| Obama approved ‘cyber weapons’ in response to Russian attacks: report Posted: 23 Jun 2017 07:31 AM PDT  President Barack Obama's team reportedly debated dozens of options for making Moscow pay for attempting to influence and discredit last year's presidential election.
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| Judge: Another Mistrial in Case Against Former Officer in Deadly Ohio Shooting Posted: 23 Jun 2017 08:36 AM PDT  A mistrial was declared Friday in the retrial of former University of Cincinnati police officer Ray Tensing, who was accused of murder and manslaughter in the 2015 shooting death of Samuel DuBose, an unarmed black motorist.
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| Health Care Declassified No. 4: Was the Obamacare process really more transparent? Posted: 23 Jun 2017 11:52 AM PDT  Yahoo News peeks behind the curtain of secrecy surrounding the Republican health care bill to learn what we can about what it may contain.
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| Who Is Mohammed Bin Salman? Posted: 23 Jun 2017 05:41 AM PDT  Saudi Arabia's new Crown Prince has earned a reputation at home as a reformer and has called for a loosening of some conservative social restrictions.
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| Grandmother, 81, Sparks Police Chase After Driving Wrong Way While on Coffee Run Posted: 23 Jun 2017 02:16 PM PDT  Nancy Strader was arrested and spent 14 hours in jail.
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| JetBlue Flight Makes Emergency Landing in South Carolina Posted: 22 Jun 2017 09:00 PM PDT  Passengers and crew noticed smoke halfway through the flight, leading to an emergency landing in Charleston.
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| Trump: I bluffed Comey on ‘tapes’ to keep him honest Posted: 23 Jun 2017 07:17 AM PDT  President Trump's warning last month that his conversations with former FBI Director James Comey might have been taped was an attempt to affect Comey's public statements and his testimony before the Senate Intelligence Committee, the president admitted in an interview Friday morning. After refusing to comment for nearly six weeks, Trump finally acknowledged Thursday that he has no such tapes. "When he found out that I, you know, that there might be tapes out there, whether it's governmental tapes or anything else, and who knows, I think his story may have changed," Trump said of Comey in a "Fox & Friends" interview.
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| Body Of Missing Texas Teen Found In Landfill Posted: 23 Jun 2017 07:16 AM PDT  Kaytlynn Cargill disappeared Monday while walking her dog near her family's apartment complex.
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| More than 50 people killed in multiple Pakistan attacks Posted: 23 Jun 2017 12:29 PM PDT  Multiple blasts and a gun attack killed more than 50 people and wounded at least 170 in three Pakistani cities on the last Friday of Ramadan, Islam's holiest month, as officials warned the toll could rise. Authorities said 37 people were killed and more than 150 wounded when twin blasts tore through a market in Parachinar, capital of Kurram district, a mainly Shiite area of Pakistan's tribal belt. Local official Nasrullah Khan told AFP that the first blast detonated as the market was crowded with shoppers preparing for the Eid ul-Fitr festival marking the end of Ramadan.
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| Trump vs. Medicaid Posted: 23 Jun 2017 12:16 PM PDT  Despite repeated campaign promises not to cut Medcaid, Trump supports the Senate health care bill, which one GOP senator said cuts health care for "tens of millions."
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| Panda mania hits Germany as China's cuddly envoys arrive Posted: 24 Jun 2017 01:55 AM PDT  Germany was bracing for panda mania as furry ambassadors arrive from China on Saturday, destined for a new life as stars of Berlin's premier zoo. The pair, named Meng Meng and Jiao Qing, will be jetting in on a special Lufthansa cargo plane, accompanied by two Chinese panda specialists, the Berlin Zoo's chief vet and a tonne of bamboo. Berlin's mayor, China's ambassador to Germany and a gaggle of journalists will greet the VIPs as LH8415 pulls to a stop on the tarmac of Schoenefeld airport.
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| Khmer Rouge leaders deliver closing defense at trial Posted: 23 Jun 2017 03:40 AM PDT  PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — As his trial for genocide ended, the former head of state of Cambodia's 1970s Khmer Rouge regime on Friday rejected the charges against him, saying the allegation was concocted by the country's traditional enemy, neighboring Vietnam.
