| Trump rehashes Democratic primary debate controversy to deflect attention from Russia probe Posted: 03 Apr 2017 07:23 AM PDT  President Trump is pushing back against the ongoing investigations into his team's possible ties to Russia by rehashing the 2016 campaign. "Did Hillary Clinton ever apologize for receiving the answers to the debate?" Trump tweeted on Monday morning. The president's question refers to emails that showed former acting Democratic National Committee chair Donna Brazile had provided questions to the Hillary Clinton campaign in advance of a town hall and debate hosted by CNN during the Democratic primary.
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| Trump donates 3 months’ salary to Interior Department, offsetting 0.005% of proposed budget cut Posted: 03 Apr 2017 02:14 PM PDT  The White House announced Monday that President Trump would be donating his first-quarter salary to the Department of the Interior, which stands to lose $1.6 billion under his budget proposal.
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| The Latest: 'Help me,' kidnapped girl says after car crash Posted: 03 Apr 2017 06:08 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the slaying of a North Carolina couple and the arrest of their son discovered with his missing 11-year-old niece in Washington (all times local):
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| Deadly Storms Hit 9 Southern U.S. States Posted: 03 Apr 2017 08:44 AM PDT  With tornadoes to flash floods and fires, several people were killed across the southeast U.S.
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| China vows fresh smog crackdown as toxic air shrouds capital Posted: 02 Apr 2017 11:30 PM PDT  China's smoggiest cities have pledged to ramp up the battle on pollution after air quality deteriorated in the first few months of this year, the China Daily reported on Monday, as smog blanketed the capital, Beijing, and the surrounding region. Top officials from seven districts in Beijing, Tianjin and cities in Hebei and Shanxi provinces were scolded at the weekend by the environmental watchdog for lax control of pollution this year, the paper said. The officials promised to submit plans to the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) to resolve the problem within 20 days, it said.
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| Cocaine Smuggler Pretends to Be Delta Airlines Pilot: Authorities Posted: 04 Apr 2017 09:19 AM PDT  U.S. Customs and Border Protection says the alleged smuggler was carrying $85,000 worth of cocaine.
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| New Remains of Millennia-Old Pyramid Discovered in Egypt Posted: 04 Apr 2017 09:11 AM PDT  It's thought to be some 3,700 years old.
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| Little Badger Buries Entire Cow — on Camera Posted: 03 Apr 2017 08:46 AM PDT  The badger spent five days excavating a hole around the cow carcass and burying the animal in it, before lolling around near its cache of food for weeks. "Not to anthropomorphize too much, but he looks like a really, really, happy badger, rolling in the dirt and living the high life," University of Utah doctoral candidate in biology Evan Buechley, who discovered the footage, said in a statement. To document the behavior of scavengers like vultures, Buechley dragged seven calf carcasses out to the Grassy Mountains west of Salt Lake City.
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| Devin Nunes returns home to protests over his Trump ties Posted: 03 Apr 2017 08:59 AM PDT  Republican Devin Nunes, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, represents Fresno and the agricultural Central Valley of California, a district he won over his Democratic challenger in 2016 by a whopping 36 percentage points. "Embattled Republican congressman Devin Nunes was met by about 300 angry protesters when he returned to his California district on Friday for a speaking engagement," reported ABC News.
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| Trump Tweets Can't Stop Russia Stories Posted: 03 Apr 2017 02:04 PM PDT  As Donald Trump tries to deflect on Twitter, two new stories detail ties between Trump world and Russia – and in one case, an actual Russian spy. David Corn and Ned Price join Lawrence O'Donnell.
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| White House on Jared Kushner’s growing portfolio Posted: 03 Apr 2017 12:32 PM PDT  On Monday, April 3, White House press secretary Sean Spicer answered questions surrounding President Trump's son-in-law, Jared Kushner. He is currently in Iraq to meet with leaders and to be briefed in the fight against the Islamic State. Spicer also answered questions about Kushner's growing portfolio in recent weeks.
