| Pakistan PM says he'll work with US on Afghanistan accord Posted: 23 Jul 2019 04:24 PM PDT  After years of tension between Washington and Islamabad, Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan insisted Tuesday the two are now on the same page and said he will do his best to persuade the Taliban to open negotiations with the Afghan government to resolve the war. The U.S. has been engaging with the Taliban, but so far they have refused to talk directly to the Afghan government, which it sees as a puppet. Afghans are wary of Pakistan's involvement in crafting a future for their country, but Khan said the Taliban need to participate in the next Afghan presidential election in September.
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| House Democrats unveil more 'realistic' climate change plan Posted: 23 Jul 2019 03:52 PM PDT  A group of U.S. House Democrats on Tuesday unveiled a climate change plan they said featured a "more realistic" goal to cut carbon emissions to net zero by 2050 rather than by 2030 as envisioned under the Green New Deal introduced early this year. Solar and wind companies have criticized the Green New Deal, introduced by Democratic Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Edward Markey in February, as unrealistic and politically divisive. Representatives Frank Pallone, Paul Tonko, Bobby Rush and others said on Tuesday they would draw up legislation late this year that aimed to avoid the worst effects of climate change including intense droughts, storms and floods.
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| Sorry, Al Franken: 7 senators regret pushing Franken to resign, as new reporting casts doubt on key allegation Posted: 22 Jul 2019 07:09 AM PDT  Seven of former Sen. Al Franken's Democratic colleagues now say they regret calling on him to resign in 2017 before a full investigation was completed.
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| Fox News’ Shep Smith Grills Embattled Puerto Rico Governor: Can You Name Anyone Who Supports You? Posted: 22 Jul 2019 01:21 PM PDT  During his first television interview since the scandal broke out over leaked private chats that have resulted in near-unanimous calls for his resignation, Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rosselló struggled to come up with a single name when Fox News anchor Shepard Smith pressed him to offer up anyone who currently supports him.With hundreds of thousands of Puerto Ricans taking to the streets of San Juan on Monday to demand Rosselló's resignation after the governor said he wouldn't step down on Sunday, Smith pointed out that "corruption is rampant" on the island before highlighting why the profanity-laced leaked chats have caused such backlash."So attacks on women, attacks on gays, attacks on the dead relatives of your own residents on your own island and after that who is left to support you?" Smith asked the governor. "Is it even safe for you to govern?"Rosselló, meanwhile, meekly said he has apologized and is trying to make amends, prompting the Fox anchor to ask him what exactly he's apologized for.After claiming he's apologized for the chats, the embattled governor attempted to say he wants to move on to battling corruption, leading Smith to remind him that the corruption is within Rosselló's own administration.Noting the widespread calls for him to step down, Smith grilled the governor on his lack of support in Puerto Rico, wondering aloud: "Who has come forward to support you?""There are folks who have supported me, who have come forward," Rosselló muttered, causing Smith to demand a name. The governor, however, struggled to answer the Fox News host."Can you give me one name?" Smith pressed. "Just one name, governor."Finally, after Smith continued to confront Rosselló, noting that the governor wasn't able to come up with anyone who had his back, Rosselló finally tossed out the name of the mayor of one city: San Sebastian Mayor Javier Jimenez.Moments after the interview aired, however, Jimenez told CBS News' David Begnaud that he did not, in fact, support the governor."There are other folks that have established people in the legislature and people in the Senate, as well, said that have supported me," the governor added. "They have supported the fact that I will not run and I shouldn't seek reelection but they have established it's important to follow the rule of law."Smith went on to relentlessly grill Rosselló, questioning whether the governor has "appropriately apologized" while highlighting that Rosselló has so far refused to meet with the Puerto Rican people who are demanding his resignation.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Australian clubbers busted in Bali over cocaine Posted: 22 Jul 2019 10:44 PM PDT  Two Australian clubbers arrested in Bali for cocaine possession were paraded in front of local media Tuesday as they faced a possible 12-year jail term, police said. William Cabantog, 36, and David Van Iersel, 38, were nabbed Friday night at a nightclub in Canggu, a popular tourist hotspot on the Indonesian holiday island. Police said they found a bag with 1.1 grams of cocaine in Cabantog's trousers during the raid.
