| Trump Attacks 'Globalist' Koch Brothers, Saying He Doesn't Need Their 'Money Or Bad Ideas' Posted: 31 Jul 2018 03:29 AM PDT  President Donald Trump delivered a rare attack on the billionaire Koch
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| Voting rights advocates wary of Kavanaugh's nomination to Supreme Court Posted: 31 Jul 2018 10:09 AM PDT  The nomination of Brett Kavanaugh, a federal appeals court judge, to the Supreme Court drew instant criticism from women's rights groups that consider him a potential fifth vote to curtail or overturn the right to abortion. But ahead of his confirmation hearing, voting rights advocates, alarmed about the trend toward disenfranchising young, poor and minority voters, are joining the #SaveSCOTUS and #StopKavanaugh movements.
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| The Latest: Lawyer calls frat death case sentence 1st step Posted: 31 Jul 2018 01:18 PM PDT  BELLEFONTE, Pa. (AP) — The Latest on the sentencing for a Pennsylvania State University fraternity member in connection with the death of pledge (all times local):
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| How bad are California's extreme fires? A visual guide Posted: 31 Jul 2018 08:33 AM PDT  At least six people have been killed and hundreds of homes have been destroyed by wildfires in California. According to the latest tally it has seen 657 homes destroyed, the fire having consumed 149 square miles of ground. "We're feeling a lot more optimistic today as we're starting to gain some ground rather than being in a defensive mode on this fire all the time," said Bret Gouvea, incident commander for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
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| Duterte’s Destruction Rages: 68 More Cars Crushed In Philippines Posted: 31 Jul 2018 03:01 PM PDT ![Duterte's Destruction Rages: 68 More Cars Crushed In Philippines]( "Duterte's Destruction Rages: 68 More Cars Crushed In Philippines") Bulldozers destroyed more than $5.89 million worth of cars.
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| Elon Musk Reveals Why Tesla is Hiring a Hard Drive Expert Posted: 31 Jul 2018 07:00 AM PDT  Dave Morton comes from Seagate.
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| Donald Trump Echoes Rudy Giuliani: 'Collusion Is Not A Crime' Posted: 31 Jul 2018 05:35 AM PDT  President Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday that "collusion is not a crime," echoing his attorney Rudy Giuliani's comments a day earlier.
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| Aeromexico Plane Crash Was Caused by a Gust of Wind, Mexican Governor Says Posted: 31 Jul 2018 07:45 PM PDT  A Mexican governor says a gust of wind hit an Aeromexico jetliner after it took off, causing the plane to hit the ground with its left wing
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| 3D-Printed Gun Blueprints Are Already Being Downloaded By Thousands Of People Posted: 31 Jul 2018 11:05 AM PDT  As state officials and congressional lawmakers scramble to block the
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| Grieving orca highlights plight of endangered whales Posted: 01 Aug 2018 10:37 AM PDT  SEATTLE (AP) — Whale researchers are keeping close watch on an endangered orca that has spent the past week keeping her dead calf afloat in Pacific Northwest waters, a display that has struck an emotional chord around the world and highlighted the plight of the declining population that has not seen a successful birth since 2015.
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| Post-election clashes in Zimbabwe turn deadly Posted: 01 Aug 2018 08:47 AM PDT ![Post-election clashes in Zimbabwe turn deadly]( "Post-election clashes in Zimbabwe turn deadly") Protests in Zimbabwe's historic elections turned bloody on Wednesday as a man was shot dead during demonstrations over alleged vote fraud and President Emmerson Mnangagwa appealed for calm.
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| Turkey lira slumps to record lows over US sanctions Posted: 01 Aug 2018 01:13 PM PDT  The Turkish lira on Wednesday slumped to record lows of 5.0 against the dollar as the US hit Turkey's justice and interior ministers with sanctions over the case of an American pastor on trial for terror-related charges. Before his move home last week, Brunson, who led a Protestant church in the Aegean city of Izmir, had spent nearly two years in jail. It then hit 5.0 again after the official announcement from the White House.
