| Former Bush Administration Official Stands By Brett Kavanaugh's Accuser Posted: 25 Sep 2018 03:46 PM PDT  Former U.S. Treasurer Rosario Marin is supporting the woman who accused
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| Texas Attorney General Defends Law Forcing Kids To Stand For Pledge Of Allegiance Posted: 26 Sep 2018 01:53 PM PDT  The Texas attorney general has jumped into a Houston area lawsuit to defend a
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| Tennessee assistant principal fired after saying girls 'pretty much ruin everything' in school announcement Posted: 27 Sep 2018 06:25 AM PDT  A Tennessee high school administrator has been placed on leave after saying that girls "pretty much ruin everything" in a dress code video.
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| Texas executes man convicted of drowning woman, dumping body Posted: 26 Sep 2018 04:58 PM PDT ![Texas executes man convicted of drowning woman, dumping body]( "Texas executes man convicted of drowning woman, dumping body") Texas on Wednesday put to death a man convicted of drowning a woman in a bathtub 20 years ago and dumping her cement-encased body in a remote area, in the first of its two planned executions this week. Troy Clark, 51, was executed by lethal injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville, the Texas Department of Criminal Justice said. On Thursday, Texas plans to execute Daniel Acker, 46, who was convicted of kidnapping and murdering a woman in 2000.
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| Trump faces pushback on Iran at UN Security Council Posted: 26 Sep 2018 01:32 PM PDT  President Donald Trump on Wednesday faced a rebuke of his hardline Iran policy at a UN Security Council meeting that laid bare a rift between the United States and other world powers. Presiding for the first time over a meeting of the United Nations' body, Trump denounced the "horrible, one-sided" nuclear deal with Iran that he ditched in May, to the dismay of European allies.
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| The Latest: Workers discovered cracked beam near ceiling Posted: 25 Sep 2018 06:12 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on the closure of San Francisco's new transit center (all times local):
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| EXCLUSIVE-Turkey's Erdogan says court will decide fate of detained U.S. pastor Posted: 26 Sep 2018 06:52 AM PDT  Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said a Turkish court, not politicians, will decide the fate of an American pastor whose detention on terrorism charges has roiled relations between Ankara and Washington. Emily Wither reports.
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| Best Bites: Cappuccino pancakes with mocha syrup Posted: 27 Sep 2018 05:00 AM PDT  Welcome to Best Bites, a twice-weekly video series that aims to satisfy your
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| Skripal 'hitman' unmasked as GRU colonel awarded Russia's highest military honour by Vladimir Putin Posted: 27 Sep 2018 02:11 AM PDT  One of the trained assassins wanted for poisoning Sergei Skripal is a decorated colonel in Russian military intelligence given the country's highest award by Vladimir Putin. The real identity of one of the wanted men in the nerve agent attack - named by counter-terrorism police as Ruslan Boshirov - can be disclosed as Colonel Anatoliy Vladimirovich Chepiga. The 39-year-old, who has served in wars in Chechnya and Ukraine, was made a Hero of the Russian Federation by decree of the President in 2014 in a ceremony shrouded in secrecy. The disclosure, uncovered by investigative journalist organisation Bellingcat in conjunction with The Telegraph, exposes as lies Mr Putin's claims that the Skripals' would-be killers were innocent "civilians". A spokeswoman for the Russian Foreign Ministry dismissed the claims, saying they are part of an "information campaign". Chepiga, posing as Boshirov, and a second man identified as Alexander Petrov, have insisted they were on holiday in Salisbury and had no connection with the attack, using weapons-grade Novichok nerve agent. Video: Salisbury poison suspects claim they were tourists The true identity of his accomplice Alexander Petrov remains unclear, but The Telegraph has established that he was travelling under his real first name and had only changed his surname to an alias. Counter-terrorism police and the security services are understood to know his real name. A former senior Russian military officer said Col Chepiga's high rank and experience strongly suggested that "the job was ordered at the highest level". The source claimed an attempted assassination of less importance would have been carried out by a lower ranking officer. A Tory minister said: "This is further embarrassment for Putin and Russia. This is the latest in a series of cock-ups by the GRU. It will have the opposite effect he will have wanted. It shows an inept capability that has been exposed. "There is no doubt that the Salisbury poisoning was part of a wider plan of Putin reaffirming Russia as a superpower and letting people know what Russia is capable of. This was a message to the West and his own people - cross me and there are consequences. He has learned that he simply won't get away with it." Boris Johnson, the former Foreign Secretary, said: "Utterly predictable news that GRU behind Skripal atrocity. What have you got to say, Putin? And I hope we hear real condemnation from Corbyn." Colonel Anatoliy Chepiga - aka Ruslan Boshirov - is believed to be pictured back row, far right with a group of fellow military graduates in Chechnya The revelations come as Theresa May told the UN's security council that Russia should not "be in any doubt" that if it did not "rejoin the international consensus against the use of chemical weapons" then the UK and its allies would be forced to take action. