| Republicans and Democrats dismiss Trump’s budget as ‘dead on arrival’ Posted: 23 May 2017 12:48 PM PDT  The White House budget director began making his case for the 2018 budget Tuesday, but it met initial skepticism from members of both parties.
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| Manchester in Mourning: Bombing Victims Remembered Posted: 23 May 2017 08:31 AM PDT  An 8-year-old and a college student are among the 22 people who were killed in the terror attack at Manchester Arena following an Ariana Grande concert.
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| 12-Year-Old Girl Abducted by Teen Boys In 'Imminent Danger' Posted: 23 May 2017 10:50 AM PDT  McKenzie Wilson went missing from her upstate New York home early in the morning.
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| S. Korea tourist numbers hammered by China boycott Posted: 22 May 2017 09:34 PM PDT  Chinese tourist numbers to South Korea plunged by two-thirds in April after Beijing banned tour groups over Seoul's deployment of a US missile defence system, official statistics showed. Beijing imposed a boycott from March 15 on Chinese tour groups visiting the South in a spat over the US Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system. Washington and Seoul say it is purely to defend against threats from nuclear-armed North Korea, but Beijing fears it could undermine its own nuclear deterrent and has reacted with fury, imposing a series of measures seen as economic retaliation.
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| Syrian army says senior Islamic State militant killed Posted: 24 May 2017 04:57 AM PDT ![Syrian army says senior Islamic State militant killed]( "Syrian army says senior Islamic State militant killed") The Syrian army said on Wednesday it had killed Islamic State's military commander in Syria during operations in the north of the country, where the Russian-backed government forces are seizing more territory back from the jihadist group. If confirmed, this would represent a major blow against Islamic State (IS) ahead of an attack which the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) - an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters - are expected to launch against the jihadists in their stronghold of Raqqa city. A Syrian military source told Reuters the IS commander, Abu Musab al-Masri, had been the group's "minister of war" for Syria.
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| Retirement Savings Is a Bigger Crisis Than Health Care Posted: 24 May 2017 07:12 AM PDT ![Retirement Savings Is a Bigger Crisis Than Health Care]( "Retirement Savings Is a Bigger Crisis Than Health Care") Everyone talks about how health care is the biggest crisis facing retirees, but unfortunately that crisis takes a distant second to another, far more serious issue. A 2015 National Institute on Retirement Security study found that the median working-age household has just $14,500 in retirement savings -- woefully short of the hundreds of thousands in savings truly needed to retire in the first place. One of the authors of the 2015 NIRS study, Ilana Boivie, agrees that the $14,500 figure is startlingly low.
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| Massive slide buries stretch of iconic California highway Posted: 23 May 2017 05:19 PM PDT  A massive rockslide has buried a stretch of California's iconic seaside Highway 1 which had already been hit by a number of road closures caused by severe winter storms, state transportation officials said Tuesday. The slide on one of America's most picturesque highways took place on Saturday morning in a remote and largely uninhabited area known as Mud Creek. The road in that section of the highway had already been shut down before a million tons of earth came tumbling down from a hillside, burying a 1,500-foot (nearly half a kilometer) section of the highway, said Jim Shivers, a spokesman for the state's transportation agency.
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| 2 addiction counselors at halfway house die of drug overdose Posted: 24 May 2017 09:24 AM PDT  WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — Two addiction counselors at a suburban Philadelphia halfway house died of opioid overdoses inside the facility on the same day, authorities said Wednesday.
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| The Trump administration's Iran policy is dangerous and flawed | Emma Ashford Posted: 23 May 2017 03:00 AM PDT  Donald Trump's visit to Saudi Arabia was a huge success. The Saudis wisely pandered to the new president's foibles, rolling out the red carpet for a lavish celebration. Pushing back on Tehran allows Trump to symbolically break with Barack Obama's policies and is popular among congressional Republicans, but it is also dangerous, with the potential to undermine the nuclear deal, slow the fight against Isis, and embroil the United States more deeply in parochial regional struggles.
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| At Least 19 Dead, 50 Injured in Blast After Ariana Grande Concert in Great Britain: Cops Posted: 22 May 2017 05:45 PM PDT  The suicide bomber was identified as Salman Abedi, a 22-year-old Manchester native.
