| Democrats dissect Lamb's win with an eye to November's races Posted: 14 Mar 2018 09:40 AM PDT  "I think most Republicans realize we're running into a very serious headwind — hurricane-force wind," Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa., said of the improbable victory.
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| Dylann Roof's Sister Accused Of Having Weapons At School During National Walkouts Posted: 14 Mar 2018 10:08 PM PDT  The younger sister of Dylann Roof, the convicted mass murderer who killed nine
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| Ambassador Nikki Haley warns Russia over the poisoning of ex-Russian spy Posted: 14 Mar 2018 08:52 AM PDT  Haley confirmed the Trump administration stands in solidarity with Great Britain and urged the attack be addressed immediately for fear of chemical weapons being used in other cities.
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| Chris Christie: Special election 'isn't really a referendum on Donald Trump' Posted: 14 Mar 2018 07:12 AM PDT  Christie weighs in on the Pennsylvania election and Trump's decision to fire Rex Tillerson.
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| A Missing Nobel Prize Winner Has Been Found Wandering a Rural Road in a Daze Posted: 14 Mar 2018 11:42 PM PDT  His wife was also found dead, but authorities do not suspect foul play
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| At A Troubled School In The Bronx, The Student Walkout Was A Miss Posted: 14 Mar 2018 07:05 PM PDT  At 10 a.m. on Wednesday, teenagers in more than 3,000 high schools across the
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| Oklahoma officials plan to use nitrogen for executions Posted: 14 Mar 2018 03:10 PM PDT ![Oklahoma officials plan to use nitrogen for executions]( "Oklahoma officials plan to use nitrogen for executions") OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — After trying unsuccessfully for months to obtain lethal injection drugs, Oklahoma officials said Wednesday they plan to use nitrogen gas to execute inmates once the state resumes using the death penalty, marking the first time a U.S. state would use the gas to carry out capital punishment.
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| United Airlines Mistakenly Flies Family's Dog To Japan Instead Of Kansas City Posted: 14 Mar 2018 10:02 AM PDT  A U.S. family's cross-country move became a lot more stressful after United
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| The Artifice of the Deal Posted: 15 Mar 2018 02:00 AM PDT  Trump isn't really a man of action. He's a man of artifice. He talks and he talks and he talks, the world's foremost expert on dominating a news cycle, knowing all along that by the time we realize none of it's real, he'll have ushered us along to whatever's next.
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| Man who claimed he buried Natalee Holloway fatally stabbed Posted: 15 Mar 2018 08:34 AM PDT  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — A man who claimed on a TV series that he helped burn and bury the remains of a missing Alabama teen in Aruba has died after police say he was stabbed with his own knife during a foiled kidnapping of a woman in Florida.
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| US says Russia 'responsible' for spy attack in Britain Posted: 14 Mar 2018 01:38 PM PDT  The United States said Wednesday that Russia was "responsible" for a nerve agent attack on a former Russian spy in England, and urged the UN Security Council to hold Moscow accountable. "The United States believes that Russia is responsible for the attack on two people in the United Kingdom, using a military-grade nerve agent," US Ambassador Nikki Haley told an emergency council meeting.
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| Survivors of Vietnam's My Lai massacre remember 'darkness and silence' Posted: 15 Mar 2018 02:12 AM PDT  By James Pearson and Minh Nguyen QUANG NGAI, Vietnam (Reuters) - It took Pham Thi Thuan a while before she could muster the courage to fetch water from across the ditch where 170 of her neighbors, most of them women and children, were killed by U.S. troops during the Vietnam War. It was the worst recorded U.S. war crime committed in Vietnam, but preparations for a 50th anniversary ceremony at the site, now a memorial to the victims, are low key. Because of those better relations, Vietnam is not dwelling on the pain of the past, a senior Vietnamese government official told Reuters.
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| Haley Anderson Case: Orlando Tercero Captured in Nicaragua Posted: 14 Mar 2018 10:48 AM PDT  Orlando Tercero, 22, was arrested Tuesday afternoon, four days after the body of Haley Anderson was found by Binghamton Police conducting a wellness check.