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova dismissed the new claims, highlighting how they had been published as Mrs May appeared at the UN. She wrote on Facebook: "There is no evidence, so they continue the information campaign, the main task of which is to divert attention from the main question: 'What happened in Salisbury?' "The question is: when will there be any evidence of the involvement of anyone, as London tells us, of poisoning in Salisbury?" European arrest warrants and Interpol red notices have been issued for the pair, who are accused of the murder of Dawn Sturgess, a local woman inadvertently poisoned by a discarded Novichok bottle, and the attempted murder of Col Skripal, 67, and his daughter Yulia, 33. Both men - under the aliases Boshirov and Petrov - have been charged with the poisoning of the Skripals by the Crown Prosecution Service. Video: Novichok suspects named by British authorities After Scotland Yard released its evidence - including CCTV showing the men close to Col Skripal's home on the day he was poisoned - the pair appeared on Russia TV, on the order of Mr Putin, to claim that they worked in the fitness industry and their sole reason for visiting the UK was to see the historic sites of "wonderful" Salisbury. Theresa May had publicly accused them of being members of the GRU. It can now be revealed that Col Chepiga has been fighting in an elite special forces unit - Spetsnaz - under the command of the GRU for 17 years and working undercover for at least nine years. He has been given more than 20 awards and a Hero of the Russian Federation medal, though, unlike most of the other recipients, there is little public information available about Col Chepiga. The medals are normally awarded by the president personally, and are only given to a handful of people each year. A Russian passport application in the name of Anatoliy Chepiga in 2003 The website of the Far-Eastern Military Command Academy, where Col Chepiga studied, lists all of their alumni who have received the award with a detailed description of the acts that resulted in the recognition. In his case it simply says: "Anatoly Vladimirovich Chepiga was awarded the honourary title of Hero of the Russian Federation by order of the president of the Russian Federation." His name also appears on a monument in honour of the alumni of the Far-Eastern Military Command who have received their Hero medal at its base on the border with China. The secretive nature of Col Chepiga's award, combined with the timing in 2014, suggests that it was for actions in Ukraine. The name Anatoliy Chepiga - aka Ruslan Boshirov - is bottom right under a 'gold star honour list' on an honours wall at the Far Eastern Military Command School In 2014 Russia was not engaged in fighting in either Chechnya or Syria and his unit - number 74854 of the 14th Separate Brigade of Special Forces (Spetsnaz) - was pictured on the eastern border of Ukraine that year. Involvement in Ukraine would explain the secrecy around his award, which is also noted by a veterans' group. The group writes on its website: "You can become a hero even in our seemingly peaceful times." "Anatoliy Vladimirovich Chepiga, a native of the village of Nikolayevka and 2001 graduate of the Far-Eastern Military Command Academy, was deployed to Chechnya three times and has more than 20 awards and medals. "In December 2014, Colonel Chepiga was awarded the title of Hero of the Russian Federation for carrying out a peacekeeping mission." From Nikolaevka to Salisbury – The journey of Anatoliy Chepiga from schoolboy to trained assassin Col Chepiga was born in a small village with 300 residents near the border with China in 1979. At the age of 18, he enrolled in the Far-Eastern Military Command Academy in Blageoveschensk, less than an hour from his home. The academy is an elite training ground for marine commandos and officers in the Spetsnaz. At the time Col Chepiga was a student, it was known for training officers involved in overseas clandestine operations. He graduated in 2001 and joined his unit. He served with it in Chechnya where he was deployed three times. Salisbury attack step-by-step timeline puff Bellingcat and the Insider Russia have uncovered a file from 2003 in which Col Chepiga applies for a passport in his real name that lists his address as the military unit in Khabarovsk. The soldier, who is married with a teenage son, then moved to Moscow, where he can next be traced in 2012. Experts believe that because of his rank as colonel, the same as Col Skripal, and the nature of his work he may have studied at the Military Diplomatic Academy, also known as the "GRU Conservatory", following his move to Moscow. Passport records show that he was given the alias Ruslan Boshirov in 2009 at the latest.
