| Historians Quit UVA Think Tank After School's Hiring Of Ex-Trump Aide Marc Short Posted: 30 Jul 2018 12:01 PM PDT  Two distinguished historians at the University of Virginia have resigned from
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| Marine Killed In Car Crash After Visiting Newborn Daughter In Hospital Posted: 30 Jul 2018 12:58 PM PDT  Kevin Quinn's dream of becoming a father came true for on Wednesday when his
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| Six people killed as California wildfire spreads Posted: 30 Jul 2018 12:28 AM PDT ![Six people killed as California wildfire spreads]( "Six people killed as California wildfire spreads") By Alexandria Sage REDDING, Calif. (Reuters) - A 70-year-old woman and her two great-grandchildren were among six people killed when a wildfire engulfed entire communities in northern California, officials and family members said. Shasta County Sheriff Tom Bosenko told a news conference near the city of Redding at the edge of the blaze on Sunday one more person had been killed in a residence consumed by fire, bringing the total to six, including two firefighters.
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| TSA Has Been Secretly Monitoring Travelers Who Aren't Listed On Government Watch Lists Posted: 30 Jul 2018 12:37 AM PDT  Federal air marshals have been secretly tracking dozens of American travelers
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| Zimbabwe elections: Nelson Chamisa says he's 'winning' and Emmerson Mnangagwa 'positive' as vote count continues Posted: 31 Jul 2018 12:17 AM PDT  Zimbabwe's Emmerson Mnangagwa and opposition leader Nelson Chamisa have both claimed the lead as the country awaits the results of Monday's historic presidential election. Official results of Zimbabwe's first presidential and parliamentary election without Robert Mugabe on the ballot are due to be announced by the Zimbabwe Electoral Commission within five days. But Mr Chamisa took to Twitter just hours after polls closed to claim victory for his MDC Alliance, a grouping of seven opposition parties. "Winning resoundingly...We now have results from the majority of the over 10 000 polling stations. We've done exceedingly well," he wrote in the early hours of Tuesday morning. "Awaiting ZEC to perform their constitutional duty to officially announce the people's election results and we are ready to form the next gvt." Winning resoundingly...We now have results from the majority of the over 10 000 polling stations. We've done exceedingly well. Awaiting ZEC to perform their constitutional duty to officially announce the people's election results and we are ready to form the next gvt.#Godisinit— Nelson Chamisa (@nelsonchamisa) July 31, 2018 Mr Chamisa offered no evidence for his claim. He repeatedly said before the election that his victory was inevitable. On Monday he accused the electoral commission of trying to suppress the MDC vote by creating large queues at urban polling stations. Mr Mnangagwa, 75, said in his own statement on Tuesday morning that he was "waiting patiently for official results as per the constitution." But he added that he was receiving "extremely positive" information from Zanu PF polling agents on the ground. "Good morning Zimbabwe. I am delighted by the high turnout and citizen engagement so far," he wrote on Twitter. Good morning Zimbabwe. I am delighted by the high turnout and citizen engagement so far. The information from our reps on the ground is extremely positive! Waiting patiently for official results as per the constitution.— President of Zimbabwe (@edmnangagwa) July 31, 2018 Zimbabweans voted for presidential, parliamentary, and local government candidates in an election that is seen as a key test of Mr Mnangagwa's promise to break with the political violence of the Mugabe era. The Zimbabwe Election Commission said on Monday night that average turnout was 75 percent. The only poll released ahead of the vote predicted a narrow gap between the two leading presidential candidates with Mr Mnangagwa just three percent ahead of Mr Chamisa. Early results suggest Mr Chamisa's MDC Alliance has done well in its traditional stronghold of Harare, the capital city, claiming several parliamentary seats. However, more than 60 percent of voters live in rural areas traditionally controlled by Mr Mnangagwa's Zanu PF. Africa's tarnished jewel: how four decades of Robert Mugabe left Zimbabwe's economy reeling Zanu-PF have ruled Zimbabwe for 38 years and Mr Mnangagwa's near total dominance in the media makes him the front runner in the election. He has sought to attract former opposition voters by publicly breaking with Mr Mugabe and promising a "New Dispensation" of democratic and economic reforms. However, Mr Chamisa has made significant inroads into former Zanu PF strongholds in rural areas and has attracted large crowds at his rallies. EU observers said on Monday evening that the vote appeared to have mostly run smoothly but that it was too early to say whether it could be called free and fair. They said there had been isolated instances of intimidation and poor organisation at some polling stations.
