| Police identify racist suspect in New Zealand's terror attack that killed 49 Posted: 15 Mar 2019 05:15 PM PDT  In Christchurch, New Zealand, a self-described racist is accused of opening fire in 2 mosques, killing 49. A manifesto has been found.
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| NZ manifesto resembles Norway mass murderer's text Posted: 15 Mar 2019 05:40 AM PDT  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — The manifesto that the presumed New Zealand shooter published is shorter and "more sloppy" than the one written by a Norwegian right-wing extremist who killed 77 people in 2011, but expresses similar sentiments, a Swedish terror expert said Friday.
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| Trump mocks Beto O'Rourke's hand gestures: 'Is he crazy?' Posted: 14 Mar 2019 11:34 AM PDT  "I've actually never seen anything quite like it," the president said. "Study it. I'm sure you'll agree."
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| Cyclone cuts off Mozambique coastal city of Beira Posted: 15 Mar 2019 11:06 AM PDT  Tropical cyclone Idai battered Mozambican coastal city Beira Friday, leaving half a million people virtually cut off after power lines crashed, airport shut and roads were swamped by flooding that killed 66 people nationwide. "There is no communication with Beira. Houses and trees were destroyed and pylons downed," an official at the National Institute of Disaster Management (NIDM) told AFP.
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| Boeing to upgrade stall prevention on 737 MAX: sources Posted: 15 Mar 2019 10:03 AM PDT  Boeing in the next 10 days will roll out an upgrade to the MCAS stall prevention system for 737 MAX aircraft that have had two deadly accidents in recent months, two industry sources told AFP. The system was implicated in the crash of a 737 MAX 8 in Indonesia in October but the sources cautioned that the cause of the fatal Ethiopia Airlines accident last weekend has not yet been determined. The software fix, which was already underway prior to the latest incident, will only take about two hours to install, said the sources, who asked not to be identified.
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| NOT REAL NEWS: A look at what didn't happen this week Posted: 15 Mar 2019 11:05 AM PDT  A roundup of some of the most popular but completely untrue stories and visuals of the week. None of these is legit, even though they were shared widely on social media. The Associated Press checked these out. Here are the real facts:
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| Armed Man Chased, Fired On New Zealand Mosque Shooter Posted: 15 Mar 2019 06:23 AM PDT  One armed congregant pursued the gunmen who opened fire during Friday prayer at his mosque in the New Zealand city of Christchurch, firing two shots at them as they sped away, the New Zealand Herald reported.The unnamed man went home to retrieve his gun when the shooting broke out before returning to the Linwood mosque to engage the shooter. He reportedly told the police he was acting in "self defense."At least 49 people were killed and 48 injured during shootings at two mosques in the New Zealand city of Christchurch. The Linwood mosque shooting claimed seven lives while a second shooting, at the Al Noor mosque, resulted in 41 dead.Police also found improvised explosive devices attached to two vehicles outside of one of the mosques.Four people have been arrested in connection with the attacks but just one man, 28-year-old Brandon Tarrant, has been charged with murder. Tarrant live-streamed part of his attack on the Al Noor mosque, creating a sickening 17-minute video that has been widely distributed on social media. Prior to the attack, Tarrant also published a 87-page manifesto on Twitter that is rife with white nationalist propaganda.It remains unclear whether the other three people, one of whom police have said is likely uninvolved in the attack, will be charged.
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| College admissions scandal: Why we won't see mug shots for Lori Loughlin, Felicity Huffman Posted: 14 Mar 2019 01:59 PM PDT  The DOJ and U.S. Marshals Services say their policies prohibit releasing booking photos because doing so doesn't serve the agencies' needs if the person has already been apprehended.
