| California's Mendocino Wildfire Is Now The 2nd-Largest In State History Posted: 06 Aug 2018 10:57 AM PDT  A combination of wildfires raging north of San Francisco, which already has
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| Police Locate 11 Children Living In Decrepit New Mexico Compound Posted: 06 Aug 2018 02:52 AM PDT  Police discovered 11 children in a squalid New Mexico compound while searching
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| The Latest: 7 rail cars from freight train derail Posted: 05 Aug 2018 03:42 PM PDT ![The Latest: 7 rail cars from freight train derail]( "The Latest: 7 rail cars from freight train derail") PITTSBURGH (AP) — The Latest on freight train derailment in Pittsburgh (all times local):
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| Scorching Photos Show The Deadly Wildfires That Are Ravaging California Posted: 06 Aug 2018 02:13 PM PDT  Firefighters in California continue to battle multiple deadly wildfires that
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| Hiroshima bomber tasted lead after nuclear blast, rediscovered Enola Gay recordings reveal Posted: 05 Aug 2018 11:00 PM PDT  Taped recordings and transcripts of interviews with the pilot and crew of the Enola Gay have been donated to the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum, 40 years after they were apparently lost and 73 years after the aircraft dropped the first atomic bomb used in warfare on the city. The 27 tapes cover 30 hours of interviews and are accompanied by 570 pages of typed transcripts that were collected by Gordon Thomas and Max Morgan-Witts before the publication of their book, "Enola Gay: Mission to Hiroshima", in 1977. Officials of the museum told the Mainichi newspaper that it had been feared that the recordings had been subsequently lost. They added that the recordings and documents are historically important to the overall story of the attack on Hiroshima because they reveal what was happening inside the aircraft during the mission as well as the feelings of the crew. The transcript records Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the B-29 Superfortress, stating that the mission was shrouded in secrecy and that the crew had been issued with handguns and cyanide tablets in case they were shot down. Hiroshima Mayor Kazumi Matsui (R) offers a new list of A-bomb dead, including individuals who died since last year's anniversary from the side effects of radiation Credit: AFP Mr Tibbets also said he had a taste like lead in his mouth the instant the bomb detonated above the city and a "big relief". "I got the brilliance. I tasted it. Yeah, I could taste it. It tasted like lead", Mr Tibbets said. "And this was because of the fillings in my teeth. So that's radiation, see. So I got this lead taste in my mouth and that was a big relief - I knew she had blown". Mr Tibbets put the Enola Gay into an evasive turn immediately after the bomb detonated, but the crew could feel the shockwave of the blast. "If you can imagine yourself inside a tin building and somebody comes along on the outside and hits it with a hammer, you get the sound effect", he said, adding that he could also see the mushroom cloud expanding over the city through his screen. Doves fly over the Peace Memorial Park with the Atomic Bomb Dome in the background, at a ceremony in Hiroshima Credit: Reuters The recordings include comments by Thomas Ferebee, the bombardier who released the atomic bomb, and three other crew members. The recordings were found in 2017 among the effects of a Japanese person, who has not been named, and were donated to the museum by his family. On Friday, a minute's silence was marked at 8:15am - the moment the bomb detonated above what is today Hiroshima's Peace Park - in memory of those killed in the attack. An estimated 100,000 people died in the initial blast or subsequently of radiation poisoning. A second attack was conducted three days later against the city of Nagasaki, killing around 80,000 people, before Japan surrendered and ended World War II. Kazumi Matsui, the mayor of Hiroshima, used his address at the memorial event to underline the horror of the first nuclear attack and call for more efforts to rid the world of atomic weapons.
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| Rick Gates Testifies That He Committed Crimes With Paul Manafort Posted: 06 Aug 2018 01:58 PM PDT  ALEXANDRIA, Va. ― Rick Gates, a political operative who worked on President
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| 1,200 tourists being evacuated from Indonesia quake islands: disaster agency Posted: 06 Aug 2018 02:33 AM PDT  More than one thousand tourists were being evacuated from Indonesia's tiny Gili islands on Monday after a powerful quake struck neighbouring Lombok, killing 91 people and injuring hundreds. The Gilis are three coral-fringed tropical islands popular with backpackers and divers, a few kilometres off the northwest coast of the larger Lombok island. Footage posted online by rescue officials showed hundreds of panicked tourists and locals crowded onto powder-white beaches desperately waiting for transport off the normally paradise islands.
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| American Airlines Didn't Let Musician Fly With $30,000 Cello After She Bought Extra Ticket Posted: 06 Aug 2018 01:16 PM PDT  A cellist in Chicago is not exactly singing the praises of American Airlines
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| Eleven children found at squalid New Mexico compound, two arrested Posted: 06 Aug 2018 01:40 PM PDT  Three women believed to be the children's mothers also were detained during last week's sweep, which followed a two-month investigation by authorities in New Mexico and Georgia as well as the FBI, Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe said in a statement on the department's Facebook page. Hogrefe said in the statement that Siraj Wahhaj, 39, was taken into custody on a warrant accusing him of abducting his 3-year-old son.