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| Redding, California, police chief goes back to scorched home Posted: 31 Jul 2018 02:12 PM PDT  Redding Police Chief Roger Moore stands where his home once was while discussing the fires that have torn through Northern California.
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| A Trader Joe's shootout, an innocent death, and soul searching for LAPD Posted: 31 Jul 2018 01:00 AM PDT  A makeshift memorial outside the Silver Lake Trader Joe's, where a young woman was killed in the crossfire between a gunman and police. To shoot an innocent bystander in pursuit of a violent criminal is every police officer's nightmare. In Los Angeles, with its vexed history of police brutality, racial tension, and high-speed car chases that local television networks feast on, it elicits a special sort of horror, a throwback to an ugly not-so-distant past that the city would much rather forget.
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| Gay Couple Told To Leave Alaska Airlines Flight So Straight Couple Could Sit Together Posted: 31 Jul 2018 08:48 AM PDT  A gay man has accused Alaska Airlines of giving a straight couple
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| Brazen Thieves Steal Shark From San Antonio Aquarium, Carry It Away in Baby Stroller Posted: 31 Jul 2018 06:09 AM PDT  Thankfully the shark was returned safely.
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| Why It Doesn't Matter If 'Collusion' Is A Federal Crime Posted: 31 Jul 2018 09:48 AM PDT  The excuse you knew was coming is finally here.
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| California's Wildfires Are Spreading Faster and Burning More This Year. Experts Say It 'Can Only Get Worse' Posted: 31 Jul 2018 01:46 PM PDT  More acres have burned across the state this year than at this point in 2017
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| New York prosecutors eye illicit foreign lobbying Posted: 01 Aug 2018 02:28 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The special counsel in the Russia probe has referred investigations into possible unlawful foreign lobbying to federal prosecutors in New York, two people familiar with the inquiry said Wednesday.
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| Man has limbs amputated after being licked by a dog Posted: 01 Aug 2018 07:54 AM PDT  Doctors have been forced to amputate a man's legs and parts of his hands after he suffered sepsis believed to be caused by being licked by a dog. Greg Manteufel, 48, was exhibiting flu-like symptoms and becoming delirious when bruises began appearing across his face and body. Within moments of being admitted to the Wisconsin-area hospital at the end of June, Mr Manteufel went into septic shock.
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| Facebook Warns Of ‘Bad Actors,’ Deletes Accounts Ahead Of Midterms Posted: 31 Jul 2018 02:11 PM PDT  Facebook said Tuesday it removed over a dozen pages, profiles and accounts
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| Van Nuys LAPD shooting: Lawsuit announced by family, legal team of innocent woman killed Posted: 01 Aug 2018 04:33 PM PDT  A lawsuit was announced by the family of a woman who was shot and killed by LAPD officers during a hostage situation in Van Nuys.
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| 71 Crazy Creative Things To Make With Cauliflower Posted: 31 Jul 2018 03:42 PM PDT |
| Handy engineering: Vietnam's 'Golden Bridge' has giant support Posted: 01 Aug 2018 01:59 AM PDT  In the mountains of central Vietnam, a colossal pair of hands lifts a golden thread of walkway high above the clifftops, as if the mountain itself has sprouted limbs. "I feel like I'm walking on clouds," said Vuong Thuy Linh, a tourist from Hanoi. Cau Vang or the "Golden Bridge" in Vietnam's Ba Na Hills has attracted scores of tourists since it opened in June, eager to see a novel piece of architecture famed for its unusual design.
