| Trump: U.S.-North Korea summit 'should have been done a long time ago' Posted: 22 Apr 2018 07:39 AM PDT  President Trump pushed back against criticisms that North Korea has had to meet few preconditions before a planned summit between the president and Kim Jong Un. Trump said he may or may not be successful but that he's taking an important step that previous presidents should have taken long ago.
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| Police Arrest Waffle House Shooting Suspect, Ending Manhunt Posted: 23 Apr 2018 11:16 AM PDT  Travis Reinking, the 29-year-old suspected of killing four people Sunday in a
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| As chemical weapons inspectors reach Douma, Syria claims suspected attack was fake Posted: 22 Apr 2018 08:48 AM PDT  The chemical weapons inspectors reached the city of Douma, now under Russian and Syrian control, two weeks after the suspected attack took place.
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| Every Time Meghan Markle Spoke Out Against Gender Inequality Posted: 23 Apr 2018 08:54 AM PDT  She's marrying royalty but Meghan Markle is already a feminist queen.
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| Sen. Bob Corker Not That Excited About The Leading Republican To Replace Him Posted: 22 Apr 2018 09:53 AM PDT  Retiring Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) could muster up only lukewarm praise for
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| Korean Air heiresses to resign as smuggle probe widens Posted: 23 Apr 2018 01:25 AM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Korean Air Lines said Monday that two daughters of its chairman will resign from their executive positions amid mounting public criticism over the women's behavior and allegations that the family engaged in smuggling.
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| Obama to deliver Mandela lecture in S.Africa in July Posted: 23 Apr 2018 03:19 AM PDT  Former US president Barack Obama will deliver the annual Nelson Mandela memorial lecture at a 4,000-capacity arena in Johannesburg in July, South African organisers announced on Monday. Obama, who met with Mandela in 2005 and who made an emotional address at his funeral, will speak at the lecture marking 100 years since the anti-apartheid icon was born. "President Barack Obama -- we will be looking forward to hosting him as he will be addressing this esteemed Nelson Mandela annual lecture," Sello Hatang, head of the Nelson Mandela Foundation, said.
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| Controversy over police response to teen trapped by van seat Posted: 22 Apr 2018 08:53 AM PDT  Newly released body camera footage shows police officers looking for 16-year-old Kyle Plush, who called 911 twice before his death, but does not show them getting out of their patrol car.
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| Armenian PM Sarksyan quits after 11 days of street protests Posted: 23 Apr 2018 01:11 PM PDT  By Hasmik Mkrtchyan YEREVAN (Reuters) - Armenian Prime Minister Serzh Sarksyan resigned on Monday after almost two weeks of mass street protests that have plunged the ex-Soviet republic into political crisis. Sarksyan, a close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin, had served as Armenia's president for a decade until this month and had faced accusations of clinging to power when parliament elected him as prime minister last week. Pressure on the 63-year-old to quit had increased sharply on Monday when unarmed soldiers in the capital Yerevan joined the anti-government protests, which first erupted on April 13.
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| Sean Hannity Defends Real Estate Empire Aided By HUD Loans Posted: 23 Apr 2018 01:27 PM PDT  Fox News host Sean Hannity is speaking out following a report that he
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| Waffle House Customer Hailed A Hero After Wrestling Rifle Away From Shooter Posted: 22 Apr 2018 02:42 PM PDT  A 29-year-old man is being hailed as a hero after he single-handedly disarmed
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| GOP strategist says Cohen investigation 'could be the end of (Trump's) presidency' Posted: 22 Apr 2018 09:35 AM PDT  The "This Week" Powerhouse Roundtable debate the week in politics, including the legal issues facing President Trump.
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| Police Went to a Funeral Home to Unlock a Dead Man's Phone With His Finger Posted: 22 Apr 2018 01:16 PM PDT  Linus Phillip, 30, had been killed by police
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| GOP Congressman Doug Lamborn Thrown Off The Ballot For 2018 Posted: 23 Apr 2018 03:50 PM PDT  Colorado GOP Rep. Doug Lamborn won't be on the ballot as a Republican in 2018
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| HRW: 'Men only' job ads show ongoing discrimination in China Posted: 23 Apr 2018 03:32 AM PDT  BEIJING (AP) — One job ad for Chinese high-speed train conductors called for candidates who were "fashionable and beautiful." Another ad targeting men for a job in a Chinese internet company included photos of a female employee pole-dancing.
