| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s First Major Post-Election Dispute Hints At Future Battles Posted: 13 Jul 2018 02:45 AM PDT  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's public spat Thursday with Rep. Joseph Crowley
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| 2 Killed When 800-pound Boulder Flies off Truck and Slams Into Car Posted: 11 Jul 2018 09:00 PM PDT  Investigators said they tracked the truck to a landscaping company and arrested the driver.
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| When it comes to NATO, Trump has it half right Posted: 12 Jul 2018 02:00 AM PDT  If you make the case that America is wasting too much money to defend foreign borders, then you also ought to have an argument for how reversing that policy can help us here at home.
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| Ohio State wrestlers share emotional descriptions of alleged abuse Posted: 12 Jul 2018 08:02 AM PDT  Former students at Ohio State University and former head wrestling coach Russ Hellickson describe misbehavior by Dr. Richard Strauss in a video that helped spark the university's internal investigation.
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| China and the Cult of Xi Posted: 12 Jul 2018 09:36 AM PDT  Some Chinese citizens are pushing back against the country's new "emperor."
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| Rep. Louie Gohmert Uses House Hearing To Sling Mud At FBI Agent's Marriage Posted: 12 Jul 2018 01:46 PM PDT  A House hearing about FBI bias during the 2016 election erupted into chaos
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| Vaping pilot caused Air China plane to plunge 6,500m after smoke shut off air conditioning Posted: 13 Jul 2018 02:51 AM PDT  An emergency descent by an Air China aircraft after cabin oxygen levels dropped has been linked to a co-pilot smoking an e-cigarette during the flight, state media said on Friday. The state-backed Air China Boeing 737 aircraft was flying to the Chinese city of Dalian from Hong Kong when it went down to 10,000 feet (3,048 m), with oxygen masks deployed. Then it climbed again to continue to its destination, an incident that fuelled the concerns of safety experts. Chinese airlines have a good safety record in general, but passengers have, on occasion, accused pilots of smoking during flights. Few such incidents have been confirmed, however. "In the preliminary investigation, the co-pilot was found to be smoking an e-cigarette," state-owned China News said, citing a news conference by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) investigating Tuesday's incident. "Smoke diffused into the passenger cabin and relevant air conditioning components were wrongly shut off, without notifying the captain, which resulted in insufficient oxygen," it quoted Qiao Yibin, an official of the regulator's aviation safety office, as saying. China News added that the co-pilot had shut off the air conditioning units. Qiao said the shut-off triggered an alarm, prompting the crew to peform an emergency pressure relief procedure, which then released the cabin's oxygen masks. The crew realised the problem after the descent and restored the air conditioning, allowing cabin pressure to return to normal, he added. The CAAC said it was continuing the investigation and was analysing the aircraft's flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder. Air China did not immediately respond to requests for comment. It vowed a "zero tolerance" approach towards wrongdoing by any crew, on its official account on China's Twitter-like Weibo on Wednesday. The incident featured heavily on Chinese social media on Friday, with some commentators demanding harsh punishment and revocation of the pilot's flight license. China's aviation regulations, which bar flight crew from "smoking on all phases of operation", also banned passengers from using e-cigarettes on flights in 2006. Users of online airline forums have occasionally accused pilots of smoking during flights, however. In 2015, government-run China National Radio said four passengers on an Air China flight from Hong Kong to Beijing smelt strong smoke emitted from the cabin. In 2016, the United States prohibited the use of e-cigarettes on commercial flights.
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| Former Exeter police officer accused of being the Golden State Killer to appear in court Posted: 12 Jul 2018 06:21 AM PDT  Joseph Deangelo will go before a judge as part of a procedural hearing Thursday. Survivors and their families are expected to be in that courtroom as well.
