| Zimbabwe's New Leaders Are None Other Than Mugabe's Former 'Enforcers' Posted: 21 Nov 2017 12:42 PM PST  Jubilant crowds filled the streets of Zimbabwe's cities on Tuesday, after the country's speaker of parliament announced that President Robert Mugabe had resigned after decades in power.
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| Alabama Senate race gets even stranger as Democrat quotes Ivanka in ad Posted: 21 Nov 2017 07:43 AM PST  A new ad for Democratic Senate candidate Doug Jones quotes Republican Sen. Richard Shelby, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Ivanka Trump, saying there is no reason to doubt the women who have accused Roy Moore of sexual misconduct.
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| Anita Hill: Joe Biden's Apology Is 'Not Enough' Posted: 22 Nov 2017 11:23 AM PST  Anita Hill said former Vice President Joe Biden's recent apology for his handling of her 1991 Senate testimony against then-Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas is "not enough" to make up for his failure at the time "to show leadership on this issue on behalf of women's equality."
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| Net neutrality repeal was decided after 'enormous numbers' of fake people sent messages of support for Trump administration Posted: 22 Nov 2017 09:20 AM PST  The profound and fundamental changes currently being made to the internet are being done partly on the basis of hundreds of thousands of fake people, according to New York's attorney general. This week, the Federal Communications Commission announced that it would repeal Obama-era protections that guaranteed net neutrality. Campaigners say that the move would allow internet companies to force people to pay for access to specific websites, for instance, or charge a fee if they want to download things at any speed.
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| Trump Supporters Are Confusing LeVar Burton With LaVar Ball, And It's Painful Posted: 21 Nov 2017 04:50 PM PST  For 23 years, LeVar Burton attempted to teach the joys of reading to millions of youngsters on the PBS series "Reading Rainbow."
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| The Latest: Conyers acknowledges settling staffer complaint Posted: 21 Nov 2017 11:47 AM PST  DETROIT (AP) — The Latest on sexual harassment allegations against Rep. John Conyers (all times local):
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| Military Staff Removed From White House After 'Incident' On Trump's Asia Trip: Report Posted: 21 Nov 2017 08:14 PM PST  Three members of a White House team staffed by military personnel have been removed from their positions after being accused of improper contact with foreign women during President Donald Trump's recent trip through Asia, The Washington Post reported Tuesday.
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| Additional remains found of U.S. soldier killed in Niger Posted: 21 Nov 2017 09:07 AM PST  Investigators found additional human remains in early November of U.S. Army Sergeant La David Johnson, who was killed in an ambush last month in Niger along with three other U.S. soldiers, the Pentagon said on Tuesday. The ambush drew attention to the little-known U.S. military presence in Niger, and it came under further scrutiny when President Donald Trump's handling of condolence messages to the families of the dead U.S. soldiers was criticized by lawmakers in Washington. Investigators found the remains on Nov. 12 and military medical examiners have verified that the remains were Johnson's, Pentagon spokeswoman Dana White said in a statement.
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| Armed Robber Jumps From Wheelchair in Pharmacy Holdup: Cops Posted: 21 Nov 2017 05:53 AM PST  Three men walked out of a California pharmacy with a sack full of prescription drugs.
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| Mom Allegedly Killed in Front of Family by Her Children's Dad Posted: 22 Nov 2017 11:23 AM PST  "He stood right there and he looked me dead in my face and unloaded the gun again on her," the victim's mother, Gloria Blaylock, told the Atlanta Journal Constitution
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| Years into journey, transgender teen still finding himself Posted: 22 Nov 2017 08:58 AM PST  HOMESTEAD, Fla. (AP) — It's been six years since Theo Ramos first cut himself in the school bathroom, six years since his parents and friends and teachers found out he wanted to be a boy instead of a girl, six years in transition.