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| Afghanistan sacks top generals over brazen hospital attack Posted: 03 Apr 2017 11:33 PM PDT  Afghanistan on Tuesday sacked 12 army officers including two generals for negligence over an insurgent attack on the country's largest military hospital, which pointed to a spectacular intelligence failure. Gunmen disguised as doctors stormed Sardar Daud Khan hospital in Kabul last month, with multiple surviving staff telling AFP that insiders including two interns were among the attackers. The military head of intelligence and the official in charge of medical support were among those who have been dismissed and will face prosecution, the defence ministry said.
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| Rescuers, locals dig for Colombia flood victims, 254 die Posted: 02 Apr 2017 07:54 PM PDT  By Jaime Saldarriaga MOCOA, Colombia (Reuters) - Families and rescuers searched desperately on Sunday through mud-plastered rubble for victims of flooding and landslides in Colombia that have killed 254 people, injured hundreds and devastated entire neighborhoods. Several rivers burst their banks near the southwestern city of Mocoa in the early hours of Saturday, sending water, mud and debris crashing down streets and into houses as people slept. Volunteers and firefighters tended to 82 bodies downstream in the town of Villagarzon and said many corpses were still caught in debris.
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| Suiting up the Swiss Guard: Austrian blacksmiths practice vanishing craft for Vatican guards Posted: 04 Apr 2017 09:54 AM PDT ![Suiting up the Swiss Guard: Austrian blacksmiths practice vanishing craft for Vatican guards]( "Suiting up the Swiss Guard: Austrian blacksmiths practice vanishing craft for Vatican guards") Austrian blacksmiths who produce ceremonial suits of armor for the Vatican's Swiss Guards are close to the end of their current deal to do so, and say supplying the suits will not be an issue for many years to come. One of the drawbacks of the Swiss Guards' medieval uniforms is that the craftsmanship needed to make them is disappearing. Faced with an aged stock in need of replacement, the Guards turned to brothers Johann and Georg Schmidberger—the fifth generation to run the family blacksmith's business in the Austrian town of Molln—to provide them with 80 suits of armor covering the torso and arms.
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| Correction: Overpass Collapse-Fire story Posted: 03 Apr 2017 11:58 AM PDT  ATLANTA (AP) — In a story April 2 about a fire that caused part of an interstate highway to collapse, The Associated Press erroneously reported details about a man accused of starting the fire. Arrest warrants say Basil Eleby discussed smoking crack before the fire started, but he is not accused of smoking crack under the highway before it collapsed.
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| Girl Throws Costco-Themed 5th Birthday Party, Complete With Memberships and Food Samples Posted: 04 Apr 2017 10:00 AM PDT  In true Costco fashion, party guests were invited to sample Kirkland treats around the home and enjoy pizza purchased from the food court.
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| Second Lady Criticized For 'Thanking' Female Service Members Posted: 03 Apr 2017 10:23 AM PDT  Karen Pence made spoke and attended events honoring women in the military, but did not address the nude photo-sharing scandal.
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| Tesla, Google, and Uber are all losing the self-driving car race Posted: 03 Apr 2017 05:00 PM PDT 
If you see a headline about self-driving car tech, chances are great that it's a story about Tesla, Uber, or Google, but mindshare doesn't always match up with reality and a new study focusing on what companies are leading the charge in automated vehicles puts seasoned carmakers firmly in the driver's seat. The study, which was conducted by Navigant, declares Ford, GM, Daimler, and Renault-Nissan to be the current leaders in automated vehicle technology, with Silicon Valley stars like Uber and Tesla still trying to catch up.
