| Trump, in angry Twitter spree, declares ‘the complete power to pardon’ Posted: 22 Jul 2017 07:40 AM PDT  Those who hope for a Twitter tirade from the president every Saturday morning were amply rewarded, as he lashed out at multiple targets.
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| Minneapolis Police Chief Resigns After Fatal Shooting Posted: 22 Jul 2017 09:06 AM PDT  Minneapolis Police Chief Janeé Harteau resigned on Friday, nearly a week after a police officer fatally Justine Damond.
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| Eight Massive Wildfires Rage Across California Posted: 22 Jul 2017 09:04 AM PDT  Among the fires is the most destructive wildfire in the U.S. this year, which crept within a mile of the historic tourist town of Mariposa.
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| Israeli raid, Jerusalem clashes ratchet tensions higher Posted: 22 Jul 2017 01:34 PM PDT  By Ari Rabinovitch JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel sent extra troops into the occupied West Bank on Saturday and its police broke up a crowd of stone-throwing Palestinians in Jerusalem as international concern mounted over the deadliest outbreak of violence between the two sides for years. The Palestinian Health Ministry said one Palestinian was killed during a separate clash outside the city, taking the death toll from the past two days to seven. Three Israelis were stabbed to death on Friday while eating dinner in a West Bank settlement.
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| Russian Spy House That Inspired 'The Americans' Will Be Put Up for Sale Posted: 22 Jul 2017 11:07 AM PDT  A New Jersey home that has been vacant since the FBI arrested a family of undercover Russian spies living there is heading for sale
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| US student freed after week in Chinese detention Posted: 23 Jul 2017 04:51 PM PDT  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — An American college student is free following a weeklong detention for allegedly injuring a taxi driver who was roughing up his mother during a fare dispute, in a case that drew objections over the student's treatment from U.S. lawmakers.
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| Woman Shares Touching Photo of Walmart Employee Helping Blind Man Shop Posted: 23 Jul 2017 12:52 PM PDT  She said the heartwarming moment caught her eye.
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| Afghanistan's Shiites mark anniversary of deadly attack Posted: 23 Jul 2017 07:07 AM PDT  The site west of Kabul is the last resting place for victims of a deadly suicide bombing on July 23 last year -- the first claimed by the Islamic State group in the heart of Kabul against Afghanistan's Shiite Muslim Hazara ethnic minority. The line from Turkmenistan to Kabul, capital of energy-starved Afghanistan, bypasses the province of Bamiyan, a Hazara stronghold. For Hazara leaders the route is a further sign of discrimination against their community and their province, one of the least developed in Afghanistan.
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| Departing White House press secretary says good riddance to press Posted: 21 Jul 2017 08:39 PM PDT  Maybe hoping for the last word, Sean Spicer took another dig at the press in a "Hannity" appearance Friday.
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| Teenage cheerleader accused of killing newborn baby and burying it in garden Posted: 22 Jul 2017 02:49 AM PDT  An 18-year-old cheerleader has been arrested after her child's remains were found buried in her backyard, with investigators revealing the baby was alive at the time of birth. Brooke Skylar Richardson was charged with reckless homicide in the US state of Ohio on Friday after evidence emerged that the child "was not a stillborn baby", according to the Dayton Daily News. Authorities determined the infant died more than two months ago and only found the child's remains because of a tip from a doctor's office.
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| US Imposes Sanctions On Russia, Iran, North Korea Posted: 23 Jul 2017 01:30 AM PDT  The House and Senate released a deal Saturday that imposed sanctions on Russia, Iran and North Korea for undermining American interests.
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| Ohio set to resume executions, child killer awaits appeals Posted: 23 Jul 2017 07:54 AM PDT ![Ohio set to resume executions, child killer awaits appeals]( "Ohio set to resume executions, child killer awaits appeals") Ohio is moving toward carrying out its first execution in more than three years.
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| 10-Year-Old Arrested For Allegedly Stealing a Car for the Fourth Time in 6 Weeks Posted: 22 Jul 2017 01:07 PM PDT  Police said he removed his ankle monitor being caught.
