| Central Michigan University shooting suspect apprehended after manhunt Posted: 03 Mar 2018 07:57 AM PST  19-year-old James Eric Davis Jr. was taken into custody by law enforcement overnight, hours after his parents were shot and killed inside a Central Michigan University dorm room.
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| Mike Huckabee Resigns From Country Music Board After Criticism Of His Anti-LGBTQ Views Posted: 02 Mar 2018 08:21 PM PST  "If the industry doesn't want people of faith or who hold conservative and traditional political views to buy tickets and music, they should be forthcoming and say it," Huckabee wrote in his resignation letter, which came just one day after he was announced as the CMA Foundation's newest member. "Until recently, the arts was the one place America could set aside political, geographical, racial, religious, and economic barriers and come together ... At the end of the day, I'm not worth the fight, but the kids are." The letter was published in Nashville's The Tennessean. Although CMA Foundation Chairman Joe Galante had touted Huckabee's "policy experience with education reform" when announcing the former Arkansas governor's appointment to the board Wednesday, the news immediately set off a firestorm of criticism.
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| A Climate Change Litmus Test For Democrats Posted: 04 Mar 2018 05:00 AM PST  In April 2016, at a campaign stop on the campus of SUNY Purchase, just north of New York City, I filmed a short video of Hillary Clinton. The video quickly went viral, partly because of the outsized response from a famously tight-lipped politician, partly because it played so well into the Democratic primary narrative that pitted Clinton, buddy-buddy with Wall Street, against the people-powered challenge of Sen. Bernie Sanders. The furor that the video generated sprang from fissures in the Democratic Party that perfunctory resistance to President Donald Trump has only papered over.
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| At least eight dead after Nor’easter slams east coast Posted: 03 Mar 2018 07:55 AM PST  Massachusetts is under a state of emergency, with residents along the coast battling cold, wind and flooding, and more than a million across the Northeast are without power.
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| Hunt for missing Malaysian plane likely to end in June Posted: 03 Mar 2018 04:30 PM PST  KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) — The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 by a U.S. company will likely end in June, a Malaysian official said, as families of passengers marked the fourth anniversary of the plane's disappearance with renewed hope that the world's biggest aviation mystery will be solved.
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| Florida Teacher Linked To White Supremacist Podcast Removed From The Classroom Posted: 04 Mar 2018 03:49 PM PST  A Florida middle school social studies teacher was removed from the classroom while her school district investigates a HuffPost report that she hosted a white supremacist podcast under a pseudonym, shared anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and suggested that Muslims be eradicated from the planet. HuffPost, in an article published on Saturday, revealed that Volitich was hosting a podcast titled "Unapologetic" under the name "Tiana Dalichov." Volitich also used that name on a Twitter account and two Facebook pages, in addition to several other podcasts and YouTube pages.
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| Honduras energy executive arrested over activist murder Posted: 03 Mar 2018 05:45 PM PST  Honduran authorities said they have arrested an energy company executive allegedly behind the high-profile 2016 murder of prominent environmental activist Berta Caceres. Police detained electrical engineer Roberto David Castillo Mejia "as the intellectual perpetrator" behind Caceres's murder, the prosecutor's office said in a statement Friday. Officials said Castillo had served as CEO of the company Desarrollos Energeticos (DESA) -- which Caceres actively campaigned against over plans to build a hydroelectric dam -- at the time of the activist's slaying.
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| Putin Tells Megyn Kelly Russia Will 'Never, Never' Extradite Accused Hackers to the United States Posted: 03 Mar 2018 10:57 PM PST  In an exclusive interview with Megyn Kelly, Russian President Vladimir Putin says that the his government had nothing to do with any meddling in the 2016 election.
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| Senate Democrat: Gun reform won't happen if Trump is 'not willing to lead' Posted: 04 Mar 2018 05:52 AM PST  ABC News' George Stephanopoulos goes one-on-one with one of the leading Democrats on gun control, Sen. Chris Murphy.
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| China says its 'moderate' defense spending rises are no threat Posted: 03 Mar 2018 10:37 PM PST  China's "moderate" defense spending rises in the past few years have been to make up for past deficiencies and the country's military will not threaten anyone, a senior diplomat said on Sunday ahead of the release of the defense budget. How much China spends on its armed forces is closely watched around the region and in Washington for pointers about the country's broader strategic intentions amid an impressive modernization program that has included developing stealth fighters, aircraft carriers and anti-satellite missiles. Last year military spending was budgeted to increase by just 7 percent, to 1.044 trillion yuan ($164.60 billion) about one-quarter of the proposed U.S. defense spending for the year.
