| The White House Keeps Attacking Congresswoman Who Has Been Right All Along Posted: 20 Oct 2017 11:08 AM PDT  Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-Fla.) took a victory lap in her feud with President Donald Trump after the White House was caught falsely maligning her for the second time this week.
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| These Are The Three Richard Spencer Fans Arrested For Attempted Homicide In Gainesville Posted: 20 Oct 2017 07:04 PM PDT  GAINESVILLE, Fla. ― About five hours before his companion allegedly fired a bullet toward several protesters, and a day before police charged him with attempted homicide, Colton Fears, in an interview with HuffPost, laid out the grievances that had brought him to town.
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| Is There a Serial Killer in Tampa? Posted: 20 Oct 2017 08:38 AM PDT  Police are offering an $18,000 reward for help finding a man captured on surveillance camera who they believe may be responsible for at least three recent murders.
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| Mom shares horrifying photo of legs after trip to pumpkin patch Posted: 20 Oct 2017 06:59 AM PDT  A California mother is speaking out to remind autumn revelers across the country of a common danger that may be lurking in pumpkin patches.
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| Off-duty officer killed in Vegas shooting left funeral notes Posted: 20 Oct 2017 03:39 PM PDT  HENDERSON, Nev. (AP) — A Las Vegas police officer and U.S. Army veteran who was among 58 people killed in the worst mass shooting in modern U.S. history provided instructions ahead of time for those at his memorial not to mourn, a pastor told the crowd at his funeral on Friday.
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| 24-year-old Man Taken Into Custody After Guns and Homemade Bombs Allegedly Found at His Home Posted: 19 Oct 2017 09:00 PM PDT  Aerial maps of schools in the area were allegedly found along with rifles, handguns and homemade bombs; the man has no criminal history or record of mental health issues.
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| Boy kicked out of Cub Scouts after challenging Republican senator accused of racism Posted: 20 Oct 2017 10:38 AM PDT  Ames Mayfield of Broomsfield, Colorado, decided to do some research on Senator Vicki Marbles before she visited his Cub Scouts den, his mother says. "I didn't, that was made up by the media," Ms Marble responded.
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| Before execution, Alabama inmate defiant with words, actions Posted: 20 Oct 2017 08:14 AM PDT  A convicted cop killer who sued Alabama over its lethal injection method was put to death Thursday night, but not before he cursed at the state and said: "I hate you."
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| Trump blames rise in British crime on Islamic terror, surprising Britain Posted: 20 Oct 2017 06:52 AM PDT  In a Friday morning tweet, the president correctly cited a figure from a new report on British crime but seemed to pin the entire rise on one cause, which the report doesn't do. The president's tweet caused confusion and pushback in Britain.
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| Why This Church Is Providing 'Sanctuary' To Undocumented Immigrants Posted: 20 Oct 2017 02:01 AM PDT  At a time when undocumented people nationwide are living in fear under President Donald Trump's anti-immigrant policies, one church continues to lead the way in supporting them.
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| Tiger Kept At Truck Stop For 17 Years Dies, But The Legal Battle Isn't Over Posted: 20 Oct 2017 05:25 PM PDT  The tiger at the center of a years-long legal battle between animal rights activists and a Louisiana truck stop owner has died, but the owner's desire to get another tiger means the fight likely isn't over.
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| Residents of shrinking US island reject 'climate victim' label Posted: 20 Oct 2017 08:11 AM PDT  By Emily Flitter TANGIER ISLAND, Md (Reuters) - This summer, a delegation of Republican climate activists visited Tangier Island, a speck of grassland in Maryland's Chesapeake Bay, to try to convince its 450 residents to take climate change seriously. At a dinner attended by island residents Aug. 2, the activists from RepublicEn headed by former Republican Congressman Bob Inglis laid out the stakes: The sea level is rising, and some scientists estimate that within decades the island, already suffering severe erosion, will need to be abandoned. The people of Tangier Island were used to this kind of message.
