| Trump appears to accidentally share Twitter dis Posted: 15 Aug 2017 05:12 AM PDT  The Twitter user who called President Trump a fascist and frequently shares anti-Trump sentiment, joked Tuesday that the president "agrees with him."
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| Could Trump's Comments Lead To a GOP Presidential Primary? Posted: 15 Aug 2017 12:21 PM PDT  Trump's media availability drew intense criticism from the right. Former GOP Rep. David Jolly says today may be the start of a primary movement to replace Trump. He joins O'Donnell and Jarvis DeBerry to discuss Trump's long pattern of bigoted behavior.
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| More arrests made in toppling of Confederate statue Posted: 16 Aug 2017 11:33 AM PDT  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — More protesters were arrested Wednesday for participating in a demonstration that toppled a Confederate statue in North Carolina, and more monuments were vandalized as well.
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| Why Barack Obama is Our Most Viral President Posted: 16 Aug 2017 11:20 AM PDT  Barack Obama's post Charlottesville tweet just broke the record for number of likes. How did Obama crack the social media code?
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| Baltimore Confederate statues torn down in the middle of the night after Charlottesville violence Posted: 16 Aug 2017 09:42 AM PDT  Confederate-era statues in Baltimore, Maryland have been torn down in the middle of the night after the city council voted unanimously to remove them. Four monuments that paid tribute to leading members of Confederate were toppled, including the Confederate Soldiers and Sailors Monument and the Confederate Women's Monument, as well as statues commemorating Confederate Army generals Robert E Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson and pro-slavery Supreme Court judge Roger B Taney. It follows violent clashes in Charlottesville, Virginia, that centred on the city's plans to remove a statue of Robert E Lee, who led the Confederate Army during the American Civil War.
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| Nigeria suicide bombers kill 28, wound 82 Posted: 15 Aug 2017 08:10 PM PDT  Three women suicide bombers blew themselves up at the entrance to a camp for displaced people in northeast Nigeria on Tuesday, killing 28 people and wounding 82, local sources said. The attack -- the latest in a string of assaults in the troubled region -- took place in the town of Mandarari, 25 kilometres (15 miles) from Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state, said Baba Kura, a member of a vigilante force set up to fight jihadists. "Three female bombers triggered their explosive outside of the IDP (internally displaced persons) camp... killing 28 people and wounding 82 others," Kura said.
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| U.S. court rules Arkansas can block Planned Parenthood funding Posted: 16 Aug 2017 03:41 PM PDT  A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday reversed a ruling that prevented Arkansas from cutting off Medicaid funding to Planned Parenthood following the release of controversial videos secretly recorded by an anti-abortion group. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis reversed a ruling forbidding Arkansas from carrying through with Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson's directive to suspend Medicaid reimbursements to a Planned Parenthood affiliate.
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| SeaWorld Orca Dies After Long Battle With Lung Infection Posted: 16 Aug 2017 11:55 AM PDT  An orca at SeaWorld San Diego was euthanized Tuesday evening after a long battle with a bacterial respiratory infection.
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| Why North Korea Walked Back Its Threat on Guam Posted: 15 Aug 2017 01:39 PM PDT ![Why North Korea Walked Back Its Threat on Guam]( "Why North Korea Walked Back Its Threat on Guam") North Korea's apparent walk back of its threat to fire missiles near the U.S. territory of Guam could mean military tensions with the United States have been diminished—or at least postponed.
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| Saudi Arabia Shows How it Would Shoot Down Qatari Plane Posted: 16 Aug 2017 10:12 AM PDT  Saudi Arabia and allies Bahrain, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates have accused Qatar of funding terrorist groups abroad.
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| Maryland judge denies DC sniper Malvo's bid for new sentence Posted: 16 Aug 2017 01:58 PM PDT  Lee Boyd Malvo, who as a teenager participated in the sniper attacks that killed 10 people and terrorized the Washington region, will not get a new sentence in Maryland, a judge said in a ruling released Wednesday.
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| Man Whose Heart Was Pierced by 3-Inch Nail Drives Himself 12 Miles to Hospital Posted: 16 Aug 2017 01:47 PM PDT  Doug Bergeson says common sense told him not to pull the nail out.