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| Tajikistan Blames Banned Islamist Party for Attack That Killed Two Americans Posted: 30 Jul 2018 10:21 PM PDT  Separately, ISIS claimed responsibility for the attack on seven tourists
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| Multistate hunt for antivenom after exotic snake attacks Michigan man Posted: 31 Jul 2018 10:58 AM PDT  A snake bite forced doctors to frantically call zoos and venom response programs across the country in search of antivenom medicine. A 26-year-old man who was bit by a cobra did not respond to the generic antivenom medicine he was initially provided at a Michigan-area hospital, before being airlifted to Detroit. As his respiratory muscles became paralysed, doctors reportedly scrambled to locate a serum that would neutralize the rare snake venom coursing through his body.
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| Former FEMA Executive Investigated For Sexual Misconduct Posted: 30 Jul 2018 02:55 PM PDT  A former personnel chief of the Federal Emergency Management Agency is being
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| Trump says he would meet Iran's leaders 'anytime' with 'no preconditions' Posted: 30 Jul 2018 01:27 PM PDT  Months after pulling the United States out of a nuclear deal with Iran, the president says he is willing to meet with leaders from Tehran.
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| Shocking Paris Video: Harasser Slaps Woman After She Tells Him To Shut Up Posted: 30 Jul 2018 08:30 PM PDT  An explosive video shared by a French architecture student shows a man walking
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| After Indonesian earthquake terror, hundreds trek down from volcano Posted: 30 Jul 2018 03:16 AM PDT  By Agustinus Beo Da Costa and Fergus Jensen JAKARTA (Reuters) - Nearly 700 trekkers headed down Mount Rinjani on Indonesia's tourist island of Lombok on Monday, a day after a powerful earthquake of magnitude 6.4 terrified the climbers as boulders tumbled down the slopes of the volcano. Officials said the death toll from Sunday's earthquake, which was centered on the northern part of Lombok, but was also felt on the resort island of Bali to the west, stood at 16. "I thought I was going to die," said John Robyn Buenavista, a 23-year-old American, who was at the summit when the quake hit.
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| Missing Iowa Jogger Mollie Tibbetts Was Doing Homework Late on the Night She Disappeared Posted: 30 Jul 2018 05:33 AM PDT  It is unclear whether she returned home after her run.
