| DoJ seizes records of NY Times reporter in leak probe: NYT Posted: 07 Jun 2018 11:59 AM PDT  Rachel Maddow shares breaking news from The New York Times that the Justice Deparment seized the records of and surveilled a national security reporter who currently works for The New York Times, in an investigation of leaks of classified material.
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| Not much intelligent life in Washington. Outer space is another story. Posted: 07 Jun 2018 02:00 AM PDT  What's the truth behind that strange aircraft spotted off the coast of San Diego in 2004? Go ahead and laugh. But in the age of entertainment, we can no longer differentiate what's entirely superfluous from what seems superfluous but might really matter.
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| CrossFit Spokesman Fired After Calling LGBTQ Pride A 'Sin' In Homophobic Twitter Rant Posted: 07 Jun 2018 08:28 AM PDT  A CrossFit spokesman is out of a job after firing off a series of homophobic
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| Michael Avenatti Calls For 'Absolute Pig' Rudy Giuliani To Be Fired After Comments Posted: 07 Jun 2018 10:29 AM PDT  Stormy Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti went after Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday
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| Pulse nightclub shooting survivors sue Orlando, its police Posted: 07 Jun 2018 11:44 AM PDT  ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) — Almost two years after a massacre at an Orlando nightclub left 49 people dead and 53 injured, some of the surviving victims were filing a lawsuit in federal court Thursday saying the city and police didn't do enough to try to stop the shooter.
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| The conversation around the Lewinsky affair has evolved – Bill Clinton has not Posted: 08 Jun 2018 04:00 AM PDT  Bill Clinton is currently on a book tour to promote The President is Missing, a thriller he has written with James Patterson. Clinton, 71, has been criticized for responding in a manner many consider to be tone deaf. In an interview Monday on NBC's Today program, Clinton said he doesn't owe Lewinsky a personal apology.
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| Immigrant Faces Deportation After Delivering Pizza To New York Army Base Posted: 07 Jun 2018 09:30 AM PDT  A New York City pizza deliverer who brought a pie to an Army base in Brooklyn
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| The Latest: Hawaii lava destroys more than 600 homes Posted: 07 Jun 2018 08:02 PM PDT  HONOLULU (AP) — The Latest on Kilauea volcano's eruption in Hawaii (all times local):
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| Palestinian protester hit in face by tear gas canister fired by Israeli soldier in Gaza protests Posted: 08 Jun 2018 06:16 AM PDT  A Palestinian was on life support in a Gaza hospital on Friday after being struck in the face by a tear-gas canister fired by an Israeli soldier. Israel says it uses tear gas as a non-lethal measure against Gaza border protests. But the projectile, launched by a soldier on the Israeli side of the frontier, hit Haitham Abu Sabla in the face as he watched Palestinian stone-throwers taking part in demonstrations east of Khan Younis town, witnesses said. As seen in the picture above, the 23-year-old staggered back with the gas-spewing canister embedded in his cheek, his shirt bloodied, before collapsing. A Gaza hospital official said Abu Sabla was placed on life support after the canister was surgically removed. A Palestinian demonstrator uses a sling to hurl stones at Israeli troops during a protest marking al-Quds Day, (Jerusalem Day), at the Israel-Gaza border Credit: Reuters Reuters photographer Ibraheem Abu Mustafa, who took the picture, said: "An Israeli soldier came out of a military jeep and fired tear gas bombs ... and demonstrators began to run. They began to run further back and there was one of them who had gas coming out of his face. He ran before me directly. "I started taking photos of him as he ran, before he fell to the ground and medics rushed to help him. It looked scary, a man with smoke and gas coming from inside his face," he said. An Israeli army spokesman had no immediate comment on Abu Sabla's injury. He referred instead to an earlier statement that said troops were using what force was required to prevent around 10,000 Palestinians from posing an armed infiltration threat. Abu Sabla's older brother, Mahmoud, said they were both regulars at the protests against Israel launched on March 30 and in which the army has killed at least 123 Palestinians, according to Gaza medics. "It was a must-go for us. We've never missed a Friday," he said. Four Palestinians died in the protests on Friday, including a 15-year-old boy, and hundreds were injured - among them an Agence France Presse photographer - by tear gas or live fire fired by Israel soldiers at the Gaza border. Israel said militants had attacked its forces with guns and grenades. Palestinian demonstrators run for cover from tear gas fired by Israeli troops Credit: Reuters Over 115 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli fire during the near-weekly demonstrations that have been happening since March 30. Protests led by the Islamic militant group that rules Gaza are fueled by frustration over a decade-old Israel-Egyptian blockade, imposed after Hamas seized control there. Organisers had urged Gaza residents to head to the perimeter fence with Israel for the latest in a series of protests. The call was issued through mosques and loudspeakers mounted on cars that toured Gaza neighborhoods on Friday.
