| 4 Dead In Shooting At Northern California Elementary School Posted: 14 Nov 2017 12:59 PM PST  At least three people are dead and several injured after a shooting early Tuesday morning at an elementary school in Northern California, local authorities report.
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| Sick death row inmate will be given special pillow to help him breathe during lethal injection Posted: 14 Nov 2017 11:16 AM PST  A sick death row inmate set to die by lethal injection this week will be given a special wedge-shaped pillow to help him breathe as he is executed.
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| Jeff Sessions Says He Forgot Trump Adviser's Russia Comments In 'Chaos' Of Campaign Posted: 14 Nov 2017 07:50 AM PST  WASHINGTON ― Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Tuesday that he had "no recollection" of a former Trump campaign adviser's comments on Russia during a March 2016 Trump campaign meeting on national security ― until, that is, it emerged that George Papadopoulos had pled guilty to lying to FBI agents working with the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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| The Latest: Over 400 dead from earthquake Posted: 13 Nov 2017 12:52 PM PST  TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The Latest on a powerful earthquake near the Iran-Iraq border that has killed more than 400 people (all times local):
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| British doctor saves himself by punching shark in face during surfing attack in Australia Posted: 13 Nov 2017 04:00 PM PST  A 25-year-old British man escaped from a shark after "punching it in the face" while surfing in Australia, saying his feat was inspired by professional surfer Mick Fanning. Charlie Fry, a doctor who moved to Australia two months ago to work, was surfing at Avoca beach, north of Sydney, when a shark leapt out of the water and bit him. He said he heard a "massive thud" and initially thought it was a friend playing around but turned and "saw a shark's head come out of the water with its teeth". "I turned to the right and I saw a shark's head come out of the water with its teeth and I just punched it in the face," he told Nine News. "I saw a shark's head come out of the water... and I just punched it in the face," Charlie Fry has told #9News, after he was attacked on the NSW Central Coast. https://t.co/YK830EQ5gRpic.twitter.com/n2a5C2ygXs— Nine News Australia (@9NewsAUS) 13 November 2017 "[I] got back on my board, shouted at my friends who were there and then managed to catch a wave in. So it was a bit of a close call." Dr Fry said he learnt of the escape technique from a YouTube video featuring an interview with Fanning, an Australian who famously punched a shark to survive an attack during a surfing competition in South Africa in 2015. "Me and my friends have just started surfing, and we saw the YouTube clip of Mick Fanning saying he punched [a shark] in the nose," he said. "So when it happened I was like, 'Just do what Mick did, just punch it in the nose'." He added: "If you are watching or listening, Mick, I owe you a beer. Thank you very much." Surfer Mick Fanning has another close call with shark 01:04 Dr Fry suffered minor scratches and bite wounds from the "hectic" encounter and was driven to hospital by his fellow surfers, who were also doctors. A rescue helicopter service later spotted a ten-foot shark near the site of the attack – a section of the beach known as "shark tower". "I didn't feel the teeth going in, it felt like I was smacked, it felt like a hand, a hand grabbing me, shaking me," Dr Fry said. "I didn't really notice it at the time, because when you're surfing, all I was thinking was 'I'm about to die', and I was just ... thinking about getting in [to shore] as fast as possible. You just ride the wave as long as you can and start paddling for your life." Dr Fry said he would take the week off and was "racing" to return to the water but might choose a different spot to surf. "I probably wouldn't go to that point for a while," he said. "It is called 'shark tower' for a reason, so I will probably just go somewhere else. The surf was rubbish yesterday, so it wasn't even worth it." Australia has had a spate of shark attacks in recent years, including one fatality and ten injuries this year. Authorities closed the beach at Avoca and said surrounding beaches would be "closely monitored". Life-saving advice | How to survive a shark attack
