| PHOTOS: Haunting images of abandoned places across Northern Ireland Posted: 08 Dec 2018 10:31 AM PST  These haunting images capture abandoned homes across Northern Ireland — complete with old prams, unopened food tins, toys and dusty wedding photographs.
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| James Alex Fields Jr. Found Guilty In Murder Of Heather Heyer In Charlottesville Car Attack Posted: 07 Dec 2018 02:15 PM PST  Neo-Nazi James Alex Fields Jr. was found guilty on 10 charges including first-
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| Sen. Cory Booker visits New Hampshire in preview for 2020 Posted: 08 Dec 2018 02:41 PM PST  MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) — Sen. Cory Booker, returning to the first-in-the-nation primary state Saturday for a two-day trip that could turn out to be a tuneup for the New Jersey Democrat's potential presidential campaign, said the visit leaves him "a lot more confident in making decisions going forward."
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| Plundered 'Gypsy Girl' mosaics back in Turkey after decades in U.S Posted: 08 Dec 2018 06:22 AM PST  Missing fragments from one of Turkey's most striking ancient treasures, the haunting, wide-eyed "Gypsy Girl" mosaic, have returned home more than half a century after they were plundered and smuggled to the United States. On Saturday, the returned pieces went on display alongside the nearly 2,000-year-old mosaic of the girl, whose piercing gaze and dishevelled hair have become a symbol of Turkey's southeastern city of Gaziantep. Turkish archaeologists discovered the mosaic 20 years ago during an excavation of the old city of Zeugma, founded by one of Alexander the Great's generals, near the modern city of Gaziantep.
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| MSNBC's Lawrence O'Donnell: ‘Donald Trump Will Be, Must Be Impeached’ Posted: 08 Dec 2018 01:17 AM PST  MSNBC anchor Lawrence O'Donnell said Friday that President Donald Trump "will
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| Jacline Mouraud: Founder of Yellow Vest movement denounces extremists hijacking her tax protest Posted: 08 Dec 2018 08:38 AM PST  The founder of the "yellow vest" revolt said it had become a dangerous "dog without a leash" prey to extremists and anarchists, and urged moderate protesters to open dialogue with the French government. Jacline Mouraud, a 51-year old composer and hypnotherapist from Brittany, is credited with sparking the movement after six million people viewed her Facebook diatribe against environmental duties on petrol and diesel last month. "What are you doing with the money apart from buying new dishes at the Élysée Palace and building yourself swimming pools?" she asked President Emmanuel Macron in her viral video. But she said the movement had now been hijacked by an increasingly violent fringe of "extremists and anarchists". Speaking to The Sunday Telegraph, Ms Mouraud, said: "This movement has broken free of everyone, you can't reason with people any more. Some don't even remember what demands we made at the start. "It's as if we had kept the dog on a leash and today the leash has snapped." A firefighter stands next to a car set on fire during a protest of Yellow vest Credit: ALAIN JOCARD/AFP/Getty Images Before the violence of the past two weeks, she said the revolt was a "spontaneous movement of the people" that could not be manipulated. Now, however, it was, she said, not just "beyond the reach of the government, political parties, unions" but "the people from the movement themselves". She added: "We're witnessing a tsunami. The wave is still in the air and we'll just have to wait for it to crash down again." Facebook, she said, had initially "helped bring people together and get organised". But it also now had a "very negative side," she added. Experts said that Facebook's decentralised nature is ideal for "gilets jaunes", particularly as it changed its algorithms earlier this year to lower the visibility of content published on pages run by large media outlets. "It prioritised content being shared by groups, individual profiles, and local information. This change in the algorithm has boosted the emergence of this movement," Tristan Mendes France, who teaches digital culture at Paris-Diderot University, said. Hundreds of social media accounts linked to Russia have sought to amplify the street protests that have rocked France, according to analysis by New Knowledge, a cybersecurity company. Facebook's new algorithm for ordering the posts that users see has also given raised the profile of extremists, conspiracy theorists and proponents of fake news. Ms Mouraud and other "spokespeople" have received death threats. Those behind them "don't want a resolution of the conflict", she said. A protestor wearing a "yellow vest" (Gilet jaune) throws a cobble at police forces Credit: THOMAS SAMSON/AFP/Getty Images She was among a "yellow vest" delegation that met the prime minister, Edouard Philippe, on Friday night. They listed demands ranging from tax justice and proportional representative in legislative elections and raising low pensions. The prime minister has called for three months of talks between the gilets jaunes and local and national officials. She added: "Today, I have no idea how this will pan out. What's for sure is if we don't get organised, it will have no future. We'll have done all that for nothing."
