| Trump demands to know: Who paid for the 'Trump dossier'? Posted: 19 Oct 2017 07:15 AM PDT  President Trump is wondering who paid for the controversial dossier that made salacious but unverified claims about his ties to Russia a day after executives from a firm that helped produce it refused to answer questions from the House Intelligence Committee.
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| Pilots Perform Risky Honor Lap Stunt, Alarming Travelers in Terminal Posted: 18 Oct 2017 09:00 PM PDT  In a farewell stunt, pilots of an Air Berlin passenger jet taking off from Miami buzzed the tower, in a move seen in the movie "Top Gun."
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| Sonoma Sheriff Battles With ICE Over Misinformation On California Wildfires Posted: 19 Oct 2017 04:31 PM PDT  As firefighters in Northern California battle ongoing wildfires, the Sonoma County sheriff is facing a different battle: fighting misinformation about the fires.
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| A liberal is a conservative whose house just flooded Posted: 20 Oct 2017 02:00 AM PDT  Some Trump voters, after their towns were flooded by Hurricane Harvey, are beginning to reconsider their conviction that climate change has no scientific basis.
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| Orionid Meteor Shower 2017: What it is, when it's happening and where to watch it Posted: 19 Oct 2017 11:36 AM PDT  In several days, stargazers will witness the peak of one of the year's best shooting star displays in the United States.
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| Alabama inmate defiant before his execution for killing cop Posted: 20 Oct 2017 12:56 PM PDT  ATMORE, Ala. (AP) — The convicted killer of a police officer used his final moments before being put to death to curse at the state of Alabama, raising his middle fingers in defiance at the start of a lethal injection his lawyers described as inhumanely painful.
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| Sadness down under as final Holden marks end of Australian car industry Posted: 20 Oct 2017 08:19 AM PDT  Shortly after midday today, a red Commodore marked the end of 69 years of Holden manufacture in Australia – and to countless enthusiasts, it was an occasion as sad as it was once virtually unthinkable. There is a select group of cars that transformed their respective nations' concept of mass motoring and the original 48-215 'FX' certainly ranks alongside the Mini, 2CV or Fiat 600 in this regard. This was mass-market transport made in Australia, for Australia. Holden's first involvement with the motor industry was as a coachbuilder and in 1924, it became the exclusive supplier of car bodies to General Motors. Seven years later it became a part of the GM empire and as early as 1936 the division's MD Laurence Hartnett was planning a 'wholly Australian car' in place of the locally-built Chevrolets, Pontiacs and Vauxhalls. Towards the end of the Second World War, the government was keen to promote a locally-designed car and General Motors already had the basis of a suitable model in the form of a Chevrolet project that had been rejected as too compact for US motorists. A small group of prototypes were extensively tested and on the 29th November 1948 Ben Chifley, the then Prime Minister, unveiled the new 48-215. It was not a vehicle that represented a major technological advance and its list of standard fittings was low even by the standards of the day; no sidelights, carpet, door armrest, heater or even direction indicators of any form, one sun visor and a solitary tail lamp. Nor was the new Holden especially cheap as a price of £A675 represented nearly two years wages for the average worker but this did not deter 18,000 people from paying a deposit without having seen a 48-215 in the metal. Such was the demand that the company was soon obliged to issue a booklet entitled Holden Owners Give Reasons Why Holden is Worth Waiting For. Motoring picture of the day And perhaps the major reason for the impact of the FX on the post-war motorist was that it offered the ideal combination of advantages in a car that was launched at precisely the right moment. The brochures promised an engine designed for local conditions the 2.1-litre six-cylinder unit was capable of "80 miles per hour and 30 miles per gallon" with a smoothness not found in such rivals as the four-cylinder Austin A70 Hampshire. It was also flexible enough to propel the Holden from a crawl to cruising speed with the steering column-mounted lever in third gear. Holden intended that the FX would appeal to rural motorists and urban drivers alike, with suspension that could cope with the country's many unsurfaced roads, and for the Sydney or Melbourne suburbanite, the 'Aerobilt' body was smart and offered room for a quintet of adult passengers: 'you don't climb in or scrabble out – you step in with ease and dignity. A great boon for elderly people and women." There was also a sense of robustness that was lacking in some of its competitors. Clive James once observed of the Standard Vanguard that it was a toss-up whether the 'chromium trim would rust through before the exhaust pipe fell onto the road'. Above all, this was 'Australia's Own Car', which automatically set it apart from any other car that bore an American or British marque and ten years later, the Lion and Stone badge adorned 40 percent of new models. The name of Holden had now entered the lexicon of a nation's popular culture and the idea that in 2013 the company's chief would state that 'building cars in this country is just not sustainable' would have been inconceivable. The moment when that last Commodore leaves the production line is not only the closing of a chapter in GM's history – in many respects it is the end of a country's automotive dream, one that began nearly 70 years ago.
