| Pressure Mounts On Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski To Block Brett Kavanaugh Posted: 12 Sep 2018 11:39 AM PDT  Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) has received 3,000 coat hangers in the mail.
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| Bob Woodward's new book reveals intimate details of President Trump and first lady Melania's relationship Posted: 12 Sep 2018 12:12 PM PDT  Bob Woodward's explosive new novel released on Tuesday provides a glimpse into
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| Hurricane Florence Is Probably Going To Cost A Lot Of Money Posted: 11 Sep 2018 03:00 PM PDT  At the risk of stating the obvious, Hurricane Florence is going to hurt.
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| Pope to meet U.S. Church leaders after archbishop's accusations: Vatican Posted: 11 Sep 2018 11:52 AM PDT  Pope Francis will meet on Thursday with U.S. Catholic Church leaders who want to discuss the fallout from a scandal involving a former American cardinal and demands from an archbishop that the pontiff step down. Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), asked for the meeting after Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano last month accused the pope of knowing for years about sexual misconduct by former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and of doing nothing about it. The Vatican said in a statement the pope would meet on Thursday with DiNardo, Cardinal Sean Patrick O'Malley of Boston, and two USCCB officials.
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| Family of man shot by Dallas officer says her version of events is wrong Posted: 11 Sep 2018 04:46 AM PDT  The affidavit says Dallas officer Amber Guyger mistook Botham Jean's apartment for hers and that his front door was ajar when she entered. She also told investigators that she shot Jean after he refused her verbal commands.
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| International court says it's 'undeterred' by US threats Posted: 11 Sep 2018 10:49 AM PDT  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghan rights workers warned Tuesday that a blistering U.S. attack on the International Criminal Court investigating war crimes allegations will strengthen a climate of impunity in Afghanistan, prolong the war and embolden those committing acts of violence.
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| Dallas Cop Who Shot Neighbor After Going Into Wrong Apartment Said He Ignored 'Verbal Commands': Affidavit Posted: 11 Sep 2018 04:52 AM PDT  She has been charged with manslaughter.
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| Trump still can't strike the right note about 9/11 Posted: 11 Sep 2018 08:39 AM PDT  Trump's excited tone seemed at odds with the somber anniversary, but his speech was comparatively dignified.
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| SpaceX President Calls Elon Musk ‘A Brilliant Man,’ Despite Bizarre Behavior Posted: 11 Sep 2018 07:04 PM PDT  The president of SpaceX said Tuesday that Elon Musk, the company's founder and
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| Tribute in Light Posted: 11 Sep 2018 09:04 PM PDT ![Tribute in Light]( "Tribute in Light") Tribute in Light is a commemorative public art installation first presented six months after 9/11 and then every year thereafter, from dusk to dawn, on the night of September 11. It has become an iconic symbol that both honors those killed and celebrates the unbreakable spirit of New York. (Yahoo News)
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| China's Xi calls for Moscow and Beijing to unite to fight protectionism Posted: 11 Sep 2018 08:27 AM PDT  Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that Russia and China should work together to oppose trade protectionism and what he called unilateral approaches to international problems, a veiled reference to U.S. foreign policy. Xi made the comments at a news conference in Vladivostok in Russia's far east after holding talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of an economic forum. "In a rapidly changing international situation with growing instability and unpredictability, cooperation between Russia and China takes on even more importance," said Xi, according to a transcript on the Kremlin's website.
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| 2 wounded in fatal Cincinnati shooting are back home Posted: 12 Sep 2018 10:37 AM PDT ![2 wounded in fatal Cincinnati shooting are back home]( "2 wounded in fatal Cincinnati shooting are back home") CINCINNATI (AP) — A woman who survived at least 12 gunshots in a downtown Cincinnati attack was back home Wednesday and helped get her two children ready for school, kissing them as she sent them off, a spokeswoman said.