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| Wes Goodman: Anti-LGBT Republican politician 'caught having sex with man in his office' facing 30 sexual misconduct accusations Posted: 22 Nov 2017 01:43 AM PST  An anti-LGBT Republican politician who was allegedly caught having sex with a man in his office is facing more than 30 accusations of sexual misconduct. Wes Goodman, a state legislator for Ohio, has already been forced to resign after a witness to the reported extramarital affair told the Ohio House Chief of Staff. Mr Goodman, who routinely promotes "family values", is married to a woman who is an assistant director of an annual abortion rally known as March for Life.
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| Russia Wanted Trump As President And It Got Him. Now What Does America Do? Posted: 22 Nov 2017 02:00 AM PST  WASHINGTON ― Russia's tyrant works to help the Republican nominee win America's presidential election.
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| Lebanon's PM Hariri shelves resignation, easing crisis Posted: 22 Nov 2017 12:42 PM PST  By Ellen Francis and Laila Bassam BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's Saad al-Hariri on Wednesday shelved his decision to resign as prime minister at the request of President Michel Aoun, easing a crisis that had deepened tensions in the Middle East. Hariri made his announcement after returning to Beirut for the first time since he quit abruptly on Nov. 4 in a broadcast from Saudi Arabia. Top Lebanese officials have said Riyadh forced him to quit and held him in the kingdom.
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| 15 Twists On Shepherd's Pie Your Winter Dinner Rotation Is Missing Posted: 22 Nov 2017 07:16 AM PST |
| Man Wrongly Convicted of Murder Will Get $15 Million From L.A. County Posted: 22 Nov 2017 12:06 PM PST  Franklin O'Connell has maintained his innocence for the last 32 years.
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| Catholic School Statue Covered Up For Being Too Gross And Weird Posted: 21 Nov 2017 11:49 PM PST  A Catholic school in Australia has covered up a statue of a saint giving a loaf of bread to a boy after complaints that it was too suggestive.
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| No verdict yet in San Francisco pier killing as jury breaks Posted: 22 Nov 2017 12:40 PM PST  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The criminal case against a Mexican man accused of killing a woman on a crowded San Francisco pier is coming to a close more than two years after setting off a national firestorm over immigration.
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| Shelter Dogs Get Week-Long 'Vacation' To Spend Thanksgiving In Real Homes Posted: 22 Nov 2017 08:54 AM PST  Twenty Georgia shelter dogs don't have permanent homes yet, but that won't stop them from celebrating Thanksgiving in style.
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| President Trump and Vladimir Putin Just Had an Hour-Long Phone Call Posted: 21 Nov 2017 02:27 PM PST  Iran and Ukraine were also on the agenda
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| U.S. diplomats accuse Tillerson of breaking child soldiers law Posted: 21 Nov 2017 02:05 PM PST  By Jason Szep and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A group of about a dozen U.S. State Department officials have taken the unusual step of formally accusing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson of violating a federal law designed to stop foreign militaries from enlisting child soldiers, according to internal documents reviewed by Reuters. A confidential State Department "dissent" memo, which Reuters was first to report on, said Tillerson breached the Child Soldiers Prevention Act when he decided in June to exclude Iraq, Myanmar, and Afghanistan from a U.S. list of offenders in the use of child soldiers.
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| U.S. threatens to sue Harvard over admissions policies Posted: 21 Nov 2017 01:09 PM PST  The U.S. Justice Department has threatened to sue Harvard University to force it to turn over documents as it investigates whether the Ivy League school's admission policies violate civil rights laws by discriminating against Asian-American applicants.
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| "They said, I’m sorry, because you weren’t physically injured, you can’t go to the private events." Posted: 21 Nov 2017 11:10 AM PST  Lisa Hamp was in the same building as the gunman on the day of the Virginia Tech shooting. She and her classmates pushed against the door of the room to keep him from entering. Last fall, we were talking, and we were like, "Are you going to the 10-year anniversary?" And I said, "I haven't been to one since my senior year, which was the first anniversary, but I'd love to go because now I'm recognizing all this power from recovery and healing.
