| ‘Nobody’s listening’: Health care backlash overwhelms GOP congressman at Iowa town hall Posted: 09 May 2017 08:05 AM PDT  Rep. Rod Blum took heat from constituents angry about his yes vote on the Republican bill to repeal and replace Obamacare.
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| Commentators mostly agree: Firing Comey was positively Nixonian Posted: 09 May 2017 06:48 PM PDT  For many, the news that President Trump had fired FBI Director James Comey evoked memories of former President Richard Nixon.
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| Friends of Doctor In Double Homicide Speak Out: 'She Was Awesome' Posted: 10 May 2017 06:25 AM PDT  Close colleagues of Dr. Lina Bolanos shared their memories of the physician, who was slain along with her fiance in a Boston penthouse.
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| Money to prep poor kids for college? Sorry, wrong font Posted: 09 May 2017 01:28 PM PDT  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Dozens of universities and organizations that applied for federal grants to help young people from poor families prepare for college were turned down by the U.S. Education Department because of mistakes that consisted mostly of incorrect margins, the wrong font or lack of double-spacing.
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| Supporters rally for Jakarta's jailed Christian governor Posted: 09 May 2017 08:40 PM PDT  Supporters of Jakarta's Christian governor staged a colourful rally outside city hall Wednesday a day after he was jailed for blasphemy, in a case that has damaged Indonesia's image as a bastion of tolerant Islam. "Let's fight for justice," said acting governor Djarot Saiful Hidayat, who was Purnama's deputy and has taken over his powers, to cheers from the crowd. Purnama was jailed Tuesday for two years after being found guilty of blasphemy against Islam, a shock decision after prosecutors recommended only probation.
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| Uninvited Taiwan says going to U.N. health meeting, warns China on ties Posted: 09 May 2017 03:46 AM PDT ![Uninvited Taiwan says going to U.N. health meeting, warns China on ties]( "Uninvited Taiwan says going to U.N. health meeting, warns China on ties") By J.R. Wu TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan will send a delegation to a U.N. health meeting even though it does not have an invitation, the government said on Tuesday, warning China that attempts to exclude it could irreversibly damage ties. Self-ruled Taiwan has accused Beijing of obstructing its efforts to attend the May 22-31 annual meeting in Geneva of the World Health Assembly, the decision-making body of the World Health Organization (WHO). China views democratic Taiwan as a renegade province to be retaken with the use of force if necessary, and says other countries and international organizations should not recognize it or treat as a separate country.
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| Mystery Solved: Toddler Girl Buried in 1800s Casket Under Home Is Now Identified Posted: 09 May 2017 06:26 PM PDT  The little girl's name was Edith Howard Cook. She was born on Oct. 13, 1876, and died at age 2.
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| Condoleezza Rice on Kim Jong Un: ‘He is smart’ Posted: 09 May 2017 08:12 AM PDT  Yahoo Global News Anchor Katie Couric spoke to former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice about her new book, "Democracy: Stories From the Long Road to Freedom." On President Trump's characterization of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as a "smart cookie," Rice agreed, "He is smart. If you stay in power in that system, you're pretty smart. It doesn't mean it's somebody we should admire."
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| The Bonfire of Donald Trump’s Vanities Posted: 10 May 2017 07:18 AM PDT  With the reckless, fishy sacking of James Comey, President Trump's domestic behavior has become more than an embarrassment — it's an international liability.
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| House Republicans face fiery town halls following healthcare vote Posted: 09 May 2017 03:00 AM PDT  Perhaps no town hall will be watched as closely as that of Tom MacArthur, a moderate who helped craft a compromise that ensured support from conservatives. As House Republicans return to their districts after approving a controversial plan to dramatically reshape the country's healthcare system, activists on the left are mobilizing at town halls in an effort to save the Affordable Care Act, the 2010 law that extended coverage to millions of Americans. At a meeting in Lewiston on Friday, a woman challenged Raúl Labrador, a Republican congressman from Idaho and a member the arch-conservative House Freedom Caucus, over his support for the Republican healthcare bill.
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| Nigeria spokesman says 1 Nigeria Chibok girl refused release Posted: 09 May 2017 02:04 PM PDT  ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — One of the Chibok schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram in 2014 and who had the opportunity to be released on Saturday chose to stay with her husband, the spokesman for Nigeria's president said Tuesday.
