| NRA's Top Lobbyist Implies Trump Is Back On Its Side Posted: 01 Mar 2018 08:47 PM PST  The top lobbyist for the National Rifle Association hinted late Thursday that President Donald Trump had cooled on his own plans to support gun control measures. "We all want safe schools, mental health reform and to keep guns away from dangerous people," Cox said after the meeting.
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| West Virginia Teacher Strike Heads Into Uncharted Territory Posted: 01 Mar 2018 01:53 PM PST  The statewide strike by teachers and other school workers in West Virginia stretched into its second week on Thursday, as protesters filled the state Capitol for a sixth straight workday with no clear end to the work stoppage in sight. The standoff between workers and legislators appeared all but resolved just two days earlier, when Republican Gov. Jim Justice announced a deal with union leaders to hike pay for teachers and state employees. In a remarkable turn, workers bucked union leadership and vowed to return to the picket lines, carrying out what amounted to a wildcat strike. Schools in all 55 counties stayed closed on Thursday, a day Justice had expected everyone to return to work after a one-day "cooling off" period on Wednesday.
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| Mudslide threat prompts mandatory-evacuation order for 30,000 in Southern California Posted: 01 Mar 2018 04:17 PM PST  The threat of deadly mudslides from an impending Pacific storm prompted authorities on Thursday to order mandatory evacuations for some 30,000 people living adjacent to fire-scarred foothills and mountain slopes along California's Santa Barbara coast. The evacuation was put into effect in the same general area where torrential rains on Jan. 9 unleashed cascades of mud, boulders and other debris that killed 21 people, injured dozens of others and damaged or destroyed hundreds of homes. The bulk of the devastation occurred in the affluent hillside community of Montecito, 85 miles (137 km) northwest of Los Angeles, in a region where vast swaths of the coastal landscape were stripped of vegetation by huge wildfires in December.
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| Puerto Rico power grid snaps, nearly 1 million in the dark Posted: 01 Mar 2018 12:02 PM PST  Puerto Rico's power grid broke down again on Thursday, leaving some 800,000 customers without power, as the US Caribbean possession struggles to recover five months after Hurricane Maria slammed the island. Justo Gonzalez, head of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority (PREPA), said that one of the island's main transmission lines was out of service. The government-owned utility has 1.5 customers out of a population of 3.5 million -- not counting the 500,000 Puerto Ricans who left since Maria struck on September 20, 2017.
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| Canadian Outdoor Retailer Drops Products From U.S. Company That Makes Guns Posted: 01 Mar 2018 08:59 AM PST  A major Canadian outdoor retail chain said Thursday it will stop selling products from a U.S. company that manufactures guns and ammunition. Mountain Equipment Co-op, known as MEC, said it would stop carrying products from Vista Outdoor, a sprawling outdoor sports and recreation company that manufactures gun products, including assault-style rifles. MEC, based in Vancouver, sells neither firearms nor ammunition, but said it would quit selling five brands owned by Vista, including CamelBak, Bollé and Bushnell, in an effort to distance itself from the U.S. gun-maker.
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| DA: Woman, 3 young children found dead in Massachusetts home Posted: 01 Mar 2018 08:28 PM PST  WEST BROOKFIELD, Mass. (AP) — A woman and three young children were found dead Thursday in the upstairs bedroom of a Massachusetts home, according to a district attorney who called their deaths suspicious.
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| U.S. Immigration Chief Says 800 Avoided Arrest Because of Warning from Oakland Mayor Posted: 28 Feb 2018 05:42 PM PST  The warning came hours before the agency launched an operation that resulted in more than 150 arrests
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| In exile with Bill Kristol, the Republican resister-in-chief Posted: 01 Mar 2018 02:00 AM PST  Bill Kristol is steadily launching an unrelenting assault on his own party's president. You could say he is the clearest and most credible voice of Republican resistance in Washington.
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| Delta To Georgia Lawmakers: 'Our Values Are Not For Sale' Posted: 02 Mar 2018 12:08 PM PST  The CEO of Delta Air Lines on Friday declared his company's "values are not for sale" after Georgia lawmakers retaliated against the airline for cutting ties with the National Rifle Association in the wake of last month's Florida school shooting. Bastian explained the decision to employees a day after Georgia lawmakers passed a tax bill that effectively punishes the airline for rescinding the discount for NRA members to travel to the group's annual meeting.