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| 5 Avalanche Victims Rescued At California's Squaw Valley Ski Resort Posted: 02 Mar 2018 09:52 PM PST  A powerful avalanche Friday at Squaw Valley Ski Resort above Lake Tahoe in Northern California buried five skiers and snowboarders, injuring two, officials reported. Officials are investigating what may have triggered the avalanche.
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| Wilbur Ross: 'I Have No Reason to Think' Trump's Going to Change His Mind on Trade Posted: 03 Mar 2018 10:33 PM PST  Commerce Secretary Wibur Ross tells Chuck Todd that President Trump will make the final decision on any trade tariffs.
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| Steven Mnuchin Doesn't Want People To See Video Of His Heckled UCLA Talk Posted: 02 Mar 2018 05:56 PM PST  Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin doesn't want you to see what happened when he spoke at the University of California, Los Angeles on Monday. The Burkle Center for International Relations invited Mnuchin to speak with "Marketplace" public radio host Kai Ryssdal for an open discussion on the Trump administration, its policies and the U.S. economy at the university. The public event went so poorly, however, that Mnuchin asked UCLA not to publish any video of it, The Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday.
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| Apparent explosive device found on Mexican ferry off Cozumel Posted: 02 Mar 2018 06:49 PM PST  PLAYA DEL CARMEN, Mexico (AP) — What appeared to be undetonated explosives were found on a ferry that runs between the Caribbean resorts of Playa del Carmen and the island of Cozumel, authorities said Friday, less than two weeks after a blast shook another ferry plying the same route.
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| Roy Moore Is Now Asking For Money On Facebook To Defend Himself Posted: 03 Mar 2018 09:46 AM PST  Former Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore has asked supporters for financial assistance to defend against a defamation lawsuit brought by an Alabama woman who accused him of sexually abusing her when she was 14 years old. In a Facebook post this week, Moore said his "resources have been depleted" and he has "struggled to make ends meet" due to legal fees and expenses. "I now face another vicious attack from lawyers in Washington D. C. and San Francisco who have hired one of the biggest firms in Birmingham Alabama to bring another legal action against me and ensure that I never fight again," he wrote in the lengthy screed.
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| $275K going to family of each person slain in Vegas shooting Posted: 02 Mar 2018 06:24 PM PST  LAS VEGAS (AP) — A $31.5 million victims' fund that started as a GoFundMe effort announced plans Friday to pay $275,000 to the families of each of the 58 people killed in the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history.
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| Panel: Chaos Rules in the 'Reality Show' White House Posted: 03 Mar 2018 11:41 PM PST  Tom Brokaw, Katy Tur, Doris Kearns Goodwin and Al Cardenas discuss the chaotic week in the White House, after President Trump's Communications Director and longtime aide Hope Hicks announced her resignation.
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| Populists, far-right eye gains in Italian election Posted: 03 Mar 2018 07:35 AM PST  Rival parties held their final rallies on Friday as no campaigning was allowed on Saturday, at the end of a bitter race marred by clashes between far-right and anti-fascist activists. The result could end up in a draw between the anti-establishment Five Star Movement, three-time prime minister Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing coalition and the ruling centre-left Democratic Party. One of the most remarkable features of the election has been the return to the political limelight of the 81-year-old Berlusconi despite a career overshadowed by sex scandals and legal woes.
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| Bronze stars for an elite team of Air Force surgeons Posted: 03 Mar 2018 08:13 AM PST  Members of the Air Force Special Operations Surgical Team can set up an operating room on the battlefield in just 15 minutes. Their skills are tested in Syria as they treat civilians, many of them children.
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| Gun in Central Michigan University shooting belonged to suspect's father, police say Posted: 03 Mar 2018 02:35 PM PST  A 19-year-old student suspected of killing his parents at a Central Michigan University dormitory used a gun that was registered to his father.
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| Philando Castile Charity Covers Entire School District's Lunch Debt Posted: 03 Mar 2018 07:03 PM PST  Two years after he was fatally shot by a police officer in Minnesota, Philando Castile is still helping students afford lunch. A charity created in Castile's honor has paid off the lunch debt for every student in the 56 schools in the St. Paul Public School District, including the school where Castile worked as a cafeteria supervisor. Castile had worked as a cafeteria supervisor at the J.J. Hill Montessori Magnet School in St. Paul for two years at the time he was killed.
