| Alabama Senate Candidate Roy Moore Laments Racial Divisions Between 'Reds' And 'Yellows' Posted: 18 Sep 2017 12:40 PM PDT  Alabama Senate GOP candidate Roy Moore appeared to use racially insensitive language to refer to Native Americans and Asian-Americans, according to footage obtained by The Hill newspaper on Monday.
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| Video Shows Police Fatally Shooting Georgia Tech Student Posted: 17 Sep 2017 08:10 AM PDT  A 21-year-old student was shot and killed on Georgia Tech's campus on Saturday, September 16. Police said he was carrying a knife. The incident was caught on camera.
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| Donald Trump Jr. To Testify Publicly In Russia Probe 'This Fall,' Top Democrat Says Posted: 17 Sep 2017 08:35 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― One of the congressional committees probing whether President Donald Trump's campaign colluded with Russia in last year's election expects public testimony from Trump's eldest son and may subpoena the president's former campaign chairman, two key figures in the ongoing investigations, according to the top Democrat on the committee, Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.).
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| Hurricanes Jose Could Lash East Coast as Hurricane Maria Heads Toward Caribbean Posted: 17 Sep 2017 08:47 AM PDT  Hurricane Jose is whipping 90-mile-per hour winds, creating dangerous currents as it barrels up the East Coast while Hurricane Maria, just behind it, strengthens as it heads straight for the Virgin Islands, St. Martin and Barbuda.
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| Family Of Chicago Teen Found Dead In Hotel Freezer Demands FBI Investigation Posted: 18 Sep 2017 10:07 AM PDT  Family and friends of Kenneka Jenkins, a teenager found dead last week in the freezer of a Chicago-area hotel, want the FBI to investigate after local police said they don't suspect foul play.
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| 10-Year-Old Boy Killed in Fire in Mobile Home Without Power After Hurricane Irma Posted: 17 Sep 2017 09:28 AM PDT  A neighbor said the fire was ignited by a candle.
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| Boeing lands $600M contract to design new Air Force Ones Posted: 17 Sep 2017 06:39 PM PDT  The U.S. Air Force on Tuesday awarded Boeing a contract worth just less than $600 million to begin the preliminary design of the next Air Force One planes.
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| Photo Of Rohingya Woman Mourning Her Dead Infant Underscores Worsening Crisis Posted: 18 Sep 2017 02:52 AM PDT  The bloodshed overtaking Myanmar's Rakhine state forced Hamida, a Rohingya Muslim, to run from her homeland last week.
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| Missing Man’s Decomposing Body Sat in Truck for 8 Months in Airport Parking Lot As Family Searched Posted: 18 Sep 2017 05:15 PM PDT  A missing Kansas man's body sat decomposing in his work vehicle for eight months in an airport parking lot 45 minutes from his home, causing his family to ask why no one found it sooner, PEOPLE confirms.
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| Kellyanne Conway knocks Emmys for show’s digs at Trump Posted: 18 Sep 2017 08:24 AM PDT  Appearing on "Fox & Friends" Monday, White House counselor Kellyanne Conway criticized Sunday's Emmys telecast, agreeing with a host who called it a "political rally."
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| Mario Batali Thinks It's A Bad Idea To Increase The Minimum Wage Posted: 18 Sep 2017 08:28 AM PDT  Mario Batali, the man behind the Eataly empire, owner of several restaurants across the globe and the person responsible for buying most of the world's orange Crocs, thinks the minimum wage increase is a bad idea for the restaurant industry.
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| UN gives top prize to Chibok girls negotiator Posted: 18 Sep 2017 03:01 AM PDT  A Nigerian lawyer who helped secure the release of more than 100 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram was on Monday awarded one of the United Nations' top prizes. The UNHCR said Zannah Mustapha was given the annual Nansen award for his "crucial mediating" role as well as his work helping children affected by the long-running conflict. Last year's recipients of the award were more than 2,000 volunteers who saved the lives of thousands of migrants trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe.
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| Fatal Baton Rouge Shootings Investigated As Racially Motivated: Police Posted: 17 Sep 2017 12:44 PM PDT  A 23-year-old Louisiana man is reportedly being held as a person of interest in the separate slayings of two black men who police say were gunned down last week in potentially racially motivated attacks.