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| Why No Enemy Would Dare Sink a U.S. Navy Aircraft Carrier Posted: 22 Jul 2019 12:58 PM PDT  Circumstances obviously matter for an attack on a U.S. aircraft carrier. An out-of-the-blue attack from a conventionally armed state actor would enjoy the highest levels of success, but would also have an impact on elite and public opinion in the United States that might drive calls for dire retribution. Since the 1950s, the supercarrier has been the most visible representation of U.S. military power and maritime hegemony. Although supercarriers have participated in nearly every military conflict since the commissioning of USS Forrestal in 1955, no carrier has come under determined attack from a capable opponent. In part, this is because supercarriers are very difficult to attack, but the symbolic grandeur of the massive ships also plays a role; no one wants to know what the United States might do if one of its carriers came under attack.(This first appeared several months ago.)What would happen if a foe attacked a United States Navy (USN) aircraft carrier during a conflict? How would the United States react, and how would it respond?Circumstances:
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| Venezuela Says Widespread Power Outage Caused by Electromagnetic Attack Posted: 23 Jul 2019 05:31 AM PDT  (Bloomberg) -- The lights are returning for millions in Venezuela after a major power failure knocked out electricity to about two-thirds of the country on Monday afternoon.The incident, which the government said was caused by an "attack," was reminiscent of another failure in March which dragged on for as long as 10 days in some areas and prompted Nicolas Maduro's administration to begin power rationing outside of the capital city Caracas to normalize the grid.Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez said that school and work activities would be suspended on Tuesday in order to keep power demand lower and state-run electricity company Corpoelec said that service had been restored to all of Caracas, with work still to be done in other states nationwide.Maduro and his government have insisted that the country's electrical problems are a product of sabotage and sophisticated attacks by the U.S. and local opposition who are seeking to remove him, while industry experts and critics point to a lack of investment and maintenance.Opposition leader Juan Guaido, who has claimed to be the legitimate leader of Venezuela and is recognized as such by more than 50 countries following Maduro's dubious re-election in 2018, said he'll take to the streets on Tuesday to rally people against the government."They tried to hide the tragedy with rationing across the country but their failure is evident," he wrote in a post on Twitter. "They destroyed the electric system and they don't have any response."Power failures in March cut into Venezuela's already flagging oil production, with output falling to zero in some areas for several days. Electricity was cut off at joint venture crude operations involving Petroleos de Venezuela SA, Chevron and Rosneft on Monday afternoon in the east of the country, according to two people with knowledge of the situation who aren't authorized to speak publicly on the issue. PDVSA, as the state producer is known, didn't reply to a request for comment.Since the crippling blackout in March, the government has been rationing electricity in more than 20 states, excluding Caracas from the restriction to avoid spurring protests. Still, for many the only assurance is trying to buy a generator in preparation for the next failure.On Monday, crowds of Venezuelans packed the Caracas sidewalks as shops and restaurants closed. Many trekked home after the buses provided by the city's transit system filled up and with the subway system closed. Amid Internet disruptions, drivers parked along the city's highways seeking a signal from cell phone tower."The only thing that matters to me is getting home as soon as possible to avoid getting robbed," said Julio Penalver, a 52-year-old handyman as he walked home to Petare, the large area of slums in eastern Caracas.To contact the reporters on this story: Alex Vasquez in Caracas Office at avasquez45@bloomberg.net;Fabiola Zerpa in Caracas Office at fzerpa@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Patricia Laya at playa2@bloomberg.net, Jose Orozco, Robert JamesonFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| A military strike on Iran? Trump is reluctant to do it despite history of threats Posted: 23 Jul 2019 05:08 AM PDT  Donald Trump often says he is willing to use force against Iran, but allies and aides say it would take an exceptional provocation for him to act.
