| Polar Bear Killed After Attacking Cruise Ship Worker In Arctic Posted: 29 Jul 2018 12:40 AM PDT  A polar bear was killed on Saturday after it attacked a bear guard leading
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| Rudy Giuliani: Michael Cohen Has Been Warned To Keep His Mouth Shut Posted: 28 Jul 2018 08:02 PM PDT  President Donald Trump's legal team has warned his former fixer, Michael
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| CBS titan Moonves accused of sexual misconduct Posted: 27 Jul 2018 08:02 PM PDT  A bombshell article published in The New Yorker on Friday accused CBS chairman and chief executive, Leslie Moonves, of sexual misconduct stretching back decades and painted a broader picture of similar behavior within America's most watched television network. The article makes Moonves, a distinguished executive who transformed CBS into a ratings winner, one of the most powerful American men implicated in the #MeToo era that ignited last year after the career implosion of Harvey Weinstein. Six women who had professional dealings with Moonves told the magazine that he sexually harassed them between the 1980s and late 2000s.
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| At Least 3 Dead, Several Injured In New Orleans Shooting Attack Posted: 29 Jul 2018 01:41 AM PDT  A manhunt is underway in New Orleans for two suspects who police say fired
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| Donald Trump Jr. And Robert Mueller's Close Airport Encounter Is Now A Meme Posted: 28 Jul 2018 06:10 AM PDT  Donald Trump Jr. was captured on camera waiting for a flight near the same
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| Zimbabwe's Mugabe backs opposition on eve of election Posted: 29 Jul 2018 06:36 AM PDT  By MacDonald Dzirutwe HARARE (Reuters) - Former President Robert Mugabe said he would vote for Zimbabwe's opposition in Monday's election, turning on one-time allies in the government ahead of the first vote since they ousted him in a de facto coup. The election will see 75-year-old President Emmerson Mnangagwa, a long-time Mugabe ally, face 40-year-old Nelson Chamisa, a lawyer and pastor who is vying to become Zimbabwe's youngest head of state. Polls, which are unreliable, give former intelligence chief Mnangagwa only a slim lead over Chamisa, making a runoff on September 8 a possibility.
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| Lawmakers trying to stop the production of 3-D-printed guns. But it might be too late Posted: 28 Jul 2018 12:58 AM PDT  US gun safety campaigners have expressed their anger over Congress' failure to regulate the manufacture of 3-D printed guns. Following a multi-year legal battle, the federal government last month entered into a settlement with Defense Distributed founder, Cody Wilson. Mr Wilson rose to fame after manufacturing the the first fully 3-D printed pistol in 2013, when he was just 25.
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| Israel releases Italians who painted mural of Palestinian teen Posted: 29 Jul 2018 12:29 PM PDT  Israeli police on Sunday freed two Italians arrested for painting a giant mural of a Palestinian teenager seen as a symbol of resistance on the separation wall in the occupied West Bank, Italian and Israeli authorities said. "The two Italians suspected of vandalising the security fence in the Bethlehem area" have been released, Israeli police said in a statement. "But their visas have been cancelled and they must leave Israel within 72 hours... if they fail to comply they will be expelled", the police added.
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| Judge urges U.S. to focus on reuniting deported parents with children Posted: 27 Jul 2018 08:49 PM PDT ![Judge urges U.S. to focus on reuniting deported parents with children]( "Judge urges U.S. to focus on reuniting deported parents with children") By Marty Graham SAN DIEGO (Reuters) - A judge on Friday urged the U.S. government to focus on finding deported immigrant parents so it could reunite them with their children who remain in the United States following separation by officials at the U.S.-Mexico border in recent months. The government had declared it had met a court-ordered deadline to reunite families separated during the Trump administration's "zero tolerance policy" aimed at discouraging illegal immigration. U.S. Judge Dana Sabraw said at a court hearing in San Diego the government deserved credit for the 1,820 children released from custody to a parent or sponsor.
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| Massive Northern California fire gets even bigger Posted: 28 Jul 2018 11:07 AM PDT  REDDING, Calif. (AP) — Firefighters battling a huge wildfire in Northern California kept it from doing more damage to the city of Redding but three smaller communities were in danger as flames closed in and residents packed up to leave.
