| Trump, Putin discussed Venezuela in phone talks: W.House Posted: 03 May 2019 09:54 AM PDT  US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed the situation in Venezuela during wide-ranging telephone talks Friday, the White House said. Press Secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters Trump had made clear to Putin "that the United States stand with the people of Venezuela," in talks that also touched on trade, North Korea, Ukraine and disarmament treaties. US-Russian tensions have spiked in recent weeks over the crisis in oil-rich Venezuela where Washington is backing opposition leader Juan Guaido in his bid to oust President Nicolas Maduro -- who is backed by Russia and China.
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| New attacks on Sri Lanka churches planned, cardinal says Posted: 02 May 2019 10:06 AM PDT  COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's Catholic cardinal received "foreign information" that attempts would be made this week to attack a church and another church institution, according to a letter he sent Thursday to church officials that later appeared on social media.
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| Flight from Guantanamo Bay with 136+ on board crashes in Florida river; everyone safe Posted: 04 May 2019 05:08 AM PDT ![Flight from Guantanamo Bay with 136+ on board crashes in Florida river; everyone safe]( "Flight from Guantanamo Bay with 136+ on board crashes in Florida river; everyone safe") All passengers and crew aboard a Boeing 737 traveling from Guantanamo Bay, Cuba are safe after the plane crashed into a river at the end of a runway at Naval Air Station Jacksonville
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| Two Neutron Stars Exploded in Our Cosmic Backyard Billions of Years Ago Posted: 03 May 2019 02:22 PM PDT  And some of the remnants are still inside of us.
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| House Democrats seek to intervene against Trump lawsuit over bank subpoenas Posted: 03 May 2019 02:26 PM PDT  Deutsche Bank has long been one of the main banks for Trump's real estate empire. A 2017 financial disclosure form showed that Trump had at least $130 million of liabilities to Deutsche Bank. In their lawsuit, Trump, a Republican, and the other plaintiffs accused House leaders of pursuing records for no legitimate or lawful purpose in hopes they would "stumble upon something" they could use as a political weapon against Trump.
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| Man falls 70 feet into Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano — and survives Posted: 03 May 2019 11:34 AM PDT  A man was rescued but seriously injured after falling into Hawaii's Kīlauea caldera this week, National Park Service officials said.
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| Whistleblower Prompts Changes to Sacramento Police Department`s Off-Duty Officer Employment Policies Posted: 02 May 2019 04:56 PM PDT  The Sacramento Police Department says it has begun to address concerns raised by a whistleblower over the use of off-duty police officers for privately paid security duties.
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| Carnival first company sued for profiting from expropriated Cuban property Posted: 02 May 2019 01:18 PM PDT  The administration last month announced a long dormant section of the 1996 Helms-Burton Act would take effect on May 2 as it ratcheted up the pressure on Venezuela and Cuba. Under Title III of the Helms Burton Act, waived by previous presidents, anyone whose property was nationalized after the 1959 Cuban Revolution, even if they were not U.S. citizens at the time, can sue any individual or company profiting from their former holdings. The suit was brought in federal court in Miami by Javier Garcia Bengochea and Mickael Behn.
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| 40+ Fresh Summer Vegetable Recipes To Bring To Your Next Cookout Posted: 03 May 2019 12:52 PM PDT |
| Trump urges 'fight with all our strength' against anti-Semitism Posted: 02 May 2019 11:07 AM PDT  US President Donald Trump called Thursday for an all-out fight against anti-Semitism as he hosted a rabbi shot in a deadly weekend gun rampage at a California synagogue. Yisroel Goldstein was among four worshipers hit -- one fatally -- as a gunman burst into a service and opened fire in the town of Poway, near San Diego, on Saturday. "We will fight with all our strength and everything that we have in our bodies to defeat anti-Semitism," Trump told a national prayer service at the White House.
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| ISIS, defeated on the ground, returns to its roots with bombs and bloodshed Posted: 03 May 2019 02:00 AM PDT  President Trump has boasted about the defeat of the ISIS caliphate, a swath of territory in Syria and Iraq formerly controlled by the Islamist fundamentalist army. But ISIS hasn't disappeared, just retreated to fight a terror war — of which the Sri Lanka attacks may have been one of the opening battles.
