| McCain’s ‘no’ vote on GOP health bill elicits gasps in Senate chamber Posted: 28 Jul 2017 06:22 AM PDT  Sen. John McCain lived up to his nickname, "maverick," in voting against his fellow Republicans on the "skinny" amendment to repeal and replace Obamacare.
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| New Developments in Murder-at-sea Case Posted: 26 Jul 2017 09:00 PM PDT  A man has been taken into federal custody for allegedly killing his wife after other passengers heard screams coming from their room.
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| Congressional Budget Office showdown: GOP tries to shoot the messenger, misses Posted: 27 Jul 2017 04:37 PM PDT  Angry over CBO projections that made Obamacare repeal bills look bad, some GOP House members tried to scale back the influence of the nonpartisan budget analysts. They failed.
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| ‘What Happened’: Hillary’s new book isn’t out yet, but Twitter is already making fun of the title Posted: 27 Jul 2017 12:44 PM PDT  The book is weeks away, but the title and cover of the candidate's campaign memoir have already been found wanting by detractors.
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| Popular Ride Shut Down After Deadly Fair Accident Posted: 26 Jul 2017 09:00 PM PDT  The Ohio State Fair reopened the day after the tragic accident took the life of an 18-year-old man who had just enlisted in the Marines; state fairs across the country shut down the same ride and others like it.
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| Shark Attacks Female Tourist While Snorkeling In Bahamas Posted: 28 Jul 2017 02:00 AM PDT  Bahamas have witnessed relatively few unprovoked shark attacks in the area.
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| Bomb-Sniffing Marine Dog Who Served in Afghanistan Gets a Hero's Farewell Posted: 28 Jul 2017 07:58 AM PDT  Marine Corporal Jeff DeYoung served with Cena in Afghanistan before adopting him as his service dog.
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| Officer dies after shot multiple times in Indianapolis Posted: 27 Jul 2017 08:08 PM PDT ![Officer dies after shot multiple times in Indianapolis]( "Officer dies after shot multiple times in Indianapolis") INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — A police officer died after being shot multiple times while responding to a traffic crash on the south side of Indianapolis, authorities said Thursday.
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| Paul Ryan assures wary GOP senators their 'skinny' bill will go to conference Posted: 27 Jul 2017 03:23 PM PDT  As a vote neared Thursday on a proposed "skinny repeal" of Obamacare, three key Republican senators said they would only vote for it if they are assured it won't actually become law.
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| Russia seizes American property in Moscow and cuts US diplomatic staff in retaliation to fresh sanctions Posted: 28 Jul 2017 02:33 AM PDT  Russia has ordered America to cut the number of diplomatic staff it has in the country and has seized a dacha compound and warehouse used by US officials in retaliation for new sanctions against Moscow. Embassy staff must leave the country by 1 September, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement, in a move triggered by the US Senate's near unanimous vote to slap new sanctions on Russia, further hurting its fragile economy. The move puts Donald Trump in a tough position by forcing him to take a hard line on Moscow or block the legislation and anger his own Republican Party.
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| China's exiled tycoon Guo 'fabricated' corruption claims: Xinhua Posted: 26 Jul 2017 10:58 PM PDT  China's Xinhua news agency accused fugitive tycoon Guo Wengui of using "fabricated and distorted information to mislead the public", the latest salvo in a campaign to discredit the billionaire who has made accusations of Communist Party corruption. Central to Guo's claims over recent months has been that a man named Yao Qing used his status as a nephew of a senior Communist Party official to amass a business empire worth tens of billions of dollars. In an online video stream last month, Guo produced a corporate tree diagram which he said showed companies linked to Yao, including GI Technologies (Beijing) Co. Xinhua interviewed Yao, who is listed in corporate records as general manager of GI Technologies.
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| Husband of Woman Murdered on Cruise Ship Weeps in Court as He's Charged With Murder Posted: 28 Jul 2017 01:14 PM PDT  After the murder, one of the couple's daughters was heard saying, "I knew my dad would do this."