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| After 110 years, a North Dakota bridge yields to a load of beans Posted: 23 Jul 2019 06:56 AM PDT ![After 110 years, a North Dakota bridge yields to a load of beans]( "After 110 years, a North Dakota bridge yields to a load of beans") The 56-foot wooden bridge over the Goose River collapsed on Monday as the driver of a tractor trailer truck tried to haul a load of dried beans over it, the Grand Forks County Sheriff's Office said in a statement. While the cab of the 2005 Peterbilt truck made it to the other side, pictures posted online by the sheriff's office showed the trailer "hung up" on the west side of the now V-shaped bridge that had bottomed out in the shallow river about 30 miles southwest of Grand Forks.
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| France seeks European surveillance to secure Gulf traffic Posted: 23 Jul 2019 12:31 PM PDT  France says it's working with its European partners on an observation mission to ensure maritime security in the Persian Gulf, where tensions have climbed with Iran's seizure last week of a U.K.-flagged oil tanker. Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian made no mention of a Europe-led "maritime protection mission" announced a day earlier by his British counterpart, Jeremy Hunt, offering instead what seems to be a softer version. France is working "at this moment on a European initiative" with Britain and Germany, he told lawmakers, without elaborating.
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| 2021 Cadillac Escalade's Interior Spied for Real Posted: 23 Jul 2019 01:46 PM PDT  The next-gen SUV will be getting a large curved touchscreen atop the dashboard.
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| Drug kingpin 'El Chapo' appeals life sentence Posted: 22 Jul 2019 12:04 PM PDT  Fallen Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman, once one of the world's most powerful and notorious criminals, has appealed his life sentence, court documents published on Monday showed. Guzman, the 62-year-old former co-leader of Mexico's feared Sinaloa drug cartel, was convicted in February of smuggling hundreds of tons of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and marijuana into the United States. A symbolic 30 years was also added to the sentence and he was also ordered to pay $12.6 billion in forfeiture -- a sum based on a conservative estimate of revenues from his cartel's sales in the United States.
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| South Bend police warn of 'mass exodus' under Mayor Pete Buttigieg Posted: 23 Jul 2019 05:00 AM PDT  The South Bend Fraternal Order of Police says morale has tanked over the 2020 hopeful's handling of an officer-involved shooting.
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| What It Was Like To Be a Pilot During the Hellish Iran-Iraq War Posted: 23 Jul 2019 12:04 AM PDT  'Meanwhile, my wingman had engaged another MiG-21 and shot it down using two Sidewinders. He later reported that after seeing my F-14 exiting on the other side of the explosion, he was sure that it was badly burned and the crew dead.Retired by the U.S. Navy on Sep. 22, 2006 the iconic F-14 Tomcat remains the backbone of Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force (IRIAF) interceptor fleet.However, as told by Tom Cooper and Farzad Bishop in their book Iranian F-14 Tomcat units in combat, the F-14's service in Iran is characterised by an implausible series of controversies and 'educated guesstimates' that are completely wrong.(This article by Dario Leone originally appeared on The Aviation Geek Club in 2019.)
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| Chris Kraft's Greatest NASA Accomplishments Posted: 23 Jul 2019 03:08 PM PDT |
| A boy stole two planes for a joyride. Pilots now want to teach him how to fly Posted: 22 Jul 2019 12:26 PM PDT  The boy trespassed a small airport in Huzhou, a city in eastern China, piloting and crashing a seaplane onto a guard rail and driving another one.
