| Senate GOP Undeterred By New Allegations Against Brett Kavanaugh Posted: 26 Sep 2018 10:39 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Explosive new allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett
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| Woman lived with mother's decomposing body for months 'to see the stages of death' Posted: 27 Sep 2018 10:35 AM PDT  A North Carolina woman was arrested after police discovered she had been
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| Indonesia rocked by powerful magnitude 7.5 earthquake Posted: 28 Sep 2018 04:10 AM PDT  Indonesia was struck by a powerful 7.5 magnitude earthquake Friday, the US Geological Survey said, but there were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries. The country's national disaster agency briefly issued a tsunami warning before cancelling it. The strong quake hit central Sulawesi island at a shallow depth of some 10 kilometres (six miles), just hours after a smaller quake killed at least one person in the same part of the country. The latest quake was a higher magnitude than those that killed hundreds on the island of Lombok earlier this year. Friday's tremor was centred 78 kilometres north of the city of Palu, the capital of Central Sulawesi province, but was felt some 900 kilometres south in the island's largest city Makassar. Lisa Soba Palloan, a resident of Toraja, around 175 kilometres south of Palu, said locals felt several quakes Friday. Damage from the 7.5 magnitude earthquake in Donggala, central Sulawesi Credit: AFP "The last one was quite big," she said. "Everyone was getting out their homes, shouting in fear." Indonesia is one of the most disaster-prone nations on earth. The archipelago nation lies on the Pacific "Ring of Fire", where tectonic plates collide and many of the world's volcanic eruptions and earthquakes occur. A series of quakes that struck Lombok this summer killed about 500 people and forced hundreds of thousands into evacuation shelters or tents. In 2004, a tsunami triggered by a magnitude 9.3 undersea earthquake off the coast of Sumatra in western Indonesia killed 220,000 people in countries around the Indian Ocean, including 168,000 Indonesians.
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| Deadly South Carolina plane crash Posted: 28 Sep 2018 03:16 AM PDT  A plane overshoots a runway and crashes into a fence, killing two. ABC News' Kendis Gibson reports.
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| Passengers safe after Air Niugini flight crashes into sea in Micronesia Posted: 27 Sep 2018 11:40 PM PDT  A flotilla of small boats rescued all 47 passengers and crew from an Air Niugini flight that crashed into the sea short of the runway at an airport in the tiny South Pacific nation of Micronesia on Friday, the airport's manager said. "It was supposed to land but instead of landing it was 150 yards short and she went down," Jimmy Emilio, general manager of Chuuk Airport at Weno in Micronesia, told Reuters by telephone. The Boeing 737-800 aircraft hit the lagoon surrounding the small island about 9.30 a.m. local time (2330 GMT Thursday), Emilio said.
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| Raptor Reborn: Is a Super F-22 Fighter Heading to Japan? Posted: 28 Sep 2018 07:37 AM PDT  Lockheed Marting is pitching the idea to Tokyo.
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| Ford's testimony against Kavanaugh elicits sympathy — and sniping Posted: 27 Sep 2018 11:59 AM PDT  Christine Blasey Ford's testimony evoked doubt, support, anger, and women telling their own stories of abuse.
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| FBI agent: Man in burning death admits sex, denies timing Posted: 27 Sep 2018 04:09 PM PDT  BATESVILLE, Miss. (AP) — An FBI agent testified Thursday that the man on trial for burning a Mississippi woman to death told him the two had sex, but not on the day she died.
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| Israel PM lashes Iran, claims secret atomic warehouse Posted: 27 Sep 2018 05:33 PM PDT  Israel's prime minister on Thursday accused arch-enemy Tehran of harboring a secret atomic warehouse, making deft use of ample props and vowing that his country would never let Iran develop nuclear weapons. Iran "hasn't abandoned its goal to develop nuclear weapons," Benjamin Netanyahu told the UN General Assembly, where his annual appearance has frequently focused on Israel's chief enemy, the Islamic republic. "Israel will never let a regime that calls for our destruction to develop nuclear weapons.
