| White House says Trump won’t release his 2016 taxes, either Posted: 17 Apr 2017 01:20 PM PDT  White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Monday afternoon that President Trump does not plan to release his 2016 tax returns.
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| Colorado’s Governor John Hickenlooper warily learns to live with pot Posted: 17 Apr 2017 04:23 AM PDT  When the people of Colorado voted in 2012 to legalize recreational marijuana, they instantly transformed their governor, John Hickenlooper, into America's most reluctant pot pioneer. "If it was up to me, I wouldn't have done it," Hickenlooper admitted. "We were worried about everything," Hickenlooper tells Yahoo News.
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| Trump Team's Mixed Messages On North Korea Posted: 17 Apr 2017 12:32 PM PDT  Mike Pence sends a new message to North Korea not to "test President Trump's resolve" and "all options are on the table," but NSC advisor H.R. McMaster seems to have a different idea about defusing tensions with Pyongyang.
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| Trump Faces New Resistance and Low Poll Numbers Posted: 17 Apr 2017 12:02 PM PDT President Trump is breaking more promises and still refusing to release his tax returns, which is galvanizing his Democratic opposition. Thousands marched against him and are challenging his GOP supporters in Congress.
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| The 10 Weirdest Starbucks Frappuccinos That Have Ever Existed Posted: 17 Apr 2017 09:54 AM PDT |
| The Latest: Facebook: Killing uploaded, not broadcast live Posted: 16 Apr 2017 09:37 PM PDT  CLEVELAND (AP) — The Latest on a suspect who shot and killed a man while livestreaming on Facebook (all times local):
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| France's Macron, Le Pen edge further ahead of Fillon, Melenchon in poll Posted: 17 Apr 2017 12:16 PM PDT ![France's Macron, Le Pen edge further ahead of Fillon, Melenchon in poll]( "France's Macron, Le Pen edge further ahead of Fillon, Melenchon in poll") French centrist Emmanuel Macron is set to top the voting in the first round of France's presidential election ahead of far-right leader Marine Le Pen, and their leads over conservative Francois Fillon and leftist Jean-Luc Melenchon have widened, a poll showed on Monday. The Elabe poll for magazine L'Express showed Macron winning 24 percent of the vote on Sunday, up from 23.5 percent the last time the survey was conducted a week ago. Le Pen's score also improved slightly, rising to 23 percent from 22.5 percent, which would put her and Macron on course to face off in a May 7 runoff that he was seen winning by 62 percent to 38 percent.
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| Thousands of 'No' supporters protest Turkey vote in Istanbul Posted: 17 Apr 2017 12:07 PM PDT  Thousands of supporters of the 'No' campaign in the referendum on granting Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan greater powers took to the streets of Istanbul late Monday to protest alleged poll violations. At least 1,000 protesters thronged Besiktas on the European side of the city while on the Asian side around 2,000 demonstrators marched through Kadikoy, another staunchly secular and anti-Erdogan neighbourhood, AFP correspondents said. The main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) and the pro-Kurdish Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) said they would challenge the results from most ballot boxes due to alleged violations.
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| Democrat Jon Ossoff leads in Georgia House race — a ripple, or the start of a wave? Posted: 18 Apr 2017 02:00 AM PDT  Polls suggest that Democratic candidate Jon Ossoff is within range of getting 50 percent of the vote against a large field of Republicans, winning the seat outright and avoiding a runoff.
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| President Trump tweets response to protesters demanding to see his taxes Posted: 17 Apr 2017 10:38 AM PDT  "The View" co-hosts discuss the continuing interest in the president's tax returns.
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| Prince Harry Close to ‘Complete Breakdown’ After Mother’s Death Posted: 17 Apr 2017 08:52 AM PDT  20 years after Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris, her youngest son recalled the toll it took on him, and how his brother pushed him to get help.
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| People Are Blaming the Parents After a Child Was Crushed to Death at a Rotating Restaurant Posted: 18 Apr 2017 09:26 AM PDT  And I totally understand why.