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| Huge partisan rift on US media 'watchdog' role: poll Posted: 10 May 2017 07:08 AM PDT  A massive partisan split has opened among Americans on the role of the news media since the election of President Donald Trump, a new poll showed Wednesday. In the Pew Research Center poll, nearly nine in 10 Democrats (89 percent) said the media serves as a check against political leaders while just 42 percent of Republicans agreed with that statement. The findings are in sharp contrast with a survey in early 2016 when nearly the same share of Democrats (74 percent) and Republicans (77 percent) supported the "watchdog" role of the press, Pew said.
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| Phoenix police say they caught man who killed nine in serial shootings Posted: 08 May 2017 06:26 PM PDT ![Phoenix police say they caught man who killed nine in serial shootings]( "Phoenix police say they caught man who killed nine in serial shootings") A 23-year-old man suspected of killing eight people over seven months in a string of serial shootings in Phoenix in 2016 is already behind bars on a murder charge for another slaying the year before, the city's police chief said on Monday. Aaron Saucedo of Phoenix was arrested in April and later charged with murder in connection with the first of the killings, which occurred in August 2015, Phoenix Police Chief Jeri Williams told reporters at a news conference.
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| Barack Obama on the hardest thing about being US President Posted: 09 May 2017 06:21 PM PDT  Former President Barack Obama says that taking selfies with fans when he goes out is almost as bad as the isolation of living in the White House, which he said was kind of like a nice prison. Mr Obama, when asked what he doesn't miss about being president, chuckled before saying that the security apparatus around an American president makes it difficult to live any semblance of a normal life. "The burdens of leadership are true in any country but in part because of the security apparatus around a US president, you live in what is called a bubble.
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| Abby Lee Miller Has Broken Her Silence After Being Sentenced to a Year In Prison Posted: 10 May 2017 10:58 AM PDT  The "Dance Moms" star revealed what she wants to do while behind bars.
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| Trump turns on critics over FBI chief firing Posted: 10 May 2017 09:47 AM PDT  President Donald Trump lashed out against his critics in a fresh Twitter attack Wednesday following his unprecedented firing of FBI chief James Comey. Democrats have pounced on the president amid a massive backlash over his sudden decision to fire Comey on Tuesday as the agency investigates whether Trump's campaign aides colluded with Russia in an attempt to sway November's US election in the Republican's favor. "The Democrats have said some of the worst things about James Comey, including the fact that he should be fired, but now they play so sad!" Trump said in a series of morning tweets.
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| Safety concerns for one in three US drugs Posted: 09 May 2017 12:54 PM PDT  Almost one in three newly approved drugs in the United States turns out to have a safety issue after it is allowed on the market, US researchers said Tuesday. While these issues are rarely serious enough to get the drug pulled from the marketplace, researchers said new drugs should be monitored for years after they are released to the public. Cutting-edge therapies known as biologics, psychiatric drugs, and medicines that were fast-tracked by the US Food and Drug Administration were most likely to require additional safety warnings after approval, said the report in Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
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| Foul play not suspected in 2 deaths in Central Park waters Posted: 10 May 2017 01:50 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The bodies of two men have been discovered over two days in Central Park, each floating in a lake, but investigators don't believe either was the victim of a crime, police said Wednesday.
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| Icon A5 Amphibious Plane Crashes, Killing 2 Company Engineers Posted: 10 May 2017 10:58 AM PDT  The plane meant to be a vision of the flying future suffers a fatal accident.
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| Police called to restore order as fights erupt at Spirit Airlines terminal in Fort Lauderdale Posted: 09 May 2017 03:07 AM PDT  Video posted on Twitter captured a chaotic scene at a Spirit Airlines terminal at the airport as angry travelers yelled at staff while police officers tried to restore order.
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| China says North Korea sending delegation to new Silk Road summit Posted: 09 May 2017 01:56 AM PDT ![China says North Korea sending delegation to new Silk Road summit]( "China says North Korea sending delegation to new Silk Road summit") China's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday that North Korea will be sending a delegation to next week's summit on President Xi Jinping's ambitious new Silk Road project. Leaders from 28 countries will attend the Belt and Road Forum in Beijing on May 14-15, an event orchestrated to promote Xi's vision of expanding links between Asia, Africa and Europe underpinned by billions of dollars in infrastructure investment. "According to what I understand, the North Korean side will send an official delegation to relevant events at the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation that will shortly be taking place," spokesman Geng Shuang told a daily briefing.
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| Mexico's 2016 murder tally exceeds those of many countries at war: study Posted: 09 May 2017 11:34 AM PDT  Mexico had the second-highest number of murders last year among countries considered in "armed conflict," more than Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a report published on Tuesday that dealt a blow to President Enrique Pena Nieto's efforts to end a deadly drug war. With nearly 23,000 intentional homicides in 2016, Mexico's murder tally was second only to war-torn Syria's 60,000, said Antonio Sampaio, one of the authors of the International Institute for Strategic Studies' "Armed Conflict Survey 2017." Iraq had roughly 17,000 murders, while Afghanistan had 16,000 last year, he added, noting that Mexico's militarized drug battle increasingly resembles an armed conflict.