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| Karina Vetrano murder : Man beat jogger so hard her teeth broke, court hears Posted: 21 Nov 2017 03:13 AM PST  Cathie and Philip Vetrano heard the accused Chanel Lewis explain that he struck Karina Vetrano so hard that her teeth broke. In a pre-taped confession, Mr Lewis said he "lost it" and grabbed the 30-year-old from Queens as she ran past him through a marshy swamp along a bike path in Spring Creek Park. The confession was recorded back in February 2017 after Mr Lewis spent the night in a police precinct watching cartoons.
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| Five major submarine disasters Posted: 21 Nov 2017 05:06 AM PST  With an Argentine submarine missing for five days with 44 people aboard, we recall five of the most deadly submarine disasters over the past few decades. In August 2000, Russia's northern fleet nuclear submarine Kursk catches fire and explodes underwater while conducting war games. Seventy Chinese naval officers and crew are killed, apparently suffocated, in an accident on a Ming-class submarine conducting exercises east of the Neichangshan islands in May 2003.
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| Kindergartener bags buck under Wisconsin's new hunting rules Posted: 21 Nov 2017 10:40 AM PST  MILWAUKEE (AP) — A Wisconsin kindergartener is among the first youngsters to bag a buck under a new law that eliminates the state's minimum hunting age.
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| Natalie Portman Has '100 Stories' Of Sexual Misconduct, Discrimination Posted: 21 Nov 2017 11:34 AM PST  When actress Natalie Portman heard the mounting allegations of sexual assault and misconduct in Hollywood, she said she considered herself lucky that she has never been personally assaulted.
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| U.S. warns citizens against risks of travel to Saudi Arabia Posted: 21 Nov 2017 12:37 PM PST  The U.S. State Department on Tuesday warned citizens to "consider the risks" when traveling to Saudi Arabia due to militant threats and the threat of ballistic missile attacks on civilians by rebels in Yemen. The warning comes two weeks after U.S.-allied Saudi Arabia said it had shot down a ballistic missile fired by Iran-aligned Houthis from Yemen towards the Saudi capital Riyadh. The missile, which the Houthis said was in response to Saudi-led air strikes on civilians in Yemen, was shot down near Riyadh airport without causing any casualties.
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| What Experts Have Learned So Far From the JFK Records Releases Posted: 22 Nov 2017 06:05 AM PST  In the months since the document drops began, here's what experts have gleaned from newly released JFK assassination files
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| Ann Maguire murder: Parents should be made to sign contracts with Facebook and monitor children's accounts, says coroner Posted: 22 Nov 2017 11:36 AM PST  Parents should be made to sign contracts compelling them to monitor their children's Facebook messages, the coroner in the Ann Maguire murder inquest has claimed. Under proposals due to be presented to the Digital minister Matt Hancock, parents would be given the right to pry on their children's accounts because their "responsibility transcends" a teenager's "entitlement to privacy". The suggestions would also require teens aged 13 to 18 to have a named parent on their application to open an account, and make parents contractually obliged to monitor their communications. Coroner Kevin McLoughlin outlined the proposals yesterday as a jury ruled that the murder of Spanish teacher Ann Maguire could have been prevented. Teenage killer of teacher Ann Maguire told ten friends 'precisely' what he planned to do Delivering a conclusion of unlawful killing, the jury at Wakefield Coroner's Court said that her death had resulted from "missed opportunities to share and record the problem behaviour" of her killer. It comes more than two years after Ms Maguire, an employee of Corpus Christi College, Leeds was stabbed to death by pupil Will Cornick during a lesson at the school on 28 April 2014. During the inquest, the jury heard that Cornick, then 15, had exchanged a series of messages on Facebook with friends in which he professed his hatred for Ms Maguire and his desire to harm her. In one Facebook exchange, he expressed his loathing for the 61-year-old and offered a friend "a