| Democrat On Trump Voter Fraud Probe Slams Voting Restriction Efforts Posted: 09 Sep 2017 11:41 AM PDT  A Democratic member of President Donald Trump's commission to investigate voter fraud issued some of the strongest criticism yet from within the panel on efforts to make it more difficult to vote.
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| Storm Surge From Hurricane Irma Will Be Very Dangerous Posted: 07 Sep 2017 09:00 PM PDT  Latest models show how much the ocean is expected to rise.
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| Ahead of 9/11, top Trump aide says U.S. not vulnerable to terrorists Posted: 08 Sep 2017 12:31 PM PDT  "There is no current, credible actionable threat, terrorist threat, against the homeland," Tom Bossert, President Trump's homeland security adviser, told reporters just days before the 9/11 anniversary.
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| Does Betsy DeVos care more about those accused of rape than its victims? | Lucia Graves Posted: 08 Sep 2017 06:29 AM PDT  Protesters at George Mason University in Arlington, Virginia, where Betsy DeVos delivered a policy address on sexual harassment, rape and assault on 7 September. As she announced the rollback of Obama-era rules on campus sexual assault, education secretary Betsy DeVos seemed at times less like the head of the Department of Education than the department of rape apologists.
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| Massive earthquake rocks Mexico Posted: 08 Sep 2017 04:18 AM PDT ![Massive earthquake rocks Mexico]( "Massive earthquake rocks Mexico") One of the most powerful earthquakes ever to hit Mexico was followed by a Gulf coast hurricane, dealing a one-two punch to the country, killing at least 61 people as workers scrambled to respond to the twin national emergencies.
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| Mueller's Russia Investigation Targets Trump Inner Circle Posted: 08 Sep 2017 12:30 PM PDT  A new report says Robert Mueller wants to interview at least 6 current and former White House aides including a Trump confidant in the investigation into possible campaign collusion with Russia. Ali Velshi discusses with Betsy Woodruff & Jill Wine-Banks.
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| What we know about hurricanes Irma and Jose: facts, figures, forecast Posted: 09 Sep 2017 01:44 PM PDT  Hurricane Irma has pounded the Caribbean, leaving at least 25 people dead, destroying thousands of homes and triggering a mass evacuation in the US state of Florida. After making landfall in Cuba's Camaguey archipelago late Friday, Irma is now bearing down on Florida, where authorities have ordered 6.3 million people to evacuate. Irma, previously a top-rated Category Five storm, weakened Saturday to Category Four and then to a Category Three, packing 125 mile-an-hour winds (205 kilometer per hour).
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| Houston residents confront officials over decision to flood neighborhoods Posted: 09 Sep 2017 04:03 PM PDT  By Emily Flitter HOUSTON (Reuters) - Angry Houston residents shouted at city officials on Saturday over decisions to intentionally flood certain neighborhoods during Hurricane Harvey, as they returned to homes that may have been contaminated by overflowing sewers. A town hall grew heated after City Council member Greg Travis, who represents parts of western Houston, told about 250 people that an Army Corps of Engineers official told him that certain gauges measuring water levels at the Buffalo Bayou - the city's main waterway - failed due to a decision to release water from two municipal reservoirs to avoid an overflow.
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| Venezuela's Maduro seeks debt negotiations after U.S. sanctions Posted: 08 Sep 2017 02:24 PM PDT  President Nicolas Maduro has invited bondholders to unspecified "negotiations" over Venezuela's foreign debt in coming days in response to recent U.S. financial sanctions.
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| Is Equifax Data Being Sold on Black Market? Posted: 08 Sep 2017 11:17 AM PDT  "The Equifax breach has potentially exposed sensitive personal information of nearly everyone with a credit report."
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| Fan of Serial Killer John Wayne Gacy Arrested After Mom's Body Is Found: 'Mama's Under the Front Porch' Posted: 07 Sep 2017 06:09 PM PDT  Susan Mayo had been missing since June, authorities said.
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| Republicans Boo White House Officials Over Trump's Debt Deal With Democrats Posted: 08 Sep 2017 11:41 AM PDT  Mick Mulvaney and Steven Mnuchin pitched the deal Trump made with Democrats
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| UPDATE: Mexico Earthquake Death Toll Rises Posted: 08 Sep 2017 09:13 AM PDT  Seismologists say the earthquake would have been felt by over 500,000 people as tsunami threat looms.
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| Bill Maher: It's An 'Inconvenient Truth' That Climate Change Deniers' Homes Are In Irma's Path Posted: 08 Sep 2017 11:46 PM PDT  "Real Time" host Bill Maher has noted how Hurricane Irma looks likely to destroy the vacation homes of several high-profile climate change deniers.
