| White House pushes back against criticism of Trump’s Charlottesville response Posted: 13 Aug 2017 12:46 PM PDT  After the president's initial remarks about Saturday's violence were criticized as too vague, the White House issued a follow-up Sunday.
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| Buying Opioids Online: A Look Into the Thriving Industry Posted: 13 Aug 2017 10:46 AM PDT  The synthetic opioid Fentanyl is killing Americans every day as the nation's opioid epidemic reaches a national emergency. But, online, the drug is easily available to purchase and get shipped.
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| Drunken American beaten up after giving Nazi salute in Germany Posted: 14 Aug 2017 01:26 AM PDT  A drunken American tourist was beaten up after giving a Nazi salute in Dresden, local police say. The 41-year-old man, who was lightly injured in the attack, was being investigated for using symbols from banned organisations after giving the salute. Public displays of Nazi symbols like the swastika or gestures like the "Heil Hitler" salute have been banned in Germany since the end of World War II. A conviction usually results in a fine but can carry a prison sentence of up to three years. The incident happened on Saturday morning as the inebriated tourist left a bar in the eastern city's Neustadt area and repeatedly gave the Hitler salute on the street. "An unknown passerby then beat up the man and slightly injured him," a police statement said. The district in which this took place is known to be a liberal part of town and is a popular meeting place for students. Police said the man who beat him up fled the scene, and that the American tourist was "severely drunk". They are still seeking the passer-by for causing personal injury. A week ago, two Chinese tourists were arrested for giving Nazi salutes outside the Reichstag. They were fined almost £500 each but were allowed to leave the country with their tour group.
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| US Navy reports another tense encounter with an Iran drone Posted: 14 Aug 2017 09:49 AM PDT ![US Navy reports another tense encounter with an Iran drone]( "US Navy reports another tense encounter with an Iran drone") DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — An unarmed Iranian drone shadowed a U.S. aircraft carrier at night and came close enough to F-18 fighter jets to put the lives of American pilots at risk, the Navy said Tuesday, reporting the second such tense encounter within a week.
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| Can McMaster And Bannon Work Together? McMaster Won't Say Posted: 12 Aug 2017 11:38 PM PDT  When asked by Chuck Todd whether National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster can work alongside Presidential Adviser Steve Bannon, McMaster repeatedly answering definitively.
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| SpaceX just landed a rocket back on Earth after flying it to space. How's your Monday? Posted: 14 Aug 2017 10:32 AM PDT  This isn't getting old yet. The first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket built by Elon Musk's SpaceX came in for a dusty and impressive landing at the company's landing zone in Cape Canaveral, Florida on Monday. The landing occurred about 10 minutes after the rocket launched a Dragon cargo craft carrying supplies to the International Space Station. SEE ALSO: Elon Musk's SpaceX starts off its week with an impressive rocket launch and landing This marks the company's 14th successful landing and its 6th successful one on land, with the rest of them taking place on drone ships in the ocean. SpaceX founder Elon Musk has long said that he hopes this kind of feat can become routine, and the company is well on its way toward making that happen. Quick video recap of Falcon 9 launch of Dragon for its twelfth @ISS resupply mission. A post shared by SpaceX (@spacex) on Aug 14, 2017 at 12:04pm PDT The rocket landings are a critical component of SpaceX's business plan, which calls for lowering the cost of spaceflight through the reuse of rockets. At this point it's a surprise when a landing doesn't work perfectly, not when it does. The Dragon is now working its way to the Space Station, loaded down with thousands of pounds of supplies for the crew onboard. It should arrive at the orbiting lab in about two days. This marks SpaceX's 12th official cargo run to the station for NASA. Kicking up some dust during landing.Image: spacexIn the future, the company is expected to start launching people to the station for NASA as part of the agency's commercial crew program, designed to end reliance on Russian rockets to get astronauts to outer space. WATCH: Here's how Virgin's space program is different than SpaceX
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| North Korea's Kim puts army on alert; U.S. warns it can intercept missile Posted: 14 Aug 2017 04:11 PM PDT  By Idrees Ali and Christine Kim WASHINGTON/SEOUL (Reuters) - Defense Secretary Jim Mattis warned on Monday that the U.S. military would be prepared to intercept a missile fired by North Korea if it was headed to Guam, while North Korean leader Kim Jong Un alerted his army that it should always be fire-ready. Mattis told reporters that the U.S. military would know the trajectory of a missile fired by North Korea within moments and would "take it out" if it looked like it would hit the U.S. Pacific territory.
