| ‘America is stronger’: Obama defends Affordable Care Act ahead of GOP House vote Posted: 23 Mar 2017 08:07 AM PDT  President Barack Obama signs the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act in the East Room of the White House in Washington seven years ago. Former President Barack Obama released a statement on the seventh anniversary of having signed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) into law — providing an impassioned defense of his landmark health care bill as it's under fierce attack. The statement from the Office of Barack and Michelle Obama was sent out Thursday morning, ahead of an expected House Republicans vote on the American Health Care Act (AHCA), which would essentially repeal and replace the 2010 law commonly known as Obamacare.
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| Bernie Sanders Voting Against Gorsuch Nomination Posted: 23 Mar 2017 09:13 AM PDT  Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., discusses the health care debate and says President Trump "doesn't always tell the truth." Sanders also talks about the Russia investigation and Neil Gorsuch's nomination to the Supreme Court.
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| London Mayor Sadiq Khan dismisses Trump Jr.’s Twitter jab following attack Posted: 23 Mar 2017 09:01 AM PDT  London Mayor Sadiq Khan declined to respond to an insult from U.S. President Trump's son hours after a terrorist attack at the Houses of Parliament at the Palace of Westminster on Wednesday. "You have to be kidding me?!" Trump Jr. wrote. Trump Jr. mischaracterized Khan's statements as if he had said that terrorism is an inevitable consequence of living in a big city and that nothing could be done.
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| Attack outside the Houses of Parliament in London Posted: 23 Mar 2017 05:00 AM PDT ![Attack outside the Houses of Parliament in London]( "Attack outside the Houses of Parliament in London") A knife-wielding man went on a deadly rampage in the heart of Britain's seat of power, plowing a car into pedestrians on London's Westminster Bridge before stabbing a police officer to death inside the gates of Parliament. Five people were killed, including the assailant, in what police said they were treating as a terrorist incident. Reuters reporters inside the building heard loud bangs and shortly afterwards a Reuters photographer said he saw at least a dozen people injured on Westminster Bridge, next to parliament.
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| Trump toots horn at White House Posted: 23 Mar 2017 02:21 PM PDT  President Trump toots the horn of an 18-wheeler semi truck as he met with truck drivers at the White House on Thursday.
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| Pelosi Proclaims 'Victory' After GOP Yanks Health Bill Posted: 24 Mar 2017 01:29 PM PDT  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi calls Republicans decision to pull their bill to repeal Obamacare a "victory for the American people."
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| London attacker was British-born, known to intelligence services: May Posted: 23 Mar 2017 04:19 AM PDT ![London attacker was British-born, known to intelligence services: May]( "London attacker was British-born, known to intelligence services: May") The man who launched Wednesday's deadly attack at parliament was born in Britain and known to the intelligence services, Prime Minister Theresa May said on Thursday. "What I can confirm is that the man was British-born and that some years ago he was once investigated by MI5 in relation to concerns about violent extremism," she told lawmakers. "The case is historic, he was not part of the current intelligence picture." She said there had been no prior intelligence of his intent nor of the plot.
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| Does Laura Dern Handle a Lightsaber in the New ‘Star Wars’? Posted: 23 Mar 2017 10:19 AM PDT  Laura Dern seems to be everywhere these days. That's because she is. She's the ferocious Renata in Big Little Lies, she's a recovering drug addict in Wilson, and she has two top-secret roles in Twin Peaks and Star Wars: The Last Jedi. And it's only March. Her secret to nailing those disparate performances: "You try to find your way in when you read a script."
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| North Dakota oil spill 3 times larger than first estimated Posted: 24 Mar 2017 08:05 AM PDT  BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A December oil pipeline spill in western North Dakota might have been three times larger than first estimated and among the biggest in state history, a state environmental expert said Friday.
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| President Trump’s big-rig fun becomes social media sensation Posted: 23 Mar 2017 02:44 PM PDT  As President Trump was testing out a big rig's horn on the White House South Lawn Thursday afternoon, the Republicans' proposed Obamacare replacement bill was stalling out in the House.