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| Florida Man Tries To Flee In Pickup, But It's Hooked To Repo Man's Tow Truck Posted: 27 Sep 2018 09:49 AM PDT  A Florida man took extraordinary steps to prevent his pickup from being
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| Trump and CNN's Jim Acosta have heated exchange over women reporters asking questions Posted: 26 Sep 2018 02:55 PM PDT  President Donald Trump held a rare solo press conference on Wednesday afternoon, and it went about as you'd expect. Trump went head-to-head with CNN's Jim Acosta early on. Before even asking his question, Acosta asked if Trump would call on a female reporter next. "If you don't mind, after I'm finished ... if one of our female colleagues could go that would be great," Acosta said. At that point in the conference, Trump had only called on male reporters for questions. "What does he mean by that? Explain," Trump demanded. Trump then cuts off Acosta, "What does it mean, no, what does it mean?" "I think it would be great if a female reporter could ask you a question about this issue," Acosta says in reference to the allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh. "I wouldn't mind it at all. Wouldn't make any difference to me," Trump said. Acosta then addressed the elephant in the room, asking Trump why he always sides with the accused instead of the accuser. "Is that because of the many allegations that you've had against you over the years," Acosta asked. Trump responded with a nonsensical string of sentence fragments, saying that women can also be accused of sexual assault, and he "didn't think" victims of sexual assault are reluctant to come forward. The whole back and forth was incredibly awkward. Trump did call on a woman after Acosta, Hallie Jackson from NBC. Trump then proceeded to mock her for asking too many questions. The conference comes a day ahead of a testimony from Dr. Christine Blasey Ford in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding her allegations that Kanavaugh sexually abused her decades ago. Dr. Ford is now one of three women that have accused Kanavaugh of misconduct. WATCH: Musk under investigation, Trump's Chinese tariffs, Facebook's fake-news victory: The week in tech news
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| Man Calls 911 After Mistaking Halloween Decorations for Sign of Danger Posted: 27 Sep 2018 12:30 PM PDT  A creepy window decal spelling out "Help Me" in what looked like blood left a West Fargo man thoroughly spooked.
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| Former state Sen. Brian Joyce found dead; was awaiting trial Posted: 27 Sep 2018 03:14 PM PDT  WESTPORT, Mass. (AP) — Former Massachusetts state Sen. Brian Joyce, who was awaiting trial on federal corruption charges, was found dead in his home Thursday, authorities said.
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| Accuser blasts pope silence, 'slander' over cover-up claims Posted: 28 Sep 2018 06:27 AM PDT  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The former Vatican ambassador who accused three popes and their advisers of covering up for a disgraced American ex-cardinal has challenged the Vatican to say what it knows about the scandal and accused Pope Francis of mounting a campaign of "subtle slander" against him.
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| Maddox Ritch Dead: Emotional Officials Say Body Found in Water Is Likely Missing Boy's Posted: 27 Sep 2018 02:07 PM PDT  The discovery of the body ended the search for the little boy as it entered its sixth day.
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| Trump two-state comments turn heads among Israelis, Palestinians Posted: 27 Sep 2018 08:36 AM PDT  Comments by US President Donald Trump supporting a two-state solution to the Middle East conflict for the first time have turned heads ahead of UN speeches by the Israeli and Palestinian leaders. Trump's endorsement of the goal of a Palestinian state, long the focus of US peace efforts before he came into office, was decidedly lukewarm -- and he even slightly backtracked from it later in the day.
