| McCain’s ‘no’ vote on GOP health bill elicits gasps in Senate chamber Posted: 28 Jul 2017 06:22 AM PDT  Sen. John McCain lived up to his nickname, "maverick," in voting against his fellow Republicans on the "skinny" amendment to repeal and replace Obamacare.
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| Video Shows Actions and Inactions of Border Officers Resulted in Tragic 2013 Incident Posted: 27 Jul 2017 09:00 PM PDT  Investigation finds hundreds of other allegations of misconduct and threats where border officers and agents are rarely prosecuted or even punished.
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| Indianapolis Police Officer Fatally Shot While Responding to a Car Crash Posted: 27 Jul 2017 07:53 PM PDT  Lt. Aaron Allen of the Southport Police Department was responding to a call about a crash with people trapped inside a vehicle
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| Shark Attacks Female Tourist While Snorkeling In Bahamas Posted: 28 Jul 2017 02:00 AM PDT  Bahamas have witnessed relatively few unprovoked shark attacks in the area.
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| FBI: Woman Killed on Cruise Ship in Fatal Domestic Dispute During Murder Mystery Dinner Posted: 27 Jul 2017 02:06 PM PDT  The woman's husband was taken into custody following her horrific murder inside a cabin.
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| Bollinger B1: the coolest electric car you’ve never heard of Posted: 28 Jul 2017 01:30 AM PDT  Not every electric car needs to be a high-tech speed machine capable of sorting your email, giving you a back rub and making you an espresso, all while hustling down the highway on its own. An electric car can also be a low-maintenance, utilitarian workhorse that would be right at home for example on a farm or work site. Thankfully there is such a vehicle, or there will be soon: the B1 from electric car startup Bollinger Motors.
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| Meet "The Mooch": Who Is Anthony Scaramucci? Posted: 28 Jul 2017 05:47 AM PDT  Donald Trump named Anthony Scaramucci his new White House communications director, despite his lack of communications experience.
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| Jordan's king demands Israel put guard on trial for killing Jordanians Posted: 27 Jul 2017 03:31 PM PDT  By Suleiman Al-Khalidi AMMAN (Reuters) - Jordan's King Abdullah angrily demanded on Thursday that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu put on trial an embassy security guard who shot dead two Jordanians, and said relations between the neighbouring states were at risk. Netanyahu gave the guard a hero's embrace after Israel brought him home under diplomatic immunity, behaviour that the king said was "provocative on all fronts and enrages us, destabilises security and fuels extremism".
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| Reporter who broke rules to stream White House press briefing drew on experiences growing up under dictatorship Posted: 27 Jul 2017 10:57 AM PDT  A Washington reporter who briefly became a celebrity when she defied Donald Trump by live streaming a media briefing, said she was inspired to act after seeing colleagues die fighting for press freedom while growing up in a dictatorship. Ksenija Pavlovic, a journalist and academic who founded her own website, made headlines when she used the Periscope app to stream audio of a briefing by Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Ms Pavlovic, the editor-in-chief and White House correspondent of The Pavlovic Today, said she was inspired to act as a result of her experiences in the former Yugoslavia, a dictatorship which broke up in the early 1990s.
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| Firefighters rescue Ohio woman entangled by boa constrictor Posted: 28 Jul 2017 08:09 AM PDT ![Firefighters rescue Ohio woman entangled by boa constrictor]( "Firefighters rescue Ohio woman entangled by boa constrictor") SHEFFIELD LAKE, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio woman called 911 in a panic Thursday afternoon with ample reason: A 5 1/2-foot long boa constrictor she had rescued a day earlier had wrapped itself around her neck, was biting her face and wouldn't let go.