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| 12 Bizarre Kitchen Ingredients That Get Rid Of Stains Fast Posted: 23 Jun 2017 08:54 AM PDT |
| Over 1,000 Uber employees demand reinstatement of ex-CEO Travis Kalanick Posted: 23 Jun 2017 12:38 AM PDT  More than 1,000 Uber employees have signed a petition calling for the board to reinstate Travis Kalanick in an operational role after he resigned as chief executive of the embattled ride sharing company earlier this week. Mr Kalanick, who helped establish Uber around eight years ago and was instrumental in growing it into a transportation behemoth, announced last week that he would be taking a leave of absence for an unspecified period of time. On Tuesday he resigned, buckling to pressure from major investors in response to a string of scandals that have plagued Uber in recent months.
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| Russian Visa Requests Spiked Before Election Posted: 23 Jun 2017 11:46 AM PDT  Ned Price, former NSC spokesman and senior director, shares with Rachel Maddow insights on the reporting by the Washington Post of an uptick in visa applications from Russia ahead of the 2016 election.
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| White House wants more ‘outrage’ over Johnny Depp comments Posted: 23 Jun 2017 12:35 PM PDT  The White House spoke against suggestions of violence by an actor and a play but said less against similar remarks last year by a campaign supporter.
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| 33 Pasta Salads That Will Kill At Your Next Cookout Posted: 23 Jun 2017 08:54 AM PDT |
| US special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan quits post Posted: 23 Jun 2017 10:39 PM PDT  Washington's special envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan stepped down on Friday, just as the United States is preparing to send thousands more troops to the region. A senior State Department official told AFP that acting special representative Laurel Miller left the post without a replacement being named. State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Miller is returning to a position at the Rand Corporation and that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has not yet decided what to do with post.
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| Conjoined McDonald Twins Surgeons Reflect On Separating Babies Posted: 23 Jun 2017 09:58 AM PDT  "The one thing we knew was to expect the unknown."
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| 40 people killed in bomb, gun attacks in 3 Pakistani cities Posted: 23 Jun 2017 03:52 PM PDT  PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — At least 40 people were killed and nearly 100 wounded Friday in four separate bomb and gun attacks in three major Pakistani cities, officials said.
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| The Mautes of the Philippines: from monied family to Islamic State Posted: 22 Jun 2017 10:04 PM PDT  By Raju Gopalakrishnan and Manuel Mogato MANILA/MARAWI CITY, Philippines (Reuters) - Before they formed one of the most dreaded militant groups in the Philippines and pledged loyalty to Islamic State, the Mautes were a wealthy, political family in the southern region of Mindanao, largely influenced by the matriarch, Farhana. Soft-spoken and reserved, 60-year-old Farhana Maute owns property in Mindanao and in Manila, and runs a construction business, say people who know the family and security analysts who have scrutinized its background.
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| Former prisoners in North Korea recall the conditions they were held in: Part 3 Posted: 23 Jun 2017 06:32 PM PDT  American Kenneth Bae spent 735 days in captivity in North Korea and was the longest held American prisoner ever.
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| LAPD Officer, 31, Arrested for Alleged Sexual Relationship With 15-Year-Old Cadet: Cops Posted: 23 Jun 2017 08:32 AM PDT  LAPD Officer Robert Cain was arrested for having an alleged sexual tryst with a 15-year-old female cadet, who was also arrested last week.
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| Michelle Carter Spotted First Time In Public After Guilty Verdict Posted: 23 Jun 2017 06:11 AM PDT  Photos of the 20-year-old Massachusetts woman, who encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself, were posted by Daily Mail on Thursday.
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| Barack Obama received 'intelligence bombshell' on Russian hacking plans, investigators report Posted: 24 Jun 2017 01:49 AM PDT  Barack Obama received an "intelligence bombshell" from the CIA to warn him of a hacking campaign led by Vladimir Putin to help Donald Trump win the US election, it has been reported. The Russian president had given specific instructions on the operation's objectives to defeat Democratic candidate Hilary Clinton, and help get her opponent elected, the Washington Post revealed in a special report. Citing interviews with current and former senior US officials, the newspaper detailed how the Obama administration allegedly considered retaliating against Putin by releasing intelligence on him, and planting "cyber weapons" in Russia's infrastructure to destroy its economy.