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| George W. Bush: 'Bigotry seems emboldened' in Trump era Posted: 19 Oct 2017 10:24 AM PDT  "We've seen our discourse degraded by casual cruelty," former President George W. Bush said in a rare public speech. "We've seen nationalism distorted into nativism."
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| A SoCal Brunch Spot Was Caught Using Popeyes Chicken In Its Dishes Posted: 19 Oct 2017 02:38 PM PDT  One trendy restaurant is bringing a whole new meaning to the term "sourced locally."
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| Read Barack Obama's Dramatic Breakup Letters Posted: 19 Oct 2017 09:42 AM PDT  His messages to Alexandra McNear are high-brow and also a little much.
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| SitRep: U.S. Warships on Alert; Taliban Rip Through Afghan Forces Posted: 19 Oct 2017 04:54 AM PDT  SitRep: U.S. warships ready near Korea; Deadly new Taliban offensive
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| 8-Year-Old’s Big Brother Details the Horrific Abuse He Suffered from Mom’s Boyfriend Before His Death Posted: 19 Oct 2017 06:25 PM PDT  In court on Wednesday, a California teen described the relentless assaults inflicted on his 8-year-old brother for months until, at last, the little boy was dead
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| In emotional interview, Gold Star parents say of Trump: 'It's not about a call or a letter' Posted: 19 Oct 2017 09:14 AM PDT  The parents of a United States Army specialist killed in Syria in May said Thursday they hadn't received any acknowledgment from President Trump, despite his claim to have called "virtually" all families of fallen U.S. soldiers.
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| Thousands Of Protestors Show Up In Florida To Drown Out Richard Spencer's Hate Posted: 19 Oct 2017 10:39 AM PDT  GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Thousands of people turned up Thursday at the University of Florida to protest an afternoon speech by a prominent white supremacist, making their message clear: Richard Spencer, and those like him, are not welcome.
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| Man Admits to Drowning 6-Year-Old Nephew Who Had Autism: Police Posted: 19 Oct 2017 11:09 AM PDT  Little Dayvid Pakko was drowned in a bathtub, then hidden in a dumpster, police said.
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| The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week Posted: 20 Oct 2017 06:52 AM PDT  Kids may say the darndest things, but parents tweet about them in the funniest ways.
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| Man's fingertip torn off as wild boar rampage puts German town under siege Posted: 20 Oct 2017 05:52 AM PDT  Two aggressive wild boars attacked and injured several people in the small German town of Heide on Friday morning, tearing through the town centre in a rampage which lasted for hours. Four people were injured, and one man's fingertip was torn off, according to police reports. Others suffered leg injuries, as they were hit by the fully-grown animals in the northernmost state of Schleswig-Holstein. The boars tore through the streets and ran through the market square, before making their way into a local bank branch, according to police, who issued a warning at around 9am urging people to avoid the town centre and to stay in their houses or in shops. One eyewitness saw a woman lying on the ground, screaming, after her trousers had been torn, according to German radio station NDR 1 Welle Nord. Another said they were "completely bewildered" and that the boars had come "out of nowhere". After a large-scale operation, during which police and hunters chased the boar with stun rifles, one was killed by huntsman Uwe Ingwersen at 11am - two hours after the animals were first spotted - with a targeted head shot. The second ran away from the centre and police say it is now outside the city area. Terror in Ditmarschen���� pic.twitter.com/mheLOKa5RK— Daggi (@danishkeks) October 20, 2017 Customers in the bank, which was invaded by the boars, were evacuated through open windows using ladders, according to police reports. Several cars were also damaged. Wild boar still roam the forests of Germany and are seen as a menace by much of German society. Marcus Börner, press officer at the Country Hunting Association, told the Schleswig-Holstein newspaper that it is highly stressful for boars, which have spread extensively in the state in recent decades, to be caught between walls and among so many people, causing them to become aggressive. Earlier this year, a herd of wild boars attacked several people, injuring three, near Berlin's Tegel airport. Local media reported that it took authorities 18 shots to down one 200-kilogram boar, while the rest of the herd escaped.
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| Barack Obama Returns to the Political Arena For the First Time Since Leaving the White House Posted: 19 Oct 2017 02:15 AM PDT  This is the first time the former president is stepping back into the political spotlight since leaving the White House
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| At Least 60 Dead After Suicide Bombers Attack Mosques in Afghanistan Posted: 20 Oct 2017 12:10 PM PDT  Suicide bombers struck two mosques in Afghanistan during Friday prayers, a Shiite mosque in Kabul and a Sunni mosque in western Ghor province, killing at least 63 people at the end of a particularly deadly week for the troubled nation.
