| White House interprets First Amendment for reporters Posted: 05 Oct 2017 01:03 PM PDT  White House press secretary Sarah Sanders lectured reporters on the meaning of the First Amendment Thursday, in defense of President Trump's recent tweets suggesting that the Senate Intelligence Committee investigate national news outlets.
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| After Backlash, FEMA Once Again Has Puerto Rico Power, Water Stats On Main Website Posted: 06 Oct 2017 09:59 AM PDT  Nearly half of Puerto Rican citizens on the island did not have access to drinking water and a whopping 89.3 percent did not have power, as of Friday ― but you wouldn't know that by looking at the Federal Emergency Management Agency website.
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| Fluffy Canine Heroes Show Up To Comfort A Grieving Las Vegas Posted: 05 Oct 2017 03:33 PM PDT  Shortly after a horrific mass shooting in Las Vegas, Nevada, that left at least 59 people dead and more than 500 injured, a pack of golden retrievers showed up to the city to do their part.
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| Steve Mnuchin Has Cost Taxpayers $800,000 For Travel On Military Planes Posted: 06 Oct 2017 12:42 AM PDT  In a matter of months, Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin managed to cost American taxpayers more than $800,000 in fees for travel aboard military aircraft, yet apparently, he broke no laws, an official government inquiry found.
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| U.S. Gulf oil producers curtail output ahead of Tropical Storm Nate Posted: 05 Oct 2017 03:43 PM PDT  Oil and natural gas operators began evacuating staff and halting production at U.S. Gulf of Mexico platforms on Thursday ahead of Tropical Storm Nate, the second storm in as many months to rattle the Gulf Coast energy corridor. Nate, which has killed at least 10 people in Costa Rica and Nicaragua and caused intense rainfall, is forecast to scrape Honduras and Mexico, enter the Gulf and strengthen into a hurricane before making landfall this weekend in Louisiana, near several major refineries.
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| Wisconsin Mom Allegedly Killed 4-Year-Old Son By Setting Him on Fire in Bathtub Posted: 06 Oct 2017 02:14 PM PDT  A 23-year-old woman has been charged in the death of her 4-year-old son who was reportedly set on fire in their apartment's bathtub
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| Israel to ease holiday restrictions for Palestinians Posted: 06 Oct 2017 10:15 AM PDT  Israel on Friday decided to ease restrictions on Palestinians entering during the Jewish Sukkot holiday, which began Wednesday, the army said. On Tuesday, the army said crossings from the West Bank and Gaza into Israel would be closed to Palestinians for 11 days until midnight on October 14. The decision applies to Palestinians working in agriculture and hospitals, according to media reports.
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| Trump suggests Senate Intel Committee should investigate U.S. news media Posted: 05 Oct 2017 04:59 AM PDT  In a tweet Thursday, President Trump urged the Senate Intelligence Committee to investigate "fake news" in the U.S. rather than possible Russian meddling in the 2016 election.
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| Three US commandos killed in Niger ambush Posted: 04 Oct 2017 07:04 PM PDT  Three US Army special operations commandos were killed on Wednesday and two others were wounded when they came under fire from suspected al-Qaeda militants in southwest Niger. The deaths marked the first American casualties in the mission, in which US forces provide training and security assistance to the Nigerien Armed Forces in their efforts against violent extremists. US officials told the Associated Press the two wounded soldiers were taken to Niamey, the capital, and were in stable condition. The officials said the commandos, who were Green Berets, were likely attacked by al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb militants. In a statement, US Africa Command said the forces were with a joint US and Nigerien patrol 120 miles north of Niamey, near the Mali border, when they came under hostile fire. Namatta Abubacar, an official for the region of Tillaberi in Niger, said five Nigerien soldiers were among the dead. A Niger diplomatic source told Reuters the attackers had come from Mali. The White House said President Donald Trump was notified about the attack on Wednesday night as he flew aboard Air Force One from Las Vegas to Washington. Update #1: U.S. Africa Command Statement on Situation in Niger - https://t.co/auCaE1sc8Npic.twitter.com/b2zqpqzlru— US AFRICOM (@USAfricaCommand) October 4, 2017 African security forces backed by Western troops are stepping up efforts to counter jihadist groups forming part of a growing regional insurgency in the poor, sparsely populated deserts of the Sahel. "These militants have proven remarkably resilient, exploiting local and/or ethnic grievances to embed themselves into communities as well as political borders and differences to escape capture," J. Peter Pham, a vice president at the Atlantic Council's Africa Center in Washington, told the New York Times. "It was no accident that this attack took place near Niger's border with Mali, an area that has seen numerous incidents in recent years." The Foreign Office advises against travel to Niger and Mali.