The study looked at a number of criteria in order to give each company a ranking based on two overall factors: strategy and execution. The combination of those two scores produced the final rankings chart you see above, along with the ranking list: Leaders - Ford
- GM
- Renault-Nissan Alliance
- Daimler
Contenders - VW Group
- BMW
- Waymo
- Volvo/Autoliv/Zenuity
- Delphi
- Hyundai Motor Group
- PSA
- Tesla
- Toyota
- ZF
Challengers - Honda
- Uber
- nuTonomy
- Baidu
Ford, as you might expect, was quite happy to be placed number one on the list, and company Executive VP and CTO Raj Nair took to Medium to put the study into perspective. Nair highlights the fact that Navigant's research takes a big-picture approach in determining not just what companies are leading in technology development such as sensor advancements and AI, but also the capability of the companies to actually bring self-driving cars to the public en masse. In short, just because a company like Google or Uber can build a suite of self-driving software and a sensor array, that doesn't mean those innovations will ever actually be adopted on a level the general public will benefit from.
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| How to Stop ISPs from Selling Your Private Data Posted: 04 Apr 2017 10:45 AM PDT  The Internet may seem like an apolitical entity, but the fact is, the United States government has a great deal of influence over it. On Thursday (Mar. 23), the U.S. Senate voted to overturn an important broadband privacy rule instituted, but not implemented, during the Obama administration. Just as it could before, your ISP will be able to collect and sell your online data with reckless abandon, and frankly, unless you're willing to kneecap your own Internet access, you can't do much about it.
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| Tesla overtakes giant Ford in market cap Posted: 04 Apr 2017 03:28 AM PDT  Tesla on Monday became the second-largest US car maker in terms of market capitalization, displacing Ford, whose sales lagged amid concerns about the ability of the US market to keep growing. Many major auto makers reported US sales declines in March compared to a year ago, but Tesla over the weekend said it saw a huge jump in vehicles delivered to consumers in the first three months of the year. Tesla said it delivered 25,000 of its high-tech vehicles in the January-March period -- a 69 percent surge compared to the first three months of 2016 -- indicating it was on its way to meeting its goal of 50,000 vehicle deliveries by mid-2017.
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| Messages show New York police surveillance of Black Lives Matter Posted: 04 Apr 2017 03:41 PM PDT  Documents released by the New York Police Department and published by a newspaper on Tuesday shed new light on how undercover officers surveilled organizers from the Black Lives Matter movement who were protesting police tactics. The documents include brief internal messages between officers that track demonstrators' movements during "die-in" protests at New York City's Grand Central Terminal in 2014 and 2015, as well as photographs and a video of the protests.
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| Man Fatally Shoots Girlfriend, Her 8-Year-Old Son and Injures 4 Others: Cops Posted: 03 Apr 2017 02:55 PM PDT  Allen Cashe has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder and four counts of attempted murder.
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| Rex Tillerson to chair UN meeting on North Korea's nukes Posted: 03 Apr 2017 04:03 PM PDT ![Rex Tillerson to chair UN meeting on North Korea's nukes]( "Rex Tillerson to chair UN meeting on North Korea's nukes") UNITED NATIONS (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is coming to the United Nations for the first time later this month to chair a ministerial meeting of the Security Council on reining in North Korea's nuclear program, a top priority of the Trump administration.
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| More than 270 dead in Colombia mudslides Posted: 03 Apr 2017 09:20 PM PDT  The Colombian government declared a state of economic emergency in the town of Mocoa in southern Colombia, after mudslides left more than 270 people dead, including 43 children. "We have the toll of the people who have unfortunately died," said President Juan Manuel Santos, as he revisited the scene of Friday's disaster. The president said reconstruction would begin, dismissing risks of further mudslides, but he warned that the country faces rainy weather until June.
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| Heavy security as Congo opposition strikes over election delays Posted: 03 Apr 2017 05:27 AM PDT  By Amedee Mwarabu Kiboko KINSHASA (Reuters) - Congolese police deployed heavily across the capital Kinshasa on Monday as opposition calls for a general strike after a breakdown in talks with President Joseph Kabila's allies last week raised fears of renewed violence. Security forces in Democratic Republic of Congo killed dozens in protests over election delays last year but the strike appeared to be peaceful on Monday morning as stores and banks were shuttered and streets quiet. With police deployed at bus stops and intersections, there were only a handful of cars on the central boulevard in Kinshasa, a city of more than 10 million people, and the normally bustling central market was shut.