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| Sainsbury's worker tracks down missing four-year-old American girl from his Surrey bedroom 5000 miles away Posted: 14 Aug 2017 01:40 AM PDT  A British supermarket worker solved a US missing person's case when he located a four-year-old girl online from his bedroom. Harry Brown was able to track down Yvette Henley to a motel in Arizona – 5,000 miles from his Surrey home – where she was being held by her estranged father. An avid gamer, the 21-year-old had been contacted by the child's grandparents, Gary and Kim Forester, after it emerged Mr Brown was a friend of Virgil Henley, the girl's father, on Facebook, according to MirrorOnline.
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| Tiki denounces use of torches by white nationalists in Charlottesville Posted: 14 Aug 2017 05:42 AM PDT  "We do not support their message or the use of our products in this way," the company that makes the backyard bamboo torches said in a statement.
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| NASA’s Golden Records Coming Back to Life, 40 Years Later Posted: 13 Aug 2017 10:57 AM PDT  Golden records were brought aboard the Voyager space shuttle. Each record contained greetings in 55 languages, music and images - the idea was to give extraterrestrials an idea of life on earth. They are now being recreated as a box set and a book.
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| 3 Shot Dead At Great Lakes Dragaway In Kenosha County Posted: 13 Aug 2017 10:20 PM PDT  The shooting took place around 8 p.m. EDT at the Larry's Fun Fest event. The attacker is on the run and the police are investigating the matter.
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| Pakistan marks 70 years of independence with fireworks, air show Posted: 14 Aug 2017 12:25 PM PDT  Pakistan on Monday celebrated 70 years of independence from British India with a patriotic display including a giant flag and a show of airpower, as the military's top brass vowed to wipe out terrorists hours before a new bomb attack killed six soldiers. Celebrations began at the stroke of midnight with firework shows in major cities. At the highly symbolic Wagah eastern border crossing with India, army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa raised a massive national flag on a 400 foot (122-metre) pole as crowds chanted patriotic slogans.
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| Anthony Scaramucci says White House leakers are working against Donald Trump, in first interview since he was fired Posted: 13 Aug 2017 08:48 AM PDT  The are elements in Washington and inside the White House who are working against the president and trying to undermine his agenda and eject him from power, according to Anthony Scaramucci, Donald Trump's former communications director. Speaking for the first time since he was fired after only 10 days in the job, Mr Scaramucci said the president was the target of the city's political establishment. "The president is not a representative of the political establishment class," he told George Stephanopoulos of ABC News on Sunday. A timeline of Anthony Scaramucci's fall from grace 02:06 "So for whatever reason people have made the decision that they want to eject him. It's almost like he has opened up the door for America's CEOs and America's billionaires to enter Washington's political system. "The members of that political class do not like that." Mr Scaramucci was fired last month after a recording of an expletive-laden conversation with a journalist came to light. In it, he poured scorn on Reince Priebus, the then White House chief of staff, and Steven Bannon, Mr Trump's chief strategist. Scaramucci on his comments that he would fire leakers: "I was hoping that it would set a reset of the culture." https://t.co/87GaeiHdDfpic.twitter.com/qLZVXMkNN7— This Week (@ThisWeekABC) August 13, 2017 His departure as head of communications – before his tenure had even started – reinforced a sense of chaos at the heart of an unconventional administration. On Sunday, he again insisted he believed the conversation was off the record. He went on to say that the president needed to bring in more loyalists, rather than party apparatchiks, to his team to drive through his agenda. And he added that he wanted to see the president move away from the likes of Mr Bannon towards the mainstream to bring in more moderates. But he said the president was still struggling to get his message across as the administration battled leaks. "At the end of the day I think the president has a very good idea of who the leakers are inside the White House, the president has a very good idea of who is undermining his agenda, that are serving their own interests."
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| 17 Immigrants Were Rescued From a Truck Parked at a Texas Rest-Stop Posted: 13 Aug 2017 08:45 PM PDT  All of them made it out alive
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| Night riders — surfers at night Posted: 14 Aug 2017 02:00 AM PDT ![Night riders — surfers at night]( "Night riders — surfers at night") These photos from inside the breaking waves show boarders shooting through a tunnel of water, with the blue sea highlighted against a deep orange backdrop.