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| California Firefighter's Home Burned Down In Carr Fire While He Fought Other Blaze Posted: 30 Jul 2018 05:02 PM PDT  Northern California firefighter Jason Campbell came home from battling one of
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| MH370 investigators say they can't rule out 'unlawful interference' as final report leaves relatives disappointed Posted: 30 Jul 2018 06:19 AM PDT  Investigators released a report on missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 on Monday, saying the Boeing 777's controls were likely deliberately manipulated to take it off course but they were not able to determine who was responsible. The 495-page report draws no conclusion about what happened aboard the plane that vanished with 239 people on board en route to Beijing from Kuala Lumpur on March 8, 2014, leaving one of the world's greatest aviation mysteries unsolved. "The answer can only be conclusive if the wreckage is found," Kok Soo Chon, head of the MH370 safety investigation team, told reporters. On May 29, Malaysia called off a three-month search by US firm Ocean Infinity, which spanned 112,000 sq km (43,243 sq miles) in the southern Indian Ocean and ended with no significant findings. It was the second major search after Australia, China and Malaysia ended a fruitless A$200 million (£112.06 million) search across an area of 120,000 sq km (46,332 sq miles) last year. Sarah Nor, the mother of Norliakmar Hamid, a passenger on missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370, cries as she arrives for the final investigation report Credit: MOHD RASFAN/ AFP Malaysian and international investigators have been looking into why the jet veered thousands of miles off course from its scheduled route before eventually plunging into the Indian Ocean. The last communication from the plane was from the Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah who signed off with "Good night, Malaysian three seven zero", as the plane left the Malaysian airspace and later turned off course. A 440-page final report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) last year showed that Zaharie had flown a route on his home flight simulator six weeks earlier that was "initially similar" to the one actually taken by MH370. The Malaysian police previously concluded there were no unusual activity on the home simulator. Kok said the investigators examined the history of the pilot and the first officer, and they were satisfied with their background and training and mental health. "We are not of the opinion it could have been an event committed by the pilots," he said, but added they were not ruling out any possibility since the in-air turn back was done manually and the systems in the plane were also manually turned off. "We cannot exclude that there was an unlawful interference by a third party," Kok said. He added all the passengers of the 15 countries had their backgrounds checked by their respective countries and all came back with a clean bill of health. Conspiracy theories The inability to locate MH370's crash site has fuelled conspiracy theories and online debates over the last four years. Theories range from mechanical error or a remote-controlled crash, to more bizarre explanations like alien abduction and a Russian plot. Kok said they looked into each theory and rumour raised on social media. "We had over 60 allegations...we removed them one-by-one and saw what remained behind," Kok said. Rayan Gharazeddine scans the water in the southern Indian Ocean off Australia from a Royal Australian Air Force AP-3C Orion during a search for the missing plane in 2014 Credit: Rob Griffith/AP The report said there was no sign the plane was evading radar detection or that it was taken over by remote control. No irregularities were found in the on-board cargo, which included items like lithium batteries and about 2,500 kgs of mangosteen. Mistakes made In all, 27 pieces of aircraft debris have been collected from various places around the world but only three wing fragments that washed up along the Indian Ocean coast have been confirmed to be from MH370. Malaysia's newly elected Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad has said Malaysia would consider resuming the search only if new clues come to light. Investigators highlighted some mistakes made by the Kuala Lumpur and Ho Chi Minh City air traffic control centres and made safety recommendations to ensure such incidents do not occur again. Transport Minister Antony Loke said in a statement that the Malaysia would investigate any misconduct committed based on the findings. Families of passengers on board the flight said on Monday that the report failed to give closure Credit: Joshua Paul/AP The next-of-kin of the passengers were briefed on the final report by investigators earlier on Monday. "We hope that these mistakes will not be repeated and that measures are put in place to prevent them in the future," said Grace Nathan, a lawyer whose mother, Anne Daisy, was on the plane. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Beijing had paid close attention to the MH370 investigation. "We hope that all sides can continue to remain in close contact and coordination, to properly carry out relevant follow-up work," he told a daily news briefing, without elaborating. The majority of passengers on board were Chinese.
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| Yahoo News explains: What is Trump Derangement Syndrome? Posted: 30 Jul 2018 07:00 AM PDT  Trump Derangement Syndrome is a mock diagnosis used by President Trump's supporters to describe individuals whose dislike of the man makes them incapable of seeing any good in his policies or decisions.
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| Aerial pictures show scale of California wildfires Posted: 30 Jul 2018 07:30 PM PDT  Firefighters in Mendocino County, California, used aerial water bombardment to fight a large fire that was expanding as Lake County Sheriff's office issued evacuation orders on Monday, July 30. No reporter narration.
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| Ancient pottery factory unveiled in Israel Posted: 31 Jul 2018 09:07 AM PDT  Israeli archaeologists on Tuesday unveiled what they said was a major pottery plant which produced wine storage jars continuously from Roman to Byzantine times. The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) said that excavations near the town of Gedera, south of Tel Aviv, revealed the factory and an adjacent leisure complex of 20 bathing pools and a room used for board games. Excavation director Alla Nagorsky told journalists at the site that from the third century AD the plant produced vessels of a type known to historians as "Gaza" jars for an unbroken period of 600 years.
