| Texas Church Shooting Followed 'Domestic Situation' With Gunman Posted: 06 Nov 2017 09:28 AM PST  The gunman accused of committing the deadliest mass shooting in modern Texas history sent threatening texts to his mother-in-law before targeting the church where she sometimes worshiped, authorities said on Monday.
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| Could Solar Technology be the Answer to Puerto Rico’s Problems? Posted: 05 Nov 2017 08:02 AM PST  While more than 60 percent of Puerto Rico is still without power, the lights are on at a Children's Hospital in San Juan thanks to more than 800 brand new solar panels.
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| People Fed Up With ‘Thoughts And Prayers’ Demand Action After Texas Church Massacre Posted: 05 Nov 2017 09:26 PM PST  President Donald Trump, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.)
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| House weighing 'host of ideas' in tax bill revision, Ryan says Posted: 05 Nov 2017 05:12 PM PST  By Amanda Becker WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Paul Ryan said on Sunday that Republican lawmakers are weighing a "host of ideas" as the House tax-writing committee begins revising a tax bill this week, though he expects the broad outlines to remain the same. Ryan, a Republican, told Fox News Sunday that House tax writers are considering President Donald Trump's call to include in the tax package a repeal of an Affordable Care Act provision that mandates individuals buy insurance coverage. The tax-writing House Ways and Means Committee will on Monday begin considering revisions to the tax bill released last week, which would constitute the biggest overhaul of the U.S. tax system since the 1980s.
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| At least 19 dead as Typhoon Damrey batters Vietnam Posted: 04 Nov 2017 08:44 PM PDT  At least 19 people have died and a dozen are missing after Typhoon Damrey barrelled into Vietnam, authorities said Sunday, just days before the country welcomes world leaders to the APEC summit. The storm made landfall on Saturday and is the worst to hit the southern coastal region – an area normally spared typhoons which are usually hit further north – in decades. Heavy rains inundated communities with floods as 130 km/h (80 mph) winds blew off roofs and knocked down electricity poles, according to Vietnam's search and rescue office. Coastal Khanh Hoa province, home to the popular white sand Nha Trang beach, was hardest hit with 14 dead and 10 injured, the government said. Fallen trees obstruct a street during a storm in Nha Trang, as Typhoon Damrey descends on southern Vietnam Credit: Social Media/Reuters More than 30,000 people, including foreign tourists, were evacuated from the area ahead of the storm. A dozen flights were also cancelled while railway services were suspended, while local authorities in Phu Yen province said Tuy Hoa city "has never suffered such devastation". There were also reports of minor damage around 500 kilometres north in Danang, the coastal city where Vietnam will host the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit next week. The week-long gathering, which kicks off Monday, will bring together leaders including US President Donald Trump and China's Xi Jinping. Vietnam has been pummelled by a dozen major storms since the start of 2017, with at least 240 people reported dead or missing in floods and landslides. In September some 80 were killed after Typhoon Doksuri battered central provinces with rain, destroying thousands of homes and triggering severe floods. The World Bank said natural disasters have killed more than 13,000 people and caused more than $6.4 billion in property damage to Vietnam over the past two decades.
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| Perez: 'I Don't Know What Donna Brazile Fell For' Posted: 04 Nov 2017 11:53 PM PDT  DNC Chairman Tom Perez tells Meet the Press that allegations from former acting DNC chair Donna Brazile calls her credibility into question, in an exclusive interview.
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| 16 New Ways To Make Scalloped Potatoes Posted: 06 Nov 2017 10:33 AM PST |
| A Same-Sex Couple Gets Cozy In Starbucks' New Holiday Commercial Posted: 06 Nov 2017 01:23 PM PST  Starbucks' holiday cups are back and more inclusive than ever.
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| PSA Reveals The Word You Shouldn't Say To Someone Whose Baby Has Down Syndrome Posted: 06 Nov 2017 11:20 AM PST  An eye-opening PSA is shedding light on the experiences of young people with Down syndrome and their parents.
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| Sharon Osbourne asks Harvey Weinstein 'What's wrong with me?' as she reveals he never touched her Posted: 06 Nov 2017 11:40 AM PST  Sharon Osbourne has revealed that she is wondering what is "wrong" with her in the wake of the Harvey Weinstein scandal, with the X Factor judge confirming that the disgraced film producer never made inappropriate advances towards her.
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| Watch As Donald Trump Totally Gives Up On Feeding Fish In Japan Posted: 06 Nov 2017 01:31 AM PST  President Donald Trump's trip to Asia had a lighter moment on Monday when a photo opportunity went a little off-script.