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| No, Bachelor Parties Are Not Why Millennials Can't Afford Houses Posted: 28 Jul 2018 04:48 PM PDT  "Study: Bachelor, bachelorette parties are why millennials can't afford
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| Indonesia earthquake: At least 10 dead as tourist island of Lombok shaken by 6.4-magnitude tremor Posted: 28 Jul 2018 09:10 PM PDT  A powerful 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck the popular Indonesian tourist destination Lombok on Sunday, killing at least 10 people and injuring dozens more, officials said. The strong tremor, which sent people running in panic from homes and hotels in the early morning, was followed by two strong secondary quakes and more than 60 aftershocks. "The earthquake killed at least 10 people, some 40 people are injured and dozens of houses were damaged," said Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman for Indonesia's disaster mitigation agency. "We estimate the number will keep rising because we are not done collecting data," Nugroho said. A 30-year old Malaysian woman was among the victims, he said, adding those hurt were hit by debris. An Indonesian person scrambles over the collapsed ruins of a house as others look on following an earthquake in Lombok Credit: AFP The jolt was felt some 100 km (60 miles) away in the bustling holiday island of Bali, although there were no immediate reports of damage there. As authorities scrambled to assess the damage to buildings and infrastructure, popular trekking trails on the remote Mount Rinjani were closed because of landslides, according to the disaster agency. "The earthquake was very strong... and everybody in my house panicked, we all ran outside," said Zulkifli, a resident of North Lombok, close to the epicentre. "All my neighbours also ran outside and the electricity was suddenly cut off," Zulkifli, who goes by one name, told AFP. The epicentre of the shallow earthquake struck 50 km (30 miles) northeast of Lombok's main city Mataram, the United States Geological Survey said, far from the main tourist spots on the south and west of the island. It said two of the aftershocks measured more than 5-magnitude. "People in East Lombok and Mataram felt the strong quake for 10 seconds, residents were panicking and running outside of their homes," Nugroho said earlier, adding people had run for open spaces like football fields. No tsunami alert was issued, according to Indonesia's geophysics and meteorology agency. At the holiday island's hotels, tourists raced outside as the quake struck soon after dawn. At the Katamaran Hotel & Resort in Senggigi beach, some 30 guests gathered in the hotel lobby for around half an hour before venturing back to their rooms. Wake up in the morning with the shaking bed ! Got called from farm and so many facility broke down..#agendafreetv#lombok#earthquakepic.twitter.com/GbANUMLpxW— Reyn (@suharja_reynard) July 28, 2018 "They calmed down and returned to their room once we explained the earthquake did not trigger a tsunami, everything is back to normal now," receptionist Ni Nyoman Suwarningsih told AFP. Indonesia, an archipelago of thousands of islands, sits on the so-called Pacific Ring of Fire, a seismic activity hotspot. It is frequently hit by quakes, most of them harmless. However, the region remains acutely alert to tremors that might trigger tsunamis. In 2004, a tsunami triggered by a magnitude 9.3 undersea earthquake off the coast of Sumatra, in western Indonesia, killed 220,000 people in countries around the Indian Ocean, including 168,000 in Indonesia.
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| Congress For $400: This House Minority Leader Played Guest Host On 'Jeopardy' Posted: 27 Jul 2018 09:45 PM PDT  House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) will never be a threat to Alex
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| Mike Pence Defends White House Banning CNN Reporter From Press Event Posted: 29 Jul 2018 10:39 AM PDT  Vice President Mike Pence stood by the White House's decision to ban a CNN
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| EU trying to 'swindle' UK in Brexit talks: report Posted: 29 Jul 2018 02:28 AM PDT  Italy's far right deputy prime minister Matteo Salvini has accused the European Union of attempting to "swindle" the United Kingdom out of the Brexit people voted for in the landmark 2016 referendum, The Sunday Times reported. "My experience in the European parliament tells me you either impose yourself or they swindle you", Salvini told the weekly as he urged prime minister Theresa May to take a harder stance in negotiations to sever ties with the trading bloc. May and her ministers are scrambling to forge agreements with each of the EU's 27 member states after a week which saw her already fragile "Chequers plan" for Brexit knocked back by Brussels chief negotiator Michel Barnier.
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| US midterms set to be most expensive ever as advertising sales pass $1bn mark Posted: 28 Jul 2018 03:21 PM PDT  The 2018 US elections are expected to be the most expensive midterms in history as advertising passes the $1bn (£760m) mark just 100 days before the election. Campaigns, political parties, and outside groups have purchased television advertising months before the November ballot casting which is hotly contested in several districts and states as Republicans hold a slim majority. The 2014 midterm elections hold the existing title as the most expensive, when candidates spent a collective $3.8bn in an effort to gain votes.
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| Former Milosevic defense lawyer killed in Belgrade Posted: 28 Jul 2018 01:52 PM PDT  A prominent Belgrade lawyer who in the past helped to defend late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic was shot dead, gangland-style, in front of his home on Saturday, police said. Dragoslav Ognjanovic, 57, was gunned down in front of his apartment building in the Novi Beograd neighborhood and his 26-year-old son was wounded in the right arm, the Interior Ministry said in a statement. As a prominent criminal lawyer, Ognjanovic served in the early 2000s on a legal team that helped to defend Milosevic at his war crimes trial before the U.N. tribunal for former Yugoslavia in The Hague.