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| Senate blocks resolution calling for public release of Robert Mueller's report after House voted 420-0 Posted: 14 Mar 2019 01:05 PM PDT  The Senate blocked a measure that demanded special counsel Robert Mueller's final report be made public hours after the House unanimously passed the measure
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| Admissions scam adds insult to injury for minority applicants Posted: 14 Mar 2019 01:24 PM PDT  In what a federal prosecutor called "the largest college admissions scam ever prosecuted by the Department of Justice," dozens of people were charged in a bribery scheme to cheat on SAT and ACT entrance exams and buy admission to elite schools for the children of wealthy parents. Through payments disguised as donations, parents involved in the cheating scandal paid between $250,000 and $400,000 per student to its "mastermind," William Singer, who then laundered the money through his college counseling service to bribe college officials and coaches.
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| The Latest: Rescue, evacuations continue in eastern Nebraska Posted: 16 Mar 2019 09:36 AM PDT  OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Latest on flooding in the Midwest (all times local):
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| President Trump calls white nationalism a terrible thing Posted: 16 Mar 2019 06:15 AM PDT  New Zealand attacker says the People's Republic of China is the nation that his values are most closely aligned with.
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| Iran bans Boeing 737 MAX from airspace: civil aviation Posted: 15 Mar 2019 12:19 PM PDT  Iran's civil aviation authority said Friday it had banned Boeing 737 Max jets from its airspace, the latest in a series of countries to do so after a deadly crash. The decision was announced by civil aviation spokesman Reza Jafarzadeh, in a bulletin published by the transport ministry. "Following the banning of the 737 MAX from the airspace of many countries, including America, which is the country that builds it, this type of plane is now banned from Iranian airspace," Jafarzadeh said.
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| 'We don't see the enemy' concealed jihadists slow IS defeat Posted: 15 Mar 2019 10:57 AM PDT  DEIR AL-ZOR PROVINCE, Syria (Reuters) - The young Syrian man crossing out of Islamic State's last enclave in eastern Syria brought confirmation that the fight was still not over despite days of ferocious bombardment by U.S.-backed forces. "There are people coming out and others not coming out," said the bearded man wearing a robe and head scarf, one of hundreds of people who left the enclave at Baghouz on Thursday to surrender to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF). On Friday suicide attackers struck a group of people leaving Baghouz and surrendering, the SDF said, the first such blasts to target any of the thousands of people abandoning the enclave.
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| In New Zealand, a journey around the world and into darkness Posted: 16 Mar 2019 08:50 AM PDT ![In New Zealand, a journey around the world and into darkness]( "In New Zealand, a journey around the world and into darkness") Under New Zealand's contempt rules, there are limits on what can be published about him, to preserve his right to a fair trial. Although his social media profiles on Facebook and Twitter were taken down soon after news of the incident spread, police said Tarrant had lived in Grafton, an inland city split by a river and known for its logging industry, about 500 kilometers (310 miles) north of Sydney. Grafton High School did not return a Reuters phone call seeking comment.
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| Manafort sentence exemplifies privilege in the justice system: Readers sound off Posted: 14 Mar 2019 02:48 PM PDT  'What does Manafort's 47-month sentence say to people who are not wealthy in America?'
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| College admissions scandal investigation began with tip from Los Angeles man: Report Posted: 15 Mar 2019 12:40 PM PDT  Morrie Tobin was reportedly being investigated in connection with an unrelated securities-fraud case when he tipped the FBI off to Operation Varsity Blues.
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| As Boeing faces scrutiny over the 737 Max 8, it can draw on high-flying influence campaign Posted: 16 Mar 2019 05:55 AM PDT  For aviation observers, there was little surprise Trump took a call from Boeing's CEO Dennis Muilenburg after his tweets about the grounded 737 Max 8.
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| Tillis changes vote, supports Trump on border emergency Posted: 14 Mar 2019 03:18 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Changing his vote from the public stance he took last month, North Carolina Sen. Thom Tillis voted Thursday to support President Donald Trump's declaration of a national emergency to pay for his border wall.