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| Key White House official advocated for 'limited use of military force' in North Korea Posted: 06 Jun 2018 06:34 PM PDT  Fred Fleitz, the chief of staff of the White House National Security Council, says top officials are considering "regime change" and the so-called bloody nose strike.
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| Your Private Facebook Posts May Have Been Public For Days Posted: 07 Jun 2018 04:33 PM PDT  Facebook has had another privacy mishap, this time announcing a recent bug
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| Police: 2-year-old, father believed dead in murder-suicide Posted: 06 Jun 2018 07:54 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — A 2-year-old Long Island boy and the father suspected of abducting him during a bitter custody fight are believed to be dead in Virginia, each with a gunshot wound in an apparent murder-suicide, police said Wednesday. It was a tragic development in a case where authorities declined to issue an Amber Alert and waited more than six hours to ask the public for help.
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| Hannity Tells Mueller Witnesses: Bash Your Phones 'To Little Itsy Bitsy Pieces' Posted: 06 Jun 2018 08:57 PM PDT  Fox News host Sean Hannity appeared to sarcastically advise witnesses in
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| Arizona man beaten by police speaks out Posted: 07 Jun 2018 02:20 AM PDT  An unarmed Arizona man who said he was repeatedly punched by police speaks out. ABC News' Diane Macedo reports.
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| 'Hidden beauty near the shore' — Photography by Toru Kasuya Posted: 08 Jun 2018 10:59 AM PDT !['Hidden beauty near the shore' — Photography by Toru Kasuya]( "'Hidden beauty near the shore' — Photography by Toru Kasuya") One of Japan's emerging stars in the field of marine life photography, Toru Kasuya was the recent Grand Prize Winner of the 6th annual Nikkei National Geographic Photo Prize, whose mission is to raise the profile of promising Japanese photographers globally.
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| More U.S. Government Workers Are Being Evacuated From China After Mysterious Medical Symptoms Posted: 06 Jun 2018 09:44 PM PDT  Testing revealed they might have been affected by unexplained health incidents similar to those in Cuba
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| Giuliani Speaks, Causes Trouble for Trump Posted: 07 Jun 2018 01:16 PM PDT  Rudy Giuliani made off-the-cuff remarks about North Korea that the Secretary of State had to rebuff. Giuliani also made claims about Melania Trump and Stormy Daniels that the First Lady's spokesperson had to shoot down.
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| What Will House Republicans Do If Trump Pardons Himself? We Asked Them. Posted: 07 Jun 2018 03:00 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Four days before Richard Nixon resigned in 1974, the Justice
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| Gator killed woman after dragging her into Florida lake Posted: 08 Jun 2018 02:35 PM PDT  Authorities captured and killed an alligator that they believe fatally attacked a woman while she was out walking her dogs near a Florida lake Friday.
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| New Rental Law Forces Airbnb To Cancel Thousands Of Reservations In Japan Posted: 08 Jun 2018 09:02 AM PDT  Airbnb said on Thursday it's been forced to cancel thousands of bookings in
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| Investigators say Tesla Autopilot sped up before fatal Model X crash Posted: 07 Jun 2018 09:24 AM PDT  Federal investigators said Thursday that a Tesla Model X traveling on Autopilot in California sped up before crashing into an highway barrier, killing its driver and striking two other cars. A preliminary report was made available by the National Transportation Safety Board detailing the moments before and after the March crash near Mountain View, California. In that report, investigators said the car's Autopilot system actually increased speed in the moments leading up to the crash and didn't attempt to brake or steer clear of the barrier.
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| Kamiyah Mobley Case: Gloria Williams Gets 18 Years for Kidnapping Newborn from Hospital, Raising Baby As Her Own Posted: 08 Jun 2018 11:06 AM PDT  Gloria Williams had pleaded guilty to kidnapping a baby girl from a Florida hospital.
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| Could China Turn Russia Into an Aircraft Carrier Superpower? Posted: 07 Jun 2018 06:25 AM PDT  The only downside for China would be that a Russian carrier would take up space and industrial capacity in Chinese yards, but this is a small price to pay. The Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov has entered what is expected to be a substantial refit.
