| Kris Kobach Denies Telling Trump To Amend Key Voter Protection Posted: 26 Oct 2017 03:20 PM PDT  Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R), the official leading President Donald Trump's voter fraud probe, insisted he never discussed imposing a proof of citizenship requirement on voters during a November 2016 meeting with the president despite bringing a document containing plans to do so.
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| Tanya Thicke reveals late husband Alan Thicke's final words to her and the moment she 'knew something was really, really wrong' Posted: 26 Oct 2017 02:37 PM PDT  Tanya Thicke is opening up about her late husband, Alan Thicke's, last day alive.
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| Mika Brzezinski responds to ‘disturbing’ Halperin harassment allegations Posted: 27 Oct 2017 05:23 AM PDT  After making a short statement on Thursday morning that left some dissatisfied, the "Morning Joe" co-host spoke at greater length Friday morning about allegations of sexual harassment against journalist Mark Halperin, who has frequently appeared on her show.
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| Las Vegas Shooting Victims Are Turning To GoFundMe For Help With Medical Bills Posted: 27 Oct 2017 04:00 PM PDT  In a nation politically incapable of preventing mass shootings, and where the right to quality affordable health care is not guaranteed, online fundraising sites are filling the gap to help pay for very expensive U.S. medical bills, like in the case of many survivors of the Las Vegas massacre.
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| George W. Bush knew he'd be missed someday. Now he is, even by Democrats. Posted: 26 Oct 2017 12:33 PM PDT  Widely praised for a recent speech and with new polling showing a spike in approval even among Democrats, former President George W. Bush continues to benefit from comparisons to a certain other Republican president.
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| American who 'regretted' joining IS gets 20 year sentence Posted: 27 Oct 2017 01:52 PM PDT  A 27-year-old American who joined the Islamic State group in Syria and later claimed he escaped and fled into the hands of Kurdish troops after a "bad decision" was sentenced to 20 years in prison Friday. Mohamad Jamal Khweis left his job driving a bus for disabled people in northern Virginia in December 2015 to travel to IS's stronghold of Raqa. "The evidence at trial demonstrated that Mohamad Khweis is an unpredictable and dangerous person who was radicalized towards violent jihad," said Dana Boente, the US attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.
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| "I Have Been Silenced For 20 Years" Rose McGowan Speaks Out Posted: 27 Oct 2017 10:16 AM PDT  Actor Rose McGowan — speaking out publicly on Friday for the first time since accusing producer Harvey Weinstein of rape — called on women to fight back against a culture of sexual harassment.
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| Two Women Rescued After Being Stranded At Sea For 5 Months Posted: 27 Oct 2017 10:28 AM PDT  Two mariners who attempted to sail from Honolulu to Tahiti have been rescued after being stranded in their boat for five months.
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| Russia test fired massive nuclear-capable ballistic missile called Satan 2, among three others Posted: 27 Oct 2017 11:04 AM PDT  Russia just carried out a test launch of its Satan 2 nuclear missile on Thursday, which is reportedly capable of wiping out an entire country with a single strike.
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| A Fire Has Been Burning For Days At A West Virginia Plastics Warehouse Posted: 26 Oct 2017 07:19 PM PDT  WASHINGTON — A fire continued to smolder at a plastics warehouse in Parkersburg, West Virginia, on Thursday evening, nearly six days after it erupted.
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| Walmart unveils Sam's Choice Itaila -- a new food line straight from Italy Posted: 27 Oct 2017 12:38 PM PDT  Walmart is going Italian! The retail giant has teamed up with the Italian Trade Agency to create a line of authentic Italian cuisine for customers across America. Other items from the line also available in Walmart's 3,600 stores include boxed dinners, bagged pastas, pesto and pasta sauces and frozen pizzas.
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| White House: All The Women Who Say Trump Sexually Harassed Them Are Liars Posted: 27 Oct 2017 01:16 PM PDT  The White House on Friday confirmed its official stance on the women accusing President Donald Trump of sexual misconduct: They are lying.