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| China a sweet spot for U.S. companies’ earnings in second-quarter Posted: 14 Aug 2017 03:56 AM PDT  By Adam Jourdan SHANGHAI (Reuters) - Trade tensions between Washington and Beijing may be running high but Corporate America is finding China to be a reliable source of profit growth this year. Whether they sell construction equipment, semiconductors or coffee, many major U.S. companies have reported stronger second-quarter earnings and revenue from their Chinese operations in recent weeks. Chinese President Xi Jinping's ambitious plan to build a new Silk Road that will improve links between China and dozens of countries in Asia and Europe, and includes many billions of dollars of new roads, bridges, railways and power plants – is also helping American firms to sell heavy equipment and other products.
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| Charlottesville photo: Man shouting angrily at white supremacist rally insists he is not an 'angry racist' Posted: 14 Aug 2017 01:31 AM PDT  A student pictured chanting white nationalist slogans during a neo-nazi rally in Charlottesville has spoken out to insist he is not "an angry racist". Peter Cvjetanovic, a 20-year-old studying at the University of Nevada, claims he "cares for all people". "I came to this march for the message that white European culture has a right to be here just like every other culture," Mr Cvjetanovic told Channel 2 News.
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| New travel book compiles 50 of the world's most epic road trips Posted: 14 Aug 2017 04:04 AM PDT  For those who love hitting the open road, editors at Lonely Planet have compiled the world's best road trips in a new book that includes both classic journeys and trips off the well-paved path. "Epic Drives of the World" features 50 of the greatest road trips on earth, from the windswept Wild Atlantic Way in Ireland, to the Ho Chi Minh Road in Vietnam. The otherworldly landscape of Iceland's Ring Road, Australia's Great Ocean Road and America's Historic Route 66 also get nods.
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| Ohio Police Officer Beats Traffic Offender Before Arrest, Video Goes Viral Posted: 13 Aug 2017 03:54 AM PDT  The police officer, who engaged in violent behavior, is currently on paid administrative leave after the video of the violent arrest went viral.
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| Kenya's Odinga mulls next move on disputed election Posted: 14 Aug 2017 06:03 AM PDT  Kenya's opposition leader Raila Odinga was weighing his next move Monday to contest an election he claims was rigged after defying pressure at home and from abroad to take his complaints to the courts. The 72-year-old insists he was the rightful winner of a "stolen" election last week and urged his supporters to stay away from work Monday to mourn the deaths of those killed in angry protests against the re-election of President Uhuru Kenyatta. "You know, I am very sad that Raila did not win, but what can he do now?
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| How many nukes are in the world and what could they destroy? Posted: 14 Aug 2017 01:06 AM PDT  Tensions over nuclear weapons have been raised further after Donald Trump said North Korea will be met with "fire and fury like the world has never seen" after US intelligence concluded the rogue state has produced a miniaturised nuclear warhead. This latest move comes amid increasing concern over North Korea's military capabilities, with the new US administration upping its rhetoric in response. While the Pyongyang regime increases the frequency with which it is conducting missile tests, Donald Trump's defence secretary Jim 'Mad Dog' Mattis has previously warned North Korea of an "effective and overwhelming" response if Pyongyang used nuclear weapons. Elsewhere, rhetoric hints at a return of the expansion of nuclear arsenals across the world. In December, Russian President Vladimir Putin told a meeting of defence chiefs that strengthening nuclear capability should be a key objective for 2017. Donald Trump then took to Twitter to respond, vowing to do the same. The United States must greatly strengthen and expand its nuclear capability until such time as the world comes to its senses regarding nukes— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) December 22, 2016 Such rhetoric has led to concerns about the world's nuclear capacity and the unpredictability of those in charge of the warheads. It seems the world is a long way from "coming to its senses" - with millions of kilotons already in military service around the world. Between them, the world's nuclear-armed states have around 15,000 warheads - the majority of which belong to the US and Russia. It is estimated that just under 10,000 of these are in military service, with the rest awaiting dismantlement, according to the Arms Control Association. Putin says Russia should strengthen its nuclear arsenal 00:51 Which