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| Leftist Moreno heading to disputed win in Ecuador election Posted: 02 Apr 2017 09:56 PM PDT  QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Ruling party candidate Lenin Moreno looked headed to victory in Ecuador's presidential runoff Sunday but his rival refused to recognize the results, claiming he was the victim of fraud in what could set the stage for protests.
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| Boy or Girl? Text Alerts to Deliver Gender of April the Giraffe's Calf Posted: 04 Apr 2017 09:34 AM PDT  For the many millions of internet viewers who are checking YouTube (or Live Science) daily to see if April the pregnant giraffe has had her calf, the vigil continues — when the sun rose this morning (April 3), the big-bellied giraffe was still pregnant. However, April's many anxious fans can now subscribe to receive text alerts when April goes into labor — and for the first disclosure of whether the newborn is male or female. The announcement of the calf's gender will be made after its birth by a text alert system, revealing the big news hours in advance of an official press release, representatives of Animal Adventure Park (AAP), the facility in Harpursville, New York, where April is housed, reported April 3 on Facebook.
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| Boy, 13, Dies of Suspected Heroin Overdose After Allegedly Getting Into Dad's Drugs: Reports Posted: 04 Apr 2017 03:14 PM PDT  Medics reportedly administered four milligrams of Narcan to Nathan Wylie, 13, to no avail.
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| Russia Nixes Former White House Aide for Top U.N. Job in Libya Posted: 03 Apr 2017 12:10 PM PDT  The Trump administration's torpedoing of a former Palestinian prime minister as U.N. envoy to Libya may have boomeranged on the White House.
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| 'Selfie monkeys' are now endangered because people can't stop eating them Posted: 03 Apr 2017 11:39 AM PDT  Apparently, everyone's favorite adorable "selfie monkey" is cute enough to eat—literally, in Indonesia. The crested black macaque became legendary after one of them, Naruto, took a selfie of himself in 2011 and catapulted into internet stardom. Though approximately 2,000 of the macaques remain protected in one of the country's reserves, the primate is now critically endangered due to over-hunting, according to a new report from Seeker. SEE ALSO: You can now take selfies... with your feet? Activists on Sulawesi island have been trying to convince locals to stop consuming the crested black macaque. The population has dropped approximately 80 percent in the past four decades alone. Macaques play a key role in Indonesian ecosystems by helping to spread seeds. "I like the taste, hot and spicy, it is similar to wild boar or dog," Nita, a local from the area, told AFP. Celebes Crested Macaque Image: FLPA/REX/Shutterstock Fans of Naruto, now the mascot of the species, have responded with shock and horror. Of course, Americans eat and *enjoy* plenty of "versatile canned meat products"—are we really to judge? PETA filed a suit on behalf of Naruto in 2015, claiming that the macaque owned his selfie because of the Copyright Act. The judge in the case ruled in January 2016 that the act did not apply to animals, even obscenely adorable smiling ones like Naruto. It was, some speculated, a grotesque display of adorable animal-phobia. Or, you know, just logical. Hunting the macaque is punishable by up to five years in jail. WATCH: The first zero emissions ship looks pretty badass
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| Trump presses China on North Korea ahead of Xi talks Posted: 02 Apr 2017 08:18 PM PDT ![Trump presses China on North Korea ahead of Xi talks]( "Trump presses China on North Korea ahead of Xi talks") By David Brunnstrom and Matt Spetalnick WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump held out the possibility on Sunday of using trade as a lever to secure Chinese cooperation against North Korea and suggested Washington might deal with Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs on its own if need be. The comments, in an interview published on Sunday by the Financial Times, appeared designed to pressure Chinese President Xi Jinping ahead of his visit to Trump's Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida this week. "China has great influence over North Korea.