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| Air Force error let Texas gunman buy weapons for church massacre Posted: 06 Nov 2017 04:37 PM PST  The gunman who shot 26 worshipers to death and wounded 20 others at a Texas church was embroiled in a domestic dispute with his in-laws and had been sending threatening messages to his wife's mother before the massacre, officials said Monday. The killer, Devin Kelley, 26, was previously convicted by court-martial of assaulting his first wife and step-son while serving in the U.S. Air Force and spent a year in detention before his bad-conduct discharge in 2014, according to the Pentagon. The Air Force acknowledged on Monday that it failed to enter Kelley's 2012 domestic violence offense into a U.S. government database used by licensed gun dealers for conducting background checks on firearms purchasers.
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| America's Efforts to Subdue North Korea Will Fail—Unless China Gets Involved Posted: 05 Nov 2017 04:15 AM PST  The U.S. strategy of imposing "maximum pressure" and the Chinese strategy of addressing North Korean threat perceptions through engagement are mutually conflicting. President Donald Trump will visit Beijing on November 8, against the background of North Korea's repeated threat to detonate a hydrogen bomb over the Pacific Ocean and an increasing sense of cluelessness among the international community about how to deal with Pyongyang. One thing is certain when Trump meets President Xi Jinping in Beijing: he will push very hard for China to impose stronger pressure on North Korea.
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| Calls for Lenin's body to finally be buried ahead of 100th anniversary of Bolshevik revolution Posted: 06 Nov 2017 07:36 AM PST  A debate over whether to bury Vladimir Lenin, whose embalmed body remains on display on Red Square, has risen again and even led to a stabbing ahead of the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution. The ruling party has tried to play down Tuesday's centennial as the antithesis of Vladimir Putin's tenets of stability and traditional values. But in a newspaper interview on Wednesday calling for the anniversary to be observed without "confrontation", Valentina Matviyenko, the speaker of the upper house of parliament, was asked about removing Lenin from his glass sarcophagus in the mausoleum next to the Kremlin. She suggested a referendum could decide the long-standing issue. Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman leader of Russia's Chechnya republic and an outspoken Muslim believer, responded on social media that Mr Putin should decide, adding that it was "not right that a coffin with a dead person is standing in the heart of Russia". Lenin's mausoleum is located next to the Kremlin walls in downtown Moscow. Credit: Vladimir Smirnov/TASS via Getty Images Other politicians soon chimed in. Natalya Poklonskaya, an MP with the ruling United Russia party and the leader of a crusade against a recent film about Tsar Nicholas II's affair with a ballerina, said the continuing display of the communist's cadaver was "inhumane". Ksenia Sobchak, a liberal socialite and journalist who has announced she will run in March's presidential election, promised to bury him if she won. But a final farewell to the revolutionary, who was revered as the embodiment of Soviet ideology even after Joseph Stalin's personality cult was denounced and abandoned, would anger the Communist Party, the largest minority in parliament. Party boss Gennady Zyuganov, who laid flowers at the mausoleum with an international delegation on Sunday, argued that since Lenin's late niece had supported his display, burying him would in fact be "unnatural and blasphemous". Ramzan Kadyrov, head of Chechnya, reignited the debate over Lenin this week. Credit: Mikhail Metzel/TASS via Getty Images It would also mean the closure of the "Lenin lab," the purpose-built Moscow institute responsible for preserving him which has also embalmed other leaders like Ho Chi Minh and Kim Jong-il. Although Lenin's pale head and hands are all that's visible beneath his dark suit, the lab's secretive group of specialists reportedly continue to work full-time preserving every aspect of his corpse, from the flexibility of his knees to the hair attachment on his chest. A state tender revealed that some £140,000 was spent on maintaining Lenin in 2016. Given the array of dyes and mixtures applied, what's on display is "closer to a wholly constructed representation of Lenin's dead body than to the original, once living man," according to Alexei Yurchak, a University of California Berkeley professor who is writing a book about his preservation. A Communist Party supporter carries a portrait of Lenin during a memorial ceremony on Red Square in 2016. Credit: Kirril Kudryavtsev/AFP/Getty Images Nonetheless, the body remains an important symbol and the object of passionate debate. On Thursday last week, two drinking buddies in a town in southwestern Russia got into such a furious argument about whether to bury Lenin that one stabbed the other with a kitchen knife, local media reported. A survey by VTsIOM, a state-owned pollster, earlier this year found that 63 percent of Russians favoured burying Lenin, but only a third thought it should be done in the near future. Mr Putin, who has tended to dodge the issue since he came to power nearly two decades ago, has avoided entering the latest debate about what to do with Lenin. The presidential administration said on Thursday it was "not a topic on the Kremlin agenda", and Moscow authorities have refused to allow an opposition rally next week demanding the corpse's removal. Proposed legislation to bury Lenin stalled in April after the government spoke out against it. A Russian Orthodox Church spokesman said while he should have been buried in 1991, now was not the time to "reopen old wounds". A museum near Odessa has collected Lenin monuments dismantled under Ukraine's decommunisation law. Credit: Sergei Supinsky/AFP Photo/Getty Images According to analyst Masha Lipman, Mr Putin is unlikely to take a stance on the issue before the election, especially given the mass dismantling of Lenin statues by the pro-Western government in Ukraine. "It's impossible to say Lenin is bad and we don't want the glorification of this cult that goes back to the Soviet days, because that's what the Ukrainians are doing," she said.
