| Fired V.A. secretary: 'It should not be this hard to serve your country' Posted: 29 Mar 2018 05:09 AM PDT  Former Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin wrote a New York Times op-ed reflecting on his service in President Trump's administration.
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| NRA Is Pulling In Big Bucks After The Parkland Mass Shooting Posted: 29 Mar 2018 04:28 AM PDT  The National Rifle Association has launched a heated offensive in the weeks
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| Outrage at Howard University after years of financial misappropriations revealed Posted: 29 Mar 2018 08:58 AM PDT  Tonight, students are calling for Howard University's President to resign after it was discovered that the school fired six employees last year for "gross misconduct" after an auditors' investigation found they misappropriated financial aid funds.
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| Sacramento Celebrates The Life Of Stephon Clark — And Demands Justice For His Death Posted: 29 Mar 2018 01:23 PM PDT  SACRAMENTO, Calif. ― Hundreds of mourners gathered in California's capital on
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| Russia expels U.S. diplomats and closes a consulate Posted: 29 Mar 2018 03:41 AM PDT  The Russian government has announced that they will expel American diplomats and close the St. Petersburg consulate.
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| Two pilots flying different planes report seeing a UFO within minutes of each other Posted: 29 Mar 2018 09:09 AM PDT  Two pilots flying different aircraft above Arizona have reported close encounters with an unidentified flying object (UFO). ABC News obtained an audio clip of a conversation between the two pilots and the Albuquerque Air Route Traffic Control Centre. "OK, something did," says the pilot of the Learjet plane.
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| Mueller reportedly eyeing Sessions as Sessions cheats on recusal Posted: 29 Mar 2018 01:08 PM PDT  Rachel Maddow shares new reporting that Robert Mueller's investigation includes looking at Jeff Sessions contacts with Russians, while at the same time, Sessions is sending investigators to look at the conduct of the Trump Russia investigation.
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| Parkland Survivor Criticizes Laura Ingraham For Only Apologizing After Advertisers Fled Posted: 30 Mar 2018 06:35 AM PDT  Parkland shooting survivor David Hogg on Friday pilloried Fox News host Laura
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| U.S. service member among personnel killed in Syria: officials Posted: 30 Mar 2018 06:46 AM PDT ![U.S. service member among personnel killed in Syria: officials]( "U.S. service member among personnel killed in Syria: officials") One of the personnel killed with an improvised explosive device in Syria on Thursday was a U.S. service member, two U.S. officials told Reuters. On Friday, the coalition fighting Islamic State said in a statement that two personnel from the coalition had been killed, without giving the nationalities. Two U.S. officials, speaking on the condition of anonymity and citing initial information, said one of the personnel was American and the incident took place near the Syrian city of Manbij.
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| Scott Walker Gives Up Fight To Not Call Wisconsin Special Elections Posted: 29 Mar 2018 08:56 AM PDT  Wisconsin Republicans have ended their legal fight to wait until November to
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| Murder Suspect Fatally Shot by Police While Trying to Get Into Son's High School, Police Say Posted: 29 Mar 2018 08:32 AM PDT  A man allegedly killed his wife and then was fatally shot by officers outside his son's high school
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| Irked Trump Reportedly Warned Putin: We'd Win The Arms Race Posted: 29 Mar 2018 05:32 PM PDT  President Donald Trump told Russia's Vladimir Putin that if the two countries
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| Malala makes an emotional return home to Pakistan Posted: 29 Mar 2018 06:16 AM PDT  For the first time since she was shot in the head by the Taliban six years ago, Nobel Peace Prize winner Malala Yousafzai has made an emotional visit back home to Pakistan. Julian Satterthwaite reports.
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| Pruitt Scandal Dwarfs Shulkin's, Giving Lie to Firing Excuse Posted: 29 Mar 2018 03:08 PM PDT  Rachel Maddow points out that the explanation that David Shulkin was fired over his travel scandal doesn't make sense in light of the administration's other travel scandals, particularly that of EPA administrator Scott Pruitt.
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| Man shoots neighbour in the head five times for disciplining his dog Posted: 29 Mar 2018 05:01 PM PDT  A Colorado man has been arrested after allegedly shooting his neighbour five times in the head because he thought he was beating his dog. Michael Kourosh Sadeghi, 32, was arrested for allegedly killing his 42-year-old Denver neighbour, Dustin Schmidt, after an incident in which he is said to have walked into his back yard and unloaded five shots into the back of the neighbour's head. Vicki Branaghan,— the victim's fiancee — who said she was in the backyard at the time, told the Denver Post that the gun shots followed after Mr Schmidt swatted his dog for trying to jump over their fence.