countries have nuclear weapons? There are five nuclear-weapon states in the world: China, France, Russia, United Kingdom and the United States. These are officially recognised as possessing such weapons by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. This treaty acknowledges and legitimises their arsenals, but they are not supposed to build or maintain them forever. Indeed, they have committed to eliminate them. There are also four other countries that have nuclear weapons: Pakistan, India, Israel and North Korea. These countries didn't sign the Treaty, and together possess an estimated 340 nuclear weapons. But it's Russia and the US that have by far the most in the world - dominating all other countries by collectively sharing 88 per cent of the world's arsenal of stockpiled nukes. This figure increases to 93 per cent when we consider retired nukes. How the world's 15,000 nukes are divided How deadly could these nuclear weapons be? The world's current collection of 14,900 nuclear weapons possesses enough power to kill millions of people and flatten dozens of cities. According to Telegraph research, it is estimated that the US and Russian arsenals combined have power equating to 6,600 megatons. This is a tenth of the total solar energy received by Earth every minute. According to the NukeMap website, the dropping of the B-83, the largest bomb in the current US arsenal, would kill 1.4m people in the first 24 hours. A further 3.7m people would be injured, as the thermal radiation radius reached 13.km. Likewise, the "Tsar Bomba" is the largest USSR bomb tested. If this bomb was dropped on New York, it is estimated that it could kill 7.6m people and injure 4.2m more. The nuclear fallout could reach an approximate area of 7,880km on a 15mph wind, impacting millions more people. Both America and Russia's arsenals are regulated by several treaties that place limits on the numbers and kinds of warheads and delivery systems they have. If either country were to expand their nuclear capacity even further, as Trump and Putin have hinted at, it could shatter these agreements and plunge the world into a new Cold War. North Korean missile ranges Our figures on nuclear weapons, based on statistics from the Arms Control Association, are mainly estimates because of the secretive nature with which most governments treat information about their arsenals.
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| US military says 2 American soldiers killed in Iraq Posted: 13 Aug 2017 08:35 AM PDT ![US military says 2 American soldiers killed in Iraq]( "US military says 2 American soldiers killed in Iraq") BAGHDAD (AP) — Two American soldiers have been killed while conducting combat operations in Iraq, the U.S. military said Sunday, adding that "initial reports indicate the incident was not due to enemy contact."
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| U.S. Company Offers To Help Restart the Search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Posted: 13 Aug 2017 08:59 AM PDT  Seabed exploration company Ocean Infinity said Friday it had offered to take the financial risk of a renewed search for the missing Malaysian airliner.
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| Charlottesville Victim Identified as 32-Year-Old Woman Who Stood Up Against 'Hate & Bigotry' Posted: 13 Aug 2017 09:46 AM PDT  She stood up against "hate & bigotry"
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| Video Captures Great White Shark Feeding On Whale Carcass Posted: 13 Aug 2017 05:16 AM PDT  A group of private whale watchers came across a rare sight of a pair of great white sharks eating a dead minke whale near the Race Point Beach in Provincetown, Massachusetts.
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| White House defends Trump's response to Virginia violence Posted: 13 Aug 2017 11:27 AM PDT  The White House on Sunday struggled to defuse the growing criticism of President Donald Trump's initial failure to explicitly condemn white supremacists for their role in the violent protest Saturday in Virginia, insisting that his condemnation included all such groups. A young woman died and 19 people were injured in the city of Charlottesville when a car plowed into a crowd of people after a rally by Ku Klux Klan members and other white nationalists turned violent. A full day after the violence erupted, and after an initial statement in which Trump made no mention of white extremism, a White House spokesperson issued a statement saying, "The president said very strongly in his statement yesterday that he condemns all forms of violence, bigotry and hatred.
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| 'Meet a Muslim' events hope to dispel misconceptions Posted: 13 Aug 2017 12:45 PM PDT  FREMONT, Calif. (AP) — When Moina Shaiq realized even her friends were scared to ask her about her religion for fear of offending her or sounding uneducated, she put an advertisement in a California newspaper: "Questions and answers about being Muslim."