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| Rare frilled shark with unusual teeth and 'snake-like' head found off Portugal's coast Posted: 12 Nov 2017 06:54 PM PST  Sink your teeth into this. A little-known frilled shark has been found off the Algarve coast in Portugal by scientists, who were conducting research on minimising unwanted catches in European fisheries. SEE ALSO: This baby flamingo in blue boots will make your day It's a rare discovery given the depths in which the shark Chlamydoselachus anguineus is found, living 500 to 1,000 metres below the sea. In this case, the shark was caught at a depth of 700 metres. Researchers from Portugal's national meteorological, seismic, sea and atmospheric organisation, IPMA, said it was a "true living fossil," because its remains had been unchanged for 80 million years, according to BBC News' translation of a Sic Noticias report. Image: ipmaThe male fish measures about 1.5 metres long, and has a "long, slender body and a snake-like head." It also has a rather unique teeth arrangement, but there's little else known about the shark's biology or ecology. However, the shark gets its name from the 300 teeth that line its mouth in a frilled appearance, "which allows it to trap squid, fish and other sharks in sudden lunges," Professor Margarida Castro of the University of the Algarve told Sic Noticias. It has a "wide but very patchy" distribution across the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans, according to the IUCN, and is on rare occasion caught as bycatch. A freaky catch in this case, to say the least. WATCH: A giant sculpture translates vibrations of 40,000 live bees into an explosion of light and sound
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| eBay's newest 'Don't Wait for Black Friday' campaign to roll out Black Friday deals all week Posted: 13 Nov 2017 01:26 PM PST  Black Friday is still days away, but with deals that start earlier and earlier every year, it seems like the anticipation of the holiday has been dragging on for months.
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| Woman Says George H.W. Bush Groped Her When She Was 16: 'I Was a Child' Posted: 13 Nov 2017 03:00 AM PST  The alleged incident happened in 2003, while she was photographed standing next to the former president. "My initial reaction was absolute horror. I was really, really confused," she told TIME, speaking publicly for the first time about the encounter
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| Four killed in California mass shooting Posted: 14 Nov 2017 03:22 PM PST  Four people were killed and nearly a dozen were wounded, including several children, when a gunman went on a rampage Tuesday at multiple locations, including a school in rural northern California. Tehama County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston told reporters that the assailant was killed by police following the mass shooting, which began around 8:00 am (1600 GMT) at a home in Rancho Tehama Reserve and continued at several locations in the community, including an elementary school. Johnston said the gunman, who has not been identified, went on a shooting spree after stealing a vehicle that crashed at some point.
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| Alabama’s Biggest Newspaper Calls On GOP To Withdraw Support For Roy Moore Posted: 13 Nov 2017 09:48 PM PST  Alabama's largest newspaper published a scathing editorial Monday afternoon, calling for the GOP to withdraw its official support for Roy Moore, the controversial Republican nominee for the state's open U.S. Senate seat.
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| People Destroy Keurig Coffee Makers After Company Pulls Ads From Sean Hannity Programs Posted: 12 Nov 2017 11:19 PM PST  Conservatives are publicly destroying their Keurig coffee makers in response to the company's decision to pull its advertisements from Sean Hannity's television and radio programs.
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| That tweet trolling a Muslim woman during the Westminster attack was actually by a Russian bot Posted: 14 Nov 2017 05:43 AM PST  On the day of the Westminster attack that left 6 dead, a Twitter troll shared an image of a Muslim woman on the phone, wrongly claiming she was ignoring the victims on the bridge: Image: screengrab/twitter/@southlonestarBoth the photographer and the woman in the image debunked @SouthLoneStar's account of the scene, saying it was taken out of context: Please circulate: Statement from the Muslim woman photographed on Westminster Bridge during #WestminsterAttack (via @TellMamaUK) pic.twitter.com/2sHFb56lEu — TellMAMAUK (@TellMamaUK) March 24, 2017 Nonetheless, the tweet got over 1,800 likes and 1,600 retweets, picked up by alt-right personalities and white nationalists like Richard Spencer: Walk on by... pic.twitter.com/8kCHYoNTIh — Richard �� Spencer (@RichardBSpencer) March 22, 2017 Now, it turns out that this account that spews hatred and anti-Muslim sentiment to its 16,000+ followers is a Russian bot, which has since been closed by Twitter, according to Wired. The report looks at a cache of posts from 2016 collected by New Knowledge, an American security startup, and reveals a network of Russian bots posting about "the Brexit vote, pictures of London Mayor Sadiq Kahn, anti-Muslim language around European terror attacks and racial slurs against refugees." In June 2016, @SouthLoneStar, which claimed to be a "Proud TEXAN and AMERICAN patriot", tweeted about Brexit: "I hope UK after #BrexitVote will start to clean their land from muslim invasion!" Image: Screengrab/twitter/@southlonestarThe account also appears in the Russian congressional investigation released by U.S. democrats. WATCH: Flying taxis could be here by 2020 thanks to Uber
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| 16 holiday gifts for wine lovers Posted: 14 Nov 2017 12:46 PM PST  There's nothing cozier than curling up your couch and ending a crazy day with a nice glass of red wine.