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| President Trump Goes to War With His Staff Posted: 27 Jul 2017 01:28 PM PDT  Reince Priebus is increasingly under fire
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| Animals evacuated to Turkey from 'neglected' Syria zoo Posted: 28 Jul 2017 01:26 PM PDT  An international animal welfare charity was on Friday completing the evacuation of a dozen animals stranded in a neglected zoo in the conflict-torn Aleppo province of northern Syria. The Four Paws group was seeking to move two lions and two domestic dogs from the "Magic World" zoo and amusement park in Syria over the border into Turkey and then to an animal protection centre in the north of the country, a spokesman for the charity told AFP. The convoy with the animals crossed the Syria-Turkey border late Friday and was now on their way to the animal protection facility in Karacabey, outside the northwestern Turkish city of Bursa, said spokesman Martin Bauer.
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| 2017 Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 Posted: 27 Jul 2017 03:00 PM PDT  The Voodoo makes our skulls glow with excitement.
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| Firefighters rescue Ohio woman entangled by boa constrictor Posted: 28 Jul 2017 08:09 AM PDT ![Firefighters rescue Ohio woman entangled by boa constrictor]( "Firefighters rescue Ohio woman entangled by boa constrictor") SHEFFIELD LAKE, Ohio (AP) — An Ohio woman called 911 in a panic Thursday afternoon with ample reason: A 5 1/2-foot long boa constrictor she had rescued a day earlier had wrapped itself around her neck, was biting her face and wouldn't let go.
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| Racism levels in US communities predict how many black people police will kill there, study shows Posted: 27 Jul 2017 08:41 AM PDT  The racial biases of white members of a community have a direct link to the number of black people shot and killed by police officers in that same area, new research indicates. A study published last year found that African Americans are almost three times more likely than white people to be killed by the police's use of force. "We expected many economic or demographic variables such as the overall wealth of an area, residential segregation, average levels of education in the area, or overall crime levels, to be involved," said the report's lead author, Eric Hehman.
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| Sam Brownback Nominated As Ambassador-At-Large For Religious Freedom, Twitter reacts Posted: 26 Jul 2017 11:20 PM PDT  While some of his followers on the social media website congratulated him for his new role, many took to Twitter to criticize him for his performance as Governor and expressed happiness about him leaving the post.
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| Amazon's Jeff Bezos becomes world's richest: Forbes Posted: 27 Jul 2017 12:15 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Jeff Bezos has unseated fellow tech billionaire Bill Gates as the richest person in the world, profiting from the e-commerce company's meteoric stock rise to reach a fortune of $90.6 billion, Forbes reported. Amazon shares jumped 1.6 percent at the start of trading on Thursday, boosting the net worth of Bezos - the company's founder and largest shareholder - by $1.4 billion, according to Forbes, which tracks the world's wealthiest. The stock was up ahead of Amazon's second-quarter earnings report after Thursday's market close.
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| Firing Russia special counsel could sink Trump: Republican senator Posted: 27 Jul 2017 01:07 PM PDT  If Donald Trump fires the special prosecutor investigating his team's ties to alleged Russian meddling in the US election, it could mark "the beginning of the end" of the billionaire's presidency, a senior Republican lawmaker warned Thursday. Senator Lindsey Graham, who briefly ran against Trump in the Republican presidential primary, also insisted there would be "holy hell to pay" if Trump were to sack his embattled Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The fiery remarks signal that members of Trump's own party have grown increasingly irritated by possible efforts by the president to tamp down the Russia investigations.
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| Elon Musk Previews Tesla Model 3 Launch Event, And It Looks Huge Posted: 28 Jul 2017 02:27 AM PDT  The Tesla event of the year.
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| Parents of student sue University of Alabama over suicide Posted: 28 Jul 2017 08:22 AM PDT ![Parents of student sue University of Alabama over suicide]( "Parents of student sue University of Alabama over suicide") TUSCALOOSA, Ala. (AP) — A lawsuit filed by the parents of a Texas woman who killed herself after reporting she was sexually assaulted while attending the University of Alabama has been amended to include the school as a defendant.