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| Rex Tillerson looked at a statue and can't anymore as secretary of state Posted: 26 Oct 2017 02:47 PM PDT  It's not easy being President Donald Trump's secretary of state. Rex Tillerson let it slip how burnt out he is while walking through a park in Geneva, Switzerland on Thursday. SEE ALSO: Trump allegedly asked for 10 times more nukes before Tillerson called him a 'moron' As he passed a statue in the Parc Mon Repos of a person curled up into themselves with their arms wrapped around their body, Tillerson said, "Yea, some days I feel like I need to do that, curl up in a ball." Secretary of State Rex Tillerson admires an art display in Switzerland: "Some days I feel like I need to do that, curl up in a ball." pic.twitter.com/MJ331iv12M — NBC News (@NBCNews) October 26, 2017 Tillerson has been on busy trip meeting with leaders from Saudi Arabia, India, Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. In Switzerland, he discussed Syria and the U.S. role in the war-torn country's government. It's a lot to take on world leadership and politics in the Middle East — Tillerson is tired. It doesn't help when your relationship with the president is fraught and on thin ice, mostly because you think the president is a moron. Curling up in a ball sounds so much better than dealing with all this. WATCH: Someone created a storm lamp that produces lightning every time Trump tweets
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| New York police officers 'charged with raping handcuffed teenager in their van' Posted: 28 Oct 2017 03:47 AM PDT  Two New York police officers have been charged with allegedly raping a handcuffed teenage girl in their van. Officers Eddie Martins and Richard Halls are accused of having sex with the 18-year-old after arresting her in south Brooklyn. Both men have been indicted on first-degree rape charges after a week-long hearing which culminated with a grand jury vote on Friday, The New York Post reported.
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| China's neo-Maoists welcome Xi's new era, but say he is not the new Mao Posted: 27 Oct 2017 05:14 PM PDT  By Christian Shepherd BEIJING (Reuters) - A fringe group of hard-line conservatives who long for the way things were under communist China's founding leader, Mao Zedong, have welcomed President Xi Jinping's "new era" of socialism and its renewed emphasis on equality. At the ruling Communist Party's leadership conclave that wrapped up this week, Xi laid out a confident vision for a proud and prosperous China, with the party firmly in control, and cemented his authority as the country's most powerful leader since Mao took power in 1949 and declared the founding of modern China. Delegates praised Xi using Mao-era honorifics, and he became the first serving Chinese leader since Mao to have a named ideology written into the party charter, signaling that it will be in effect beyond his second five-year term, which began this week.
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| Elaborate funeral for Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej Posted: 27 Oct 2017 10:53 AM PDT ![Elaborate funeral for Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej]( "Elaborate funeral for Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej") The cremated remains of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej were transferred Friday to spiritually significant locations for Buddhist rites that will prepare them to be enshrined on the final day of an elaborate funeral that has transfixed the nation.
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| Virginia's GOP Governor Hopeful Takes Aim At Voting Rights Again Posted: 27 Oct 2017 02:45 PM PDT  Ed Gillespie, the Republican gubernatorial candidate in Virginia, launched another highly misleading ad on Friday targeting the practice of restoring voting rights to former felons who have completed their sentences.
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| Women On Twitter Are Sharing What Happens When They Ask Crushes Out On A Date Posted: 27 Oct 2017 01:12 PM PDT  Modern dating is nothing like it used to be, but there's one tradition we can't seem to shake: the expectation that men should be the ones to ask women out.
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| This Is How Much Trump's Obamacare Sabotage Increased Health Insurance Costs Posted: 27 Oct 2017 12:00 AM PDT  President Donald Trump's decision to cut off billions of dollars owed to health insurance providers under the Affordable Care Act caused those companies to substantially increase premiums to cover their losses, according to an analysis published Friday.
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| How the World Is Marking the 500th Birthday of Protestantism Posted: 27 Oct 2017 06:00 AM PDT  Many will mark the 500th anniversary of Oct. 31, 1517, when Martin Luther started a revolution by posting his complaints about the Church
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| Trump declares 'public health emergency' over opioid crisis: 'We can be the generation that ends the epidemic' Posted: 26 Oct 2017 01:05 PM PDT  Responding to a calamitous rise in the number of opioid overdoses and deaths, the president took action today. In declaring a public health emergency, Trump stopped short of the strongest possible response, but the action will bring many federal resources to bear on the crisis.
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| The Latest: Soldier head wound described at Bergdahl hearing Posted: 26 Oct 2017 10:07 AM PDT  FORT BRAGG, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing hearing for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl (all times local):
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| Tiny Furniture Collection Was Designed Just For Cats Posted: 27 Oct 2017 01:29 PM PDT  Tiny Furniture Collection Was Designed Just For Cats
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| Caitlyn Jenner shares first-ever swimsuit video: 'Walking on the beach being my authentic self' Posted: 27 Oct 2017 12:38 PM PDT  Caitlyn Jenner finally achieved one of her own on Friday as she hit the beach in a floppy hat and halter one-piece swimsuit -- the first time post-transition that she's publicly worn such an item for the world to see.