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| Pope Francis Says Sex Abuse Crisis Has Driven Young Catholics Away From The Church Posted: 25 Sep 2018 03:33 PM PDT  Pope Francis on Tuesday acknowledged that young people are being driven away
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| 'Serial killer' suspected of beating homeless people to death in California Posted: 26 Sep 2018 04:27 AM PDT  A man described as a "violent predator" has been arrested on suspicion of beating homeless men to death in California. Ramon Escobar, who allegedly fled to the West Coast state from Texas after being questioned over the disappearance of two Houston relatives, is accused of killing three people and seriously injuring four others. Los Angeles police Captain William Hayes said the 47-year-old was taken into custody after officers searched his car and recovered a wooden baseball bat and bolt cutters that they believe he used to carry out the attacks on random victims in Los Angeles.
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| Kavanaugh’s Choir Boy Defense Raises Questions About His Credibility, Democrats Say Posted: 25 Sep 2018 05:22 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Senators are expected to weigh the credibility of Dr. Christine
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| Austrian fruit grower sentenced over bee deaths Posted: 27 Sep 2018 03:12 AM PDT  An Austrian fruit grower was handed a rare prison sentence Wednesday for having illegally spread an insecticide which led to the deaths of dozens of neighbouring bee colonies. The 47-year-old man had spread a powerful insecticide called chlorpyrifos over his trees in the Lavanttal area of Carinthia province, at a time when their blossoms were still attracting bees. The court in the city of Klagenfurt found the fruit grower guilty of "deliberately damaging the environment", pointing to his experience and role in training others in his field as evidence that he knew the consequences of his actions.
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| Ricky Wheeler: Missing Disabled Teen Found Alive After Bloodhound Picks Up His Scent Posted: 27 Sep 2018 08:02 AM PDT  K-9 Putnam was rewarded for his good work with a steak dinner.
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| UN court asked to probe Venezuela; leader defiant in speech Posted: 27 Sep 2018 02:49 AM PDT  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Six nations made the unprecedented move Wednesday of asking the U.N.'s International Criminal Court to investigate Venezuela for possible crimes against humanity, even as President Nicolas Maduro made an unexpected trip to the world body's headquarters to deliver a nearly hourlong speech declaring his nation "will never give in."
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| Bin Laden business grew from humble beginnings Posted: 27 Sep 2018 03:19 AM PDT  JEDDAH/RIYADH (Reuters) - In Saudi Arabia, the Bin Ladens are known as the Kennedys of Jeddah for their wealth and tragedies. Younger son Osama plotted the 9/11 attacks on the United States. Mohammed arrived in Saudi Arabia from Yemen during the 1920s as an impoverished teenager, blind in one eye.
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| Bill Cosby’s Publicist: ‘They Persecuted Jesus And Look What Happened’ Posted: 25 Sep 2018 02:29 PM PDT  Bill Cosby's publicist defended the disgraced entertainer Tuesday after he was
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| Ten years ago, Washington put politics aside to save the economy. Could that happen today? Posted: 26 Sep 2018 02:00 AM PDT  How the financial crisis of 2008 and 2009 put leadership to the test.
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| Ellison seeks House ethics investigation of abuse allegation Posted: 26 Sep 2018 03:35 PM PDT  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota Democratic Rep. Keith Ellison said Wednesday he's requesting a House Ethics Committee investigation into the allegation of physical abuse from an ex-girlfriend that is clouding his bid for attorney general and complicating Democrats' push to investigate allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.