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| Egypt discovers 3,000-year-old tomb of nobleman Posted: 18 Apr 2017 08:55 AM PDT ![Egypt discovers 3,000-year-old tomb of nobleman]( "Egypt discovers 3,000-year-old tomb of nobleman") Egyptian archaeologists have unearthed the tomb of a nobleman from more than 3,000 years ago, the latest in a series of major discoveries of ancient relics that Egypt hopes will revive a tourist business that has been hit by political instability. The find near the Nile city of Luxor, is the tomb of Userhat, a judge from the New Kingdom. In March, Egypt unearthed an eight-meter statue in a Cairo slum that is believed to be King Psammetich 1, who ruled from 664 to 610 BC. Hisham El Demery, chief of Egypt's Tourism Development Authority, said tourism was picking up and discoveries like the one at Luxor would encourage the sector.
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| 'River piracy' is the latest weird thing to come out of climate change Posted: 17 Apr 2017 03:01 PM PDT  A pirate is lurking in northern Canada, and global warming is only making it stronger. The Alsek River recently stole water flowing into the Slims River and took it for itself, a phenomenon known as "river piracy" — which scientists blame on a massive retreating glacier distributing water in new ways. The development is the first known case of river piracy in the modern era, and it's the first to be pinned in part on climate change, researchers wrote in a study published Monday in the journal Nature Geoscience. It also points to an unexpected consequence of human-caused global warming. SEE ALSO: NASA photos capture a strange new crack in a massive Greenland glacier and we might be doomed "So far, a lot of the scientific work surrounding glaciers and climate change has been focused on sea-level rise," Dan Shugar, the study's lead author and a geoscientist at the University of Washington, Tacoma, said in a news release. "Our study shows there may be other under-appreciated, unanticipated effects of glacial retreat." A Sept. 2, 2016, photo shows the meltwater stream along the toe of Kaskawulsh Glacier, on the left, that is diverting fresh water from one river to the other.Image: Dan Shugar/University of Washington TacomaThe river piracy began last year at the edge of the massive Kaskawulsh Glacier, which spans some 15,000 square miles across Canada's Yukon territory. For hundreds of years, the glacier poured meltwater into river basins of the Slims, which ends in the Bering Sea, and the Kaskawulsh, which empties into the Gulf of Alaska. Researchers found that a new, 100-foot canyon in the glacier's toe had abruptly rerouted meltwater away from a glacial lake that feeds the Slims River and instead delivered that water to the Kaskawulsh River, which feeds the Alsek River. As a result, the Alsek River — a popular whitewater rafting destination — ran higher than normal last summer, bloated with stolen water. The Slims River, meanwhile, was rapidly reduced to a trickle. Kluane Lake, which is fed by the river, was so low that residents struggled to launch their boats. Dust swirled in the parched valley, making it hard to fly on certain days, Yukon News reported last June. Satellite images in 2015 and 2016 show a dramatic drop in the Slims River's flow. The receding toe of Kaskawulsh Glacier is seen at the bottom. Kluane Lake isseen at the top of the 2016 image.Image: European space agencyShugar and his co-authors, including Jim Best at the University of Illinois and John Clague at Canada's Simon Fraser University, had originally planned to study the Slims River in August 2016. Instead, they found "a long, skinny lake," Shugar said. Gauges showed that the river, once 10 feet deep, had dropped suddenly from May 26 to 29, not long after the canyon was formed in the glacier. "Day by day we could see the water level dropping," he said. Scientists said there are two main reasons why the Kaskawulsh Glacier has retreated by about mile over the last century. After expanding during a cold period centuries ago, known as the Little Ice Age, the glacier is naturally readjusting its size in these warmer times. But it's also melting in part because of greenhouse gases. The team found only a tiny probability — 0.5 percent — that the glacier's retreat could have happened in a "constant climate," meaning there's a 99.5 percent probability that the glacier is responding to modern climate change. The ice fields of Ellesmere Island, Canada, are retreating due to warming temperatures.Image: Mario Tama/Getty Images"I always point out to climate-change skeptics that Earth's glaciers are becoming markedly smaller, and that can only happen in a warming climate," Clague, one of the co-authors, said in the news release. Canadian scientists who observed this river piracy last year were more ambivalent about the role of human-driven global warming in the glacier's retreat. "Would this particular event have happened without anthropogenic climate change? Probably," Kristen Kennedy, a geologist with the Yukon Geological Survey, told the Yukon News last summer. "It's neat to see. It's really just an interesting natural phenomenon that's happening right before our eyes, and not very many people get to see something like this," she said. But outside scientists praised Monday's study and said it was significant. Richard Alley, a glacier expert at Pennsylvania State University who wasn't part of the study, told the Associated Press that the findings reconfirm "that climate change has large, widespread and sometimes surprising impacts." WATCH: NASA timelapse shows just how quickly our Arctic sea ice is disappearing
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| 25 killed as Philippine bus plunges into ravine Posted: 18 Apr 2017 01:52 AM PDT  At least 25 people were killed and 22 injured when a passenger bus crashed into a deep ravine in the mountainous northern Philippines on Tuesday, authorities said. The bus plunged about 24 metres (80 feet) in the upland province of Nueva Ecija before noon after its brakes failed while travelling on a windy road, police and local officials said. "The vehicle is totally wrecked," said senior inspector Robert De Guzman, police chief of the town of Carranglan where the accident occurred.