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| Century-old sunken ship preserved in perfect condition beneath Lake Superior Posted: 23 Apr 2018 03:39 AM PDT ![Century-old sunken ship preserved in perfect condition beneath Lake Superior]( "Century-old sunken ship preserved in perfect condition beneath Lake Superior") These stunning images reveal the remains of a more than century-old sunken ship that has been preserved beneath freezing Lake Superior. The ship looks almost exactly the same as it did the day it sunk beneath waves all those years ago.
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| Canadian lynched by villagers in Peruvian Amazon after death of elderly healer Posted: 23 Apr 2018 09:36 AM PDT  Police in Peru were last night preparing a series of arrests over the lynching of a Canadian man accused by villagers of murdering an 81-year-old medicine woman. Sebastian Woodruffe's body was found in a shallow grave on Saturday in a remote village in the Amazonian region of Ucayali. The 41-year-old had been accused by locals of the murder of Olivia Arevalo, a traditional healer of the Shipibo-Conibo tribe. She was shot twice and died on Thursday near her home, said Ricardo Palma Jimenez, the head of a group of prosecutors in Ucayali. Arevalo had been working with traditional plant medicine since the age of 15, and came from a long line of healers, according to the Temple of the Way of Light centre, where she worked. The centre published a YouTube video that shows her singing one of her curing songs. Ricardo Franco, Arevalo's nephew, described her to a Peruvian TV station as "the mother that protects the Earth in the jungle". He said she was "the most beloved woman" in the tribe. Woodruffe was believed to have been one of her clients, and some reports on social media suggested that she was killed for refusing to perform an ayahuasca ceremony – a hallucinogenic spiritual ritual increasingly popular with Westerners. Other reports indicated a row over debts. Arevalo's sons disputed both versions, however, saying that she had stopped performing ayahuasca ceremonies due to her health. Sebastian Woodroffe was found buried. Villagers in remote parts of Peru often punish suspects according to local customs and without the involvement of authorities Locals told an indigenous news outlet that witnesses saw Woodroffe shoot Arevalo multiple times after she sang an ikaro, or curing song. He then fled, local residents alleged, prompting Arevalo's family members to post a "wanted" bulletin online and on Facebook, showing Woodroffe's photo, identifying him by name and nationality, and offering a reward. Distressing mobile phone footage, shared on social media, showed the attack on Woodruffe. He is seen in the film groaning in a puddle near a thatched-roof structure, as another man puts a rope around his neck and drags him, with others looking on. Mr Jimenez said the footage was being studied, and Peru's ministry of the interior said in a statement issued yesterday (MON) that they were close to making arrests in the case. "The prosecutor is concluding his file soliciting the preliminary arrest of the person seen in the video," a ministry source told Peruvian newspaper El Comercio. Canada's foreign ministry said they were investigating. "Canada extends its deepest condolences following the reported assassination of Olivia Arévalo Lomas, an Indigenous elder and human rights defender," said Global Affairs Canada, which manages Canadian foreign relations, in a statement. "We are also aware that a Canadian was killed in a related incident. Consular services are being provided to the family of the Canadian." Woodruffe, who is the father of a nine-year-old boy, grew up in the Comox Valley on Vancouver Island. His friend Yarrow Willard told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation that Woodroffe worked odd jobs in recent years and did some professional diving. Woodroffe said in a YouTube video in 2013 that he decided to leave his job and leave his home in Canada to study plant medicine in Peru. A relative's battle with alcoholism had inspired him to "fix the family's spirit" and pursue a career as an addictions counsellor, he said. Woodroffe began raising money for an apprenticeship with traditional healers in the Amazon, writing on his fundraising page that he felt a responsibility to "support this culture and retain some of their treasure in me and my family, and share it with those that wish to learn." But Mr Willard said Woodroffe had become more distant after trying ayahuasca in Peru in 2016, and came back "troubled" from his retreats there. He described Woodroffe as a person "who likes to poke, and likes to test the boundaries of people's beliefs, but is very much a gentle person underneath all that." He found it hard to believe that his friend would ever be involved in a violent crime. "He had a beautiful spark to him that people respected and loved." He added: "This man has never had a gun or talked about anything along that line," suggesting that Woodroffe may have become a scapegoat for Arevalo's murder. Arevalo's murder prompted outrage in Peru following other unsolved murders of indigenous activists who had repeatedly faced death threats related to efforts to keep illegal loggers and oil palm growers off native