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| DNC Chairman Promises To Reform Party's Presidential Nominating Process Posted: 05 Nov 2017 06:04 AM PST  In a Saturday blogpost, Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez vowed to enact reforms to the party's presidential nominating process aimed at ensuring that "the new DNC will work to rebuild trust with the people we represent."
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| Former Heroin Addict Asks Judge to Officiate Her Wedding During Final Court Appearance Posted: 06 Nov 2017 11:56 AM PST  Judge Chris Wilton could have thrown the book at Jennifer Jensen and take her son away, but he instead gave her a second chance.
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| Supermodel Kate Upton Marries Astros' Justin Verlander Just Days After His World Series Win Posted: 05 Nov 2017 07:19 AM PST  Capping off a perfect week after watching her fiancé win the world series, supermodel Kate Upton is now a married woman
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| 'Here Is Where The Action Happens': Meet The People Of Houston Posted: 06 Nov 2017 02:40 PM PST  Houston was the 24th stop on our Listen To America road trip.
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| 15-year-old girl among Japan 'serial killer' mutilation victims Posted: 05 Nov 2017 06:27 PM PST  Three high school girls, including a 15-year-old, were among the nine people mutilated by a suspected serial killer in Japan, reports said Monday, as one woman described how she had a lucky escape. At least three of the victims were high school pupils from different regions and one of them was a 15-year-old girl who went missing in late August, several media quoted police sources as saying. Not all of the victims have been identified but some were tracked down via bank cards and other items left in the apartment room of Takahiro Shiraishi, where the Japanese man allegedly murdered and hacked up nine young people.
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| 18 Butternut Squash Soup Recipes That'll Warm You Up Posted: 06 Nov 2017 12:19 PM PST |
| Joe Scarborough Says Washington Would 'Melt Down' If Shooter Were Named Muhammad Posted: 06 Nov 2017 07:55 AM PST  "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough called out the problem with how U.S. leaders reacts to mass shootings, saying on Monday that had the gunman in Texas been named Muhammad, "Washington would be on fire this morning."
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| Purge of Saudi princes, businessmen widens, travel curbs imposed Posted: 06 Nov 2017 09:58 AM PST  By Stephen Kalin and Reem Shamseddine RIYADH (Reuters) - A campaign of mass arrests of Saudi Arabian royals, ministers and businessmen expanded on Monday after a top entrepreneur was reportedly detained in the biggest anti-corruption purge of the kingdom's affluent elite in its modern history. The reported arrest of Nasser bin Aqeel al-Tayyar followed the detention of dozens of top Saudis including billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal in a crackdown that the attorney general described as "phase one". The purge is the latest in a series of dramatic steps by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman to assert Saudi influence internationally and amass more power for himself at home.
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| Texas shooting: Five-year-old boy shot four times found alive next to his dead mother and sisters Posted: 06 Nov 2017 06:46 AM PST  A five-year old boy was found clinging to a church pew after his mother and two sisters were shot dead in front of him during the latest massacre in Texas. Ryland Ward was found in the First Baptist Church in Texas by his aunt shortly after Devin Patrick Kelley burst in, killing 26 people. The boy's mother, Joann Ward, and her daughters, Brooke Ward, 5, and Emily Garza, 7, were killed.
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| Doctor Dressed As The Joker Delivers Baby To Parents' Delight Posted: 06 Nov 2017 09:10 AM PST  One newborn baby will have an incredible story to tell when she gets older.