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| Venezuela’s symphony of protests Posted: 23 Jul 2017 02:00 AM PDT ![Venezuela's symphony of protests]( "Venezuela's symphony of protests") Musicians in Venezuela have been taking their instruments to protests this year, and a violist was killed in June. Here are some of the players in action.
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| Russian envoy, at heart of U.S. investigations, ends tenure in Washington Posted: 22 Jul 2017 03:07 PM PDT  Russia's ambassador to Washington Sergei Kislyak, a key figure in ongoing U.S. investigations into Moscow's meddling in the 2016 presidential election, ended his tenure on Saturday. The Russian embassy in Washington said on its Twitter feed that Minister-Counseler and Deputy Chief of Mission Denis V. Gonchar would serve as Charge d'Affaires until Kislyak's successor arrived. Kislyak, who held the post since 2008, is expected to be replaced by Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Anatoly Antonov.
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| No-show inflation poses conundrum for US Fed Posted: 22 Jul 2017 06:04 PM PDT  After tightening monetary policy last month for the second time this year, the US central bank is expected to pause for the next few months to monitor developments. The Federal Reserve will leave the benchmark interest rate untouched when it meets Tuesday and Wednesday, partly because it has yet to begin to wind down its huge stock of bond holdings, and will not make another move on interest rates until that process is underway. In the normal course of events, as an economy recovers and hiring increases, that brings with it rising wages and inflation, which in turn prompts the central bank to hike lending rates to keep prices in check while still allowing economic growth to continue.
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| Tracking Trump: Russia scandal deepens while healthcare flatlines Posted: 22 Jul 2017 06:45 AM PDT  Donald Trump leaves the White House before boarding Marine One in Washington Saturday. It was a week full of difficult news for the Trump administration on both the healthcare and Russia fronts, at the end of which White House press secretary Sean Spicer resigned. After the failure of Senate Republicans to push healthcare reform through, Donald Trump said he would "let Obamacare fail", then changed his mind and demanded that Republicans skip their August recess until they get the bill done.
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| The Future Of Kindergarten Is Less Play, More Work Posted: 22 Jul 2017 03:10 AM PDT  Being a kindergartner today is more like first grade.
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| US airstrike kills 16 Afghan policemen in Helmand as Taliban leader's son believed dead in suicide attack Posted: 22 Jul 2017 04:39 AM PDT  A US airstrike has killed 16 policemen in Afghanistan, officials said Saturday, the latest setback to Washington's efforts to bring peace to the war-torn country. The incident took place in Helmand province on Friday as Afghan security forces attempted to clear a village of Taliban militants, Salam Afghan, a police spokesman, told AFP. "In the strike, 16 Afghan policemen were killed including two commanders. Two other policemen were wounded," he said. The strike hit a compound in Gereshk district in Helmand, large parts of which are under Taliban control. Afghan security force members are in an ongoing battle against the Taliban Credit: Xinhua / Barcroft Images "A US-supported (Afghan security) operation... resulted in the deaths of... friendly Afghan forces who were gathered in a compound," Nato's mission in Afghanistan said in a statement. "We would like to express our deepest condolences to the families affected by this unfortunate incident," the statement said, adding there would be a probe into what happened. This follows the news that the son of Taliban leader Mullah Haibatullah Akhundzada died on Thursday carrying out a suicide attack in Helmand. Abdur Rahman, 23, also known as Hafiz Khalid, was driving a vehicle laden with explosives into an Afghan military base in the town of Gereshk, north of the provincial capital Lashkar Gah, Qari Yousaf Ahmadi, the Taliban's main spokesman for southern Afghanistan, said. A US Marine talks with Afghan National Army soldiers during a training in Helmand province Credit: REUTERS/Omar Sobhani He said Abdur Rahman had been a madrassa student but had wanted to carry out a suicide attack. "He succeeded in his mission last Thursday," he said. Taliban fighters drove three captured Humvee vehicles into checkpoints during heavy fighting around Gereshk on Thursday. One senior Taliban member, close to Haibatullah's family, said Abdur Rahman had enrolled as a suicide bomber before his father became leader of the Taliban last year and had insisted on continuing after his father took office. Mullah Haibatullah took over leadership of the Taliban after his predecessor, Mullah Akhtar Mohammad Mansour died in a US drone strike in Pakistan in May, 2016. "Before this, a number of close relatives and family members of previous supreme leaders had conducted suicide bombings but Sheikh Haibatullah has become the first supreme