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| The Vietnamese Woman in Kim Jong Nam's Murder Case Has Been Freed From Jail Posted: 02 May 2019 09:26 PM PDT  Leaving the case of the killing of Kim Jong Un's half-brother unresolved
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| The Latest: 16 NTSB officials arrive for plane probe Posted: 04 May 2019 08:31 AM PDT  JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — The Latest on on charter plane traveling from Cuba to north Florida that ended up in a river at ends of runaway (all times local):
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| U.N. urges Venezuela to clarify fate of detained opposition lawmaker Posted: 03 May 2019 02:35 AM PDT  The U.N. human rights office called on Venezuela's government of Nicolas Maduro on Friday to disclose the whereabouts of opposition lawmaker Gilber Caro, who was arrested last week. Venezuela's opposition-run National Assembly said a week ago that Caro had been detained, calling the move a violation of his parliamentary immunity.
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| Measles-plagued Scientology ship leaves St Lucia Posted: 03 May 2019 08:54 AM PDT  A cruise ship owned by the Church of Scientology that was quarantined in St Lucia for two days because of a measles case has left the Caribbean island and was headed toward Curacao on Friday, maritime tracking services said. The Freewinds left the port capital Castries on Thursday at 11:15pm (0315 GMT Friday) and was cruising toward Willemstad in Curacao, a distance it previously covered in two days, according to myshiptracking.com and cruisin.me. A spokeswoman for St Lucia's health ministry confirmed that the ship had left the island.
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| EU's Tusk warns of risks in rise of U.S. tech giants Posted: 03 May 2019 09:07 AM PDT  The world needs to be wary of the rise of tech giants such as Google, Apple, Facebook and Amazon, comparing their powers to those of countries such as China, European Council President Donald Tusk said in Warsaw on Friday. "In the East, we see the rise of those capable of controlling everyone's behavior, and in the West we've seen the rise of an uncontrolled, spontaneous empire," Tusk said in Warsaw in reference to the companies during a speech marking Constitution Day. The European Union has been in the forefront of efforts to tighten control on how social media companies handle the personal data of consumers, with rules introduced last May giving regulators the power to impose fines of up to 4 percent of global revenue for violations.
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| White House Blasts Mueller Report to Barr: It’s Just a ‘Law School Exam Paper’ Posted: 02 May 2019 12:04 PM PDT  REUTERSIn a letter to Attorney General William Barr, White House Counsel Emmet Flood blasted Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report about his probe into Russian collusion and potential obstruction of justice committed by President Donald Trump—calling it "part 'truth commission' report and part law school exam paper."Flood claimed the report "suffers from an extraordinary legal defect," failing to "comply with the requirements of governing law." The White House lawyer took issue with Mueller's conclusion that the evidence his team gathered did not "exonerate" the president."Prosecutors simply are not in the business of establishing innocence, any more than they are in the business of 'exonerating' investigated persons," he wrote. "Because they do not belong to our criminal justice vocabulary, the SCO's inverted-proof-standard and 'exoneration' statement can be understood only as political statements."By making political statements, Flood said Mueller and his team "failed in their duty to act as prosecutors and only as prosecutors." He accused the special counsel's team of not acting independently and insisted the report was "laden with factual information that has never been subjected to adversarial testing or independent analysis."Flood also addressed speculation that the report was intended to be a "road map" for Congress to start impeachment hearings. If that was true, he wrote to Barr that it was further evidence of Mueller's "refusal to follow applicable law."Mueller did not find that Trump or anyone on his campaign colluded with Russians to interfere in the 2016 election, though the report did state that Russians were successful in interfering in a "sweeping and systematic fashion." However, the report asserted that Mueller's team was not able to "conclusively" determine whether or not Trump obstructed justice—adding that the evidence they gathered does "not conclude that the President committed a crime [but] does not exonerate him."Upon receiving the report from Mueller, Barr came to his own conclusions about the obstruction of justice issue alongside outgoing Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein—with both of them concluding that the 10 instances of potential obstruction outlined in the report were not enough to bring charges against the president.Barr's conclusions about the report were subject to intense scrutiny when he testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday, with Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) questioning whether or not Barr took a look at the underlying evidence of the report before making the charging decision. Other senators also took aim at Barr's decision to release his own "summaries" of the report rather than releasing Mueller's own executive summaries, calling his decision an attempt at spinning the report before its full release to the public.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here
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| 40 Foods Graduates Actually Want You To Serve At Their Graduation Party Posted: 03 May 2019 11:13 AM PDT |
| The U.S. Air Force Destroyed North Korea (And It Terrifies Kim Jong Un) Posted: 03 May 2019 07:30 PM PDT  Can the United States and North Korea arrive at a deal—any deal—on denuclearization, normalization of relations, or at the very least a nuclear freeze? Given the holding pattern in nuclear diplomacy since the second summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un in Hanoi, the prospects don't appear particularly bright.The hold-up in the talks, however, is not simply the product of personality clashes, maximalist negotiating positions, and incongruent objectives between Washington and Pyongyang. History also has a lot to do with it.While the Korean War may have ended in an armistice sixty-six years ago this July, memories from that extremely bloody conflict are never far from the minds of North Koreans. While the three-year-war for control of the Korean Peninsula doesn't get sufficient attention in the United States, it is literally the seminal moment in North Korea's young history as a state. It was a merciless campaign on all sides, with tens of thousands of Americans, hundreds of thousands of Chinese, and millions of Koreans killed in three short years of stalemated fighting. Americans have since regarded the war as a noble attempt to save South Korea from being usurped by communism. The Kim regime's interpretation, drilled into the minds of the North Korean population, is far more sinister: a violent, criminal attempt by an imperialist American aggressor that sought to turn the Korean Peninsula into a colony.