tenner" for them to kill her. Another associate of Cornick told police officers in an interview that Cornick had said of Mrs Maguire: "I don't want to hurt her, I want to kill her." Cornick was 15 years old when he stabbed to death Mrs Maguire, 61, as she taught a class at Corpus Christi Catholic College, in Leeds The teenager told 10 pupils of his intention to kill Mrs Maguire and other members of staff, and showed four of them the 34-inch knife he later used in her brutal murder. Despite his litany of threats, none of the pupils reported the outbursts to the school. Their conversations with Cornick only surfaced in pre-inquest hearings, and it later emerged that they had never been questioned about them by police officers or teaching staff after her murder. In statements following Mrs Maguire's murder, Cornick's parents claimed they had no prior knowledge of their son's intentions. Commenting on the disclosures, Mr McLoughlin said that Cornick's online threats had been "sinister and grotesque", adding that he believed that "parents have a responsibility to protect children". In order to do this, he said that they should be given "access to supervise content", adding: "any parent's responsibility transcends any teenager's entitlement to privacy." A Facebook spokesman said: "We want everyone to feel safe when using Facebook. We work closely with online safety experts including the UK Safer Internet Centre and Childnet International to make sure that young people and their parents know how technology works and what they need to think about before sharing online."
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| Undocumented Immigrant Whose Wife Has Cancer Finally Granted Temporary Stay Posted: 22 Nov 2017 01:53 PM PST  Thanks to a large social media push, an undocumented immigrant from Bangladesh will get to stay in the U.S. ― for now.
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| Ratko Mladic still a 'legend', says Bosnian Serb chief Posted: 21 Nov 2017 11:57 AM PST  The Bosnian Serb political leader Milorad Dodik said he believed Ratko Mladic would remain "a legend" regardless of the verdict at his genocide trial on Wednesday. UN war crimes judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) are to hand down their long-awaited judgement on "The Butcher of Bosnia" in The Hague. Despite the multiple charges against him, which include genocide, Mladic remains a hero to many in Serbia.
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| Man arrested in cop killing; mom accused of helping him flee Posted: 21 Nov 2017 01:50 PM PST  NEW KENSINGTON, Pa. (AP) — Tips from informants helped lead law enforcement to the man accused of fatally shooting a rookie police officer, and the suspect's mother is accused of helping him evade arrest during a four-day manhunt, officials said Tuesday.
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| Sean Hannity’s Thanksgiving Advice For Dealing With Liberals Hits A Snag Posted: 21 Nov 2017 12:39 AM PST  Fox News host Sean Hannity offered to give advice for dealing with "liberal relatives" during Thanksgiving.
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| Kathy Griffin Brutally Rejects O'Reilly: 'I'm Not That Desperate, Bill McRapey' Posted: 20 Nov 2017 09:39 PM PST  Kathy Griffin rejected an offer to appear on Bill O'Reilly's podcast in the most public way possible.
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| Putin hosts Iran, Turkey leaders in major new Syria diplomacy push Posted: 22 Nov 2017 10:11 AM PST  By Denis Pinchuk and Stephen Kalin SOCHI, Russia/RIYADH (Reuters) - Russia's Vladimir Putin hosted the presidents of Turkey and Iran to discuss Syria on Wednesday, launching a major diplomatic push to finally end a civil war that has been all but won by the government of President Bashar al-Assad. Syrian opposition groups, meeting in Saudi Arabia to seek a unified position ahead of peace talks, decided to stick to their demand that Assad leave power, Al Arabiya television reported, following speculation they might soften their stance after their hardline leader quit.
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| AP source: Border patrol agent may have fallen Posted: 20 Nov 2017 07:16 PM PST  DALLAS (AP) — A U.S. official with knowledge of the investigation into the death of a border patrol agent said Monday that the surviving agent who radioed in for help doesn't remember what happened.
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