| When Rescues In This Texas City Stopped, Residents Cried Out For Help On Social Media Posted: 30 Aug 2017 06:13 AM PDT  Floodwaters in Texas continue to rise, creating conditions so severe that people trapped in their homes had no chance of being rescued overnight.
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| Senior citizens in viral photo pose after rescue from Harvey floodwaters Posted: 29 Aug 2017 01:45 PM PDT  A disturbing photo taken Sunday at La Vita Bella nursing home in Dickinson, Texas, showed assisted living patients, some of them in wheelchairs, sitting stone-faced in the rising, murky water as Tropical Storm Harvey caused severe flooding.
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| Bush's Press Secretary Criticizes Trump's Harvey Response For Lacking Empathy Posted: 29 Aug 2017 11:42 PM PDT  Ari Fleischer, the press secretary for former President George W. Bush, said Tuesday that President Donald Trump's response to the devastation from Hurricane Harvey was lacking one thing: empathy.
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| Trevor Noah: 'Buddy' Email On Russia Deal Could Hit Trump In The 'Trunk' Posted: 30 Aug 2017 11:52 AM PDT  Reports that a Donald Trump associate tried to forge a real estate deal in Russia that he said would help Trump become president got Trevor Noah buzzing Tuesday on "The Daily Show."
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| Joy-Anna Duggar announces pregnancy with baby bump photo Posted: 30 Aug 2017 09:13 AM PDT  Joy-Anna Duggar, who wed Austin Forsyth earlier this summer, is already pregnant with her first child, the two announced Wednesday.
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| NKorea leader urges more missile launches targeting Pacific Posted: 29 Aug 2017 07:14 PM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korean leader Kim Jong Un called for more weapons launches targeting the Pacific Ocean to advance his country's ability to contain Guam, state media said Wednesday, a day after Pyongyang for the first time flew a ballistic missile designed to carry a nuclear payload over Japan.
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| Woman Gets Life In Prison For Killing Husband Whose Parrot Repeated 'Don't Shoot' After His Death Posted: 29 Aug 2017 02:54 PM PDT  A Michigan woman was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of her husband, whose last words may have been repeated by his pet parrot, Bud.
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| J.Lo And A-Rod Will Each Donate $25,000 To Hurricane Harvey Victims Posted: 30 Aug 2017 08:06 AM PDT  Rodriguez adds that it's their "opportunity to come together as one to help all the great families in distress down in Houston. Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas on Friday as a Category 4 storm. By Sunday, it had returned to tropical storm status and continues to deliver the record-setting rainfall that has inundated Houston and other cities. At least 30 people have died in relation to the storm and the continuing rainfall poses further risk for those in the region.
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| 2019 Bentley Continental GT: Going Ballistic Posted: 29 Aug 2017 12:45 PM PDT  Technology meets tradition in this all-new, 207-MPH plaything for the few.
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| Rohingya men answer call to arms against Myanmar's forces Posted: 28 Aug 2017 11:51 PM PDT  Cox's Bazar (Bangladesh) (AFP) - Heavily pregnant and confined to a squalid Bangladeshi refugee camp, Ayesha Begum does not regret that her husband will miss the imminent birth of their sixth child as he fights alongside Rohingya militants in Myanmar. Begum, 25, joined the exodus of Rohingya fleeing troubled Rakhine State in recent days as fresh violence erupted between Myanmar's security forces and militants fighting for the stateless Muslim minority.
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| Sweet dog seen carrying own bag of dog food during Harvey goes viral Posted: 29 Aug 2017 11:15 AM PDT  After Hurricane Harvey slammed into Texas as a Category 4 storm, there have been reports of catastrophic damage, deadly flooding and incredible tales of survival. Some animals were the first to be evacuated by their owners. Slowly, heartbreaking footage of these animals emerged on social media in an effort to draw attention to Texas' plight.
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| Texas Mother Dies Saving 3-Year-Old Daughter From Harvey Floods Posted: 30 Aug 2017 12:33 AM PDT  A 41-year-old woman who was trying to save herself and her child died on Tuesday afternoon after being swept away by floodwaters in Beaumont, Texas, police said.
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| GOP Rep Tells Black Attorney She May 'Go Missing' For Protesting Confederate Statues Posted: 30 Aug 2017 12:14 PM PDT  Georgia's Republican state Rep. Jason Spencer told his former colleague on Tuesday that she and others supporting the removal of state-sponsored Confederate monuments and landmarks could "go missing."