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| Historic, deadly Midwest floods are worst 'anybody has ever experienced' in some areas Posted: 15 Mar 2019 07:38 PM PDT  Days of heavy rain and snowmelt brought historic flooding to the Upper Midwest Friday. The floods have left one man dead.
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| YouTube's PewDiePie 'sickened' by mosque gunman's namedrop Posted: 15 Mar 2019 12:22 PM PDT  YouTube's most-watched blogger PewDiePie said he was "sickened" after hearing that the gunman behind Friday's New Zealand mosque massacre had promoted his videos before opening fire. Forty-nine people were killed and dozens more wounded in shootings at two mosques in Christchurch, in an attack which sparked global outrage.
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| Apple’s iCloud is the latest service to suffer an outage this week Posted: 14 Mar 2019 12:14 PM PDT  Following the Verizon outage on Tuesday morning, the Gmail and YouTube issue on Tuesday night, and the "server configuration change" that took down Facebook and Instagram for hours on Wednesday, Apple has decided to join in on the fun with an outage of its own. According to the System Status dashboard on Apple's site, virtually every iCloud service is currently experiencing issues, including Contacts, Drive and Mail.By my count, there are twenty problematic services at the time of writing, with all of the issues having begun at 11:00 a.m. this morning. Apple hasn't provided any additional details beyond which services are struggling, mostly using a single phrase to explain every issue: "Users may be unable to access this service."There has been no evidence released to this point that would indicate that multitude of online service outages this week are related, but the way that each has seemingly cropped up right on the heels of the last is suspicious, to say the least. That said, Facebook made it clear that it wasn't the target of a DDoS attack or anything of that nature, but rather that a seemingly innocuous server problem internally caused the massive outage.Apple has yet to comment on the matter, but unless it turns out to be something serious, it's unlikely we'll hear much of anything at all. In the meantime, if you notice anything iCloud-related acting up, at least you know why. Plus, you can keep track of Apple's progress on the System Status dashboard.
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| Black Box Politics: How National Pride Intrudes on Crash Probes Posted: 14 Mar 2019 06:59 PM PDT  Signs of international tension have also emerged in the high-stakes investigation of the crash of an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 Max on Sunday. More than 50 countries grounded the plane in a rebuke to American authorities who counseled waiting for more evidence.
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| Pompeo: State Dept. bars war crimes court members from the U.S., citing torture probe Posted: 15 Mar 2019 10:04 AM PDT  The move is aimed at shielding American military and CIA personnel from an international investigation into alleged torture in Afghanistan.
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| Ex-general challenging Israeli PM reels from hacking scandal Posted: 15 Mar 2019 11:11 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's leading challenger in his heated race for re-election is trying to play down an embarrassing phone hacking scandal that has erupted just as the ex-general is sliding in opinion polls.
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| 'Bomb cyclone' winter storm moves east after punishing Colorado Posted: 14 Mar 2019 06:32 PM PDT !['Bomb cyclone' winter storm moves east after punishing Colorado]( "'Bomb cyclone' winter storm moves east after punishing Colorado") DENVER (Reuters) - A powerful late-winter blizzard dubbed a "bomb cyclone" by meteorologists moved east on Thursday, hurling hurricane-force winds, tornadoes after dumping heavy snow on Colorado and the plains states and killing a state trooper.
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| Regulators challenge Boeing to prove its Max jets are safe Posted: 14 Mar 2019 05:07 PM PDT  Aviation regulators worldwide laid down a stark challenge for Boeing to prove that its grounded 737 Max jets are safe to fly amid suspicions that faulty software might have contributed to two crashes that killed 346 people in less than six months.
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| 'I was the last person to get out alive': Narrow escape from the New Zealand mosque Posted: 15 Mar 2019 03:05 PM PDT  Survivors have described horrific scenes of carnage inside the two mosques in New Zealand where 49 were killed in a shooting rampage.