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| New Tax Law Benefiting Shareholders More Than Workers So Far Posted: 02 Mar 2018 10:22 AM PST  WASHINGTON ― Since President Donald Trump signed the Republican tax bill in December, hundreds of retail companies have announced employee bonuses totaling more than $3 billion, which Republicans have said proves them right that the new law benefits regular Americans. According to several estimates, firms have announced roughly $200 billion worth of stock buybacks this year, inflating the value of company shares by reducing their supply. "Stock buybacks are windfalls that drive up the value of investment portfolios for CEOs and high-flyers," Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said in a Senate floor speech this week.
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| The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week Posted: 02 Mar 2018 05:47 AM PST  Kids may say the darndest things, but parents tweet about them in the funniest ways. So each week, we round up the most hilarious 280-character quips from moms and dads to spread the joy.
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| U.S. issues alert after tourist ferry explosion in Mexico Posted: 01 Mar 2018 07:02 PM PST ![U.S. issues alert after tourist ferry explosion in Mexico]( "U.S. issues alert after tourist ferry explosion in Mexico") A blast last month on a tourist ferry in the Mexican beach resort of Playa del Carmen was caused by "an explosive device" that injured passengers, including U.S. tourists, the U.S. embassy in Mexico said on Thursday. A security alert posted on the embassy's website warned American citizens to exercise caution and said Mexican authorities continued to investigate the blast. Two more explosive devices were found attached to another ferry on the island of Cozumel on Thursday, local media reported, saying marine troops had secured the scene.
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| Feds: Man sent white powder letters to Trump Jr., 4 others Posted: 01 Mar 2018 03:42 PM PST  WORCESTER, Mass. (AP) — A Massachusetts man was charged Thursday with sending threatening letters with white powder to five people, including one to Donald Trump Jr. that landed his wife, Vanessa, in the hospital.
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| CEO of gunmaker that produced Florida shooter's weapon: 'I share nation's grief' Posted: 01 Mar 2018 03:08 PM PST  American Outdoor Brands' profit fell sharply over the three months ending 31 January, it reported. James Debney, the British-born chief executive of the company that made the rifle used by the gunman in the school shooting in Florida last month, on Thursday said he "shared the nation's grief" over the massacre. Announcing American Outdoor Brands' (AOB) latest results, Debney called the shooting, which killed 17 at the Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Parkland, an "incomprehensible loss of life" but said the company would continue to support the right of Americans to carry firearms.
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| India trip controversy follows Trudeau back to Canada Posted: 01 Mar 2018 01:42 PM PST  Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau faced persistent criticism Thursday over a convicted Sikh extremist's attendance at a Canadian event in Mumbai, nearly a week after the premier's return from a trip to India. Opposition parties and editorialists heaped scorn on the prime minister and his Liberal government over the "fiasco" that dogged Trudeau during his first official visit to India to drum up trade and investment. Canadian-Indian businessman Jaspal Atwal was sentenced in Canada to 20 years in prison for a 1986 assassination attempt on an Indian politician, as part of a violent campaign to establish an independent Sikh state of Khalistan.
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| U.S. evangelist Graham 'followed Jesus all the way to heaven,' son says Posted: 02 Mar 2018 11:44 AM PST  U.S. evangelist Billy Graham, who preached to millions and counselled presidents in his 70-year career, was remembered as a man who loved his family and the Bible at a funeral on Friday attended by President Donald Trump in Graham's native North Carolina. About 2,300 people gathered beneath a canvas tent emblematic of Graham's 1949 Los Angeles revival that marked his breakthrough as a religious leader. Graham, who died on Feb. 21 at age 99, lay in honour at the U.S. Capitol this week in recognition of a clergyman who became the first noted evangelist to take his message to the Soviet bloc when its communist regimes were hostile to organised religion.