leader whose son sacrificed his life," the senior Taliban member said. A government official said security authorities were investigating the incident and could not confirm that Mullah Haibatullah's son had been killed. People greet the Afghan security officials as they took control of the Nawa district following an operation against Taliban militants in Helmand earlier this month Credit: EPA/WATAN YAR The incident in Gereshk came as fighting in Helmand, source of most of Afghanistan's opium crop, has intensified in recent days following the end of the harvest season. The insurgents control much of the province and threaten Lashkar Gah but government forces, backed by US airstrikes, have launched an operation to drive them back from around the provincial capital. In addition to the fighting in Helmand, there have also been reports of heavy fighting in other areas of the country, from Kunduz and Baghlan province in the north to Farah province in the west. An interior ministry spokesman, Najeeb Danish, said a ministry delegation had been sent to the area to investigate and help families of the victims. Helmand for years was the centrepiece of the US and British military intervention in Afghanistan. But the Taliban now effectively controls or contests 10 of Helmand's 14 districts, blighted by a huge opium harvest that helps fund the insurgency.
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| Doctor whose dog bit off girl's ear under fire again Posted: 23 Jul 2017 01:40 PM PDT ![Doctor whose dog bit off girl's ear under fire again]( "Doctor whose dog bit off girl's ear under fire again") HADDONFIELD, N.J. (AP) — A New Jersey doctor whose dog bit off a young girl's ear in 2009 is facing allegations that his new dogs are terrorizing the neighborhood in a leafy suburb of Philadelphia.
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| Father of Colorado boy, 13, arrested for boy's 2012 death Posted: 22 Jul 2017 07:46 PM PDT  DENVER (AP) — A Colorado man was arrested Saturday in connection with the 2012 death of his 13-year-old son, police said.
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| 15 Pounds of Frozen Meat Falls From Sky on Florida Man's House Posted: 22 Jul 2017 08:14 AM PDT  A 15-pound bag of frozen pork landed on the Deerfield Beach home of Travis Adair and his family
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| Iraqi bridge is sole link for Mosul residents rebuilding lives Posted: 21 Jul 2017 11:55 PM PDT  By Angus MacSwan MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) - On a pontoon bridge connecting East and West Mosul, residents of a city shattered by the battle to expel Islamic State cross back and forth trying to rebuild their lives from the rubble. Other bridges, including the landmark Iron Bridge, were wrecked in nine months of urban warfare which saw Iraqi government forces fight the militants street-by-street and house-by-house. All have tales of hardship and suffering under three years of Islamic State rule and, despite their relief that is over, now they are worried about their present predicament and the future.
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| New White House communications director say Trump still doubts Russia interfered in election Posted: 23 Jul 2017 03:58 AM PDT  President Donald Trump's new White House communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, told CNN on Sunday that Trump is still not convinced that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
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| 31-pound stray cat named Mr. Handsome is my favorite celebrity Posted: 22 Jul 2017 11:37 AM PDT  Here's a good situation: a 31-pound stray cat who goes by "Mr. Handsome" has received so much interest at a Pittsboro, North Carolina animal shelter that his new home will be determined by a literal raffle. Mr. Handsome, a flawless celebrity, has been winning hearts all week after being brought into the Chatham County Animal Shelter as a stray. Since then, there's been such an influx of prospective adopters to the shelter that parking and traffic have become strained. SEE ALSO: Cat that ingested antifreeze saved by the elixir of life: Vodka Now, those who'd like to adopt Mr. Handsome can fill out an application, which must be emailed to the shelter by July 26. If your name is drawn from the raffle, you'll be vetted further before the greatest cat to ever live is yours to keep. In the meantime, Mr. Handsome will be luxuriating in the ideal hotel suite — a cleared-out cabinet shelf he selected himself. WATCH: An incredible new robot inspired by vines can grow 25,000 times its original size
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| Popularity tumbles for France's Macron: poll Posted: 22 Jul 2017 03:57 PM PDT  A poll out Sunday shows the popularity rating of France's new President Emmanuel Macron has slumped 10 points to hit 54 percent over the past month. The 39-year-old leader has also backed a controversial bill to toughen France's security laws that includes measures some rights groups have branded as draconian. According to an Ifop poll carried out for Journal du Dimanche newspaper, the number of French people satisfied with his performance fell 10 points from 64 percent in June.
