| Trump 'plays right into Putin's hands' at NATO meeting Posted: 11 Jul 2018 03:25 PM PDT  President Trump is reorienting America away from the West-East divide of the past half century, and aligning himself with nationalist autocrats in Eastern Europe and Russia.
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| Manafort judge not amused, orders move to new jail Posted: 11 Jul 2018 02:00 PM PDT  Rachel Maddow explains the story of former Donald Trump campaign chair Paul Manafort complaining about the location of his jail, getting the judge to agree to a move, withdrawing his request for a move.
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| The Latest: Australian medic, last to leave cave, loses dad Posted: 10 Jul 2018 08:57 PM PDT  MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — The Latest on the rescue of a youth soccer team from a flooded cave in Thailand (all times local):
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| Firefighter dies after natural gas explosion in Wisconsin, wife speaks out Posted: 11 Jul 2018 09:14 AM PDT  The fallen hero's wife says she feels like his death isn't real. In total, six firefighters were taken to the hospital, including the firefighter that died and another who was seriously injured.
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| A Discovery in China Suggests That Human-Like Species Left Africa 250,000 Years Earlier Than Believed Posted: 11 Jul 2018 06:55 PM PDT  The artifacts were dug up in the Loess Plateau, north of the Qinling mountains, which divide the north and south of China
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| Expert: Putin can hack our midterm elections Posted: 11 Jul 2018 02:00 AM PDT  Barbara Simons, a leading expert on securing voting systems, says the U.S. is not prepared for the threat facing the November elections.
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| Trump sounds sour note at NATO summit, lack of eggs upsets Kelly Posted: 11 Jul 2018 02:39 PM PDT  Rachel Maddow reports on a White House explanation that Chief of Staff John Kelly's apparent displeasure while Donald Trump was fustigating the bedrock of Western international security was actually because of his unhappiness with the breakfast menu.
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| Paul Manafort Mug Shot Released After Transfer To Alexandria Jail Posted: 12 Jul 2018 11:29 AM PDT  Donald Trump's former campaign manager Paul Manafort changed jails Thursday
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| The Latest: University of Kansas says flag moved for safety Posted: 11 Jul 2018 03:33 PM PDT  LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The Latest on Kansas Republican candidates criticizing the University of Kansas for an art display involving an altered flag (all times local):
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| American consumers may soon feel impact of escalating U.S.-China trade war Posted: 11 Jul 2018 08:47 AM PDT  Tariff threats on $200 billion in Chinese goods would hit close to home, impacting many household products, like appliances or televisions.
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| After meeting her sister for first time, woman finally meets her biological father Posted: 11 Jul 2018 12:54 PM PDT  In an emotional meeting, Andrea Klug-Napier and her sister finally came face to face with their biological father and two brothers.
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| Taliban attacks on Afghan forces cause 'heavy casualties': officials Posted: 11 Jul 2018 05:10 PM PDT  Taliban attacks on Afghan security forces in the country's north have caused "heavy casualties", officials said Thursday, putting the number of soldiers killed as high as 40 in ongoing fighting. Militants using night-vision goggles launched simultaneous raids on several Afghan military bases and posts in Dashte Archi district in Kunduz province overnight, defence ministry spokesman Mohammad Radmanish and other Afghan security sources told AFP. "We have suffered casualties, the Taliban have also suffered casualties," Radmanish said.
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| 5-year-old boy writes his own obituary before dying from rare cancer Posted: 12 Jul 2018 09:32 AM PDT  A five-year-old Iowa boy who suffered from a rare form of cancer penned his
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| Protests against Trump's visit take place across U.K. Posted: 12 Jul 2018 12:28 PM PDT ![Protests against Trump's visit take place across U.K.]( "Protests against Trump's visit take place across U.K.") Donald Trump began a protest-laden trip to Britain Thursday by questioning whether Prime Minister Theresa May will deliver on UK voters' intentions when they decided to quit the European Union.