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| Workers allege racism at Harley-Davidson plant in Missouri Posted: 03 May 2019 02:55 PM PDT ![Workers allege racism at Harley-Davidson plant in Missouri]( "Workers allege racism at Harley-Davidson plant in Missouri") KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Minority employees at Harley-Davidson's plant in Kansas City have been subjected to years of harassment and discrimination — including having swastikas and nooses posted in the plant, frequent racial epithets and at least one assault, several employees said at a news conference organized by the NAACP-Kansas City on Friday.
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| Teslas for the robotaxi fleet: With every update, owners feel like they got a new car Posted: 03 May 2019 07:36 AM PDT  Over the years, Telsa has released useful updates like Autopilot, Dog Mode and Valet, along with fun features like Fart Mode and Romance Mode.
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| Voters Punish May and Corbyn Amid Brexit Chaos: U.K. Update Posted: 03 May 2019 09:30 AM PDT  Voters are turning their backs on both the main parties amid frustration over Brexit, according to results from local elections in England. Prime Minister Theresa May's ruling Conservatives are paying the heaviest price at the polls for overseeing the political chaos of the U.K.'s divorce from the European Union.
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| Apple Watch Series 4 has never been as cheap as it is in this surprise sale Posted: 03 May 2019 04:58 AM PDT  Yesterday evening, we told you about the first big Apple Watch Series 4 sale. It came as a complete surprise when Amazon slashed a number of different Apple Watch S4 models to their lowest prices ever, and readers rushed to the site to take advantage of these killer deals. Well, it hasn't even been 24 hours but we're telling you about it again. Why? Because the odds are fairly good that these deals will end at some point over the weekend, and we want to make sure that as many people as possibly have the opportunity to snag an Apple Watch Series 4 at all-time low prices.Amazon has slashed $50 off the wildly popular Apple Watch Series 4 in Space Gray Aluminum Case with a Black Sport Band in both 40mm and 44mm sizes, which drops the price to $349 and $379, respectively. The Space Gray model with a Black Sport Loop Band is also down to $349 for the 40mm model and $379 for the 44mm model. Finally, you can also save $50 on the Apple Watch Series 4 in Silver Aluminum Case with a Seashell Sport Loop Band. We have no idea when prices will be this low again, so hurry!Here's more info from the product page: * GPS * Over 30% larger display and 50% louder speaker * Electrical and optical heart sensors * Digital Crown with haptic feedback * 50% louder speaker * S4 SiP with faster 64-bit dual-core processor * Improved accelerometer and gyroscope for fall detection * Swim proof - Water resistant upto 50 meters * watch OS 5 * Aluminum case
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| North Korea fires 'projectiles', South Korea says stop raising tensions Posted: 04 May 2019 08:27 AM PDT  The South Korean military initially described it as a missile launch, but subsequently gave a more vague description. The latest firing came after the North's test of what it called a tactical guided weapons system in April. Analysts suspected the flurry of military activity by Pyongyang was an attempt to exert pressure on the United States to give ground in negotiations to end the North's nuclear program after a summit in February ended in failure.