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| The Biggest Mistakes People Make When Apologizing Posted: 30 Jul 2018 01:51 PM PDT  Apologizing can be very difficult. It takes maturity to put aside your pride
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| Man Charged With Assaulting Elderly Catholic Priest In Delaware Posted: 31 Jul 2018 12:28 PM PDT  Police in Delaware have arrested a 25-year-old man they claim violently
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| Northern California wildfire 9th most destructive in history Posted: 30 Jul 2018 09:14 PM PDT  LAKEPORT, Calif. (AP) — A pair of wildfires that prompted evacuation orders for nearly 20,000 people barreled Monday toward small lake towns in Northern California, and authorities faced questions about how quickly they warned residents about the largest and deadliest blaze burning in the state.
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| Porsche confirms Taycan specifications Posted: 31 Jul 2018 06:33 AM PDT  The name Taycan might not mean much at the moment, but it certainly will when this production version of the Porsche Mission E concept goes on sale towards the end of next year. Orders are already being taken for this exciting new Porsche, and the German automaker has just revealed some of the figures associated with this groundbreaking new model. When it finally goes on sale, the Taycan will be the first production electric vehicle from the legendary performance brand.
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| U.S. Revokes Visas Of Nicaraguan Officials Over Violence Against Protesters Posted: 31 Jul 2018 03:03 PM PDT  President Donald Trump's White House moved Monday to revoke the visas of
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| Police investigating after young pit bull left to drown in cage on river's edge Posted: 31 Jul 2018 08:52 AM PDT  New Jersey authorities are searching for a suspect who they say left a young
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| Apple earnings arrive with trillion-dollar value near Posted: 30 Jul 2018 10:52 PM PDT  Apple will release quarterly earnings figures Tuesday as it flirts with a history-making, trillion-dollar market value based on its share price. To hit the trillion-dollar mark, Apple shares would have to climb about seven percent from the $189.91 price logged at the close of official trading Monday on the Nasdaq. The market is eager for news about demand for iPhones and how the company is riding out trade turbulence between the US and China.
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| Here's What Happened After I Was Sexually Assaulted While Sleeping On A Plane Posted: 31 Jul 2018 05:30 AM PDT  In the early morning of July 17, somewhere 40,000 feet above one of the Great
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| North Korea appears to be building one or two ICBMs: Washington Post Posted: 30 Jul 2018 04:36 PM PDT  North Korea appears to be building one or two new liquid-fueled intercontinental ballistic missiles at a factory that produced the country's first missiles capable of reaching the United States, the Washington Post reported on Monday. The newspaper, citing unidentified officials familiar with intelligence reporting, said U.S. spy agencies were seeing signs of the construction at a large research facility in Sanumdong, on the outskirts of Pyongyang. The findings are the latest to suggest ongoing activity in North Korea's nuclear and missile facilities despite arms talks with the United States and a recent summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump.
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| How bad are California's extreme fires? A visual guide Posted: 31 Jul 2018 08:33 AM PDT  At least six people have been killed and hundreds of homes have been destroyed by wildfires in California. According to the latest tally it has seen 657 homes destroyed, the fire having consumed 149 square miles of ground. "We're feeling a lot more optimistic today as we're starting to gain some ground rather than being in a defensive mode on this fire all the time," said Bret Gouvea, incident commander for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
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| BREAKING: Aeromexico Airliner carrying 101 passengers crashes after take-off in Durango, Mexico Posted: 31 Jul 2018 04:55 PM PDT  An Aeromexico passenger plane carrying 101 people crashed shortly after takeoff in Durango, Mexico, according to officials.