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| John Oliver explains North Korea, that other giant crisis you forgot about Posted: 14 Aug 2017 12:08 PM PDT  With this weekend's news cycle understandably absorbed with the events in Charlottesville, it's easy to forget that a game of nuclear brinksmanship between a pair of stubborn leaders is accelerating rapidly towards the use of nuclear weapons. Luckily, late-night comedians are here to remind us about the impending fall of civilization. John Oliver's Last Week Tonight dedicated its main topic to North Korea this week, and answers some surprisingly basic questions: what's going on, how did we get here, and are we all about to die? Oliver's monologue begins exactly as you'd expect: addressing what's happened in the last week, and how one man with a Twitter account can feasibly orchestrate the end of civilization. But he devoted a surprising amount of time to covering the other side of the debate, or why North Korea and Kim Jong-Un are acting in a rational way, at least from their perspective. As he explains, the DPRK has watched the US "deal" with regimes like Saddam Hussein and Muammar Gaddafi, and how US intervention in those countries ended. In the case of Iraq, sanctions followed by inspections and deals -- the textbook diplomatic response -- ended up with the overthrow of the regime, and a decade of complete instability. For Kim Jong-Un, avoiding that fate is a rational move. As Oliver points out, "It's true that dictators generally don't end their careers like disgraced American politicians with a stint on 'Dancing with the Stars,' although that would have been an incredible season." Unfortunately, this isn't an episode with a happy ending. The conclusion is that America and North Korea both have powerful leaders who are used to issuing empty threats in order to impress people and try and "win" negotiations. One of them is going to have to lose face at some point, or this situation is going to end as messily as we're all imagining.
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| U.S. Soldiers Killed In Combat Operations Against ISIS Posted: 14 Aug 2017 01:18 AM PDT  "They were fighting to defeat a truly evil enemy and to protect our homelands," the military said in a statement.
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| Bagel murder suspect had been cut out of family fortune weeks before killings, documents show Posted: 13 Aug 2017 01:30 PM PDT  A son suspected of stabbing to death his mother and sister at their £1.5m home had been cut out of the family's bagel baking fortune just weeks earlier. The wealthy bakers were found murdered in the family's home in Golders Green at 8.50pm on Friday in what police have described as "a devastating attack". Joshua Cohen, 27, was arrested in a park on Saturday after his mother Leah, 66, and sister Hannah, 33 were killed. He was charged with murder on Sunday night, and has been remanded in custody until Monday, when he will appear before Hendon Magistrates Court. Family tributes describe them both as "loving and wonderful" people. Mr Cohen's late father Asher was one of the founders of the world renown Beigel Bake in Brick Lane, London, and just weeks ago probate was granted on his estate only naming Mr Cohen's two older brothers Nathan, 30, and Daniel, 34, as directors of the company. Hannah Cohen, 33, was found stabbed to death with her mother in Golders Green, north London. His father died last December at the age of 81. Probate on his estate was granted on July 27 and on the same day the directorship of the Beigel Bake empire was altered to list two of Mr Cohen's brothers as directors. All three brothers had worked in the family business. On Sunday tributes were paid to his mother and sister. The family run the Beigel Bake business in Brick Lane. Credit: Jenny Matthews / Alamy Stock Photo Hannah, who had studied psychology at City University London, was a former pupil at the prestigious Carmel College, Wallingford, which has since closed. Her former schoolfriend told the Telegraph it was a "tragedy". She ran a cake business called Coco Cakes with her sister-in-law Deborah Cohen. Hannah Cohen with her sister-in-law Deborah. Mrs Cohen, who is married to Daniel, told the Mail: "She was a loving aunt to her niece and four nephews and the older ones loved nothing more than baking with her. "She was absolutely selfless and did everything for everyone else. "She was the greatest cook. We went over there every Sunday to eat together as a family and she made the most amazing food. My kids absolutely adored her." Yesterday a message on the company's Facebook page stated: "I'm very sad to say, there will be no more cakes by Coco Cakes." Hannah's mother Leah was described by her family as "a loving, generous and a wonderful mother to her five children". Police at the scene of the double murder of Hannah Cohen and her mother Leah in Golders Green. Credit: Paul Grover Formal identification and post mortem examinations have yet to take place but police are confident they know the identify of the victims. Their next-of-kin have been informed. Staff at Beigel Bake were too upset to talk last night. Mr Cohen senior, who died in December aged 81, arrived in the UK from Israel in the 1960s and worked at his brother's bakery next door initially before branching out and opening his bagel business. Forensics the house in Golders Green Crescent at the scene of a double murder. Credit: Paul Grover Beigel Bake was set up by Mr Cohen senior with his brother and another partner in 1974 and was first Britain's first bagel bakery. It started out as a wholesale business and almost everything was made by hand in traditional Jewish style and is famed for its salt beef bagel. It remains a 24 hour bakery and produces 7,000 bagels everyday.
