| Officials: No Policy from Trump On Russian Vote Attacks Posted: 21 Jun 2017 12:21 PM PDT  Government cybersecurity and intelligence officials say they haven't received directions from Trump about stopping Russian meddling in future elections, and that Russia targeted 21 election systems in 2016.
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| Alexandria shooter carried list of 6 members of Congress, FBI confirms Posted: 21 Jun 2017 08:34 AM PDT  On James T. Hodgkinson, investigators found a piece of paper with the names of six members of Congress. The FBI did not disclose the names of those lawmakers.
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| Thousands Attend Funeral for Muslim Teen Who Was Murdered in Virginia Posted: 21 Jun 2017 08:40 AM PDT  As many as 5,000 people attended the funeral to remember Nabra Hassanen, a 17-year-old girl who was beaten to death early Sunday as she walked home after an all-night prayer session at a mosque.
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| Tim Kaine: U.S. strikes on Syrian forces ‘completely illegal’ Posted: 21 Jun 2017 02:19 PM PDT  Sen. Tim Kaine sharply condemned U.S. strikes on Syrian regime forces as "completely illegal." He says President Trump needs a new AUMF.
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| 'Pizzagate' gunman in DC sentenced to 4 years in prison Posted: 22 Jun 2017 02:04 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — An online conspiracy theory dubbed "pizzagate" ended Thursday with real-world consequences when a North Carolina man was sentenced to prison for arming himself with an assault rifle, traveling to the nation's capital and firing his weapon inside a neighborhood pizza restaurant.
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| U.S. Attorney General Sessions hires private attorney Posted: 22 Jun 2017 07:16 AM PDT  U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has become the latest senior Trump administration official to hire a private attorney, a Justice Department spokeswoman said on Tuesday.
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| 2 Elephants Spring Into Action to Save Calf From Drowning in Zoo's Pool Posted: 21 Jun 2017 08:54 AM PDT  Two elephants worked together to save a baby calf who fell into a pool at the Seoul Grand Park Zoo in South Korea.
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| "Textalyzer" Device Allows Police to Determine if Drivers Were Texting and Driving Posted: 21 Jun 2017 08:47 AM PDT  The "Textalyzer" device allows police to plug in and determine if a driver was using a cell phone to text while driving. Jeff Rossen shows how it works.
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| China’s border with North Korea Posted: 22 Jun 2017 01:07 PM PDT ![China's border with North Korea]( "China's border with North Korea") China has long been North Korea's main ally and trading partner, but relations are increasingly strained by continued missile testing and provocations by the regime of Kim Jong Un. At least three-quarters of trade between the two nations flows through points along its 880-mile-long shared border, a divide that reveals stark contrasts in development.
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| Exploding whipped cream dispenser kills fitness blogger Posted: 21 Jun 2017 09:51 PM PDT  An Instagram star and well-known fitness blogger has died in a freak accident after a pressurised cannister used for dispensing whipped cream exploded, hitting her in the chest, her family has said. Rebecca Burger, who had a large following on the social media site, where she posted regular pictures of herself promoting fitness products, was killed in eastern France in what the family said was a domestic incident. "It is with great sadness we announce the death of Rebecca who died the June 18th, 2017 in an accident in the home," read a statement on Burger's Instagram account, signed "The grieving family".
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| Bloomberg says Trump should ‘stop tweeting’ and let Russia probe run its course Posted: 21 Jun 2017 07:18 AM PDT  "When there's an allegation, you have to have a competent, independent investigation that will find something wrong or remove the cloud," Bloomberg said.
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| Anti-Trump Resistance Falling Flat? Some Democrats Deflated After Georgia Loss Posted: 21 Jun 2017 08:42 AM PDT  "Democrats would do much better" if they would work more with Republicans, Pres. Trump tweeted after Republican Karen Handel's win in the high-profile Georgia congressional special election.
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| The Latest: Navy Seal tells of wound during Bergdahl search Posted: 21 Jun 2017 09:28 AM PDT  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on pretrial hearings in the case of Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who is accused of endangering comrades by walking off his post in Afghanistan in 2009 (all times local):
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| Gigantic Stash of Nazi Memorabilia Found in Argentina Posted: 21 Jun 2017 10:19 AM PDT  It didn't just get there by itself.