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| Instant Pots are somehow down to $45 today on Amazon Posted: 09 Dec 2018 05:27 AM PST ![Instant Pots are somehow down to $45 today on Amazon]( "Instant Pots are somehow down to $45 today on Amazon") The hottest gift of the holiday season just got even hotter as one of the best-selling Instant Pot cookers on the planet drops down to its lowest price ever. The DUO60 and DUO80 have both been on sale off and on since Black Friday. In fact, the more popular Instant Pot DUO60 model is still on sale right now at a healthy $30 discount. But today our attention turns to the Instant Pot Duo Mini 3 Qt 7-in-1 Multi- Use Programmable Pressure Cooker. Perfect for sides or for entrees for families of two or three people, this model does everything the larger versions can do but it's more compact. It's also somehow on sale today for just $44.96, and there's no way this deal is going to last very long. Here are some highlights from the product page: * All the features of the Instant Pot duo, the bestselling electric pressure cooker in North America now available in a 3 Qt compact format * The perfect companion to your existing Instant Pot, use it for side dishes, vegetables or other accompaniments such as rice * Generous capacity, great for smaller families or where space is at a premium. In a dorm, RV or boat? the Instant Pot duo mini Emits no steam, heat or cooking smells * Features fully automatic pressure cook programs, 3 slow cook heat settings, saute, rice cooking, steamer, yogurt making, delay start and auto keep Warm * 700W power to enable it to reach pressure quickly. All Stainless Steel internal components including lid and inner cooking pot. Lid and cooking pot dishwasher safe * Power supply: 120V - 60Hz * Included Components: Electric Pressure Cooker
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| Trevor Noah's 'Daily Show' Pulls Elaborate Twitter Prank On Donald Trump And Fox News Posted: 08 Dec 2018 12:55 AM PST  "The Daily Show with Trevor Noah" pretended Friday to have obtained the report
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| French Police Fire Tear Gas As Yellow-Vested Protesters Swarm Paris Posted: 08 Dec 2018 03:56 AM PST  PARIS (AP) -- French riot police fired tear gas and water cannon in Paris on
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| Suspect in model's strangulation death pleads not guilty Posted: 07 Dec 2018 02:15 PM PST  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A man accused of strangling a model in an affluent Philadelphia suburb pleaded not guilty Friday to murder charges, days after a suspect in the burglary of her apartment was taken into custody.
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| Inside the Navy's flyover farewell for President George H.W. Bush Posted: 09 Dec 2018 06:04 AM PST  Navy pilots who participated in the 21 aircraft flyover at George H.W. Bush's funeral in Texas describe what it was like to be part of that historic tribute for the late president.
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| Afghan 'Messi boy' forced to flee home Posted: 08 Dec 2018 05:01 AM PST  The family of an Afghan boy who gained brief Internet fame after being photographed in a shirt improvised from a plastic bag in the colors of his hero, Argentine soccer idol Lionel Messi, has been forced to flee his home after a Taliban attack. Murtaza Ahmadi, now aged 7, grabbed world headlines two years ago when his brother made him a shirt out of a blue and white plastic bag, with Messi's name and number 10 playing number. "Murtaza became famous around the world and we are not able to walk free and go anywhere.
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| Read James Comey's Testimony To The House Oversight Committee Posted: 08 Dec 2018 03:48 PM PST  James Comey, the FBI director fired by President Donald Trump last year,
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| China summons Canada envoy over detained Huawei exec: state media Posted: 08 Dec 2018 09:58 AM PST  China on Saturday summoned the Canadian ambassador over the "unconscionable and vile" detention of telecom giant Huawei's chief financial officer in Vancouver, state media reported, in Beijing's latest angry response to the hot-button case. Meng Wanzhou has been held since December 1 in Canada on an American extradition request and faces US fraud charges related to sanctions-breaking business dealings with Iran. The 46-year-old executive was arrested in Vancouver while changing planes, ratcheting up tensions between the US and China just as the countries' leaders agreed to a truce in their trade war.
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| Italian Renaissance Rugs, Galactic Tables, and More Products We're Loving Right Now Posted: 07 Dec 2018 02:50 PM PST |
| Shanann Watts and her two daughters are found dead: Part 5 Posted: 07 Dec 2018 03:03 PM PST  After investigators uncover the grave of Shanann Watts and the gruesome disposal of the girls, her husband Chris Watts pleaded guilty to their murders.
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| Merkel ally becomes German conservative party's leader Posted: 07 Dec 2018 10:51 AM PST  HAMBURG, Germany (AP) — Angela Merkel's center-right party elected an ally of the longtime German chancellor as its new leader on Friday, opting for continuity and experience as it handed her the challenge of opening a new chapter and improving the party's electoral fortunes.
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| Uber makes confidential filing for long-awaited IPO Posted: 07 Dec 2018 08:34 PM PST  NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc has filed paperwork for an initial public offering, according to three people with knowledge of the matter, taking a step closer to a key milestone for one of the most closely watched and controversial companies in Silicon Valley. The ride-hailing company filed the confidential paperwork on Thursday, one of the sources said, in lock-step with its smaller U.S. rival, Lyft Inc, which also announced on Thursday it had filed for an IPO. The simultaneous filings extend the protracted battle between Uber and Lyft, which as fierce rivals have often rolled out identical services and matched each other's prices.