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| Neo-Nazi website asks readers to target funeral of Heather Heyer who died in Charlottesville violence Posted: 15 Aug 2017 04:01 PM PDT  One of America's most prominent neo-Nazi websites has apparently ordered its readers to harass the funeral of Heather Heyer, the civil rights worker who was killed during the disorder in the Virginian town of Charlottesville. The Daily Stormer helped organise the ultra-right wing rally where a car was driven into counter-demonstrators, killing the 32-year-old paralegal and hurting 19 other people. James Fields, 20, from Ohio, has been charged with murder.
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| Scientists solve mystery of ‘Frankenstein dinosaur’ Posted: 16 Aug 2017 01:05 PM PDT 
A dinosaur that puzzled researchers thanks to the incredibly puzzling design of its body finally has its place in history thanks to a team of scientists from Cambridge and the Natural History Museum in London. The Chilesaurus, which has been nicknamed the "Frankenstein dinosaur" due to it appearing as though it were patched together from other, unrelated dinosaur species, has now been labeled a transitional species that helps to bridge the gap between herbivorous dinosaurs and the more iconic meat-eaters like the Tyrannosaurus rex. After its fossils were initially discovered, Chilesaurus was thought to be a part of the Theropod group of dinos — which includes the T. rex— due to its advanced digestive system. Those creatures, which are considered "lizard-hipped," were carnivores, but the Chilesaurus didn't appear to be particularly well-suited for consuming meat. After extensive examination of the fossils, the researchers are now declaring that Chilesaurus was in fact a plant eater. As it turns out, the puzzling creature is actually a member of the group called Ornithischia — meaning "bird-hipped" — dinosaurs that also includes recognizable herbivores like the Stegosaurus and Triceratops. The team believes Chilesaurus was a essentially a stepping stone between the two groups, acting as a branching-off point. "Before this, there were no transitional specimens — we didn't know what order these characteristics evolved in," Matthew Baron, Cambridge Ph.D. student and contributing author of the study, said of the research. "This shows that in bird-hipped dinosaurs, the gut evolved first, and the jaws evolved later — it fills the gap quite nicely."
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| Utah Blogger's Missing Husband Found Dead Posted: 16 Aug 2017 06:18 AM PDT  Paul Swenson, 30, disappeared in late July after acting strangely for days, his family said.
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| Mugabe's wife whipped my daughter with electric cable, mother says Posted: 16 Aug 2017 01:37 PM PDT ![Mugabe's wife whipped my daughter with electric cable, mother says]( "Mugabe's wife whipped my daughter with electric cable, mother says") By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe's wife Grace whipped two South African women in a Johannesburg hotel room with an electric cable, the mother of one victim said, adding that the attack must be punished. Debbie Engels told Reuters her daughter Gabriella, a 20-year-old model, suffered a gash on her forehead that required eight stitches and another on the back of her head that needed six. Engels did not witness the attack and Reuters has not been able to verify key aspects of the allegations independently.
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| Fox's Shep Smith Can't Find A Republican Willing To Defend Trump Posted: 16 Aug 2017 02:34 PM PDT  Need proof that GOP officials are trying to avoid talking about President Donald Trump?
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| India, China troops in high-altitude clash: officials Posted: 16 Aug 2017 01:42 AM PDT  Indian and Chinese troops clashed briefly on a disputed area of land in the Himalayas, officials said Wednesday, exacerbating tensions during a months-long standoff between the two armies. Chinese troops threw stones at Indian soldiers near Pangong Lake, a major tourist attraction in the picturesque mountain region of Ladakh on Tuesday, an Indian defence official said. Chinese foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said she was not aware of the latest reports, but she added that "Chinese border troops are always committed to maintaining peace on the India-China border".
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| Swiss Hotel Apologizes for Singling Out Jews in Signs Posted: 15 Aug 2017 09:47 AM PDT  The hotel defended its signs requiring only Jews to shower before using the pool facilities.
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| Charlottesville driver previously accused of beating mother Posted: 15 Aug 2017 05:19 PM PDT  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — The driver charged with killing a woman at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville was previously accused of beating his mother and threatening her with a knife, according to police records released Monday.