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| Camera Battery Explosion at Orlando Airport Causes Panic and Hours of Delays Posted: 13 Nov 2017 07:56 AM PST  Security footage caught a TSA agent jumping into action when he saw the backpack smoking.
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| Newtown families seek to hold gun maker accountable in Connecticut court Posted: 14 Nov 2017 10:59 AM PST  By Tina Bellon HARTFORD, Conn. (Reuters) - A lawyer for families who lost loved ones in the 2012 Sandy Hook school shooting told Connecticut's highest court on Tuesday that Remington Outdoor Co [FREDM.UL] should be held responsible because its military-themed marketing was designed to appeal to young men like killer Adam Lanza. "They knew they were hitting their mark and Lanza was responding to their marketing," said lawyer Joshua Koskoff Lanza, 20, used a Remington AR-15 Bushmaster rifle, a semi-automatic civilian version of the U.S. military's M-16, to kill 20 school children between the ages of 6 and 7, as well as six adult staff members, at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, on Dec. 14, 2012. Following the conclusion Tuesday's arguments, the Connecticut Supreme Court will now decide whether the families of nine of the victims and one survivor can proceed with a trial seeking to hold Remington, along with a gun wholesaler and local retailer, responsible for the carnage based on its marketing.
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| Georgia sheriff facing charges over school search suspended Posted: 13 Nov 2017 12:49 PM PST ![Georgia sheriff facing charges over school search suspended]( "Georgia sheriff facing charges over school search suspended") ATLANTA (AP) — Georgia's governor on Monday suspended a sheriff who faces charges including sexual battery after a drug search at a high school earlier this year.
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| Sessions vows quick decision on possible Clinton prosecutor Posted: 14 Nov 2017 02:27 PM PST  US Attorney General Jeff Sessions told Congress Tuesday that the Justice Department could soon appoint a special prosecutor to investigate Hillary Clinton, a move repeatedly called for by President Donald Trump. Sessions' comments indicated that Republicans were seeking to mount a counter-offensive to the probe into Russian election meddling -- and whether or not Trump's campaign colluded with Moscow to sway the 2016 contest. Democrats lashed back that Sessions risked politicizing the Justice Department in reviving the probe into Clinton's use of a personal email server as secretary of state -- a case it decided last year not to prosecute -- in a bid to divert attention from the Russia probe.
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| Here Is How America Can Bring Peace to Ukraine Posted: 13 Nov 2017 05:04 PM PST  If Washington were to take NATO membership off the table, it would remove Moscow's incentive to keep the Ukrainian conflict alive. The Trump administration reportedly plans to propose a peacekeeping force for Ukraine. The initiative would have a greater chance of success if Washington offered a package that made Ukraine a neutral country, backed by a promise not to further expand NATO.
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| Colin Kaepernick Covers GQ As 'Citizen Of The Year' Posted: 13 Nov 2017 08:18 AM PST  Over a year after the former San Fransisco 49er began kneeling at NFL games during the national anthem, the magazine is celebrating his activism in its annual Men of the Year issue.
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| 33 Unbelievably Good Thanksgiving Appetizer Recipes Posted: 14 Nov 2017 02:49 PM PST |
| Texas Gunman's Ex-Wife Reveals How He Bragged About Killing His Dog Posted: 13 Nov 2017 10:04 AM PST  Tessa Brennaman spoke exclusively to Inside Edition about her abusive marriage to Devin Kelley.