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| Abortion to be illegal? Mike Pence’s prediction enrages Newsroom readers Posted: 01 Mar 2018 12:21 PM PST  "It looks like they only care about people before they are born." "This is the zealot we have to look forward to if Mueller does actually bring down Trump." "Abortions have always occurred and always will." Vice President Mike Pence made a startling prediction about legal abortion, saying it would end in "our time." His remark has fired up thousands of Newsroom commenters. Pence made the statement while at a luncheon hosted by the anti-abortion organization Susan B. Anthony List & Life Issues Institute. In his speech he said, "If all of us do all we can, we can once again, in our time, restore the sanctity of life to the center of American law." The majority of the more than 15,000 comments on HuffPost's article express outrage: "His personal beliefs are his personal beliefs not a basis for policy," one reader declared. Many that don't agree with abortion said they still "think that they should be available and safe." The vice president, known for his anti-choice stance, described President Trump as the "most pro-life president in American history" and said the administration would continue to push measures to restrict abortion. What do you think of the future that Pence envisions? Join the conversation in Newsroom.
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| 16 Tweets That Will Make All Introverts Say 'Me' Posted: 01 Mar 2018 03:40 PM PST  If you're an introvert, you likely value your alone time. You think before you speak. You'd much rather socialize one-on-one than in a group. A phone call is probably your worst nightmare. But most of all, you are silently strong.
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| Sheriff: Indiana deputy shot during pursuit won't survive Posted: 02 Mar 2018 02:46 PM PST  LEBANON, Ind. (AP) — A central Indiana sheriff's deputy who was shot in the head while chasing three suspects won't survive and was on life support for donation of his organs, authorities said Friday.
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| NRA TV: inside the channel activists are urging Apple and Amazon to axe Posted: 28 Feb 2018 10:00 PM PST  The NRA's TV channel stresses the organization's size and the importance of guns to staying alive in the US. As the National Rifle Association has come under increased scrutiny since the Florida school shooting, so too has its television channel: NRATV. Activists and celebrities have led calls for Apple, Amazon, Google and Roku to remove NRATV from their streaming platforms, as companies have divested from the lobbying group.
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| The Latest: At UN body, Britain focuses on E Ghouta violence Posted: 01 Mar 2018 01:47 PM PST  BEIRUT (AP) — The latest on developments regarding Syria (all times local):
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| Trump trades Twitter jabs with 'Alex' Baldwin Posted: 02 Mar 2018 06:01 AM PST  President Trump lashed out at Alec Baldwin in a typo-ridden tweet early Friday morning about the actor's recent assertion that he is tired of playing Trump on NBC's "Saturday Night Live.."
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| Massachusetts can sue federal student loan servicer, judge rules Posted: 01 Mar 2018 01:04 PM PST  Massachusetts' attorney general can move forward with a lawsuit alleging that one of the largest student loan servicers in the United States has engaged in practices that have undermined a federal debt forgiveness program, a state court judge has ruled. Suffolk County Superior Court Judge Kenneth Salinger in a decision released on Thursday denied Pennsylvania Higher Education Assistant Agency's motion to dismiss Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey's lawsuit.
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| Jimmy Kimmel's Wife Says His Pancake Art Is 'Making My Life Hell' Posted: 02 Mar 2018 04:30 AM PST  Jimmy Kimmel is hosting the Oscars for the second straight year on Sunday, but he's already earning bad reviews from his wife for his performances at breakfast. Kimmel began making "normal" pancakes about a year ago, and graduated to "realistic, totally edible portrayals" of beloved children's characters and other fun shapes, she wrote. "The adorable pancakes my husband, Jimmy Kimmel, cooks for our kids are making my life hell," the headline reads.
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| Bodycam Video Shows North Carolina Officer Beating Black Man Accused Of Jaywalking Posted: 02 Mar 2018 11:50 AM PST  An Asheville, North Carolina, news outlet published disturbing bodycam footage this week showing a white police officer beating a black resident, prompting public apologies from city officials who are continuing to investigate the incident. The graphic video shows officers chasing Johnnie Rush, 33, throwing him to the ground, shocking him with a stun gun and beating him as he cries out in pain and shouts for help. Photos that Rush provided to the Asheville Citizen-Times show his bandaged and swollen head and other injuries.