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| End of Australia auto-making sector as Holden closes doors Posted: 20 Oct 2017 01:55 AM PDT  The last car rolled off the production line of Australian automaker Holden on Friday, marking the demise of a national industry unable to stand up to global competition. The closure of the Elizabeth plant in South Australia is the end of an era for Holden, which first started in the state as a saddlery business in 1856 and made the nation's first mass-produced car in 1948. The brand has long been an Australian household name, with 1970s commercials singing that "football, meat pies, kangaroos and Holden cars" were part of the nation's identity.
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| The Latest: Navajo leader supported death penalty in case Posted: 20 Oct 2017 03:09 PM PDT  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing of a man charged in the killing of a Navajo Nation girl (all times local):
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| The Most Common Financial Mistakes To Avoid Posted: 20 Oct 2017 05:46 PM PDT  Whether you're living paycheck to paycheck or managing a healthy nest egg, there are certain classic money blunders you'll want to avoid.
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| Kurd disarray highlights Iraq army's newfound prowess Posted: 20 Oct 2017 04:16 AM PDT  The speed with which Iraqi troops this week overwhelmed Kurdish forces in oil-rich Kirkuk, days after ousting the Islamic State group, marks a radical change in the balance of power, analysts say. For 14 years since the US-led invasion, the Kurds had taken advantage of the weakness of the federal army to slowly chip away at territory they had long claimed outside their autonomous region in northern Iraq. The Kurds' precipitous withdrawal from thousands of square kilometres (miles) of cherished territory highlighted the newfound prowess of the Iraqi army -- rearmed, retrained and battle-hardened during three years of fighting against the Islamic State (IS) group.
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| Father Killed On His Way Home Work When Teens Allegedly Throw Rocks Off Highway Overpass Posted: 21 Oct 2017 01:17 PM PDT  The teens have since been arrested.
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| John Kelly Lied in Attack on Rep. Wilson Posted: 20 Oct 2017 02:28 PM PDT  Rachel reports the latest developments in the mess Donald Trump has made politicizing military next-of-kin notifications with the fact that Trump chief of staff John Kelly's attack on Rep. Frederica Wilson in his defense of Trump was completely false.
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| Spain Takes Control of Catalonia, Pushing a Crisis Into Higher Gear Posted: 21 Oct 2017 07:03 AM PDT  Spain has acted upon Article 155
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| Betty Price Wonders If People With HIV Should Be Quarantined Posted: 20 Oct 2017 04:04 PM PDT  WASHINGTON — Georgia state Rep. Betty Price (R) — the wife of Tom Price, who resigned last month as President Donald Trump's health secretary amid investigations into his frequent use of private planes — wonders if isolating people with HIV would help stop the disease's spread.
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| UNICEF: Rohingya children refugees face 'hell on earth' Posted: 20 Oct 2017 07:54 AM PDT  GENEVA (AP) — UNICEF says the children who make up most of the nearly 600,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence in Myanmar are seeing a "hell on earth" in overcrowded, muddy and squalid refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh.
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| FBI trafficking sweep rescues 84 children - one just three months old Posted: 19 Oct 2017 05:51 PM PDT  US authorities have rescued 84 children, one just 3 months old, and arrested 120 people in a nationwide sweep of child sex trafficking that exposed the growing use of technology by traffickers, officials said on Thursday. Many of those arrested were advertising and selling children online for sex, said the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) in a statement. The four-day sweep, which ended on Sunday, was the 11th annual effort by the FBI and other authorities to battle child sex trafficking. Called Operation Cross Country XI, it was conducted at hotels, casinos and truck stops, as well as street corners and Internet websites, they said. "The sad reality is some things stay the same, that there's still a need to do this," said Staca Shehan, executive director of the NCMEC's case analysis division. "What has changed over time is the places and the ways that child sex trafficking is occurring," she told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "Historically, kids would be recruited in face-to-face environments, at malls and at bus stops or in schools or in and around foster homes," she said. "All that stuff happens, but now what we see more often than not is kids are recruited online, and they're controlled online and sold online." BABIES, TODDLERS, TEENS The average age of the children caught up in the operation was 15, authorities said. The 3-month-old girl and a 5-year-old girl were offered to an undercover officer in Denver for sex for $600, the FBI said. The person trying to sell them was a friend of the children's family. Related operations were conducted in Canada, Britain, Thailand, Cambodia and the Philippines, the FBI said. The sweep also involved the arrests of a number of adult sex workers, including 20 prostitutes in the state of Oregon. Earlier incarnations of Operation Cross Country have come under criticism by advocates for sex workers who say they are victims of exploitation and should not be charged with crimes.