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| 13 Multipurpose Beauty Products That Will Make Your Life Way Easier Posted: 15 Mar 2018 02:45 AM PDT  If there's one thing we love more than beauty and skin care products, it's
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| Couple Fleeing Immigration Officials Killed in Crash, Police Say Posted: 15 Mar 2018 08:12 AM PDT  The SUV raced away when the agents exited their vehicle, police say
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| Rand Paul to oppose Gina Haspel as CIA director over her 'gleeful joy' at torture Posted: 14 Mar 2018 10:42 AM PDT  Senator Rand Paul: 'To really appoint the head cheerleader for waterboarding to be head of the CIA?. The Republican senator Rand Paul said on Wednesday he would oppose Donald Trump's nomination of Gina Haspel for director of the CIA, accusing her of having shown "joyful glee" during the torture of terrorism suspects.
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| New York Post Riffs On Old Donald Trump Sex Headline For Rex Tillerson Firing Posted: 14 Mar 2018 06:07 AM PDT  The New York Post appeared to take inspiration from a memorable front page to
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| The Latest: Activists: Syrian bombs kill 20 in rebel enclave Posted: 14 Mar 2018 08:17 AM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the Syria conflict (all times local):
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| S.Africa rages at Australia visa plan for 'persecuted' whites Posted: 15 Mar 2018 10:54 AM PDT  South Africa summoned Australia's envoy to Pretoria Thursday to explain comments by a Canberra minister who suggested "persecuted" white farmers in the country should be offered fast-tracked humanitarian visas. Australia's Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton, who has drawn criticism for cracking down on asylum seekers from Asia and the Middle East, said white farmers could be admitted as refugees. Dutton made the offer in response to Pretoria's vow to enact land "expropriation without compensation" to redress land confiscations of the colonial and apartheid era.
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| Pro-Assad forces shell Turkish positions in Syria: pro-Assad commander Posted: 14 Mar 2018 03:50 AM PDT ![Pro-Assad forces shell Turkish positions in Syria: pro-Assad commander]( "Pro-Assad forces shell Turkish positions in Syria: pro-Assad commander") Pro-Syrian government forces shelled Turkish positions in northern Syria on Wednesday in response to a Turkish air strike that killed five of their fighters, a pro-government commander said. The Shi'ite militia fighters used artillery to target the Turkish positions in the town of Marea, north of Aleppo, the commander told Reuters. Pro-government forces have sided with the YPG against Turkey in Afrin.
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| Theranos Founder Elizabeth Holmes Was Just Charged With 'Massive Fraud.' Here's What the SEC Says She Did Posted: 14 Mar 2018 03:46 PM PDT  She claimed $100 million in revenue in 2014. It was really $100,000
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| Ben Carson and his wife 'picked out' $31,000 furniture set, new email shows Posted: 14 Mar 2018 05:43 AM PDT  Ben Carson and his wife personally selected a $31,000 furniture set for his office at the department of housing and urban development, according to a newly released email that contradicts past statements by Carson and his aides. Carson and his spokesman Raffi Williams repeatedly claimed that the Hud secretary was not involved in a decision to make the purchase, after the Guardian revealed a controversy at the department around the furnishing of his office. "Nobody was more surprised than me," Carson said in a statement, before saying that he would cancel the order amid the controversy.
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| Navy fighter jet crashes near Key West Posted: 14 Mar 2018 03:50 PM PDT  A Navy fighter jet crashed near Key West, Florida, Wednesday. The two-person crew ejected before the crash, but it's unclear how they're doing.
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| Ukraine war hero accused of parliament attack plot Posted: 15 Mar 2018 09:02 AM PDT  A Ukrainian lawmaker once hailed as a hero and a symbol of resistance against Russia, has been accused of plotting a terrorist attack against the Kiev parliament, authorities said Thursday. Ukraine's General Prosecutor Yury Lutsenko told lawmakers in parliament an investigation had "indisputable evidence" that Nadiya Savchenko planned a "terror attack" on parliament. Parliament on Thursday voted to expel Savchenko from its national security and defence committee.