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| Houston dam begins to overspill as Harvey triggers unprecedented impact Posted: 29 Aug 2017 08:25 AM PDT  'We have never faced this before, we have uncertainty in how the water is going to react' official says, as water levels in reservoirs threaten monitoring equipmentTropical storm Harvey – live updates
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| New Mexico officials: 2 dead, 4 injured in library shooting Posted: 28 Aug 2017 08:04 PM PDT  CLOVIS, N.M. (AP) — Two people were killed and four others were injured when gunfire erupted inside a public library on Monday, throwing an eastern New Mexico community into a panic as officers swarmed the building with their guns drawn.
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| Black MMA Fighter Says He Saved Stranded Harvey Victim With Confederate Flag Posted: 30 Aug 2017 10:21 AM PDT  Hurricane Harvey has affected millions in Texas and Louisiana, leaving many displaced and in desperate need of food, help and shelter.
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| Life Appears To Have Gotten Much Better For Sean Spicer Posted: 30 Aug 2017 01:24 PM PDT  Sean Spicer's bad year just got a little bit better.
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| Exclusive: Japan seeks new U.S. missile radar as North Korea threat grows - sources Posted: 30 Aug 2017 12:55 AM PDT  By Tim Kelly and Nobuhiro Kubo TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan is worried the United States has so far declined to arm it with a powerful new radar, arguing the decision makes the U.S. missile defense system it plans to install much less capable of countering a growing North Korean threat, three sources said. Japan wants to have a land-based version of the Aegis ballistic missile defense (BMD) system operational by 2023 as a new layer of defense to help counter North Korea's missile advances.
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| IS evacuation deal sparks Iraqi outrage Posted: 29 Aug 2017 01:49 PM PDT  Iraqis on Tuesday denounced a deal allowing Islamic State group fighters to evacuate a Syrian-Lebanese frontier region towards the Iraqi border. Hundreds of jihadists started leaving the area on Monday, heading by bus for Syria's eastern province of Deir Ezzor, which borders Iraq and is the only Syrian province still under IS control. Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Tuesday the deal was "unacceptable" and an "insult to the Iraqi people".
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| Bakery Says No To Same-Sex Weddings Because 'Our Business Is God's Business' Posted: 30 Aug 2017 08:42 AM PDT  In what's become a familiar scenario, a California bakery is facing a backlash after reportedly refusing to prepare same-sex wedding cakes.
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| Will California Become The First State To Decriminalize Psychedelic Mushrooms? Posted: 29 Aug 2017 09:11 AM PDT  Kevin Saunders doesn't believe the state of California should lock up people for offenses related to psychedelic mushrooms, a broad category of fungi that contains the psychoactive compound psilocybin.
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| Charlottesville suspect arrested in Georgia to be extradited Posted: 29 Aug 2017 01:56 PM PDT  CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (AP) — A man wanted in connection with the beating of a black man in Charlottesville on the day of a white nationalist rally turned himself in to authorities in Georgia and will be extradited to Virginia, officials said.
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| Military Son Surprises Mom by Popping Out of Car's Trunk After Years Apart: 'It Made Everything Worth It' Posted: 29 Aug 2017 02:11 PM PDT  He hadn't seen his mom in two and a half years.
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| South Korea threatens Kim Jong-un with 'extermination' after missile launch over Japan Posted: 29 Aug 2017 05:53 AM PDT  South Korea responded to North Korea's missile launch over Japan today with an aggressive show of force, conducting a live-fire drill on a shooting range close to its border with the North, and threatening the leaders of the hermit state with "extermination". Four F-15 fighter jets dropped eight MK-84 bombs that accurately hit targets at a military field in Gangwon-do, near the northeast coast of South Korea, Seoul's presidential spokesman Park Su-hyun said. Each bomb weighs 2,000 lb and can penetrate 11 metres of earth and 11 feet of concrete. South Korea's defence ministry released footage of the drill along with a video of its own ballistic missile tests conducted last week. Map: North Korean missile test over japan "If North Korea threatens the security of the South Korean people and the South Korea-US alliance with their nuclear weapons and missiles, our air forces will exterminate the leadership of North Korea with our strong strike capabilities," South Korean Colonel Lee Kuk-no warned in the video. The images showed a powerful bomb striking a mock target, sending earth flying into the air, at the Pilseung Firing Range on Tuesday morning, just a few hours after Pyongyang fired a ballistic missile across Japanese airspace into the Pacific Ocean. Japan's warning system kicked in, advising citizens on its northern Hokkaido island to take precautions. According to South Korea's Yonhap news, the bombing was intended to show off the country's "overwhelming force", sending a message to dictator Kim Jong-un that Seoul was ready to defend itself. South Korea respond to North's missile launch with its own show of force 01:15 The bombing was ordered personally by President Moon Jae-in, who has previously pressed for peace talks with Pyongyang. A statement from Seoul earlier today stressed that South Korea was "fully ready for any threat from the North and will make unwavering efforts to protect the lives of our people and the security of our nation." South Korea is nearing the end of a ten day long joint military exercise with the US, that Pyongyang has strongly condemned and cited as a reason for its own missile tests. North Korea's ambassador to the United Nations, Han Tae Song, blamed the US for "driving the peninsula towards an extreme level of explosion." Speaking at a UN Security Council meeting in Geneva, he said: "My country has every reason to respond with tough counter-measures as an exercise of its right to self defence."
