| Jeff Sessions Says He Forgot Trump Adviser's Russia Comments In 'Chaos' Of Campaign Posted: 14 Nov 2017 07:50 AM PST  WASHINGTON ― Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that he had "no recollection" of a former Trump campaign adviser's comments on Russia during a March 2016 Trump campaign meeting on national security ― until, that is, it emerged that George Papadopoulos had pled guilty to lying to FBI agents working with the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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| Sick death row inmate will be given special pillow to help him breathe during lethal injection Posted: 14 Nov 2017 11:16 AM PST  A sick death row inmate set to die by lethal injection this week will be given a special wedge-shaped pillow to help him breathe as he is executed.
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| Paul Ryan Announces That U.S. House Will Mandate Sexual Harassment Training Posted: 14 Nov 2017 12:46 PM PST  WASHINGTON ― House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) on Tuesday announced that members of the House and staff will undergo mandatory training regarding sexual harassment.
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| 4 Dead In Shooting At Northern California Elementary School Posted: 14 Nov 2017 12:59 PM PST  At least three people are dead and several injured after a shooting early Tuesday morning at an elementary school in Northern California, local authorities report.
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| The Latest: Over 400 dead from earthquake Posted: 13 Nov 2017 12:52 PM PST  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The Latest on a powerful earthquake near the Iran-Iraq border that has killed more than 400 people (all times local):
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| British doctor saves himself by punching shark in face during surfing attack in Australia Posted: 13 Nov 2017 04:00 PM PST  A 25-year-old British man escaped from a shark after "punching it in the face" while surfing in Australia, saying his feat was inspired by professional surfer Mick Fanning. Charlie Fry, a doctor who moved to Australia two months ago to work, was surfing at Avoca beach, north of Sydney, when a shark leapt out of the water and bit him. He said he heard a "massive thud" and initially thought it was a friend playing around but turned and "saw a shark's head come out of the water with its teeth". "I turned to the right and I saw a shark's head come out of the water with its teeth and I just punched it in the face," he told Nine News. "I saw a shark's head come out of the water... and I just punched it in the face," Charlie Fry has told #9News, after he was attacked on the NSW Central Coast. https://t.co/YK830EQ5gRpic.twitter.com/n2a5C2ygXs— Nine News Australia (@9NewsAUS) 13 November 2017 "[I] got back on my board, shouted at my friends who were there and then managed to catch a wave in. So it was a bit of a close call." Dr Fry said he learnt of the escape technique from a YouTube video featuring an interview with Fanning, an Australian who famously punched a shark to survive an attack during a surfing competition in South Africa in 2015. "Me and my friends have just started surfing, and we saw the YouTube clip of Mick Fanning saying he punched [a shark] in the nose," he said. "So when it happened I was like, 'Just do what Mick did, just punch it in the nose'." He added: "If you are watching or listening, Mick, I owe you a beer. Thank you very much." Surfer Mick Fanning has another close call with shark 01:04 Dr Fry suffered minor scratches and bite wounds from the "hectic" encounter and was driven to hospital by his fellow surfers, who were also doctors. A rescue helicopter service later spotted a ten-foot shark near the site of the attack – a section of the beach known as "shark tower". "I didn't feel the teeth going in, it felt like I was smacked, it felt like a hand, a hand grabbing me, shaking me," Dr Fry said. "I didn't really notice it at the time, because when you're surfing, all I was thinking was 'I'm about to die', and I was just ... thinking about getting in [to shore] as fast as possible. You just ride the wave as long as you can and start paddling for your life." Dr Fry said he would take the week off and was "racing" to return to the water but might choose a different spot to surf. "I probably wouldn't go to that point for a while," he said. "It is called 'shark tower' for a reason, so I will probably just go somewhere else. The surf was rubbish yesterday, so it wasn't even worth it." Australia has had a spate of shark attacks in recent years, including one fatality and ten injuries this year. Authorities closed the beach at Avoca and said surrounding beaches would be "closely monitored". Life-saving advice | How to survive a shark attack