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| Trump supporter: My husband is being deported Friday Posted: 23 Mar 2017 12:34 PM PDT  As a popular Indiana restaurant owner faces deportation under President Trump's immigration directives, his family becomes the latest in a series of Trump supporters to find campaign promises affecting their lives. According to a report from Indiana Public Radio, Roberto Beristain's family said he's expected to be deported on Friday and has already been moved from the detention facility in Wisconsin where they had been visiting him. Beristain is the owner of Eddie's Steak Shed in Granger, Ind., which he purchased from his sister-in-law earlier this month after eight years of working at the restaurant.
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| Time magazine presses Trump on his slew of evidence-free and false claims Posted: 23 Mar 2017 07:22 AM PDT  President Trump says he doesn't necessarily need facts before making such evidence-free claims as, say, former President Barack Obama's wiretapping the phones at Trump Tower, because they've later been proved right. "I'm a very instinctual person," Trump told Time magazine's Michael Scherer in a phone interview from the Oval Office on Wednesday. The president offered a list things he says he "predicted" would happen, including Brexit, Anthony Weiner's sexting scandal, Bernie Sanders' loss in the Democratic primary — even his false suggestion that a terror attack had occurred in Sweden the night before.
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| New arrests as British police release photo of parliament attacker Posted: 24 Mar 2017 04:22 PM PDT  British police said Friday they had made further "significant" arrests over the Islamist-inspired terror attack on parliament, as they released the first picture of the homegrown killer who left four people dead. Khalid Masood, a 52-year-old Briton with a history of violent offences but no terrorist convictions, was shot by police on Wednesday after a rampage through Westminster. Four other suspects are in custody following searches at 21 locations, mostly around London, in the central city of Birmingham and in the northwestern city of Manchester.
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| Missing D.C. Girls Could Be Human Trafficking Victims Posted: 24 Mar 2017 07:22 AM PDT  Some officials are calling for an investigation into the disappearances, while police maintain there is nothing unusual about them.
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| ISPs can now sell your browsing history without permission, thanks to the Senate Posted: 23 Mar 2017 10:42 AM PDT 
The US Senate has voted to overturn consumer privacy laws enacted last year by the FCC. The rules, which forced internet service providers to actually get permission before selling your data, were overturned using the little-used Congressional Review Act (CRA). Democrat Senator Richard Blumenthal said before the vote that "This resolution is a direct attack on consumer rights, on privacy, on rules that afford basic protection against intrusive and illegal interference with consumers' use of social media sites and websites that often they talk for granted." Hope you enjoyed it while it lasted.
Assuming that this resolution passes through the House, which seems likely at this point, your broadband and wireless internet service provider will have free reign to collect and sell personal data along to third parties. That information may include (but is not limited to!) location, financial, healthcare and browsing data scraped from customers. As a result of the ruling, you can expect ISPs to begin collecting this data by default. Some ISPs may choose to include an opt-out from data collection in account settings. The privacy rules were adopted by the Federal Communications Commission last October, under Obama-era chairman Tom Wheeler. The new chairman of the FCC, Ajit Pai, is trying to rebrand the Commission as a technological regulator that manages things like spectrum, with the minimum possible amount of regulation of the telecoms industry as a whole. That might sound like an ideal situation for light-touch regulation, but with the wireless and cable industries both operating as powerful oligopolies, consumers will be left with zero protection against price-gouging, no advocate for net neutrality, and as today demonstrates, far less control over their own data.
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| Vote looming, Trump struggles to win Obamacare repeal Posted: 23 Mar 2017 06:00 AM PDT ![Vote looming, Trump struggles to win Obamacare repeal]( "Vote looming, Trump struggles to win Obamacare repeal") By Roberta Rampton and David Morgan WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday was set to make a final push on Thursday to secure the votes to begin dismantling Obamacare in the House of Representatives, with signs that enough Republicans might defect to jeopardize one of his top legislative priorities. Trump has mounted an intensive campaign to garner support for the initiative and the effort is seen by financial markets as a crucial test of his ability to move his legislative agenda, including planned tax cuts, through Congress. Trump scheduled an 11:30 a.m. ET/1530 GMT meeting with members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus at the White House.