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| US satellites spot North Korea moving missiles 'in preparation for possible launch' Posted: 15 Aug 2017 07:15 AM PDT  North Korea has moved missile equipment into position ahead of a possible launch, according to US defence officials. American satellites detected the transportation of launchers capable of firing intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBMs) amid tension over threats by Pyongyang. The movement is "not believed to be directly related to the threat issued by North Korea last week to strike the waters near Guam," a source told CNN.
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| 'It still fits': Engagement ring missing for more than a decade turns up on garden carrot Posted: 16 Aug 2017 03:46 AM PDT  A woman who was resigned to never seeing her beautiful engagement ring ever again - and had bought a smaller one as a replacement - was shocked when her daughter-in-law found it on a carrot. The family had harvested some carrots from their farm in Alberta, Canada, for dinner, and one had grown around the engagement ring, which was then pulled from the ground. Mary Grams, 84, had lost her beloved ring in 2004 while she was in the garden, and thought she would never see it again. "I recognized it right away," she said. Mary Grams, 84, got her missing ring back when her daughter-in-law found it while harvesting carrots on the family farm in Alberta, Canada. Credit: CBC News She thinks she lost it while pulling a large weed from the garden. "We looked high and low on our hands and knees," she told CBC news. "We couldn't find it. I thought for sure either they rototilled it or something happened to it." Mrs Grams has had the ring since 1951, a year before she married her husband, Norman. Mary, 84, says she didn't know if they were kidding or not, but when her granddaughter brought the carrot over - she knew: "It's mine!" #yegpic.twitter.com/Ft7IMUeSMR— Sarah Kraus Global (@SarahNKraus) August 15, 2017 The ring was found by her daughter-in-law, Colleen Daley. "I knew it had to belong to either grandma or my mother-in-law," she said, "because no other women have lived on that farm. "I asked my husband if he recognized the ring. And he said yeah. His mother had lost her engagement ring years ago in the garden and never found it again. And it turned up on this carrot." A few weeks after losing her engagement ring, Mary bought herself this one, much smaller, to replace it. #Camrosepic.twitter.com/sg9WN4y1Pb— Sarah Kraus Global (@SarahNKraus) August 15, 2017 Mrs Grams said she is pleased the ring was found. "I'm going to wear it because it still fits," she said.
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| Has Natalee Holloway's Body Been Found? Remains Reportedly Discovered in Search for Missing Teen Posted: 16 Aug 2017 02:17 PM PDT  The Alabama teen vanished during a school trip in 2005.
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| White Supremacist In Charlottesville Wearing 82nd Airborne Hat Gets Called Out... By 82nd Airborne Posted: 15 Aug 2017 03:16 AM PDT  The 82nd Airborne Division fought several campaigns against Nazi Germany during World War II.
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| Study Explores How To Talk To Climate Change Deniers Posted: 15 Aug 2017 03:40 PM PDT  A new study shows how climate change advocates should talk to those who don't believe in global warming. Hint: put the data graphs down.
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| Rebels say they shoot down Syrian military jet, army confirms crash Posted: 15 Aug 2017 10:20 AM PDT ![Rebels say they shoot down Syrian military jet, army confirms crash]( "Rebels say they shoot down Syrian military jet, army confirms crash") The Syrian military said on Tuesday that one of its jets crashed in southern Syria, state television reported, hours after Western-backed rebels said they had shot it down and captured the pilot. State-owned Ikhbariya television quoted a Syrian army source as saying an investigation was under way to determine what caused the crash. Rebels released photos of a pilot they identified as Major Ali al Hilwa, with bruises on his face, and the wreckage of a jet they said was a Russian-built MiG brought down by anti-aircraft guns.
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| US will 'know how to face' anti-Semitism: Israel president Posted: 16 Aug 2017 12:55 PM PDT  Israeli President Reuven Rivlin expressed shock Wednesday over anti-Semitism at a recent US white supremacist rally, but said American leaders would succeed in dealing with "this difficult challenge". Rivlin wrote to the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations to convey his "support and solidarity for the American Jewish community" after the unrest in Charlottesville. "The very idea that in our time we would see a Nazi flag -- perhaps the most vicious symbol of anti-Semitism -- paraded in the streets of the world's greatest democracy, and Israel's most cherished and greatest ally, is almost beyond belief," he said.