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| Egypt dig unearths goldsmith's tomb, mummies Posted: 08 Sep 2017 05:49 PM PDT  Egyptian archaeologists have uncovered the tomb of a goldsmith dedicated to the god Amun and the mummies of a woman and her two children, the antiquities ministry said on Saturday. The finds, dating back to the New Kingdom (16th to 11th centuries BC), were made in the Draa Abul Naga necropolis on the west bank of the Nile in Luxor, famed for its temples and burial grounds. A burial shaft in the tomb led to a chamber where the archaeologists discovered mummies, funerary statues and masks, the ministry said.
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| The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week Posted: 08 Sep 2017 06:59 AM PDT  Kids may say the darndest things, but parents tweet about them in the funniest ways. So each week, we round up the most hilarious 140-character quips from moms and dads to spread the joy. Scroll down to read the latest batch and follow @HuffPostParents on Twitter for more!Most of parenting is unsuccessfully attempting to sit down.— Jennifer S. White (@yenniwhite) September 4, 2017The problem with a household with a stay at home parent is that both parents think Saturday is their day off, and both parents are wrong. ...
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| Syrian army in race with US-armed fighters for eastern Syria Posted: 09 Sep 2017 09:45 AM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — U.S.-backed Syrian fighters launched an offensive against the Islamic State group in eastern Syria along the border with Iraq on Saturday, bringing them into a race with government forces marching in the same direction against the extremists in their last major holdout in the war-torn country.
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| Five roaming lions raise alarm in South Africa Posted: 09 Sep 2017 05:54 AM PDT  By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Five lions are on the loose in a rural area about 35 miles (60 km) west of South Africa's commercial capital of Johannesburg, police and conservationists said on Saturday as they launched operations to capture them. There have been a spate of such incidents this year in South Africa, which unlike most African countries keeps large, dangerous wildlife in enclosed reserves to prevent conflict with people and livestock. The area where the animals have been sighted near the town of Fochville is a patchwork of cattle farms, open countryside, crowded squatter camps and gold mining communities.
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| Chelsea Handler Exposes The Most Sinister Part Of Trump's DACA Repeal Posted: 08 Sep 2017 12:21 AM PDT  In one swift sentence, Chelsea Handler summed up her moral outrage over President Donald Trump announcing his decision to rescind the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program in six months.
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| Nauseating trash heaps in India spark citizen cleanup drives Posted: 08 Sep 2017 09:37 PM PDT  MUMBAI, India (AP) — Lawyer Afroz Shah moved to Mumbai with a dream of looking out at the wild, blue Arabian Sea. What he saw instead was nauseating — waves churning with plastic shopping bags and empty chip packets, beaches covered so thick with soda bottles and snack wrappers he could no longer see the sand.
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| China's Xi asks Macron for French help easing N. Korea tensions Posted: 08 Sep 2017 06:46 AM PDT  Chinese President Xi Jinping called on France to help ease the situation in North Korea during a phone call with French President Emmanuel Macron, state media said Friday, days after Pyongyang's largest ever nuclear test. The conversation came one day after statements from China supporting stronger sanctions against Pyongyang and "necessary measures" at the UN Security Council, where China and France both hold vetoes.
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| DNA Proves Viking Warriors Were Women Too Posted: 08 Sep 2017 09:32 AM PDT  Scientists had assumed this famous Viking warrior was a man, but DNA proves that she was a high-ranking female officer.
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| 'The Water Is Rushing In.' Discovery of Body in Ceiling Ends Hurricane Harvey Mystery Posted: 09 Sep 2017 06:27 AM PDT  With Harvey's floodwaters rapidly flowing into the Houston hotel where she worked, Jill Renick reportedly made a frantic cellphone call to a fellow employee
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| President Trump, Melania Trump to host Cabinet members, spouses over hurricane weekend Posted: 08 Sep 2017 10:46 AM PDT  As Hurricane Irma and Jose barrel toward Florida, President Trump and first lady Melania Trump are set to host Cabinet members and their wives over the stormy weekend.
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| Grandmother accused of keeping 9-year-old girl in kennel Posted: 08 Sep 2017 10:38 AM PDT ![Grandmother accused of keeping 9-year-old girl in kennel]( "Grandmother accused of keeping 9-year-old girl in kennel") TOWN OF NORWAY, Wis. (AP) — A grandmother and a man are accused of keeping her 9-year-old granddaughter padlocked inside a wire dog kennel in the basement of a house in southeastern Wisconsin.
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| Police: Officer arrested nurse after being told to let it go Posted: 09 Sep 2017 08:44 AM PDT  A Utah police officer whose rough arrest of a hospital nurse has drawn condemnation put the woman in handcuffs even after investigators told him not to worry about getting a blood sample he was seeking from a patient, the chief whose department asked for it said Friday.