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| Mars Has a Mysterious "Tail," According to New Find From NASA Spacecraft Posted: 19 Oct 2017 02:53 PM PDT  So wonderfully weird.
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| Public Enemy's Chuck D: Donald Trump Is 'The Epitome Of A White Supremacist' Posted: 20 Oct 2017 02:27 AM PDT  Chuck D did not hold back with his latest criticism of Donald Trump, calling the president "the epitome of a white supremacist."
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| Xi Jinping Has Quietly Chosen His Own Successor Posted: 20 Oct 2017 10:34 AM PDT  Meet Chen Miner, the man who has been getting groomed to run China — without anyone in the West seeming to notice.
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| Hamas leader says 'no one' can force it to disarm after unity deal Posted: 19 Oct 2017 08:49 AM PDT  Hamas's leader in the Gaza Strip said Thursday "no one" can force it to disarm or recognise Israel, after Washington demanded it meet those conditions as part of a unity government. On the contrary, we will continue to have the power to protect our citizens," the Islamist movement's Gaza head Yahya Sinwar said. Sinwar made the remarks during a speech to young people that was provided to AFP by Hamas.
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| Doctors Fear A Potentially Deadly Disease Outbreak In Puerto Rico Posted: 20 Oct 2017 02:48 PM PDT  CAROLINA, Puerto Rico ― Christian Romero sat in near darkness in the stairwell of his apartment building.
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| Bride Plans First Look Photo Shoot After Grandma's Cancer Diagnosis Posted: 19 Oct 2017 03:04 PM PDT  Bride-to-be Brittany Marr received some devastating news last December: her grandma Ellen Haynes had been diagnosed with stage 4 breast cancer that had spread to her bones.
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| 'Unacceptably high' number of Afghans flee military training in U.S.: report Posted: 20 Oct 2017 08:41 AM PDT  By Josh Smith KABUL (Reuters) - Afghan soldiers and police brought to the United States for training go "absent without leave" at far higher rates than those of any other country, potentially imperilling efforts to assist Afghan security forces, a U.S. watchdog said on Friday. Of the 320 foreign military trainees who left while on courses in the United States from 2005 to 2017, 152 - or more than 47 percent - were Afghans, said a report by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR). SIGAR found that the rate of asylum seekers among Afghan military trainees rose in recent years as violence in the Islamist Taliban insurgency spread across Afghanistan and security forces sustained heavy casualties.
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| Murder-suicide seen in desert deaths of California couple Posted: 20 Oct 2017 03:17 PM PDT  SAN BERNARDINO, Calif. (AP) — A young couple whose disappearance in the blazing summer heat of Joshua Tree National Park launched an urgent search died in a murder-suicide, Southern California authorities said Friday.
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| Ex-Girlfriend of MMA Fighter War Machine Recounts Harrowing Attack: ‘If I Do Not Leave Now, I Will Die’ Posted: 19 Oct 2017 05:01 PM PDT  A woman who was brutally beaten, raped and kidnapped by the mixed martial artist known as War Machine is speaking out about the 2014 attack by her ex-boyfriend that led to his being sentenced to life in prison
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| Gold Star Dad Wants To Learn How To Use Twitter Just To Call Donald Trump A 'Damn Liar' Posted: 19 Oct 2017 02:03 AM PDT  The father of a fallen U.S. serviceman said he wants to learn how to use Twitter just so he can call out President Donald Trump.
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| Clashes as Iraq army takes last Kurd-held area of Kirkuk province Posted: 20 Oct 2017 02:26 PM PDT  Iraqi forces clashed with Kurdish fighters Friday as the central government said it had wrested back control of the last area of disputed Kirkuk province in the latest stage of a sweeping operation after a controversial independence vote. Iraq's Joint Operations Command said police, counter-terrorism units and allied militias seized the Altun Kupri region, extending the central government's territory to within 50 kilometres (30 miles) of Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Kurdish region.
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| Teenager stabs younger siblings to death 'so he could be alone in the house', say police Posted: 20 Oct 2017 02:52 AM PDT  A teenager accused of stabbing his two younger siblings to death, told investigators he did it so he could be alone in the house, police said. Officers found the five-year-old girl and seven-year-old boy bleeding from their wounds at Malik Vincent Murphy's family home in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The 19-year-old had also turned the knife on his father Jefferson Murphy.
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| How China Could Crush the U.S. Air Force in a Dog Fight Posted: 20 Oct 2017 04:34 AM PDT  The new Chinese munition closely matches the dimensions of Russia's K-100 air-to-air missile, which has been in halting development for 25 years now but could, in theory, hit targets as far as 200 miles from the launching plane. The Chinese military has apparently test-fired a new — and potentially powerful — very-long-range air-to-air missile. China has developed air-to-air missiles at a pace at least as rapid as its development of fighter aircraft.