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| Eight bodies found in overheated truck in a Walmart in Texas Posted: 23 Jul 2017 08:13 AM PDT ![Eight bodies found in overheated truck in a Walmart in Texas]( "Eight bodies found in overheated truck in a Walmart in Texas") Eight suspected migrants were found dead early Sunday inside an overheated truck in a Walmart parking lot in Texas, and nearly 30 others were hospitalized, in what police said appeared to be a "horrific" human trafficking crime.
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| Minneapolis police chief resigns after shooting by officer Posted: 21 Jul 2017 08:45 PM PDT  MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Minneapolis police Chief Janee Harteau resigned Friday at the request of the mayor, who said she lost confidence in the chief after last weekend's fatal police shooting of an unarmed Australian woman who had called 911.
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| Elon Musk scraps the idea of a Model 3 with a solar panel roof Posted: 22 Jul 2017 12:01 PM PDT 
For as long as Elon Musk has been involved in the tech world, he has demonstrated an almost unrivaled obsession with dreaming big and boldly pursuing initiatives that objectively seem downright crazy at first glance. From his work at SpaceX to his more recent effort to create underground tunnels capable of transporting cars at speeds as high as 125 MPH, Musk, to his great credit, is a man of action.
Still, when you have as many outrageous and ambitious ideas as Musk, not everything can become a reality. That said, the idea that the Model 3 -- or any subsequent Tesla vehicle -- might one day feature a roof with embedded solar panels has finally been put to rest by Musk. Recall, Musk initially floated the idea of a Model 3 outfitted with solar roof technology late last year, even going so far as to say that Tesla would "probably offer that as an option." https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/794575003446480896 A few months later, Musk revealed that he decided to scrap the idea. During a speech at the National Governors Association a few days ago, Musk said that he actively had Tesla engineers look into the feasibility of a roof embedded with solar panels before realizing that it just wouldn't work out. "I really thought about this," Musk said. "I pushed my team. Is there some way we can do it on the car? Technically, if you have some sort of transformer-like thing that will pop out of the trunk like a hardtop convertible that ratchets solar panels over the car, and provided you are in the sun, that would be enough to generate 20 to 30 miles a day of electricity. It's a difficult way to do it." Still, the idea of a solar panel roof atop of a Tesla vehicle sounds a lot cooler than it would actually be in practice. Given the surface area of the roof, Musk's 20-30 mile figure seems wildly optimistic. A solar panel roof could certainly come in handy in dire situations, but it's far from being a game-changer. Video of Musk's full remarks can be seen over here.
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| Hundreds of Islamic State corpses await repatriation from Libya Posted: 22 Jul 2017 04:30 PM PDT  Seven months after Libyan forces defeated Islamic State in the coastal city of Sirte, hundreds of bodies of foreign militants still lie stored in freezers as authorities negotiate with other governments to decide what to do with them, local officials say. The corpses have been shipped to Misrata, a city further to the west whose forces led the fight to defeat Islamic State in Sirte in December. Allowing the bodies to be shipped home to countries such as Tunisia, Sudan and Egypt would be sensitive for the governments involved, wary of acknowledging how many of their citizens left to fight as jihadists in Iraq, Syria and Libya.
