| Nikki Haley Slams Iran’s Role In Yemen War, Neglects To Mention U.S. Part In Humanitarian Crisis Posted: 14 Dec 2017 12:55 PM PST  The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, stood before missile remnants that she claimed were covered in Iranian "fingerprints" on Thursday while laying out what she called "irrefutable evidence" that Tehran has violated its international obligations by militarily supporting rebels in Yemen.
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| Roy Moore mistaken in Alabama recount claim Posted: 13 Dec 2017 12:08 PM PST  Rachel Maddow reports on why Roy Moore is mistaken to believe he can call for a recount in the senate race he just lost, apparently the result of misleading guidance from the Alabama secretary of state.
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| For captured ISIS fighters in Iraq, justice is swift and conviction certain Posted: 13 Dec 2017 09:49 AM PST  Yahoo News gets a rare look inside the courtroom where captured ISIS fighters are being tried in Iraq. The trials last about 20 minutes, convictions are virtually certain, and a lenient sentence is 15 years.
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| Texts reveal two FBI officials in Russia inquiry had anti-Trump sentiments Posted: 13 Dec 2017 08:22 AM PST  Peter Strzok was dismissed from the Russia investigation when Robert Mueller found out about a series harshly critical text messages about candidate Donald Trump. The messages were made public Tuesday.
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| Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory About Alabama Election Gets A Brutal Reality Check Posted: 14 Dec 2017 12:30 AM PST  Hours after Doug Jones upset Roy Moore in Alabama's special election, the far right began cooking up conspiracy theories about busloads of voters being brought in from out-of-state: I am hearing rumors that black voters from MS were encouraged to cross over into AL and vote.
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| North Korean 'ghost ship' washes up on shores of Japan as problem grows Posted: 13 Dec 2017 12:17 PM PST  A new unmanned ship from North Korea washed Japanese shores this week with at least one dead body.
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| DNC chair Perez: 'I heard Charles Barkley loudly and clearly' Posted: 13 Dec 2017 08:01 AM PST  Tom Perez suggested he agreed with Barkley's view that Democrats have taken low-income and African-American voters "for granted."
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| Joe Biden Says He Wishes He Had 'Been Able To Do More For Anita Hill' Posted: 14 Dec 2017 06:28 AM PST  Joe Biden is offering another apology to Anita Hill.
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| Geminid Meteor Shower 2017: What it is, when it's happening and where to watch it Posted: 13 Dec 2017 07:22 AM PST  This week, stargazers will witness the peak of one of the year's best shooting star displays in the United States.
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| Firefighter fatality reported at huge California wildfire Posted: 14 Dec 2017 01:07 PM PST  SANTA BARBARA, Calif. (AP) — A firefighter died Thursday while working a colossal wildfire burning in coastal mountains northwest of Los Angeles that has become the fourth largest in California history.
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| Battlefield researchers uncover ISIS arsenal and weapons factory in Iraq Posted: 13 Dec 2017 06:55 AM PST  NBC News goes into Tal Afar Iraq with a team of weapons researchers as they discover an ISIS arms cache and munitions factory that reveals the terrorists group's sophisticated weapons program.
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| Police hold 11-year-old girl at gunpoint and handcuff her Posted: 14 Dec 2017 08:02 AM PST  "It made me feel scared and it made me feel like I did something wrong," Honestie Hodges told local media. COWARDLY COPS DO IT AGAIN! 11- year old Honestie Hodges was handcuffed by the Grand Rapids Police Department for walking out her back door. The incident happened in the city of Grand Rapids as the girl was preparing to leave her home to go to the shops.
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| With Rubio a 'no' vote, where does the GOP tax bill stand? Posted: 14 Dec 2017 03:33 AM PST  Marco Rubio's spokesperson confirms the Senator will vote "no" unless certain changes are made to the Republican tax bill. NBC's Garrett Haake reports on the implications.
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| Rep. Speier on Alabama, North Korea and how Congress is not 'Animal House' Posted: 13 Dec 2017 12:38 PM PST  Rep. Jackie Speier cautioned that Doug Jones's shock defeat of Roy Moore is a "unique" result that may not apply to the 2018 midterms.
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| 8-year-old Imani McCray may have hung herself after seeing report of another girl's suicide Posted: 13 Dec 2017 12:47 PM PST  An 8-year-old girl from New Jersey committed suicide over the weekend, and sources close to the investigation are reportedly saying she may have been inspired by a story she saw on social media.