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| Girl tossed into the air by charging Yellowstone National Park buffalo Posted: 23 Jul 2019 03:46 PM PDT  The girl, from Odessa, Florida, was in a group of roughly 50 people who were standing near the bison for about 20 minutes in the Old Faithful Geyser area on Monday before it charged, Yellowstone officials said in a written statement. The victim, who was not identified, was treated by emergency personnel at Old Faithful Lodge and released. In June 2018, a Yellowstone bison gored a woman after a crowd surged within feet of it, according to the park.
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| FBI Director: White-Supremacist Violence Accounts for Majority of Domestic-Terrorism Arrests Since Last October Posted: 23 Jul 2019 11:47 AM PDT  FBI director Christopher Wray told Congress on Tuesday that the majority of domestic-terrorism arrests since last October have been linked to white supremacy."I will say that a majority of the domestic-terrorism cases that we've investigated are motivated by some version of what you might call white-supremacist violence, but it does include other things as well," the FBI chief said in testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee.Wray explained that since October, the FBI has arrested about 100 people on international-terrorism charges and about the same number of individuals on charges related to domestic extremism.The FBI director emphasized that his investigators' "focus is on the violence.""We the FBI don't investigate the ideology, no matter how repugnant. We investigate violence. And any extremist ideology, when it turns to violence, we're all over it," Wray said. "We take domestic terrorism or hate crime – regardless of ideology – extremely seriously, I can assure you, and we are aggressively pursuing it using both counterterrorism resources and criminal investigative resources and partnering closely with our state and local partners."President Trump has repeatedly come under fire for using rhetoric that his opponents say encourages violent, racist tendencies. Critics have warned that violence resulting from white-supremacist ideologies has been on the rise since Trump took office."I don't, really," Trump said in March when asked if he thinks white nationalism is a growing threat. "I think it's a small group of people that have very, very serious problems."The highest-profile act of violence perpetrated by a white supremacist over the last few years occurred at a 2017 white-nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., where one of the male rally-goers murdered one counter-protesters and injured dozens of others by mowing them down with his car. The man has received several life sentences for his crimes.
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| Beijing condemns Hong Kong protests via state media Posted: 23 Jul 2019 05:09 AM PDT  Beijing has ratcheted up its rhetoric condemning the protesters in Hong Kong after weeks of downplaying the demonstrations in the media. The state broadcaster CCTV aired footage of the protests for the first time since they began more than a month ago, showing the vandalism. The state TV anchor condemned the violence. The denouncement came after protesters defaced the central government's official emblem with ink, daubed graffiti on the wall and pelted its building in Hong Kong with eggs on Sunday. Earlier in the day, protesters marched peacefully along a designated route, but some radical protesters proceeded to vandalise offices. Hong Kong police have arrested six men, some with links to triads, after video surfaced of them attacking peaceful pro-democracy protesters on the same night. Forty-five people were injured after assailants violently attacked demonstrators at a metro station. Beijing state media focussed instead on criticising the protesters. The Global Times published an editorial saying the actions as "openly challenged the authority of the central government, touched the bottom line of 'one country, two systems' policy and violated law." The editorial continues: "These people are frenzied as rioters and as cowardly as villains. But all their tricks will be useless…. The criminals who insulted China's national emblem will eventually be in the defendant's seat. Prison awaits them." Legal analysts said the status of these protesters remain unclear since they have not been charged with criminal offences in Hong Kong. Hong Kong has been embroiled in its seventh week of protests, which began as a fight against a controversial extradition bill, and turned into a broader demand of democracy in the semi-autonomous Chinese city. The city's top leader, Carrie Lam, said on Monday that Hong Kong will not tolerate any violent acts.
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| Mexico sets 1st half murder record, up 5.3% Posted: 22 Jul 2019 04:51 PM PDT  Mexico set a new record for homicides in the first half of the year as the number of murders grew by 5.3% compared to the same period of 2018, fueled partly by cartel and gang violence in several states. Mexico saw 3,080 killings in June, an increase of over 8% from the same month a year ago, according to official figures. The 17,608 killings in the first half of 2019 is the most since comparable records began being kept in 1997, including the peak year of Mexico's drug war in 2011.