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| 5 killed, hundreds of structures destroyed as explosive Carr Fire blazes into Redding, California Posted: 28 Jul 2018 09:12 AM PDT  The deadly Carr Fire burning in Northern California continues to threaten thousands of homes in Redding, California, after nearly doubling in size on Friday night.
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| MoviePass Ran Out Of Money, Couldn't Afford To Buy Tickets For Its Users Posted: 28 Jul 2018 12:28 PM PDT  The movie theater ticket app MoviePass suffered an outage Thursday when its
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| 'Erratic' winds, dry conditions fuel deadly California fires Posted: 29 Jul 2018 01:07 PM PDT  Around 12,000 firefighters battled Sunday to contain wildfires in California that have killed six people -- but authorities warned "erratic" winds and dry conditions have caused the flames to grow and spread. "Very hot and dry conditions will continue over the West coast states through Sunday," the National Weather Service said early Sunday.
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| Google Celebrates Civil Rights Activist María Rebecca Latigo de Hernández With a Doodle Posted: 29 Jul 2018 06:55 AM PDT  The Mexican American leader spoke against segregation
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| NYT Responds To Trump Tweet About 'Fake News' Meeting With Publisher A.G. Sulzberger Posted: 29 Jul 2018 08:38 AM PDT  The New York Times hit back at President Donald Trump's tweet Sunday that
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| Somali leader makes 1st visit to Eritrea in diplomatic thaw Posted: 28 Jul 2018 06:59 AM PDT  MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Another diplomatic thaw was underway Saturday in the restless Horn of Africa region as Somalia's president visited Eritrea for the first time and years of tensions gave way to an embrace.
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| Cambodia's ruling party claims victory in much-criticized election Posted: 29 Jul 2018 07:58 AM PDT  By Prak Chan Thul and Tom Allard PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Cambodia's ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) said on Sunday that it had won a general election that rights groups said was neither free nor fair due to voter intimidation and the absence of any significant challenger to Prime Minister Hun Sen. With no real opposition to speak of, Hun Sen was widely expected to win. CPP spokesman Sok Eysan said the party won an estimated 100 out of 125 parliamentary seats.
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| Iran's rial hits record-low 100,000 to the dollar Posted: 29 Jul 2018 01:48 AM PDT  Iran's currency hit a record low on Sunday of 100,000 rials to the dollar amid a deepening economic crisis and the imminent return of full US sanctions. The rial has lost half its value against the dollar in just four months, having broken through the 50,000-mark for the first time in March.
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| How Green Are Electric Lawn Mowers? Posted: 28 Jul 2018 03:01 AM PDT  The performance of electric mowers has improved dramatically over the course of the decade that Consumer Reports has been testing them. And this year is no different. From the $500 Ego LM2101 pus...
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| Two Rare Bugatti Veyrons Come Up For Sale Posted: 28 Jul 2018 12:04 AM PDT  Extra-special versions of an already incredible car.
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| Strong quake kills 14, injures scores, on Indonesia holiday island Posted: 29 Jul 2018 03:08 AM PDT  A powerful earthquake which struck the Indonesian tourist island of Lombok on Sunday killed at least 14 people, injured scores and damaged thousands of homes, officials said. Five children were among those killed by the shallow 6.4-magnitude early-morning quake, which sent people running outside in panic and triggered landslides on popular mountain hiking routes. Scores of aftershocks sparked fear among survivors.
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| Vatican meets #MeToo: Nuns denounce their abuse by priests Posted: 28 Jul 2018 09:36 AM PDT  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The nun no longer goes to confession regularly, after an Italian priest forced himself on her while she was at her most vulnerable: recounting her sins to him in a university classroom nearly 20 years ago.
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| Sanctuary City Philadelphia to Limit Cooperation with ICE Posted: 28 Jul 2018 09:03 AM PDT  Federal officials said the decision puts U.S. citizens in danger
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| U.S. Treasury's Mnuchin says he sees at least 3 percent growth for next 4-5 years Posted: 29 Jul 2018 07:07 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Sunday that he believes the quickening pace of growth in the nation's economy in the second quarter will persist for the next few years. "I don't think this is a one- or two-year phenomenon. I think we definitely are in a period of four or five years of sustained 3 percent growth at least," Mnuchin said in an interview with 'Fox News Sunday.' The U.S. economy grew at its fastest pace in nearly four years in the second quarter - at a 4. ...