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| China demands U.S. 'dispel obstacles' to military ties and stop slander Posted: 27 Sep 2018 02:56 AM PDT  Trump on Wednesday accused China of seeking to interfere in the Nov. 6 U.S. congressional elections, saying that Beijing did not want him or his Republican Party to do well because of his pugnacious stance on trade. The two countries are already embroiled in an acrimonious trade war and have continued to butt heads over a list of sensitive issues including the disputed South China Sea and self-ruled Taiwan, armed by Washington but claimed by Beijing. On Saturday, China summoned the U.S. ambassador in Beijing and postponed joint military talks to protest Washington's decision to sanction a Chinese military agency and its director for buying Russian fighter jets and a surface-to-air missile system.
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| The Latest: Father says search for missing son is "torture" Posted: 26 Sep 2018 01:53 PM PDT  GASTONIA, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on the search for a missing 6-year-old North Carolina boy (all times local):
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| Ancient Egyptian 'Magic Spell' Deciphered Posted: 26 Sep 2018 12:51 PM PDT  "The most striking feature of [the papyrus] is its image," wrote Korshi Dosoo, a lecturer at the University of Strasbourg in France, who published the papyrus recently in the Journal of Coptic Studies. Dosoo estimates that it dates back around 1,300 years, to a time when Christianity was widely practiced in Egypt.
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| Newer hormonal birth control linked to lower ovarian cancer risk: Study Posted: 27 Sep 2018 04:21 AM PDT  Hormonal contraception methods like a pill, patch, ring or injectable are very effective and popular as birth control, but they can have other health benefits, too.
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| Republican Senators Only Wanted To Win Posted: 27 Sep 2018 07:38 PM PDT  In Senate Republicans' haste to avoid repeating the disastrous optics of the
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| Lindsey Graham To Rape Survivor Amid Blasey Testimony: You Should've Told The Cops Posted: 27 Sep 2018 12:00 PM PDT  During a break in Thursday's Christine Blasey Ford testimony, Sen. Lindsey
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| Abused Hong Kong maid Erwiana 'rises again' Posted: 28 Sep 2018 07:25 AM PDT  She was once the face of abused maids in Hong Kong -- imprisoned, starved and beaten so badly she lost control of her bodily functions. Erwiana completed a degree in economics this month -- the culmination of a dream that brought her to Hong Kong in 2013 before her life was turned upside down. "Before I went to Hong Kong, I had been dreaming I could make enough money to study," the 27-year-old told AFP from her home in Indonesia's cultural capital Yogyakarta.
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| Laughter at Trump speech a sign of U.S. isolation: Iran guards chief Posted: 26 Sep 2018 10:30 AM PDT  Laughter during U.S. President Donald Trump's speech to the U.N. General Assembly was a sign of the United States' isolation, the head of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) said on Wednesday, Fars News reported. Some delegates at the General Assembly on Tuesday laughed and muttered when Trump, in a speech, praised the "extraordinary" achievements of his administration.
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| Texas inmate executed for killing girlfriend in 2000 Posted: 27 Sep 2018 04:40 PM PDT  A Texas inmate was executed for fatally running over his girlfriend in a jealous rage more than 18 years ago.
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| Dying Pennsylvania Vietnam Vet Sells Belongings to Pay for His Funeral Posted: 27 Sep 2018 11:50 AM PDT  Willie Davis, who is dying of cancer, has held yard sales to pay for his funeral.
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| Syrian official says S-300 defenses will give Israel pause Posted: 26 Sep 2018 12:53 PM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — Israel should think carefully before attacking Syria again once it obtains the sophisticated S-300 defense system from Russia, a Damascus official said.
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| 'Radical vegans' strike fear into French butchers Posted: 28 Sep 2018 08:04 AM PDT  When the stone slabs crashed into her butcher's shop window last week, Elisabeth Cure became the latest victim of "radical vegans" who are trying to force a change in eating habits in traditionally meat-loving France. The attack in a quiet town of Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, 50 kilometres (30 miles) southwest of Paris, took place at 3:00 am, startling Cure as she slept above the store. As in other similar incidents around France over the last year, her tormentors left a tell-tale tag scrawled on the shopfront: "End the Repression".