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| Hamburg attack was by 'failed asylum seeker' who shouted 'Allahu Akbar' Posted: 28 Jul 2017 02:24 PM PDT  A man shouting "Allahu Akbar" stabbed to death one person and wounded six others in a supermarket in the German city of Hamburg on Friday. The attacker, who was born in the United Arab Emirates, was overpowered by passers-by and arrested. Olaf Scholz, the mayor of Hamburg, said the attack had been motivated by "hate" and added that the suspected attacker was a failed asylum seeker whose deportation had been blocked because he lacked identity papers. Map: Hamburg supermarket attack "I am outraged by the vicious attack that killed at least one Hamburger today," he said. "It makes me especially angry that the perpetrator appears to be a person who claimed protection in Germany and then turned his hate against us." Citing security sources, Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel reported that the 26-year-old perpetrator was known to police as an Islamist. News agency DPA reported that security authorities were investigating evidence the man had Salafist ties. The attacker stabbed to death a 50-year-old man believed to be a German citizen Police said that he "struck out wildly" at others, wounding five more in the supermarket - a 50-year-old woman and four men aged 19, 56, 57 and 64. Another 35-year-old man was hurt while overpowering the attacker in the street alongside other passers-by shortly after the killing. All of the wounded were being treated or operated on in hospital, some of them for serious injuries, police said. Police officers secure the area after a knife attack at a supermarket in Hamburg Credit: Paul Weidenbaum/AP A police murder unit and a specialist politically-motivated crime squad are investigating the attack and were able to secure the suspected murder weapon. German daily Bild published a picture of the attacker in the back of a police car with a white, blood-soaked bag over his head, and reported that he cried "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest) during the attack. "Suddenly I saw a man smeared with blood running along the other side of the road with a knife," an eyewitness identified as Ralf W. told Bild. "He shouted out 'Allahu Akbar' as he was running." A female witness standing in line at the supermarket till also told NTV rolling news channel that "as he was running out... he held up his arms and shouted 'Allahu Akbar'." "I thought I was in a horror movie, I thought he would kill me," an unnamed woman who had been in the supermarket told rolling news channel NTV. She said she feared she would die, as she was "queueing for the till and couldn't get away". Police investigators work at the crime scene after a knife attack in a supermarket in Hamburg Credit: Morris Mac Matzen/Reuters The suspect fled the supermarket after the attack. But "people were running after him with improvised weapons, chairs and sticks... they ran after him into a side street," Ralf W. told Bild. "People chased after the killer with chairs, they were throwing them at him," bakery worker Shaylin Roettmer told DPA. The witnesses slightly injured the attacker while they were overpowering him, before handing him over to police. Police cars outside the supermarket in Hamburg Credit: @MarcoZitzow Police blocked off the lively and diverse high street dotted with cafes and shops in the northeast of the port city, Germany's second largest and host of the G20 summit of world leaders in early July. Anti-terror officers armed with automatic weapons patrolled the scene and onlookers gathered behind strips of red-and-white police tape. While the attacker's motives remain unknown, Germany has been on high alert about the threat of a jihadist attack, especially since last December's truck rampage through a Berlin Christmas market that killed 12 people. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the carnage in which a Tunisian rejected asylum seeker and ex-convict, Anis Amri, 24, ploughed the stolen truck through a crowd.
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| Bull Kills Itself After Its Horns Are Set On Fire With Torches Posted: 27 Jul 2017 01:44 PM PDT  A fighting bull killed itself during a festival after event organizers purposefully set its horns set on fire with torches.
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| Trump, vowing gang crackdown, urges cops ‘don’t be too nice’ Posted: 28 Jul 2017 12:36 PM PDT  In a speech about the violent MS-13 gang, President Trump encouraged police officers not to be "too nice" with "thugs" when putting them in the back of police vans.
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| Japan joins U.S. in imposing new sanctions on North Korea Posted: 28 Jul 2017 02:10 AM PDT  By Elaine Lies TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will freeze the assets of five organizations and nine individuals linked to North Korea, including two Chinese entities, Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida said on Friday, outlining new sanctions against the isolated state. Japan's announcement came just hours after the U.S. Senate also voted for new sanctions on North Korea, which followed U.S. media reports this week that intelligence officials had assessed that Pyongyang would be able to field a nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) by next year, earlier than previously thought.