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| The Latest: Acquitted Tulsa cop receiving back pay Posted: 23 May 2017 02:29 PM PDT  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The Latest on a white Tulsa police officer who was acquitted of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man (all times local):
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| Killer whales charge toward blue whale off California coast Posted: 23 May 2017 11:06 PM PDT  A pod of killer whales appears to charge at blue whale off the coast of Monterey, California, in a rare encounter captured by a drone camera on May 18.
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| Four climbers found dead in tents on Everest, identities unknown Posted: 24 May 2017 07:06 AM PDT  By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepali sherpas have found four climbers dead in their tents on Mount Everest, officials said on Wednesday, taking the death toll on the world's highest mountain to 10 in the past month. The climbers were found overnight in two tents at Camp Four, at 8,000 meters (26,246 feet), Mingma Sherpa of the Seven Summit Treks group, to which the sherpas belonged, said.
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| Teen Girl Throws Herself In River For 'Blue Whale' Suicide Challenge Posted: 23 May 2017 01:04 PM PDT  The girl reportedly jumped into a turbulent river to complete a suicide challenge referred to "Blue Whale."
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| After Maryland student's speech, mockery and anger in China Posted: 24 May 2017 03:21 AM PDT ![After Maryland student's speech, mockery and anger in China]( "After Maryland student's speech, mockery and anger in China") When Chinese student Yang Shuping described how she ditched her five pollution masks upon discovering the "oddly luxurious" air of the United States, she drew a fierce online backlash, indignant newspaper columns and even a rebuttal from her hometown. On Wednesday, the official Xinhua news agency's English-language Twitter account broadcast a live-stream from Kunming, with two reporters interviewing passersby about air quality and whether they wore pollution masks. China's foreign ministry also weighed in, saying it was aware the issue was being widely discussed online, and that any Chinese citizen should "make remarks responsibly".
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| Donald Trump tells Rodrigo Duterte US had nuclear submarines off Korean peninsula Posted: 24 May 2017 09:23 AM PDT  Donald Trump reportedly told the president of the Philippines the United States has "two nuclear submarines" off the coast of North Korea. The US leader was quoted as telling Rodrigo Duterte: "We have two submarines — the best in the world. Part of a leaked telephone transcript between the pair circulated online under a "confidential" cover sheet and comes amid rising tensions between the White House and Pyongyang.
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| The Latest: Father of alleged Manchester bomber arrested Posted: 24 May 2017 10:37 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — The Latest on the bombing at a pop concert in Manchester that left 22 people dead
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| Newark airport reopens after engine fire prompts plane evacuation Posted: 23 May 2017 09:24 PM PDT  Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey has reopened after temporarily shutting down late Tuesday, following an engine fire that prompted the evacuation of an airplane, officials said. There were reports of five minor injuries, according to a statement posted on the airport's official Twitter account, with delays expected to persist through the night. "Newark Airport is temporarily closed due to deployment of emergency chutes on a plane with an apparent engine fire," an earlier post on the airport's official Twitter account had said.
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| Russia's Gigantic New Submarine Has Enormous "Wings" Posted: 24 May 2017 09:53 AM PDT  The submarine will be twice as long as a jumbo jet.
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| Man Charged in Death of Girlfriend's Daughter After 'Wrestling Moves': Cops Posted: 24 May 2017 12:30 PM PDT  Richard Gamache, 24, is charged with first-degree child abuse for severely injuring the 2-year-old. She later died.
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| Women Have More College Debt Than Men And Take Longer To Pay It Off Posted: 24 May 2017 02:34 AM PDT  There's another gender gap in our midst, and it's hurting female graduates, even as they enroll and earn degrees at higher rates than men.
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| Former CIA Director Brennan was aware of 'interactions between Russian officials and U.S. persons involved in Trump campaign' Posted: 23 May 2017 08:24 AM PDT  Former CIA Director John Brennan testified before the House intelligence committee regarding the Russian campaign meddling probe. "I encountered and am aware of information and intelligence that revealed contacts and interactions between Russian officials and U.S. persons involved in Trump campaign," Brennan said.