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| ‘The sound was thundering’: Florida bridge collapse witnesses describe screams and chaos at scene Posted: 15 Mar 2018 12:56 PM PDT  Witnesses of the bridge collapse at Florida International University in Miami have described a cloud of dust being sent into the air alongside a thunderous boom as the newly built, 950-tonne pedestrian structure smashed into the street below, trapping several vehicles. People could be heard screaming from the trapped cars underneath the rubble of the bridge as emergency responders arrived and began to search for survivors. "The sound was thundering," Piqué Philips, who was driving on the fourth floor of a parking garage adjacent to the bridge, told The Independent.
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| Officials: California man shot 130 hawks, birds of prey Posted: 14 Mar 2018 02:38 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A Northern California man shot more than 130 hawks and other legally protected birds of prey on his land, leaving the carcasses to pile up at the foot of trees and telephone poles, wildlife officials said Wednesday.
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| Scott Kelly Spent a Year in Space and Now His DNA Is Different From His Identical Twin's Posted: 15 Mar 2018 08:39 AM PDT  About 7% of the genetic changes have remained in the two years since he returned to Earth
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| 'Jeopardy!' Contestant Hides His Famous Past, But Viewers Catch On Posted: 15 Mar 2018 05:06 AM PDT  When "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek introduced Paris Themmen as an
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| 'Stephen Hawking proved you can achieve remarkable things - even once you've lost control of your body' Posted: 15 Mar 2018 02:47 AM PDT  In what can sometimes feel like a sea of darkness, Stephen Hawking was a shining light for motor neurone disease sufferers. I cannot emphasise enough how important he has been to me personally since my own diagnosis with the same disease last year, and I am sure thousands more people around the world. When you are told that you might have MND - an agonising process that takes months - your head spins. The first thing you see online is that life expectancy is between one to three years from diagnosis. Fear sweeps over you. The next thing you look for is examples of people who have defied MND and there is no better example than Professor Hawking. Like most people, he was told he only had a few years to live when he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a form of MND, at 22. He ended up sticking around for more than 50 years. That may be a statistical anomaly but straight away, you think: 'why can't that be me too? Why can't I live until I am 76 or longer?' He was the first person that made me realise that the doctors might be wrong and that the worst-case scenario can be overcome. But it is not just how long he lived, but how he lived. MND will take away most of your bodily functions and your independence, something that, as a former Scotland rugby international, I can barely comprehend, but there is one thing that it does not affect - your brain. Professor Hawking proved that you can still achieve truly remarkable things even once you have lost control of your body. He refused to let his circumstances dictate what he could accomplish and he changed our understanding of science in the process. The wheelchair was made entirely irrelevant; I just found that so inspiring. What I have found since being diagnosed aged 47 is that hope is the single best pill you can take for MND. If you think positively that you are going to beat it, that filters into everything you do. The day you think that MND has got you is the day the disease wins. That means you have to think positively every day. You are trying to do things to prove that MND isn't going to get a hold of you all the time, whether that is simply lifting a coffee cup, or going to the gym and lifting weights. Doing all these little things gives a middle finger to MND to say: 'you are not going to stop me living my life.' Doddie Weir, left, and Scott Murray during training at Murrayfield in 1999. Credit: RUI VIEIRA /AP The issue with MND is that your own timetable becomes a mystery. When it came to my own diagnosis, which followed a year and a half of symptoms, I was told that I would be in a wheelchair within a year: yet here I am, still standing, still telling bad jokes and wearing terrible suits. You have to believe that you can at least influence your own timetable, even though you don't know what that is going to be. I know I will eventually be trapped inside my own body, but his example shows that life does not end there. Without wishing to pretend that I knew his circumstances particularly well, I am sure he relied upon a team of people, family, friends and carers to help him through some of the dark times. Sometimes the support of those crucial people can be forgotten. Yesterday was a tremendously sad day, and so too are the ones that will follow: for so long, he has been a figurehead within the MND community, and now he is gone. We will have to ask, 'who is going to be the next Stephen Hawking? Who is going to be the next person in the MND community who we look up to?' Even now, he leaves the most inspiring of legacies. He may have lost the final battle, but he definitely won the war against this wicked disease. One day, hopefully, we will develop the drugs that allow every MND sufferer to live as long as Professor Hawking did, and to enjoy an even better quality of life. That has become my mission with the My Name'5 Doddie Foundation. If I was to take one message from his life, it would be never give up, and I don't intend to ever stop battling MND. The fight goes on.