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| Stanislav Petrov, the 'man who saved the world' dies at 77 Posted: 18 Sep 2017 06:48 AM PDT  The former Soviet military officer credited with saving the world from nuclear destruction has died at the age of 77. Stanislav Petrov, a lieutenant colonel in the Soviet Air Defence Forces, was the officer on duty at the Soviet Union's early warning centre when malfunctioning computers signaled the United States had launched missiles at the country in September 1983. His decision to ignore warnings is credited with averting nuclear armageddon. Karl Schumacher, a German film maker who first publicised the story in the West, said in a statement that he learnt of Petrov's death when he tried to get in touch to wish him happy birthday. Petrov's son, Dmitry Petrov, told Mr Schumacher that his father had died on May 19. Stanislav Petrov was born in Vladivostok on September 7, 1939. On the night of September 26, 1983, he was on duty at the Soviet Union's early warning centre near Moscow when computers warned that the United States had fired five nuclear missiles at the country. The 1983 false alarm is perhaps the closest the world has come to nuclear war Credit: Getty Images Contributor "The machine indicated the information was of the highest certainty," he later recalled. "On the wall big red letters burnt the word: START. That meant the missile had definitely been fired." He had just minutes to decide whether to assess the attack as genuine and inform the Kremlin that the United States was starting World War Three - or tell his commanders that the Soviet Union's early warning system was faulty. Guessing that a genuine American attack would have involved hundreds of missiles, he put the alarm down to a computer malfunction. Lt Col Petrov was vindicated when an internal investigation following the incident concluded that Soviet satellites had mistaken sunlight reflected on clouds for rocket engines. The Soviet government's policy in the event of a US nuclear attack was to launch an immediate and all-out retaliatory strike in accordance with the principle of Mutually Assured Destruction. Although Petrov was feted by his colleagues and initially praised by superiors for his actions, he was not rewarded. He later complained that he was scolded by superiors for failing to complete a routine paperwork during the incident and had been scapegoated by generals embarrassed by the failure of the early warning system. He took early retirement from the armed forces the following year and retired outside Moscow. The incident was only made public in 1998 with the publication of the memoirs of General Yury Vontintsev, Mr Petrov's superior at the time. In the 2014 documentary The Man Who Saved the World, Mr Petrov said: "All that happened didn't matter to me — it was my job. I was simply doing my job, and I was the right person at the right time, that's all."
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| Free Abortions Offered To Hurricane Harvey Victims Posted: 17 Sep 2017 03:24 PM PDT  The free services will be provided at clinics across Texas until the end of September.
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| Trump Still Hasn't Officially Declared The Opioid Crisis A National Emergency Posted: 18 Sep 2017 08:39 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― More than a month after President Donald Trump unexpectedly announced that he would declare a national emergency on the opioid crisis, he has yet to make it official.
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| Hurricane-hit St Martin takes first steps to rebuild Posted: 17 Sep 2017 10:21 AM PDT  Almost two weeks after Hurricane Irma slammed into St Martin, killing 15 people, the French-Dutch Caribbean island has begun to take small steps toward reconstruction. "We are still in an emergency situation but rebuilding is also in the back of our minds," Guadeloupe's governor Eric Maire said during a visit to the island. Petrol stations that once held empty tanks are now again open for business.
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| Stephen Colbert eviscerates President Trump in scathing Emmys monologue: 'Imagine if your president wasn't beloved by Nazis' Posted: 17 Sep 2017 05:32 PM PDT  Some weren't sure if Emmy Awards host Stephen Colbert would go political for his opening monologue.
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| National Security Adviser McMaster says White House 'looking at' new travel ban Posted: 17 Sep 2017 06:33 AM PDT  White House National Security Adviser Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster tells George Stephanopoulos a new travel ban is something the Trump administration is "looking at."
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| This Couple Eloped At Asheville City Hall, And They're So Glad They Did Posted: 18 Sep 2017 07:34 AM PDT  Amanda Magee first met her now-husband Sean five years ago while working at the department store Belk in Mooresville, North Carolina.
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| Chester Bennington's Wife Shares Video Of Him Laughing Hours Before His Death Posted: 17 Sep 2017 03:12 PM PDT  Just hours before Chester Bennington's death by suicide, the Linkin Park frontman was filmed laughing and joking around with his family, showing that "depression doesn't have a face or a mode," his bereft widow said.
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| Narcos Location Scout Shot Dead in Mexico Posted: 17 Sep 2017 04:44 AM PDT  Carlos Munoz Portal's bullet-ridden body was found in a car in a remote location in Mexico state.