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| Jesse Watters' Mother Is 'Distraught' About Her Son's Views Posted: 14 Dec 2017 09:09 AM PST  If you've ever been distraught by something that Fox News host Jesse Watters said, you're not alone.
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| Royals join bereaved families in London tower fire memorial Posted: 14 Dec 2017 05:23 AM PST  LONDON (AP) — Britain's royals and Prime Minister Theresa May joined survivors and families of those who died in London's Grenfell Tower fire for a memorial service Thursday for the 71 people killed in the June blaze.
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| Time Is Running Out For Syria's Besieged Communities Posted: 14 Dec 2017 06:00 AM PST  Nearly 745,000 men, women and children in Syria are trapped inside the war-torn country's 33 besieged communities, living in desolate conditions at the mercy of President Bashar Assad's authoritarian regime and its armed opponents.
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| Bodycam Footage of Cop Slapping Handcuffs on Screaming 11-Year-Old Girl Sparks Outrage Posted: 13 Dec 2017 09:11 AM PST  The footage shows a terrified young girl as she's handcuffed during an investigation.
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| Indian minister warns Bollywood heavyweights over sexual exploitation Posted: 14 Dec 2017 11:33 AM PST  In a rare rebuke, an Indian minister on Thursday warned the country's Bollywood film industry to comply with strict measures to combat sexual harassment, following the Harvey Weinstein scandal. Maneka Gandhi, India's federal Minister for Women and Child Development, took the unusual step of writing to 24 powerful Bollywood film producers, demanding they comply with Indian sexual harassment legislation to ensure a "safe, secure and inclusive work environment" for all employees. The letter was sent to major industry players, such as actors Aamir Khan and Shah Rukh Khan, as well as director Karan Johar. "The aim of this law is to ensure that no woman is sexually harassed at her workplace," Ms Gandhi said in her letter. "It is to be followed in letter and spirit by all organisations in the country," she added. "Bollywood filmmakers are ethically and legally accountable for the safety of not only their direct employees but of all outsourced and temporary staff as well." Britain's Prince William shakes hands with Bollywood actor Shah Rukh Khan Credit: REUTERS/Rafiq Maqbool/Pool It is understood that more letters will be sent to other film producers. Bollywood remains hugely male dominated, with men making up the vast majority of directors and veteran stars. The small handful of female directors are mostly confined to regional cinema. After the Weinstein allegations broke, people in the film business in India were unconvinced they would have a #MeToo moment. "What can we do?" Mukesh Bhatt, who co-heads production house Vishesh Films said. "We cannot keep moral cops outside every film office to see that no girl is being exploited." Alankrita Shrivastava, director of critically acclaimed film Lipstick Under my Burkha said a women's protest movement was unlikely to happen in conservative Indian society. "The way men are being called out in Hollywood right now, I don't know if it can happen in India." "In terms of how our psychology is, how patriarchy functions, it is much more entrenched," she added. However, Ms Gandhi's stark warning gives women in Bollywood hope that their concerns will be heard. Last month Bollywood actress Swara Bhaskar told a Mumbai tabloid she had been turned down for "several roles" as she did not give in to "unwanted advances" by producers and directors. Ms Bhaskar, 29, urged aspiring actresses to turn down roles rather than resort to the so-called "casting couch" to exchange sexual favours to advance their careers. Thousands of young Indian girls and boys gravitate to Bollywood every year with the aim of becoming actors. Swara Bhaskar complained of Bollywood's casting-couch culture Credit: Dave J Hogan/Getty Images They are vulnerable to sexual exploitation, not only by unscrupulous agents promising them roles which they never get, but also by lesser known stars, producers and directors making similar promises. Hopefuls are fearful of reporting inappropriate behaviour in case it ruins their chances of breaking into Bollywood. "It is always very subtle," Ms Bhaskar said this week. "People try to insinuate that there are 10,000 girls for one role – so what can you do?" In the wake of the #MeToo scandal, actresses including Kalki Koechlin and Richa Chadha called on Bollywood to improve its record in standing up for victims of sexual harassment and exploitation. Sexual harassment legislation was passed in India in 2013, in response to the fatal gang rape of a 23-year old medical student on a bus in Delhi in December 2012. In November Ms Gandhi launched the online Sexual Harassment electronic-Box (SHe-Box) to register sexual harassment complaints in the workplace and to ensure the implementation of the 2013 law. She also urged all company directors to report sexual harassment cases, but activists said many victims were hesitant to register their complaints, afraid their future careers would be curtailed. Women's rights activists maintain that only 10 per cent of rape and other sexual harassment cases ever get reported in India.