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| Stephen Hawking: Humans Should Ride a Beam of Light to Other Planets Posted: 22 Jun 2017 06:25 AM PDT  Humanity should focus its efforts on exploring other worlds that we might inhabit, and to get there, Earthlings may need to ride on a beam of light, famed physicist Stephen Hawking says. The human imagination has led us to peer ever deeper into the universe with scientific tools, Hawking said. The answer is, no," Hawking said in his address.
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| Iraqi forces advance on Mosul mosque where IS declared caliphate Posted: 21 Jun 2017 08:35 AM PDT  By Marius Bosch MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - U.S.-backed Iraqi forces on Wednesday began a push towards the mosque in Mosul where Islamic State declared a self-styled caliphate three years ago, military officials said. The forces had encircled the jihadist group's stronghold in the Old City of Mosul, where the medieval Grand al-Nuri Mosque is located, on Tuesday, they said. The Counter Terrorism Service (CTS) were 200-300 meters (yards) away from the mosque, an Iraqi military statement said, a view supported by a senior commander of the international coalition fighting Islamic State.
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| Warmbier death 'unimaginable' for former North Korea detainee Posted: 21 Jun 2017 01:55 AM PDT  A US missionary who spent two years in a North Korean jail said Wednesday he had never imagined that a valuable American prisoner like student Otto Warmbier could die after being taken into Pyongyang's custody. Kenneth Bae, who was arrested in 2012, sentenced to 15 years hard labour, then freed after a secret mission to Pyongyang led by then-US intelligence chief James Clapper, said he was reasonably well treated in prison as he was a diplomatic bargaining chip. "Everything depended on the US government's attitude," Korean-American Bae told South Korean broadcaster YTN in an interview broadcast live.
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| Buoyant Trump spouts boasts, proposals — and falsehoods — at Iowa rally Posted: 21 Jun 2017 08:40 PM PDT  President Trump recapped his campaign's greatest hits and offered new policy ideas as well as blatant misstatements during a rally Wednesday night in Iowa.
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| Senate Republicans to release draft of healthcare bill as details emerge Posted: 21 Jun 2017 07:17 PM PDT  According to reports, the bill proposes repealing key provision of the ACA, restructuring subsidies and cutting Medicaid funding. Senate Republican leaders are on Thursday to unveil draft language of legislation that would repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA), after weeks of secrecy surrounding their effort to prepare a healthcare bill to be voted on as early as next week. The Senate bill is expected to follow the template laid out in the House version, which narrowly passed last month, but with key differences.
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| James Blake agrees not to sue NYC in exchange for fellowship Posted: 21 Jun 2017 10:40 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Tennis star James Blake has agreed to drop his right to sue New York after he was mistakenly arrested and tackled by police. In exchange, a legal fellowship will be created in his name that will bolster the work of the city's police watchdog agency.
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| Conrad Roy III's Mother Sympathizes With Michelle Carter's Family Posted: 22 Jun 2017 03:58 AM PDT  Roy's girlfriend Michelle Carter was convicted Friday after she was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in the 2014 suicide of her boyfriend.
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| Former Apple engineer Chris Lattner leaves Tesla just six months after starting Posted: 21 Jun 2017 05:00 PM PDT 
Tesla has always been rather aggressive about poaching talented engineers from Apple. This past January, though, Tesla kicked things up a notch when it hired Chris Lattner to head up the company's Autopilot Software division. Though not a household name, Lattner was a senior Apple engineer who helped spearhead the development of Swift in addition to overseeing Apple's Xcode team. Lattner's departure at the time was viewed as a significant loss for Apple and a huge boon for Tesla.