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| Science journalist retires at 98 and warns of generation of Americans who suffer from a thinking 'disability’ Posted: 28 Jul 2017 03:46 AM PDT  A 98-year-old US science journalist, who has finally decided to retire, has said a generation of Americans are suffering from a "major disability in what they can think about and understand". David Perlman, who has not only won awards but had them named after him, said this was one reason why so many people refused to recognise climate change was real. Speaking to the website of the Poynter Institute, which trains the media, The San Francisco Chronicle journalist described cuts in science coverage by newspapers as "absolutely obscene".
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| John McCain on His 'Skinny Repeal' Vote: We Must Do the Work Our Citizens Deserve Posted: 28 Jul 2017 05:26 AM PDT  Read Sen. John McCain's statement explaining his dramatic skinny repeal vote Friday, striking down the GOP effort to replace Obamacare.
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| Baidu rebounds in Q2 with 83% jump in net income Posted: 28 Jul 2017 03:29 AM PDT  Chinese internet giant Baidu said Friday that its net income had soared 83 percent in the second quarter -- a strong recovery from tumbling profits in 2016 thanks to drastic spending cuts. The figure far exceeds analysts' estimates of 2.9 billion yuan, and is a sign of Baidu's recovery after authorities cracked down on its online advertising business, the company's primary revenue stream. Total revenues in the second quarter were 20.9 billion yuan ($3.08 billion), a 14.3 percent increase from the same period in 2016.
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| Frightening Video Of A Shark Jumping Aboard A Boat Posted: 27 Jul 2017 11:50 PM PDT  A fishing crew off the coast of Long Island got the shock of their life when a huge mako shark jumped onto their boat and got trapped.
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| Dozens injured in Barcelona commuter train crash Posted: 28 Jul 2017 06:33 AM PDT ![Dozens injured in Barcelona commuter train crash]( "Dozens injured in Barcelona commuter train crash")
A commuter train slammed into the end of the platform during the morning rush hour at a busy station in Barcelona on Friday, leaving dozens of people injured, emergency services said. One person was seriously injured, 19 were injured "less seriously" including the driver, and 34 were lightly injured in the accident at Francia station in the center of the Spanish city, emergency services said on Twitter. A French citizen and a Romanian were among the injured, a spokesman for the civil protection agency said. The rest were Spanish nationals. The regional train, traveling from the town of Sant Vicenc de Calders located about 70 kilometers (40 miles) southwest of Barcelona, ran into the buffers at 7:15 am (0515 GMT), Spanish train operator Renfe said. (AFP) See more news-related photo galleries and follow us on Yahoo News Photo Twitter and Tumblr.
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| Hezbollah and rebels agree ceasefire at Lebanese-Syrian border Posted: 27 Jul 2017 06:48 AM PDT  By Tom Perry BEIRUT (Reuters) - A ceasefire took effect on Thursday in a mountainous area of the Lebanese-Syrian border where Lebanon's Hezbollah says it is on the verge of defeating Nusra Front militants in their last foothold at the frontier. The ceasefire began at 6 a.m. (0300 GMT), halting fighting on all fronts in areas near the Lebanese frontier town of Arsal where Hezbollah launched its assault on Nusra Front jihadists on Friday, a military news service run by Hezbollah reported. A source familiar with negotiations, brokered by a Lebanese internal security agency, said remaining Nusra Front fighters were willing to accept safe passage to Syria's rebel-held Idlib and talks were continuing to agree the route they would take.
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| 2017 Toyota 4Runner 4x4 Posted: 27 Jul 2017 03:30 PM PDT  A specific tool for a particular fix.
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| North Dakota woman who threatened Muslims hugs one of them Posted: 27 Jul 2017 04:37 PM PDT ![North Dakota woman who threatened Muslims hugs one of them]( "North Dakota woman who threatened Muslims hugs one of them") FARGO, N.D. (AP) — A North Dakota woman who threatened some Muslim women in a Walmart parking lot met with two of them Thursday and all "expressed their sincere regrets" about the incident and apologized, Fargo's police chief said Thursday.
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| Grandmother lays in pool of blood playing dead after being attacked night before her husband's funeral Posted: 27 Jul 2017 07:26 AM PDT  An Arizona community is reeling after a grandmother was beat up in her home by an unknown assailant, and forced to lay in her own blood for hours playing dead for fear that her attacker would return. Jesse Leetham said in a Facebook that his grandmother was attacked after 11 p.m. the night before her husband's funeral, shortly after he left her home. The 82-year-old grandmother was washing dishes when she was assaulted, according to a press release from the Gila County Sheriff's Office.