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| Protests rattle Ecuador following election fraud claims Posted: 03 Apr 2017 08:08 PM PDT  QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — Supporters of Ecuadorean opposition leader Guillermo Lasso gathered in the streets for a second night Monday to protest what they consider fraud at the ballot box that tilted a presidential runoff in favor of his leftist rival.
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| 2017 Mini Cooper Countryman Grows Bigger, Gains Power, and Adds Practicality Posted: 03 Apr 2017 02:09 PM PDT  A model from the Mini brand is unmistakable, no matter the guise, version, or body style. Some may consider the all-new 2017 Mini Cooper Countryman—the biggest Mini yet—an SUV, but the model embo...
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| Amazon Launches 'Amazon Cash', A Credit-Free Way To Make Purchases: Here's How To Use It Posted: 03 Apr 2017 09:24 AM PDT  Amazon announced its latest Amazon Cash service that lets users make purchases without using a credit card. Find out how to use the all cash payment system, here.
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| Lawyer: Dead Cincinnati nightclub shooting suspect is victim Posted: 04 Apr 2017 08:33 AM PDT ![Lawyer: Dead Cincinnati nightclub shooting suspect is victim]( "Lawyer: Dead Cincinnati nightclub shooting suspect is victim") A man wounded in a gunbattle at a Cincinnati nightclub that killed his close friend and hurt 16 people was a victim, not the assailant police allege him to be, and his family will fight to clear his name in the wake of his death Tuesday, their attorney said.
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| Pentagon reviewing how it counts troop numbers Posted: 03 Apr 2017 01:32 PM PDT  The Pentagon is reviewing how it counts US troop numbers in Iraq and Syria, an official said Monday, as it moves from Obama-era troop limits that critics said were misleading. Currently, the Pentagon provides "force management levels" that set limits on how many US troops are supposedly in each country. Former president Barack Obama, who tried to end US involvement in Middle East conflicts, set relatively low numbers to avoid the impression America was getting dragged back into new wars.
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| Pass/Fail for Parents!? Posted: 04 Apr 2017 11:35 AM PDT  As a parent, you expect your children to bring home good grades – but how would you feel about being graded yourself? Mississippi recently passed a bill adding a new item to kid's report cards: grades for their parents in such subjects as their child's readiness for tests, absences, and tardies. Does this idea deserve an A for effort, or an F for infuriating families?
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| Sovereignty of Gibraltar remains unchanged: Britain's Johnson Posted: 03 Apr 2017 01:59 AM PDT  There will be no change to Gibraltar's sovereignty without Britain's consent, Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said on Monday, while his Dutch counterpart called for calm after a British politician raised talk of defending the outpost. "The sovereignty of Gibraltar is unchanged and is not going to change, and cannot conceivably change without the express support and consent of the people of Gibraltar and the United Kingdom, and that is not is going to change," Johnson said on arrival at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Luxembourg.
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| In landmark meeting, Trump hails Sisi's 'fantastic job' in Egypt Posted: 03 Apr 2017 11:32 PM PDT  US President Donald Trump set human rights scandals aside to welcome Abdel Fattah al-Sisi to the White House on Monday, the first such visit from an Egyptian president in almost a decade. Greeting Sisi warmly in the Oval Office, Trump heaped praise on the former general's leadership as he sought to mend ties strained by crackdowns, revolution and counter-revolution. "You have a great friend and ally in the United States and in me," Trump told Sisi, sweeping aside his predecessor Barack Obama's concerns about Sisi's purge of political opponents and rights activists.
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| 2017 GMC Canyon V-6 8-Speed Automatic 4x4 Crew Cab Posted: 03 Apr 2017 03:34 PM PDT  A stouter six and more gears put additional spring in the Canyon's step.
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