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| How To Convince Your Family To Evacuate During Hurricane Florence Posted: 11 Sep 2018 06:00 PM PDT  Hurricane Florence is expected to hit parts of South Carolina, North Carolina
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| Best Bites: Weeknight meals one-pot chicken parm pasta Posted: 12 Sep 2018 05:00 AM PDT  Welcome to Best Bites, a twice-weekly video series that aims to satisfy your
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| Florence forces 3 games with ranked teams off weekend slate Posted: 11 Sep 2018 03:24 PM PDT  Hurricane Florence has forced the cancellation of several Top 25 games this weekend, including No. 13 Virginia Tech's home game against East Carolina, No. 14 West Virginia's trip to North Carolina State and No. 18 UCF's game at North Carolina.
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| Putin proposes Russia, Japan sign historic peace treaty Posted: 11 Sep 2018 05:56 PM PDT  President Vladimir Putin suggested Wednesday that Russia and Japan sign a peace treaty this year, ending World War II hostilities "without any preconditions" as a territorial dispute has led to decades of deadlock. The dispute between Russia and Japan centres on four islands in the strategically-located Kuril chain which the Soviet Union occupied at the end of war in 1945 but are claimed by Japan.
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| Joe Scarborough Pens Op-Ed For 9/11: Trump Is Worse For U.S. Than 'Foreign Adversary' Posted: 11 Sep 2018 08:10 AM PDT  Joe Scarborough wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post about the anniversary
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| Iran seeks to avert disaster in Syria's Idlib: Iranian senior official Posted: 11 Sep 2018 11:03 AM PDT  Iran shares the United Nations' concern about a potential humanitarian catastrophe in Syria's Idlib province and will seek to avert it, Hossein Jaberi Ansari, special assistant to Iran's foreign minister, told reporters on Tuesday. Iran and Russia are President Bashar al-Assad's main backers in Syria's seven-year-old civil war.
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| EU executive head backs start of punitive action versus Hungary over rule of law Posted: 12 Sep 2018 05:30 AM PDT ![EU executive head backs start of punitive action versus Hungary over rule of law]( "EU executive head backs start of punitive action versus Hungary over rule of law") European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said he supported the European Parliament's decision on Wednesday to open a punitive procedure against Hungary for persistently flaunting democratic rules. The procedure, called Article 7, can theoretically go as far as suspending of Hungary's voting rights in the EU. "If I was a member of the European Parliament, I would have voted in favor of Article 7," Juncker said in a tweet.
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| Ousted EPA head Pruitt denies getting improper gifts, income Posted: 12 Sep 2018 01:26 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Scott Pruitt, the scandal-ridden former Environmental Protection Agency chief, denied on Wednesday that he had obtained any out-of-the-ordinary gifts as a result of his Cabinet-level post, dismissing allegations he received perks in office ranging from much-sought sport tickets to a job for his wife.
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| Omarosa Thinks She Knows Who Wrote That Anonymous New York Times Op-Ed Posted: 12 Sep 2018 09:17 AM PDT  Omarosa Manigault Newman, still hitting the press circuit for her book tour,
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| Ohio Supermarket Calls Cops on Deli Worker Accused of Eating $9,200 Worth of Meat Over 8 Years Posted: 11 Sep 2018 08:13 AM PDT  While many states consider theft of more than $500 worth of goods to be a felony, police said the woman accused in the incident has not been charged with a crime.
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| Drugs ruled out in Paris knife rampage: legal source Posted: 11 Sep 2018 03:55 AM PDT  A man being held after a knife attack that injured seven people along a canal in Paris was not under the influence of drugs at the time, a legal source told AFP on Tuesday. The suspect, believed to be an Afghan citizen in his 30s, was described by witnesses as acting drugged when he began striking people with a knife and iron bar on the Canal de l'Ourcq late Sunday. Two British tourists and an Egyptian visitor were among those injured, and three people were still in hospital as of Monday evening, including one in critical condition, a source close to the inquiry said.
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| Ron DeSantis' Choice Of A Latina Running Mate Is A Pathetic Pandering Attempt Posted: 11 Sep 2018 02:45 AM PDT  In the wake of Andrew Gillum's historic victory in Florida's Democratic
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| Bernie Sanders' Son, Levi, Loses New Hampshire Congressional Primary Posted: 11 Sep 2018 05:51 PM PDT  Levi Sanders, the son of Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), lost his bid for one of
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| GasBuddy activates fuel tracker ahead of Hurricane Florence Posted: 11 Sep 2018 04:40 AM PDT  Need to stock up on gas before Hurricane Florence hits? GasBuddy has got you covered!