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| Russia metro bombing suspect says he was unwitting accomplice Posted: 18 Apr 2017 09:16 AM PDT ![Russia metro bombing suspect says he was unwitting accomplice]( "Russia metro bombing suspect says he was unwitting accomplice") By Polina Nikolskaya and Hulkar Isamova MOSCOW/JALAL-ABAD, Kyrgyzstan (Reuters) - The man Russian investigators say orchestrated a suicide bombing on the St Petersburg metro told a court on Tuesday he was an unwitting accomplice in the attack, in which 14 people were killed and scores injured. Russian investigators said that before the April 3 attack, the suspected suicide bomber, Akbarzhon Jalilov, had spoken by telephone with Abror Azimov, who the investigators said was helping mastermind the attack from a Moscow suburb. At a preliminary court hearing in Moscow, the suspect, Azimov, said he had participated in the preparation of the attack but only indirectly.
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| History of the White House Easter Egg Roll Posted: 17 Apr 2017 07:07 AM PDT ![History of the White House Easter Egg Roll]( "History of the White House Easter Egg Roll") A visual history of the White House Easter Egg Roll, with images going back more than a century.
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| Carrie Underwood and Mike Fisher's Marriage Is Basically a Real-Life Fairytale Posted: 17 Apr 2017 11:52 AM PDT  The adorable couple have been married for five-and-a-half years.
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| US Supreme Court rejects Arkansas request to allow execution Posted: 17 Apr 2017 11:54 PM PDT  The US Supreme Court on Monday denied a last-minute request from Arkansas state authorities for permission to carry out its first execution in more than a decade. The US high court decision is the latest in a flurry of legal setbacks to the southeastern state's original plan to carry out eight executions between April 17 and 27, an unprecedented pace. Justices declined an appeal from the state's attorney general to lift a stay barring the execution of Don Davis, who was slated to be the first of several inmates to die this month.
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| Cleveland police seek man they say broadcast killing on Facebook Posted: 16 Apr 2017 09:30 PM PDT  Officials in the Ohio city said they were looking for Steve Stephens in connection with the one confirmed killing but had found no evidence to support what police said was a claim he made in the video of having killed more than a dozen other people. "Everybody is out there looking for Steve," Calvin Williams, the Cleveland police chief, told a news conference, where he joined Mayor Frank Jackson in asking Stephens to turn himself in. "We want this to end with as much peace as we can bring to this right now," Williams said, adding police knew of no other victims.
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| Dude's hack for walking on hot sand is clever, if odd Posted: 18 Apr 2017 12:45 AM PDT  Walking on a searing hot beach is the worst. Especially if you hate sand. You have to choices: Either tip-toe and face the consequences, or experience the dread of getting sand in your precious shoes. But never fear: There's another way. SEE ALSO: People are kissing a car on Facebook Live for a chance to win it, and yes, it's dark A now-viral video posted on Brown Cardigan shows an enterprising young man using a plastic bag to navigate the hot, hot sands of Bondi Beach, Australia. A post shared by browncardigan.com (@browncardigan) on Apr 15, 2017 at 10:14pm PDT Of course the method doesn't lend well for mobility, but for fellow sand-hating people everywhere, it's better than touching the stuff. For added mobility, put a "have a nice day" plastic shopping bag on each foot. Because sand sucks. *shudders* WATCH: This mini scuba gear lets everyone dive like a pro
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| Trump targets Democrat Ossoff ahead of key Georgia election Posted: 17 Apr 2017 08:22 AM PDT  The president is weighing in on the special House elections, accusing the media of downplaying last week's Republican victory in Kansas while disparaging the Democrat leading the polls in Georgia.