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| Rare frilled shark with unusual teeth and 'snake-like' head found off Portugal's coast Posted: 12 Nov 2017 06:54 PM PST  Sink your teeth into this. A little-known frilled shark has been found off the Algarve coast in Portugal by scientists, who were conducting research on minimising unwanted catches in European fisheries. SEE ALSO: This baby flamingo in blue boots will make your day It's a rare discovery given the depths in which the shark Chlamydoselachus anguineus is found, living 500 to 1,000 metres below the sea. In this case, the shark was caught at a depth of 700 metres. Researchers from Portugal's national meteorological, seismic, sea and atmospheric organisation, IPMA, said it was a "true living fossil," because its remains had been unchanged for 80 million years, according to BBC News' translation of a Sic Noticias report. Image: ipmaThe male fish measures about 1.5 metres long, and has a "long, slender body and a snake-like head." It also has a rather unique teeth arrangement, but there's little else known about the shark's biology or ecology. However, the shark gets its name from the 300 teeth that line its mouth in a frilled appearance, "which allows it to trap squid, fish and other sharks in sudden lunges," Professor Margarida Castro of the University of the Algarve told Sic Noticias. It has a "wide but very patchy" distribution across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, according to the IUCN, and is on rare occasion caught as bycatch. A freaky catch in this case, to say the least. WATCH: A giant sculpture translates vibrations of 40,000 live bees into an explosion of light and sound
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| Louis C.K.'s Manager Admits Wrongdoing In Quieting The Comedian's Accusers Posted: 13 Nov 2017 02:33 PM PST  Louis C.K.'s former manager Dave Becky issued an apology Monday for his role keeping the disgraced comedian's sexual misconduct under wraps.
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| Dozens of Afghan security forces killed in Taliban raids: officials Posted: 14 Nov 2017 05:57 AM PST  Dozens of Afghan police and soldiers have been killed in a wave of Taliban attacks on checkpoints in Afghanistan, officials said Tuesday, as insurgents step up assaults on the beleaguered security forces. The raids in the southern province of Kandahar and the western province of Farah on Monday night came hours after a suicide attacker rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a US military convoy, wounding four soldiers. The Taliban issued statements on their social media accounts claiming the attacks.
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| Missing Teen Feared Abducted For Sex Trafficking Posted: 13 Nov 2017 10:21 AM PST  It's been almost two months since a Pennsylvania teen who'd recently moved to New York City disappeared.
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| 16 holiday gifts for wine lovers Posted: 14 Nov 2017 12:46 PM PST  There's nothing cozier than curling up your couch and ending a crazy day with a nice glass of red wine.
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| Father faints after learning that he and wife are having triplets Posted: 14 Nov 2017 07:43 AM PST  A father says he fainted when his wife surprised him with some special news: They're going to have triplets. Robert Tolbert said that his wife, Nia, left him a gift bag and a handwritten note. Mr Tolbert figured, 'Hey, it's probably that FitBit I've been hinting at getting for a while now." But he was dead wrong.
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| Russia, China, others boycott U.S. meeting at U.N. on Venezuela Posted: 13 Nov 2017 05:41 PM PST  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Russia, China, Egypt and Bolivia boycotted an informal public United Nations Security Council meeting on Venezuela on Monday organized by the United States, saying the 15-member body should not be involved in the situation. "The issue is about meddling with the internal domestic affairs of Venezuela," Russian U.N. Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia told reporters, adding that he hoped the country could settle its issues peacefully without any external interference. U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told the meeting: "The fact that the (Venezuelan) government would go so far as to try and get people not to show up to a meeting is guilt.