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| 5-Year-Old With Cancer Crafts An Obituary That'll Make You Laugh And Cry Posted: 13 Jul 2018 02:03 AM PDT  A 5-year-old Iowa boy lost a battle with cancer last week, but he's winning
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| UK police say bottle was source of pair's Novichok poisoning Posted: 13 Jul 2018 03:51 PM PDT  LONDON (AP) — British detectives investigating the poisoning of two people with a military grade nerve agent said Friday that a small bottle found in the home of one of the victims tested positive for Novichok, a lethal substance produced in the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
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| Democrat deftly defends Peter Strzok on the question of anti-Trump bias Posted: 12 Jul 2018 02:05 PM PDT  Peter Strzok found an unlikely ally during Thursday's testimony over text messages the FBI agent wrote critical of Donald Trump and his supporters: congressional Republicans. While Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee hammered Strzok throughout the day for his 2016 text to former FBI lawyer Lisa Page assuring her that Trump would not become president, Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va., used his time to question Strzok to read off a series critical comments about Trump written by members of the GOP.
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| Giant iceberg drifting towards Greenland village could cause tsunami, prompting emergency evacuation Posted: 13 Jul 2018 04:22 AM PDT  A massive iceberg has drifted dangerously close to a tiny Greenland community, sparking widespread panic as residents fear it could trigger a tsunami. The iceberg now looms over houses on the edge of Innaarsuit, a small island settlement in northwestern Greenland, but it has become grounded and appears to have stopped moving. "There are 180 inhabitants and we are very concerned and afraid," Karl Petersen, chair for the local council in Innaarsuit, told CBC News.
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| U.S. accuses North Korea of U.N. sanctions breach, demands end to fuel sales Posted: 12 Jul 2018 03:55 PM PDT  By Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States accused North Korea on Thursday of breaching a U.N. sanctions cap on refined petroleum by making illicit transfers between ships at sea, according to a document seen by Reuters, and demanded an immediate end to all sales of the fuel. The United States submitted the complaint to the U.N. Security Council North Korea sanctions committee. The charge of a sanctions breach comes as Washington engages North Korea in a bid to convince Pyongyang to give up its nuclear weapons.
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| British diver describes 'electric' feeling after rescuing trapped Thai boys from cave Posted: 13 Jul 2018 12:30 PM PDT  A heroic British diver has said that the moment the Thai boys were successfully rescued from the cave in which they were trapped was "electric" and an "indescribable feeling" as he returned home. Tim Acton, from Essex, was one of the seven British men involved in the operation to save the football team of young boys and their coach. He was one of the first people to see the boys emerge alive, as his job was to carry stretchers in and out of the cave. The diver, 39, told The Telegraph: "I helped with the extraction of their boys on their way out. It was fantastic to see them coming out. "It was nerve-wracking and tense times before, when the last kid and the coach came out, everyone was asking [how it felt], I don't know how to explain it, it was just electric, it was just amazing." He said he has made "friends for life" with the other divers, who returned home today, and the Thai Navy Seals, who he lived and worked with in close quarters. Mr Acton was astounded by the bravery of the Navy Seals, who he said "understood they may never come home" from the mission. He added: "We need to remember Saman Kunan, the Thai Navy Seal that died, he left a young family behind, who need help. "I met his whole team, his whole team had worked with him since they were youngsters, I feel like by the time I left the team, I felt like I knew him very very well. "They're so selfless, unbelievable people." An Australian doctor who elected to stay with the Thai boys for three days instead of coming out of the cave also paid tribute to the Navy Seal who died in his first Facebook post after finishing the mission. Thai cave rescue | Read more Richard Harris also heaped praise on the British divers, adding: "[The first British divers] not only found the children and coach alive, but conveyed the gravity of the situation to the rest of the world and thus the rescue started in earnest. "The four Brits then did further supply dives to the soccer players, the coach and the four Thai navy Seals which allowed them to prepare and sustain themselves for the rescue ultimately." It emerged today that the Thai boys were only supposed to be in the cave for an hour, to play after soccer practice, before the waters rose and trapped them. Their handprints from where they had climbed to higher, safer ground were the first clues as to where they were and what they went through to remain alive. Banphot Konkum, father of 13-year-old Duangpetch Promthep, one of the trapped boys, said:"After an hour when they wanted to leave, the water level was rising. They ran further inside the cave to escape from the water. The water flow was strong." He added that all 13 rescued team members will enter the monkhood to pay tribute to Saman Kunan.