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| Charlottesville: 'Maniac' participant in white supremacist rally disowned by family Posted: 14 Aug 2017 02:00 PM PDT  A man who marched in the white supremacy rally in Charlottesville, Virginia has been disowned by his family. Peter Tefft of Fargo, North Dakota, "is a maniac, who has turned away from all of us and gone down some insane internet rabbit-hole, and turned into a crazy nazi," said his nephew, Jacob Scott, in a statement to a local television station. On Saturday, Charlottesville became embroiled in violence when white nationals, who were protesting against the removal of a Confederate statue, clashed with counter-demonstrators.
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| Here Are The Odds An Asteroid Will Hit Earth Posted: 14 Aug 2017 09:08 AM PDT  Scientists calculated the odds that a 1,000-foot asteroid will strike Earth in the next century.
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| 60-Day-Old Panda Cub - Still Without a Name - Crawls Around and Cuddles with Mom Posted: 14 Aug 2017 08:12 AM PDT  The public is going to name the panda.
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| Vega: Trump 'has yet to offer a full rebuke' of Charlottesville 'even in the face of near universal condemnation' Posted: 13 Aug 2017 09:43 AM PDT  ABC News' Cecilia Vega and Pierre Thomas analyze President Trump's response condemning bigotry "on many sides" following white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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| Demolishing Beijing's 'disorderly' development Posted: 14 Aug 2017 11:20 AM PDT ![Demolishing Beijing's 'disorderly' development]( "Demolishing Beijing's 'disorderly' development") Beijing's municipal government launched a campaign this year to eradicate what it called an "urban disease" of illegal construction and unsafe buildings in the city of nearly 22 million people.
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| Questions about lawyers' fees put El Chapo defense in limbo Posted: 14 Aug 2017 11:29 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Private lawyers seeking to represent Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman in his U.S. drug-trafficking case failed to get assurances Monday that they'll get paid, leaving the Mexican drug lord's defense in limbo.
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| Mueller seeks interview with ex-White House top aide: report Posted: 13 Aug 2017 04:36 AM PDT  US special prosecutor Robert Mueller is seeking an interview with ousted White House chief of staff Reince Priebus as he expands his probe of Russian interference in the November election, The New York Times reported Sunday. Mueller wants to question current and former senior officials in President Donald Trump's administration about his move to fire FBI director James Comey, in an attempt to determine whether the US leader obstructed justice, the newspaper said, citing people briefed on the matter. In a sign that Mueller's investigation may be intensifying, he ordered FBI agents last month to raid the home of former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort.
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| Syria investigator del Ponte says enough evidence to convict Assad of war crimes: SonntagsZeitung Posted: 13 Aug 2017 02:38 AM PDT  The U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria has gathered enough evidence for President Bashar al-Assad to be convicted of war crimes, a prominent member of the commission, Carla del Ponte, said in remarks published on Sunday. Del Ponte, 70, who prosecuted war crimes in Rwanda and former Yugoslavia, announced last week that she was stepping down from her role in frustration at the U.N. Security Council's failure to continue the commission's work by setting up a special tribunal for Syria that could try alleged war criminals.