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| Finland is world's happiest country, U.S. discontent grows: U.N. report Posted: 14 Mar 2018 05:23 AM PDT  Finland is the world's happiest country, according to an annual survey issued on Wednesday that found Americans were getting less happy even as their country became richer. Burundi came bottom in the U.N. Sustainable Development Solutions Network's (SDSN) 2018 World Happiness Report which ranked 156 countries according to things such as GDP per capita, social support, healthy life expectancy, social freedom, generosity and absence of corruption. "I've joked with the other Americans that we are living the American dream here in Finland," said Brianna Owens, who moved from the United States and is now a teacher in Espoo, Finland's second biggest city with a population of around 280,000.
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| Pennsylvania Congressional Upset Undercuts GOP Messaging On Tax Law Posted: 14 Mar 2018 01:55 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Early in their efforts to push through tax reform last year,
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| The Latest: Georgia high court declines to stop execution Posted: 15 Mar 2018 02:49 PM PDT  ATLANTA (AP) — The Latest on the scheduled execution of Georgia death row inmate Carlton Gary (all times local):
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| Putin Will Undoubtedly Win Re-Election. But He Has Plenty To Be Nervous About. Posted: 15 Mar 2018 08:17 AM PDT  Russians will head to the polls on Sunday to determine Russia's next
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| Ford recalling 1.38 mn sedans over steering defect Posted: 14 Mar 2018 07:47 AM PDT  Ford announced Wednesday a North American recall of 1.38 million Ford Fusion and Lincoln MKZ sedans to address loose steering wheel bolts that could lead to the steering wheel detaching. In the cars being recalled, the steering wheel "may not maintain torque, allowing the bolt to loosen over time," Ford said. If not addressed, "a steering wheel could potentially detach and lead to a loss of steering control and increased risk of a crash," the company added.
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| Stoneman Douglas shooter appears in court Posted: 14 Mar 2018 11:41 AM PDT  Accused Stoneman Douglas High School shooter Nikolas Cruz was arraigned in a Florida court. Cruz faces the death penalty in the shooting deaths of 17 people.
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| Ex-MLB Prospect Cut By Team After Video Of Him Beating Girlfriend Surfaces Posted: 15 Mar 2018 11:22 AM PDT  A minor league baseball team in Pennsylvania released a player after a TV
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| Groundbreaking physicist, author Stephen Hawking dies at 76 Posted: 14 Mar 2018 03:50 AM PDT  World-renowned physicist and best-selling author Professor Stephen Hawking, known for his work in modern cosmology, has died at the age of 76.
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| Lebanon plans to boost army presence on Israel border Posted: 15 Mar 2018 12:37 PM PDT  By Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) - Lebanon plans to increase its military presence along its southern border with Israel, Prime Minister Saad Hariri said on Thursday at a meeting in Rome, where he is seeking financial support for the armed forces. Bolstering Lebanon's army and internal security forces is seen as a way for the international community to keep Hezbollah, which has helped sway the Syrian civil war in President Bashar al-Assad's favour, from broadening its clout in the Lebanese heartland.
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| Rand Paul Says He'll Oppose Trump Nominees For CIA, Secretary Of State Posted: 14 Mar 2018 09:39 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) said Wednesday he intends to oppose
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| Man shoots 2 at hospital before killing self; 1 victim dead Posted: 15 Mar 2018 05:08 AM PDT  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — One man is dead and another is in critical condition after a gunman opened fire inside an Alabama hospital and then fatally shot himself, police said.
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| Britain boots 23 Russian diplomats over spy poisoning Posted: 14 Mar 2018 02:51 PM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Relations between Britain and Russia plunged Wednesday to a chilly level not seen since the Cold War as Prime Minister Theresa May expelled 23 diplomats, severed high-level contacts and vowed both open and covert action against Kremlin meddling after the poisoning of a former spy.
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| 700-plus horsepower 2020 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 teased Posted: 15 Mar 2018 11:00 AM PDT  Ford Motor Company [NYSE: F] held a press conference to discuss its electrified future today, and during the show the company dropped some news that will prove electric for fans of performance cars. Ford teased the most powerful street legal production model to ever come from the Blue Oval, the next-generation Ford Mustang Shelby GT500. Ford only said that the power would come from a supercharged V-8.
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