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| Iran caught UK by surprise in Gulf: audio company Posted: 22 Jul 2019 01:44 PM PDT  The man behind the dramatic audio of Iran's seizure of a British-flagged tanker in the Gulf says the episode played out over a chaotic 20-40 minutes while a UK warship raced in from an hour away -- too far to be of any help. The HMS Montrose "really didn't have much chance of having an impact on the scene," Dryad Global shipping risk management company head Philip Diacon told AFP. Diacon refused to discuss how his London-based firm obtained the audio of Friday's high-seas drama over the Stena Impero.
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| France, Germany Refuse Italy's Demand to Open Ports to Migrants Posted: 22 Jul 2019 12:39 PM PDT ![France, Germany Refuse Italy's Demand to Open Ports to Migrants]( "France, Germany Refuse Italy's Demand to Open Ports to Migrants") (Bloomberg) -- France and Germany widened the group of countries willing to accept asylum seekers arriving by boat across the Mediterranean, but made no move to accept demands by Italy's Matteo Salvini that they accept migrant ships directly in their ports.Salvini, in his capacity as Italian interior minister, said Monday's meeting of European interior ministers was a "flop" that "basically said Italy must continue to be the refugee camp of Europe," according to a statement.France and Germany had organized the informal meeting in Paris to try to improve Europe's ad-hoc system for dealing with humanitarian aid ships that collect migrants from rickety boats leaving North Africa and attempt to deliver them to Europe.Salvini has largely shut Italian ports to humanitarian ships, meaning that each approach of a migrant-laden boat has set off negotiations across Europe that eventually result in the boat being allowed to dock in Malta and sometime Italy, but only once other countries, mostly France and Germany, have signed up to accept asylum seekers. Boats have spent weeks at sea while these agreements are hashed out.French officials said Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal , Lithuania, Croatia and Ireland had committed to accepting asylum seekers. And they pledged financial and technical assistance to facilitate the swift return of migrants not entitled to asylum protection, without providing details.'Legal and Practical'But France has refused to waver from the principle that those saved at sea should be taken to the nearest safe port, which is almost always Italy or Malta for boats leaving North Africa. Nor has it agreed to share the majority of migrants who do not qualify for asylum protection."We must respect humanitarian and maritime law, which means that once a boat is in international waters it must find refuge in the nearest safe port," French President Emmanuel Macron told reporters after the meeting. "This a legal and practical necessity. The only way to handle this is through cooperation."Salvini, who didn't attend Monday's meeting, had asked without success for other EU countries to agree to rotate arrival ports throughout Europe for migrant vessels, arguing that maritime laws about nearest safe ports were written for shipwrecks, not migration flows.Read more: Italy to Push for New European Plan to Control MigrationSalvini has seen his popularity grow in Italy ever since his coalition government with Luigi Di Maio's Five Star Movement came to power last year because of his success in stemming immigration to Italy, even if the previous government had already greatly reduced flows.Since the start of this year, 3,353 migrants have arrived by boat in Italy and 1,048 in Malta, according to United Nations figures. That's a much slower pace than the 24,000 that arrived in Italy for all of 2018 or the 120,000 that came in 2017 and 180,000 in 2016.The Italian government estimates it spent 4.3 billion euros ($5 billion) aiding migrants in 2017, while receiving only 77 million euros in EU aid.To contact the reporter on this story: Gregory Viscusi in Paris at gviscusi@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ben Sills at bsills@bloomberg.net, Robert JamesonFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| Fox News Host Calls for ‘9/11-Style Commission’ to Investigate How AOC Was Elected to Congress Posted: 22 Jul 2019 10:58 AM PDT  Reacting to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's (D-NY) call for a "9/11-style commission" to be convened to investigate the Trump administration's child separation policy at the border, Fox News host Pete Hegseth said on Monday that there should instead be an investigation to see how the progressive lawmaker was elected to Congress in the first place.During a town hall in her district on Saturday, Ocasio-Cortez called for a lengthy study into the president's