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| Man who sold firearms to Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock says there were 'no red flags' Posted: 05 Oct 2017 01:18 PM PDT  A firearms dealer who sold "several' guns to Las Vegas mass murderer Stephen Paddock has defended his shop and claimed there were "no red flags" that might have prevented the sale. David Famiglietti said the sales were conducted "lawfully" at his New Frontier Armory (sic). The Vice President of the Nevada Firearms coalition, the state affiliate of the National Rifle Association, added that his staff have received threats and abuse since it emerged the shop sold weapons to the 64-year-old who slaughtered 58 people and injured 489 more.
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| Man Claiming To Be From The Year 2048 Says He's Back With A Dire Warning Posted: 05 Oct 2017 09:29 AM PDT  A Wyoming man accused of public intoxication allegedly told police he traveled from the year 2048 to warn mankind of an impending invasion by extraterrestrials.
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| Amazon Is Under Fire For Sale Of Offensive Pro-Anorexia Sweatshirt Posted: 05 Oct 2017 07:56 AM PDT  An Amazon retailer is under fire for selling an offensive sweatshirt that makes light of eating disorders.
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| An Abandoned Factory In Fort Wayne Will Give You Both Nostalgia And The Spooks Posted: 06 Oct 2017 02:46 AM PDT  Fort Wayne, Indiana, is a city that prides itself on its industrial history.
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| Ready to fight again: The homeless Rohingya still backing Myanmar insurgency Posted: 05 Oct 2017 02:47 AM PDT  By Tommy Wilkes COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh (Reuters) - For 28-year-old Rohingya Muslim shopkeeper Mohammed Rashid, the evening phone call from organizers of the fledgling insurgent movement came as a surprise. A few hours later, after meeting in the darkness in an open field, he was one of 150 men who attacked a Myanmar Border Guard Police post armed with swords, homemade explosives and a few handguns. "We had no training, no weapons," said Rashid, from the Buthidaung area of Myanmar's Rakhine state, who had joined the group just two months earlier.
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| Stephen Paddock planned to escape after Las Vegas shooting, officials say Posted: 05 Oct 2017 07:31 AM PDT  In the days following the attack, officials have combed through the crime scene and Stephen Paddock's affairs, trying to determine if anybody else may have been involved, and what may have motivated him to shoot down on concert-goers from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay Hotel and Casino. "Yes," Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo said Wednesday when asked if the shooter had planned to escape after the killing. Mr Lombardo was later asked if the shooter had help.
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| Texas Father Cleared of Killing 2-Year-Old Daughter After 7-Year-Old Son Confesses to Crime Posted: 06 Oct 2017 01:31 PM PDT  On Thursday, a Texas father was cleared of a murder charge in the asphyxiation death of his 2-year-old daughter after prosecutors learned that his 7-year-old son admitted being responsible, PEOPLE confirms
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| Yes, San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz's 'Nasty' Shirt Was Aimed At Trump Posted: 04 Oct 2017 07:52 PM PDT  As the mayor of Puerto Rico's largest city rallies for more help for the victims of Hurricane Maria, she has also positioned herself at the forefront of a different movement: the opposition to President Donald Trump.