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| Trump's Tariff Can't Start A Trade War Because It Started Years Ago Posted: 03 Mar 2018 01:13 PM PST  President Donald Trump's announcement that he would place tariffs on steel and aluminum imports has economists cringing. Conservative Republicans are dusting off the principles they learned in Econ 101, liberal Nobel laureate Paul Krugman is warning that Trump will start an economically destructive trade war, and prominent world leaders are vowing to prove Krugman right. On Friday, European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker threatened to retaliate against "unfair" U.S. tariffs with new levies on American motorcycles, bourbon and blue jeans.
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| Ohio inmate whose execution halted dies of natural causes Posted: 03 Mar 2018 01:26 PM PST  CLEVELAND (AP) — A twice-convicted murderer whose execution in November had to be halted when a usable vein couldn't be found to administer execution drugs died Saturday morning of natural causes, a spokeswoman for the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction said.
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| U.N. halts aid work in northeast Nigeria town after humanitarian workers killed Posted: 03 Mar 2018 07:19 AM PST  The United Nations has suspended aid work helping tens of thousands of people in northeastern Nigeria after an attack by suspected Boko Haram militants left three humanitarian workers dead and at least three others missing, possibly kidnapped. The suspension of aid work in the town of Rann, which hosts a camp for 55,000 people displaced by the Islamist Boko Haram insurgency, was announced late on Friday in a statement from the spokesman for the UN Secretary-General. "At the time of the attack, over 40 humanitarian workers were in Rann," said the UN statement.
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| 2-Year-Old Girl Dies After Mirror Falls on Her at Payless Shoe Store Posted: 04 Mar 2018 09:36 AM PST  The child was rushed to the hospital but did not survive
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| Why Putin Is Obsessed with America's Missile Defense Posted: 03 Mar 2018 06:19 PM PST  Practically all of the nuclear weapons systems mentioned in Putin's speech, old and new, were justified as a response to the steady buildup of U.S. missile defense since it withdrew from the ABM Treaty. In a speech before Russia's Federal Assembly, Vladimir Putin unveiled several new nuclear-weapons systems.
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| Prominent Bangladeshi writer, teacher stabbed during lecture Posted: 03 Mar 2018 12:04 PM PST ![Prominent Bangladeshi writer, teacher stabbed during lecture]( "Prominent Bangladeshi writer, teacher stabbed during lecture") DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP) — An unidentified young man stabbed a prominent teacher, writer and promoter of secular values at a university in a northeastern city in Bangladesh on Saturday, police said.
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| Swiss vote for public media Posted: 04 Mar 2018 08:46 AM PST  Swiss voters on Sunday rejected a proposal that would have cut taxpayer funding to public broadcasters, after a campaign that stirred debate about the media's role in fostering national unity. The "No Billag" initiative -- a reference to the Billag firm that collects the media licensing fee -- divided Switzerland on political and generational lines. Rejection of the initiative was "a strong sign for the public service and for private regional radio and television," said the Swiss Broadcasting Corporation (SSR) director Gilles Marchand.
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| 'SNL' Zings NRA: 'Only Way To Stop A Bad Roach Is A Good Roach With A gun' Posted: 04 Mar 2018 12:08 AM PST  "Saturday Night Live" host and NBA legend Charles Barkley played Ned the exterminator out for cockroaches in a comedy sketch on the program — but he was aiming for the National Rifle Association. "Ned's Roach Away" has an innovative way to eliminate roaches: Arm the good roaches with teeny AR-15s to take out the bad ones. "The only way to stop a bad roach is a good roach with a gun," Barkley explains in the sketch.
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| Tiger and Bear Battle it Out Over Territory in Intense Video Posted: 04 Mar 2018 09:40 AM PST  The bear fought back to protect her cub.
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| Trump Mocks Kushner At Gridiron Dinner: 'Jared Could Not Get Through Security' Posted: 04 Mar 2018 08:09 AM PST  President Donald Trump pulled no punches in his gibe-filled remarks at the Gridiron Club dinner in Washington on Saturday, joking about his top aides and opponents alike to the journalists and lawmakers in attendance. The president opened his comments by mocking the recent downgrading of Kushner's security clearance. "Before I get started, I wanted to apologize for arriving a little bit late," Trump began, according to pool reporters.