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| Japan PM Abe accused of giving cash to nationalistic school Posted: 23 Mar 2017 07:59 AM PDT  TOKYO (AP) — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe donated 1 million yen ($9,000) through his wife to a school run by a group of ultranationalist educators, the group's leader told Parliament on Thursday, while also suggesting there was "political influence" in a land-buying scandal involving the school.
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| Democrat Joe Manchin cautions against Gorsuch filibuster: ‘What goes around comes around’ Posted: 23 Mar 2017 12:55 PM PDT  Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said Thursday that he would not join a Democratic filibuster of President Trump's Supreme Court nominee, Neil Gorsuch, arguing that the integrity of the Senate needs to be preserved. Manchin, a conservative Democrat and key vote, told Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric that Senate decorum needs to be preserved and that it started to fall apart in 2013 when then-Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid instituted the so-called nuclear option.
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| Sunken South Korean ferry slowly emerges three years after disaster Posted: 23 Mar 2017 01:17 AM PDT  By Ju-min Park SEOUL (Reuters) - A South Korean ferry that sank nearly three years ago, killing 304 people, most of them children on a school trip, slowly emerged from a gray sea on Thursday, a somber reminder of a tragedy that traumatized the country. "We can't help but feel stunned seeing the ship being raised," Lee Kum-hee, whose daughter Cho Eun-hwa was one of the nine, told reporters. "The work needs to be done very cautiously," Lee Cheol-jo, an official at the Ministry of Ocean and Fisheries, which is in charge of the operation, told a briefing.
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| Rick Perry, the man in charge of America’s nukes, weighs in on Texas A&M student election Posted: 23 Mar 2017 07:58 AM PDT  Secretary of Energy Rick Perry, the man in charge of America's supply of nuclear weapons, took the time Wednesday to criticize Texas A&M's election for student body president. Perry's complaint was about the process by which Bobby Brooks, who would become the first openly gay student president in the university's history, won the election last month. Brooks finished 750 votes behind Robert McIntosh, the son of a prominent GOP fundraiser, but McIntosh was disqualified after he was found to violate a campaign finance rule over some glow sticks used in a campaign video. McIntosh had overcome an earlier disqualification stemming from anonymous charges of voter intimidation when the Student Government Association's Judicial Court dismissed those complaints after an investigation.
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| Laptop ban creates turbulence for airline profits Posted: 23 Mar 2017 08:52 AM PDT  A carry-on ban by Washington and London for laptops on flights from some airports will hit the profits of affected airlines, especially the lucrative business class segments of Gulf carriers, analysts said Thursday. Washington decided to ban electronic devices bigger than mobile phones on direct flights to the United States from 10 airports in seven Middle Eastern countries and Turkey.
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| 5 dead in vehicle, knife attack at British Parliament in London Posted: 22 Mar 2017 08:19 PM PDT  Five people were killed, including the assailant, and 40 others were injured in what Prime Minister Theresa May condemned as a "sick and depraved terrorist attack."
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| 4 Killed Including Police Officer After Domestic Dispute Turns into Deadly Shooting Spree Posted: 23 Mar 2017 06:29 AM PDT  A suspect has been detained in the shootings at a law firm, bank branch and apartment complex Wednesday.
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| Latest North Korean Missile Test Ends in Failure Posted: 23 Mar 2017 10:21 AM PDT  The missile "appears to have exploded within seconds of launch."
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| Uncertain fate of Obamacare causes some hospitals to halt projects, hiring Posted: 23 Mar 2017 05:12 AM PDT ![Uncertain fate of Obamacare causes some hospitals to halt projects, hiring]( "Uncertain fate of Obamacare causes some hospitals to halt projects, hiring") Hospitals typically lay out multi-year operating plans that prioritize investments, such as new clinics, medical wings, technology or other projects that help draw in more patients and increase revenue. Denver Health Medical Center, for example, opened a new $26.9 million clinic in the city's southwest in 2016 to provide care to an area lacking in health services and saw more patients within six months than it had expected over two years. The health system planned to build or remodel five more facilities based on the new clinic's success.