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| U.S. government sues Fiat Chrysler over excess emissions Posted: 23 May 2017 08:44 PM PDT  By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government filed a civil lawsuit on Tuesday accusing Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV of illegally using software to bypass emission controls in 104,000 diesel vehicles sold since 2014. The U.S. Justice Department lawsuit, filed in U.S. District court in Detroit, is a procedural step that may ramp up pressure on Fiat Chrysler and comes amid growing scrutiny of diesels by regulators around the world. VW admitted to intentionally cheating while Fiat Chrysler denies wrongdoing.
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| Donald Trump accused of writing 'outrageous' Holocaust memorial note Posted: 23 May 2017 08:22 AM PDT  President Donald Trump has left a guest book entry at the Israeli memorial for the Holocaust that some have observed looks a lot like what you might expect a teenager to write in a yearbook at the end of a school year. In typical Trump fashion, the message he left at Yad Vashem was full of enthusiastic adjectives, and was, at least compared to his predecessor's message, pretty short. It clocked in at less than 140 characters — so it could have easily been written on a Twitter app at 3 a.m. It also did not mention the Holocaust.
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| Explosions strike Syria's Damascus and Homs, 4 killed Posted: 23 May 2017 08:05 AM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — An explosion claimed by the Islamic State group in the central Syrian city of Homs on Tuesday killed at least four people and wounded more than two dozen, Syria's state media and the militant group reported.
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| Police: Man slays neo-Nazi roommates over Islam disrespect Posted: 22 May 2017 07:10 PM PDT  A Florida man told police he killed his two roommates because they were neo-Nazis who disrespected his recent conversion to Islam, and investigators found bomb-making materials and Nazi propaganda after he led them to the bodies.
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| The Latest Starbucks Secret Menu Drink Is The Prettiest Of Them All Posted: 24 May 2017 09:44 AM PDT  You *have* to try it.
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| In photos: The world's top-rated landmarks 2017 on TripAdvisor Posted: 23 May 2017 06:40 AM PDT |
| Tattooed 'Joker' Arrested for Pointing Loaded Gun at Passing Cars: Cops Posted: 24 May 2017 03:01 PM PDT  The Florida man's face was covered in tattoos that made him look like the notorious villain from "The Dark Knight."
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| Ethiopia's Tedros wins WHO race, first African to get top job Posted: 23 May 2017 10:55 AM PDT  By Stephanie Nebehay and Tom Miles GENEVA (Reuters) - Ethiopia's Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus won the race to be the next head of the World Health Organisation (WHO) on Tuesday, becoming the first African to lead the United Nations agency. The former health minister and foreign minister received more than half the votes in the first round and then won a decisive second-round election, beating Britain's David Nabarro to the job. "It's a victory day for Ethiopia and for Africa," Ethiopia's ambassador to the U.N. in Geneva Negash Kebret Botora told Reuters before Tedros, as he is widely known, was to take the floor at the WHO's annual ministerial assembly.
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| Martin Luther Was the Donald Trump of 1517 Posted: 23 May 2017 09:01 AM PDT  If the leader of the reformation could have tweeted the 95 theses, he would have. And he was no slouch at locker room talk, either.
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| Britain, Libya make terror arrests after Manchester attack Posted: 24 May 2017 01:33 PM PDT  Britain raced Wednesday to track down a jihadist network suspected of orchestrating the Manchester concert attack, as the suicide bomber's father and brother were arrested in Libya and grisly details emerged of how he killed young pop fans. British soldiers fanned out to guard key sites as investigators tried to piece together the last movements of bomber Salman Abedi, a Manchester-born university dropout who died in Monday's explosion. Abedi's bomb killed 22 people, one of whom was just eight-years-old, at a concert by US pop star Ariana Grande.
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| S. Korea fires warning shots at object flown from N. Korea Posted: 23 May 2017 02:56 AM PDT  South Korea fired warning shots Tuesday at a flying object that entered the country's airspace from North Korea across the Demilitarized Zone, Seoul's military said. One official told AFP it appeared to be a drone. The official gave no details, but previous drones flown across the border have been similar in size to hobby craft.