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| US attorney general presses on with mission to El Salvador Posted: 27 Jul 2017 09:14 AM PDT  SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador (AP) — Though his future may be in doubt, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions forged ahead Thursday with a tough-on-crime agenda that once endeared him to President Donald Trump, opening a mission in El Salvador to step up international cooperation against the violent street gang MS-13.
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| Jordan says to bar Israel envoy until shooting probed Posted: 28 Jul 2017 10:28 AM PDT  Jordan will not allow the return of Israel's ambassador until the shooting of two Jordanians by an embassy security guard has been properly investigated, a government official said on Friday. "Jordan will not allow ambassador Einat Shlein or the rest of the embassy staff to return until a thorough investigation has been opened" into Sunday's shooting, the official said, adding Jordan informed Israel of its decision. Israel's foreign ministry late Friday said it had launched a "verification procedure" into the shooting.
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| Who is serial killer Joanna Dennehy? Posted: 27 Jul 2017 01:12 AM PDT  Psychopathic serial killer Joanna Dennehy is serving a whole life sentence for murdering three men before randomly selecting and attempting to kill two others. But who is she and how did the Home Counties schoolgirl become a cold-blooded killer? Who is Joanna Dennehy? Joanna Dennehy Credit: AP Photo/ Cambridgeshire Police Dennehy murdered Lukasz Slaboszewski, Kevin Lee and John Chapman in and around Peterborough over a 10-day period in March 2013. Police launched a nationwide hunt to find her after the bodies were discovered in remote ditches in Cambridgeshire, but she went on to drive 140 miles to Hereford where she repeatedly stabbed two dog walkers entirely at random. Miraculously they survived. Born in 1982 in St Albans, Hertfordshire, she was raised in a four-bedroom house in the affluent commuter town of Harpenden, Hertfordshire. A regular fixture on the school hockey and netball teams, the mother-of-two doesn't fit the bill of an archetypal serial killer. However she has been diagnosed with several psychopathic and anti-social disorders, including borderline personality disorder. After her arrest she was also diagnosed with paraphilia sadomasochism, where sexual excitement is derived from pain and humiliation. With a history of low-level crime, she was continuously on the police's radar. However no one could have guessed she was to become one of Britain's most notorious killers. Who were her victims? Lukasz Slaboszewski Lukasz Slaboszewski Credit: SWNS.com Her first victim was Lukasz Slaboszewski, 31, a Polish national. Dennehy had met Slaboszewski just days before killing him, at a property in Orton Goldhay, Peterborough on or soon after March 19. He had told friends he had met an "English girlfriend" and it is thought he went to meet Dennehy expecting sex. After being coaxed to meet Dennehy by a series of text messages, the killer stabbed Slaboszewski in the heart before storing his body in a wheelie bin - at one point smirking as she showed the corpse to a teenage girl. John Chapman John Chapman Credit: SWNS.com Dennehy's second victim was John Chapman, who she killed on 29 March. The 56-year-old Falklands veteran lived at a bedsit in the same run-down property as her. High on drink and drugs, he was "at the mercy" of Dennehy as she stabbed him to death. After Dennehy killed him, jurors at Cambridge Crown Court heard that she contacted her accomplice, the 7ft 3in Gary Richards - also known as Gary Stretch - and told him: "Oops, I've done it again." With the help of Stretch and friend Leslie Layton, she then transported the bodies in a car registered in the false company name Undertakers and Sons, before burying them. Kevin Lee Kevin Lee Credit: Newsteam Later that day Dennehy murdered her third victim, her landlord and lover Kevin Lee, 48. Stabbed in the neck and chest, Lee's body - wearing a black sequin dress and arranged in a sexual pose - was discovered in a roadside ditch near Newborough on March 30. Four days later, a farmer found the corpses of Slaboszewski and Chapman in a remote dyke five miles away. Lee, a married father-of-two, apparently once likened the serial killer to "Uma Thurman from Kill Bill and the woman from the Terminator". During the trial, Mr Justice Spencer told Dennehy: "The way in which his body was dumped was part of the playing out of your sexual and sadistic motivation." Robin Bereza and John Rogers As police launched a triple murder investigation and appealed for information about their whereabouts, Dennehy, Stretch and friend Mark Lloyd went on the run, driving to Hereford. Dennehy made it clear to the men she wanted "a man with a dog"; upon seeing Robin Bereza, 64, walking his dog she jumped out of the car and launched