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| Tom Kerridge's slow-cooked meat feasts for a crowd Posted: 22 Jul 2017 10:00 PM PDT  I'm a huge fan of slow-cooked meats for the simple reason that you can roast or braise them with very little fuss, yet still pack in loads of flavour. In this week's recipes I have drawn on influences from around the world, weaving in the spices and herbs I love via marinades, rubs and glazes. The dishes are designed to be great fun – you can use the base recipes as blueprints and go on to create your own spice mixes, experimenting with ratios or ingredients. A kitchen blowtorch finishes off the crust on the beef Credit: Haarala Hamilton For the côte de boeuf, for example, components of the brine traditionally used to make pastrami have been reimagined as pickled cabbage and mustard-spiked mayonnaise, while the meat itself sports a fennel and pepper crust. An Indian-inspired marinade left overnight on a shoulder of lamb renders it smoky with a chilli heat, and ham hocks simmer in ale and stock to be finished off with a glaze made from the reduced cooking liquor. Most of this just requires you to whip up your ingredients and then leave the cooking process to work its magic – methods that make it easier for you without compromising on quality or flavour. Tom Kerridge's latest recipes Cooking large cuts of meat such as these shouldn't just be reserved for Sunday lunch – they can be brilliant for dinner parties or al fresco feasts, too. In this country we all too often rely on supermarkets when it comes to our meat shopping, so for the best cuts go and see your butcher. I love nothing more than chatting with my local expert, as he always has the best suggestions of what cuts to use and what is best to use right now. Also, invest in a digital temperature probe to help determine when the meat is properly cooked – and prepare to serve up a feast. Beer-braised ham hock with gherkin and iceberg salad, duck egg and parsley mayonnaise Credit: Haarala Hamilton SERVES 4 INGREDIENTS 4 small ham hocks (ask your butcher to French-trim them) 500ml chicken stock 500ml strong ale 2 star anise 4 tbsp malt extract 2 sprigs thyme 2 onions, diced 2 sticks celery 100ml mayonnaise 2 shallots, diced 3 tbsp chopped flat-leaf parsley 2 duck eggs, hard-boiled, peeled and grated 1 iceberg lettuce, quartered 8 gherkins, sliced lengthways 3 sprigs dill, chopped Olive oil, for drizzling METHOD Place the hocks in a large casserole dish (or two) and cover with cold water. Bring up to the boil to remove any impurities, pour off the water and add the stock and ale to the pan along with the star anise, malt, thyme, onions and celery. Bring to the boil again and simmer for two hours or until the hocks are tender. Lift the ham hocks out, set aside and keep warm. Strain the liquid through a fine sieve and return to the pan. Boil to reduce the stock to a glaze. While the glaze is reducing, mix together the mayonnaise, shallots, parsley and duck egg in a bowl, stirring well. Just before serving, brush the warm hocks with the beer glaze and serve on a platter with the lettuce wedges. Lay over the gherkin slices and sprinkle with dill and olive oil. Serve the parsley mayonnaise on the side with some large chunks of crusty sourdough. Pastrami-spiced côte de boeuf with pickled white cabbage and mustard mayonnaise Credit: Haarala Hamilton If you have any beef left this will make a fab American-style sandwich. SERVES 2 INGREDIENTS 1 x côte de boeuf weighing about 650-700g, at room temperature For the pickled cabbage 200ml white wine vinegar 1 tbsp mustard seeds 100g caster sugar 1 small bay leaf ½ tsp dill seeds ½ tsp white peppercorns 300g white cabbage, finely sliced 2 tbsp chopped tarragon For the beef 3 tbsp coarse ground black pepper 2 tbsp fennel seeds 2 tbsp flaky salt 1 tsp dried thyme 3 tbsp English mustard Vegetable oil, for brushing For the mustard mayonnaise 150g mayonnaise 3 tbsp English mustard Juice of ½ lemon ½ tsp caster sugar METHOD Take the meat out of the fridge a couple of hours ahead to come to room temperature. Preheat the oven to 60C/lowest gas mark. Start by pickling the cabbage. Place everything apart from the cabbage and tarragon in a saucepan and bring to