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| The Mud Day in Israel Posted: 24 Mar 2017 07:16 AM PDT ![The Mud Day in Israel]( "The Mud Day in Israel") The Mud Day, an international sports event is produced by a leading French sports organization, A.S.O., that is well known for its top productions: Le Tour de France and the Dakar Rally. More than 150,000 people have participated in Mud Days in France, Switzerland, Belgium and Spain. Now it's Israel's turn to host the 13-kilometer race, with 22 mud-filled obstacles to overcome. (The Mud Day Israel)
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| Chuck Schumer says Democrats will filibuster Neil Gorsuch Posted: 23 Mar 2017 04:12 AM PDT  Republicans have said they will change Senate rules to end the 60-vote floor for voting on Supreme Court nominees if Democrats block President Donald Trump's nominee. "If this nominee cannot earn 60 votes—a bar met by each of President Obama's nominees and President Bush's nominees—the answer is not to change the rules, it's to change the nominee," Schumer said.
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| Police: White sword killer went to NY to attack black people Posted: 22 Mar 2017 05:53 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — A white U.S. Army veteran from Baltimore bent on making a racist attack took a bus to New York, the "media capital of the world," randomly picked out a black man who was collecting bottles on the street and killed him with a sword, police said Wednesday.
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| Turkey summons Russian envoy after soldier shot from Kurdish-held Syria Posted: 23 Mar 2017 02:26 AM PDT ![Turkey summons Russian envoy after soldier shot from Kurdish-held Syria]( "Turkey summons Russian envoy after soldier shot from Kurdish-held Syria") Turkey summoned the Russian charge d'affaires to convey its unease after a Turkish soldier was killed by sniper fire from a part of Kurdish-held Syria where Russian forces are active, Turkey's foreign ministry spokesman said on Thursday. The Turkish military fired into the northwestern Syrian border region of Afrin on Wednesday, an area controlled by the Kurdish YPG militia, after the soldier was killed by cross-border fire. The YPG said Russian forces headed to the area.
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| Tillerson alias emails from his ExxonMobil era prove elusive Posted: 22 Mar 2017 10:27 PM PDT  Emails sent under a pseudonym by current US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson when he was still CEO of ExxonMobil, and which are sought by a court, cannot be produced, lawyers for the oil giant said. According to a letter dated March 21 and sent Wednesday by ExxonMobil to AFP, these emails, sent under the name Wayne Tracker, cannot be recovered for the period from September 5, 2014 to November 28, 2014. The letter is addressed to the Supreme Court of the State of New York as part of an investigation opened in November 2015 by State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman.
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| Quotes To Celebrate National Puppy Day Posted: 23 Mar 2017 02:20 AM PDT  Thursday is National Puppy Day, a well-deserved tribute to man's (and woman's) furry best friend.
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| Emboldened Taliban capture key southern district Posted: 23 Mar 2017 11:06 AM PDT  Taliban fighters captured the strategic southern district of Sangin on Thursday, officials said, another setback for Afghan forces in opium-rich Helmand province ahead of the spring fighting season. The capture of Sangin, where US and British forces suffered heavy casualties until it was handed over to Afghan personnel, marks the culmination of the Taliban's year-long offensive to seize the district and underscores their growing strength. Most of Helmand is already estimated to be under Taliban control, with the capital Lashkar Gah -- one of the last government-held enclaves -- also at the risk of falling to the Taliban's repeated ferocious assaults.
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| Hackers still threaten a remote wipe of iPhones, despite Apple’s statement Posted: 23 Mar 2017 02:37 PM PDT 
After news had emerged earlier this week that a hacker group called Turkish Crime Family (TCF) is holding millions of Apple ID accounts for ransom, Apple said that its servers and databases were not hacked. Instead, the company said that hackers may be using user databases acquired from massive data breaches that affected other parties, such as LinkedIn. Since the initial disclosure, the TCF reached out to media to provide additional details about their anti-Apple quest, explaining some of their reasoning behind the attack.