zero-tolerance immigration policy, adding that it's what's "required in order to reunify as many children with their parents as possible"On Monday's broadcast of Fox News' early-afternoon chatfest Outnumbered, the panel discussed Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer's recent visit to border detention centers, noting Schumer and other Democrats called the conditions at the camps "inhumane." Fox News host Melissa Francis then contrasted this with President Trump's weekend tweets about Schumer's visit in which he said Schumer "must have seen how dangerous & bad" the border crisis is now."What's ironic now is both sides are saying the exact same thing which is, it's a mess of the border," she added.Hegseth, serving as the female-centric program's lone male guest host, agreed that the border is a mess and that it's of Congress' making before immediately pivoting to AOC. (Fox News has devoted three times more coverage to the freshman congresswoman this year than the other cable news networks.)"We shouldn't take anything she says seriously," Hegseth said of Ocasio-Cortez while labeling her the "de facto" speaker of the House."You talk about what's happening at the border—she compares it to 9/11," he continued. "She talks about concentration camps where 6 million Jews were killed. And then when she talks about the Green New Deal, she likens it to the challenges of World War II where 70 to 85 million people were killed."He then essentially called the Boston University graduate too stupid to be in the House of Representatives."You know what we need a 9/11-style commission on?" Hegseth asked his colleagues. "How in the heck does someone like her get elected to Congress?! What's happening in our public schools or other schools? What is she learning that gives her a platform to feel like these comparisons should be taken seriously at all?"Later in the segment, after the other hosts debated whether or not a study into the policy was worth Congress' time, Hegseth, who serves as an informal adviser to Trump, took a final shot at AOC."She also doesn't want a commission, she wants to demagogue," he exclaimed.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Trump reportedly eyeing big spending cuts if reelected Posted: 22 Jul 2019 07:44 AM PDT  The president has reportedly instructed White House aides to look for ways to slash the federal budget if he wins a second term.
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| Every police officer in Stebbins, Alaska, has pleaded guilty to domestic violence charges Posted: 22 Jul 2019 10:38 AM PDT  There are seven police officers in Stebbins, Alaska, and all of them have beenconvicted of domestic violence
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| ICE releases US citizen, 18, wrongfully detained near border Posted: 23 Jul 2019 03:01 PM PDT ![ICE releases US citizen, 18, wrongfully detained near border]( "ICE releases US citizen, 18, wrongfully detained near border") Francisco Erwin Galicia left a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center in Pearsall, Texas, on Tuesday. Galicia lives in the border city of Edinburg, Texas, and was traveling north with a group of friends when they were stopped at a Border Patrol inland checkpoint.
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| China says it will 'not tolerate foreign forces' in Hong Kong Posted: 23 Jul 2019 06:14 AM PDT  China on Tuesday slammed the US and Britain for interfering in Hong Kong affairs after the two countries voiced concerns about a vicious assault on pro-democracy protesters. The savage beating of the Hong Kong protesters by a mob of suspected gangsters on Sunday has deepened fears about the use of shadowy hired muscle to defend China's interests. "China will not tolerate any foreign forces intervening in Hong Kong affairs, nor will it allow any foreign forces to disrupt Hong Kong," foreign ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said at a regular briefing.
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| Airbus designed a plane prototype to look like a 'bird of prey' – take a look Posted: 23 Jul 2019 05:13 AM PDT  Airbus is working to inspire the latest and greatest in flight innovation – and using a "bird of prey" conceptual design to do so.
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| Thousands Have 'Signed Up' to 'Storm Loch Ness' and Find 'That Big Boy.' Here's the History Behind the Mythical Sea Monster Posted: 23 Jul 2019 06:39 AM PDT  Everything you need to know before searching for Nessie
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| Why Didn't the Soviets Ever Make It to the Moon? Posted: 22 Jul 2019 06:30 AM PDT  A new video delves into the history of the Soviet space program and all the reasons it was never able to put a person on the moon.