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| How To Watch The Brett Kavanaugh-Christine Blasey Ford Senate Hearing Posted: 26 Sep 2018 10:50 AM PDT  The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to hear testimonies from Brett Kavanaugh
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| Trump says “women are very angry” about Kavanaugh situation but “like what the Republicans are doing” Posted: 26 Sep 2018 03:08 PM PDT  When asked about his use of the words "con job," President Trump claimed "women are very angry" about what's happening with the Kavanaugh situation, but said they're happy with "what the Republicans are doing."
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| Iran says Israel will 'regret' further attacks on Syria Posted: 27 Sep 2018 03:24 AM PDT  The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council has said Israel will be sorry if it continues to attack Syria's army and its allies. Iran and Russia have both backed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad in a seven-year war against rebels. "The Zionist regime has been trying to establish a crisis in Syria and has taken steps to directly support terrorist groups and target the Syrian army and forces who are confronting terrorism," Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, said on Thursday, according to the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
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| Russian paper: Villagers ID Russian suspect in UK poisoning Posted: 27 Sep 2018 09:25 AM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — Residents in a small Russian village have identified one of the two suspects in the nerve agent poisoning of a former Russian spy in Britain as a senior intelligence agent, Russia's respected Kommersant daily said Thursday in a report that backed up findings by an investigative group.
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| India's top court rules adultery no longer a crime Posted: 27 Sep 2018 01:27 AM PDT  Adultery is no longer a crime, India's top court ruled Thursday, declaring a colonial-era law that punished the offence with jail time unconstitutional and discriminatory against women. The more than century-old law prescribed that any man who slept with a married woman without her husband's permission had committed adultery, a crime carrying a five-year prison term in the conservative country. "Thinking of adultery from a point of view of criminality is a retrograde step," unanimously declared the five-judge bench of the Supreme Court.
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| Christine Blasey Ford: Mark Judge Saw Me And Looked 'Ill' After Alleged Assault Posted: 27 Sep 2018 09:38 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Christine Blasey Ford provided a potentially crucial new detail
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| Man on Plane Tries to Open Exit Door in Ill-Advised Attempt to Find the Bathroom Posted: 26 Sep 2018 09:02 AM PDT  Police say the mixup lead to 'pandemonium' onboard the plane
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| Donald Trump Says UN Crowd Wasn't Laughing At Him, But With Him Posted: 26 Sep 2018 03:57 PM PDT  President Donald Trump said Wednesday that United Nations delegates were
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| Maddox Ritch: Dad of Missing 6-Year-Old Says He Feels Guilty After Disappearance Posted: 26 Sep 2018 06:41 AM PDT  He also said he thought the boy would be found by now.
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| Trump says he wants two-state solution for Mideast conflict Posted: 26 Sep 2018 03:42 PM PDT  The Trump administration has in the past said it would support a two-state solution if both sides agreed to it. Trump, in a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the United Nations General Assembly, also said he wanted to unveil a peace plan in the next two to three months. Netanyahu has said any future Palestinian state must be demilitarized and must recognize Israel as the state of the Jewish people - conditions that Palestinians say show he is not sincere about peacemaking.