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| EPA proposes changes to coal ash regulations Posted: 01 Mar 2018 06:42 PM PST  The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday proposed changes to rules regulating coal ash waste from power plants that it said would give states more flexibility over its disposal and save electric utilities up to $100 million a year in compliance costs. The proposal includes more than a dozen changes to an Obama-era rule that established minimum national standards for the disposal of coal ash, a byproduct of coal-based power plants that contains toxic materials such as arsenic and lead. "Today's coal ash proposal embodies EPA's commitment to our state partners by providing them with the ability to incorporate flexibilities into their coal ash permit programs based on the needs of their states," EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said in a statement.
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| The One Way to Know If You're Officially a Millennial — Whether You Like It or Not Posted: 01 Mar 2018 12:52 PM PST  Wanna take a selfie?
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| Georgia Lawmakers Pass Bill Punishing Delta For Cutting Ties With NRA Posted: 01 Mar 2018 02:05 PM PST  Georgia lawmakers passed a bill on Thursday effectively punishing Delta Air Lines for its decision to cut ties with the National Rifle Association in the wake of last month's school shooting in Parkland, Florida. The state's House and Senate passed a major a tax bill, which Republican lawmakers had amended to remove a sales tax exemption on jet fuel, The Associated Press reported. Delta, which is based in Atlanta, would have been the primary airline to benefit from the exemption.
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| Mom of slain medical student calls daughter a 'warm person' Posted: 01 Mar 2018 11:08 AM PST  BOSTON (AP) — A medical student stabbed to death in a Massachusetts library was "The Little Engine That Could," her mother said Thursday.
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| South Korea to send special envoy to North Korea, president tells Donald Trump Posted: 01 Mar 2018 07:27 AM PST  South Korea plans to send a special envoy to North Korea in response to an invitation from leader Kim Jong-un, South Korean President Moon Jae-in told his US counterpart Donald Trump in a phone call on Thursday. The two presidents discussed the recent visits to the south by high-level North Korean officials, the South Korean presidential Blue House said in a statement. The Olympics gave a boost to recent engagement between the two Koreas after more than a year of sharply rising tensions over the North's missile programme and its sixth and largest nuclear test in defiance of UN sanctions. "[Mr Moon and Mr Trump] agreed to continue to make efforts to head toward the Korean peninsula's denuclearisation by maintaining the momentum of South-North dialogue," the Blue House statement said. In sending an envoy to Pyongyang, Mr Moon said he would be seeking to reciprocate for the senior delegations dispatched to the Olympics by Kim Jong-un, including his sister, Kim Yo-jong, the first visit by a member of the North's ruling bloodline since the 1950-53 Korean War. North Korean cheering squads leaving the Pyeongchang 2018 Winter Olympics for North Korea Credit: REUTERS/Kim Hee-Chul/Pool Senior officials from Pyongyang visiting South Korea for the Winter Olympics said on Sunday their government was open to talks with the US, while the White House said any talks with North Korea must lead to an end to its nuclear programme. Mr Moon has urged North Korea and the US to talk to resolve the issue of Pyongyang's weapons programme, which Mr Kim has said he will never abandon. In the latest attempt to defuse the crisis over North Korea's weapons programme, Seoul urged Washington and Pyongyang to give ground to allow for talks. "Both leaders agreed to continue close consultations on the progress of South-North Korea dialogue that will go on," the statement said.
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| Palestinian migrant gets life sentence for supermarket stabbing in Germany Posted: 01 Mar 2018 01:02 AM PST  A Palestinian asylum seeker and radicalized Islamist who killed one person and injured six others in a knife attack in a Hamburg supermarket in July has been sentenced to life in prison, a spokesman for a city court said on Thursday. Hamburg residents threw chairs and other objects at the attacker - who had been known to authorities - helping police to detain him, but a 50-year-old man died of his injuries. The asylum seeker could not be deported as he lacked identification documents and was psychologically unstable, Hamburg's Interior Minister Andy Grote said after the attack.
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| Mom still searching for answers after young son's deadly fall Posted: 02 Mar 2018 12:09 PM PST  Dina Shacknai's 6-year-old son Max Shacknai died in 2011, after falling from a second-story landing at his father Jonah Shacknai's mansion. Police later determined Max's death was an accident.
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| Robert Buchel, Star of ‘My 600-Lb. Life,' Dies While Filming TLC Show Posted: 02 Mar 2018 10:07 AM PST  The 41-year-old man suffered a fatal heart attack.