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| MH370’s ‘Most Likely Location’ Released Posted: 16 Aug 2017 09:09 AM PDT  The Boeing 777 is thought to have crashed on March 8, 2014, with 239 people on board.
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| Confederate monuments removed in wake of Charlottesville violence Posted: 15 Aug 2017 06:31 AM PDT ![Confederate monuments removed in wake of Charlottesville violence]( "Confederate monuments removed in wake of Charlottesville violence") A Confederate monument is toppled in Durham, N.C., others are vandalized as municipal leaders in cities across the U.S. said they would step up efforts to pull such monuments from public spaces.
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| University librarian suffers stroke after UVA protest injury Posted: 16 Aug 2017 03:17 PM PDT ![University librarian suffers stroke after UVA protest injury]( "University librarian suffers stroke after UVA protest injury") University of Virginia librarian Tyler Magill was among the counter-protesters surrounded by torch-bearing white supremacists Friday night at the school's famous Thomas Jefferson statue.
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| Alabama woman found after almost a month wandering lost in the woods Posted: 15 Aug 2017 09:08 AM PDT  A woman in Alabama has been reunited with her family after being lost in the woods for a month, sheltering among the trees and surviving on mushrooms and berries. Lisa Theris, 25, was found on Saturday afternoon after she finally reached a road, and managed to signal to a motorist for help. She had lost 50lbs and was covered in scratches and insect bites, but was not severely harmed. "I've been doing this now going on 15 years and I've never seen anything like it," said Chad Faulkner, of the Bullock county sheriff's office. "Her will to live is incredible. I hate to classify it as a miracle, but it's a miracle." Lisa Theris Miss Theris had set off into the woods near Midland with two men, who broke into a hunting lodge in Midway. She told her family that she did not want to be part of the robbery, and so ran away from the pair. On July 23 her family reported her missing. The two men, Manley Davis, 31, and Randall Oswald, 36, were arrested and charged following the theft of $40,000 (£31,100) worth of goods, including four-wheel drive cars and chainsaws. "She's not familiar with this area and apparently on the night she ran, she went into the woods at night and got lost," said Raymond Rodgers, sheriff of Bullock county. Miss Theris told police that she drank water from the streams and tried to walk to safety, but ended up disorientated and walking in circles. "We didn't ask her too many questions," said Mr Rodgers. "We want to make sure her health is good so we got her on to the hospital. We did not interrogate her at that time." Mr Faulkner said they expect to have more details about Miss Theris's movements in the coming days. Elizabeth Theris, her sister, said the missing woman was now back at home in Louisville, Alabama. Lisa Theris's legs, covered in scratches and bites "She is severely weakened, she is in pain, she is emaciated," she said. "There is not an inch of her that has not been affected. "We are lucky that she is alive, she is so strong and has made it through so much." Her brother, Will, said that she was "standing strong and full of jokes as ever." He added: "The next few weeks will be rough, but she is handling it all like a trooper."
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| Student, 18, Arrested After Allegedly Threatening Teacher's Life On Facebook: Cops Posted: 15 Aug 2017 05:38 AM PDT  Desiree Zio is charged with making written threats to kill or do bodily harm.
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| New tower fuels concerns over changing face of San Francisco Posted: 16 Aug 2017 03:31 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — More than 60 stories above the ground, construction workers climb makeshift stairs and cross narrow steel planks to put the finishing touches on Salesforce Tower, now San Francisco's tallest building.
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| German Car Companies Are Driving the Country Off a Cliff Posted: 16 Aug 2017 12:01 PM PDT  "Made in Germany" used to mean reliability. Now it means collusion.
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| Iran's military chief in rare visit to Turkey for Syria talks Posted: 16 Aug 2017 07:27 AM PDT  By Parisa Hafezi and Tuvan Gumrukcu ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkish and Iranian military leaders held talks on Wednesday over cooperation in the Syrian conflict and counter-terrorism, officials said, during a rare visit to NATO-member Turkey by the Islamic Republic's military chief of staff. Turkey's ties with Washington have been strained by U.S. support for Kurdish fighters in Syria, and the visit by Iranian General Mohammad Baqeri is the latest sign that Ankara is increasing cooperation with other powers such as Iran and Russia. Baqeri met his Turkish counterpart on Tuesday and Turkey's Defence Minister Nurettin Canikli on Wednesday in what Turkish media said was the first visit by an Iranian chief of staff since Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution.