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| Dashcam captures man riding a Lime scooter on the highway during rush hour Posted: 23 Jul 2019 07:12 AM PDT  You think your commute is bad? Imagine being stuck behind some clown who either craves danger or made a wrong left turn at the juice bar. Taking eco-friendly transport to the extreme, dashcam footage captured a commuter on a Lime scooter making his way downtown, not so fast, on I-35 in Dallas, Texas, just before 9 a.m. on Monday. "What? Bro, are you on a Bird scooter on the highway? Bro! What are you doing? Bro!" yells someone driving behind the scooter in the video. The rider even switches lane, from the far left to the far right lane. It's worth mentioning that the electric rental scooter has a top speed of about 15 mph. The speed limit on I-35 is 70 mph, according to local news outlet Fox 4 News. Mashable reached out to Lime for comment, and they mentioned that while a state law allows motorized scooters on roads where the speed limit is 35 mph or less, what this person is doing is clearly not that, and therefore, neither illegal or safe. But we're just left scratching our heads -- how did he even get on the highway in the first place?
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| U.S. military took defensive action against second Iranian drone last week Posted: 23 Jul 2019 10:15 AM PDT ![U.S. military took defensive action against second Iranian drone last week]( "U.S. military took defensive action against second Iranian drone last week") A U.S. Navy ship took defensive action against a second Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz last week, but did not see the drone go into the water, the U.S. military said on Tuesday. The United States said on Thursday that a Navy ship had "destroyed" an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz after the aircraft threatened the vessel, but Iran said it had no information about losing a drone. "This was a defensive action by the USS Boxer in response to aggressive interactions by two Iranian UAS platforms in international waters," Lieutenant Colonel Earl Brown, a U.S. Central Command spokesman, said.
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| Georgia woman gets cold fries at McDonald's, barges into kitchen and fires gun Posted: 23 Jul 2019 08:50 AM PDT  A Georgia woman who reportedly fired a gun into the floor of a McDonald'skitchen Monday afternoon had a pretty wild motivation for her crime: coldfrench fries
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| Kyoto Animation arson killings didn't get much attention because we couldn't demonize guns Posted: 23 Jul 2019 11:39 AM PDT  The Kyoto Animation killing left 34 dead, but it didn't have much impact because we don't pay attention to mass killings without guns. We should.
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| Kim inspects new sub, wants North Korea's military bolstered Posted: 23 Jul 2019 04:16 AM PDT  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected a newly built submarine and ordered officials to further bolster the country's military capabilities, state media reported Tuesday, as the North increases pressure on the United States ahead of the possible resumption of nuclear diplomacy. Last week, North Korea said it may lift its 20-month suspension of nuclear and missile tests to protest expected military drills between the United States and South Korea that Pyongyang says are an invasion rehearsal. The submarine report comes as the U.S. and North Korea work to resume talks after a meeting late last month on the Korean border between Kim and President Donald Trump.
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| 40+ Easy-To-Make Halloween Cookies That Taste Scary Good Too Posted: 23 Jul 2019 12:52 PM PDT |
| Woman, 21, ID'd as Tesla driver who hit couple in crosswalk, killing man Posted: 22 Jul 2019 03:57 PM PDT  The woman allegedly responsible for hitting a couple sightseeing in San Francisco on Sunday has been identified.
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| Israel says 12 Palestinian buildings destroyed in controversial demolition Posted: 23 Jul 2019 04:09 AM PDT  Israel said Tuesday a total of 12 Palestinian buildings it considered illegally constructed were demolished in a controversial operation the previous day, while a UN preliminary assessment showed 24 people displaced. The demolitions of Palestinian homes, most of which were still under construction, drew condemnation from the European Union and UN officials. Israel says the homes south of Jerusalem were built too close to its separation barrier cutting off the occupied West Bank, posing a security risk, and the demolitions were approved by its supreme court following a lengthy process.