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| What To Watch On Amazon Prime That’s New This Week Posted: 28 Jul 2018 06:03 AM PDT  Streamline recommends "The Americans" as the thing you should watch on Amazon
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| Burger chain apologises for using image of photojournalist beheaded by Isis in latest advert Posted: 28 Jul 2018 11:53 AM PDT  Z-Burger had put an image of slain reporter James Foley, who was captured by Isis in 2012 while covering the conflict in Syria. Chain owner Peter Tabibian took the tweet down and said in a statement: "An apology has been sent to some of you from a contracted marketing company over an unfortunate incident, a post in very poor taste that was not approved by me before being uploaded to our Twitter account". On 21 July the company's Twitter account posted an advertisement with an image of Mr Foley wearing an orange jumpsuit and kneeling facing the camera with a member of Isis wearing a full mask over their face.
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| New dolphin-whale hybrid sea creature is the spawn of an unholy union Posted: 28 Jul 2018 02:52 PM PDT  While surveying whales and dolphins off the Hawaiian Islands, scientists spotted a creature they've never seen before: a peculiar hybrid between a dolphin and a small whale. In 2017, before future naval officers trained on submarines in the waters around Kauai — a place called the Pacific Missile Range Facility — the U.S. Navy hired marine researchers from the Cascadia Research Collective to study the native animals in these seas. After encountering a large pod of melon-headed whales, the researchers tagged two of them, to see where they might go. It was then that the researchers noticed something curious about one of the creatures. It wasn't quite a melon-headed whale. Nor was it exactly a rough-toothed dolphin, which are common to the area. They collected some tissue from the animal, and after returning to shore and performing genetic testing, discovered it wasn't either species, but both. SEE ALSO: Iceland gets away with killing dozens of huge, endangered whales. Here's why. Melon-headed whales swimming in tropical waters (not hybrids).Image: NoaaThe hybrid was especially rare because of its melon-headed genes: The toothed-whales are rarely seen in these Hawaiian waters, the researchers wrote. Both species belong to the Delphinidae (oceanic dolphin) family, but the report notes that cross-species unions between them are unusual: It's only the third recorded example in the Delphinidae family, and the first between these two species. The hybrid, however strange, certainly wasn't treated as an outcast. The marine scientists tagged the hybrid with satellite tracking GPS, along with a companion, to see where they might go. And it appears they stayed together, travelling some 475 miles over eight days, and diving thousands of feet beneath the surface. WATCH: Ever wonder how the universe might end?
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| Best Dishwashers for $1,000 and Up Posted: 29 Jul 2018 03:01 AM PDT  You don't have to spend $1,000 to get a really good dishwasher. But if you want a top-performer that's very quiet and stylish, you'll find the most number of options above this threshold. Dishwas...
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| Israel to build new settler homes after deadly knife attack Posted: 27 Jul 2018 07:55 PM PDT  Israel is to build hundreds of new homes in a settlement in the occupied West Bank where a Palestinian stabbed three Israelis, one fatally, Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Friday. The announcement came as two Palestinians including a child were shot in the head by Israeli soldiers in separate incidents in the southern Gaza Strip, the Hamas-run territory's health ministry said, the latest deaths in the long-running conflict.
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| Five dead, including gunman, in Texas nursing home shooting: official Posted: 28 Jul 2018 08:51 PM PDT ![Five dead, including gunman, in Texas nursing home shooting: official]( "Five dead, including gunman, in Texas nursing home shooting: official") (Reuters) - Five people were shot dead, including the suspected gunman, in a Friday night attack at a Texas nursing home and the home of one of the people slain, city officials said. Police in Robstown, Texas, outside Corpus Christi, responded to reports of an active shooter at a nursing home about 7 p.m. local time (midnight GMT), where they found two men and a woman dead, said Herman Rodriguez, city secretary, in a video interview with the Caller Times of Corpus Christi.
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| Return of possible remains marks 1st step in Korea diplomacy Posted: 27 Jul 2018 06:49 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump thanked North Korean leader Kim Jong Un on Friday for "fulfilling a promise" to return the remains of U.S. soldiers missing from the Korean War, as a U.S. military plane made a rare trip into North Korea to retrieve 55 cases said to contain remains.
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| New Ford Focus Looks The Way It Does Because Of China Posted: 28 Jul 2018 11:00 AM PDT  China wanted wider doors, so Ford complied.
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| India says hopes new Pakistan government will work for terror-free South Asia Posted: 28 Jul 2018 10:35 AM PDT ![India says hopes new Pakistan government will work for terror-free South Asia]( "India says hopes new Pakistan government will work for terror-free South Asia") India on Saturday said it hoped the new government of Pakistan would "work constructively" to end militancy in South Asia, in its first comments following this week's general election in Pakistan. Cricket star-turned-politician Imran Khan, who won the disputed election, has called for better ties with India. "We hope that the new government of Pakistan will work constructively to build a safe, stable, secure and developed South Asia free of terror and violence," India's foreign affairs ministry said in a statement.
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| The Tesla Model 3 Makes Me Wonder About the Future Posted: 29 Jul 2018 10:30 AM PDT  Tesla's small sport sedan isn't perfect, but it's undeniably a milestone.
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