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| Corey Feldman Begs for Peers Who Witnessed Pedophilia in Hollywood to Come Forward Posted: 21 Oct 2017 11:54 AM PDT  Corey Feldman is speaking out again about the alleged abuse he suffered as a child actor — abuses he claims are part of a larger problem of pedophilia in Hollywood
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| Trump US Attorney Interviews Raise Eyebrows Posted: 20 Oct 2017 03:22 PM PDT  Rachel Maddow reports on Donald Trump meeting with candidates for U.S. attorney positions in the districts that would have jurisdiction over Trump's affairs, which isn't illegal but is unusually enough to draw concerned attention.
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| Soda tax supporters try to pivot from Chicago setback Posted: 20 Oct 2017 10:46 PM PDT  US public health advocates are hoping to pivot after a major setback in Chicago, where local lawmakers repealed a soda tax after only two months following fierce industry-backed lobbying. On October 11, the Cook County Board of Commissioners, which includes Chicago, nullified the penny-an-ounce levy, which was seen as a means to discourage consumption of sugary drinks that can lead to obesity, diabetes and other ills. "It's a setback," said Jim O'Hara, director of health promotion policy at the nonprofit Center for Science in the Public Interest.
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| 7 Misleading Things EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Said In His Interview With Time Posted: 20 Oct 2017 04:31 PM PDT  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's tense look broke into a toothy grin at the end of a 22-minute interview with Time Magazine when the reporter called his response to a question "good, but lawyerly."
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| The U.S. Army Has a Deadly New Sniper Rifle Posted: 20 Oct 2017 06:37 PM PDT  Heckler & Koch showed off its M110A1 7.62mm semi-automatic sniper rifle this week. Despite a brief period of ambiguity wrought by budget-jousting among lawmakers in Congress, the Army's new and improved sniper rifle is alive and well. Heckler & Koch showed off its M110A1 7.62mm semi-automatic sniper rifle, selected for the Army's Compact Semi-Automatic Sniper System (CSASS) program on the floor of the Association of the U.S. Army's annual conference and exposition in Washington this week, a first up-close-and-personal look at the lightweight rifle.
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| The Latest: King: Catalonia is "an essential part" of Spain Posted: 20 Oct 2017 11:40 AM PDT  BARCELONA, Spain (AP) — The Latest on the Spain-Catalonia political crisis (all times local):
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| Man denies raping stepdaughter he 'married' when she was 11 Posted: 20 Oct 2017 02:38 AM PDT  Henri Piette, 62, from Oklahoma, is accused of holding a then 11-year-old girl captive for 19 years and raping her until she escaped. The alleged victim, Rosalynn McGinnis, now 33, has spoken out about her ordeal. By the time she was 11, Piette had started to sexually assault her at their home in Wagoner.
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| Israel says it will intensify response to Syrian fire Posted: 21 Oct 2017 07:37 AM PDT  JERUSALEM/BEIRUT (Reuters) - Five projectiles from Syria set off air raid sirens in Israeli towns on Saturday, prompting the Israeli military to say it would step up its response to stray fire from the Syrian war that has repeatedly spilled over the border. The projectiles crossed into the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights and the military said it targeted three Syrian artillery guns in response. No damage or injuries were reported in Israel.
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| People Running From Trump Are Getting Asylum In Canada Posted: 20 Oct 2017 07:27 PM PDT  The country has been portrayed as a safe haven for asylum seekers, but not all Canadians are happy.
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| New Ratings Reveal Top-Tier Car Insurance Companies Posted: 20 Oct 2017 05:00 AM PDT  With the price of automobile coverage rising four times faster than the overall rate of inflation, now more than ever you want to get the best insurance service for your dollar. The good news is ...