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| China hacked sensitive U.S. Navy undersea warfare plans: Washington Post Posted: 08 Jun 2018 03:48 PM PDT ![China hacked sensitive U.S. Navy undersea warfare plans: Washington Post]( "China hacked sensitive U.S. Navy undersea warfare plans: Washington Post") Chinese government hackers compromised the computers of a U.S. Navy contractor and stole a large amount of highly sensitive data on undersea warfare, including plans for a supersonic anti-ship missile for use on U.S. submarines, the Washington Post reported on Friday, citing unnamed U.S. officials. The breaches took place in January and February, the officials told the Post, speaking on condition of anonymity about an ongoing investigation led by the Navy and assisted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
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| People flee hundreds of homes threatened by Colorado blaze Posted: 07 Jun 2018 05:28 PM PDT  DURANGO, Colo. (AP) — A wildfire in southwestern Colorado forced hundreds of evacuations and was expected to reach homes by Friday, authorities said.
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| France's Emmanuel Macron Throws Down Trump Twitter Gauntlet: G7 Can Be G6 Posted: 07 Jun 2018 09:15 PM PDT  From international pal to Twitter challenger, French President Emmanuel Macron
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| Spain arrests suspected drug lord in trafficking hotspot Posted: 07 Jun 2018 09:08 AM PDT  Spanish police said Thursday they had arrested one of the main suspected drug smugglers in a southern area where narco-traffickers are operating in an increasingly brazen manner, which has alarmed authorities. Over 100 officers were involved in the operation to arrest the man on Wednesday night in a neighbourhood of narrow streets in the southern city of La Linea de Concepcion, which lies across the border with Gibraltar, police said in a statement. The man had been on the run since the end of 2016 when police arrested 30 suspected members of the group in Spain and Morocco.
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| NASA Finds Concentrated Batch Of Organic Molecules On Mars Posted: 07 Jun 2018 04:00 PM PDT  If Mars were a fruit in the produce aisle (and, let's be honest, it would make
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| Protests erupt at G-7 summit in Quebec Posted: 08 Jun 2018 08:31 AM PDT ![Protests erupt at G-7 summit in Quebec]( "Protests erupt at G-7 summit in Quebec") After a tense standoff between police and anti-G7 protesters Friday morning, officers have peacefully cleared demonstrators and re-opened a road leading to the summit site of La Malbaie. Police in riot gear declared the protest illegal a few minutes after it began and encircled about 100 protesters who had blocked a road leading to the small town north of Québec City where G7 leaders are gathering for a two-day summit. Protesters said they achieved their goals of shutting down Québec City after the legislature was closed down on Friday and many businesses decided to shut their doors.
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| MIT Creates Psychopath AI By Making It Look At A Reddit Forum Posted: 07 Jun 2018 01:27 PM PDT  Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have truly created a
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| Suspected Los Angeles street race ends in massive crash ‘like Armageddon’ Posted: 07 Jun 2018 09:26 AM PDT  A suspected street race in Los Angeles ended in a driver who may have been intoxicated crashing into several parked vehicles, authorities said. Police officers responded to reports of a collision involving street racing in the Reseda section of Los Angeles to find a scene of destruction after the drivers rammed into a number of parked cars. A Los Angeles Police Department official said that two people were in critical condition and local reports said three were injured in total.
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| Trump's Immigration Policies Are Making It Harder for Foreign Doctors to Work in the U.S. — And That Could Hurt Patients Posted: 08 Jun 2018 12:23 PM PDT  It's only the latest threat to foreign medical graduates
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| Taiwan conducting war games simulating repelling Chinese attack amid heighted tensions Posted: 07 Jun 2018 01:18 AM PDT  Fighter jets, helicopters and thousands of troops in Taiwan fought back a simulated Chinese invasion Thursday as the self-ruled island faces increasing military and diplomatic pressure from Beijing. Relations between Taipei and Beijing have deteriorated since President Tsai Ing-wen was elected in 2016, as her government refuses to acknowledge that Taiwan is part of "one China". Live-fire drills began Monday with troops simulating surprise air and coastal assaults to reflect increased military threats from China, which sees Taiwan as a renegade province to be brought back into the fold - by force if necessary. Tsai watched Thursday's session of the ongoing "Han Kuang" (Han Glory) exercise involving 4,100 soldiers, attack helicopters and fighter jets from an air base in Taichung. Thursday's scenario simulated the enemy bombing of an airfield and a paratrooper attack, with air and ground troops deployed to take back the base. A C-130 Hercules aircraft drops supplies during Han Kuang military drill simulating the China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) invading the island Credit: TYRONE SIU/REUTERS An F-16 fighter flew overhead and deployed flares in a defensive move against heat-seeking missiles. Special operations troops were seen moving to secure a building. "I have seen our troops' capabilities and I have faith that our troops can achieve the goal of 'solid defence and multiple deterrence'," Tsai said. China held its own live-fire drills in April in the Taiwan Strait - the narrow waterway separating the Chinese mainland from Taiwan - following weeks of air and naval manoeuvres in the area. Beijing has also stepped up diplomatic pressure on Taipei, luring four countries to switch allegiance from Taiwan to China since Tsai took office. China has been incensed by a recent warming in relations between Taiwan and the United States, which remains the island's most powerful ally and arms supplier even though it has no official diplomatic ties. President Donald Trump recently signed a symbolic bill paving the way for mutual visits by high-level officials and Washington gave long-awaited approval for a licence necessary to sell submarine technology to Taiwan. A defence spending bill currently before congress in Washington calls on the US military to participate in Taiwan's drills, including the annual Han Kuang exercise. "We are optimistic about all exchanges with the US as long as it's about national security, and regional peace and stability," defence ministry spokesman Chen Chung-chi said when asked to comment on American participation in Taiwan's drills. On Monday, the pilot of an F-16 jet involved in the drills was killed after crashing into a mountain in northern Taiwan. The cause of the incident was under investigation.