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| Ferocious battle between jaguar and yellow anaconda captured by wildlife photographer Posted: 06 Oct 2017 07:42 AM PDT  A jaguar's brutal battle with a yellow anaconda has been captured by a wildlife photographer along a riverbank in South America. Chris Brunskill was on a boat along the Cuiabá River in the western Brazil state of Mato Grosso when he witnessed the rare encounter. The UK-based photographer said he was "very fortunate" to witness the "incredible" jaguar v snake encounter. "This is by far the rarest of rare events in the life of the jaguar and I know of several people who have spent twenty years or more on the river and not had the good fortune to see what I saw last week," he recalled. "On this day we had left the hotel late due to rain and only pulled off from the jetty just after 9:30am on a cold, cloudy day. The jaguar attacks the yellow anaconda Credit: Chris Brunskill Ltd/ Getty "Ten minutes up river we spotted a jaguar walking in the open along the top of the riverbank when something in a patch of long grass caught her attention. I was only half paying attention at this point when she flicked her paw into the grass and out came an anaconda!" He explained the rivals fought for around 90 seconds in a battle to the death, with the "snake lunging at the jaguar several times" during the confrontation. The cat spotted the snake resting on the riverbank and chased it into the shallow waters Credit: Chris Brunskill Ltd/Getty "It immediately fled from the jaguar who promptly chased it down the bank into the shallow water at the river's edge," he added. "With both the cat and the snake clearly visible, I had the unique opportunity to shoot as they fought for close to ninety seconds in the open, in good light on a fairly calm river, just metres from my boat." The jaguar eventually won the battle Credit: Chris Brunskill Ltd/Getty But the jaguar was the winner of the contest after several ferocious bites to the snake's mid-section. "The snake managed to bite it on the nose more than once before it was eventually subdued by the big cat," he added. "With the reptile's strength fading, the jaguar bit through its tail before jumping back up the riverbank with the stunned anaconda dangling from its mouth." You can follow Chris Brunskill on Facebook. Crocodile v crocodile: Reptile slam-dunks rival before devouring it
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| Couple Announces The Sex Of Their Baby With Help From 'Stranger Things' Posted: 06 Oct 2017 12:47 PM PDT  An expectant couple in California announced the sex of their baby to their friends and family with inspiration from "Stranger Things" ― just in time for the hit Netflix show's impending return.
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| Seth Meyers Has A New Method For Demanding Gun Control Laws Posted: 04 Oct 2017 11:01 PM PDT  Seth Meyers assumed that Congress and the gun lobby were merely ignoring pleas for reasonable gun safety regulations.
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| Mexican photojournalist found dead after kidnapping Posted: 06 Oct 2017 11:50 AM PDT  A photojournalist who had received threats over his work in the northern Mexican state of San Luis Potosi has been found dead, the government said Friday, a day after he was kidnapped. The federal Mechanism to Protect Journalists and Rights Activists called for an "immediate and effective investigation" into the killing of Edgar Daniel Esqueda, who was reportedly kidnapped Thursday by gunmen disguised as police officers. Local media reported that Esqueda's body was found dumped by the San Luis Potosi airport, bound and bearing signs of torture.
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| DC officials won't appeal ruling against strict gun law Posted: 05 Oct 2017 01:00 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — District of Columbia officials said Thursday they won't appeal a court ruling striking down a portion of the city's gun laws, a decision that means it will soon be easier for gun owners to get concealed carry permits in the nation's capital.
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| 2017 BMW X6 M Posted: 06 Oct 2017 01:15 PM PDT  The M is for Mighty Quick.
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| Police, FBI seek public's help in finding motive behind Las Vegas massacre Posted: 06 Oct 2017 03:21 PM PDT  By Alexandria Sage and Sharon Bernstein LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Baffled police and FBI agents, still lacking a clear motive for the Las Vegas massacre of 58 people by a lone gunman five days ago, appealed to the public on Friday to come forward with any information that might help solve the mystery. Clark County Undersheriff Kevin McMahill said investigators have, to no avail, run down more than 1,000 leads seeking clues to what drove a 64-year-old wealthy retiree with a penchant for gambling to carry out the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history. The gunman, Stephen Paddock, poured a barrage of gunfire from the windows of his 32nd-floor hotel suite into a crowd of 20,000 people attending an outdoor music festival on Sunday night, then killed himself before police stormed his room.
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| Donald Trump Apparently Thinks Meeting Mass Shooting Victims Is 'Wonderful' Posted: 05 Oct 2017 04:42 AM PDT  President Donald Trump totally chose the wrong word to describe his meeting with victims of the Las Vegas massacre.
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| 4,000 Year Old Climbing Gear Discovered Posted: 05 Oct 2017 04:09 AM PDT  The new finds show that even 4,000 years ago, hunters, shepherds and traders were using the route.
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| Pink Slams Dr. Luke In Interview: ‘He’s Not A Good Person’ Posted: 05 Oct 2017 12:56 PM PDT  Luke" Gottwald, who has been embroiled in a legal battle with Kesha since 2014, in a recent interview for The New York Times.
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| Danger Zone: Will North Korea Take the Highway to Nuclear War? Posted: 05 Oct 2017 04:09 PM PDT  The United States does not have the experience to draw upon that would guide it through a military action against the DPRK. Analysts agree North Korea is quite serious in its threat to shoot down American warplanes, even if they are flying in international airspace. The threat came in response to President Donald Trump's latest challenge to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) via Twitter, in which he doubled down on his proclamation that the North's days were numbered if they continued to provoke and threaten the United States.