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| U.S. troops risk inflaming clan conflict after deadly Somalia raid Posted: 30 Aug 2017 08:32 AM PDT  By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A raid involving U.S. troops in Somalia has caused a rift between the precarious U.S.-backed government and a powerful clan that says innocent farmers were massacred, months after President Donald Trump approved stepped-up operations there. The U.S. Africa command, Africom, has acknowledged that U.S. forces participated in a ground operation in support of Somali troops in the village of Bariire last week, and says it is investigating reports of civilian deaths. It did not reply to further questions from Reuters about the incident, the second mission in Somalia this year in which it has acknowledged the participation of U.S. ground troops.
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| Mom's Heartfelt Post Begs Parents To Not Let Their Kids Be 'Jerks' Posted: 30 Aug 2017 07:21 AM PDT  A Texas mom of three is spreading a simple but important message about inclusion.
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| US thanks Mexico for Texas flood aid offer Posted: 30 Aug 2017 03:24 PM PDT  Secretary of State Rex Tillerson put aside controversy over US plans to build a wall on its southern border Wednesday and thanked Mexico for its offer of aid to flood-stricken Texas. Tillerson was welcoming his Mexican counterpart Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray to talks on trade and security when he made the comments, even as deadly Storm Harvey made a second landfall. "I want to thank the government of Mexico for its offer of assistance in the state of Texas," Tillerson, himself a Texan, said.
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| Grown Men Are Exploiting Loopholes In State Laws To Marry Children Posted: 29 Aug 2017 09:01 PM PDT  Loopholes in state laws are allowing child marriage to flourish in the U.S., despite research showing that the practice puts young people at risk of serious, lifelong harm. More than 200,000 children under 18 were married from 2000 to 2015 in the U.S., according to a report released Wednesday by the Tahirih Justice Center, a nonprofit organization working to end gender-based violence. "America really does have a child marriage problem," said Jeanne Smoot, author of the report.
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| Seven-year-old girl choked and thrown off bridge by man survives by swimming ashore Posted: 29 Aug 2017 07:07 AM PDT  The girl was at a family party at her grandparent's house in Worcester when she was taken at around 2.30am on Sunday without permission from her parents. A 35-year-old man, Joshua Hubert, reportedly a friend of the family, has been arrested and charged with kidnapping. Worcester county district attorney Joseph Early told WCVB: "Fortunately, a greater tragedy was averted.
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| Whale gets entangled in cruise ship anchor for half a day Posted: 29 Aug 2017 01:49 PM PDT  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — A humpback whale became entangled in an anchor line on a small cruise ship in southeast Alaska, getting stuck for roughly 12 hours while federal authorities and the boat's crew worked to free it.
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| Fox News Pulled Off The Air In UK Because No One Watches It Posted: 30 Aug 2017 03:08 AM PDT  TV viewers in the United Kingdom will likely not miss watching Fox News, as the network's parent company 21st Century Fox announced on Tuesday that the company would pull the channel amid low ratings. While 21st Century Fox said its decision was based on the channel's inability to attract a considerable audience, critics say it's actually an attempt to smooth over the media giant's bid to take over European satellite company Sky. HuffPost UK reports that if the takeover is successful, it would give Fox mogul Rupert Murdoch access to Sky's 22 million customers in Europe.