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| With nuclear deal under threat, Iran shows off centrifuges Posted: 07 Jun 2018 04:43 AM PDT  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The star of a live television interview in Iran's new nuclear workshop wasn't the head of the country's atomic agency, but three centrifuges labeled in English in the background, advanced devices Tehran is prohibited from using by the nuclear deal with world powers.
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| No, Melania Trump Didn't Tell Rudy Giuliani She Believes President's Stormy Daniels Denial Posted: 07 Jun 2018 05:17 PM PDT  Despite Rudy Giuliani's strong indication otherwise, Melania Trump did not
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| Arizona chief hires former prosecutor to review use of force Posted: 08 Jun 2018 05:17 PM PDT  MESA, Ariz. (AP) — The beating of a 33-year-old man and the rough treatment of teenager prompted the chief of a suburban Arizona police department to enlist a former prosecutor Friday to investigate the videotaped encounters and report directly to him.
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| Israel says medic killed in Gaza was 'human shield' Posted: 07 Jun 2018 12:15 PM PDT  Israel on Thursday said that a Palestinian medical volunteer shot dead during violence along the Gaza border had agreed to serve as a "human shield" during protests and clashes. Spokespersons for the Israeli government and the army published the same tweet, quoting part of an interview with the young woman, Razan al-Najjar, in which she says she was acting as a "human shield". "Razan al-Najjar was not an angel of mercy as Hamas is trying to market her," Ofir Gendelman, the Arabic-language spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said in a tweet.
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| NFL Great Terrell Owens Declines To Attend His Own Hall Of Fame Induction Ceremony Posted: 07 Jun 2018 11:46 AM PDT  NFL great Terrell Owens said he won't attend his induction ceremony to the Pro
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| Texas man nearly died after being bitten by venomous snake he decapitated, wife says Posted: 07 Jun 2018 07:37 AM PDT  Jennifer Sutcliffe said she and her husband were doing yard work on Memorial Day weekend – in preparation for a family barbecue – when she spotted a 4-foot long Western diamondback rattlesnake slithering through her flowerbed. Ms Sutcliffe screamed, she told the Washington Post, altering her husband to the snake's presence.
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| What Is the Sound of an Electric Porsche? Posted: 08 Jun 2018 08:58 AM PDT  Porsche doesn't want its electric performance car to be silent.
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| Queen Maxima of the Netherlands' Sister, 33, Found Dead in Her Home of Apparent Suicide Posted: 07 Jun 2018 08:00 AM PDT  Queen Maxima of the Netherlands' sister was found dead of an apparent suicide at her apartment in Buenos Aires on Wednesday night, according to reports, including the BBC
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| Putin says Russia not planning to withdraw from Syria yet Posted: 07 Jun 2018 06:15 AM PDT  President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday that Russia was not planning to withdraw its forces from Syria for now, and would keep them there for as long as it was in Russia's interest. "We are not yet planning a withdrawal of these military forces," Putin told a televised call-in. "But for the moment, we need them there, they are carrying out important tasks, including providing security for Russia in the region, and helping our interests in the economic sphere." The Kremlin first launched air strikes in Syria in September 2015 in its biggest Middle East intervention in decades, turning the tide of the conflict in President Bashar al-Assad's favor.
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| As Immigration Facilities Fill Up, Detainees Are Being Transferred to Federal Prisons Posted: 07 Jun 2018 10:12 PM PDT  Immigration authorities said they're running out of room amid President Donald Trump's crackdown
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