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| Florida executes man convicted of 2 killings decades ago Posted: 06 Oct 2017 12:07 PM PDT  Florida executed an inmate Thursday who was convicted of killing two people after a night of drinking decades ago.
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| 'We don't want armed confrontation': Iraqi PM on Kurds Posted: 05 Oct 2017 03:10 AM PDT  Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said Thursday he did not want an armed conflict with his country's Kurds, days after the autonomous Kurdistan region voted for independence in a referendum. "We don't want armed confrontation, we don't want clashes but federal authority must prevail," he said after a meeting in Paris with French President Emmanuel Macron. "Separatism is unacceptable," Abadi said, reiterating that the non-binding September 25 vote -- in which 92.7 percent of Iraqi Kurds backed independence -- was "illegal".
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| Teen suspect in Arizona woman's slaying in custody Posted: 04 Oct 2017 09:23 PM PDT  PHOENIX (AP) — A 14-year-old boy sought in the shooting death of a woman in eastern Arizona has been taken into custody, authorities said Wednesday night.
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| Russia explodes our social media myths Posted: 05 Oct 2017 02:00 AM PDT  It's not too much to demand that the big tech companies slam the door on governments and political infiltrators who would like nothing more than to destroy our faith in a free society.
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| Alabama execution put on hold after court issues stay Posted: 05 Oct 2017 03:01 PM PDT  Jeffrey Borden was convicted of shooting to death his estranged wife, Cheryl Borden, and his father-in-law, Roland Harris, in Gardendale in front of the former couple's children. "It will not be tonight," Alabama Department of Corrections spokeswoman Samantha Banks said by phone.
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| 8 Crazy Foods You Can Only Find In New Orleans Posted: 06 Oct 2017 09:23 AM PDT |
| The 20 Funniest Tweets From Women This Week Posted: 06 Oct 2017 03:16 PM PDT  The ladies of Twitter never fail to brighten our days with their brilliant ― but succinct ― wisdom.
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| Europe is Betraying Afghanistan By Sending Its Refugees Home Posted: 04 Oct 2017 10:00 PM PDT  Thousands of Afghans have been returned from Europe only to be killed, injured, or left to live in constant fear
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| How to Watch Shooting Stars This October Posted: 05 Oct 2017 02:30 AM PDT  Meteorologists predict that as many as 600 per hour will fall through the sky towards earth.
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| California governor signs 'sanctuary state' bill Posted: 05 Oct 2017 01:18 PM PDT  A bill to make California a sanctuary state, by preventing police from inquiring about immigration status and curtailing law enforcement cooperation with immigration officers, was signed into law by the governor on Thursday. The signing of the bill by Governor Jerry Brown, a Democrat, enacts on a state-wide level protections for illegal immigrants that exist in several cities, including Chicago and New York. The enhanced protections for illegal immigrants by California, the nation's most populous state, sets the stage for a political battle with President Donald Trump, who has made a crackdown on illegal immigration one of his main priorities.
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| Pope meets French cardinal accused of paedophilia cover-up Posted: 05 Oct 2017 08:20 AM PDT  Pope Francis met Thursday with French Cardinal Philippe Barbarin, who is awaiting trial over allegations he covered up for a paedophile priest in his diocese. It was the first time Francis has met with Barbarin, the Archbishop of Lyon, since the cardinal learned last month that he would have to appear in court in April in connection with priest Bernard Preynat's abuse of boy scouts in the 1980s. Public prosecutors ruled last year that Barbarin did not have a case to answer but he and six other co-defendants have been directly indicted by some of Preynat's victims.
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| Arizona Diamondbacks defeat Colorado Rockies in one-game Wild Card playoff, move on to NLDS Posted: 04 Oct 2017 09:01 PM PDT  The Arizona Diamondbacks are heading to the National League Division Series.
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| McDonald’s manager 'offered customers side of cocaine with meals' Posted: 05 Oct 2017 03:48 AM PDT  A McDonald's manager working the night shift at a restaurant in New York sold cocaine alongside burgers and fries, police allege. Authorities say Frank Guerrero, 26, was arrested after selling $10,900 (£8,200) worth of the drug to an undercover police officer over the course of eight occasions, at a restaurant in the Soundview area of the Bronx. At least two times, it is alleged Mr Guerrero placed the cocaine into a bag containing a cookie, which he then concealed in a larger bag with cheeseburgers, fries and a drink.
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