In an email from a TCF domain to BGR that was likely distributed to other members of the media, the hackers say they're still committed to unleashing the attack come April 7th, unless Apple pays up. The message, which reads like an ad-hoc press release coming from a hackers startup — the email does come from a "press" email account — explains that the report that said the hackers want $75,000 in ransom is false. The hackers also claim that all the communication with Apple was done via ICQ, and all the chats were kept private. "[We] requested $100,000 for each of our members which is 7 in total or $1 million worth in iTunes vouchers for instant resale at 60% of the original gift card value + Some private stuff that we have agreed not to publicize as we believe it may ruin Turkish Crime Family and Apple relations," the hackers say. "The second thing is worth more to us than money." The hackers say that Apple will force users to reset their passwords to stop them and avoid "serious server issues and customer complaints." The TCF group claims it can reset some 2,550 iPhones per minute per server, which amounts to over 38 million accounts per hour. As for the number of affected accounts, it was bumped "from 519 million to 627 to then 717 million." A Twitter account for the group mentioned that 200 million iCloud accounts will be factory reset. https://twitter.com/turkcrimefamily/status/844225625909051393 Why are they targeting Apple? Well, strangely enough, this appears to be some sort of retaliation for the recent measures the Department of Justice has taken against the four hackers that breached Yahoo in 2014, an attack that may have affected more than 500 million users. "We're doing this because we can, and mainly to spread awareness for Karim Baratov and Kerem Albayrak which both are being detained for the Yahoo hack and one of them is most probably facing heavy sentencing in America," the hackers said. "Kerem Albayrak on the other hand is being accused of listing the Yahoo database for sale online." The group says this isn't a political attack, and that the TCF is a new criminal organization with a lot of resources and power. "This is just the start," they say. They even have a media department. The attack on Yahoo was actually a military operation conducted by Russia, the FBI's investigation proved, so it's strange to see the hackers claim this isn't political. Is this threat real? That remains to be seen. I think it's rather unlikely for this massive remote iPhone wipe to happen. Not because Apple confirmed its servers were not hacked but because of this whole messy PR campaign coming from the hackers. But fo yourself a favor and change your Apple ID password especially if you've been using it for any of the online services that were hacked in recent years.
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| 15 under 15: Rising stars in cybersecurity Posted: 23 Mar 2017 02:43 PM PDT ![15 under 15: Rising stars in cybersecurity]( "15 under 15: Rising stars in cybersecurity") Everything in their lives is captured in silicon chips and chronicled on Facebook. Turns out, CyFi had unearthed a new class of previously undisclosed security weaknesses, otherwise known as zero days, spanning across all mobile devices.
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| Hawaii lawmaker resigns from Republican Party to join Democrats Posted: 22 Mar 2017 09:04 PM PDT ![Hawaii lawmaker resigns from Republican Party to join Democrats]( "Hawaii lawmaker resigns from Republican Party to join Democrats") Hawaii lawmaker Beth Fukumoto, ousted last month as Republican leader of the state's House of Representatives after publicly criticizing President Donald Trump, resigned on Wednesday from her party to seek membership as a Democrat. Fukumoto, 33, the youngest Hawaii legislator to serve as House minority leader, said divisive campaign rhetoric during the 2016 elections convinced her the Republican Party no longer reflected her political values or the interests of her state's diverse population.
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| Police: Parents delay help for wounded boy to scrub evidence Posted: 22 Mar 2017 08:07 PM PDT  PHOENIX (AP) — The parents of a 9-year-old boy who was shot in the head in their Phoenix home put off calling 911 as they cleaned up evidence in multiple rooms of the house, police said Wednesday, calling it a case that "shocks your conscience."