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| Blood and embalming fluid seeps onto street outside Baton Rouge funeral home Posted: 17 Sep 2017 08:13 AM PDT  Blood and embalming fluid leaked from a storage tank onto the street outside a funeral home before it was spotted by passersby. Images showed the mix of blood and formaldehyde as it seeped onto the street behind the Greenoaks Funeral Home in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A blockage in the storage tank had caused the leak, which lasted around 20 minutes.
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| Philippines: 3 Marawi siege leaders dead, 2 still fighting Posted: 18 Sep 2017 04:13 AM PDT  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine military chief said Monday that three leaders of Islamic State-linked militants who besieged a southern city have been killed in months of fighting but two others, including one of Asia's most wanted terror suspects, were still alive and leading a final stand.
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| Russia touts essential role in Syria's advance against IS Posted: 17 Sep 2017 09:06 PM PDT  As the Islamic State group seems to crumble across Syria, a top Russian commander points to a pulverised tank once used by the jihadists as proof of his country's essential role in their demise. In recent months, Syrian troops have rolled IS back in the country's northern province of Aleppo, Hama and Homs in the centre, and most recently, Deir Ezzor in the east. Jihadists would pack anti-tank mines and TNT into the vehicles, retrofit them with protective armour, then detonate them at Syrian army positions.
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| Adorable Dad Ships Sliced Mangos To Daughter After She Forgot Them At Home Posted: 16 Sep 2017 08:57 PM PDT  After spending last weekend at her parents' house in San Diego, Li had to head back to college for summer classes at the University of California Los Angeles, according to BuzzFeed. During the hours-long drive, Li remembered she had left behind the mango her dad had sliced for her and packed neatly in a Tupperware container. When Li asked about the address, her father dutifully said he'd ship the mangoes to her apartment overnight.
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| Sean Spicer at the Emmys: applause won't make his guilt go away | Jessica Valenti Posted: 18 Sep 2017 08:42 AM PDT  As Trump's former White House spokesman, Spicer bolstered the reputation and agenda of a monster. Apparently it doesn't take much to wash off the stink of the Trump administration – just an Emmy invite and a few celebrity smooches. As Spicer did a bit at the Emmys on Sunday night – joking about the size of the audience using the same language he did months earlier, as he hectored the press over Trump's inauguration crowd – celebrities and television industry folks laughed and applauded.
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| Hillary Clinton Won't Rule Out Questioning The Legitimacy Of Donald Trump's Election Posted: 18 Sep 2017 02:14 PM PDT  Hillary Clinton opened the door to possibly questioning whether Donald Trump was legitimately elected president, depending on the outcome of investigations into Russia's role in the 2016 campaign.
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| Christian 'Researcher' Claims The Rapture Starts On Saturday Posted: 18 Sep 2017 02:34 AM PDT  The name Elohim, which is the name of God to the Jews, was mentioned 33 times [in the Bible]," Meade told the newspaper. Meade believes global catastrophes will be caused by a secret planet called Nibiru passing the Earth on Saturday. "Nibiru and other stories about wayward planets are an Internet hoax," the space agency said on its website a few years ago when similar doomsday predictions went viral.
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| Dad Using Clown Mask to Scare Daughter Prompts Neighbor to Fire Gun, Both Arrested: Cops Posted: 18 Sep 2017 11:36 AM PDT  The Ohio man reportedly told cops he didn't want to spank the girl because her mother was in jail for harming her.
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| Ohio State Student Killed In Murder Suicide Posted: 18 Sep 2017 04:33 PM PDT  An Ohio State University student and her boyfriend were found dead early Sunday morning in an apparent murder suicide
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| Israel gets first joint US military base Posted: 18 Sep 2017 10:30 AM PDT  Israel on Monday inaugurated with its US ally a joint missile defence base on Israeli soil, the first ever, a senior Israeli air force officer said. The new facility, at an undisclosed location in southern Israel, was announced as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was due to meet US President Donald Trump in New York on the fringes of the UN General Assembly. "We inaugurated, with our partners from the United States Army, an American base, for the first time in Israel," Brigadier General Tzvika Heimowitz, head of Israeli missile defences, told journalists.