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| Anthony Scaramucci gives a profanity-laced interview trashing Priebus and Bannon Posted: 27 Jul 2017 03:52 PM PDT  White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci called New Yorker reporter Ryan Lizza to pursue the source of a leak in a conversation that quickly devolved into a vulgar tirade against his colleagues.
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| Authorities: Prisoner kills assistant warden's stepdaughter Posted: 28 Jul 2017 01:41 PM PDT ![Authorities: Prisoner kills assistant warden's stepdaughter]( "Authorities: Prisoner kills assistant warden's stepdaughter") BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A prisoner abducted and killed an assistant warden's teenage stepdaughter after he escaped from a Louisiana prison, authorities said Friday. The inmate was later found dead after a standoff with police.
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| Records: Child's body decomposing on arrival at hospital Posted: 27 Jul 2017 10:08 AM PDT  WYOMING, Mich. (AP) — The body of a 6-month-old western Michigan boy had already started to decompose by the time his mother took him to a hospital after she had basically ignored him for two days in her sweltering home with no air conditioning, according to court records.
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| GOP Deploys Trump Russia Counter Narrative Posted: 27 Jul 2017 11:00 AM PDT  Rachel Maddow reports on the latest embarrassing spectacle from the Donald Trump administration and points out the facets of a solidifying Republican counter narrative that aims to discredit the FBI and the Trump Russia investigation.
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| Kremlin orders US to cut 'hundreds' of Russia staff and seizes two properties in retaliation over sanctions Posted: 28 Jul 2017 09:48 AM PDT  Russia has ordered the expulsion of hundreds of US diplomats and the seizure of two embassy compounds in retaliation for new sanctions approved by the Senate earlier this week. Diplomatic corps in Moscow, St Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok must downsize to 455 staff members – the same number at the Russian embassy in the US - by September 1, the Russian foreign ministry said. It was not immediately clear how many staff members would have to be expelled. Trump and Putin: a complicated love affair 01:18 According to a Reuters report citing an unnamed embassy official, there are currently 1,100 Americans and Russians on staff at the US embassy, while Russian state-run RIA Novosti news agency suggested there are 600-700 staff members. Neither the US embassy nor the Russian foreign ministry responded to requests for clarification. A general view of a building of the US embassy in Moscow, Russia Credit: EPA "We have received the Russian government notification. Ambassador [John] Tefft expressed his strong disappointment and protest. We have passed the notification back to Washington for review," US embassy spokesperson Maria Olson told The Telegraph. In an elaborate statement posted on her Facebook page, Russia's foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova called the US media "zombified" for not knowing how many people work in the US embassy in Russia. She added that the ministry was waiting for a response on how many diplomatic staff are based in Russia. Vladimir Putin, centre, chairs a meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, on Friday Credit: AP Russia also said it would seize a Moscow-based "dacha" compound and US diplomatic warehouse facilities from August 1 in the preemptive measures against the sanctions, which still have to be approved or vetoed by US president Donald Trump. "Despite constant attacks from Washington we have behaved responsibly and reservedly, having ignored obvious provocations thus far. But recent events mean that certain circles in the United States opted for Russophobia and open confrontation with our country," a statement from the foreign ministry read. Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump shake hands during their meeting on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Hamburg, Germany, July 7, 2017 Credit: SPUTNIK The Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed to the press on Friday that the move was authorised by Russian president Vladimir Putin, who said on Thursday that it was "impossible to tolerate constant boorishness" from the US in regards to the sanctions. Russian media outlets compared the move to the Obama administration's expulsion of 35 Russian diplomats in December 2016 and the seizure of two Russian diplomatic compounds in New York and Maryland, in response to suspected Russian meddling in the US election. Jared Kushner speaks out after Senate hearing on Russia 00:30 Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov proposed at the time to expel 35 US diplomats from Russia and seize some of the US embassy property in retaliation, but was overruled by Mr Putin who said he was unwilling to resort to "irresponsible diplomacy," and would wait to see what measure were taken by the new Trump administration. Reducing personnel of the US diplomatic corps in Russia will, without a doubt, complicate the relationship between the two countries, says Adam Smith, former director for multilateral affairs on the National Security Council and former senior advisor to the director of the US treasury department's office of foreign assets Control. "There are other economic tools," Mr Smith, who is now a partner at Gibsonn Dunn law firm, told The Telegraph. "There are companies that depend on Russian goods, and Russia is still a major energy producer. But in using economic tools, Russia risks potentially being collateral damage." The announced measures are "the least painful" for both sides, added Russian international affairs analyst Vladimir Frolov. "Expelling diplomats does not scar relations too deep and don't interfere with major interests. It is easy to back down on such measures," Mr Frolov told The Telegraph in written comments.