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| High School Teacher Accused of Having Sex with Student Appears in Court Posted: 26 Sep 2018 04:31 PM PDT  Justin Adrian, who used to spend his days teaching in front of a classroom at Kansas high school, appeared in front of a Johnson County Judge Wednesday.
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| Kirsten Gillibrand Slams GOP Senators As Patronizing Bullies For Kavanaugh Response Posted: 27 Sep 2018 04:50 AM PDT  Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) excoriated Republican senators for their
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| Pope defrocks Chilean priest at center of abuse scandal Posted: 28 Sep 2018 09:36 AM PDT  VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has defrocked a Chilean priest who was a central character in the global sex abuse scandal rocking his papacy, invoking his "supreme" authority to stiffen an earlier sentence because of the "exceptional amount of damage" the priest's crimes had caused.
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| Netanyahu, in U.N. speech, claims secret Iranian nuclear site Posted: 27 Sep 2018 04:54 PM PDT  Addressing the United Nations General Assembly, Netanyahu showed an aerial photograph of the Iranian capital marked with a red arrow and pointed to what he said was a previously secret warehouse holding nuclear-related material. Netanyahu spoke 4-1/2 months after U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew from the accord, arguing it did too little to rein in Tehran's nuclear ambitions and triggering the resumption of U.S. economic sanctions on Iran. Netanyahu said the site contained some 15 kilograms (33 pounds) of radioactive material that has since been moved and called on the U.N. atomic agency to inspect the location immediately with Geiger counters.
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| US midterm elections 2018 poll tracker: Who will win the Congress? Posted: 27 Sep 2018 01:38 AM PDT  On November 6, America will go to the polls to elect members for each of the 435 House seats and 35 of the 100 Senate seats in Congress. Donald Trump and the Republicans will hope to maintain their majority in both houses during the midterm elections, but with the Democrats having a healthy lead in the polls, it is believed that they have a decent chance of taking the House of Representatives. A Democrat victory in either chamber would grant powers to open investigations into President Trump, so the stakes are high. The latest polling and forecasts indicate that Donald Trump and the Republicans could hold onto both houses, although the House of Representatives looks the more likely to fall to the Democrats. But the Republican president, who has faced tough weeks after his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was found guilty of eight charges in his fraud trial, is reportedly planning 40 days of campaigning for the elections, and so the polls are likely to move further before election day. US mid term elections header General ballot between Republicans and Democrats The latest polls show that the Democrats are around eight percentage points ahead of the Republicans, standing at an average of 48.2 per cent compared to the Republicans' 40.6 per cent. This is an average of the last eight polls, and has indicated a consistent lead for the Democrats on a national level. While the Democrats are ahead in the general ballot, both the House of Representatives and the Senate are decided by a series of local elections, which means that the Republicans may still hold both houses. The Democrats need 24 seats to flip the House of Representatives, and two to flip the Senate. But to make matters harder, the Democrats are defending 26 of the 35 seats up for election in the Senate this time. US mid term elections poll tracker House of Representatives forecast: Democrats knocking on the door Of the 435 seats up for re-election in the House of Representatives, the Democrats need to flip 24 seats - something that should be within reach for the party. The latest forecast, from the Cook Report, has the Democrats on a likely 204 seats and the Republicans on 201. This means that the remaining 30 "toss-up" seats, which are too close to call, will be incredibly important for the outcome of the election. House of Representatives forecast Senate forecast: A tough Republican nut to crack Only needing two seats to take the Senate, it would at first seem that the Democrats should be able to take control. But there is an issue with this: Of the 35 seats up for election, 26 are currently defended by the Democrats. That means that the Democrats need to claim two seats from the remaining eight Republican-defended seats. According to the Cook Report forecast, this seems unlikely, as there are only 44 seats that are marked as "leaning" Democrat or