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| Italy's Salvini wants populists, popular party to guide new EU Commission Posted: 11 Sep 2018 10:44 AM PDT  ROME (Reuters) - Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, who also leads the far-right League party, said on Tuesday he wants the new European Commission to be led by conservatives and populists. "The aim is to cancel the duopoly between the socialists and Christian democrats," Salvini told reporters after taping a talk show in Rome. A new Commission will be seated after a European Parliament election during the first half of 2019. When asked if he wanted populists to ally with the European Popular Party to back the new Commission, he replied: "Yes, that's the goal. ...
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| What 31 Air Force Pilots Who Flew the F-35 Really Think Posted: 11 Sep 2018 04:08 AM PDT  A former F-15C pilot said he beat his former fighter in mock dogfights.
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| The Latest: Family of officer charged in killing deny racism Posted: 11 Sep 2018 07:11 PM PDT  DALLAS (AP) — The Latest on a fatal shooting involving an off-duty Dallas police officer (all times local):
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| That Racist Serena Williams Cartoon Is So Very Australian Posted: 12 Sep 2018 11:06 AM PDT  By now, you have probably seen the Australian newspaper cartoon about the U.S.
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| New York commemorates 17th anniversary of September 11 Posted: 11 Sep 2018 07:01 AM PDT  New York on Tuesday honored the nearly 3,000 people killed on September 11, 2001 in a ceremony at Ground Zero, the site where hijacked Al-Qaeda planes brought down the Twin Towers. The 17th anniversary was commemorated in fog and gentle rain by relatives of those who were killed, police officers, fire fighters and officials, who remembered what remains the deadliest single attack on US soil. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, the US ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley and Mayor Bill de Blasio, together with his predecessors, Michael Bloomberg and Rudy Giuliani, were among those who attended.
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| U.S. Considers Sanctioning Chinese Officials Over Detention Of Muslims: Report Posted: 11 Sep 2018 04:02 AM PDT  The Trump administration may sanction Chinese government officials and
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| Ethiopian, Eritrean leaders officially open their border Posted: 11 Sep 2018 08:16 AM PDT  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Taking the next step in their dramatic diplomatic thaw, the leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea on Tuesday officially opened the border where a bloody war divided them for decades, with emotional residents embracing after years of separation. Ethiopia later announced that troops on both sides would withdraw.
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| Japan proposes resumption of commercial whaling Posted: 10 Sep 2018 10:00 PM PDT  Governments and animal rights' organisations around the world have condemned a proposal put forward by Japan at the meeting of the International Whaling Commission to resume commercial hunting of whales. Tokyo's motion to lift a global moratorium on whaling that was adopted by the IWC in 1982 was introduced at the commission's biannual meeting in the Brazilian city of Florianopolis on Monday. Japan is chairing this year's conference and its delegation is headed by Joji Morishita, who once described Minke whales as "the cockroaches of the ocean". "Science is clear: there are certain species of whales whose population is healthy enough to be harvested sustainably", the submission reads. "Japan proposes to establish a committee dedicated to sustainable whaling (including commercial whaling and aboriginal subsistence whaling)". A whale is unloaded at a port after a whaling for scientific purposes in Kushiro Credit: AP Tokyo is also seeking to change how the IWC votes and wants the commission to reach agreements based on a simple majority vote of member nations, instead of the three-quarters majority that is required at present. Japan has accused the organisation of being "intolerant" of different opinions on whaling and claims that it is has descended into a "forum for confrontation". Since the moratorium was introduced, Japanese whalers have used a loophole that permits "scientific whaling" to slaughter thousands of the creatures in the Pacific Ocean. You don't need to be a vet to know that firing at a whale with a harpoon... is going to cause appalling and completely unacceptable sufferingClaire Bass, Humane Society International In its most recent hunt, the fleet met a quota set by Tokyo of 333 Minke whales, the meat from which was sold in supermarkets and to restaurants. Critics say the "scientific" hunt is thinly disguised commercial whaling. "Japan could not possibly have advanced a more regressive and reckless proposition, imperiling both the conservation and welfare of whales", said Claire Bass, executive director of the British branch of Humane Society International. "You don't need to be a veterinarian to know that firing at a whale with a harpoon that explodes inside its body, in many cases not killing it immediately, is going to cause appalling and completely unacceptable suffering", she said. "There is no humane way to kill whales at sea, and that fact alone should be enough for countries to reject Japan's proposal". Japan has declined to provide data on how long it takes whales to die after they have been harpooned, although analysis of video footage of Japanese whalers' operations suggests it could be at least 33 minutes. Julie Bishop, the Australian foreign minister, and Josh Frydenberg, Canberra's environment minister, released a statement calling on like-minded nations to resist Japan's proposals. "Australia remains steadfastly opposed to all forms of commercial and so-called 'scientific' whaling and continues to be a leader in seeking to strengthen the International Whaling Commission to protect whales. "We strongly support the 30-year global moratorium on commercial whaling and will vehemently oppose any attempts to undermine the processes that support it, including through changed voting regimes or the establishment of catch-limits for commercial whaling", the statement added. The meeting is scheduled to end on Friday.