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| Omarosa Manigault Newman Denies She Was Fired From The White House Posted: 14 Dec 2017 05:17 AM PST  Omarosa Manigault Newman is bucking reports that White House chief of staff John Kelly fired her.
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| Ohio passes law barring abortion over Down syndrome diagnosis Posted: 13 Dec 2017 05:36 PM PST ![Ohio passes law barring abortion over Down syndrome diagnosis]( "Ohio passes law barring abortion over Down syndrome diagnosis") Women in Ohio would be prohibited from receiving abortions because of a fetal Down syndrome diagnosis under a bill that passed the state senate on Wednesday and is heading to Republican Governor John Kasich's desk. Lawmakers voted 20-12 in favor of the law, which criminalizes abortion if the physician has knowledge that the procedure is being sought due to a diagnosis of Down syndrome, a genetic disorder caused when abnormal cell division results in an extra full or partial copy of chromosome 21. Doctors would lose their medical licenses in the state and face a fourth-degree felony charge under the law if they were to perform an abortion with that knowledge.
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| Forget Stealth Fighters: This Is the Plane China Needs to Take on America Posted: 14 Dec 2017 06:35 AM PST  China is looking to increase its air tanker fleet after its fighter jets, bombers and surveillance aircraft conducted an "island encirclement patrol" of Taiwan earlier this week. As the People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) extends exercises in the Western Pacific, refueling will become a problem for its strike aircraft.
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| Prince Harry And Meghan Markle Serious About Having Religious Wedding, Church Leader Says Posted: 14 Dec 2017 02:33 PM PST  St. George's Chapel is a stunning, historic place.
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| Dan Johnson: Who is the Kentucky Republican politician accused of child sexual assault found dead in apparent suicide? Posted: 14 Dec 2017 12:23 AM PST  A Republican state representative who denied allegations he sexually assaulted a teenage girl has died in an apparent suicide. Dan Johnson died of a single gunshot wound after stopping his car at the end of a bridge in a secluded area of Mount Washington, Kentucky, the Bullitt County Coroner said. Mr Johnson was elected to the state legislature in 2016, part of a wave of Republican victories that gave the GOP control of the Kentucky House of Representatives for the first time in nearly 100 years.
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| The Latest: Safeway spokeswoman says workers will miss mayor Posted: 12 Dec 2017 06:04 PM PST  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on the death of San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee (all times local):
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| Republicans Near Deal On Tax Cut Bill Posted: 13 Dec 2017 03:08 PM PST  WASHINGTON ― Even before House and Senate lawmakers held their first official meeting on Wednesday to work out differences between their tax bills, Republican tax writers were touting a tentative deal Wednesday that would likely set up final congressional passage of a compromise GOP proposal next week.
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| 11 Congolese Fighters Have Been Jailed for Life For Raping Dozens of Children Posted: 13 Dec 2017 07:54 PM PST  A spiritual adviser reportedly told the men raping infants would give them supernatural powers
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| Keaton Jones Visits University of Tennessee Football Team as Reports Say His Dad Might Be a White Supremacist Posted: 13 Dec 2017 10:54 AM PST  Shawn White is currently serving a three-year prison term for assault.
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| A Heartfelt Thank You To The Women Who Broke Their Silence On Roy Moore Posted: 12 Dec 2017 09:58 PM PST  The women, nine in all, who came forward to say that Senate candidate Roy Moore sought romantic relationships with them when they were teenagers had everything to lose.
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| Google crunches data to help NASA find two new planets Posted: 14 Dec 2017 12:25 PM PST ![Google crunches data to help NASA find two new planets]( "Google crunches data to help NASA find two new planets") By Paresh Dave SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Alphabet Inc's Google and NASA said on Thursday that advanced computer analysis identified two new planets around distant stars, including one that is part of the first star system with as many planets as Earth's solar system. The research by Google and the University of Texas at Austin that used data from NASA raised the prospects of new insights into the universe by feeding data into computer programs that can churn through information faster and more in-depth than humanly possibly, a technique known as machine learning.
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| More than 20 IS killed in southern Syria: coalition Posted: 14 Dec 2017 08:55 AM PST  Syrian opposition forces backed by a US-led coalition killed more than 20 Islamic State fighters and took several others prisoner Thursday, military officials said. According to the coalition fighting IS in Syria and Iraq, a vetted Syrian opposition group known as the Maghawir al-Thawra detected the fighters early Thursday in an area controlled by pro-Syrian regime forces in southern Syria, in the Al-Tanf border region. Supported by coalition forces, the Maghawir al-Thawra "quickly and professionally conducted an operation," the coalition said in a statement.