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| Myanmar military denies atrocities against Rohingya, replaces general Posted: 13 Nov 2017 03:27 PM PST ![Myanmar military denies atrocities against Rohingya, replaces general]( "Myanmar military denies atrocities against Rohingya, replaces general") By Wa Lone YANGON (Reuters) - Myanmar's army released a report on Monday denying all allegations of rape and killings by security forces, having days earlier replaced the general in charge of the operation that drove more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh. No reason was given for Major General Maung Maung Soe being transferred from his post as the head of Western Command in Rakhine state, where Myanmar's military, known as the Tatmadaw, launched a sweeping counter-insurgency operation in August. "I don't know the reason why he was transferred," Major General Aye Lwin, deputy director of the psychological warfare and public relation department at the Ministry of Defense, told Reuters.
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| Police: Man fatally shot tried to run, fought with officer Posted: 14 Nov 2017 05:37 PM PST  BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) — A man killed by a Baton Rouge police officer had tried to run when confronted during a child abuse investigation, fought with the officer and kept resisting after being shot, authorities said Tuesday.
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| Hezbollah, crown jewel of Iran's spreading influence Posted: 13 Nov 2017 05:11 AM PST  Lebanon's Hezbollah, blamed by Saad Hariri for his shock resignation as premier, has grown over the three decades since its founding into a mighty army used by Iran to project regional influence. Hariri criticised the powerful Shiite movement for its meddling across the Middle East during a televised interview from Saudi Arabia on Sunday, his first media appearance since he stepped down on November 4. Hezbollah has participated in Hariri's government for almost a year.
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| Florida Police Believe A Serial Killer Has Struck Again Posted: 14 Nov 2017 11:55 AM PST  A suspected serial killer shot and killed a man as he crossed a street early Tuesday morning in Tampa, Florida, police say, the fourth such murder in little more than a month.
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| 16 Questions To Ask On A First Date, According To Marriage Therapists Posted: 13 Nov 2017 09:14 AM PST  If you're an introvert ― or just hate small talk ― few things are more stress-inducing than a first date.
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| Unrest Growing in Zimbabwe as Tanks Close in on Capital Posted: 14 Nov 2017 10:19 AM PST  Mugabe last week fired Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa and accused him of plotting to take power, including through witchcraft.
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| Trump's ASEAN Summit Handshake May Be His Most Ridiculous Yet Posted: 13 Nov 2017 12:34 AM PST  President Donald Trump was thrown off by a handshake intended to kick off an international conference in the Philippines on Monday.
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| The 'Ligchine' concrete machine can cut the labor time in half Posted: 13 Nov 2017 02:55 PM PST  This machine that smooths out concrete is mesmerizing to watch
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| U.S. to fight Islamic State in Syria 'as long as they want to fight': Mattis Posted: 13 Nov 2017 05:07 PM PST  By Phil Stewart WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. military will fight Islamic State in Syria "as long as they want to fight," Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said on Monday, describing a longer-term role for U.S. troops long after the insurgents lose all of the territory they control. As U.S.-backed and Russian-backed forces battle to retake the remaining pockets of Islamic State-held terrain, Mattis said the U.S. military's longer-term objective would be to prevent the return of an "ISIS 2.0." "The enemy hasn't declared that they're done with the area yet, so we'll keep fighting as long as they want to fight," Mattis said, speaking to reporters at the Pentagon about the future of U.S. operations in Syria.
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| Toshiba sells TV business to China's Hisense Posted: 13 Nov 2017 11:53 PM PST  Struggling Japanese conglomerate Toshiba said Tuesday it has decided to sell its television business to China's Hisense Group as part of its efforts to restore its balance sheet. Toshiba agreed with the Chinese group to sell 95 percent in shares of its unit Toshiba Visual Solutions (TVS) for about 12.9 billion yen ($114 million), it said in a statement. "Toshiba has been considering structural reforms that will ... strengthen Toshiba's financial base," the firm said.
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| New sex assault allegation hits Moore; he calls it false Posted: 13 Nov 2017 10:06 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — A second woman emerged Monday to accuse Roy Moore of sexually assaulting her as a teenager in the late 1970s, this time in a locked car, further roiling the Alabama Republican's candidacy for an open Senate seat. Moore strongly denied it, even as his own party's leaders intensified their efforts to push him out of the race.