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| Tesla hits 200,000 cars, meaning lower tax credit for buyers Posted: 12 Jul 2018 08:41 AM PDT  Under a major tax overhaul passed by the Republican-controlled U.S. Congress late last year, financial incentives in the way of tax credits that lower the cost of electric vehicles are available for the first 200,000 such vehicles sold by an automaker. The tax credit is then reduced by 50 percent every six months until it phases out. From Jan. 1 next year, the $7,500 tax credit will drop to $3,750 around mid-year, the Tesla website said.
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| The Latest: Official says book led to reopening Till probe Posted: 12 Jul 2018 01:59 PM PDT  BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) — The Latest on the renewed investigation into the killing of Emmett Till (all times local):
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| Trump at NATO summit: ‘Germany is totally controlled by Russia’ Posted: 11 Jul 2018 08:41 AM PDT  President Trump criticized Germany for its pipeline deal with Russia and called on NATO allies to double their commitment to defense spending on Wednesday.
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| For the first time, an elusive ghost particle blasted from deep space is seen on Earth Posted: 12 Jul 2018 08:01 AM PDT  Billions of years ago, a supermassive black hole feeding on gas and dust in the center of a galaxy spit out a subatomic ghost. That ghost particle — known as a neutrino — has quietly made its journey through the cosmos, across billions of light-years and arrived on Earth, where a large group of neutrino-hunting scientists were waiting to see it. A giant detector located in Antarctica caught sight of the neutrino sent into space by that feeding black hole, known as a blazar, marking the first detection of its kind in history. The groundbreaking new finding is detailed in two papers published in the journal Science Thursday. SEE ALSO: A woman sued NASA to keep a vial of moon dust. She might have made a huge mistake. Though scientists have detected the elusive particles on Earth, this detection marks the first time researchers have seen a neutrino that came to our world specifically from a powerful deep space source. Scientists have a compelling reason to call neutrinos "ghost particles." "They can travel through anything and only make their presence felt when they want to," Lindley Winslow, an MIT physicist that researches these mysterious particles, said in an interview. "10 billion neutrinos a second pass through your thumb," Darren Grant, a neutrino physicist at the University of Alberta, said, but you can't feel them. An artist's rendering of the IceCube lab, as an energy source approaches in the South Pole sky.Image: icecube/nsf"Their behavior is very much how people imagine a ghost — it doesn't leave any trace that it was there," Grant added. Scientists like Winslow and Grant suspected that highly-energized forms of these elusive particles, smaller than an atom, might be created by powerful forces in the distant cosmos and then thrown into space. But, although the particles are all around us — said Grant — they're incredibly difficult to detect. But now, the hunt for neutrinos is paying off. The ghost particle seen in the South Pole passed through a giant neutrino detector aptly named IceCube: It's a one-kilometer cube of ice some 2,500 meters (8,200 feet) under Antartica that has been outfitted with over 5,000 detection tubes. The idea was to build a massive detector, and hope that a deep space neutrino would eventually both collide with the sizeable icy instrument, and also make itself known. "We knew that these particles had to be coming from somewhere," said Winslow, who was not involved with this research. "The question was where. Now we know." For years, scientists have measured blasts of powerful energy from the deep cosmos, called galactic cosmic rays, hitting Earth's atmosphere. They assumed that something powerful in deep space was producing both these rays, and probably these highly-charged ghost particles, too. It now appears this is the case, and a distance blazar is responsible, Josh Frieman, a physicist at the Department of Energy's Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory who had no study involvement, said over email. Grant, a coauthor of the research, called the discovery nearly akin to scientists first seeing remnants of the Big Bang, when the universe was created, or the more recent detections of gravitational waves, ripples in time and space traversing the solar system. "Those of us that like neutrinos are pretty excited," said Winslow. "It's the infancy of a new field," noted Grant. Why finding ghost particles matter Much of our view and understanding of the universe comes from seeing light, said Winslow. Some of this includes things we can observe directly, like far-off galaxies. Another, new tool is the ability to detect gravitational waves, and then infer what powerful event could have created such momentous energy. And now, there's a third: neutrinos. "It's a whole other sense," said Winslow. "We've proven that neutrons are that