the boil, then stir in the cabbage and simmer for two minutes. Take off the heat and leave to cool. When cool, stir in the tarragon and set aside. Mix together the black pepper, fennel, salt and thyme. Lay the côte de boeuf on a baking tray. Brush the mustard all over the meat then roll it in the spice mix to coat. Set back on the tray and place in the oven for at least two hours (it might need two-and-a-half hours depending on your oven). Use a digital temperature probe – the internal temperature of the beef should read 60C. Remove from the oven and brush with a little vegetable oil. Using a kitchen blowtorch, brown the beef all over. Let it rest for five minutes while you mix together the mayonnaise ingredients with a pinch of salt. Carve the beef, which will be cooked rare, serving with the cooled, drained cabbage and mustard mayonnaise. Madras-spiced lamb shoulder with sweet-and-sour mango salsa Credit: Haarala Hamilton This is an amazingly simple yet full-flavour dish. SERVES 6 INGREDIENTS 3kg shoulder of lamb For the spice paste 10 cloves garlic 10cm piece of ginger, peeled and sliced 1 onion, chopped 1 tbsp tomato purée 2 tbsp smoked paprika 1 tbsp tamarind 1 tsp chilli powder 3 tbsp madras spice curry powder 3 red chillies, deseeded and finely sliced 3 tsp salt 3 tbsp vegetable oil For the mango salsa 1 large mango, peeled and finely diced 1 red onion, finely sliced 2 green chillies, deseeded and finely sliced Large handful of coriander, chopped Zest and juice of 2 limes 2 tbsp distilled malt vinegar 3 tbsp peanut oil METHOD Add all the paste ingredients to a food processor and blend to a coarse, aromatic paste. Lay the lamb in a roasting tin and slash the meat six or seven times with a sharp knife. Rub the paste all over the lamb, working it into the slashes, to fully coat the meat. Leave in the fridge overnight. The next day preheat the oven to 140C/Gas 1. Place the lamb in the oven and pour in 300ml of water to the tin. Cook for four hours, basting every now and then. Meanwhile, mix together the salsa ingredients well and keep to one side. When the lamb is cooked, pull the meat away from the bone and mix in all of the spicy stock and juices in the tin. Serve with rice or flatbreads and spoon over the mango salsa.
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| Trump's immigration crackdown causing strain on courts Posted: 23 Jul 2017 06:32 AM PDT  President Donald Trump's promised crackdown on illegal immigration has resulted in temporary reassignments of about one-third of the nation's immigration judges, a move judges and activists say is only further backlogging already jammed immigration courts.
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| Sisters Give Birth to Babies on the Same Day: 'It Was Not Planned' Posted: 23 Jul 2017 11:41 AM PDT  They said the cousins will have joint first birthday party.
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| Russians march against state internet crackdown Posted: 23 Jul 2017 06:55 AM PDT  Around 1,000 people marched through central Moscow on Sunday to protest against the government's harsh legislative controls on the internet. Police said that around 800 people attended the protest, which was organised by Parnas opposition party, headed by former prime minister Mikhail Kasyanov. OVD Info website, which monitors detentions of political activists, said three had been detained, one for giving out leaflets promoting opposition leader Alexei Navalny.
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| Nigeria's ex-oil minister battles slew of graft cases Posted: 22 Jul 2017 08:25 PM PDT  Nigeria's former oil minister faces charges only at home but her name crops up in a growing number of international cases that lift the lid on the scale of alleged corruption in the country's oil sector. Since leaving office in 2015, Diezani Alison-Madueke has been implicated in bribery, fraud, misuse of public funds, and money laundering cases in Nigeria, Britain, Italy and the United States. The first female president of the global oil cartel OPEC -- who was one of Africa's most prominent politicians -- has always denied the allegations, which involve billions of dollars syphoned from oil deals and state coffers.