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| State Department stops publishing data on crimes against Americans in Jamaica – but why? Posted: 23 Jul 2019 06:09 AM PDT  For the first time in seven years, the State Department has stopped publishing crime stats involving U.S. tourists in Jamaica. But it won't say why.
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| UPDATE 1-Syrian state TV reports possible Israeli attack in southern Syria Posted: 23 Jul 2019 04:18 PM PDT ![UPDATE 1-Syrian state TV reports possible Israeli attack in southern Syria]( "UPDATE 1-Syrian state TV reports possible Israeli attack in southern Syria") Syrian state television said on Wednesday there were reports of an Israeli attack on a strategic area in southern Syria where Western intelligence sources previously said Iranian-backed militias are known to be based. The newsflash on state-owned Ikhbariyah did not give details, but said the strike was directed on Tel Haraa, which had long been an outpost for Russian forces but was later taken by Iranian-backed militias, according to Western intelligence sources. Tel Haraa is a strategically located area in southern Deraa province overlooking the Israeli-held Golan Heights.
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| Georgia mother allegedly drops, kills her 3-month-old baby during a fight Posted: 23 Jul 2019 09:42 AM PDT  A Georgia mother is accused of dropping and killing her baby during a fight ata beauty supplies store on Friday
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| Siemens boss says Trump is becoming ‘face of racism and exclusion’ in searing rebuke of president Posted: 23 Jul 2019 12:33 AM PDT  Donald Trump is turning into the "face of racism and exclusion" following his attacks targeting four congresswomen of colour, the chief executive of Siemens has said.In one of the sharpest rebukes from a major business leader against the president, Joe Kaeser, who leads the German industrial giant, responded to a news article about a Trump rally in North Carolina last week, when supporters directed a hostile chant towards Democrat Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, yelling "Send her back!"The president had earlier targeted Ms Omar, who was born in Somalia and is a naturalized US citizen, in a racist tweet, saying on Twitter that she and three other Democrats, Rashida Tlaib of Michigan, Ayanna Pressley of Massachusetts and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, should "go back" to "the crime infested places from which they came"."I find it depressing that the most important political office in the world is turning into the face of racism and exclusion," Mr Kaeser said on Twitter."I have lived in the USA for many years, experiencing freedom, tolerance and openness as never before."Mr Kaeser has previously used his position as the head of one of Europe's most powerful manufacturers to take a stand on political issues.Last year, he backed out of an investment conference in Saudi Arabia following the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul.Despite his own attacks, Mr Trump has since attempted to distance himself from the crowd's chant, claiming that he tried to stop it by "speaking very quickly".In fact, Mr Trump paused for 13 seconds during the rally to let the chant continue.While business executives have criticised Mr Trump's policies and rhetoric in his two and a half years in office, including opposition to the administration's family separation policy at the southern US border, the recoil against the president's latest derogatory remarks have come mainly from US lawmakers and world leaders.The leaders of the UK, Canada and New Zealand were among those denouncing Mr Trump's comments. Mr Kaeser's compatriot, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, said she "stands in solidarity" with the congresswomen Mr Trump targeted on Twitter."In my view, the strength of America lies in that people from different (origins) contributed to what makes the country great," she said at a news conference last week, according to Business Insider.While some of Mr Trump's political allies have condemned the chant, they have been careful not to directly denounce the president."The chants were offensive and very unfortunate, and it did not speak well of that crowd," said Utah senator Mitt Romney, who was the Republican Party's 2012 nominee for president."I've said what I believe about the president's responsibility in this regard, which is, I believe he has a special responsibility to unite Americans regardless of our ethnicity, race, national origin, and feel that he failed in that regard."The Washington Post
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