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| Microsoft just released an emergency patch to fix a devastating new vulnerability Posted: 09 May 2017 01:04 PM PDT 
For many Windows users, Microsoft's own built-in malware protections are the only thing standing between them and the many bad actors pushing for control of their systems. Today, the company is issuing an emergency update to fix a new, extremely scary vulnerability in the operating system's anti-malware software that not only has the power to bypass those protections, but to effectively hand over complete control of a user's computer to a hacker.
The exploit, which was discovered and reported to Microsoft by Google security researcher Tavis Ormandy, requires a "specially crafted file," which can be sent via email or distributed on compromised websites. The file, when scanned by the Windows malware protection software utilizing the Microsoft Malware Prevention Engine, allows the attacker to gain full control of the system. Once the exploit is successfully executed, the malware allows the installation or deletion of programs, the ability to create new user accounts with full permissions, and gain access to private information wherever it might be stored. What's particularly scary about this vulnerability is that the file uses Microsoft's own anti-malware protections to break into the system, and because Windows is extremely thorough about scanning any and all content a user comes in contact with, even online, the malware file doesn't even need to be opened for it to work its devious magic. In fact, even getting the file in an email — whether you open the email or view the attachment or not is irrelevant — is enough to open your computer to attackers. Microsoft's patch is already being rolled out, and the company says that Windows' own built-in updates will close the gaping hole behind the scenes without you even realizing it, though it can take up 48 hours for all Windows machines to be free of this frightening oversight.
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| Firing Comey won't save Trump from the flames of the Russia scandal | Jill Abramson Posted: 10 May 2017 03:49 AM PDT  "This is Nixonian" was the reaction of Senator Bob Casey of Pennsylvania, to the news that President Trump had fired FBI director James Comey. Casey, echoed by fellow Democrats, was referring to the infamous Saturday Night Massacre, when President Richard Nixon fired the special prosecutor and attorney general who were leading the Watergate investigation.
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| Philippines' Duterte rails against corrupt police Posted: 09 May 2017 05:00 PM PDT  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Wednesday launched another tirade against corrupt police who are the frontline troops in his deadly drug war, after four more officers were accused of kidnapping and extortion. The arrest of the four from Manila's financial district of Makati was the latest in a series of scandals involving police that have raised concerns about their suitability to prosecute the drug war. The 160,000-member police force is the main enforcer of Duterte's 10-month-old drugs crackdown that has claimed thousands of lives and led to warnings he may be orchestrating a crime against humanity.
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| London's dark river and its secrets Posted: 10 May 2017 10:24 AM PDT ![London's dark river and its secrets]( "London's dark river and its secrets") Over three months, photographer Stefan Wermuth walked along the banks of the Thames, photographing the river and the abandoned objects exposed by the receding tide.
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| 5 Tip-Offs to Mechanic Rip-Offs Posted: 09 May 2017 07:30 AM PDT  Consumer Reports has no relationship with any advertisers on this website. Unless you're a car mechanic yourself, dealing with a repair shop may require a leap of faith. But if you pay attention ...
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| Bear vs. Dog: Who Comes Out on Top in This 'David and Goliath' Battle? Posted: 10 May 2017 02:31 PM PDT  Ba Bao was protecting his turf and did not want the curious bear interfering, leaving the wild animal to retreat back to its home in the woods.
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| Police kill burglary suspect in shootout at LA home Posted: 08 May 2017 05:57 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man who broke into a Los Angeles home on Monday and repeatedly exchanged gunfire with police while barricading himself inside was shot and killed by officers after the standoff that lasted more than six hours, authorities said.
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| Moon starts term as S.Korea leader after landslide win Posted: 09 May 2017 05:12 PM PDT  Left-leaning former human rights lawyer Moon Jae-In began his five-year term as president of South Korea Wednesday, following a landslide election win after a corruption scandal felled the country's last leader. Tuesday's ballot was called after Park Geun-Hye was ousted and indicted for corruption, and took place against a backdrop of high tensions with the nuclear-armed North. Voters were galvanised by anger over the sprawling bribery and abuse-of-power controversy that brought down Park, which catalysed frustrations over jobs and slowing growth.