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| CNN's Jim Acosta Warns Anti-Media Hostility Is Going To Get Someone Hurt Posted: 01 Aug 2018 01:47 AM PDT  CNN's Jim Acosta was met with a familiar scene on Tuesday at President Donald
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| 'Coffins and Death Traps.' Relatives of Duck Boat Tragedy Victims Call for a Ban Posted: 31 Jul 2018 07:30 PM PDT  The disaster on Table Rock Lake near Branson, Missouri, killed 17 people
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| Russian journalists in C. Africa 'killed by nine-man group': govt Posted: 01 Aug 2018 10:05 AM PDT  Three Russian journalists killed in the Central African Republic, and reported to be probing a private Russian army there, were shot dead at a roadblock by a nine-man group, the government said Wednesday. In a statement on national television, government spokesman Ange Maxime Kazagui said the nine "wore headscarves" and did not speak in French or Sango, two languages that are nationally used in the CAR. One of the journalists violently opposed the armed men, who wanted to steal their equipment, Kazagui said.
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| LAPD chief: Officers kill a hostage for 1st time in 13 years Posted: 31 Jul 2018 02:15 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — Los Angeles police released video Tuesday showing officers fatally shooting an armed man and the woman he was holding hostage, marking the second time LAPD gunfire has killed a bystander in the last six weeks.
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| Italian ship accused of taking migrants back to Libya for first time Posted: 31 Jul 2018 09:05 AM PDT  A rescue operation in which an Italian towboat rescued more than 100 migrants and returned them to Libya earlier this week may have been in breach of international law, the United Nations said on Tuesday. A spokesman for the U.N. migration agency said it could not establish the location of the rescue, which is key to establishing migrants' rights, although some other parties involved in the case have made contradictory assertions about the incident including where it took place. The rescue coincides with a growing perception among human rights groups that some European countries are taking an increasingly hard line in their efforts to cut the number of migrants arriving on their shores, after Italy's new government closed its ports to charities' rescue boats in past weeks. According to Spanish charity Proactiva Open Arms, an Italian towboat, Asso 28, rescued more than 100 migrants from international waters on Monday and took them to Libya, their country of departure. This would constitute a breach of international law, under which people rescued in international waters cannot be returned to a place where their lives are put in danger. Both the United Nations and European Union have acknowledged that Libya is not safe. A distraught migrant woman arrives at a Libyan naval base after being rescued by the Libyan coast guard Credit: Hani Amara/Reuters Italy's coast guard initially said on Tuesday that the rescue was coordinated by the Libyan coast guard, and later clarified that the operation had taken place in Libya's so-called "search and rescue (SAR)" area. The Libyan coast guard was not immediately available for a comment. Libya's SAR is not clearly defined but is widely understood to extend far beyond its national waters. Proactiva spokeswoman Laura Lanuza said its members learnt the rescue occurred in international waters because their boat Open Arms was nearby and they could listen to radio communications between the Italian ship and the Libyan authorities. The U.N. refugee agency said the operation "could represent a violation of international law," it said on Twitter. A spokesman for the U.N. migration agency said the agency was still investigating the case but confirmed the return of the migrants to Libya. Italy's Interior Minister and deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini Credit: VASILY MAXIMOV/AFP He said the Libyans first told him the rescue operation was carried out by "an unknown vessel", then changed their version and said the rescuing boat was Libyan. The head of mission at Open Arms, Fabrizio Gatti, contradicted the Libyan version and said a member of the Asso 28 crew told him over the phone the Italian boat carried out the rescue and was taking the migrants back to Libya. He said he had a record of the conversation. Asso 28 is now docked in Tripoli, the Libyan capital, according to Marine Traffic, a real-time information service on ships movements. Charities are at loggerheads with the new Italian government and its right wing home affairs minister Matteo Salvini who has adopted a hard line to cut the number of migrants arriving on Italy's shores.