a frenzied attack on the retired firefighter. Describing the attack, Mark Lloyd said in court: "I thought she was going to mug him but then it twigged on me. I thought 'You just want blood'." After driving on, Dennehy then targeted John Rogers, 56, who was walking his pet lurcher. Both men suffered severe injuries but survived the attacks. Afterwards she climbed back into the car carrying Rogers' whippet and told the pair: "It's me only friend." Dennehy's accomplice, Gary Stretch Credit: SWNS.com What led her to kill? At the time of the murders neighbours claimed Dennehy had been involved in a row over the rented property she was living in. Slaboszewski and Chapman were said to have lived with Dennehy in a shared house, which was owned by property developer Mr Lee. All of her victims had been stabbed repeatedly with a 3in (9cm) pocket knife which, by the end of her spree, was apparently black with blood Credit: SWNS.com Mr Lee had been trying to evict Slaboszewski, Chapman and Dennehy in the weeks before the killings. Toni Roberts, who used to live in the house, told the court that the tenants had been served an eviction notice by him ordering them out by April 25 so the house could be renovated. The court was told that the serial killer then had a "thirst for blood" and while on the journey to Hereford the court heard that Dennehy told Stretch and Lloyd: "I want to have my fun", bragged that she and Stretch were "like Bonnie and Clyde" and said she "wanted nine victims". How was she caught? Dennehy was caught after two days on the run, on the day she attacked Bereza and Rogers and the day before the bodies of Slaboszewski and Chapman were found. Police used CCTV footage of the killer as she was driven across the country, as well as when she stopped to buy tobacco and at a service station. Upon her arrest, Dennehy was soon assessed as a psychiatric risk and taken to a mental health unit. Dennehy while on the run Credit: SWNS.com What happened in court? Judge Mr Justice Spencer told the Old Bailey on the day she was sentenced: "Within the space of ten days you murdered three men in cold blood. Although you pleaded guilty, you've made it quite clear you have no remorse." He added: "You are a cruel, calculating, selfish and manipulative serial killer." The judge described how Dennehy had sent him a letter saying she was not sorry for the murders. Joanna Dennehy Credit: Priscilla Coleman/MB Media He added that she told a psychiatrist: "I killed to see how I would feel, to see if I was as cold as I thought I was, then it got more-ish." Dennehy was ordered to serve the rest of her life in prison, while the killer laughed and smirked. She is one of just three women - alongside Myra Hindley, who is now deceased, and Rosemary West - in English history to be told that she can never be released. Stretch, Layton and Robert Moore, who provided accommodation to the killer for two nights, were also sentenced for helping in her killing spree. Joanna Dennehy: Killing for Kicks airs on Thursday 27 July on Channel 5 at 9pm
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| If Comcast buys Verizon, we should all give up and go home Posted: 27 Jul 2017 04:28 PM PDT 
The market for home internet in the US is already absurdly non-competitive. Barely 80 percent of Americans have a choice of providers for high-speed internet at home, a figure that means that you're likely living in a regional internet monopoly. But hey, maybe you should count yourself lucky. An industry analyst, Jason Bazinet from Citigroup, has penned an opinion saying that Comcast should pull a blockbuster deal and buy Verizon for around $215 billion.
A deal like that would probably make a huge amount of money for both companies. Comcast would finally have access to a wireless network (the nation's biggest, for that matter!), and it could fulfill the capitalist dream of tying customers into wireless, internet, and cable services. There are other economies of scale for a hypothetical Vericast: both Comcast and Verizon need to work out ways to build out high-speed gigabit connections to households in the next decade, and combining forces would make things much cheaper; Comcast recently bought spectrum licenses in the new 600MHz band, which Verizon could use to build out its network further; and possibly most tellingly, tax incentives and regulatory loosening by the Trump administration and the new-look FCC -- run by former Verizon lawyer Ajit Pai! -- would make a mammoth merger possible. But just because you can do something, doesn't mean you should. Vericast/Satan's ISP would be comfortably the largest ISP in the US, with the power and scale to take on smaller ISP monopolies like Spectrum or CenturyLink. Tiny local internet providers wouldn't stand a chance. In any normal world, a government would stand in the way of a total takeover of a precious national resource by the country's most-hated brand. But right now, it's possible -- and the potential profits has Wall Street visibly salivating.