third tool — to better understand the wonderful and weird things that are out there." And one these weird things is most certainly blazars: As gas and dust fall into a massive black hole at the center of a galaxy, they shoot some of this matter outwards, where it speeds out of both sides of the black hole in two vigorous jets. And sometimes, these jets happened to be aimed at Earth — or Earth happens to pass through one of these jets. When the neutrinos in those jets make it to our planet — and we're fortunate to detect one — they can help us understand what's out there in the void. An artist's rendering of a rather energetic blazar.Image: nasa"You can imagine being able to measure activities of the most violent processes of the universe in the neutrinos themselves," said Grant. The elusive particles only show themselves when there's another small particle quite close by, allowing them to interact with that particle. "That doesn't happen very often," said Grant. "If you live to be 80, one neutrino may interact with your body during your lifetime," he added. But when a detector does pick one up, scientists can then use traditional telescopes (which measure different types of light radiation) to peer back into space at the source — just like they did after detecting this neutrino. This allows them to confirm what's likely out there. In this case, it was a supermassive black hole, ejecting jets of energy. And once this blazar blasted out this neutrino, it traveled directly to our solar system, unperturbed by the powerful gravitational energies in space that bend light and distort energy. "The neutrino doesn't suffer from that," said Grant. "It travels unhindered from its source." It passes through turbulent space, then, just like a ghost passing calmly through bedroom walls. WATCH: Ever wonder how the universe might end?
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| Thai boys were passed "sleeping" through cave: rescue diver Posted: 11 Jul 2018 06:30 AM PDT  The boys rescued from a Thai cave were passed "sleeping" on stretchers through the treacherous pathways, a former Thai Navy SEAL who was the last diver to leave the Tham Luang complex told AFP Wednesday. "Some of them were asleep, some of them were wiggling their fingers... (as if) groggy, but they were breathing," Commander Chaiyananta Peeranarong said, adding that doctors stationed along the dark corridors of the Tham Luang cave were constantly checking their condition and pulse. Thailand's junta chief told reporters on Tuesday that the group had been given a "minor tranquiliser" to help calm their nerves.
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| Rep Schiff: World’s Authoritarians like Trump’s NATO grandstanding Posted: 11 Jul 2018 05:29 AM PDT  Rep. Adam Schiff, D- Calif., who is the ranking member on the House Intelligence Committee, speaks with MSNBC's Andrea Mitchell about the president's continuing harsh words for NATO and what it possibly says about his views on Putin.
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| Republicans Vote To Send Trump A Message On Tariffs Posted: 11 Jul 2018 10:07 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― The Senate on Wednesday sent President Donald Trump a message on
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| Mother, daughter killed after boulder falls off moving truck Posted: 12 Jul 2018 01:14 PM PDT  A mother and daughter from Minnesota were killed by a 600 to 800-pound boulder when the rock fell from a truck onto their vehicle.
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| XXXTentacion: Suspected Gunman Arrested in Murder of Rapper in Florida Posted: 11 Jul 2018 07:18 AM PDT  Michael Boatwright, 22, who was already in custody in an unrelated drug case, was charged with first-degree murder Tuesday, The Broward County Sheriff's Office said.
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| Exhausted and subdued, reunited families return to Guatemala Posted: 11 Jul 2018 09:23 PM PDT  GUATEMALA CITY (AP) — Donelda Pulex stepped off the airplane into the sun, clutching her 5-year-old daughter's hand and burst into heaving sobs. Fourteen-year-old Hermelindo Juarez hid his face as his father comforted him. Efildo Daniel Vasquez walked cautiously behind his 8-year-old son.
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| 5 Early Amazon Prime Day Deals Available Now Posted: 11 Jul 2018 09:34 AM PDT  If you haven't heard, Amazon Prime Day kicks off this year mid-day July 16.
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| NASA commercial crew program for space station faces delays, report says Posted: 11 Jul 2018 04:43 PM PDT  Plans to launch the first NASA astronauts since 2011 to the International Space Station from the United States look set to be delayed due to incomplete safety measures and accountability holes in the agency's commercial crew program, according to a federal report released on Wednesday. SpaceX and Boeing Co are the two main contractors selected under the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's commercial crew program to send U.S. astronauts to space as soon as 2019, using their Dragon and Starliner spacecraft respectively.