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| The Latest: Chief: Deaths of officer, wife "tragic" Posted: 02 Mar 2018 06:39 PM PST  MOUNT PLEASANT, Mich. (AP) — The Latest on a shooting at Central Michigan University (all times local):
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| Vietnam seeks to pacify China as landmark U.S. carrier visit signals warming ties Posted: 03 Mar 2018 08:14 PM PST  By Greg Torode and Mai Nguyen HONG KONG/HANOI (Reuters) - The visit of a U.S. aircraft carrier to Vietnam for the first time since the end of the Vietnam War is a powerful symbol of the growing strategic ties between the former foes. For months now, Vietnamese envoys have been working to ease the concerns of their giant Chinese neighbor over the visit and the prospect of broader security co-operation between Hanoi and Washington, according to diplomats and others familiar with discussions. Vietnamese diplomats and military officers have repeatedly stressed the country's independent foreign policy and its desire for broad foreign relations - hoping to maintain stable ties with China while standing up to it over the South China Sea, the sources said.
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| Readers write: What do we leave behind in space?, celebrity presidents, information about helping veterans, drug treatment in Oklahoma Posted: 03 Mar 2018 03:00 AM PST ![Readers write: What do we leave behind in space?, celebrity presidents, information about helping veterans, drug treatment in Oklahoma]( "Readers write: What do we leave behind in space?, celebrity presidents, information about helping veterans, drug treatment in Oklahoma") What do we leave behind in space?
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| Bomb-sniffing dogs mistreated by US Army after returning from service in Afghanistan Posted: 03 Mar 2018 06:42 AM PST  Bomb-sniffing dogs were mistreated by the US Army after returning from duty in Afghanistan, according to an official report. Several dogs had to be rescued by the soldiers they served with during Operation Enduring Freedom. The Army allowed one dog described as having canine PTSD and another which may have received bite training to go to families with children.
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| APNewsBreak: 1st lawsuit filed in Grand Canyon copter crash Posted: 02 Mar 2018 08:48 PM PST  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — The parents of a British tourist who died after the Grand Canyon sightseeing helicopter he was in crashed filed the first wrongful death lawsuit Friday related to last month's crash.
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| Profits, doubts in equal measure at Geneva Motor Show Posted: 04 Mar 2018 06:29 AM PST  This year's Geneva Motor Show comes at a curious time for an auto world enjoying record profits yet also gripped by doubt midway through the grand transition from diesel to electric and self-driving vehicles. "Geneva really ought to have been a lovely salon," says, with heavy irony, Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer, director of German-based Center Automotive Research of Europe's first major car show of the year running from March 8 to 18. Adding to the worries is a new threat by US President Donald Trump to tax imported European cars "which freely pour into the U.S", if Brussels retaliates in response to his announced plans for tariffs on imported steel and aluminium.
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| 'Black Panther' Passes The $500-Million Mark At The Box Office Posted: 04 Mar 2018 02:40 PM PST  This weekend, Marvel Studio's blockbuster "Black Panther" made another $65 million. The film has now raked in over $500 million after just 17 days in theaters, making it the 10th highest-domestic-grossing movie in history. The film is sure to eclipse the ninth spot on the list, 2017′s "Beauty and the Beast," which made $504 million domestically. The superhero film could even pass "The Avengers," which made $623 million domestically in 2012 and is the highest-grossing Marvel film of all time. It brought in $242 million domestically in its four-day opening weekend — just behind "Star Wars: The Force Awakens." Those numbers make "Black Panther" the fifth largest opening of all time, and the top February opening weekend.
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| Marcador de la jornada 29 de la Premier League Posted: 03 Mar 2018 09:16 AM PST ![Marcador de la jornada 29 de la Premier League]( "Marcador de la jornada 29 de la Premier League") Marcador de la vigésima novena jornada de la Premier League:
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| Trump Mocks George W. Bush, Calls Iraq Invasion 'Single Worst Decision Ever Made' Posted: 04 Mar 2018 05:30 AM PST  "Here we are, like the dummies of the world, because we had bad politicians running our country for a long time," Trump said. As CNN noted, Trump has used this faulty assessment about the WMDs to question the reliability of the U.S. intelligence community, particularly regarding its conclusions about Russia's meddling in the 2016 presidential election.