lands. Policing is scant over much of the Peruvian Andes and Amazon and villagers in far-flung provinces often punish suspected criminals according to local customs and without the involvement of state police and prosecutors. "We've just been in shock," said Mr Willard. "It just felt like a scam because there is no way this person is capable of that." Woodroffe becomes the second Westerner to die at a Peruvian retreat. In December 2015 Joshua Andrew Freeman Stevens, 29, killed 25-year-old Briton Unais Gomes after Gomes tried to stab him at a ceremony involving the hallucinogens. Mr Freeman Stevens' actions were ruled self defence and he returned home to Canada. Mr Jimenez said that an autopsy showed Woodroffe died of strangulation, after receiving several blows to his body. "We will not rest until both murders, of the indigenous woman as well as the Canadian man, are solved," he said. "We want the people of the Amazon to know that there is justice, but not justice by their own hands." A Peruvian vice minister visited the community at the weekend to reassure locals that they would find the truth behind both murders. But the villagers were sceptical. "There is justice for those with money," one local resident, Alder Rengifo Torres, told TV Peru. Another local woman was captured on Peruvian television telling the minister: "A foreigner can come and kill us, day after day, like dogs or cats, and nothing happens. The state does nothing." A Peruvian ombudsman wrote tweets condemning the killing of Arevalo, "a promoter of the cultural rights of the Shipibo-Conibo indigenous people." He urged the government to protect indigenous people "in the face of an increase in illicit activities that put their lives at risk." But the ombudsman's office also expressed its "resounding rejection of the lynching and murder of the alleged perpetrator" of Arevalo's killing, adding: "We ask the authorities for an in-depth investigation."
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| Panel: Is DNC-Trump lawsuit a political stunt? Posted: 22 Apr 2018 01:06 AM PDT  Cornell Belcher and David Brody discuss the DNC's civil lawsuit against Russia and the Trump campaign.
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| Professor Who Sold Facebook Data To Cambridge Analytica 'Sincerely Sorry' Posted: 23 Apr 2018 04:17 AM PDT  Aleksandr Kogan, the University of Cambridge psychology professor who
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| Hundreds mourn New Mexico woman killed in Southwest flight Posted: 22 Apr 2018 09:32 PM PDT  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Family and friends gathered Sunday to mourn an Albuquerque bank executive who died after the Southwest Airlines plane she was on blew an engine in midair.
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| No testimony from Cosby as defense rests in Pennsylvania sexual assault trial Posted: 23 Apr 2018 12:21 PM PDT  Bill Cosby's lawyers rested their case on Monday in his retrial on sexual assault charges, with the comedian declining to testify in his own defense against a one-time friend's accusations that he drugged and raped her in 2004. "No, your honor," Cosby said in a clear voice, seated with his lawyers in Montgomery County Courthouse outside Philadelphia. Cosby, 80, faces three counts of aggravated indecent assault of Andrea Constand, 45, a former administrator of the Temple University women's basketball team, at his Philadelphia home in January 2004.
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| Yemen rebels vow to avenge coalition killing of political head Posted: 23 Apr 2018 04:49 PM PDT  Yemen's Huthi militias vowed Monday to avenge the killing of their top political leader in what they said was a Saudi-led coalition air strike, the highest-ranking rebel to die in the three-year conflict. Saleh al-Sammad, head of the Huthis' supreme political council, was "martyred" last Thursday in the eastern province of Hodeida, the Iran-allied rebels said via their Saba news agency. Sammad's death is a major blow to the Shiite rebels who have been fighting forces of President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi backed by a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia.
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| Enter The Vibrantly Revived Florida Home Posted: 23 Apr 2018 05:00 AM PDT |
| The Latest: Barbara Bush buried at presidential library Posted: 22 Apr 2018 01:10 AM PDT  HOUSTON (AP) — The Latest on the funeral and burial of former first lady Barbara Bush (all times local):
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| Israel dismisses claims Mossad behind Malaysia assassination Posted: 22 Apr 2018 04:18 AM PDT  Israel's defence minister on Sunday dismissed claims the country's spy agency was behind the assassination of a Palestinian scientist in Malaysia, suggesting instead that his killing was a "settling of accounts". Speaking to Israeli radio, Avigdor Lieberman described the dead Palestinian, a member of Islamist militant group Hamas, as "no saint" and said he had been involved in rocket production. Fadi Mohammad al-Batsh, 35, was killed in a Kuala Lumpur drive-by shooting on Saturday, according to Malaysian authorities, with his family accusing Israel's Mossad spy agency of the assassination.