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| Japan’s Empty Menu of Options to Stop North Korea Posted: 29 Aug 2017 09:30 AM PDT  Hawkish Prime Minister Shinzo Abe seems to have few choices save strong words of condemnation for the Kim regime's missile tests. But he's working the long game.
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| Grain Bowls: The New Super Bowls Posted: 30 Aug 2017 03:00 AM PDT  They go by many names: "power bowls," "grain bowls" . . . even the enlightened-sounding "Buddha bowls." But no matter what they're dubbed, we've concluded that they're the ultimate healthy comfor...
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| White House downplays Charlottesville comments from Tillerson, Cohn Posted: 30 Aug 2017 02:54 AM PDT  The White House on Tuesday downplayed talk of division among President Donald Trump's advisers after Secretary of State Tillerson and economic adviser Gary Cohn appeared to criticize Trump for his response to the violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. In an interview on Fox News Sunday over the weekend, Tillerson said "the president speaks for himself" when asked about Trump's values. Cohn, who was standing near the president in Trump Tower this month when Trump said there were "very fine people" on both sides of the demonstration that was sponsored by neo-Nazis and white supremacists, told the Financial Times in an interview that citizens standing up for freedom could never be equated with such groups.
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| Toddler Caught on Dashcam Footage Walking Into Busy Intersection by Himself Posted: 29 Aug 2017 03:00 PM PDT  The driver, Leanne Richards, said the boy couldn't have been older than 2 years old.
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| Thailand's Yingluck ditched phones before escape: army chief Posted: 29 Aug 2017 03:38 AM PDT  Fugitive former premier Yingluck Shinawatra discarded her mobile phones and stopped travelling in her usual vehicles in the days before last week's dramatic escape, Thailand's army chief said Tuesday, as her party vowed to fight on. Thailand's junta has come under fire from some conservative allies over Yingluck's disappearance, with many questioning how the authoritarian regime could have let her flee given that she was heavily monitored. Army chief General Chalermchai Sitthisad gave a lengthy defence on Tuesday, which offered insights into how military intelligence kept track of Yingluck and how she might have slipped the net.
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| Kendall And Kylie Jenner Blasted For Appropriating Chola Style In Deleted Instagram Posted: 29 Aug 2017 02:40 PM PDT  Kendall and Kylie Jenner are no strangers to accusations of cultural appropriation, and now a recent Instagram post by their clothing line has the Internet talking again.
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| Man who said he was stabbed over his neo-Nazi haircut made up story and actually impaled himself Posted: 28 Aug 2017 11:53 PM PDT  Joshua Witt, 26, has now been arrested on false reporting charges after he admitted he lied to officers in Sheridan, Colorado, by alleging a black man had attacked him for having a haircut associated with white supremacists. In a now-deleted Facebook post, Witt said: "Soooooooo apparently I look like a neo-Nazi and got stabbed for it. Witt told police his attacker was a black man in his mid 20s, who was wearing a green shirt and blue trousers and ran towards a bike path that runs along a nearby river.
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| These Ridiculous Wedding Reception Stories Will Make You Cringe Posted: 30 Aug 2017 02:16 PM PDT  Note to self: Don't invite moonshine to the party.
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| WWE Superstar Nikki Bella Talks Wedding Details & Her "Bridezilla" Moment! Posted: 30 Aug 2017 06:59 AM PDT  PLUS: Nikki & Brie Bella on John Cena's Romantic Side: "He's So Cute!"
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| Sea Shepherd pulls plug on Japan whale hunt Posted: 28 Aug 2017 09:45 PM PDT  Activist group Sea Shepherd on Tuesday pulled the plug on its annual campaign to disrupt Japanese whaling, saying it can no longer match the country's military and economic power. The organisation has waged an often violent 12-year high-seas battle against whaling in the Southern Ocean, claiming success for saving thousands of the giant mammals and bringing the slaughter to world attention. "What we discovered is that Japan is now employing military surveillance to watch Sea Shepherd ship movements in real-time by satellite and if they know where our ships are at any given moment, they can easily avoid us," he said in a statement.
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| US airstrikes block evacuation of Islamic State militants Posted: 30 Aug 2017 01:02 PM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — U.S. airstrikes blocked the advance of an Islamic State convoy carrying militants toward Iraq on Wednesday, derailing a Hezbollah-negotiated deal that removed the extremists from the Lebanon-Syria border, where they have been for years.
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| 17 of the Most Beautiful Bridges in the World Posted: 29 Aug 2017 08:31 AM PDT |