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| Freight train derailment blocks tracks; no injuries Posted: 05 Aug 2018 03:45 PM PDT  PITTSBURGH (AP) — Seven rail cars from a freight train derailed in Pittsburgh, sending shipping containers tumbling down a hillside onto light rail tracks below, but no injuries have been reported, authorities said.
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| Kris Kobach Could Be The Next Governor Of Kansas Posted: 06 Aug 2018 06:55 AM PDT  Since 2011, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) has successfully used his relatively obscure office to elevate himself into the national spotlight.
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| Psychiatrist: Much is still hidden in theater shooter's mind Posted: 05 Aug 2018 10:07 AM PDT  DENVER (AP) — A psychiatrist who spent hours talking with mass murderer James Holmes says that what led Holmes to open fire in a crowded Colorado movie theater was a one-of-a-kind vortex of his mental illness, his personality and his circumstances — and some other, unknown currents that will probably never be uncovered.
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| Bangladesh must improve conditions for Rohingya, scrap island plan: HRW Posted: 06 Aug 2018 01:11 AM PDT  Bangladesh should dramatically improve living conditions for Rohingya in the world's largest refugee camp and scrap plans to move many to a flood-prone island, Human Rights Watch said Monday. Almost one million Rohingya Muslims forced out of Myanmar now live in southern Bangladesh, with 700,000 of them arriving after the latest crackdown on the stateless minority started in August last year. The US and UN have branded operations by Myanmar security forces as ethnic cleansing.
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| Baby boy dies after being pulled from NYC's East River Posted: 05 Aug 2018 06:00 PM PDT  An 8-month-old boy has died after being pulled from the East River in Manhattan, police say.
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| Trump Accuses California Of Causing Wildfires By 'Diverting' Water To Pacific Posted: 05 Aug 2018 09:52 PM PDT  As California wildfires claimed their seventh victim, Donald Trump finally
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| The Latest: Expert says Maduro may use attack for purge Posted: 04 Aug 2018 08:03 PM PDT  CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — The Latest on explosions at speech given by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro (all times local):
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| Here's What Happens To Your 401(k) When You Leave Your Job Posted: 06 Aug 2018 02:45 AM PDT  Let's face it: Nowadays, most workers don't stay in the same job or work for
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| Five dead as plane crashes into shopping centre car park in California Posted: 06 Aug 2018 01:57 AM PDT  Five people on board a small airplane were killed when it crashed in the car park of a Southern California shopping centre. The twin-engine Cessna was heading to the airport southeast of Los Angeles when it came down and struck an unoccupied parked car in the lot of a Staples store and a CVS pharmacy, Orange County Fire Authority said. There was no fire and nobody on the ground was hurt. Photos from the scene showed the plane upright but on its belly and the car damaged. Several roads surrounding the shopping center and the South Coast Plaza mall across the street were closed. Ella Pham, 20, and her boyfriend were walking in the car park on Sunday when they saw the crash, she told the Los Angeles Times. "We looked up to see the plane falling nose first," she told the Times. "We really didn't think it was a plane at first due to no crashing noise, but as soon as we saw people running from across the street we went to go check it out. It was so heartbreaking just seeing the plane crumbled into pieces." The plane struck an unoccupied parked car in the lot of a Staples store and a CVS pharmacy Credit: Stuart Palley/ZUMA Wire/REX/Shutterstock The pilot of the Cessna 414 declared an emergency before crashing about a mile (1.6 kilometers) from John Wayne Airport, Federal Aviation Administration spokeswoman Arlene Salac said. The plane is registered to the San Francisco-based real estate company Category III, according to an FAA database. A phone call to the company was not immediately returned Sunday. The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board will investigate the cause of the crash, Salac said.
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| Iran FM says Trump, Bin Salman, Netanyahu are 'isolated' Posted: 06 Aug 2018 03:18 AM PDT  Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said Monday that the leaders of the United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel were isolated in their hostility to Iran. "Today, the entire world has declared they are not in line with US policies against Iran," Zarif said in a speech, according to the semi-official ISNA news agency. "Talk to anyone, anywhere in the world and they will tell you that (Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin) Netanyahu, (US President Donald) Trump and (Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed) bin Salman are isolated, not Iran," he said.
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| Polish tourists killed in sightseeing plane crash in Alaska Posted: 06 Aug 2018 03:32 PM PDT  ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Searchers on Monday found four people dead in a sightseeing airplane carrying Polish tourists in Alaska's Denali National Park — a day and a half after thick clouds hampered the response to distress calls.
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| Facebook, Twitter Are Making The World Worse, Kara Swisher Warns Posted: 06 Aug 2018 12:12 PM PDT  As the self-described "grumpy lady of tech," journalist Kara Swisher has
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| 15 Pregnant Halloween Costumes That'll Help You Win Halloween Posted: 06 Aug 2018 01:50 PM PDT |
| 11 Children Rescued From 'Filthy' New Mexico Compound With Barely Any Food, Cops Say Posted: 05 Aug 2018 06:02 AM PDT  The kids ranged in age from 1 to 15.