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| German prosecutors charge former Majdanek death camp guard Posted: 20 Oct 2017 09:30 AM PDT  BERLIN (AP) — A former guard at the Majdanek death camp in Nazi-occupied Poland has been charged in Germany with being an accessory to murder for allegedly serving there during a period when at least 17,000 Jews were killed, prosecutors said Friday.
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| Quentin Tarantino reveals he knew about Harvey Weinstein's behaviour decades ago and is ashamed he kept quiet Posted: 19 Oct 2017 04:05 PM PDT  Quentin Tarantino has said he knew about Harvey Weinstein's behaviour towards women for decades and feels ashamed that he did not do more to stop it. The director, who has worked with Weinstein on all of his films, said he wished he had "taken responsibility" after hearing several credible stories from prominent actresses about Weinstein's misconduct. "I knew enough to do more than I did," he told the New York Times. "There was more to it than just the normal rumours, the normal gossip. It wasn't secondhand. I knew he did a couple of these things." "I wish I had taken responsibility for what I heard," he added. "If I had done the work I should have done then, I would have had to not work with him." Tarantino, the director of acclaimed films such as Pulp Fiction and Reservoir Dogs, said his former girlfriend, Mira Sorvino, had told him that Weinstein had harassed her and touched her inappropriately. Quentin Tarantino arrives at the Los Angeles premiere of "The Hateful Eight" at the Cinerama Dome on Monday, Dec. 7, 2015 Credit: AP "What I did was marginalise the incidents," he said. "Anything I say now will sound like a crappy excuse." He said that Weinstein had "horribly crossed the line" with Sorvino and that he was "shocked and appalled" by his behaviour. He then heard several other accounts of harassment and assault from other actresses. Tarantino said that Hollywood needed to take the situation more seriously because the industry had been "operating under an almost Jim Crow-like system that us males have almost tolerated. We allowed it to exist because that's the way it was." Mira Sorvino Credit: Getty Tarantino broke his silence on the Weinstein scandal last week, saying in a statement that he was "stunned and heartbroken". Members of staff at The Weinstein Company have reportedly branded the disgraced movie mogul a "monster" in a scathing letter about their former boss. Oscars Academy expels Harvey Weinstein 01:21 The statement, published by The New Yorker and signed by "Select Members of The Weinstein Company Staff", said that the group did not know they were "working for a serial sexual predator". Los Angeles police on Thursday evening said they were investigating a possible sexual assault case against Weinstein - the first involving the producer in the city. Police in New York and London are also investigating complaints against him. Weinstein has been accused of sexual harassment or abuse by more than three dozen women. He has denied all allegations of non-consensual sex. Weinstein Sex scandal
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| 2019 Audi A7: Similarly Slinky Looks, Lots of New Technology Posted: 19 Oct 2017 10:30 AM PDT  Style meets practicality. Again.
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| 7 Tips to Fund College With Scholarships Posted: 19 Oct 2017 07:00 AM PDT ![7 Tips to Fund College With Scholarships]( "7 Tips to Fund College With Scholarships") As the oldest of five children, Jocelyn Paonita Pearson knew her parents didn't have a lot of money to pay for her college education. "I basically wasted an entire year and had almost nothing to show for it," Pearson says. The one success story she had that year was a local organization's essay-based scholarship, which led Pearson to change her strategy.
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| Trump Rips 'Wacky' Congresswoman For Criticizing His Phone Call To Combat Widow Posted: 20 Oct 2017 03:23 AM PDT  President Donald Trump resorted to name-calling in a tweet late Thursday, blasting a congresswoman as "wacky" for criticizing his condolence call to the widow of a Florida soldier slain in Niger.
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| US drone strike kills chief of Pakistani Taliban faction Posted: 19 Oct 2017 09:24 AM PDT  The chief of an offshoot of the Pakistani Taliban has been killed in a US drone strike, a spokesman for the group told AFP Thursday. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, had claimed responsibility for many deadly attacks in the country, including a suicide bombing in a park in Lahore on Easter Sunday last year that killed 75 people including many children. "Chief of our Jamaat-ul-Ahrar Umar Khalid Khorasani, who sustained serious injuries in a recent US drone strike in Afghanistan's Paktia province, succumbed to his injuries Wednesday evening," JuA spokesman Asad Mansoor told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location.
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| KFC Is Only Following 11 People On Twitter For A Totally Genius Reason Posted: 20 Oct 2017 04:57 AM PDT  In a marketing move that Colonel Sanders himself would have been proud of, someone on Twitter noticed the fast-food chain is highly selective about who it follows on the micro-blogging service.
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