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| Britain plans to send warship to South China Sea in move likely to irk Beijing Posted: 28 Jul 2017 12:38 AM PDT  By Colin Packham SYDNEY (Reuters) - Britain plans to send a warship to the disputed South China Sea next year to conduct freedom of navigation exercises, Defence Minister Michael Fallon said on Thursday, a move likely to anger Beijing. Britain would increase its presence in the waters after it sent four British fighter planes for joint exercises with Japan in the region last year, he said. China claims most of the energy-rich sea where neighbors Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam also have claims.
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| No suspension for Michigan judge who locked up 3 siblings Posted: 28 Jul 2017 02:21 PM PDT ![No suspension for Michigan judge who locked up 3 siblings]( "No suspension for Michigan judge who locked up 3 siblings") DETROIT (AP) — A judge who sent three children to juvenile detention for failing to see their divorced father during a fierce dispute over parenting time won't be suspended from the bench, the Michigan Supreme Court ruled Friday.
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| Moon Found Orbiting Exoplanet For First Time Ever Posted: 28 Jul 2017 12:04 PM PDT  Scientists might have found the first exomoon — a moon orbiting a planet outside our solar system.
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| 2017 Lexus IS Posted: 28 Jul 2017 11:00 AM PDT  The little L goes a long way.
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| North Dakota woman who threatened Muslims hugs one of them Posted: 27 Jul 2017 04:37 PM PDT ![North Dakota woman who threatened Muslims hugs one of them]( "North Dakota woman who threatened Muslims hugs one of them") FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota woman who threatened some Muslim women in a Walmart parking lot met with two of them Thursday and all "expressed their sincere regrets" about the incident and apologized, Fargo's police chief said Thursday.
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| If Comcast buys Verizon, we should all give up and go home Posted: 27 Jul 2017 04:28 PM PDT 
The market for home internet in the US is already absurdly non-competitive. Barely 80 percent of Americans have a choice of providers for high-speed internet at home, a figure that means that you're likely living in a regional internet monopoly. But hey, maybe you should count yourself lucky. An industry analyst, Jason Bazinet from Citigroup, has penned an opinion saying that Comcast should pull a blockbuster deal and buy Verizon for around $215 billion.
A deal like that would probably make a huge amount of money for both companies. Comcast would finally have access to a wireless network (the nation's biggest, for that matter!), and it could fulfill the capitalist dream of tying customers into wireless, internet, and cable services. There are other economies of scale for a hypothetical Vericast: both Comcast and Verizon need to work out ways to build out high-speed gigabit connections to households in the next decade, and combining forces would make things much cheaper; Comcast recently bought spectrum licenses in the new 600MHz band, which Verizon could use to build out its network further; and possibly most tellingly, tax incentives and regulatory loosening by the Trump administration and the new-look FCC -- run by former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai! -- would make a mammoth merger possible. But just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. Vericast/Satan's ISP would be comfortably the largest ISP in the US, with the power and scale to take on smaller ISP monopolies like Spectrum or CenturyLink. Tiny local internet providers wouldn't stand a chance. In any normal world, a government would stand in the way of a total takeover of a precious national resource by the country's most-hated brand. But right now, it's possible -- and the potential profits has Wall Street visibly salivating.