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| Pete Souza joins chorus gloating over Trumpcare failure with epic Instagram Posted: 24 Mar 2017 02:15 PM PDT  The schadenfreude online when Trumpcare collapsed for a second time was deafening. However, amid all the resurfaced Trump tweets and Art of the Deal jokes one troll stood out once again. Pete Souza, Obama's official White House photographer, added another Instagram post to his mammoth shade collection against Trump after the news broke Friday. SEE ALSO: Obama's official White House photographer is Insta-trolling Trump This time, Souza shared a photo of Obama and Mike Pence from 2010 — and the caption was devastating. "Before voting on the Affordable Care Act in 2010, President Obama met with many members of Congress on both side of the aisle over the course of many months," he wrote. "This picture was taken at the end of a multiple hours-long meeting with the entire Republican House caucus in which he responded to dozens of questions and critiques. It was carried live on cable TV." In other words, Obama knew that healthcare was — you know — complicated, and worked hard with Republicans and Democrats, in the glare of the media, to get the ACA pushed through. An approach that differs, you may say, from Trump's efforts this week. Before voting on the Affordable Care Act in 2010, President Obama met with many members of Congress on both sides of the aisle over the course of many months. This picture was taken at the end of a multiple hours-long meeting with the entire Republican House caucus in which he responded to dozens of questions and critiques. It was carried live on cable TV. A post shared by Pete Souza (@petesouza) on Mar 24, 2017 at 1:40pm PDT Of course, Souza's lesson to Trump is a bit late now. WATCH: Trump never has to buy sunglasses again because Obama's photographer will shade him forever
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| Smuggled Month-Old Lion Cub Found Hidden Among 2,245 Parrots and 4 Cats Posted: 23 Mar 2017 10:40 AM PDT ![Smuggled Month-Old Lion Cub Found Hidden Among 2,245 Parrots and 4 Cats]( "Smuggled Month-Old Lion Cub Found Hidden Among 2,245 Parrots and 4 Cats") The 1-month-old lion was inside a bag hidden between cages of other animals, officials said.
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| World leaders stand with Britain after London attack Posted: 23 Mar 2017 03:34 AM PDT  World leaders have unanimously condemned the attack in the heart of London by a man who was shot dead by armed police, with many saying they stand with Britain. Prime Minister Theresa May described the attack as "sick and depraved", saying the assailant chose the site as an assault on Britain's democratic values. President Francois Hollande sent a message of "support to the British people" after the attack, in which three French high school students were wounded.
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| White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer holds the daily press briefing on March 23, 2017 Posted: 23 Mar 2017 11:54 AM PDT  On Thursday, March 23, 2017, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer holds the daily White House press briefing with the White House press corp.
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| Amid deepening ties, Chinese troops join Pakistan Day parade Posted: 23 Mar 2017 03:07 AM PDT ![Amid deepening ties, Chinese troops join Pakistan Day parade]( "Amid deepening ties, Chinese troops join Pakistan Day parade") Chinese, Saudi and Turkish troops for the first time joined the Pakistan Day parade in the capital Islamabad on Thursday, in a sign of deepening ties. Before Pakistan showed off long-range rockets, tanks and other military hardware, armed Chinese troops marched past Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and General Qamar Javed Bajwa, the chief of Pakistan's powerful military. Pakistan President Mamnoon Hussain said it was the first time Chinese troops participated in a parade in a foreign country, terming it a "historic event", with the two countries embarking on building vast infrastructure together.
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| Police officer, 3 others killed in Wisconsin town Posted: 22 Mar 2017 08:09 PM PDT ![Police officer, 3 others killed in Wisconsin town]( "Police officer, 3 others killed in Wisconsin town") WESTON, Wis. (AP) — A police officer and three other people were shot and killed when a domestic dispute at a bank escalated into shootings at three locations in northern Wisconsin on Wednesday, investigators said. A suspect was in custody.
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| Take that! Pyongyang lambastes Trump as too much like Obama Posted: 22 Mar 2017 06:09 PM PDT  TOKYO (AP) — North Korea has a criticism of U.S. President Donald Trump he probably wasn't expecting: He's too much like Barack Obama.
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| Infant's Rare 'Parasitic Twin' Successfully Removed with Surgery Posted: 23 Mar 2017 09:38 AM PDT  A 10-month-old girl who was born with a rare "parasitic twin" attached to her body has undergone a successful surgery to separate her from this underdeveloped twin. The infant, named Dominique, was born with the lower half of her twin's body — including legs and feet — protruding from her upper back and neck, according to information released from Advocate Children's Hospital in Park Ridge, Illinois, the facility where the surgery was performed. To receive the medical care she needed, she traveled from her home in Ivory Coast, a country in West Africa, to the United States.
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| Top-Rated Robot Vac Just Dropped to $186 Posted: 23 Mar 2017 12:18 PM PDT  Robot vacuums have been around for over a decade, but the market has generally belonged to iRobot, whose floor-cleaning bots can cost as much as $899.
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