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| Dinosaurs That Once Roamed Antarctica 'Live' Again in Exhibits and Film Posted: 23 Jun 2017 06:42 AM PDT  But nearly 200 million years ago, Antarctica was very different. There were no polar ice caps, it was far warmer and wetter than it is now, and its lush, forest environments were inhabited by a variety of animals — including dinosaurs. Scientists dedicated to uncovering Antarctic dinosaur fossils spend months at a time camped on glaciers and digging in a frozen desert in order to excavate and reconstruct beasts that lived in the distant past.
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| California man vists Disneyland 2,000 days in a row Posted: 22 Jun 2017 09:13 PM PDT  As one of the world's largest entertainment companies, Disney is used to adoring fans but one man has topped them all, visiting its California theme park 2,000 days in a row. Jeff Reitz marked the milestone on Thursday, using his Disneyland Resort annual pass which had enabled his trek to the park on a daily basis since January 1, 2012. "What we mostly know about him is that he loves Disneyland," said John McClintock, a spokesman for the theme park.
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| Black off-duty cop shot by colleague while responding to car crash Posted: 23 Jun 2017 11:52 AM PDT  A complex situation involving a car crash and three sets of police led to the shooting of a black officer by a white one in St. Louis.
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| Venezuela: death of a protester Posted: 23 Jun 2017 02:40 PM PDT  Over months of protests Carlos Garcia Rawlins has been on Venezuela's streets daily, documenting increasingly violent clashes with security forces, experience that helped put him within eyeshot of a soldier who fatally wounded a young activist at close range. Hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans have taken to the streets across the country since April to demand elections, solutions to hunger and shortages, and an end to President Nicolas Maduro's plan to overhaul the constitution. On Thursday, a thousands-strong march that was aiming to reach the chief prosecutor's office in Caracas was broken up by security forces with tear gas and pellets.
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| Bumbling Ex-CIA Officer Charged With Selling Secrets to China Posted: 23 Jun 2017 01:24 PM PDT  A prestigious Chinese think tank provided cover for the intelligence operation that ensnared Kevin Mallory.
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| US Navy to hold Japan memorial for sailors killed in crash Posted: 23 Jun 2017 04:27 AM PDT  The US navy said Friday it will hold a memorial ceremony for seven sailors killed when their destroyer collided with a container ship off Japan's coast last weekend. The service will be held on Tuesday at the naval base in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo, where the badly damaged destroyer USS Fitzgerald is based, a navy spokeswoman said. The sailors' relatives, US military officials and some 300 crew members of the guided-missile warship will join the private event, she added, without releasing other details.
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| Casey Anthony’s Parents Counter Sue Over Family Home Foreclosure Posted: 23 Jun 2017 12:29 PM PDT  Caylee Anthony lived with her mother and grandparents at the home at the time of her death in 2008.
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| Donald Trump defies calls to appoint envoy to combat anti-Semitism around the world Posted: 24 Jun 2017 10:44 AM PDT  Donald Trump has defied calls to appoint a special envoy to combat anti-Semitism across the world despite growing pressure from Jewish groups and Congress. The two remaining staffers in the US State Department's office to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism are reportedly set to be reassigned next month, which will leave the branch completely unstaffed after 1 July. President Trump is legally required to appoint a Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Anti-Semitism, a position created under former president George W. Bush.
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| Putin praises Russia's 'unique' spy network Posted: 24 Jun 2017 11:55 AM PDT  President Vladimir Putin on Saturday praised Russia's network of intelligence officers as "unique people" who are devoted to the country. "To give up their life, their nearest and dearest and leave the country for many years, and to dedicate one's life to the Fatherland, not everyone is capable of doing that," the former KGB officer said on state television. "These are people not like the rest," who have qualities, convictions and character out of the ordinary, Putin added on the Russia-1 channel.