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| iPhone 8: Rumours, release date and everything you need to know Posted: 14 Aug 2017 04:05 AM PDT  Apple is gearing up to release its new iPhone in a few weeks' time. The upcoming iPhone 8 is anticipated to mark a radical change for the company as it seeks to wow users with a 10th anniversary device. The iPhone 8, if indeed it is called that, has been rumoured to include wireless charging, facial recognition, an edge-to-edge display and - for the first time - no home button. The latest leaks have revealed the three colours to expect from the new iPhone and its screen design. Here's what we're expecting from the iPhone 8 release. When will it be released? Apple has developed a fairly regular release pattern. A new iPhone is usually unveiled in early September, either on a Tuesday or Wednesday. Perhaps by coincidence, it normally comes the week after IFA, a major technology conference in Germany, which this year starts on September 1. That means the best guess is Tuesday September 5 or Wednesday September 6 for the iPhone 8 release. Because the Monday is a US holiday, Wednesday might be more likely. Apple | iPhone release dates The phone then tends to go on sale a week or two later on a Friday, so September 15 or 22 are the best bets. Pre-orders tend to open a week before they go on sale. There have been repeated rumours of production delays around the new launch. Apple has dismissed these fears, predicting strong sales in the coming months - above expectations and presumably driven by an iPhone launch. Apple chief executive Tim Cook said a current "pause" in sales "probably bodes well for the future". One respected Apple analyst has predicted three new iPhones will be released on the same day, but the iPhone 8 with its advanced design elements will see limited supply for early orders in the first few months of sales. What will it be called? Apple has followed a familiar pattern since it released the iPhone 3G back in 2008. It launches a new phone with a major cosmetic change one year and then follows a year later with an improved "s" model. The last iPhone was the iPhone 7 so by that logic the next one would be called the iPhone 7s. However, there are reasons to believe it could change this year. For one thing, last year's iPhone 7 was less of a radical departure from the iPhones of the previous two years, at least appearance-wise. If Apple does choose to introduce a brand new design, it probably wouldn't want to call it the 7s. The iPhone 8 makes more sense in that case. iPhone evolution Apple may choose to make a splash for its 10th anniversary, though. One rumoured name is the iPhone X. This makes some sense - few of Apple's series make it into double digits before changing their naming conventions (iPhone 13?) - so at some point a change is likely. There's a precedent here in Apple's Mac operating system - it went 1, 2, 3 and so on before switching to OS X. How much will it cost? Potentially a lot. Flagship handsets have been going up in price every year and the iPhone 8 could be Apple's most expensive handset yet, costing more than $1,000 in the US and £800 in the UK, Fast Company reports. An executive at Apple manufacturer Foxconn has suggested the device will "not be cheap". At a glance | Worldwide iPhone sales What will it look like? What will the iPhone 8 look like? What colours will it come in? Analysts and leaks suggest the iPhone 8 will come in at least three colours: white, black and copper or gold. The white and black colours are fairly standard, but a third colour is thought to be coming in either a copper or a champagne gold hue. Credit: MyDrivers Reports from iPhone leaker Benjamin Geskin have also indicated the iPhone 8 will come in what is being called "Blush Gold", while it is rumoured to only come in three colours, dropping the pinkish "rose gold" that had come on previous models. Foxconn's internal name of the new #iPhone8 color is "Blush Gold" (腮红金) Barcode says "Blush Gold 64GB / 128GB" pic.twitter.com/MZPTfVAr2P— Benjamin Geskin (@VenyaGeskin1) August 12, 2017 What features will it have? Here are some of the most plausible suggestions floating around the rumour mill. Three different phones? For the last three years, Apple has released two phones, a 4.7-inch screen and a "Plus" 5.5-inch screen. But reports suggest the new high-end iPhone 8 or iPhone Pro will be its big release for 2017. The third model may have an OLED (organic light-emitting diode) screen, as opposed to the LCD screens on current iPhones. OLED is an upgrade on LCD in many ways, improving brightness and viewing angles, and is already used in devices such as Samsung's Galaxy S7. iPhone 8 concept Credit: ConceptsiPhone If Apple does introduce a new premium phone, some of the features that are rumoured for the iPhone 8 may only apply to that model. Edge-to-edge display It has long been an ambition of Sir Jony Ive, Apple's design chief, to make an iPhone that looks like one piece of glass, with a screen that covers the whole of the front of the phone. Rumours suggest this might finally come to fruition with the new iPhone 8. Apple could replace the device's aluminium frame with a glass back, and have a screen that curves around the sides. Apple appeared to confirm the rumours in a leak at the end of July. An outline for what could be the company's next phone was discovered in the firmware of the HomePod. It showed an all-screen face. Apple leak in HomePod firmware could be iPhone 8 design Credit: Apple Such a design would allow Apple to increase the screen size of the