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| Spotify Pulls Radio Show By InfoWars' Alex Jones After Widespread Complaints Posted: 01 Aug 2018 08:48 AM PDT  Spotify deleted several episodes of Alex Jones' radio show, "The Alex Jones
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| Apple earnings beat expectations with share prices rising in extended trading Posted: 31 Jul 2018 02:17 PM PDT  Shares of Apple have jumped after the company posted quarterly results that beat out Wall Street targets while forecasting revenue above expectations in the current quarter. The immediate spike in shares was not enough, however, to make Apple the first company to be valued at one trillion, but the company has come very close to that moniker and continued growth in future quarters could potentially push it over that line. Apple's postings showed that the average iPhone sold cost $724 (£552), far outweighing previous expectations that the average price would come in at $694, according to the data providing service FactSet.
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| Reports That a Child Died in ICE Detention Center Spark Twitter Chaos Posted: 01 Aug 2018 09:00 AM PDT  ICE has denied the reports on Twitter.
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| Two Koreas hold military talks as U.S. detects activity at North Korea missile factory Posted: 30 Jul 2018 11:33 PM PDT  By Hyonhee Shin and Joyce Lee SEOUL (Reuters) - North and South Korea held military talks to build trust on Tuesday, while the United States detected renewed activity at a North Korean missile factory, casting more suspicion over the North's intentions. The meeting, their second since June, held in the border village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone (DMZ), was designed to follow on from an inter-Korean summit in April at which leaders of the two Koreas agreed to defuse tensions and halt "all hostile acts." North Korean leader Kim Jong Un also vowed during his separate summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in Singapore last month to work toward denuclearization, but there has not been a concrete agreement to accomplish that goal.
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| 15 dead as gunmen storm Afghan govt building, 11 killed in bus bombing Posted: 31 Jul 2018 07:58 AM PDT  A suicide bomb and gun attack by militants on an Afghan government building in Jalalabad on Tuesday killed at least 15 people, some burned "beyond recognition", officials said, the latest in a series of assaults on the eastern city. On the other side of the country a roadside bomb apparently intended for security forces hit a passenger bus and killed 11 people, marking yet another bloody day for civilians who have borne the brunt of violence in Afghanistan. The attack in Jalalabad targeted the compound of the refugees and repatriations department.
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| The Latest: Lawmaker hails naming priests accused of abuse Posted: 01 Aug 2018 02:18 PM PDT  HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — The Latest on a Pennsylvania bishop's decision to release the names of 71 priests and others in his Roman Catholic diocese alleged to have sexually abused children (all times local):
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| Father of missing Iowa student: 'We will find Mollie' Posted: 31 Jul 2018 05:15 AM PDT  Rob Tibbetts, father of Mollie Tibbetts, speaks out on investigation into her disappearance on 'Fox & Friends.'
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| Susan Collins: 'I Don’t See A Need' To See All Of Brett Kavanaugh's Bush Documents Posted: 31 Jul 2018 03:50 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine), a moderate GOP senator who remains
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| Toyota unveils 2nd-generation hydrogen fuel cell truck Posted: 31 Jul 2018 03:29 AM PDT  Observers of the motor industry know that Toyota is still not entirely sure about fully electric vehicles being the answer to sustainable mobility in the short to medium term. Although it's now more onboard with EV technology that in the past, Toyota is still proudly championing hybrid and hydrogen fuel cell technologies as its preferred options.
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| Stephen Colbert Made a Clip of Rudy Giuliani Having a Heated Debate With Rudy Giuliani Posted: 31 Jul 2018 07:51 AM PDT  It's Gollum vs. Giuliani
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| Thieves Steal Swedish Crown Jewels Before Fleeing By Speedboat Posted: 01 Aug 2018 08:35 AM PDT  In a plot that could have come out of a heist movie, two men on Tuesday raided
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| The Navy Is Moving Fast to Build a New Frigate. Here Is What We Know. Posted: 01 Aug 2018 04:26 AM PDT  The Navy expects that new weapons and sensors will better enable the ship to destroy swarming small boat attacks, support carrier strike groups, conduct dis-aggregated operations, attack enemies with an over-the-horizon missile and engage in advanced surface and anti-submarine warfare, service statements specify.
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