stronger. To claim a majority, the party would have to pick up a further seven seats that are either toss-ups or leaning towards the Republicans Senate forecast Key seats to watch In the 2016 presidential election, Trump won big in rural and working class communities. This helped him flip - albeit with small margins - traditionally Democrat states in the rust belt, including Wisconsin and Michigan. If the Democrats are to have hope of taking the House of Representatives from the Republicans, they need to ensure that they retain seats in these areas, before moving onto Republican territory in others. US cartogram map - House seat forecasts A series of both Republican and Democrat seats are currently classed as a "toss-up" by the Cook Report, indicating that there could be turnovers for both parts in the mid terms. The Republicans will hope to hold onto their under siege seats in places like Tennessee and West Virginia, while making inroads in Democrat areas that Trump claimed with huge majorites in the 2016 presidential election. Seats in Indiana and North Dakota are among those places where the Republicans will hope that Trump's base will help them flip seats. Key seats to watch in the Senate Does President Trump's approval rating matter? Donald Trump's approval ratings are at relatively healthy and stable levels as the mid-terms according to The Telegraph's poll tracker. The tracker, which takes an average of the last eight polls, puts Trump's approval rating on 41 per cent in mid-September. While this level is quite high for Trump, it is relatively low for sitting presidents - and this is important, as presidential approval ratings are a good indicator of net losses at mid term elections. Only two presidents - Truman (1946 and 1950), and Bush (2006) - had a lower approval rating than Trump when going into their respective mid term elections. All three of these ended up losing over 28 seats in the House of Representatives and over five in the Senate. Presidential approval matters, and Trump's is lower than most The Telegraph's poll tracker takes an average of the last eight polls in order to take a full picture of the broad movements in the polling environment and not put too much weight on individual polls. Polls used are nationally representative with adequate sample sizes.
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| Dutch raids neutralized extremists' threat, authorities say Posted: 28 Sep 2018 07:27 AM PDT  THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Police who arrested seven men suspected of plotting a major extremist attack somewhere in the Netherlands found large quantities of raw materials for explosives at their homes, prosecutors said Friday.
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| Is America's Most Deadly Aircraft Carrier Ever in Trouble? Posted: 28 Sep 2018 08:17 AM PDT  There's a near-certainty that upcoming testing of Ford will require major redesign and retrofits to it, and corresponding design changes for Kennedy and Enterprise.
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| US regulators charge Tesla CEO Elon Musk with fraud Posted: 27 Sep 2018 07:45 PM PDT  The US Securities and Exchange Commission on Thursday charged Tesla CEO Elon Musk with securities fraud, alleging he misled investors last month in tweets about taking the company private. Musk tweeted August 7 that he had "funding secured" to privatize the electric automaker at $420 a share, causing a brief spike in Tesla's share price. The SEC said Musk's statements on Twitter were "false and misleading" and that he had never discussed the plans with company officials or potential funders.
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| WWII remains buried 74 years after 'Bridge Too Far' battle Posted: 27 Sep 2018 02:26 PM PDT  SCRANTON, Pa. (AP) — The remains of a U.S. Army paratrooper killed in World War II have been returned to his Pennsylvania hometown, 74 years after he died in the battle chronicled in the 1977 film "A Bridge Too Far."
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| 1,600 Men Sign Full-Page NYT Ad In Support Of Christine Blasey Ford Posted: 26 Sep 2018 01:38 PM PDT  Twenty-seven years ago, 1,600 black women signed a full-page advertisement in
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| Yemen doctors despair as babies starve in 'orphaned province' Posted: 28 Sep 2018 02:22 AM PDT  At Nasr Hospital's emergency room in the Yemeni city of Daleh, a little boy struggles to breathe. Born with a degenerative neurological disease, his muscles have atrophied to nothing, his tiny joints visible through his pale skin, his stomach distended. The boy is one of an estimated five million Yemeni children who may not see their next birthday in a war the UN children's fund has described as a "living hell" for minors.
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