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| Iran will stand firm against any 'wrong move' by US over nuclear deal, says Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei Posted: 17 Sep 2017 03:56 AM PDT  Iran's Supreme Leader has warned Iran would react strongly to any "wrong move" by the United States on Tehran's nuclear accord with world powers. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's statement comes days after Donald Trump said Iran had violated the agreement's "spirit". "The Iranian nation is standing firm and any wrong move by the domineering regime regarding the [nuclear accord] will face the reaction of the Islamic Republic," state television quoted the Ayatollah as saying.
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| Sean Spicer Regrets His First Move As White House Press Secretary Posted: 18 Sep 2017 12:35 PM PDT  Former White House press secretary Sean Spicer said he regrets his first move in his old job working under President Donald Trump.
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| New Ken Burns Doc Dismisses Origins of the Vietnam War Posted: 17 Sep 2017 10:31 AM PDT  Ken Burns aims to win hearts and minds with his epic Vietnam series, but loses sight of how we got involved.
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| 15 Honest Quotes About Fatherhood From Jason Sudeikis Posted: 18 Sep 2017 06:00 AM PDT  Jason Sudeikis is learning the ins and outs of parenting.
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| Ford, Mahindra alliance reflects pressures on automakers Posted: 18 Sep 2017 03:56 PM PDT  By Swati Bhat and Joseph White MUMBAI/DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co and Indian vehicle maker Mahindra and Mahindra Ltd said on Monday they will launch a strategic alliance to counter challenges posed by fast-changing technology and global competition. The agreement, which builds on a former alliance that was unwound in 2005, is another sign that Ford's Chief Executive Jim Hackett, who took over in May, has begun to steer the automaker in a different direction. Ford and other global automakers are under pressure as policymakers demand they shift their product lines entirely to electric vehicles over the next two to three decades.
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| 2 charged in alleged rape of university student on bus Posted: 18 Sep 2017 01:14 PM PDT ![2 charged in alleged rape of university student on bus]( "2 charged in alleged rape of university student on bus") AUBURN, Ala. (AP) — Two men who worked for a company that runs the Auburn University transit system have been charged in the alleged rape of a student on one of the buses.
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| Watch Out 'Hot Cops'! Police Parody Stephen King's 'It' in Viral Photo Posted: 17 Sep 2017 10:51 AM PDT  The officers said they just wanted to engage with the community.
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| Alec Baldwin calls out Donald Trump during acceptance speech at 2017 Emmys Posted: 17 Sep 2017 06:12 PM PDT  As predicted, Alec Baldwin won the Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series at Sunday night's Emmy Awards for his turn on "Saturday Night Live" as Donald Trump and, naturally, he took aim at Trump during his acceptance speech.
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| Iraq VP warns against 'second Israel' in Kurdistan Posted: 17 Sep 2017 07:34 AM PDT  An Iraqi vice president warned Sunday that Baghdad would not tolerate the creation of "a second Israel" after the Jewish state became the only country to support a planned Kurdish independence referendum in northern Iraq. The leaders of autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan must "call off the (September 25) referendum that is contrary to the constitution and does not serve the general interests of the Iraqi people, not even the particular interests of the Kurds", said Vice President Nuri al-Maliki. "We will not allow the creation of a second Israel in the north of Iraq," Maliki, a Shiite former prime minister, said at a meeting with US ambassador Douglas Silliman, in a statement released by the vice president's office.
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| Tillerson meets Russia's Lavrov ahead of UN assembly Posted: 17 Sep 2017 08:50 PM PDT  US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met his Russian counterpart Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in New York on Sunday ahead of the UN General Assembly, officials said. After the meeting, at the Russian delegation to the UN, Tillerson left without saying anything to the reporters, who were initially invited in to cover the opening of the talks but asked to leave before the US official arrived. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told a reporter that "the meeting was on cooperation in Syria crisis Middle East issues and Minsk agreement," but when asked how it went said she had not been in the room.
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| Barack Obama to make $1.2m from three Wall Street speeches Posted: 18 Sep 2017 09:41 AM PDT  Former President Barack is reportedly set to be paid $1.2m for a series of speeches to major Wall Street firms, less than a year after he left the White House. Earlier this year, Mr Obama attracted criticism from several Democratic senators when it was revealed he was to speak at a September conference organised by financial services company Cantor Fiztgerald. Now, it has been reported that in addition to the speech he is due to give next week, the former president has already been paid $800,000 for two speeches he delivered to Wall Street firms - Northern Trust Corp, which he spoke to last month, and an address last week to the Carlyle Group.
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