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| On national emergency vote, 41 Republican senators pledge loyalty to royalty Posted: 14 Mar 2019 01:54 PM PDT  King Trump's pawns included senators who had thundered against President Barack Obama for executive overreach: Our view
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| Search ends in Lagos building collapse as anger flares Posted: 14 Mar 2019 01:50 PM PDT  Emergency services on Thursday said they had called off the search for survivors of a building collapse that killed nine in Nigeria's biggest city, Lagos, as anger mounted over dilapidated property and unscrupulous owners. The building, which housed a primary school and nursery, came down without warning in the teeming Lagos Island area at mid-morning on Wednesday. Firefighters and other emergency services worked through the night to find anyone still trapped.
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| Biggest obstacle to passage of Green New Deal? Democratic lawmakers Posted: 14 Mar 2019 03:34 PM PDT  Democrats agree that climate change needs to be addressed. Pronto. But they're divided on if Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez' Green New Deal is the answer.
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| Court filing: Ex-Trump aide Gates continues to cooperate Posted: 15 Mar 2019 09:45 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Rick Gates, a former Trump campaign aide and key cooperator in the special counsel's Russia probe, is not ready to be sentenced because he continues to help with "several ongoing investigations," prosecutors said in a court filing Friday.
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| Israel Strikes Militants in Gaza Strip in Retaliation for Tel Aviv Attack Posted: 14 Mar 2019 07:06 PM PDT  Israeli warplanes attacked militant targets in the southern Gaza Strip early Friday in response to a rare rocket attack on the Israeli city of Tel Aviv, as the sides appeared to be hurtling toward a new round of violence.
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| Photos of the 2019 Bentley Bentayga V8 Posted: 15 Mar 2019 03:00 PM PDT |
| Polish Church says 382 minors abused by clergy from 1990-2018 Posted: 14 Mar 2019 10:26 AM PDT  The report follows investigations into widespread abuse of minors by clergy in other countries - notably in Chile, the United States, Australia and Ireland - that have shaken the Roman Catholic Church to its foundations. Last month the Polish charity "Have no fear", which supports abuse victims, delivered its own report to Pope Francis in which it calculated - purely on the basis of media reports collated since the mid-1950s - that at least 384 minors had been sexually abused by clergy in Poland.
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| How the Boeing 737 Max safety system differs from others Posted: 14 Mar 2019 04:01 PM PDT  Boeing added a safety system after redesigning its 737 platform for the Max. The redesign changed the size and placement of the aircraft's engines, which altered how the jet handled in flight.
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| College admissions scandal: Stanford students file civil lawsuit amid 'bribing scheme' controversy Posted: 14 Mar 2019 11:45 AM PDT  Two Stanford students have filed a civil lawsuit alleging they were denied a fair opportunity to be admitted to Yale and the University of Southern California – amid the ongoing college admissions scandal in which 50 people are accused of participating in what authorities have described as a large-scale bribery scheme. Lawsuits began emerging on Wednesday, a day after federal prosecutors said a California company made about $25m from parents seeking spots for their children in top schools including Georgetown University, Stanford University, the University of Southern California and Yale University.
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| US, EU slap new sanctions on Russia over Ukraine Posted: 15 Mar 2019 01:13 PM PDT  Six Russian officials, six defense firms and two energy and construction firms were targeted, either over the seizure of Ukrainian vessels in the Kerch Straight, or for their activities in Russian-annexed Crimea or separatist eastern Ukraine, a US Treasury statement said. "The United States and our transatlantic partners will not allow Russia's continued aggression against Ukraine to go unchecked," Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin was quoted as saying.
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| What we know about Olivia Jade, Lori Loughlin's daughter caught up in admissions scandal Posted: 14 Mar 2019 02:17 PM PDT  Lori Loughlin's USC student daughter, Olivia Jade Giannulli, has been swept up in the college admission scandal. Here's what you need to know.
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| Kamala Harris calls for federal moratorium on executions Posted: 14 Mar 2019 05:08 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris said Thursday that there should be a federal moratorium on executions.
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