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| Thai cave rescue site to become a museum Posted: 12 Jul 2018 04:07 AM PDT  Rescuers who pulled a young Thai football team from deep inside a flooded cave were dismantling their worksite Thursday, as plans emerged to turn the spot into a museum in tribute to the daring operation. At least one film production house was already working on a scheme to make a Hollywood treatment out of the heroics of divers, cavers and medics who risked their lives to free the "Wild Boars". Rescue chief Narongsak Osottanakorn told reporters the site would ultimately be converted into a museum showcasing the clothes and equipment used during the dramatic rescue.
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| Nadler: Republican hearings are shows intended to help Trump Posted: 12 Jul 2018 01:37 PM PDT  Rep. Jerrold Nadler, top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, talks with Rachel Maddow about Republican efforts to use hearings in Congress to try to undermine the Mueller investigation to help Donald Trump.
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| I'm A Dreamer. Abolishing ICE Isn't The Answer. Posted: 13 Jul 2018 06:12 AM PDT  Outrage against Immigration and Customs Enforcement and its agents is nothing
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| Commerce secretary Ross to divest assets after ethics office scolding Posted: 12 Jul 2018 08:36 PM PDT  Ross released a letter from the Office of Government Ethics (OGE) on Thursday which said he failed to report certain investments that could create a conflict of interest. The OGE said it had not identified any deliberate intention to conceal the investments. It added Ross "created the potential for a serious criminal violation" of conflict of interest law.
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| NASA commercial crew program for space station faces delays, report says Posted: 11 Jul 2018 08:41 PM PDT  Plans to launch the first NASA astronauts since 2011 to the International Space Station from the United States look set to be delayed due to incomplete safety measures and accountability holes in the agency's commercial crew program, according to a federal report released on Wednesday. SpaceX and Boeing Co are the two main contractors selected under the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's commercial crew program to send U.S. astronauts to space as soon as 2019, using their Dragon and Starliner spacecraft respectively.
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| China Vows to Retaliate Against the Trump Administration's Threat of Another $200 Billion in Tariffs Posted: 11 Jul 2018 07:06 PM PDT  China gave no details, but it has plenty of options that could extend beyond additional tariffs on U.S. imports
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| Man With No Arms Accused of Stabbing Tourist With Scissors in Florida Posted: 12 Jul 2018 10:11 AM PDT  The homeless man with no arms is a fixture in South Beach, authorities said.
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| Parkland survivors file federal lawsuit Posted: 12 Jul 2018 06:22 AM PDT  Survivors of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida file a federal lawsuit claiming authorities "failed to act." Linda So reports.
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| 2 people hospitalized following shark attacks on Fernandina Beach, Florida Posted: 13 Jul 2018 02:48 PM PDT  Two people, a 17-year-old boy and a 30-year-old man, were hospitalized after being bitten by sharks in Fernandina Beach, Florida Friday afternoon.
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| Police had previously responded to Bills star's home Posted: 12 Jul 2018 02:48 PM PDT  ATLANTA (AP) — Police responded to several nonviolent disputes at the home where Buffalo Bills star LeSean McCoy was attempting to evict his former girlfriend before an unidentified man bloodied the 34-year-old woman in a home invasion, according to reports released Thursday.
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| People Have Ideas For Donald Trump's Air Force One Makeover Posted: 13 Jul 2018 06:48 AM PDT  A report that President Donald Trump wants Air Force One to lose the "Jackie
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| Asylum-Seekers Face Tougher Odds At Border Under Stricter Policy On Victims Of Violence Posted: 12 Jul 2018 03:44 PM PDT  More victims of domestic abuse and gang violence seeking safety in the U.S.
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| Damascus raises flag in Daraa, but tough battles ahead Posted: 13 Jul 2018 06:39 AM PDT  The rapid fall of Daraa city, the cradle of Syria's uprising, is an important victory for President Bashar al-Assad's regime, but the country's devastating war is far from over, analysts say. Russian-backed government forces raised the flag in Daraa city on Thursday, but the regime still has two regions outside its control -- and influential neighbours -- to contend with. "Bashar al-Assad sent a signal with the fall of Daraa city that nowhere in Syria that has risen up against him will remain outside his reach," said Nick Heras, an analyst at the Center for a New American Strategy.