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| Trump Scorched Over Tweet Bashing Obama For Burning Through 'Chief Of Staffs' Posted: 08 Dec 2018 07:57 PM PST  Twitter followers piled on President Donald Trump after unearthing his 2012
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| Israel uncovers another Hezbollah tunnel dug from Lebanon Posted: 08 Dec 2018 11:26 AM PST ![Israel uncovers another Hezbollah tunnel dug from Lebanon]( "Israel uncovers another Hezbollah tunnel dug from Lebanon") JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli forces said Saturday they uncovered another Hezbollah tunnel dug from Lebanon, an announcement that came shortly after troops fired at suspected members of the Lebanese militant group who approached the site of Israeli army engineering working to thwart tunnels.
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| Chips are Down in Macau for America’s Casino Kings Posted: 07 Dec 2018 04:00 PM PST  (Bloomberg Opinion) -- If any worsening of the trade war leads China to call for a boycott of U.S. companies, America's casino kings will be sweating.
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| Our 2018 Volkswagen Golf Alltrack Still Charms Midway through Its Long-Term Test Posted: 07 Dec 2018 11:50 AM PST  A trip to Montana gains the VW wagon another fan.
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| Here's what happens to unsold Christmas trees Posted: 07 Dec 2018 04:44 PM PST  The afterlives of holiday trees and wreaths can be very dynamic. Some end up in lakes, others end up as mulch and more than a few wind up on beaches.
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| N.Y. federal prosecutors seek prison for former Trump lawyer Cohen Posted: 07 Dec 2018 02:06 PM PST  Cohen, who has been cooperating with U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller's probe into possible collusion between Russia and Trump's 2016 election campaign, pleaded guilty to the charges in August. Cohen pleaded guilty last week to a separate charge by Mueller's office that he lied to Congress about discussions over the construction of a proposed Trump Organization skyscraper in Moscow. In a separate filing on Friday, Mueller's office said Cohen should serve any sentence imposed for that crime concurrently with the sentence imposed for the New York charges, saying he had gone to "significant lengths to assist the Special Counsel's investigation." The New York prosecutors said in their filing that Cohen should receive some credit for his cooperation with Mueller, but noted that he had not entered into a cooperation agreement with their office.
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| China launches rover for first far side of the moon landing Posted: 07 Dec 2018 07:09 PM PST  China launched a rover early Saturday destined to land on the far side of the moon, a global first that would boost Beijing's ambitions to become a space superpower, state media said. The Chang'e-4 lunar probe mission -- named after the moon goddess in Chinese mythology -- launched on a Long March 3B rocket from the southwestern Xichang launch centre at 2:23 am (1823 GMT), according to the official Xinhua news agency. The blast-off marked the start of a long journey to the far side of the moon for the Chang'e-4 mission, expected to land around the New Year to carry out experiments and survey the untrodden terrain.
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| UK nerve agent survivor fears poison will soon kill him Posted: 09 Dec 2018 09:11 AM PST ![UK nerve agent survivor fears poison will soon kill him]( "UK nerve agent survivor fears poison will soon kill him") LONDON (AP) — A British man who was exposed to the deadly nerve agent Novichok said he is struggling with his eyesight and mobility, and fears the poison will kill him within a decade.
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| Donald Trump Calls Rex Tillerson 'Dumb As A Rock' In Not-At-All Defensive Tweet Posted: 07 Dec 2018 01:32 PM PST  President Donald Trump seems to be a bit miffed at former Secretary of State
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| The Latest: 'Yellow vest' members meet with French PM Posted: 07 Dec 2018 03:07 PM PST  PARIS (AP) — The Latest on the protests in France (all times local):
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| Dwyane Wade Slams Critics Saying Gabrielle Union Was Acting Like She Gave Birth Posted: 07 Dec 2018 03:03 PM PST  In an interview with Oprah Winfrey set to air Dec. 8, actress Gabrielle Union
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| Why you should buy an Escort Cosworth over a Ford Focus RS Posted: 09 Dec 2018 01:19 AM PST  The recently discontinued MK3 Ford Focus RS is destined to become a future classic, but should you buy an Escort RS Cosworth instead? We find out...
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| President 'Individual-1' Trump Hasn't A Clue, But Twitter Wits Aim to School Him Posted: 07 Dec 2018 10:14 PM PST  President Donald Trump apparently doesn't have an inkling that he is
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| If Kevin Hart Were Really Sorry, He’d Prove It. Posted: 08 Dec 2018 12:09 PM PST  Apparently, being Kevin Hart means never having to say you're sorry.
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| At scene of South Sudan mass rape, 'no one could hear me' Posted: 09 Dec 2018 06:50 AM PST  NHIALDIU, South Sudan (AP) — Wrapping an arm around her stomach, the young woman hung her head and recounted the day in early November when she and a friend were bound, dragged into the bush and raped by four men with guns.
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| U.S. appeals court will not restore Trump asylum order Posted: 08 Dec 2018 03:48 AM PST  A U.S. appeals court handed President Donald Trump a defeat on Friday when it refused to allow his order barring asylum for immigrants who enter the country illegally to take effect, while a court challenge proceeds. Trump cited an overwhelmed immigration system for his recent proclamation that officials will only process asylum claims for migrants who present themselves at an official entry point. Civil rights groups sued, arguing that Trump's Nov. 9 order violated administrative and immigration law.
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