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| American Airlines launches baggage alert system for bags gone astray Posted: 28 Jul 2017 02:53 AM PDT  American Airlines has launched a new baggage alert system that will inform customers about the status of their luggage and save them from waiting around at baggage carrousel.
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| U.S. transfers surveillance planes to the Philippines Posted: 27 Jul 2017 04:48 AM PDT  The United States on Thursday transferred to the Philippines two brand-new, single-engine surveillance planes, boosting the capability of its former colony to patrol sprawling maritime borders, including pirate-infested southern waters. At a ceremony at an air base in Manila, Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana said two Cessna 208B aircraft were fitted with electro-optical sensors and other surveillance equipment to detect ships in the South China Sea and the Sulu Sea. "These planes will give us more capability to patrol our seas and guard against intrusions," Lorenzana said.
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| Wife of Zimbabwe's leader says Mugabe should name successor Posted: 27 Jul 2017 10:43 AM PDT  Zimbabwe's first lady on Thursday publicly urged her 93-year-old husband to name a successor, wading into a subject that President Robert Mugabe has regarded as taboo.
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| Bollinger B1: the coolest electric car you’ve never heard of Posted: 28 Jul 2017 01:30 AM PDT  Not every electric car needs to be a high-tech speed machine capable of sorting your email, giving you a back rub and making you an espresso, all while hustling down the highway on its own. An electric car can also be a low-maintenance, utilitarian workhorse that would be right at home for example on a farm or work site. Thankfully there is such a vehicle, or there will be soon: the B1 from electric car startup Bollinger Motors.
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| Reports: Japan defense chief to quit over document cover-up Posted: 27 Jul 2017 07:58 AM PDT  TOKYO (AP) — Japan's beleaguered defense minister, a protege of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, will step down in connection with an alleged cover-up of military documents from U.N. peacekeeping operations, media reports said Thursday.
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| Twitter Rips Apart Dylan Pickle's Letter To Trump Posted: 26 Jul 2017 08:59 PM PDT  Twitterati refused to believe the letter was authentic and criticized the White House for propaganda.
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| Teenager killed at Ohio State Fair after ride breaks and hurls him into air Posted: 27 Jul 2017 04:27 AM PDT  One man has been killed and seven others injured after a thrill ride broke apart, throwing them up into the air. Video captured by a bystander at the Ohio State Fair fair shows the Fire Ball ride swinging back and forth like a pendulum and spinning in the air before it crashes into something and part of the ride flies off. Ohio State Medical Centre said three of the injured were being treated there.
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| Live TV reporter acts perfectly calm as spider casually crawls all over her Posted: 27 Jul 2017 07:48 AM PDT  Though this skin-crawling sight might be hard to miss, don't let it fool you into believing that TV reporting is an easy job. Dallas, Texas, news reporter Shannon Murray didn't even flinch when a creepy spider used her arm as a personal walkway on live TV. Good Day Fox 4 posted the clip of Murray to Facebook on Wednesday. Murray was doing a report on protests at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport when the whole thing went down. After the report, someone on Facebook let Murray known that she had unknowingly survived the stuff of nightmares. This might be why they say "ignorance is bliss." THIS. JUST. HAPPENED. I knew I felt something on me!! pic.twitter.com/1Xn7YIfp1p — Shannon Murray (@ShannonMFox4) July 26, 2017 Thankfully, she kept calm on air and handled herself flawlessly, but the whole situation can be best summed up in Murray's tweet after everything happened. WHY DO BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE? https://t.co/TuycZsfQl9 — Shannon Murray (@ShannonMFox4) July 26, 2017 WATCH: Protect your face from sun damage with this portable awning
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