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| How To Wash Radioactive Material From Your Body After A Nuclear Blast Posted: 16 Aug 2017 03:04 AM PDT  According to certain guidelines, hair conditioner could bind radioactive material to your hair after exposure.
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| Jeff Sessions says Charlottesville car attack 'could be a hate crime' Posted: 16 Aug 2017 11:02 AM PDT  Attorney General Jeff Sessions said the attack on counter-protesters at a neo-Nazis rally in Charlottesville "could be considered a hate crime". Mr Sessions said federal authorities were waiting for more details from the investigation before filing charges over the death of 32-year-old Heather Heyer who was killed when a car ploughed into a group of anti-fascist protesters at the white supremacist event last week.
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| Theresa May Criticizes Donald Trump's Charlottesville Comments Posted: 16 Aug 2017 04:03 AM PDT  President Donald Trump's staggering defense of a white supremacist rally has been denounced by Democrats, Republicans and, now, officials across the pond.
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| Scary video shows a bear charging a dog in Alaska Posted: 15 Aug 2017 04:55 PM PDT  A mama black bear was caught on camera charging a Siberian husky at a campground in Alaska. The recently released clip, from a campground in Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, shows a bear and her three cubs approaching a trailer from the woods on July 5. When the bear spots the dog it delivers a bluff charge, and the bear and husky get into a brief fight off camera. A woman can then be heard yelling at the bear, which returns to its cubs and runs away. Tom Henderson, who uploaded the video earlier this month, said in an email that his wife is the person heard yelling in the clip. Fortunately, the dog was unharmed in the scuffle, despite its screams. Henderson also said that bear sightings are not uncommon in the camp, though they have not had a problem like this before. Unfortunate interactions between humans and wildlife are unfortunately common in the area. In June a man was mauled after brown bear with a sow got defensive. Mashable has reached out to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game for additional information.
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| At least seven dead in suspected gang attack at Guatemala hospital Posted: 16 Aug 2017 03:20 PM PDT  At least seven people were killed and 12 others injured on Wednesday after suspected gang members attacked a hospital in the capital in a bid to free a jailed associate who went there under police supervision for a checkup, officials said. "Anderson Daniel Cabrera, a gang member from the Mara Salvatrucha, was coming for a medical review," police spokesman Jorge Aguilar said, adding the suspected gang members "are suspected of wanting to rescue him." Police arrested five of seven suspected gang members who were armed with assault rifles when they attacked Guatemala City's Roosevelt Hospital, although Cabrera escaped, Aguilar told reporters.
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| The O.J. Bronco was for sale on "Pawn Stars," but didn't sell Posted: 15 Aug 2017 11:00 AM PDT  The second Bronco was the white one that Al Cowlings used to drive O.J. on that dramatic slow-speed highway chase. Originally owned by Cowlings, the Bronco was sold to O.J.'s manager Mike Gilbert. Now Gilbert is ready to part with the Bronco and he wants to see if the "Pawn Stars" will pony up his asking price.
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| Netanyahu condemns US neo-Nazism, but criticised for delay Posted: 15 Aug 2017 09:20 AM PDT  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned "neo-Nazism and racism" on Tuesday, but drew criticism for taking three days to speak out about a white supremacist rally in the United States that ended in bloodshed. Everyone should oppose this hatred," Netanyahu posted in English on his official Twitter account. US President Donald Trump, who had been under pressure to issue a strong condemnation of the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Monday night denounced racism while calling the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis "repugnant".
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| Tesla Model 3 Fans Have Found a Secret Way to Save $1,500 Posted: 15 Aug 2017 07:13 AM PDT  Don't get all the options just yet!
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| A Ferrari-Powered Toyota 86 Is a Wacky Street Car Posted: 15 Aug 2017 01:14 PM PDT  We're not sure how drift star Ryan Tuerck got this car registered, but we're glad he did.
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