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| The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week Posted: 30 Mar 2018 08:48 AM PDT  Kids may say the darndest things, but parents tweet about them in the funniest
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| Clashes, 16 dead as thousands of Gazans march near Israel border Posted: 30 Mar 2018 02:03 PM PDT  Clashes erupted as tens of thousands of Gazans marched near the Israeli border in a major protest on Friday, leaving 16 Palestinians dead and hundreds more wounded in the conflict's worst single day of violence since the 2014 Gaza war. Late in the day, Israel's military targeted three Hamas sites in the Gaza Strip with tank fire and an air strike after what it said was an attempted shooting attack against soldiers along the border that caused no injuries.
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| Cheetah jumps into safari car, forcing man to freeze in place for 10 minutes Posted: 29 Mar 2018 09:13 AM PDT  A spring break trip in the African nation of Tanzania turned wild when a cheetah jumped into a group's safari jeep. The guide advised them to freeze in place for 10 minutes until the big cat left.
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| Stephen Reinhardt, liberal circuit court judge, dies at 87 Posted: 29 Mar 2018 09:57 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Judge Stephen Reinhardt, a liberal stalwart on the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals for nearly four decades, died Thursday in Southern California. He was 87.
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| Kentucky Teachers Shut Down Schools After Public Pension Overhaul Posted: 30 Mar 2018 08:08 AM PDT  Public schools closed in at least 25 Kentucky counties on Friday as teachers
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| 56 Quick And Easy Fruity Desserts Posted: 29 Mar 2018 11:59 AM PDT |
| Police say eight family members were in car that went off California cliff Posted: 28 Mar 2018 06:58 PM PDT ![Police say eight family members were in car that went off California cliff]( "Police say eight family members were in car that went off California cliff") A sports utility vehicle that hurtled off a roadside cliff along the Northern California coastline earlier this week was likely carrying all eight members of a Washington state family, police said on Wednesday. The bodies of a married couple, Jennifer Jean Hart, 38, and Sarah Margaret Hart, 38, were recovered from inside the wreckage of a GMC Yukon after it was spotted by another driver on Monday afternoon at the bottom of a seaside embankment in Mendocino County, north of San Francisco.
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| Amal Clooney to represent Reuters reporters detained in Burma Posted: 29 Mar 2018 06:43 AM PDT  Prominent human rights lawyer Amal Clooney has joined the legal team representing two Reuters reporters jailed in Burma, who are accused of possessing secret government papers, her office said on Thursday. A court in Yangon has been holding preliminary hearings since January to decide whether Wa Lone, 31, and Kyaw Soe Oo, 28, will be charged under the colonial-era Officials Secrets Act, which carries a maximum penalty of 14 years in prison. The journalists had been working on a Reuters investigation into the killing of 10 Rohingya Muslim men in western Burma's Rakhine state during an army crackdown that began in August, which has sent nearly 700,000 people fleeing to Bangladesh. Lawyers for the two reporters on Wednesday asked the court to throw out the case, saying there was insufficient evidence to support charges against the pair in Burma, also known as Myanmar. "Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo are being prosecuted simply because they reported the news. I have reviewed the case file and it is clear beyond doubt that the two journalists are innocent and should be released immediately," Amal Clooney was quoted as saying in a statement released by her office. "The outcome of this case will tell us a lot about Myanmar's commitment to the rule of law and freedom of speech," said Clooney, who is married to actor George Clooney. Zaw Htay, spokesman for Myanmar's civilian government, declined to comment. Wa Lone, one of the imprisoned journalists, pictured before a court hearing in Yangon, Myanmar in March Credit: Reuters Government officials have previously denied the arrests represent an attack on press freedom, which rights advocates say is under growing threat in the Southeast Asian country. Myanmar's ambassador to the United Nations, Hau Do Suan, said last month that the Reuters journalists were not arrested for reporting a story, but were accused of "illegally possessing confidential government documents". Gail Gove, chief counsel of Reuters, said retaining Clooney would strengthen the company's international legal expertise and broaden efforts to secure the release of the reporters. Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo have been in custody since their arrest on Dec. 12. The pair have told relatives they were arrested almost immediately after being handed some rolled up papers at a restaurant in northern Yangon by two policemen they had not met before, having been invited to meet the officers for dinner. The district court in northern Yangon will hear arguments from prosecutors and defence lawyers on the motion to dismiss the case on April 4. Detained Reuters journalist Kyaw Soe Oo, holding his daughter, pictured before a court hearing in Yangon, Myanmar, in March. Credit: Reuters
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| Girl Missing for 2 Years Is Found Safe After TV Show Featured Her Story Posted: 30 Mar 2018 07:45 AM PDT  Mariah Martinez, 9, was found safe, thanks in part to A&E's 'Live PD.'