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| Hungary, Slovakia challenge quotas on asylum-seekers at top EU court Posted: 10 May 2017 08:00 AM PDT  By Gabriela Baczynska LUXEMBOURG (Reuters) - Hungary and Slovakia told the European Union's top court on Wednesday that sharing out asylum-seekers among member states under a quota system was unlawful, clashing with Germany, France and others in a dispute that threatens to tear the bloc apart. Some 1.6 million migrants and refugees have crossed the Mediterranean and entered the EU since in 2014, mostly fleeing conflicts or poverty in the Middle East and Africa. The EU proposed in 2015 redistributing just 120,000 of them to help relieve pressure on frontline states Italy and Greece but ran into fierce resistance from ex-communist countries.
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| Chaos erupts at Florida airport after Spirit Airlines cancels nine flights Posted: 09 May 2017 10:52 AM PDT  Chaos erupted at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport Monday night when nine Spirit Airlines flights were canceled, leaving hundreds of passengers stranded. Frustrated travelers clashed with police and Spirit employees, and three unruly passengers were detained by sheriff's deputies.
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| Photos: Rue La Rue Café Posted: 09 May 2017 08:22 AM PDT ![Photos: Rue La Rue Café]( "Photos: Rue La Rue Café") Located in New York City, Rue La Rue Café opened in February and pays homage to the hit 1980s sitcom "The Golden Girls" and one of its stars — Rue McClanahan, the late actress who starred as Blanche Devereaux.
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| Trump moves to get more conservatives on federal bench Posted: 08 May 2017 06:37 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Monday named 10 judges and other law professionals it plans to nominate for key posts as President Donald Trump works to place more conservatives on the nation's federal courts.
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| Saturn's moon Titan looks like a pretty chill place in new photos Posted: 10 May 2017 02:40 PM PDT  Titan, Saturn's largest moon, captures the imagination. The distant world plays host to lakes of liquid methane and ethane that look like they could be a nice spot for an alien yachting expedition, dunes of hydrocarbons, and clouds that sometimes rain methane down onto the surface of the world, feeding its lakes. Long story short, Titan is everything you could wish for in an alien world, and new photos taken by the Saturn-exploring Cassini spacecraft put that on stark display. SEE ALSO: NASA just schooled actor Milo Ventimiglia about space because Twitter The new images — snapped by Cassini on May 7 — show bright, fluffy streaks of methane clouds in the world's atmosphere. Titan seen by Cassini.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteThis isn't the first time these types of clouds have been seen by Cassini. Scientists have been keeping an eye on these types of features for about a year, though these new images are particularly gorgeous. Titan is actually thought to be one of the best places in the solar system to hunt for alien life. Scientists think it's possible that Titan actually has a huge subsurface ocean beneath its crust which might be perfect for microbes to thrive. Titan's atmosphere.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteThe May 7 photos were taken from Cassini's new orbit around Saturn that brings it through the 1,500-mile-wide gap between the huge planet and its plane of rings. During this ring dive orbit, Cassini also took some images of the huge planet and its rings looking moody in black and white. Saturn and its rings.Image: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Space Science InstituteCassini spacecraft has been exploring Saturn and its many moons on humanity's behalf for more than 10 years, but its mission will come to an end in September when the spacecraft makes its planned death plunge into Saturn's thick atmosphere. Mission controllers working with Cassini decided to force it to fall into Saturn's atmosphere in order to protect the planet's moons like Titan and Enceladus, which also seems to have a subsurface ocean, from contamination. WATCH: Watch clouds move above Saturn's largest moon in new NASA video
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| Rare Albino Orangutan Gets Rescued After She's Separated From Her Mom Posted: 10 May 2017 10:06 AM PDT  The 5-year-old great ape is the first ever albino orangutan that the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation has seen in its 25 years of conservation work.
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| Yemen strongman Saleh open to negotiations with Saudi Posted: 10 May 2017 03:40 AM PDT  Yemen's ex-president Ali Abdullah Saleh is open to negotiations with rival Saudi Arabia, two years into a deadly war between Saleh's Huthi rebel allies and the Saudi-backed government. "We have no choice but dialogue," Saleh said at a meeting of his General People's Congress party in the capital Sanaa on Tuesday. "We are ready to go to Riyadh, Khamis Mushit, Muscat or elsewhere to start dialogue and to reach an understanding," Saleh said, referring to cities in Saudi Arabia and neighbouring Oman.