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| Boy Scout chief apologizes for Trump’s speech Posted: 27 Jul 2017 12:59 PM PDT  Michael Surbaugh, the chief scout executive for the Boy Scouts, was forced to apologize Thursday for President Trump's address at the group's annual jamboree.
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| 'Reinforcements' caught sneaking into Philippine warzone Posted: 28 Jul 2017 04:08 AM PDT  Philippine troops have seized 59 suspected militants trying to reinforce Islamist gunmen holed up in the southern city of Marawai who have been battling government forces for more than two months, military officials said Friday. The capture of the "suspicious persons" in the troubled Mindanao region has raised questions about how the Islamic State-inspired fighters have been able to hold out in Marawi for almost 70 days. Thirty-two suspected militants were arrested at a military checkpoint in Ipil town while 27 others were taken at a house in Zamboanga City on Tuesday, regional military spokeswoman Captain Jo-Ann Petinglay said.
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| Amazon profit slumps 77 percent as costs surge, shares fall Posted: 27 Jul 2017 01:37 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc reported a 77 percent slump in quarterly profit as the company invests heavily in areas such as video content and in fast-growing economies such as India. The shares touched a record high of $1,083.31 in regular trading, helping Chief Executive Jeff Bezos unseat fellow tech billionaire Bill Gates to become the world's richest person, according to Forbes. Amazon said operating expenses rose 28.2 percent to $37.33 billion in the second quarter ended June 30.
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| Texas executes man who stabbed woman to death at her home Posted: 27 Jul 2017 07:48 PM PDT ![Texas executes man who stabbed woman to death at her home]( "Texas executes man who stabbed woman to death at her home") Texas executed on Thursday a man convicted of murdering a woman by stabbing her repeatedly after breaking into her San Antonio home in 2004. TaiChin Preyor, 46, died by lethal injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville, a prisons official said. The execution was delayed for more than three hours to allow the U.S. Supreme Court time to hear an appeal from Preyor's lawyer to spare his life, which the court rejected.
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| Other Affordable Electric Cars Besides Tesla's Model 3 Posted: 27 Jul 2017 01:50 PM PDT  Interested in getting an electric car? Here are other affordable vehicles besides Tesla's Model 3.
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| Ohio Star Fair reopening kiddie, other "low-impact" rides Posted: 28 Jul 2017 04:16 PM PDT  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Rides at the Ohio State Fair's Kiddieland and some elsewhere in the amusement park reopened Friday with the OK of inspectors two days after the governor shut them all down following a thrill ride malfunction that killed a teen who had recently enlisted in the Marines.
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| Parents of student sue University of Alabama over suicide Posted: 28 Jul 2017 08:22 AM PDT ![Parents of student sue University of Alabama over suicide]( "Parents of student sue University of Alabama over suicide") TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — A lawsuit filed by the parents of a Texas woman who killed herself after reporting she was sexually assaulted while attending the University of Alabama has been amended to include the school as a defendant.
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| Senate 'skinny repeal' of Obamacare falls apart on Senate floor after McCain defects Posted: 28 Jul 2017 07:42 AM PDT  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's bid to pass a stripped-down repeal of Obamacare on a party-line vote failed dramatically in the early hours of Friday when Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., joined two other Republican holdouts and all the Democrats to vote against the measure.