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| Here's What the Republican Tax Plan Would Mean for the Average Trump Voter Posted: 06 Nov 2017 10:02 AM PST  "The proverbial kind of lower-middle-class worker is not going to benefit as much"
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| The U.S. Army's Latest Armored Vehicle Could Have a Game Changing Upgrade Posted: 05 Nov 2017 04:42 PM PST  For the last century, the armored vehicles that have trundled onto mine-laden battlefields have all faced the same inherent trade-off: A M1A2 Abrams tank crew can withstand blast after blast while surrounded by depleted uranium mesh-reinforced composite armor, but what they gain in protection they sacrifice in visibility. A small group of Army engineers is working overtime to make this unfortunate fact of armored warfare an artifact of the past. The Army is currently testing a next-generation video-display system designed to offer "complete visibility" to a buttoned-up crew by integrating the video and sensor feeds from individual operator stations into a single, unified display, the branch announced on Oct. 27.
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| N. Korean suspects named in Kim Jong-Nam murder trial Posted: 06 Nov 2017 03:49 AM PST  Four men suspected of plotting with two women to murder the North Korean leader's half-brother were Monday named by police as North Koreans who fled Malaysia after the assassination. The pair, who were arrested days after the assassination and face death by hanging if convicted, pleaded not guilty to murdering the estranged half-brother of Kim Jong-Un when the trial began on October 2.
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| The 75 Most Delish Fall Soups Posted: 06 Nov 2017 09:47 AM PST  Cold, stormy night? There's a soup for that.
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| Tiffany & Co. is selling a $9,000 ball of yarn and everything is ridiculous Posted: 06 Nov 2017 02:29 PM PST  It's unclear whether Tiffany & Co. is trolling or fishing for press, but they're definitely succeeding with the latter. The luxury company unleashed a line of needlessly expensive everyday objects, appropriately named Everyday Objects. While ridiculously expensive pants and needlessly flashy objects have become somewhat of a mocking trend on the internet recently, Tiffany & Co. has pushed the envelope with this one. SEE ALSO: Moncler is selling a dog parka and boy is it expensive The line is described on the company's website as a collection that "transforms utilitarian items into handcrafted works of art." It features a $1,500 Sterling silver coffee can, a $9,000 ball of yarn, and $350 straw. Image: tiffany and co Image: Tiffany & Co Image: tiffany & co But it doesn't end there — the company has released dozens of totally normal products that nobody needs at totally exorbitant prices. There's a $375 ice cream scoop, a $300 silver yo-yo, and even a $600 Band-Aid box, which will definitely make the Band-Aids heal your wounds faster. Of course, they slapped these normal objects with Sterling silver, putting "the signature Tiffany Blue® hue of this design's enamel accent" on some. The sad part: Rich people will actually shell out money for this stuff. WATCH: Mopping with this gadget actually looks fun Every editorial product is independently selected by Mashable journalists. If you buy something featured, we may earn an affiliate commission which helps support our journalism.
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| Taiwan hopes to find 'natural way' to engage with China's Xi at APEC Posted: 06 Nov 2017 02:50 AM PST ![Taiwan hopes to find 'natural way' to engage with China's Xi at APEC]( "Taiwan hopes to find 'natural way' to engage with China's Xi at APEC") Taiwan hopes to find a "natural way" to exchange views with Chinese President Xi Jinping at a summit of Asia-Pacific leaders that starts in Vietnam this week, the self-ruled island's envoy to the meeting said on Monday. Relations between Beijing and Taipei have nosedived since President Tsai Ing-wen was elected last year. China believes she wants formal independence for Taiwan, a red line for Beijing.
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| Texas shooting: First victim confirmed as Baptist church pastor Frank Pomeroy's 14-year-old daughter Posted: 05 Nov 2017 02:31 PM PST  The 14-year-old daughter of the pastor of First Baptist Church in Texas was killed in the mass shooting at the church on Sunday, reports suggest. Sherri Pomeroy, wife of Pastor Frank Pomeroy, said her daughter Annabelle "and many friends" had been killed in the shooting, which left at least 20 people dead. Ms Pomeroy and her husband were out of town when a gunman entered the church in the small town of Sutherland Springs and opened fire.
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| 31 of the Best Ways to Update Grandma's Favorite Recipes Posted: 06 Nov 2017 02:39 PM PST |
| Richard Dreyfuss' Son Says Kevin Spacey Groped Him As A Teen Posted: 05 Nov 2017 11:50 AM PST  Actor Harry Dreyfuss, the son of Academy Award-winning actor Richard Dreyfuss, says that actor Kevin Spacey sexually assaulted him as a teen, adding his name to a growing list of accusers.