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| That tweet trolling a Muslim woman during the Westminster attack was actually by a Russian bot Posted: 14 Nov 2017 05:43 AM PST  On the day of the Westminster attack that left 6 dead, a Twitter troll shared an image of a Muslim woman on the phone, wrongly claiming she was ignoring the victims on the bridge: Image: screengrab/twitter/@southlonestarBoth the photographer and the woman in the image debunked @SouthLoneStar's account of the scene, saying it was taken out of context: Please circulate: Statement from the Muslim woman photographed on Westminster Bridge during #WestminsterAttack (via @TellMamaUK) pic.twitter.com/2sHFb56lEu — TellMAMAUK (@TellMamaUK) March 24, 2017 Nonetheless, the tweet got over 1,800 likes and 1,600 retweets, picked up by alt-right personalities and white nationalists like Richard Spencer: Walk on by... pic.twitter.com/8kCHYoNTIh — Richard �� Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) March 22, 2017 Now, it turns out that this account that spews hatred and anti-Muslim sentiment to its 16,000+ followers is a Russian bot, which has since been closed by Twitter, according to Wired. The report looks at a cache of posts from 2016 collected by New Knowledge, an American security startup, and reveals a network of Russian bots posting about "the Brexit vote, pictures of London Mayor Sadiq Kahn, anti-Muslim language around European terror attacks and racial slurs against refugees." In June 2016, @SouthLoneStar, which claimed to be a "Proud TEXAN and AMERICAN patriot", tweeted about Brexit: "I hope UK after #BrexitVote will start to clean their land from muslim invasion!" Image: Screengrab/twitter/@southlonestarThe account also appears in the Russian congressional investigation released by U.S. democrats. WATCH: Flying taxis could be here by 2020 thanks to Uber
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| 16 Questions To Ask On A First Date, According To Marriage Therapists Posted: 13 Nov 2017 09:14 AM PST  If you're an introvert ― or just hate small talk ― few things are more stress-inducing than a first date.
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| House OKs bill slightly cutting former presidents' pensions Posted: 13 Nov 2017 04:14 PM PST ![House OKs bill slightly cutting former presidents' pensions]( "House OKs bill slightly cutting former presidents' pensions") WASHINGTON (AP) — Former presidents get lucrative book deals and high-paid speaking gigs. So there's no need for taxpayers to support them to the degree that the federal government has done in the past.
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| Senate Republicans Grapple With How To Answer The Roy Moore Question Posted: 13 Nov 2017 08:09 PM PST  WASHINGTON ― Even as new and disturbing allegations were coming out about the predatory behavior of Roy Moore on Monday, Senate Republicans were still split on how to deal with Alabama's Senate nominee.
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| Texas Gunman's Ex-Wife Reveals How He Bragged About Killing His Dog Posted: 13 Nov 2017 10:04 AM PST  Tessa Brennaman spoke exclusively to Inside Edition about her abusive marriage to Devin Kelley.
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| eBay's newest 'Don't Wait for Black Friday' campaign to roll out Black Friday deals all week Posted: 13 Nov 2017 01:26 PM PST  Black Friday is still days away, but with deals that start earlier and earlier every year, it seems like the anticipation of the holiday has been dragging on for months.
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| Mike Pence's NFL Stunt Cost Police Department $14,000 Posted: 14 Nov 2017 09:54 AM PST  A planned political stunt by Vice President Mike Pence, in which he walked out of an NFL game in protest of players kneeling during the national anthem, cost the Indiana Metropolitan Police Department more than $14,000, new records show.
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| Netanyahu signals Israel will act with free hand in Syria Posted: 13 Nov 2017 08:52 AM PST  By Jeffrey Heller JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he has put the United States and Russia on notice that Israel will continue to take military action across the frontier in Syria, even as the two powers try to build up a ceasefire there. "We are controlling our borders, we are protecting our country and we will continue to do so," Netanyahu said in public remarks to members of his right-wing Likud party in parliament. "I have also informed our friends, firstly in Washington and also our friends in Moscow, that Israel will act in Syria, including in southern Syria, according to our understanding and according to our security needs." U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday affirmed joint efforts to stabilize Syria as its civil war wanes, including with the expansion of a July 7 truce in the southwestern triangle bordering Israel and Jordan.