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| Abortion fight rages in Kentucky, which has just 1 clinic Posted: 21 Jul 2017 11:17 PM PDT  LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — Both sides in the abortion fight raging in Kentucky agree on one thing: The stakes are as high as ever in a state that could become the first in the nation without an abortion clinic.
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| Teacher convicted of having sex with her student suing teenage boy for defamation Posted: 22 Jul 2017 09:47 AM PDT  A 36-year-old teacher convicted of having sex with a person under the legal age of consent in California is suing the student she slept with for defamation. Tara Stumph, who is currently serving a 180 day sentence for having sex with a 16-year-old student, says that statements made by the young man hurt her reputation and her career. Stumph was named alongside her former employer, the Lucia Mar School District, in the lawsuit brought against her by her victim's family.
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| Iran and Iraq sign accord to boost military cooperation Posted: 23 Jul 2017 05:26 AM PDT  Iran and Iraq signed an agreement on Sunday to step up military cooperation and the fight against "terrorism and extremism", Iranian media reported, an accord which is likely to raise concerns in Washington. Iranian Defence Minister Hossein Dehghan and his Iraqi counterpart Erfan al-Hiyali signed a memorandum of understanding which also covered border security, logistics and training, the official news agency IRNA reported. "Extending cooperation and exchanging experiences in fighting terrorism and extremism, border security, and educational, logistical, technical and military support are among the provisions of this memorandum," IRNA reported after the signing of the accord in Tehran.
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| Far-Right Millennials 'Defend Europe' From Migrants Posted: 22 Jul 2017 07:33 AM PDT  Far-right millennials head to Europe to protect them from an African migrant invasion.
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| NASA is uploading hundreds of rare films from its archives to YouTube, and here are the best ones Posted: 23 Jul 2017 06:00 AM PDT 
We live in a world where delivering supplies to a space station orbiting our planet is handled by a tech startup, but expertise in flight hasn't always been so easy. NASA's Armstrong Flight Research Center has an incredible wealth of video footage showcasing the many trials, successes, and failures of the United States' various military and scientific programs, and the group has decided to make it all available to the world via YouTube. The videos, which range in age from a few months to over fifty years, are a glorious look at the steady progress of flight engineering, and we've collected some of the best for you to enjoy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6Zy_OdeLUg Is that a UFO? Nope, it's a very early prototype of the wingless M2-F1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AC5GDFKDYBA Testing a lunar lander on Earth is tricky business, but NASA test pilots make it look easy. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwdClhh1HwE Drones aren't a new concept to NASA. The agency has been flying remotely piloted aircraft for decades, like this Hyper III from 1969. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SncLDXTiREY Ever wonder what kind of damage a world record-breaking flight can do to an aircraft? This X-15A-2 set a new high mark by achieving mach 6.7, and when it landed it looked like it had been through a war. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSxFe93pYCA A plane that carries... planes?! That's what the Super Guppy does, and it looks very odd while doing it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCLCq_ggCL4 Flying saucers really do exist, as long as you count the unmanned X-45A. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrhJ3vFD3fE The SR-71 is one of the US Air Force's most iconic aircraft of all time, and NASA borrowed a pair of them to conduct high-altitude research because of their amazing capabilities. Still hungry for more? Head over to NASA's YouTube portal to check out the huge archive for yourself.
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| Russia is responsible for 'hot war' in Ukraine: US envoy Posted: 23 Jul 2017 10:01 AM PDT  The new US special envoy on Ukraine said Sunday that Russia is responsible for the "hot war" in the country's east, after fresh clashes between government forces and Russian-backed rebels. Kurt Volker, who was appointed this month as the State Department's special representative for negotiations to end more than three years of fighting, was visiting on the eve of telephone talks between the leaders of Ukraine, Russia, Germany and France on how to stem a conflict that has claimed 10,000 lives. "This is not a frozen conflict, this is a hot war and it is an immediate crisis that we all need to address as quickly as possible," Volker said while visiting the government-controlled city of Kramatorsk in the war-torn Donetsk region.
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