Aug 2018 02:30 AM PDT  Taiwan, which China claims as a wayward province with no right to state-to-state relations, now has formal ties with only 17 countries, almost all small, less developed nations in Central America and the Pacific, like Belize and Nauru. It lost its latest ally, El Salvador, on Tuesday, the third country to fall to China this year. Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen has vowed to fight China's "increasingly out of control" behavior after the move.
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| Apple store thieves arrested after good Samaritans in Ventura County hold them down Posted: 21 Aug 2018 03:52 PM PDT  A group of thieves accused of robbing several Apple stores across the state is now in custody after customers took them down in Thousand Oaks.
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| Taliban Rockets Were Fired Toward Afghanistan's Presidential Palace During Holiday Speech Posted: 20 Aug 2018 11:46 PM PDT  No injuries were reported
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| Actress Asia Argento denies sexual relationship with underage teen Posted: 21 Aug 2018 01:32 PM PDT  Italian actress and sexual abuse campaigner Asia Argento denied Tuesday having had a sexual relationship five years ago with an underage teen, calling the allegations part of "a long-standing persecution". The New York Times reported on Sunday that Argento, 42, a Harvey Weinstein accuser and leading figure in the #MeToo movement, had paid actor and rock musician Jimmy Bennett $380,000 over the alleged 2013 incident at a Los Angeles hotel. Bennett was two months past his 17th birthday at the time of the alleged encounter, while Argento was 37.
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| Sean Hannity Melts Down About Hillary Clinton On Day Manafort, Cohen Become Felons Posted: 21 Aug 2018 08:46 PM PDT  Sean Hannity mourned the death of "equal justice under the law" on Tuesday,
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| ICE Deports Another Group Of Cambodian Refugees While You Weren't Paying Attention Posted: 21 Aug 2018 02:20 PM PDT  A group of about 30 refugees is currently being deported to Cambodia ― the
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