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| Arctic ice hit one of its lowest points on record, but there’s another grim statistic Posted: 26 Sep 2018 07:26 AM PDT  Sea ice in the Arctic has just about melted to its lowest point of 2018, and this reinforces a trend of dwindling ice atop the globe — where the climate is warming two to three times faster than the rest of the planet. As of last week, it's the sixth-lowest ice extent — known as the sea ice minimum — in nearly 40 years of satellite records, and with the summer's end it's likely to keep that ranking. This statistic alone might not carry the bite of 2012's extreme Arctic melt, in which the ice thawed to its lowest point ever recorded. Yet, a closer examination of what's transpired in the great north this year reveals the Arctic's ever-accelerating disappearance. "I don't want the story to be 'This was a ho-hum year'," Jeremy Mathis, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration scientist who has led the agency's Arctic Research Program, said in an interview. "Even though the ice didn't break an all-time record, it was still well below the historical average." 2018 sea ice extent is well below the average.Image: national snow and ice data centerIn fact, each of the last 12 years have been the lowest 12 years on the satellite record, Walt Meier, a senior research scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, said in an interview. "Twelve in a row," said Meier. "That clearly indicates a change." And there's more. SEE ALSO: The wilderness has returned to idyllic Cape Cod. That means great white sharks. Some of the thickest, oldest Arctic ice, which is anchored in a compacted mass off the frigid north Greenland shore, broke apart this year. "That was oldest, most stable ice in the Arctic," said Mathis. "That's the ice that we thought would hold on the longest." "It even stuck around when we saw all-time record-breaking melt in 2012," he added. The average thickness of this ice is around 5 meters, or 16 feet thick, but in parts it can reach 20 meters, or some 65 feet, said Meier. In the greater scope of the expansive Arctic, this break-up wasn't extremely large. But it wasn't exactly small, either. A large pond of melted water on Arctic sea iceImage: nasa"It's an area about the size of Indiana, so it's not trivial," he said. This break-up portends what may eventually transpire in the Arctic — a visible gauge of climate change — in the next four or so decades. "Something happened this year that is incredibly indicative of just how fast the Arctic is changing," said Mathis. "That could accelerate the timeline for what could be an ice-free Arctic Ocean during the summer months." "It definitely was a surprise," said Meier. Though, this may not be the first time such Greenland ice melting has happened, he explained; given the limited satellite records, there's no way to know for sure. In any case, it's still a sign of growing instability. "It's an indication that it [the ice] was thinner and weaker than it used to be," he said. Loss and variability of August #Arctic sea ice volume...+ Model (PIOMAS) info/validation: https://t.co/UDsruDEI5p + Additional graphics: https://t.co/bTAfMZhjL1 pic.twitter.com/2YNhTPXoym — Zack Labe (@ZLabe) September 22, 2018 When sea ice melts, it contributes to even more ice melting. In contrast to the dark ocean, bright ice reflects sunlight back into space. But as both the warming oceans and atmosphere melt the bright ice cover, the ocean is then able to absorb this energy, which in turn melts more ice, said Meier. It's a continuing, stubborn feedback loop. The change here, even in non-record breaking years, is stark. "We're definitely looking at a shift in the climate," said Meier. WATCH: A paralyzed man walks, with assistance, thanks to a new therapy that reactivates the spinal cord
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| 'Everybody looks at you as a monster' Father of NC boy speaks for the first time since Maddox Ritch went missing Posted: 26 Sep 2018 06:06 AM PDT  Maddox Ritch, a 6-year-old with special needs, has been missing since Sept. 22. His father Ian spoke to ''Good Morning America'' about his guilt and the day his son went missing.
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| Sex offender pleads not guilty to killing woman, 89 Posted: 26 Sep 2018 06:11 PM PDT  PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A convicted sex offender pleaded not guilty Wednesday to killing an 89-year-old Oregon woman who had been missing for a week before a body believed to be hers was found in his trunk.
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| Lawyers For Brett Kavanaugh's Alleged Victims Were Uncooperative, Claims Grassley Posted: 27 Sep 2018 09:08 AM PDT  During his opening statement for testimony related to Judge Brett Kavanaugh's
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| Iran President Hassan Rouhani Says He Does Not Want War With the U.S. Posted: 26 Sep 2018 04:22 PM PDT  Rouhani said that the U.S. decision to pull out of the 2015 nuclear deal in May was "a mistake"
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| Top US diplomat to return to N. Korea as Trump hails Kim Posted: 26 Sep 2018 09:43 AM PDT  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo signaled Wednesday that he will return to North Korea next month to push forward denuclearization talks as President Donald Trump predicted breakthroughs soon. Pompeo met on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly session with his North Korean counterpart, Foreign Minister Ri Yong Ho, and agreed to pay his fourth trip to the longtime US arch-enemy. Pompeo accepted an invitation from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un to return to Pyongyang in October to move ahead on efforts for "the final, fully verified denuclearization of the DPRK," the State Department said, referring to the North by its official name of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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| The Latest: Cosby accusers say he got what he deserved Posted: 25 Sep 2018 08:46 PM PDT  NORRISTOWN, Pa. (AP) — The Latest on Bill Cosby's sentencing hearing (all times local):
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| Australian Man Builds Life-Sized Camper Using Only Legos Posted: 26 Sep 2018 11:01 AM PDT  The replica caravan even has running water and electricity.
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