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| The Latest: Death row inmate: Execution drugs won't work Posted: 24 May 2017 10:17 AM PDT  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Latest on the scheduled execution in Alabama (all times local):
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| Tangerine hair is a great way to prove you're ready for summer Posted: 24 May 2017 12:38 PM PDT  Is this hair orange? Yes. Is it orange hair? No. It's tangerine hair, and it's a nice new color trend popping up on Instagram. The pastel-y, citrus-y shades will probably cost you a while in the stylist's chair — per Glamour, about four hours — but if you love Creamsicles and are sick of rose gold, they're a delightful option for summertime. SEE ALSO: Hidden rainbow hair makes a bold trend safe for any office Bonus: You get to look like Leeloo from The Fifth Element, but without the damaging Born Sexy Yesterday trope! Imagine the 'grams you could 'gram, y'all. Check out a few tangerine-haired trendsetters below. A post shared by Formerly @ColorByKristin (@hairbykristingrip) on Apr 19, 2017 at 9:23pm PDT A post shared by Seattle, WA Stylist / Keri S. (@hairlizard) on Apr 23, 2017 at 10:32am PDT A post shared by Chrome Salon & Blowout Bar (@chromesalonsf) on Apr 1, 2017 at 7:44pm PDT A post shared by Formerly @ColorByKristin (@hairbykristingrip) on May 22, 2017 at 4:38pm PDT A post shared by Annie Bone (@mostlyjustannie) on May 23, 2017 at 11:32am PDT WATCH: Forget pottery class, 3D printing glass is so much cooler
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| Man Wrongly Convicted Of Murder To Be Set Free After 24 Years Posted: 23 May 2017 08:31 AM PDT  Shaurn Thomas was sentenced to life in prison for a murder that occurred when he was just 16.
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| Ben Carson refers to poverty as a ‘state of mind’ Posted: 24 May 2017 03:01 PM PDT  Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson referred to poverty as a "state of mind" during a Sirius XM interview. The former GOP presidential candidate said, "You take somebody that has the right mindset, you can take everything from them and put them on the street, and I guarantee in a little while they'll be right back up there."
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| Donald Trump's climate change denial guru says US President faces 'impending disaster' Posted: 23 May 2017 03:58 AM PDT  Donald Trump's administration is facing "impending disaster" because of its failure to ditch policies designed to reduce global warming, according to a former aide who is a leading climate science denier. Myron Ebell was in charge of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) during the transition from Barack Obama's presidency to Mr Trump's and was important enough to be granted a visit to Downing Street after Republican billionaire took office.
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| Venezuela prosecutor decries Maduro plan, unrest worsens Posted: 22 May 2017 06:23 PM PDT  By Alexandra Ulmer and Maria Ramirez CARACAS/PUERTO ORDAZ, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela's state prosecutor has panned unpopular President Nicolas Maduro's plan to create a grassroots congress, deepening a rare public split among the ruling Socialists as the death toll from two months of unrest hit 51. Chief State Prosecutor Luisa Ortega stunned the crisis-hit country in March when she lambasted the Supreme Court for annulling the powers of the opposition-led National Assembly. Since then, she has been a wild card within the publicly homogenous Venezuelan government, whose foes accuse it of seeking to dodge elections by creating a parallel assembly with powers to rewrite the constitution.
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| 12 of the Best Grilled Chicken Recipes for Your Next Outdoor Get Together Posted: 24 May 2017 09:41 AM PDT |
| WHO reform a top priority for Ethiopia's Tedros Posted: 23 May 2017 10:13 AM PDT  The first African to head the World Health Organization, Ethiopia's Tedros Adhanom, says he aims to replicate his success in turning around his country's healthcare system on the global stage. The 52-year-old's campaign focused on overhauling the UN health agency after its much-criticised handling of the west African Ebola epidemic, and speculation that the United States might cut its funding for the agency. "We live in a changing world, and the WHO must be able to change with it," Tedros said in his vision statement, citing new health threats brought about through globalisation, climate change and unhealthy lifestyles.
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| The Latest: Slain student remembered at commencement Posted: 23 May 2017 08:06 AM PDT  COLLEGE PARK, Md. (AP) — The Latest on the stabbing death of a black student visiting the University of Maryland (all times local):
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