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| The Latest: SKorean conservative describes election as 'war' Posted: 08 May 2017 06:54 PM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The Latest on the presidential election in South Korea (all times local):
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| Barack Obama Jokes Michelle Obama Has Been Hogging All of Their Closet Space Posted: 10 May 2017 09:36 AM PDT  Life after the White House is an adjustment
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| Taiwan's Foxconn to begin construction on U.S. plant in second half of 2017 - source Posted: 10 May 2017 12:36 AM PDT ![Taiwan's Foxconn to begin construction on U.S. plant in second half of 2017 - source]( "Taiwan's Foxconn to begin construction on U.S. plant in second half of 2017 - source") TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's Foxconn, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer and major Apple Inc supplier, will begin construction on a U.S. plant in the second half of this year, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday. No other details were provided. When contacted about the matter, Foxconn, formally known as Hon Hai Precision Industry Co, declined to comment. Foxconn chairman Terry Gou has said the company was considering investing in the United States In late April, he had meetings at the White House about "capital-intensive" investment plans. ...
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| Former FBI agents voice anger and humiliation over James Comey firing Posted: 10 May 2017 03:00 PM PDT  'The rule of law has to prevail, not the rule of whim,' said one former FBI agent. Donald Trump's firing of the FBI director, James Comey, has left FBI agents shocked, angry and humiliated, with some former agents worried that the president has fundamentally compromised the bureau's prized political neutrality. Bobby Chacon, a former FBI agent who served in Los Angeles and New York and retired in 2014, compared the abrupt firing to "a punch in the stomach to agents".
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| Introducing cloud eggs, coming to a brunch near you Posted: 09 May 2017 07:36 AM PDT  There are just too few ways to eat an egg, am I right? You can crack it in a pan to fry it up and...that's pretty much it. So how fortunate we are to have a brand new egg trend on the horizon, because we definitely needed it. Introducing cloud eggs, a technique where you whisk the egg whites until they become fluffy and then bake them to form a cloud-like pillow for the egg yolk. SEE ALSO: Prosecco and rosé popsicles will take your summer to the next level This instructional video is from over a year ago, but cloud eggs have only come into the spotlight recently, making the rounds of Twitter and Instagram. Tried our hand at cloud eggs this morning. Fun and satisfying! #duckduckeggs #duckeggs #cloudeggs #eggs #healthyfood #baking #rva #dcfood A post shared by Duck Duck Eggs (@duckduckeggs) on May 9, 2017 at 6:14am PDT My first step at #CloudEggs @BBCLeicester this morning! #Yum! pic.twitter.com/lPIoxrMv8R — Jim Davis (@JimDavisOnAir) May 9, 2017 Our first attempt at #eggclouds | we had ours on a bed of spinach & chili flakes for extra flavour ☁️ #cloudeggs#egginacloud#eggcloud#eggs#spinach#brunch#breakfast#lunch#craze#delicious#vegetarian#healthyfood#healthy#foodie#foodni#foodblogger#eggclouds#nibloggers#belfast#northernireland#protein#vegetarianfood#instapic#instadaily#instafood#doublepalette#local A post shared by DoublePalette (@doublepalette) on May 9, 2017 at 5:57am PDT #cloudegg for breakfast #kidswokeupearly pic.twitter.com/lZ760Ev7Sj — Gillian Edwards (@GillianEdw) May 9, 2017 We suppose it's about that time to ask that one question we ask of every single new trend: Is this necessary? After all, eggs are eggs are eggs. And just in case you didn't pick up on our sarcasm at the beginning, there are already a billion different ways to eat them. Do we really need another way, especially one that takes so much work? Or here's an idea that we don't like talking about: Are we just doing this for the pics? #CloudEggs are overrated I'd rather have an omelette. — ♔ (@KingzOfEurope) May 9, 2017 Wouldn't #CloudEggs make you late for work? https://t.co/ZDRF1c4JNS — Tracey Logan (@LogonwithLogan) May 9, 2017 The #cloudeggs craze is further proof that we live in a golden age of bad food that photographs well. — Just Bloopers! '17 (@EliteBloopers) May 9, 2017 While we don't really get this cloud egg business, we understand that there are people out there that get very excited by trends like this. To those people, we don't want a cloud to come and rain on your parade. Or wait, in this case I guess we do? Whatever the case is we hope you enjoy your eggs, whether they are cloudy or just plain scrambled. WATCH: This kitchen gadget that will turn your plain boring eggs golden
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| Feds want fired Tennessee teacher held until child sex trial Posted: 09 May 2017 02:47 PM PDT ![Feds want fired Tennessee teacher held until child sex trial]( "Feds want fired Tennessee teacher held until child sex trial") NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Federal prosecutors say a teacher accused of kidnapping his 15-year-old student and repeatedly having sex with her while fleeing to California should remain jailed as a flight risk until he's tried on a charge that could keep him in prison for life.
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