Not six months later, Lattner's time at Tesla has come to an end for rather murky reasons. In a tweet published yesterday evening, Lattner relayed that Tesla wasn't a good fit for him while adding that he's now open to exploring engineering positions at other companies. https://twitter.com/clattner_llvm/status/877341760812232704 With Lattner now out the door, Tesla has brought on deep learning expert Andrej Karpathy to leave the company's Autopilot efforts, as initially reported by TechCrunch. Tesla has hired deep learning and computer vision expert Andrej Karpathy in a key Autopilot role. Karpathy most recently held a role as a researcher at OpenAI, the artificial intelligence nonprofit backed by Elon Musk. He has an extensive background in AI-related fields, having completed a PhD at Stanford University in computer vision. Karpathy also created one of the original, and most respected, deep learning courses taught at Stanford, and his dissertation work focused on creating a system by which a neural network could identify multiple discrete and specific items within an image, label them using natural language and report to a user.
Notably, Karpathy's LinkedIn profile reveals that he also spent nearly a year as an intern working on Deep Learning projects for DeepMind, the UK-based artificial intelligence company that Google ultimately acquired in 2014.
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| U.S. will take weapons from Kurds after Islamic State defeat: Turkey Posted: 22 Jun 2017 03:52 AM PDT  The United States has told Turkey it will take back weapons supplied to the Kurdish YPG militia in northern Syria after the defeat of Islamic State, Ankara said on Thursday, seeking to address Turkish concerns about arming Kurds on its border. Turkish defense ministry sources said U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis also promised his Turkish counterpart to provide a monthly list of weapons handed to the YPG, saying the first inventory had already been sent to Ankara.
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| Islamic militants take hostages at Philippine school: army Posted: 21 Jun 2017 04:35 AM PDT  Islamic militants occupied a primary school and took hostages in a southern Philippine village on Wednesday, a few hours drive from a city where other jihadists were fighting a month-long war, authorities said. Encinas said the gunmen had planted improvised bombs around the school, a small building in a rural area, and that soldiers had surrounded it. The unrest occurred in Pigkawayan, a farming town about 160 kilometres (100 miles) from Marawi city where fighters linked to the Islamic State (IS) group have been battling troops for a month in a conflict that has claimed hundreds of lives.
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| Bitter Ga. loss provides backdrop for Democrats to reflect on party’s future Posted: 21 Jun 2017 09:22 AM PDT  In the wake of Jon Ossoff's stinging defeat in the House race in Atlanta's suburbs last night, the question now is: How do Democrats pick up the pieces? Under this scenario, Democrats would embrace candidates who excoriate the wealthiest "1 percent" and promise to curb income inequality, zero out public college and university tuition and enact single-payer universal health care. There are also Democratic warnings that Ossoff's tepid handling of President Trump misfired.
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| Nabra Hassanen: Chaplain at local mosque says murdered teen 'revolutionised and inspired an entire community' Posted: 20 Jun 2017 05:54 PM PDT  The murder of a Muslim teenager has "revolutionised and inspired an entire community", according to a chaplain at the mosque where she was travelling on the night she was killed. Nabra Hassanen was abducted and murdered by a passing motorist on her way to the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) Center in Fairfax County, Virginia, police said. The suspect, 22-year-old Darwin Martinez Torres, is currently being held without bail.