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| Putin says Russia's defense ties with China based on trust Posted: 11 Sep 2018 01:38 AM PDT  VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin told Chinese President Xi Jinping that Moscow and Beijing's relations were based on trust in areas ranging from politics to security and defense. Putin made the comments ahead of talks with his Chinese counterpart which are being held on the sidelines of an economic forum in the city of Vladivostok in Russia's far east. The talks coincide with the start of Russia's biggest war games since the fall of the Soviet Union which China will also take part in. ...
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| Aston Martin releases more details of Rapide E electric supercar Posted: 12 Sep 2018 06:51 AM PDT  One of the most exciting electric models currently in development is the upcoming Aston Martin Rapide E, and the British supercar manufacturer has just released new details of what to expect from its first fully-electric luxury sedan. The top speed of 155 mph should therefore be able to be maintained continuously for as long as ten minutes.
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| Minnesota regulators postpone Line 3 meeting after protests Posted: 11 Sep 2018 04:04 PM PDT ![Minnesota regulators postpone Line 3 meeting after protests]( "Minnesota regulators postpone Line 3 meeting after protests") ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota regulators postponed a meeting Tuesday on Enbridge Energy's planned Line 3 replacement after pipeline opponents disrupted the meeting with a bullhorn and a boombox.
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| Alabama Pastor Destroys Own Nike Gear During Anti-Colin Kaepernick Sermon Posted: 12 Sep 2018 07:24 AM PDT  The senior pastor of a church in Alabama destroyed his own Nike gear during a
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| JP Morgan's Jamie Dimon Slams Trump, Says He Could Beat Him: 'I’m Smarter' Posted: 12 Sep 2018 09:10 AM PDT  JP Morgan Chase & Co. CEO Jamie Dimon threw out some fighting words in
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| Hurricane Florence: 'Monster' Category 4 storm aims to drench Carolinas Posted: 12 Sep 2018 08:04 AM PDT  Communities along the Carolina coast buttoned up against the onslaught of Hurricane Florence
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| Palestinians file war crimes claim over West Bank hamlet Posted: 11 Sep 2018 10:10 AM PDT  RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A top official said Tuesday the Palestinians have filed a new complaint against Israel with the International Criminal Court, after the United States said it would resort to any means to protect its allies against such actions at the international war crimes body.
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| Turkey reinforces military in Syria's Idlib after ceasefire call fails Posted: 12 Sep 2018 09:59 AM PDT  President Tayyip Erdogan has warned that an assault by the army and its Russian and Iran-backed allies on Idlib, home to around 3 million people, will uproot hundreds of thousands in one of Syria's last rebel strongholds. Already hosting 3.5 million Syrians - the world's biggest refugee population - Turkey says it cannot absorb more victims of the war and has accused the West of abandoning it to face the consequences of President Bashar al-Assad's reconquest of Syria. At a meeting in Tehran on Friday with the presidents of Russia and Iran, seen as the last realistic chance to avert all-out conflict in the insurgent-held region, Erdogan failed to win a pledge of ceasefire from Assad's two main backers.
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