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| Democrats Are Terrified Of Losing Virginia's Big Election. They Should Be. Posted: 06 Nov 2017 02:43 PM PST  In Virginia's gubernatorial race on Tuesday, the Democratic Party has a chance to score its first major political win since President Donald Trump's election.
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| Here Is Why the U.S. Marines Want Their Own Anti-Ship Missiles Posted: 05 Nov 2017 04:11 AM PST  The Marines want to be more than cargo for the Navy to transport—they want to help control the seas. The Marines have put just published a request for ideas on how to develop weapons for a coastal defense system.
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| Mexico busts suspected US cult over triple murder Posted: 05 Nov 2017 11:43 PM PST  Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) (AFP) - An American accused of leading a cult and wanted at home on pedophilia charges was arrested in Mexico along with 26 other people as part of a triple homicide investigation, officials said on Sunday. Orson William Black Jr. was arrested in the northern border state of Chihuahua along with his four wives and 22 other people including an undetermined number of minors, state prosecutors said. Around 100 police officers swooped on the three houses and two ranches where William Black and his followers were living, in a joint operation with the US Federal Bureau of Investigation, prosecutors said in a statement.
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| Supreme Court reverses ruling sparing killer who forgot the crime Posted: 06 Nov 2017 09:35 AM PST  The nine justices ruled unanimously that Alabama can execute 67-year-old Vernon Madison, who has spent decades on death row. The amount of time condemned inmates spend on death row has increased from seven years in 1987 to more than 19 years in 2017, Breyer said, meaning the justices will face more cases of states trying to execute prisoners suffering diseases of old age.
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| The Rock makes Make-A-Wish kids’ dreams come true Posted: 06 Nov 2017 10:34 AM PST  When Dwayne 'The Rock' Johnson is Santa, he gives kids a ride in a Lamborghini.
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| Israel holds bodies of 5 Gaza militants after tunnel blast: army Posted: 05 Nov 2017 11:17 AM PST  Israel's army said Sunday it is holding the bodies of five Palestinian militants found after it blew up a tunnel last week stretching from the Gaza Strip into its territory. Israeli media said they would most likely be retained as bargaining chips to retrieve the bodies of soldiers believed to be held by the strip's Hamas rulers. The military stressed that the Palestinian bodies were found in Israeli territory following the operation to blow up the tunnel that left at least 12 militants dead.
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| Russia paid for Facebook and Twitter investments through Jared Kushner business associate Posted: 06 Nov 2017 06:34 AM PST  A business associated with Jared Kushner was used by Russian state entities to invest in Twitter and Facebook. The information was revealed in the Paradise Papers, a set of millions of leaked documents reviewed by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) and media outlets. White House adviser and son-in-law of US President Donald Trump, Mr Kushner was also the co-founder of a startup called Cadre, according to the full report by The Guardian.
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| Rare Find at King Solomon's Mines: Ancient Pregnant Woman's Remains Posted: 06 Nov 2017 03:53 AM PST  The skeleton of a pregnant woman, dating back around 3,200 years, has been found near a temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Hathor at a place that was once called King Solomon's Mines, archaeologists recently announced. Located in the Timna Valley in Israel, ancient Egyptians and others in the region used the mines for copper mining. Early archaeologists and explorers believed that King Solomon, an ancient Israeli ruler, controlled the Timna mines.
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| Jimmy Fallon's Mother Dies Of Undisclosed Illness Posted: 05 Nov 2017 09:12 AM PST  "Tonight Show" host Jimmy Fallon's mother died at a New York hospital on Saturday, HuffPost confirmed, a day after he canceled a taping of his NBC program.
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| Ducati Goes Big With New Scrambler 1100 Posted: 05 Nov 2017 01:03 PM PST  Ducati Goes Big With New Scrambler 1100 Big L-twin produces 86 hp Something, something Land of Joy something something. Ducati has brought out the biggest bucket of superlatives it can find for the newly unveiled Scrambler 1100 – a big-boy version of the
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| Texas church shooter threatened mother-in-law before rampage: official Posted: 06 Nov 2017 03:33 PM PST  A man court-martialed by the U.S. Air Force on charges of assaulting his wife and child sent threatening messages to his mother-in-law who sometimes attended the rural Texas church where he fatally shot 26 people, officials said on Monday. Gunman Devin Patrick Kelley injured another 20 people when he opened fire in the white-steepled First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs on Sunday. "This good Samaritan, our Texas hero, flagged down a young man from Seguin, Texas, and they jumped in their vehicle and pursued the suspect," said Freeman Martin, a spokesman for the Texas Department of Public Safety.
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