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| China's former internet czar charged with taking bribes Posted: 30 Jul 2018 01:26 AM PDT  China's former internet czar, who oversaw a tightening of online censorship during his tenure, has been charged with taking bribes, state media said Monday. Throughout his career, Lu Wei used his political offices to benefit himself including "illegally receiving a huge amount of property," according to the official Xinhua news agency, quoting a statement by the office of the country's top prosecutor. It said Lu is alleged to have used his position to benefit himself and unspecified other people during his time working at Xinhua, for the Beijing government, for the party's central propaganda department and as the head of the Cyber Administration of China, among other offices.
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| Panda celebrates birthday with bamboo bread cupcakes Posted: 30 Jul 2018 07:05 PM PDT  Giant panda Xiao Liwu celebrated his sixth birthday at the San Diego Zoo with plenty of presents and bamboo bread birthday cupcakes.
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| India's Modi and Pakistan's Khan discuss regional peace in post-election call Posted: 30 Jul 2018 01:05 PM PDT  By Drazen Jorgic ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi called Imran Khan on Monday to congratulate him on his party's victory in the Pakistan general election, with both men discussing regional peace. It was their first call since Khan's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party emerged victorious from the July 25 vote that has been marred by claims of pre-election rigging and irregularities on the day. Khan, widely seen as Pakistan's prime minister-in-waiting, is now courting independent candidates and minor parties to form a coalition government in a nation that has fought three wars with India.
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| Twitter Rains Hell On Jeff Sessions' New Religious Liberty Task Force Posted: 30 Jul 2018 06:03 PM PDT  Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Monday that the U.S. Justice
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| Study: 'Medicare for all' projected to cost $32.6 trillion Posted: 30 Jul 2018 10:11 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Sen. Bernie Sanders' "Medicare for all" plan would boost government health spending by $32.6 trillion over 10 years, requiring historic tax hikes, says a study released Monday by a university-based libertarian policy center.
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| LeBron James Is Done With Trump: 'I Would Never Sit Across From Him' Posted: 31 Jul 2018 02:13 AM PDT  NBA superstar LeBron James called out President Donald Trump on Monday night for escalating racial tensions.
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| Whatever Happened to Iran's Qaher F-313 'Stealth' Fighter? Posted: 30 Jul 2018 12:00 PM PDT  Several years back, Iran rolled out its Qaher F-313 'stealth fighter' in front of then President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Within hours it was met with near universal derision from defense and aerospace experts around the world.
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| Herman Shine death: One of few Auschwitz escapees and a voice for Holocaust survivors dies, aged 95 Posted: 31 Jul 2018 02:21 PM PDT  Herman Shine who was one of the few people to escape from Auschwitz – becoming a voice for Holocaust survivors – has died at the age of 95 in his California home. Mr Shine, who was born in Berlin and named Mendel Scheingesicht, was taken to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp as a teenager before later being sent to one of three subcamps included in Auschwitz. There he met Marianne Schlesinger, a woman who worked at the camp but was allowed to live at home because she was only half-Jewish.
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| Nicaragua's Ortega defends parapolice violence as US steps up warning Posted: 30 Jul 2018 07:22 PM PDT  Nicaragua's veteran leader Daniel Ortega defended brutal action by his forces against anti-government protesters Monday, as the United States warned he and his wife were "ultimately responsible" for deaths and rights violations. In the latest of a number of foreign media interviews the usually hermetic president is now giving, Ortega told the Euronews and CNN Spanish television channels the unrest was fomented by the United States.
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| Cambodian PM's party claims election rout, opposition sees 'death of democracy' Posted: 30 Jul 2018 02:10 AM PDT  By Prak Chan Thul and Amy Sawitta Lefevre PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Prime Minister Hun Sen's ruling Cambodian People's Party (CPP) said on Monday it had won all 125 parliamentary seats up for grabs in a general election a day earlier that critics said was neither free nor fair. Cambodia woke to another chapter of rule by strongman Hun Sen a day after an election that was heavily criticized by rights groups, the United States and other Western countries. "The CPP won 77.5 percent of the votes and won all the parliamentary seats," CPP spokesman Sok Eysan told Reuters by telephone.
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