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| Ocasio-Cortez spars with Crowley over 3rd party nomination Posted: 12 Jul 2018 03:12 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the insurgent Democrat who beat 10-term congressman Joseph Crowley in a primary last month, is now criticizing him for not getting his name off the ballot in the general election.
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| US appeals judge's order allowing AT&T to buy Time Warner Posted: 12 Jul 2018 02:24 PM PDT  The US Justice Department on Thursday appealed last month's ruling from a federal judge allowing AT&T to buy Time Warner in a mega-deal that could reshape the media-entertainment landscape. A notice of appeal was filed with a federal appeals court one month after Judge Richard Leon rejected the government's efforts to block the $85 billion deal following a weeks-long antitrust trial. The decision delivered a stinging rebuke to Donald Trump's administration in its first major antitrust court case.
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| Trump Walks Back NATO Threats, Takes 'Total Credit' For Spending Boost Posted: 12 Jul 2018 03:43 AM PDT  President Donald Trump on Thursday capped a tumultuous 24 hours of NATO talks
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| Man With No Arms Accused of Stabbing Tourist With Scissors in Florida Posted: 12 Jul 2018 10:11 AM PDT  The homeless man with no arms is a fixture in South Beach, authorities said.
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| Video shows moment of Clooney motorcycle crash; actor thrown in air Posted: 11 Jul 2018 07:32 AM PDT  George Clooney slammed his motorbike into an oncoming car that turned suddenly into his lane and was thrown several yards in the air on an Italian island.
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| About 2,600 inmates transferring to new Pennsylvania prison Posted: 11 Jul 2018 04:18 PM PDT  COLLEGEVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Over 2,600 inmates at an 89-year-old Pennsylvania prison are being transferred to a new, long-delayed facility about a mile down the road.
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| US asks UN to cut off oil products to North Korea Posted: 12 Jul 2018 12:19 PM PDT  The United States asked the UN Security Council on Thursday to order an immediate halt to all deliveries of refined oil products to North Korea after accusing Pyongyang of violating sanctions with illegal imports of fuel, according to documents seen by AFP. A confidential US report sent to a UN sanctions committee estimated that at least 759,793 barrels of oil products had been delivered to North Korea between January 1 and May 30, well above the annual quota set in a UN resolution at 500,000 barrels. The illegal supplies were provided through ship-to-ship transfers at sea using North Korean tankers that have delivered their cargo at least 89 times, according to the report.
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| Chairman Of Papa John's Resigns After Report That He Used Racial Slur Posted: 11 Jul 2018 08:51 PM PDT  John Schnatter, the founder of pizza chain Papa John's, resigned as chairman
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| Stocks, oil prices slide on trade war worries Posted: 11 Jul 2018 02:08 PM PDT  By Hilary Russ NEW YORK (Reuters) - Concerns about an escalating U.S.-China trade war made markets topsy-turvy on Wednesday, with U.S. stocks breaking a four-session winning streak and Brent crude prices seeing their biggest one-day drop in two years. Metal prices also slumped after U.S. President Donald Trump's threat overnight of 10 percent tariffs on another $200 billion of Chinese goods dampened hopes that Washington will eventually step back from the escalating row. Trump has said he may ultimately target more than $500 billion worth of Chinese goods - roughly the total amount of U.S. imports from China last year.
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| Israeli air strikes hit southwest Syria after drone 'infiltration' Posted: 11 Jul 2018 07:27 PM PDT  Israel launched air strikes against three military posts in Syria Wednesday, its army said, after intercepting what it described as the incursion of an unarmed drone into its territory. The attack came hours after Israel's military fired a Patriot missile to knock down an unmanned aerial vehicle, or UAV, that strayed across Syria's ceasefire line with its neighbour.
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| Elon Musk goaded into promising to fix Flint water problems Posted: 11 Jul 2018 11:54 PM PDT  Elon Musk has been goaded into using his vast amount of wealth to fix Flint's water problems. Many people that argued that the billionaire could use his huge wealth more effectively, by paying for civil or charitable projects. Flint's water crisis came to public attention in 2014, when it was reported that the city's piping was leaking dangerous levels of lead into people's water supply.
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