iPhone without increasing its actual footprint. It has been suggested the new phone will come with 5-inch and 5.8-inch screens. It would also require the front-facing camera to be built into the screen, not to mention... No home button The home button has been a feature of every iPhone since the first one 10 years ago, but Apple may be in a position to get rid of it. It has already introduced advanced pressure-detection technology with 3D Touch, and last year's iPhone 7 had a solid-state home button that vibrates instead of clicks. A mock up of the new iPhone with no home button Credit: Evan Blass The iPhone screen now also wakes up when the phone is picked up, so there is less need to click a physical home button. Apple has patented a way of embedding Touch ID, its fingerprint reading technology, in the screen, so that might solve security issues. The latest leaks from Apple's firmware revealed a virtual home button, that could be resized or even hidden. A 'SmartCam' Leaks at the end of July from Apple's own code suggested new developments in Apple's camera technology. The "SmartCam" was revealed in firmware for the HomePod smart speaker, which revealed it could identify different scenes and objects, such as fireworks, foliage, babies, pets, snow or sport. Pearl ID Apple is expected to replace its Touch ID fingerprint scanner and home button with a facial recognition infrared scanner that unlocks the phone using facial recognition software. Developers found references in code for the HomePod smart speaker suggesting an infrared scanner could be used to unlock the phone facial recognition is currently available on rival phones such as the Samsung Galaxy S8. Several leaks have also suggested the new facial recognition technology will be dubbed "Pearl ID", rather than "Face ID", as it has been called by some developers. I can confirm reports that HomePod's firmware reveals the existence of upcoming iPhone's infra-red face unlock in BiometricKit and elsewhere pic.twitter.com/yLsgCx7OTZ— Steve T-S (@stroughtonsmith) July 31, 2017 There are suggestions that the facial recognition could allow the iPhone to be able to tell when you are looking at it, so that it can mute notification sounds and saving your colleagues from your annoying ringtone. Hardware face detection and tracking sounds really cool pic.twitter.com/CqVQFLYIzF— Guilherme Rambo (@_inside) August 8, 2017 iOS 11 The best indication of how the iPhone 8 could look is Apple's latest software, which was unveiled in June and will ship on the new device. The standout features of iOS 11 are peer-to-peer Apple Pay and a redesigned Control Centre. It also has a revamped Siri and a do not disturb while driving mode. iOS 11: 17 new and hidden features for your Apple iPhone and iPad Wireless charging Batteries are still the big problem with mobile phones - as good as they are, most still last just a day - and battery tech is only making incremental progress. This means manufacturers have focused on technology such as fast charging as a compromise. But Apple could go one better and allow wireless charging. Apple famously removed the iPhone 7's headphone jack, which meant users could not listen to wired headphones and charge their phone through the Lightning port at the same time. Removing the second part of that equation might make sense. A concept of the new iPhone 8 on a charging pad Credit: Benjamin Geskin Some phones and devices like the Apple Watch already use charging that requires the device to be placed on a inductive pad. Apple going one further and allowing true wireless charging that beams power from the socket would be a real breakthrough. Apples iPhone: a definitive history in pictures
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| NBA star Hassan Whiteside launches CSI-like investigation into the death of a parrot Posted: 14 Aug 2017 08:05 AM PDT  Miami Heat's own NBA star Hassan Whiteside has launched a full-scale investigation...into how a dead parrot ended up on his front lawn. Whiteside took to Snapchat to document his findings and launch a CSI-inspired search into the bird's cause of death. Eyewitnesses include a pond of koi fish and a giant bull dog statue named Rosco, but when questioned, neither snitched. "They've been in the streets too long," according to Whiteside. Hassan Whiteside found a dead parrot in his yard, so he did some "CSI work."(: @youngwhiteside | Snapchat) pic.twitter.com/OYjqLCeevc — SB Nation (@SBNation) August 13, 2017 SEE ALSO: Super cute birb peeps with excitement when he meets his stuffed-animal twin Whiteside did some serious, serious detective work. He determined that since there was no blood on the wall, the parrot couldn't have died from a head-on collision. There were no bugs around, so it couldn't have been dead long. No wounds, so it's unlikely the poor parrot died by another animal. So what happened to this dead parrot?! When will someone come forward and admit to what they've done? Although he hasn't gotten to the bottom of the crime, Whiteside isn't letting the koi or Rosco off the hook. They are definitely the main suspects. I'll try my best i I got 2 key witnesses a white koi fish and a bulldog that's all I can speak on at this time — Hassan Whiteside (@youngwhiteside) August 13, 2017 As of Sunday afternoon, the investigation is still wide open. The case still open https://t.co/K9MdeVQmre — Hassan Whiteside (@youngwhiteside) August 13, 2017 RIP to that parrot. Justice will be served. WATCH: This tiny robot can fold itself like origami and it's hella cute
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