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| Fox News Exec Who Wrote Inflammatory Olympics Op-Ed Retires Posted: 01 Mar 2018 06:45 PM PST  The Fox News executive editor who wrote an anti-diversity op-ed railing against the U.S. Olympic Committee for celebrating a diverse Team USA has retired from the network, CNN reported Thursday. The column was written in response to the USOC celebrating that Team USA's Winter Olympics delegation of athletes was the most diverse in the county's history. The team was overwhelmingly white and far less diverse than the 2016 Summer Olympics team.
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| I'm upbeat German SPD will reject Merkel coalition: youth leader Posted: 02 Mar 2018 06:23 AM PST  By Michelle Martin and Holger Hansen BERLIN (Reuters) - The leader of the youth wing of Germany's Social Democrats (SPD) is optimistic a majority of the party's members will vote down another alliance with Chancellor Angela Merkel's conservatives, he told Reuters on Friday. The result of the SPD's binding ballot of its roughly 464,000 members will be announced on Sunday, more than five months after an inconclusive parliamentary election. Europe's largest economy and pre-eminent power-broker would probably face a new election or a minority government if SPD members reject another tie-up with Merkel.
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| This Is the All-Electric Jaguar I-Pace Posted: 01 Mar 2018 10:15 AM PST  Jag's first electric car has a 90 kWh battery pack, all-wheel drive, and 240 miles of range.
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| Kylie Jenner Shares First Photo Of Herself Holding 'Angel Baby' Stormi Webster Posted: 02 Mar 2018 07:22 AM PST  The pictures show Jenner wearing a black patterned sweatsuit with what looks a pair of Yeezy Mud Rat 500s, which are part of Kanye West's Spring 2018 collection. Of course, new dad Travis Scott made sure to mark Stormi's one-month milestone as well.
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| Polish law criminalizing some Holocaust speech takes effect Posted: 01 Mar 2018 09:11 AM PST  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish law that makes it a crime to falsely accuse the Polish nation of crimes committed by Nazi Germany took effect Thursday, part of a wider effort by nationalist authorities to use history to defend the country's honor and pride.
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| China Senses and Acts on U.S. Weakness in South China Sea Posted: 01 Mar 2018 08:17 AM PST  China is a rising power and it is only natural that it would seek to expand its areas of naval operations and political influence. China seems to think that, because it was once the center of its world, more respect for its exalted status is needed. There are rising indications, however, that China intends to be just that.
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| New York mother says finding slain children was a 'nightmare' Posted: 01 Mar 2018 03:22 PM PST  After opening statements in which the prosecution described the grisly killings and the defense urged jurors to find the nanny, Yoselyn Ortega, not guilty by reason of insanity, the mother of the slain children appeared as the first witness. Marina Krim recounted going home to her luxury apartment on Manhattan's Upper West Side on Oct. 25, 2012, only to discover her daughter Lucia, 6, nicknamed Lulu, and son Leo, 2, stabbed to death. Ortega, 55, on trial for two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of second-degree murder, planned the killing, waiting to be alone with the children and using the family's kitchen knives, said Assistant Manhattan District Attorney Courtney Groves.
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| Jaguar I-Pace finally unveiled Posted: 02 Mar 2018 02:02 AM PST  There's been so much said and written about the Jaguar I-Pace over the last few months you could be forgiven for thinking it had been on sale for some time. Completely new models from major manufacturers deservedly get a lot of attention, but the I-Pace is more than just another new Jaguar as it's the British luxury manufacturer's first venture into the world of all-electric vehicles. It might look quite familiar as this production model is very close to the original 2016 concept, and plenty of images have been published of the I-Pace undergoing testing at the Nurburgring and elsewhere.
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| Virginia Mother TerriLynn St. John Found Dead, Covered in Leaves Not Far From Her Home Posted: 01 Mar 2018 04:20 PM PST  The 23-year-old mother vanished two days ago, leaving her toddlers home alone.
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| People Will Find Any Way To Shame Khloe Kardashian While She's Pregnant Posted: 01 Mar 2018 07:58 AM PST  The Good American designer and sisters Kim and Kourtney are currently traveling in Japan for a girls trip before she's set to deliver sometime in March. The family's reality TV show "Keeping Up with the Kardashians" documented her troubles conceiving with ex-husband Lamar Odom.
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