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| Amazon Stock Surge Makes Jeff Bezos Richest Man On Earth Posted: 27 Oct 2017 09:09 PM PDT  Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos is now the richest person on the planet after a bounce in company stock value floated his net worth to a massive $93.8 billion by the end of business on Friday.
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| The 20 Funniest Tweets From Women This Week Posted: 27 Oct 2017 09:36 AM PDT  The ladies of Twitter never fail to brighten our days with their brilliant ― but succinct ― wisdom.
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| Tillerson: No future for Assad in Syria Posted: 26 Oct 2017 11:23 AM PDT  US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson declared Thursday that Bashar al-Assad has no future as leader of Syria and will have to leave office as part of a UN-mediated peace process. Tillerson's comments to reporters came during a visit to Geneva in which he met UN envoy Staffan de Mistura, who is trying to convene a new round of peace talks next month. The secretary said US policy has not changed, but his remarks represented tougher language from an administration that had previously said Assad's fate is not a priority.
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| 14 Reasons People Fall In Love With Their Partners Again And Again Posted: 27 Oct 2017 12:13 PM PDT  Keeping the spark alive in a romantic relationship isn't easy, especially after the honeymoon phase has come and gone.
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| Woman Who Disappeared 42 Years Ago Found Living With Dementia in Nursing Home Posted: 27 Oct 2017 12:57 PM PDT  Florence "Flora" Stevens vanished more than 40 years ago in upstate New York. She has been found living in an assisted-living facility in Massachusetts, authorities said.
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| Denied Again: Kirkuk and the Dream of an Independent Kurdistan Posted: 26 Oct 2017 04:43 PM PDT  In a closed-door meeting at a Washington think tank in July, I had the opportunity to ask a high-ranking Iraqi Kurdish official whether he worried that Kurds might be overplaying their hands in Iraq and Syria. My interlocutor, whose name frequently came up in recent discussions on the KRG's independence and Kirkuk, politely dismissed my points and assured me that my worries were unfounded—especially in Iraq.
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| Ted Cruz Hopes Release Of JFK Files Will End 'Ludicrous' Claim His Dad Was Involved Posted: 26 Oct 2017 10:27 AM PDT  One person with a keen interest in the JFK assassination files President Donald Trump is releasing on Thursday is Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas).
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| Second U.S. military team was in vicinity of Niger ambush: Pentagon Posted: 26 Oct 2017 02:11 PM PDT  The Pentagon said on Thursday there was a second U.S. military team in the vicinity of an ambush in Niger earlier this month that killed four U.S. soldiers. The ambush, which U.S. officials believe was carried out by a local Islamic State affiliate, has thrown a spotlight on the U.S. counterterrorism mission in the West African country. "There are other teams that operate in Niger, there was one that had something to do with this operation," said Lieutenant General Kenneth McKenzie, joint staff director.
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| New questions and searches greet travelers flying to the US Posted: 27 Oct 2017 07:01 AM PDT  CHICAGO (AP) — Some were asked their hobbies and packing habits. Others were queried about what they do for a living. There were lines for security interviews and searches of carry-on bags.
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| Barack Obama has reportedly been called for jury duty Posted: 28 Oct 2017 07:10 AM PDT  In his farewell address this January, President Obama said that the "most important office in a democracy" was that of the citizen. We wonder if he'll still be saying that after jury duty. SEE ALSO: Barack Obama's letters to a college girlfriend are finally seeing the light of day The former president has reportedly been called for jury duty in Chicago's Cook County, where he is registered to vote. It's unclear whether he'll be considered for criminal or civil proceedings — that will be determined once he appears in court next month. Even still, chances are high that, ultimately, he won't be selected to serve. But if he does, he'll make $17.20 per day for his services — just like all Cook County jurors. He'll also watch this truly wonderful juror's training video, which features Lester Holt with a mustache. Per the Washington Post, Obama has been called for jury duty once before. He received a summons in 2010, but was unable to appear in court thanks to a pretty good excuse: he had to deliver the State of the Union address. WATCH: Obama beat Richard Branson in a kitesurfing face-off
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| So That's Why Some People Are Night Owls And Others Are Up At The Crack Of Dawn Posted: 27 Oct 2017 10:08 AM PDT  Sleep experts say adults should be getting a seven-to-nine hour block of sleep each night.