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| Japan Planning To Deploy Troops Amid North Korea Threats Posted: 17 Apr 2017 09:07 PM PDT  The Japanese government wants to recognize Pyongyang's missile fall in Japan's territorial waters as an obvious threat of military aggression.
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| Egypt arrests church bombings suspect Posted: 18 Apr 2017 09:17 AM PDT  Egyptian police on Tuesday arrested a man wanted for alleged involvement in twin church bombings this month claimed by the Islamic State group, an official said. Acting on a tip-off, police arrested Ali Mahmoud Mohamed Hassan, one of 19 suspects whose names police made public after the Palm Sunday explosions, the official said. Two suicide bombers attacked two churches in the cities of Tanta and Alexandria on April 9, killing 45 people in the deadliest attack on Coptic Christians in recent memory.
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| Bank of America Continues Bank Earnings Momentum Posted: 18 Apr 2017 08:03 AM PDT ![Bank of America Continues Bank Earnings Momentum]( "Bank of America Continues Bank Earnings Momentum") Bank of America Corp. (ticker: BAC) is making the most of an improving environment for big U.S. banks. On Tuesday morning, the company reported first-quarter earnings and revenue that topped consensus Wall Street expectations. Bank of America reported revenue of $22.2 billion compared to consensus analyst expectations for $21.6 billion.
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| Correction: Buckled Highway story Posted: 18 Apr 2017 08:48 AM PDT  DECATUR, Ga. (AP) — In some versions of a story April 17 about buckling pavement on Interstate 20 in Georgia, The Associated Press reported erroneously the date that a large fire caused the collapse of an overpass on Interstate 85. The overpass fire occurred March 30, not March 27.
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| USS Arizona survivor rejoins shipmates, interred aboard ship Posted: 18 Apr 2017 12:10 PM PDT  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A veteran who survived the attack on Pearl Harbor and died last year at age 94 has been reunited with his fallen shipmates on the sunken USS Arizona.
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| Cleveland police widen manhunt for Facebook murder suspect Posted: 17 Apr 2017 03:17 PM PDT  The manhunt widened on Monday for a murder suspect who police said posted a video of himself on Facebook shooting an elderly man in Cleveland as authorities asked the public for help and pleaded with the suspect to turn himself in. Police said they have received "dozens and dozens" of tips about the possible location of the suspect, Steve Stephens, and tried to persuade him to surrender when they spoke with him on his cellphone on Sunday after the shooting. The shooting is the latest violent incident shown on Facebook, raising questions about how the world's biggest social media network moderates content.
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| There’s still nothing that protects your iPhone as well as these OtterBox cases Posted: 17 Apr 2017 05:30 PM PDT 
When it comes to iPhone cases, there are generally two schools of thought. Minimalists tend to go with something slim and sleek to add some grip and guard against scratches, but there's one glaring problem here. If you drop your iPhone with a slim case like the Tozo case, it's done for. If you want real protection for your precious iPhone, you need a real protective case — and nothing else out there protects like an OtterBox. Below, you'll find links to Commuter and Defender cases for the iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus, as well as for the iPhone 6/6s and iPhone 6/6s Plus. Don't worry, you can thank us later when you drop your iPhone down the stairs and it emerges without a single scratch. OtterBox COMMUTER SERIES - DOES NOT come with a screen protector
- Thin, lightweight 2-piece case provides protection against drops, bumps and shock (port covers block entry of dust and debris).
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OtterBox DEFENDER SERIES - Robust, 3-layer protective case, with a built-in screen protector, withstands scratches, drops, bumps and shock.
- Belt-clip holster included that doubles as a kickstand for hand-free media viewing.
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| Barack Obama Takes Vacation Snap of Michelle and the Internet Goes Crazy Posted: 17 Apr 2017 12:06 PM PDT  The Obamas are touring islands in French Polynesia on a superyacht with Oprah, Tom Hanks, and Bruce Springsteen and the former president took a moment to take a picture of his lovely wife.