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| Judge tells U.S. to pay costs of reuniting migrant families Posted: 13 Jul 2018 03:16 PM PDT  A U.S. judge ordered the government on Friday to pay the costs of reuniting immigrant parents with their children after they were separated by officials at the U.S.-Mexican border. The U.S. government is working to reunite around 2,000 children with their parents, who were separated in detention as part of U.S. President Donald Trump's "zero tolerance" policy to deter what he has said is illegal immigration. "It doesn't make any sense for any of the parents who have been separated to pay for anything," said U.S. Judge Dana Sabraw at a hearing in San Diego.
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| Marriott to roll out facial recognition technology to cut check-in times Posted: 12 Jul 2018 03:58 AM PDT  Marriott International has announced plans to roll out facial recognition technology at its properties around the world, starting with two hotels in China as part of a joint venture with the Chinese e-commerce site Alibaba Group.
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| Elderly man beaten bloody thanks passer-by as arrest is made Posted: 11 Jul 2018 08:06 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A 92-year-old man beaten repeatedly in the face with a brick in Los Angeles on Wednesday thanked the passer-by who took video of the aftermath of the attack that may have helped lead to an arrest in the case.
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| Newly opened shopping mall partly collapses in Mexico City Posted: 12 Jul 2018 08:36 PM PDT  A newly opened shopping mall on Mexico City's south side partly collapsed Thursday after structural problems led the mall's operators to quickly evacuate the area, and no injuries were reported.
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| John Kelly Was Upset With Breakfast, Not Trump, At NATO Summit, White House Claims Posted: 11 Jul 2018 11:01 PM PDT  At a NATO breakfast meeting on Wednesday, John Kelly, the White House chief of
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| Half of Americans trying to lose weight: study Posted: 12 Jul 2018 01:36 PM PDT  The National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, conducted from 2013 through 2016, found that 49.1 percent of Americans aged 20 and older had tried to lose weight in the last 12 months. A higher percentage of women -- 56 percent -- had tried to lose weight than men -- 42 percent.
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| Palestinian teenager killed in Israel-Gaza border protests Posted: 13 Jul 2018 12:50 PM PDT  Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian teenager during protests along the Gaza border on Friday, Gaza medical officials said, and an Israeli soldier was wounded during the demonstrations that had turned violent, the military said. More than 130 Palestinians have been killed during the Israel-Gaza frontier protests which have entered their fourth month and have drawn a lethal Israeli army response.
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| The Latest: Italy to probe alleged threats by migrants Posted: 12 Jul 2018 08:25 AM PDT  INNSBRUCK, Austria (AP) — The Latest on Europe's migrant crisis (all times local):
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| Florida police chief instructed officers to pin crimes on innocent black people, probe finds Posted: 12 Jul 2018 02:42 PM PDT  A former police chief and two officers in Florida were charged with federal civil rights violations after pinning a series of burglaries on an innocent black teenager. Biscayne Park police department's former chief Ray Atesanio, as well as officers Raul Fernandez and Charlie Dayoub, plead not guilty this week to falsely charging a black Haitian-American teenager with burglary.