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| Sneaky guide dog leads owner to his favourite store whenever they're out shopping Posted: 23 Apr 2018 06:04 AM PDT  Even the most well-trained of our four-legged friends have a mischievous streak in them. On Friday, Michele Sykora shared a video of her sister Danielle out at the mall with her guide dog Thai. SEE ALSO: This ingenious typeface seamlessly blends Braille and text "My sister's guide dog always sneakily walks her into this store without her knowing," Michele wrote on Twitter. "I love dogs, man." My sisters guide dog always sneakily walks her into this store without her knowing ���� I love dogs, man pic.twitter.com/UuE9wDN4md — Michele Sykora (@michelesykora) April 20, 2018 That's right: Cool Dog Gear. That video has had almost 6.5 million views at the time of writing. Michele followed it up with this adorable photo of Danielle and Thai together. He is mad loyal to her otherwise pic.twitter.com/NCjQb0vmiH — Michele Sykora (@michelesykora) April 21, 2018 "The first time it ever happened, my dad was with my sister and he just wandered right in," Michele told BuzzFeed. "It was the first time he did it." When she was next in the mall with her dad and sister, Michele explained that her dad told her what Thai had done last time — so just in case it happened again, Michele got her phone out. Unsurprisingly, the video proved popular on Twitter. i can't believe this real store called "COOL DOG GEAR" in comic sans exists out there somewhere https://t.co/UHUTEM6ToA — go go gadget marijuana (@amenbreakfast) April 22, 2018 The dogs like "it's my turn to shop" �� https://t.co/eV6HpmhRdi — Erica Danielle (@EricaDanielle99) April 22, 2018 Soon, others were sharing similar stories. My service dog does silly things like this sometimes! He fakes alerts so he can get treats �� pic.twitter.com/Zt1bZJeO1L — J (@goddammitcas) April 22, 2018 @GuidDogSparky tries to do this with the pet aisle in the supermarket. — Complexicated Cookie (@Johnboy_Cook) April 21, 2018 Haha classic guide dog behaviour! Lyric always tries to walk me to the park — PINKY FANG (@PINKYFANG) April 22, 2018 We suspect business may be about to rocket at Cool Dog Gear. WATCH: Here's what a blind Paralympic skier sees going down the mountain
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| NYT Reporter Hits Back At Trump, Says She Knows Who The 'Drunk/Drugged-Up Loser' Is Posted: 21 Apr 2018 07:26 PM PDT  New York Times reporter Maggie Haberman tweeted on Saturday that a source
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| Southwest Cancels 40 Flights as It Works to Inspect Plane Engines After Deadly Explosion Posted: 22 Apr 2018 12:17 PM PDT  The same engine that exploded last week powers nearly all of Southwest's fleet
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| Miami police use stun gun on man accused of touching female passenger Posted: 23 Apr 2018 06:50 AM PDT  Jacob Garcia began screaming insults on Sunday when airline staff tried to move him to another seat after the woman and her boyfriend accused him of touching her inappropriately, according to a Miami-Dade Police Department arrest report. Police ordered everyone off the plane, which was about to depart for Chicago, according to the arrest report and an American Airlines statement. A stun gun had little effect on him, possibly because it did not attach properly through his clothing, the arrest report said.
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| Christopher Wylie hearing: Cambridge Analytica whistleblower to give evidence to US Congress over Facebook data breach Posted: 23 Apr 2018 06:59 AM PDT  A former employee of Cambridge Analytica who claims the firm used the personal data of tens of millions of Facebook profiles to allegedly help Donald Trump's election campaign, is to testify before US Congress. Christopher Wylie said he had accepted an invitation to give evidence to the US House Intelligence Committee and House Judiciary Committee this week.
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| Police officers throw woman to floor during Waffle House arrest Posted: 23 Apr 2018 08:18 AM PDT  In this video recorded by Canita Adams, police officers in Saraland, Alabama, are seen throwing Adams' friend Chikesia Clemons to the floor of a Waffle House and arresting her. Clemons' mother Chiquitta Clemons-Howard told AL.com that the police arrived at the restaurant after her daughter asked for the contact information for its district manager. Clemons wanted to complain about one of the restaurant's servers, her mother said. The police department is investigating the incident.
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| Prince charming: Kate gives birth to boy, home by suppertime Posted: 23 Apr 2018 12:37 PM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Third time's a charm. The Duchess of Cambridge gave birth Monday morning to a new prince who is fifth in line to the British throne — and she was home by suppertime.