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| 84 Arrested At Capitol Hill Protest Against GOP Tax Bill Posted: 13 Dec 2017 07:50 PM PST  Fresh off an inspiring Democratic win in Alabama's Senate race, hundreds of progressive activists, many of whom had physical disabilities, converged on Capitol Hill on Wednesday to protest the Republican tax bill.
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| Epic Gingerbread House Fails Are Your New Favorite Holiday Tradition Posted: 14 Dec 2017 04:17 AM PST ![Epic Gingerbread House Fails Are Your New Favorite Holiday Tradition]( "Epic Gingerbread House Fails Are Your New Favorite Holiday Tradition") People around the world are getting into the festive spirit by attempting to create their own gingerbread houses.
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| 2 Police Officers Shot in the Chest Were Saved by Bulletproof Vests Posted: 14 Dec 2017 08:31 AM PST  The police were engaged in a standoff
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| The Latest: Rubio threat to vote 'no' imperils tax bill Posted: 14 Dec 2017 05:47 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Republican tax overhaul (all times local):
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| Thursday's Morning Email: Why Millennials Are Facing The Scariest Financial Future Since The Great Depression Posted: 14 Dec 2017 04:54 AM PST  TOP STORIES (And want to get The Morning Email each weekday?
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| Gift Card Scam: Crooks Can Drain the Money Off Your Cards Posted: 14 Dec 2017 08:59 AM PST  Gift cards are hotter than roasted chestnuts this yule season. Six in ten consumers have gift cards on their Christmas shopping list, according to a survey of 7,349 consumers for the National Ret...
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| 8 Ways Divorce Attorneys Approach Relationships Differently Posted: 14 Dec 2017 11:05 AM PST  Married divorce lawyers have an interesting perspective on relationships.
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| Three-man crew returns from space station: NASA TV Posted: 14 Dec 2017 04:18 AM PST ![Three-man crew returns from space station: NASA TV]( "Three-man crew returns from space station: NASA TV") (Reuters) - A capsule carrying U.S., Russian and Italian astronauts from the International Space Station landed in Kazakhstan on Thursday after a five-month mission, a NASA TV live broadcast showed. The spacecraft brought back Randy Bresnik from the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Sergey Ryazanskiy from Russian space agency Roscosmos, and Italy's Paolo Nespoli with the European Space Agency. The capsule landed in the windswept and snow-covered steppe in Kazakhstan's central Karaganda region at 2.37 p.m. (0837 GMT). ...
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| US urges talks as North Korea brags of nuclear arsenal Posted: 13 Dec 2017 01:33 AM PST  The United States is ready to talk to North Korea "without preconditions" but remains determined to force it to abandon its nuclear arsenal, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Tuesday. While White House press secretary Sarah Sanders did not spell out the president's views, Trump in the past has chided his secretary of state for "wasting his time" trying to negotiate with Pyongyang.
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| Three Florida Men Charged With Animal Cruelty For Dragging a Shark Behind Their Boat Posted: 12 Dec 2017 06:02 PM PST  A video of a shark being dragged behind their speeding boat went viral in late July after a Miami sport fisherman criticized it on social media
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| The Latest: GOP: Dayton manipulating state Senate majority Posted: 13 Dec 2017 09:22 AM PST  ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — The Latest on Gov. Mark Dayton's appointment of a replacement for Minnesota Sen. Al Franken (all times local):
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| Legionnaires' Disease Is Rising At An Alarming Rate In The U.S. Posted: 14 Dec 2017 02:45 AM PST  Health officials are increasingly concerned about the continuous uptick of Legionnaires' disease cases, which have risen steadily since 2000.
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| Family Grows From 5 Members to 11 After the Birth of Sextuplets Posted: 13 Dec 2017 11:03 AM PST  The three boys and three girls are expected to remain in the NICU for the next month.
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| Family of 5-year-old boy shot in Texas church massacre ask public to send him Christmas cards Posted: 13 Dec 2017 12:45 PM PST  The family of a five-year-old boy who was injured last month in a bloody Texas church shooting is appealing to the public to help them bring a bit of holiday cheer to the boy this Christmas. Ryland Ward, who was shot five times in the First Baptist Church last month, is still in the hospital after the shooting. "You got so many nice people that are sending a card and a dollar to Ryland," Sandy Ward, his grandmother, told local news.
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