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| 'Endangered blue whale' slaughtered with harpoon off coast of Iceland Posted: 12 Jul 2018 05:19 AM PDT  An Icelandic whaling company has been accused of slaughtering an endangered blue whale in a "deplorable act", provoking anger and condemnation from the international marine conservationist community. Animal rights campaigners who photographed the whale's carcass, say it was harpooned and killed off the west coast of Iceland on July 8. Genetic sampling has been conducted to establish the species of the whale, with experts unable to rule out the possibility it could be a rare blue/fin whale hybrid. Kristján Loftsson, the multi-millionaire CEO of Hvalur hf whaling company, told the Telegraph he was "pretty confident" tests would confirm the animal was a hybrid species and not a blue whale. "This whale, when you see it swimming in the ocean, it was like a fin whale," he explained. "There were no characteristics of a blue whale, it is very easy to tell a blue whale in the ocean. "They go after it as a fin whale. When they shoot it and take it alongside the vessel, they noticed the ventral grooves, which you don't see when the whale is swimming in the ocean. This is what we have had with other hybrids in the past. "It is like a fin whale, it behaves like a fin whale, but after you shoot it you notice [the characteristics] are different to a fin whale. "It was taken as a fin whale, but it [will] turn out to be a hybrid. I'm pretty confident." Marine conservationists have called it a 'deplorable act' Credit: Hard to Port International The last case of a blue whale being deliberately captured and killed was recorded 40 years ago off the coast of Spain. Commercial whaling has been banned since 1986 under the a moratorium issued by the International Whaling Commission (IWC), however in Iceland the government regulates the hunting of whales having expressed reservations about its prohibition. Dr Peter Richardson, Head of Ocean Recovery at the Marine Conservation Society, told the Telegraph he believed the animal is a blue whale after analysing the photos. "This is a deplorable act - the blue whale, the largest animal ever to grace our planet, is endangered and protected under all relevant international agreements," he said. "We urge the UK Government, who have historically led global whale conservation efforts, to send the strongest objections to Iceland about the killing of this iconic species." Dr Phillip Clapham, one of the world's leading experts on large whales from the NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Centre, agreed it was a blue whale photographed at the whaling station. "While I can't entirely rule out the possibility that this is a hybrid, I don't see any characteristics that would suggest that," he said. "From the photos, it has all the characteristics of a blue whale; given that - notably the coloration pattern - there is almost no possibility that an experienced observer would have misidentified it as anything else at sea." Hvalur hf is licensed by Iceland's government to slaughter smaller fin whales Credit: Hard to Port Internationa Ocean activists Sea Shepherd UK, who observed the animal close up, said that several experts had confirmed "without question" it was a blue whale. Humane Society International's Senior Marine Scientist, Mark Simmonds OBE, called the slaughter, if confirmed, "horrifying". "It's bad enough that Iceland is already killing endangered fin whales, but it beggars belief that this whaling crew couldn't even tell the difference between a fin and blue whale," he said. Sea Shepherd UK accused the Hvalur hf whaling company of "ruthlessly violating international conservation law" and bringing Iceland into "disrepute". He added "utterly inappropriate" for countries to "even contemplate allowing a large-scale return to this grossly inhumane and haphazard industry". Blue whales are endangered species Credit: Sea Shepherd Crew While the Icelandic government permits Hvalur to hunt endangered fin whales, largely for exporting to Japan for human consumption, the killing of blue whales is illegal. Mr Loftsson added there was "no way" his employees would intentionally target a blue whale. "We see blue whales all the time on our grounds," he said. "Blue whales are not rare in our waters and the whalers know exactly what they are doing. "When we see the blue whales, we leave it and go and look for something else. But these whales seem to like to fool around." The whaling magnate said there are an estimated 40,000 fin whales in the area, adding his company has a quota of 151. The overexploitation by the whaling industry led to serious declines in many of the world's populations of whales up until the Seventies, according to the IWC, however many are now in the process of recovering. The blue whale is the largest animal on the planet and weighs up to 200 tons, the equivalent of 33 elephants, with a heart approximately the size of a Volkswagen. The Government of Iceland confirmed that "blue whales are protected under Icelandic law with their capture prohibited". "The matter is taken seriously by the Government and the relevant authorities are investigating this issue," it said in a statement. "At present, we are not in a position to confirm the species, although initial information from the Directorate of Fisheries in Iceland suggests the animal caught is not likely to be a blue whale but rather a hybrid of a fin whale and a blue whale. This will only be confirmed once a DNA analysis has been concluded."
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| Nevada execution blocked after drugmaker protests use of its sedative Posted: 11 Jul 2018 07:46 PM PDT ![Nevada execution blocked after drugmaker protests use of its sedative]( "Nevada execution blocked after drugmaker protests use of its sedative") Alvogen Inc, which said the Nevada Corrections Department had obtained the sedative midazolam illegitimately, won a court order barring it from being administered to Scott Dozier in the state's newly devised and untested three-drug execution protocol. Another judge formally issued an indefinite stay of the execution. Alvogen was the second U.S. drugmaker since last year to take legal action against a state using one of its products to administer capital punishment, saying the brand would be tarnished by association with the process of putting people to death.
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| Trump Says Europe Is ‘Losing’ Its Culture Because Of Immigration Posted: 12 Jul 2018 04:57 PM PDT  President Donald Trump lambasted Europe's immigration policies during an
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