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| Man invents tsunami sensor, internet obsesses over his dog Posted: 22 Jun 2017 08:47 AM PDT  This pensive dog upstaged his owner and wasn't even aware of it. SEE ALSO: Friendly island doggo followed a street view mapper and photobombed all his shots Inventor Jerry Paros posed for a photograph for an article in the publication Nature about his invention — an ultra precise quartz sensor that could contribute to an early-warning system designed to detect shifts in the sea floor that cause tsunamis. Tsunamis are caused primarily by earthquakes that occur in the seafloor, since rapid shifts in elevation can generate waves that cross oceans in a matter of several hours. In 2011, a massive tsunami hit northern Japan following a magnitude 9.0 earthquake off the coast, resulting in the meltdown of nuclear reactors at the Fukashima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. The article and the photograph were shared on Nature's Twitter page. Meet the man hoping to transform the way we gather data from the seafloor to detect the next big earthquake: https://t.co/GmICfBMSDR pic.twitter.com/zvRlwpyADX — Nature News&Comment (@NatureNews) June 21, 2017 While many found the article interesting, most people were busy obsessing over Paros' photobombing canine companion. Yeah that's interesting and all but can we talk about the DOG ON THE DESK! — Weird Science News (@GCweirdscience) June 22, 2017 the dog looks philosophical. the dog must think about how to save this world from natural disasters. great dog. — SaveSouthKorea (@SaveSouthKorea) June 21, 2017 PLEASE PROVIDE DOG NAME. And, is he a good boy? — Bepps, The (@l_____88_____l) June 21, 2017 Wow look at the picture on the desk! pic.twitter.com/GS8cIHYvRx — Sojiro (@The_clark_Side) June 21, 2017 pic.twitter.com/f37p3lsdUt — Jon (@jonheheman) June 21, 2017 No doubt @Paroscientific #earthquake research important. But am mostly obsessed by doggo looking out the window in the pic #dogsoftwitter https://t.co/i3DJAU6D5F — Amanda Cronkhite (@abcronkhite) June 21, 2017 Please can we talk about this man's dog — Stefan (@StefanRautnbach) June 21, 2017 Ok but interview that dog. — Ashley (@ashcech) June 21, 2017 Not one word in this article about the man's dog. — ♥️ (@LoveRunandPray) June 21, 2017 Dog is studying squirrels behavior and how subtle changes in behavior predict seismic activity. — Luminous Numinous (@LuminousNumino1) June 22, 2017 Twitter has spoken. We need to know more about that doggo. (H/T Twitter Moments) WATCH: This drone will play with your dog
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| The Latest: Lawyer for Manson follower blasts parole denial Posted: 22 Jun 2017 02:12 PM PDT  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the parole hearing for Patricia Krenwinkel, a follower of cult leader Charles Manson (all times local):
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| What You Learn After Driving the R8 Spyder Posted: 22 Jun 2017 09:51 AM PDT  Sometimes, top down is better
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| Milwaukee mayor urges peaceful protest after ex-cop cleared Posted: 21 Jun 2017 07:06 PM PDT  MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Milwaukee jury on Wednesday acquitted a former police officer in the on-duty shooting of a black man last year that ignited riots on the city's north side.
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| Canadian Marksman Fires World's Longest Kill Shot Posted: 22 Jun 2017 04:37 AM PDT  The Canada Special Forces marksman shot from a distance of 3,450 meters and hit his target, breaking the previous record by almost 1000 meters.
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| Gunmen attack Philippine village near war-torn city: military Posted: 20 Jun 2017 10:09 PM PDT Hundreds of gunmen attacked troops in a southern Philippine village on Wednesday in a hit-and-run assault that may have been intended to help Islamist militants engaged in a nearby urban war, authorities said. Five civilians who were used as human shields were missing, and soldiers were pursuing the assailants who had quickly retreated, military spokesman Brigadier General Restituto Padilla told reporters in Manila. Padilla said the gunmen attacked a military outpost at daybreak in Pigkawayan, a farming town about 160 kilometres (100 miles) from Marawi city where fighters linked to the Islamic State (IS) group have been battling troops for a month.
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| Republican Karen Handel wins Georgia House race, beating back liberal wave Posted: 20 Jun 2017 07:12 PM PDT  Former Georgia Secretary of State Karen Handel defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff in the hotly contested congressional special election in suburban Atlanta Tuesday.
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| T-Mobile is having network problems across the country, reports show Posted: 22 Jun 2017 07:15 AM PDT 
T-Mobile users across the country have woken up to widespread network outages. According to reports on the Down Detector and Twitter, thousands of users are having problems getting any data connectivity, even if a cell signal is still showing. The Down Detector map shows reports across the country, with a concentration on the East Coast. It could be a problem with a regional data center, or a nationwide problem that isn't being reported yet on the West Coast, thanks to the time difference.