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| Appealing for calm, China says US wants talks on North Korea Posted: 18 Apr 2017 12:12 AM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi made a new appeal for calm on the Korean Peninsula on Tuesday and said he believes the United States would prefer a diplomatic resolution to the standoff.
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| Twelve soldiers dead as Saudi helicopter goes down in Yemen Posted: 18 Apr 2017 08:53 AM PDT  Twelve Saudi soldiers, including four officers, were killed on Tuesday when their helicopter went down in Yemen, the Arab coalition fighting Yemeni rebels said in a statement. The Saudi Black Hawk "fell during operations in the province of Marib" east of Sanaa, the coalition said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency, without clarifying the reason. Coalition spokesman General Ahmed Assiri told AFP it was "too early" to comment on the causes of the crash, which is one of the deadliest incidents involving coalition forces in Yemen.
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| AI Could Help Predict Heart Attacks Posted: 17 Apr 2017 01:39 AM PDT  The machine learning algorithm beats the American Heart Association guidelines practiced by doctors by 7.6 percent.
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| Calexit backers drop 1 California secession bid, try again Posted: 17 Apr 2017 05:59 PM PDT  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Supporters of one long-shot bid to make California an independent nation ended their effort on Monday, while another group said it will launch a new campaign for a statewide vote next year.
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| 15 DIY Mother's Day Bouquet Ideas That Won't Break the Bank Posted: 17 Apr 2017 10:11 AM PDT |
| California drops rape charge against former NFL player Ray McDonald Posted: 17 Apr 2017 02:43 PM PDT ![California drops rape charge against former NFL player Ray McDonald]( "California drops rape charge against former NFL player Ray McDonald") (Reuters) - A felony rape charge against former San Francisco 49ers defensive end Ray McDonald was dismissed on Monday because his accuser did not want to testify, prosecutors said. McDonald was arrested in 2015 on the rape charge after a woman said he sexually assaulted her at a party at his home. "Despite my best efforts to convince the victim to testify, she refused," Deputy Santa Clara County District Attorney Chris Lamiero said in a statement.
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| Here’s what the driverless semi trucks of the future will look like Posted: 17 Apr 2017 02:44 PM PDT 
While Google, Ford, Apple, and others slug it out to see who the future king of driverless transportation will be, shipping companies are patiently waiting for their own revolution. Einride is one of the companies that thinks it might have an answer, at least when it comes to replacing modern semi trucks with a greener, and potentially even safer solution that a traditional driver.
Einride's concept is to swap out an on-board human truck driver with a control system that allows the vehicle to both pilot itself as well as be controlled remotely by a trained operator. The idea is that when a truck is making a long haul and cruising along the highway it will, for the most part, navigate itself to its destination, with a remote "driver" keeping an eye on many of the trucks at the same time, only stepping in an issue arises. 
Once the truck approach their final stop, a driver keeps a much closer eye on the action and helps the vehicle find its way through city streets and more challenging roadways. Einride's vehicles, which it calls "T-pods," are fully battery powered, with the ability to cruise for 124 miles on a single charge. Early concepts of the trucks look like a cross between a traditional semi and an alien space ship. Each T-pod can haul 20 tons of cargo on its 23-foot-long frame, and Einride wants to have at least 200 of the vehicles on the road in Sweden by 2020, with an early test fleet hitting the pavement next year.
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| Faster, More Furious 2017 Honda Civic Si Coupe and Sedan Posted: 17 Apr 2017 12:40 PM PDT  Honda's hoping the new Civic Si coupe and sedan will give fans of big horsepower in small packages something to savor. The Si has a high-performance, high-torque 1.5-liter 4-cylinder engine, with...
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| Pence visits Tokyo to reaffirm security ties as N. Korea tensions rise Posted: 17 Apr 2017 02:03 PM PDT  US Vice President Mike Pence arrives in Tokyo on Tuesday bringing a renewed commitment to Japan's security amid a growing threat from a nuclear armed North Korea. Throughout his bareknuckle election campaign, US President Donald Trump repeatedly called into question a mutual defense treaty between Japan and the United States, suggesting Tokyo should pay for its own security.
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| Samsung Won't Support Customizing Galaxy S8's Bixby Button Posted: 17 Apr 2017 02:27 PM PDT  Samsung has closed a loophole that allowed third-party apps to remap what the phone's physical button for its Bixby assistant could launch.
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