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| 7 Ridiculous Foods You'll Only Find At This Summer's State Fairs Posted: 23 Jun 2017 09:02 AM PDT  Make your list and check it twice!
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| Minnesota police officer's brutal arrest of driver was 'disturbing', ACLU says Posted: 23 Jun 2017 10:19 AM PDT  A Minnesota arrest in which a driver was dragged from his vehicle and repeatedly punched and kneed by a police officer was a "disturbing and completely unnecessary" example of an excessive use of force, the state ACLU has said. Video recently obtained by the Minnesota chapter of the ACLU shows Buffalo Ridge drug taskforce agent Joe Joswiak initiating a traffic stop with his gun leveled at the driver's seat of the vehicle, shouting expletives at the driver, and violently removing him from the vehicle – seemingly before he had a chance to comply with the officer's commands.
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| 21 Amazing Twists On Pumpkin Soup Posted: 23 Jun 2017 08:54 AM PDT |
| If Baghdadi is dead, next IS leader likely to be Saddam-era officer Posted: 24 Jun 2017 03:49 AM PDT  By Maher Chmaytelli BAGHDAD (Reuters) - If Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is confirmed dead, he is likely to be succeeded by one of his top two lieutenants, both of whom were Iraqi army officers under late dictator Saddam Hussein. Experts on Islamist groups see no clear successor but regard Iyad al-Obaidi and Ayad al-Jumaili as the leading contenders, though neither would be likely to assume Baghdadi's title of "caliph", or overall commander of Muslims. Russia's defense ministry said last week Baghdadi may have been killed in an air strike in Syria and Interfax news agency quoted a senior Russian parliamentarian on Friday as saying the likelihood that he had been killed was close to 100 percent.
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| Senate panel seeks details on Lynch role in Clinton probe Posted: 23 Jun 2017 02:31 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are seeking information about alleged political interference by former Attorney General Loretta Lynch into the FBI's investigation of Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server.
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| Charles Manson's Follower's Parole Request Blocked Posted: 24 Jun 2017 04:42 AM PDT  This is the fifth time Davis missed his chance of leaving the California Men's Colony at San Luis Obispo.
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| Emmanuel Macron teams up with Arnold Schwarzeneggar to take swipe at Donald Trump on climate change Posted: 24 Jun 2017 07:06 AM PDT  Former Governor of California Arnold Schwarzeneggar has teamed up French President Emmanuel Macron in a new video pledging to make "the planet great again" in a swipe at US President Donald Trump. Both Mr Macron and Mr Schwarzeneggar are known for their outspoken criticism of Mr Trump's decision to pull the US out of the Paris climate change agreement. Mr Macron - who along with a number of other European leaders has decried the decision to have America withdraw from the deal - has called on US scientists to emigrate to France.
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| Tesla is interested in constructing a Gigafactory in China Posted: 22 Jun 2017 08:00 PM PDT 
With Tesla's Gigafactory in Las Vegas already producing lithium-ion batteries for the upcoming Model 3, there are reports that Tesla is already taking concrete steps to develop yet another Gigafactory in China. Hardly a surprise, Tesla CEO Elon Musk recently said during a TED Talk presentation that the company would ideally like to construct as many as four Gigafactories all across the globe. "I will announce locations for between two and four Gigafactories later this year," Musk said on stage, "probably four."
While nothing is set in stone just yet, it's widely believed that Tesla is eyeing another location in the United States along with a location in Europe and China. As for Tesla's ambitions in China, the company earlier today confirmed that it's actively exploring the possibility of developing a manufacturing plant in Shanghai. "Tesla is deeply committed to the Chinese market, and we continue to evaluate potential manufacturing sites around the globe to serve the local markets," a company spokesperson said today. "While we expect most of our production to remain in the US, we do need to establish local factories to ensure affordability for the markets they serve." China of course remains a huge target market for Tesla, and a local production plant in the country would help Tesla avoid a "25 percent import tariff that makes Tesla's Model S sedans and Model X sport utility vehicles more costly than in U.S. showrooms," Bloomberg reports. Speaking to the strategic importance of China, the company in 2017 sold $1 billion worth of cars in the country in 2016 alone.
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