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| Couple Says American Airlines Employee Called Police Officer `A Killer` Posted: 03 May 2019 11:01 AM PDT  American Airlines is in the spotlight because of an incident that was partly caught on video a couple of weeks ago. It happened when a New Jersey family's flight got redirected to Memphis International Airport.
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| Envoy says US ready for 'all sides' to lay down arms in Afghan war Posted: 04 May 2019 08:59 AM PDT  The US special envoy tasked with forging a peace deal with the Taliban said Saturday that America stands ready for "all sides" to lay down arms in the 17-year conflict. Peace envoy Zalmay Khalilzad is leading the latest round of talks with the Taliban in Doha, where the two foes are pursuing a deal that would see the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan in return for Taliban security guarantees. Khalilzad's comments come a day after Afghan President Ashraf Ghani said he was prepared to call an "immediate" and "permanent" ceasefire -- but the Taliban rebuffed the offer.
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| Homeland Security to use speedy DNA testing to verify migrant family relationships Posted: 03 May 2019 05:40 AM PDT  In an effort to combat alleged fraud being committed by Central American migrants, Homeland Security will use DNA testing to verify their claims.
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| ‘Those Are Things You Don’t Forget.’ How a Young Audrey Hepburn Helped the Dutch Resistance During World War II Posted: 03 May 2019 12:30 PM PDT  Audrey Hepburn — born May 4, 1929 — was just a teenager when she first became involved in Dutch resistance against the Nazis
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| Hardships from Hawaii volcano stretch on 1 year later Posted: 03 May 2019 03:33 PM PDT  PAHOA, Hawaii (AP) — A year after a volcano on Hawaii's Big Island rained lava and gases in one of its largest and most destructive eruptions in recorded history, people who lost their homes and farms in the disaster are still struggling to return to their cherished island lifestyle.
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| 2020 Toyota Prius Prime Gets Many Upgrades, Still Lags behind Its Competitors in EV Driving Range Posted: 03 May 2019 08:17 AM PDT  Toyota's uplevel Prius is a better car now, if not a better plug-in hybrid.
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| Caribbean nation of St. Lucia quarantines cruise ship over measles case Posted: 02 May 2019 12:42 PM PDT  Dr. Merlene Frederick-James said in a video statement posted to YouTube on Tuesday that the St. Lucia Ministry of Health ordered the restriction after conferring with the Pan American Health Organization and others about the risk of exposure to islanders. The ministry learned of the confirmed measles case from "two reputable sources," and in light of current measles outbreaks in the United States and the highly infectious nature of the disease "we thought it prudent that we quarantine the ship," Frederick-James said. NBC News, citing a St. Lucia Coast Guard sergeant, reported the boat in question is named Freewinds, which is the name of a 440-foot vessel owned and operated by the Church of Scientology.
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| The first big Apple Watch Series 4 sale is here with all-time low prices Posted: 02 May 2019 01:07 PM PDT  Ladies and gentlemen, this is not a drill. We repeat, this is not a drill. The Apple Watch Series 4 just got its first big price discount, and there are a bunch of different models included in the sale. The Apple Watch Series 4 in Space Gray Aluminum Case with a Black Sport Band is $50 off in both 40mm and 44mm sizes, which drops the price to $349 and $379, respectively. The 40mm and 44mm models with the Black Sport Loop Band are down to the same prices. Definitely click around to see all the different models that got discounts, but do it soon because this sale definitely won't last long.Here's more from the product description: * GPS * Over 30% larger display and 50% louder speaker * Electrical and optical heart sensors * Digital Crown with haptic feedback * 50% louder speaker * S4 SiP with faster 64-bit dual-core processor * Improved accelerometer and gyroscope for fall detection * Swim proof - Water resistant upto 50 meters * watch OS 5 * Aluminum case
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| Trump Says Putin Not ‘Involved’ in Venezuela, Despite U.S. Claim Posted: 03 May 2019 03:29 PM PDT  "He is not looking at all to get involved in Venezuela other than he'd like to see something positive happen for Venezuela," Trump told reporters at the White House on Friday, following a call with the Russian leader earlier in the day. "And I feel the same way.
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| Google spends hundreds of millions of dollars on content review: letter Posted: 02 May 2019 10:03 AM PDT  Alphabet Inc's Google unit told a U.S. House panel it spends hundreds of millions of dollars annually on content review and said it manually reviewed more than 1 million suspected "terrorist videos" on YouTube in the first three months of 2019. Google disclosed in a April 24 letter made public on Thursday that the manual review found 90,000 videos violated its terrorism policy. In March, following the live-streaming on social media of a mass shooting in New Zealand, the chair of the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security urged the top executives of Google, Facebook Inc, Twitter Inc and Microsoft Corp do a better job of removing violent political content.