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| Trump Administration's Justification For A Census Question On Citizenship Appears Shaky Posted: 28 Mar 2018 07:19 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― The Trump administration's justifications for adding a question
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| SpaceX says Iridium satellite payload deployed Posted: 30 Mar 2018 10:57 AM PDT  The private firm SpaceX on Friday said a partially-reused rocket successfully launched and deployed the latest group of satellites to upgrade communication networks for Virginia-based company Iridium. "We have successful liftoff of the Falcon 9," a SpaceX commentator said after the rocket roared off with a tail of fiery exhaust from Vandenberg US Air Force base in California. It was the fifth set of 10 satellites that SpaceX has launched for Iridium, whose $3 billion project is expected to include a total of 81 satellites -- with 75 launched by SpaceX.
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| Russia tests new intercontinental ballistic missile Posted: 30 Mar 2018 05:52 AM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia has successfully tested its latest intercontinental ballistic missile, the country's military said Friday.
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| China Just Challenged America in the Pacific With a Massive Naval "Live Fire" Show of Force Posted: 30 Mar 2018 06:43 AM PDT  A U.S. Navy Carrier Strike Group has arrived in the Pacific in a show of force as U.S.-China tensions rise, China conducts a massive military exercise and U.S. warships sail within 12 miles of territory claimed by China. The arrival of the USS Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group in the region comes shortly after the USS Mustin, a U.S. Navy destroyer, sailed within 12 miles of a Chinese-claimed artificial island chain as part of ongoing U.S. Freedom of Navigation (FONOPs) exercises. "The Theodore Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group will conduct a variety of operations, including addressing shared maritime security concerns and building relationships with partners navies," Lt. Liza Dougherty, Navy spokeswoman, told Warrior Maven.
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| 7 Signs You're Moving Too Fast When You're Dating Someone Posted: 30 Mar 2018 09:17 AM PDT  Falling in love is something that should be savored, not rushed. But far too
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| Driver plows into people on San Francisco street, killing one Posted: 28 Mar 2018 07:00 PM PDT ![Driver plows into people on San Francisco street, killing one]( "Driver plows into people on San Francisco street, killing one") (Reuters) - A driver plowed a vehicle into five people in San Francisco on Wednesday, killing one, before fleeing the scene, officials said on Wednesday. The suspected driver was later arrested and his vehicle was seized, a police spokesman said. "We do not believe the general public is at risk," San Francisco police spokesman Robert Rueca said at a news conference, calling it an isolated incident.
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| There Are Psychological Reasons Parents Are So Obsessed With Target Posted: 29 Mar 2018 04:36 PM PDT  In the face of the chaos and confusion that come with raising a family today,
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| Wife: Husband thought he no longer was a wanted man in Iowa Posted: 30 Mar 2018 02:02 PM PDT  PHOENIX (AP) — An Arizona woman says her husband believed he was in the clear after escaping from an Iowa prison 37 years ago and they were both shocked when authorities arrested him earlier this week.
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| What Kim Jong Un Really Wants From President Trump Posted: 29 Mar 2018 03:34 AM PDT  Historic sit-downs could reshape the world far beyond the 38th parallel
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| Woman Given 5 Years In Prison For Illegally Voting Says She Didn't Know She Was Ineligible Posted: 30 Mar 2018 10:47 AM PDT  Crystal Mason's mom insisted that she vote in the 2016 presidential election,
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| Counterculture 'Burning Man' art takes Washington by storm Posted: 29 Mar 2018 10:33 PM PDT  Immersive art from a famed desert festival in the American West has swept into Washington, infusing the buttoned-up US capitol with countercultural spirit. "No Spectators: The Art of Burning Man," which opens Friday at the Smithsonian's Renwick Gallery, celebrates the annual late-summer gathering that sees a temporary city of some 75,000 people spring up in Nevada's Black Rock Desert. For a single week, massive experiential art installations tower over the dusty metropolis before Burning Man participants torch many of the works, including a giant wooden statue of a man, as a ritual embracing decommodification and temporality.
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| About 30 dogs believed dead in Michigan kennel fire Posted: 30 Mar 2018 08:44 AM PDT  FRUITPORT TOWNSHIP, Mich. (AP) — About 30 dogs are believed to have died in an early morning fire Friday at a boarding kennel in western Michigan, leaving owners of the animals and the facility devastated.