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| Rihanna Doesn't Care About Dark Circles, And Neither Should You Posted: 08 Sep 2017 07:04 AM PDT  Turns out Rihanna cares as much about dark under-eye circles as she does body shamers: Not one bit.
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| Homecoming: Massive Sea Turtle Returns to the Ocean After Stint in Rehab Posted: 08 Sep 2017 08:52 AM PDT  Gabriel the sea turtle spent two months in the rehab facility.
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| Candidate For Illinois Governor Divests Himself Of Running Mate Over Israel Criticism Posted: 07 Sep 2017 06:09 PM PDT  Daniel Biss, an Illinois state senator seeking the Democratic gubernatorial nomination, dropped Chicago Alderman Carlos Ramirez-Rosa as his running mate on Wednesday over Ramirez-Rosa's criticism of Israel and affiliation with a group that supports the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement.
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| Dutch seek to restore security amid looting on St Martin Posted: 08 Sep 2017 09:19 AM PDT  Dutch troops were fanning out across part of the hurricane-hit island of St Martin on Friday as shots were heard and officials admitted there had been some looting. "The situation is serious," Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said when asked about looting, adding authorities were being hampered in their efforts to deal with it as communications were cut off when Hurricane Irma roared through on Wednesday. "Shots have been fired, but not in a structured fashion," Major General Richard Oppelaar, the commander of the Marine Corps, told reporters in The Hague.
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| The Iran Deal Is on Thin Ice, and Rightly So Posted: 08 Sep 2017 11:22 AM PDT  The Trump administration has a compelling case that Iran's regional conduct makes the JCPOA no longer sacrosanct.
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| Teen marijuana use falls to 20-year low defying legalisation opponents' predictions Posted: 08 Sep 2017 12:34 AM PDT  In 2016, rates of marijuana use among the nation's 12- to 17-year-olds dropped to their lowest level in more than two decades, according to federal survey data released this week. Last year, 6.5 per cent of adolescents used marijuana on a monthly basis, according to the latest National Survey on Drug Use and Health. The last time monthly teen marijuana use was this low was 1994, according to the survey.
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| Irma-interrupted trip becomes mystery 'cruise to nowhere' Posted: 08 Sep 2017 03:05 PM PDT  MIAMI (AP) — When they first boarded the Norwegian Escape a week ago, passengers knew exactly where they were going. Now they have no idea.
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| Details emerge of aborted deal for Moscow's Trump Tower - 'help peace and make money' Posted: 08 Sep 2017 02:53 PM PDT  The Trump Organisation stood to make $4 million and a cut of the profits under the aborted deal to build a Trump Tower in Moscow, it has emerged. According to detailed plans, obtained by CNN, the scheme even included proposals to open a spa which would have been named after Mr Trump's daughter Ivanka. Negotiations were still taking place in October 2015, four months after Mr Trump announced he was running for the White House. The plans entailed building a hotel, flats and commercial property in central Moscow in a venture which would have carried the Trump brand under a franchising agreement. Ivanka Trump Credit: Susan Walsh/AP Mr Trump's interest in exploiting commercial opportunities in Moscow have hardly been secret, he first expressed interest in building a tower in the Russian capital in the 1990s. But he repeatedly denied having any business links with Russia while he was campaigning for the White House. The documents include a Letter of Understanding for the venture between Trump Acquisition LLC and the I.C. Expert Investment Company of Moscow. In an accompanying email Felix Sater, a Russian born property developer to Michael Cohen, Trump Organisation's executive vice president attached a "Letter of Understanding" for Mr Trump to sign. Mr Sater wrote: "Help world peace and make a lot of money. I would say that's a great lifetime goal for us to go after." The deal, Mr Sater added, could "possibly fix relations between the countries by showing everyone that commerce & business are much better and more practical than politics. Donald Trump meets Vladimir Putin Credit: Evan Vucci/AP "That should be Putin's message as well, and we will help him agree on that message." In late 2015 there appeared to be considerable warmth between Mr Trump and Mr Putin. The aspiring Republican candidate voiced a desire that he and the Russian leader would "get along". In turn, Mr Putin described the billionaire as "a bright and talented person without any doubt." Despite the detailed negotiations, the project was scrapped. Nevertheless, details of the proposal will rekindle suggestions that Mr Trump's desire for a rapprochement with Moscow was commercially as well as politically driven. A special counsel and the Senate Intelligence Committee are both probing alleged Russian involvement in the presidential election.
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| 'South Park' Game Gets Harder Based On Your Character's Skin Color Posted: 08 Sep 2017 09:30 AM PDT  For a fantastical video game, "South Park: The Fractured But Whole" gets real pretty fast.
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