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| Michigan man cleared of murder now fights for compensation Posted: 04 Mar 2018 07:47 AM PST  DETROIT (AP) — David Gavitt spent 26 years in prison for the deaths of his wife and two daughters before a prosecutor agreed that the evidence behind his arson conviction was no longer credible. The case helped inspire a Michigan law aimed at compensating the wrongfully convicted.
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| Avalanche kills two Spanish skiers in French Pyrenees Posted: 03 Mar 2018 01:22 PM PST ![Avalanche kills two Spanish skiers in French Pyrenees]( "Avalanche kills two Spanish skiers in French Pyrenees") PARIS (Reuters) - An avalanche in the French Pyrenees swept away five Spanish skiers on Saturday, killing two, local authorities said. The avalanche hit near the Aragnouet-Bielsa tunnel linking France to Spain. Three of the skiers managed to extract themselves from the snow and were unharmed. One skier was killed at the scene and the other died after being evacuated to hospital in the city of Toulouse. On Friday, an avalanche in the French Alps killed four people.. Their guide escaped unharmed and was questioned by police on Friday evening. He was released on Saturday. ...
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| Two police officers killed in Colombia car bombing Posted: 03 Mar 2018 11:52 AM PST  Two Colombian police officers were killed Saturday when criminals bombed their car, then hurled grenades and strafed it with gunfire, local authorities said. The officers were near the town of Caldono, in southwestern Colombia, when their vehicle was "attacked with an explosive," the police said in a statement. Officers Jorge Andres Quintero, 31, and Jhoan Sebastian Rodriguez, 25, were on their way to pick up a man detained at a nearby police station.
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| Russia's Navy Might Be Modernizing—But It's Overstretched Posted: 03 Mar 2018 06:17 PM PST  President Vladimir Putin's speech on the first of March revealed a whole panoply of new nuclear capabilities, from cruise missiles with nearly unlimited range to unmanned undersea vehicles also operating with extraordinary range, together with unprecedented speed and depth capabilities. Along the maritime periphery of Russia, tensions continue to escalate. Russian warships sortied en masse into the Baltic Sea on 20 February as part of a readiness drill, and in January, Russian news reported that a U.S. drone made a long-range intelligence-gathering sortie along Russia's Black Sea border in the vicinity of Kerch, Sochi, and the Crimea.
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| FBI director makes historic visit to Navajo Nation Posted: 03 Mar 2018 12:30 PM PST  GALLUP, N.M. (AP) — FBI Director Christopher Wray met with tribal officials of the largest Indian reservation in the U.S. this week, becoming the first head of the federal law enforcement agency to visit the Navajo Nation.
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| VIDEO: Man buried in snow rescued after avalanche at Squaw Valley ski resort Posted: 04 Mar 2018 01:14 PM PST  An avalanche crashed down on five people Friday at a Sierra Nevada ski resort, which fully buried at least one man who was rescued out.
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| Celebrities Offer Support to Rick Ross Amid Hospitalization Reports Posted: 03 Mar 2018 07:19 AM PST  The rapper's family has denied reports he is on life support
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| Porsche could build flying taxis, says sales chief Posted: 03 Mar 2018 05:06 AM PST  Volkswagen's sports car maker Porsche could develop a flying passenger vehicle to compete with rivals in a possible market for urban air taxis and ride-sharing services, Porsche sales chief Detlev von Platen told a German magazine. If I drive from (the Porsche plant in) Zuffenhausen to Stuttgart airport, I need at least half an hour, if I'm lucky. Flying would take only three and a half minutes," Automobilwoche quoted von Platen as saying.
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| Alec Baldwin: It's Tough To Impersonate The Greatest Presidential Impersonator Of All Time Posted: 03 Mar 2018 07:50 PM PST  It was the latest blast in a bitter feud between Trump and Baldwin. On Friday, Trump blasted Baldwin's career as "mediocre" and his impersonation of the president as "terrible." Baldwin shot back, saying he planned to "hang in there for the impeachment hearings ... You know.
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| Parkland: Brother of Nikolas Cruz says he 'regrets' bullying Florida shooting suspect Posted: 03 Mar 2018 08:08 AM PST  Nikolas Cruz, 19, was targeted by Zachary Cruz because of resentment over his status as the "favoured" child in the family, it is claimed. Zachary, now 18, admitted to investigators from Palm Beach and Broward Counties that it was something he "now regrets ever doing", according to a report seen by CNN. The report states that Zachary wishes he had been nicer to his brother.
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