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| Donald Trump uses MS-13 gang violence in Long Island to push for deportations Posted: 28 Jul 2017 11:31 AM PDT  President Donald Trump travelled on Friday to Long Island, New York, where a community has been shocked by a recent spate of graphic gang murders. The president intends to highlight his efforts to stop illegal immigration and boost deportations. Trump's trip to Long Island gives the president an opportunity to showcase some progress on his agenda even as other legislative efforts flounder - and some respite from the chaos of a nasty power struggle among his senior staff that blew up on Thursday. On Friday, Trump will highlight his administration's push to deport members of the Mara Salvatrucha gang, better known as MS-13, the existence of which his White House blames on lax enforcement of illegal immigration from Central America. Departing for Long Island now. An area under siege from #MS13 gang members. We will not rest until #MS13 is eradicated. #LESMpic.twitter.com/GsgbBUXyHS— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2017 "It's going to be a very forceful message about just how menacing this threat is, and just how much pain is inflicted on American communities," a senior administration official told reporters ahead of the trip. Trump's visit comes as his Attorney General Jeff Sessions traveled to El Salvador to highlight progress on the gang crack-down. The gang took root in Los Angeles in the 1980s in neighbourhoods populated with immigrants from El Salvador who had fled civil war. The Justice Department has said MS-13 now has more than 10,000 members across the United States. On Long Island - not far from the New York City borough of Queens, where Trump grew up - MS-13 was behind the murders of two teenage girls in a suburban neighbourhood last September, and four young men in a park in April. There have been 17 murders on Long Island tied to the gang since January 2016, the Suffolk County Police Department has said. We will always ENFORCE our laws, PROTECT our borders, and SUPPORT our police! #LESM Harrisburg, Pennsylvania #FlashbackFriday#MS13pic.twitter.com/79Tskiv69j— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 28, 2017 Under Trump, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has targeted the gang, deporting more than 2,700 criminal gang members in fiscal 2017, up from 2,057 in the whole of the previous fiscal year, the White House has said. "We are throwing MS-13 the hell out of here so fast," Trump said earlier this week at a rally in Ohio. Trump made concerns about illegal immigration a centerpiece of his campaign. One of his first actions in office was to scrap Obama-era guidelines that prioritised convicted criminals for deportations. His administration is now taking a harder line on Central American youth who have crossed the border illegally without guardians - a group that law enforcement has said has been targeted for recruitment by MS-13. President Donald Trump waves before boarding Air Force One at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Friday, July 28, 2017, en route to Brentwood, N.Y. close to where the ultra-violent street gang MS-13 has committed a string of gruesome murders Credit: AP Immigration agents plan to target teenagers who are suspected gang members, even if they are not charged with any crime, according to a memo seen by Reuters. But civil rights groups say police and immigration agents have unfairly targeted some teenagers. "We received complaints in recent weeks from terrified parents on Long Island that teens have already been detained on the thinnest of rationales, such as wearing a basketball jersey," said Sebastian Krueger from the New York Civil Liberties Union. White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci arrives at Andrews Air Force Base, Md., Friday, July 28, 2017, to board Air Force One to travel with President Donald Trump to Brentwood, N.Y. close to where the ultra-violent street gang MS-13 has committed a string of gruesome murders Credit: AP There have been at least two lawsuits filed by people claiming they were mistakenly included in gang databases and then targeted for deportation, said Paromita Shah, from the National Immigration Project at the National Lawyers Guild.
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| Romania blocks Russia minister plane to Moldova Posted: 28 Jul 2017 09:45 AM PDT  Romania on Friday sparked fury in Moscow by blocking a Moldova-bound plane carrying a senior Russian minister entering its airspace because of an EU travel ban over the Ukraine crisis. The foreign ministry in Bucharest confirmed to AFP that the passenger jet carrying deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin was "not allowed to fly over Romanian airspace".
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| The Right Way to Clean a Toaster Oven Posted: 27 Jul 2017 01:00 PM PDT  Toaster ovens do far more than make toast. Most models on the market today can cook smaller amounts of almost anything you'd make in a regular oven—pizza, chicken, cookies. And just like cleaning...
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| Acura NSX GT3 to go on global sale soon Posted: 28 Jul 2017 02:13 AM PDT  Anyone who follows the motor industry will know how long and protracted the wait was for the new version of the legendary Honda NSX to finally go on sale under the Acura banner. It was in the pipeline for years before it eventually arrived after much delay, but it doesn't look as though it's going to be a similar story with the track version, the Acura NSX GT3. The GT3 is the racing version of the road-going NSX, and it was unveiled to the waiting world just over a year ago.
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