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| Kit Harington Read The Final 'Game Of Thrones' Scripts And Couldn't Help Crying Posted: 21 Oct 2017 03:43 AM PDT  Kit Harington knows everything about the final season of "Game of Thrones."
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| Amber Tamblyn Says She Believes Woman Who Accused Husband David Cross Of Racist Remarks Posted: 20 Oct 2017 04:48 AM PDT  Actress Amber Tamblyn reached out to the comedian who accused Tamblyn's husband David Cross of racist behavior ― and said she believes her.
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| US existing home sales edge up in September Posted: 20 Oct 2017 10:22 AM PDT  Sales of existing US homes rose in September compared with August, but remained relatively tepid due to limited housing supply and high prices, the National Association of Realtors said Friday. Last month sales rose 0.7 percent to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 5.39 million houses, a surprise since analysts expected a drop to 5.29 million. "Home sales in recent months remain at their lowest level of the year and are unable to break through, despite considerable buyer interest in most parts of the country," said Lawrence Yun, NAR chief economist.
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| WHO chief now 'rethinking' Mugabe 'goodwill ambassador' post Posted: 21 Oct 2017 11:13 AM PDT  GENEVA (AP) — After widespread shock and condemnation, the head of the World Health Organization said Saturday he is "rethinking" his appointment of Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe as a "goodwill ambassador."
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| Catalan leader pressured from all sides Posted: 21 Oct 2017 02:57 AM PDT  The battle between Spain's central government and the separatist leaders of Catalonia escalates day after day, forcing Catalan society to take a stand. Political parties, football clubs, businesses and civic society groups have picked their side -- for or against independence, for or against holding a referendum -- and they are all trying to convince Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont. FC Barcelona, one of the world's most popular football teams whose motto is "more than a club", has long been a symbol of Catalan nationalism.
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| 'Drunk' driver kills mother-of-six who was on way home from hospital Posted: 20 Oct 2017 03:30 AM PDT  A woman was almost three times over the alcohol limit when her car crashed into a mother of six on her way home from visiting her premature newborn twins in hospital, investigators said. Ms Evans was pronounced dead at the scene, the force said in a statement on Facebook. "Katie leaves behind her husband Jacob Evans, her children Spencer (12), Travis (11), Nathaniel (9), Gideon (2) and her premie twin girls Hannah and Sarah," Ms Evans' friend Natalie Mortensen wrote on a fundraising page has been set up for the victim's family.
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| Kenya president snubs vote crisis meeting, presses on with campaign Posted: 20 Oct 2017 12:10 AM PDT ![Kenya president snubs vote crisis meeting, presses on with campaign]( "Kenya president snubs vote crisis meeting, presses on with campaign") Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta snubbed a crisis meeting called by the top election official for Thursday, saying he would instead spend the time campaigning for next week's presidential vote re-run. The first presidential vote in August, which Kenyatta won by 1.4 million votes, was annulled by the Supreme Court over procedural irregularities. The re-run is set for Oct. 26 but opposition leader Raila Odinga has pulled out, alleging a failure to improve oversight of the election, casting doubt on how the vote will proceed.
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| Texas judge postpones execution of 'tourniquet killer' Posted: 20 Oct 2017 11:43 AM PDT  A Texas judge, acting on requests from prosecutors, halted the planned execution on Wednesday of a man known as the "tourniquet killer" for the grisly method used to murder five girls and young women in the Houston area whom he also raped.
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| New U.S. Budget is a "Hoax" Says GOP's Bob Corker Posted: 20 Oct 2017 02:19 AM PDT  Tennessee Republican says the 2018 budget is really about pushing through tax reform.
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| 11 Pretzel Hacks That'll Rock Your Whole World Posted: 20 Oct 2017 03:34 PM PDT |
| Lupita Nyong’o Says Weinstein Pushed Her To Massage Him: 'I Panicked' Posted: 19 Oct 2017 10:22 PM PDT  Two weeks after investigative journalists exposed decades of accusations of sexual misconduct against Harvey Weinstein, Oscar-winning actress Lupita Nyong'o has come forward with her own allegations against the disgraced producer.
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