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| This map shows what your neighborhood would look like if a nuclear bomb hit it Posted: 30 Mar 2018 08:39 AM PDT  It's 2018, and there's one thing on the back of everyone's minds — nuclear warfare. If it isn't, it should be. In January of this year, the doomsday clock moved two minutes closer to midnight because of elevated nuclear warfare risk. The Outrider Foundation decided to take advantage of this uniquely terrifying moment in history and publish an interactive nuclear bomb simulator, allowing users to see how their houses and neighborhoods would be affected if they were hit by a nuclear bomb. SEE ALSO: The 6 Best Places to Live in the Event of Nuclear War To use the map, simply type in your address and zip code and choose your bomb of choice. The visualization can show you how the large the impact of the bomb might be, how much of your neighborhood would likely be vaporized and how many people might be affected by radiation poisoning — ya know, all the good stuff. Here's a sneak peak of what would happen to Times Square: If Times Square were to explodeImage: gif/outrider foundationThe visualization relies on data from Stevens Institute of Technology professor Alex Wallerstein, who created a "Nuke Map" to measure the impact of nuclear war. The Outrider Foundation zeroes in on that data to emphasize people's neighborhoods, personalizing the experience for users. London, if attacked by a Tsar BombaImage: screenshot/outrider foundation"We'd like to spread the word to as many people as possible, but we are speaking mostly to the average citizen, not nuclear policy experts, not politicians," Tara Drozdenko, who directs Outrider's Nuclear Policy & Nonproliferation program, told Mashable. "Outrider firmly believes that ordinary people need to be more involved in the national and international conversation about nuclear weapons. We are hoping to inspire more people to engage on this issue. We have additional resources on our website that outline what you as an individual can do about nuclear weapons." If only someone could get these maps over to Donald Trump, maybe he'd stop insulting the leader of North Korea on Twitter. WATCH: These celebs brought their star power to March for Our Lives
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| Authorities fear 6 children are dead when car plunged off a Calif. cliff Posted: 28 Mar 2018 07:36 PM PDT  Two women and three children have been confirmed dead when a car plunged off a cliff on Pacific Coast Highway. Now authorities fear the other three children in the family may also be dead.
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| VW storing around 300,000 diesels at 37 facilities around U.S. Posted: 29 Mar 2018 03:36 PM PDT  Volkswagen has taken parking lots to a whole new level in the United States and will not be emptying them soon. Volkswagen AG has paid more than $7.4 billion to buy back about 350,000 U.S. diesel vehicles through mid-February, a recent court filing shows. The German automaker has been storing hundreds of thousands of vehicles around the United States for months.
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| Meghan Markle's First Kiss Is Now A Professional Beatboxer Posted: 30 Mar 2018 11:17 AM PDT  The guy who gave Meghan Markle her first kiss apparently has very talented
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| Immigrant mother hiding in NY sanctuary church vows to stay Posted: 29 Mar 2018 03:31 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — A Guatemalan immigrant who entered a New York City church to seek refuge from immigration authorities said Thursday she will fight to prevent being separated from her children.
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| The Worst Cars At The 2018 New York Auto Show Posted: 29 Mar 2018 10:06 AM PDT |
| Jeb Bush Takes Apparent Swipe At Donald Trump Over His Children's Love Posted: 29 Mar 2018 01:28 AM PDT  Jeb Bush appeared to mock President Donald Trump over his relationship with
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| Mary Kay Letourneau's Husband, Vili Fualaau, Arrested for DUI: Report Posted: 30 Mar 2018 07:26 AM PDT  Vili Fualaau, 34, allegedly had a dazed expression, bloodshot eyes and slurred speech when police in Burien stopped him on Feb. 2.
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| Russia says 'terrorists nearly wiped out' of Syria's Western Ghouta Posted: 29 Mar 2018 03:36 PM PDT  Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov on Thursday said Syrian forces had "nearly wiped out the terrorists" in the rebel-held enclave of Western Ghouta. Backed by the Russian military since 2015, the Syrian regime in February launched a massive offensive against rebels in the Damascus suburb, killing more that 1,600 civilians. "As a result of this anti-terrorism operation in Western Ghouta, terrorist elements have nearly been wiped out of this suburb of the Syrian capital," Lavrov said at press conference in Moscow after meeting UN Syrian envoy Staffan de Mistura.
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| Syrian town expects US to fend off Turkey's threat of attack Posted: 29 Mar 2018 10:41 AM PDT  MANBIJ, Syria (AP) — A rowdy mob of over two dozen men on motorcycles streamed into the small square in the center of Manbij. They cheered and waved jerseys of their local soccer team, which had just beat the town's top club. The upset victory was sweet, and their wild chants reverberated, "My people! My people!"
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