T-Mobile has not publicly issued a statement yet, but is responding to individual users on the official @TMobile Twitter page, saying that they're looking into the issue. Some users say that turning LTE off can get data service working on 3G, but that's a temporary fix at best. For the time being, staying on Wi-Fi and turning your device on and off every hour or two is likely the best solution. Assuming that the outage is related to a software issue in T-Mobile's network, you can assume that a fix is being worked on at speed. Turning your device on and off forces it to re-register on the local cell tower, which means you'll get connectivity back as soon as the problem is resolved on T-Mobile's end.
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| Couple Arrested After Mom Allegedly Breastfeeds Daughter While Drinking, Smoking at Bar Posted: 22 Jun 2017 01:57 PM PDT  Shari Tremba and Michael Trosclair were charged with neglect of a dependent in a situation that endangers the dependent and with public intoxication.
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| Exclusive: China Unicom counts Alibaba, Tencent among investors in drive to raise $10 billion - sources Posted: 22 Jun 2017 04:29 AM PDT  By Julie Zhu and Kane Wu HONG KONG (Reuters) - Chinese tech giants Alibaba Group Holdings and Tencent Holdings will be among new investors pouring a total of around $10 billion into mobile carrier China Unicom, sources said, part of efforts by Beijing to rejuvenate state behemoths with private cash. Four sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters that Alibaba and Tencent would invest in the Shanghai-listed unit of the telecoms group - China United Network Communications Ltd - as part of the capital-raising effort. One of the sources said Alibaba and Tencent would lead the group of investors, while Baidu, the third of China's constellation of tech giants, has pulled out.
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| Queen outlines UK government agenda in scaled-down speech Posted: 21 Jun 2017 10:17 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Weakened by a disastrous election, British Prime Minister Theresa May ditched some of her most controversial campaign pledges and suggested she was willing to soften her approach to leaving the European Union as Queen Elizabeth II delivered the government's legislative agenda to Parliament Wednesday.
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| US F-15 Fighter Jet Shoots Down Iranian Drone In Syria Posted: 20 Jun 2017 10:12 PM PDT  On Tuesday, a U.S. F-15 fighter jet shot down an Iranian drone over southern Syria, making it the second time in a week that it downed a pro-Syrian government aircraft on the sky.
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| 10 of the World's Scariest Airports to Fly Into Posted: 21 Jun 2017 09:23 AM PDT |
| Trump team takes victory lap after GOP special-election wins Posted: 21 Jun 2017 05:34 AM PDT  The president and his supporters celebrated on social media late Tuesday night after Republicans secured a pair of victories in congressional races in Georgia and South Carolina.
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| Boeing wins order dogfight at Paris Air Show Posted: 21 Jun 2017 05:28 PM PDT  Boeing outpaced its rival Airbus in terms of new orders at this year's Paris Air Show thanks to its new 737 MAX 10 airliner, taking in a total of 571 orders for nearly $75 billion. The 737 MAX 10 is aimed at the biggest part of the commercial airline market -- single-aisle aircraft for medium-range flights -- and scooped up 326 orders worth nearly $40 billion at list prices as the jet promises even more fuel economy thanks to improvements to aerodynamics and engine performance. "This wide market acceptance endorsed the 737 MAX 10 as the industry's most efficient and profitable single-aisle airplane," Boeing said in a statement.
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| How does your new car rank for quality and reliability? Posted: 22 Jun 2017 02:01 AM PDT  Whether you've just taken delivery of a Kia or a Chrysler, the latest new-vehicle initial quality study from J.D. Power will come as good news, as quality is improving massively across all manufactures and all makes. In fact, the study, which uses a quality score calculated via the number of problems experienced during the first 90 days of ownership per 100 examples of an individual model (the PP100 score), finds that the industry average is now PP97. Hyundai's new Genesis premium sub-brand is second (77) and Porsche (78) closes out the top three.
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| Rumor Mill: Harley-Davidson Considering Buying Ducati Posted: 21 Jun 2017 12:49 PM PDT  Rumor Mill: Harley-Davidson Considering Buying Ducati Harley-Ducatison? An updated Sprint? Who knows? Word on the street is that Harley might snap up Ducati in the not-so-distant future. Yes, it's simply a rumor so far (so take it with a big grain of salt),
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