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| Polish leaders condemn 'xenophobia' after huge far-right march Posted: 13 Nov 2017 01:15 PM PST  Poland's right-wing leaders on Monday spoke out against xenophobia after a controversial Independence Day march organised by far-right groups. Having started small in 2009, the annual event attracted a large following this year, with police estimating the crowd on Saturday in Warsaw at around 60,000. Dramatic images of the event showed some marchers holding banners saying "Pure blood" and "Europe will be white", while others chanted "Pure Poland, white Poland" and "Refugees get out".
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| Georgia sheriff facing charges over school search suspended Posted: 13 Nov 2017 12:49 PM PST ![Georgia sheriff facing charges over school search suspended]( "Georgia sheriff facing charges over school search suspended") ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's governor on Monday suspended a sheriff who faces charges including sexual battery after a drug search at a high school earlier this year.
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| One of America's Best Buffets Is Nowhere Near Las Vegas Posted: 13 Nov 2017 11:54 AM PST  At the heart of Pennsylvania Dutch Country, the classic Shady Maple Smorgasbord is selling a trip back in time, at exceedingly reasonable prices.
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| Samsung Chip Factory Worker Killed by Brain Tumor Wins in Court Posted: 14 Nov 2017 07:20 AM PST  She was exposed to dangerous chemicals while on the job
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| Mike Pence Keeps Getting Caught In A Web Of Deception Posted: 14 Nov 2017 10:25 AM PST  WASHINGTON ― On Oct. 14, 2016, then-GOP vice presidential nominee Mike Pence vehemently denied that the Trump campaign had any contact with WikiLeaks.
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| Newtown families seek to hold gun maker accountable in Connecticut court Posted: 14 Nov 2017 10:59 AM PST  By Tina Bellon HARTFORD, Conn. (Reuters) - A lawyer for families who lost loved ones in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting told Connecticut's highest court on Tuesday that Remington Outdoor Co [FREDM.UL] should be held responsible because its military-themed marketing was designed to appeal to young men like killer Adam Lanza. "They knew they were hitting their mark and Lanza was responding to their marketing," said lawyer Joshua Koskoff Lanza, 20, used a Remington AR-15 Bushmaster rifle, a semi-automatic civilian version of the U.S. military's M-16, to kill 20 school children between the ages of 6 and 7, as well as six adult staff members, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec. 14, 2012. Following the conclusion Tuesday's arguments, the Connecticut Supreme Court will now decide whether the families of nine of the victims and one survivor can proceed with a trial seeking to hold Remington, along with a gun wholesaler and local retailer, responsible for the carnage based on its marketing.
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| Camera Battery Explosion at Orlando Airport Causes Panic and Hours of Delays Posted: 13 Nov 2017 07:56 AM PST  Security footage caught a TSA agent jumping into action when he saw the backpack smoking.
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| Hezbollah, crown jewel of Iran's spreading influence Posted: 13 Nov 2017 05:11 AM PST  Lebanon's Hezbollah, blamed by Saad Hariri for his shock resignation as premier, has grown over the three decades since its founding into a mighty army used by Iran to project regional influence. Hariri criticised the powerful Shiite movement for its meddling across the Middle East during a televised interview from Saudi Arabia on Sunday, his first media appearance since he stepped down on November 4. Hezbollah has participated in Hariri's government for almost a year.
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| Police: Man fatally shot tried to run, fought with officer Posted: 14 Nov 2017 01:50 PM PST  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A man killed by a Baton Rouge police officer had tried to run when confronted during a child abuse investigation, fought with the officer and kept resisting after being shot, authorities said Tuesday.
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| Toshiba sells TV business to China's Hisense Posted: 13 Nov 2017 11:53 PM PST  Struggling Japanese conglomerate Toshiba said Tuesday it has decided to sell its television business to China's Hisense Group as part of its efforts to restore its balance sheet. Toshiba agreed with the Chinese group to sell 95 percent in shares of its unit Toshiba Visual Solutions (TVS) for about 12.9 billion yen ($114 million), it said in a statement. "Toshiba has been considering structural reforms that will ... strengthen Toshiba's financial base," the firm said.