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| Missing Teen Feared Abducted For Sex Trafficking Posted: 13 Nov 2017 10:21 AM PST  It's been almost two months since a Pennsylvania teen who'd recently moved to New York City disappeared.
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| Mike Pence's NFL Stunt Cost Police Department $14,000 Posted: 14 Nov 2017 09:54 AM PST  A planned political stunt by Vice President Mike Pence, in which he walked out of an NFL game in protest of players kneeling during the national anthem, cost the Indiana Metropolitan Police Department more than $14,000, new records show.
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| Couple Sentenced to 130 Years in Prison Each for 'Worst Case' of Child Neglect Posted: 14 Nov 2017 08:10 AM PST  Aislyn Miller and Kevin Fowler's 9-month-old daughters were found weighing about eight pounds each during an urgent care visit.
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| Trump Administration Detaining DACA Recipient With Disability Posted: 13 Nov 2017 02:01 PM PST  A 20-year-old undocumented immigrant with Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status has been in ICE detention for a month, despite President Donald Trump's promises not to go after young people with DACA protections, an advocate for the young man said on Monday.
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| 2018 Ford Mustang GT: First Drive Posted: 13 Nov 2017 10:03 AM PST  Ford's updated Mustang GT is more of a good thing.
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| Polish leaders condemn 'xenophobia' after huge far-right march Posted: 13 Nov 2017 01:15 PM PST  Poland's right-wing leaders on Monday spoke out against xenophobia after a controversial Independence Day march organised by far-right groups. Having started small in 2009, the annual event attracted a large following this year, with police estimating the crowd on Saturday in Warsaw at around 60,000. Dramatic images of the event showed some marchers holding banners saying "Pure blood" and "Europe will be white", while others chanted "Pure Poland, white Poland" and "Refugees get out".
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| Erdogan swipes at Russia, U.S. missions in Syria Posted: 13 Nov 2017 01:21 PM PST  ANKARA/SOCHI (Reuters) - Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan took swipes at U.S. and Russian interventions in Syria on Monday and said if countries truly believed a military solution was impossible, they should withdraw their troops. Russian President Vladimir Putin and his U.S. counterpart Donald Trump said in a joint statement on Saturday they would continue to fight against Islamic State in Syria, while agreeing that there was no military solution to the country's wider, six-year-old conflict. "I am having trouble understanding these comments," Erdogan told reporters before flying to Russia for talks with Putin.
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| EU bans sale of arms to Venezuela after Britain sells riot gear to regime Posted: 13 Nov 2017 08:05 AM PST  The European Union has agreed to impose sanctions on Venezuela, including a ban on exporting arms that could be used by the country's government against its own people. The decision, made at a meeting of EU foreign ministers in Brussels, comes after a forceful crackdown by President Nicolas Maduro's government against opposition elements in the country. The UK itself has sold millions of pounds worth of equipment to the country since 2008, despite the Foreign Office having noted it as a country of "concern" over its human rights record.
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| Janssen drops U.S. lawsuit against Samsung Bioepis' Remicade copy Posted: 14 Nov 2017 06:06 AM PST ![Janssen drops U.S. lawsuit against Samsung Bioepis' Remicade copy]( "Janssen drops U.S. lawsuit against Samsung Bioepis' Remicade copy") A unit of healthcare conglomerate Johnson & Johnson has dropped a lawsuit it filed to block a copy of its rheumatoid arthritis drug Remicade produced by South Korea's Samsung Bioepis Co Ltd from being sold in the United States. Janssen Biotech Inc, in a document to the U.S. District Court of New Jersey dated Friday and seen by Reuters, voluntarily dismissed its suit to block Samsung Bioepis' biosimilar of Remicade from sale. Remicade is Johnson & Johnson's biggest selling drug, with U.S. sales of about $5 billion a year.
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| 15 People Have Caught Fire and 5 Have Died After Being Tasered Near Flammable Materials Posted: 13 Nov 2017 01:10 PM PST  Over the course of 24 years
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