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| Baltimore Mayor Pugh resigns amid children's book scandal Posted: 02 May 2019 12:45 PM PDT  Following an investigation stemming from a children's book scandal, Baltimore Mayor Catherine Pugh announced her resignation Thursday via a statement from her attorney.
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| Kips Bay Decorator Show House Opens with a Packed Viewing Party Posted: 02 May 2019 12:19 PM PDT |
| Guatemalan migrant, a 16-year-old boy, dies in government custody in Texas Posted: 03 May 2019 05:42 AM PDT  For the third time since December, a migrant child died in government custody, raising questions about the treatment of minors along the border.
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| A foolproof way to make chicken drumsticks ultra-tender Posted: 03 May 2019 07:01 AM PDT  With their built-in handles and small size, economical chicken drumsticks are tailor-made for a cookout. So we decided to devise a foolproof way to roast them on the grill to ultra-tender perfection with nicely browned skin and wonderfully juicy meat.
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| The BMW 8-Series Gran Coupe Is Almost Here, Will Debut In June Posted: 03 May 2019 02:06 PM PDT  The 8GC will debut in June and sit atop a growing lineup of stylish four-door coupes.
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| Verizon’s new BOGO deal covers iPhones, Pixels, and Samsung phones Posted: 03 May 2019 02:56 PM PDT  Verizon is back at it with another of its BOGO (buy one get one) devices offers, this time coinciding with Mother's Day which is right around the corner.The limited-time deals are live now, and they include the usual pretty solid offers on some of the hottest smartphones by making them available for free or at a discount when you purchase another phone at full-price. The BOGO this time includes the opportunity to score $1,100 in bill credits when you buy two new Pixel 3s and you also add a new unlimited line. You'll save $300, no trade-in required, when you buy a new Pixel 3, then you'll get another $800 via bill credits when you buy another either Pixel 3 or 3XL, along with the unlimited line.As we always note with these BOGOs from Verizon, there are important caveats. For this particularly offer, both of the new Pixels would need to be paid for on a monthly installment plan. Within two months, the $1,100 would then begin to be applied to your bill, spread over 24 months.It's definitely a good deal if you're already a Verizon customer and thinking about a new line and device. The same goes for anyone thinking about becoming a Verizon customer. The full rundown of deals and the relevant details can be found on Verizon's site here, and among the other offers as part of this BOGO, you can: * Buy one Samsung Galaxy S10+ and get $750 off a Galaxy 10, 10+, 10e or Note 9. * Buy one Samsung Galaxy S10 5G and get $750 off a Galaxy 10, 10+, 10e or Note 9. * Finally, if you buy an iPhone XR, iPhone XS MAX, iPhone XS, or iPhone X you can get a free iPhone XR (or take $750 off a second iPhone X model).Verizon hasn't specified an end-date for this particular BOGO, but since it's tied to Mother's Day you've got at least all of next week, through Sunday May 12, to take advantage of it.
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| Trump says still confident in Kim after N.Korea test launch Posted: 04 May 2019 09:08 AM PDT  US President Donald Trump voiced confidence Saturday that Kim Jong Un would not "break his promise," following what if confirmed would be North Korea's first short-range missile launch for more than a year. "Anything in this very interesting world is possible," Trump tweeted, after Seoul said Pyongyang had launched several unidentified projectiles into the sea. "But I believe that Kim Jong Un fully realizes the great economic potential of North Korea, & will do nothing to interfere or end it," he added.
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| Backstory: Finding some solace amid the bloodshed in Christchurch and Colombo Posted: 03 May 2019 05:04 AM PDT  The gunman in Christchurch had names written down the side of his rifle evoking past crusades by Christians against Muslims. As I crisscrossed Sri Lanka in the back of a sport utility vehicle last week, though, I wondered about investing too much in the similarities, of seeing them as a part of an inevitable string of modern terror. In Christchurch, I wrote about Ibrahim Abdelhalim.
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| Tow truck driver charged after grandfather killed during repo operation in SW Houston Posted: 03 May 2019 08:42 AM PDT  Police say a wrecker driver was repossessing the SUV when the owner jumped on top in an effort to stop him.
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