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| Chinese, Indian leaders to meet this week Posted: 22 Apr 2018 09:16 AM PDT  Chinese President Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi will meet in central China this week, Beijing announced Sunday, as the Asian powers work to improve strained ties. The two leaders will hold an "informal summit" in the city of Wuhan on Friday and Saturday, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said after talks with his Indian counterpart Sushma Swaraj. Xi and Modi "will set a general direction, identify new goals and create a new dynamic for the growth of China-India relations.
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| New Ford Focus ST Reportedly Coming In 2019 With Bigger Engine Posted: 22 Apr 2018 10:31 PM PDT  The hot hatch is expected to eschew the automatic transmission to go manual-only.
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| Tweeters Furious Over Trump Calling Mar-a-Lago The 'Southern White House' Posted: 21 Apr 2018 10:24 PM PDT  Twitter was incensed Saturday after Donald Trump used Barbara Bush's funeral
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| Redesigned 2019 Toyota Avalon Could Shake Boring Reputation Posted: 23 Apr 2018 04:00 AM PDT   Toyota is taking a two-pronged attack with its redesigned Avalon, replacing its rather vanilla sedan with a model that has two distinct personalities: sophisticated and sporty. There are essentia...
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| Ex-Bosnian Serb leader Karadzic accuses prosecutors of twisting his words Posted: 23 Apr 2018 06:36 AM PDT  By Stephanie van den Berg THE HAGUE (Reuters) - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic asked U.N. judges on Monday to overturn his genocide conviction, accusing prosecutors of unfairly blackening his name and twisting his words at his trial. Karadzic was convicted two years ago for some of the worst war crimes committed as the former Yugoslavia broke apart in the 1990s, including the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in which around 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed.
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| Channing Tatum And Arie Luyendyk Jr. Have A Day At The Races Posted: 23 Apr 2018 07:59 AM PDT  A soon-to-be celebrity bachelor and a much-despised reality TV bachelor revved
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| Nicaraguan journalist shot dead on Facebook Live while covering protests Posted: 23 Apr 2018 03:19 AM PDT  A journalist was gunned down during a Facebook Live broadcast as he covered an anti-government protest in Nicaragua. Angel Gahona was describing damage to a cash machine at a bank in the town of Bluefields on the country's southern Caribbean coast, when a shot rang out and he fell to the ground, bleeding from the head. Another reporter in the area, Ileana Lacayo, said Mr Gahona, who worked for the Meridiano news show, died before reaching the hospital.
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| The Latest: Armenia opposition to demand snap election Posted: 23 Apr 2018 09:49 AM PDT  YEREVAN, Armenia (AP) — The Latest on political upheaval in Armenia (all times local):
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| Nicaragua scraps pension reform in bid to end deadly protests Posted: 23 Apr 2018 12:41 AM PDT  Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega scrapped Sunday a contentious pension reform that triggered four days of violence in which two dozen people were killed, but rioting students vowed to keep up street protests until he is ousted. Since the clashes erupted Wednesday, pitting protesters against security forces and pro-government supporters, 25 people have died, according to the Nicaraguan Center for Human Rights. "Among the dead are minors, students" and a journalist who was shot dead on Saturday while reporting on the chaos in the Caribbean city of Bluefields, the center said in a statement.
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| Honda Made A How To Drive A Stick Shift Video, And It’s Really Good Posted: 22 Apr 2018 11:57 PM PDT  Meanwhile, manuals keep losing their market share.
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| Smallville's Allison Mack was allegedly a 'top member' of cult that abused women Posted: 22 Apr 2018 12:04 AM PDT  Prosecutors claim Allison Mack was second-in-command at the upstate New York headquarters of an alleged cult. As she was led from court in Brooklyn on Friday, Allison Mack appeared to wipe away a tear. Flanked by lawyers and closely shadowed by FBI agents and federal marshals, the 35-year-old's distress provided the first glimpse of what the future may hold for senior members of an alleged cult known as Nxivm.
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| 'Black Panther' Director Will Do Sequel When He's Ready, Says Marvel Posted: 23 Apr 2018 01:02 PM PDT  "Black Panther" director Ryan Coogler will helm a sequel to one of Marvel's
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| Man who wrestled rifle from Waffle House gunman denies being hero Posted: 22 Apr 2018 01:25 PM PDT  James Shaw Jr., the man who wrestled the rifle from a gunman who killed four people at a Waffle House in Tennessee on Sunday, denies being a hero, saying anyone in his position could have done the same. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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