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| Doug Jones Alludes To Roy Moore Sexual Misconduct Scandal In New Ad Posted: 14 Nov 2017 09:04 AM PST  Alabama Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones is out with two new TV ads featuring Republicans who are voting for him over GOP nominee Roy Moore, with one spot alluding to Moore's sexual misconduct scandal.
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| Green Beret killed by 'two Navy SEALs after he uncovered alleged theft' Posted: 13 Nov 2017 07:39 AM PST  Two Navy SEALs reportedly being investigated over the death of an Army Green Beret in Mali are accused of killing him after he learned they had been allegedly stealing. Two special operations sources who remained unnamed told the Daily Beast the members of the US Navy's elite SEAL team – which stands for "Sea, Air, and Land" – under investigation over the death of Logan J Melgar had been taking money from a fund utilised to pay informants. Mr Melgar was a Special Forces Engineer in the US Army Special Forces which is colloquially referred to as the Green Berets because of their distinctive headwear.
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| 27 Really Funny Tweets About Married Life That Are Undeniably True Posted: 14 Nov 2017 09:00 AM PST  After the honeymoon period has come and gone, it might seem as though marriage has lost some of its luster.
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| At U.N., North Korea says U.S. to blame for 'worst ever situation' Posted: 13 Nov 2017 09:39 AM PST  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - North Korea complained to the United Nations on Monday about joint military exercises by the United State and South Korea, describing it as "the worst ever situation" because U.S. nuclear war equipment had been deployed ready to strike. In a letter to U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, seen by Reuters, North Korean U.N. Ambassador Ja Song Nam said the United States was "running amok for war exercises by introducing nuclear war equipment in and around the Korean Peninsula." Three U.S. aircraft carrier strike groups have been involved in the joint exercise in the Western Pacific in a rare show of force as President Donald Trump visits Asia.
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| 15 People Have Caught Fire and 5 Have Died After Being Tasered Near Flammable Materials Posted: 13 Nov 2017 01:10 PM PST  Over the course of 24 years
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| Joe Biden Hopes Trump Presidency Will Be 'The Single Exception' In American History Posted: 14 Nov 2017 03:09 AM PST  Former Vice President Joe Biden appeared on Stephen Colbert's "The Late Show" Monday night and discussed how President Donald Trump's time in office might influence future U.S. leaders.
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| Shooter Kills 5 and Wounds Children in Northern California Posted: 14 Nov 2017 01:08 PM PST  Authorities say a series of shootings in rural Northern California has left five people dead, including the shooter, and that two children were among the wounded.
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| In photos: Cronut creator Dominique Ansel's new Los Angeles restaurant Posted: 14 Nov 2017 06:21 AM PST ![In photos: Cronut creator Dominique Ansel's new Los Angeles restaurant]( "In photos: Cronut creator Dominique Ansel's new Los Angeles restaurant") Dominique Ansel, who earlier this year was named the world's best pastry chef in large part for giving the world the croissant-donut hybrid the Cronut, has opened his first full-service, sit-down restaurant at The Grove in Los Angeles. The first floor houses the Dominique Ansel Bakery, while the second floor houses the restaurant 189 by Dominique Ansel. The menu is described as modern American, with comfort foods like roast chicken, given new twists.
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| Myanmar's Suu Kyi now benefits from Southeast Asia's silence Posted: 12 Nov 2017 09:49 PM PST  YANGON, Myanmar (AP) — When Aung San Suu Kyi led the fight for democracy against Myanmar's despotic military rulers two decades ago, she bristled at the collective reluctance of Southeast Asian governments to intervene in her nation's plight.
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| China maintains reign over world supercomputer rankings: survey Posted: 14 Nov 2017 01:26 AM PST  China now has more high-performance supercomputers than ever before, again besting the United States in global rankings, a supercomputer tracking organisation said. The standing corresponds with China's growing reputation as the global leader in supercomputers, as the Asian power prepares to launch in June 2018 a prototype exascale computing machine -- a "super supercomputer". Some 202 of the world's fastest supercomputers are in China -- compared with 143 in the US -- according to Top500, a site that has tracked supercomputer development for more than two decades.
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