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| Police Officer Who Killed Terence Crutcher Has Manslaughter Charge Expunged From Record Posted: 27 Oct 2017 12:44 PM PDT  The former Tulsa police officer who fatally shot 40-year-old Terence Crutcher last year and was acquitted of manslaughter this spring will no longer have the charge on her record.
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| US draws up list of Russian firms under sanctions law Posted: 26 Oct 2017 05:30 PM PDT  The US State Department on Thursday submitted to lawmakers a list of Russian companies with ties to the military and intelligence services that could face sanctions. A spokeswoman said the list would be made public in the coming days to allow American firms and individuals time to put an end to any business they are doing with the firms. In July, angered by Russia's intervention in Ukraine and its alleged interference in the US presidential election, Congress passed a law to impose new sanctions on Moscow.
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| Caregiver of Indian girl found dead in Texas wants answers Posted: 27 Oct 2017 08:06 AM PDT  NEW DELHI (AP) — A toddler whose body was recently found in a drain in suburban Dallas was cheerful, healthy and eating well a year ago when she met her new parents, according to the manager of the Indian orphanage from where Sherin Mathews was adopted.
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| Islamic State guerrilla attacks point to its future strategy Posted: 27 Oct 2017 06:33 AM PDT  By Angus McDowall and Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) - Syrian and Iraqi forces closing in on the last scraps of Islamic State's caliphate straddling the remote border area between the two countries have already witnessed the jihadists' likely response. While their comrades mounted last stands in their Syrian capital of Raqqa and the city of Hawija in Iraq, IS militants seized the Syrian town of al-Qaryatayn and launched its biggest attack for months in Ramadi late last month. In Iraq, where Islamic State originated, it has a proven record of falling back upon local networks from which it can rise anew when conditions allow.
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| Bill O'Reilly Allegedly Called Woman He Was Harassing To Get Dirt On Another Victim Posted: 26 Oct 2017 03:17 PM PDT  Bill O'Reilly tried to persuade a Fox News colleague to tattle on a woman who had accused him of sexual harassment, according to an ex-boyfriend of the woman who took the call.
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| Man Locked In Beer Cooler for 6 Hours Helps Himself to Drinks Despite Court Order to Stay Sober: Cops Posted: 27 Oct 2017 08:01 AM PDT  Jeremy Van Ert, 38, allegedly had 18 ounces of beer and several cans of Four Loko.
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| Former Russian 'troll farm' employee says Hillary Clinton body double was hired to make sex tape Posted: 27 Oct 2017 09:31 AM PDT  The company, according to the first former employee to go on record Alan Baskaev, ran popular Twitter accounts that would promote then-candidate Donald Trump's campaign officials and surrogates. The Internet Research Agency also ran websites in favour of Mr Trump during the election, the Daily Beast reported. Mr Baskaev, now a teacher in Thailand, appeared in an on-camera interview with independent Russian television station TV Rain.
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| Little boy asks everyone to help him find a forever home for his four-legged friend Posted: 27 Oct 2017 09:50 AM PDT  This determined little boy just sent out an urgent PSA on behalf of a beloved four-legged friend. Six-year-old Roman is calling on his followers to rescue Legend, a deaf and lovable Labrador retriever currently at Skagit Valley Humane Society in Burlington, Washington. The adorable video has more than 18,000 views, and counting. SEE ALSO: Rescue dog uses his smile to help find a forever home Roman's passion for rescuing canines began when he was just 4-years-old, according to mom, Jennifer McConn. "He opted to forego receiving presents on his fourth birthday and instead asked for donations so he could give those to a local rescue in Texas," McConn told Mashable. "It's kind of taken off since then." McConn said Roman typically enjoys interacting with dogs. He and his mom often make videos to spread the word about pups in need. Now, for his latest mission, Roman is determined to find a home for Legend. Roman and LegendImage: jennifer mcconn Image: jennifer mcconn Image: jennifer mcconnLegend is just one of many dogs McConn and Roman have helped. In fact, McConn runs her own animal rescue organizations, PAWS & Read and Project Freedom Ride, dedicated to caring for, sheltering, and rescuing dogs from kill shelters in Texas. "We transport dogs up to rescues and humane societies such as Skagit Valley Humane Society or to our direct adopters," said McConn. "Typically dogs that are in the humane society are our first priority to visit but there is always one or two non-Project Freedom Ride dogs that pull on our heart strings, like Legend." Image: jennifer mcconn Image: jennifer mcconnRoman is a true example that you can be a hero at any age. WATCH: Calm your dogs down with this fabulous doggy leotard
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