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| Israel says Gaza truce talks focus on easing closure in return for calm Posted: 05 Aug 2018 10:36 AM PDT  By Maayan Lubell and Nidal al-Mughrabi JERUSALEM/GAZA (Reuters) - Israel set out limited goals for Gaza truce talks on Sunday, saying the focus was on a proposal to ease its blockade of the Islamist Hamas-controlled territory in return for the Palestinians calming their side of the frontier. The Israeli statement came hours before Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened his security cabinet to discuss, and possibly approve U.N.- and Egyptian-brokered ideas for preventing another threatened Gaza war. It said that Israel's military chief had briefed the cabinet about the situation in the Gaza Strip and that the army was "prepared for any scenario." The United Nations and Egypt have not publicly detailed their proposals.
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| 27 Funny Tweets About Being A Parent vs. Being A Kid Posted: 06 Aug 2018 08:36 AM PDT  People say having kids changes everything. For parents, this is particularly
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| WWII vintage plane crashes into Swiss mountainside, 20 dead Posted: 05 Aug 2018 08:32 AM PDT  Twenty people died when a vintage World War II aircraft crashed into a Swiss mountain at the weekend, police said Sunday, as an investigation was launched into why the plane plummeted straight down at high speed. "The police have the sad certainty that the 20 people aboard perished," police spokeswoman Anita Senti told a news conference. The German-built Junker JU52 HB-HOT aircraft, dating from 1939 and nicknamed "Iron Annie", was a collectors' aircraft.
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| European losers in new Iranian sanctions game Posted: 04 Aug 2018 10:15 PM PDT  US President Donald Trump's decision to pull the United States out of the 2015 nuclear accord with Iran and reimpose a raft of sanctions will hit European businesses working in Iran. The group, which is Europe's second biggest carmaker, last year sold more than 445,000 vehicles in Iran, making the country one of its biggest markets outside France. Renault says it intends to keep up activities in Iran albeit scaling them back.
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| Use fresh local tomatoes for Crispy Tomato Salad Posted: 06 Aug 2018 05:18 AM PDT  Even though fresh local tomatoes start popping up at the market in July, they don't really hit their peak until August — and that's when I get happy. The tomato is absolutely my favorite vegetable (even if it's technically a berry). This crispy tomato salad combines cooked tomatoes and raw tomatoes, the large guys and the small guys. You can call it a medley but I think of it as a party.
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| MoviePass Reduces Offer To 3 Films Per Month In Bid To Save Cash Posted: 06 Aug 2018 07:39 AM PDT  MoviePass announced Monday that it's slashing its offer to subscribers as the
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| Surprising News About Women and Heart Attacks Posted: 06 Aug 2018 01:08 PM PDT  Women who have heart attacks may face a greater risk of death when treated by male doctors in emergency rooms, according to a new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sci...
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| Here Are All The Ways Trump Has Tried To Explain That Infamous Trump Tower Meeting Posted: 06 Aug 2018 02:23 PM PDT  President Donald Trump on Sunday said the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting
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| Man found in restaurant freezer attacks worker with kitchen knife then dies, say police Posted: 06 Aug 2018 01:39 AM PDT  A 54-year-old man died after jumping out of a freezer and attacking an employee with a kitchen knife on Sunday at a popular restaurant in New York, police said. The man shouted, "Away, Satan!" and grabbed the knife after an employee opened the walk-in freezer at Sarabeth's in Manhattan around 11am, police said. No restaurant workers or patrons were injured, police said.
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| Bangladesh police fire tear gas to clear protesters blocking traffic Posted: 05 Aug 2018 07:03 AM PDT  By Serajul Quadir DHAKA (Reuters) - Bangladeshi police fired tear gas on Sunday to disperse tens of thousands of students protesting for an eighth day to demand safer roads after two teenagers were mown down by a bus. The U.S. embassy criticized the crack-down on protesters who it said had "united and captured the imagination of the whole country." The embassy tweeted that while it did not condone property damage by some of the protesters: "Nothing can justify the brutal attacks and violence over the weekend against the thousands of young people who have been peacefully exercising their democratic rights in supporting a safer Bangladesh." Spontaneous student protests are rare in Bangladesh, and Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina suggested her political rivals were using the issue to stir up anti-government sentiment ahead of a general election this year.
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| Charlotte Rae, Housemother From ‘The Facts Of Life,' Dead At 92 Posted: 05 Aug 2018 08:15 PM PDT  Actress Charlotte Rae, who was best known as Mrs. Garrett on the hit sitcom
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| Attempted rape caught on tape in New York City Posted: 04 Aug 2018 09:08 PM PDT  NYPD arrest suspect after the incident was caught on surveillance video.
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| The Latest: Pope prays for dead and consolation for grieving Posted: 06 Aug 2018 11:27 AM PDT  MATARAM, Indonesia (AP) — The Latest on an earthquake that struck Indonesia's Lombok island (all times local):
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| Identical Twin Brides Marry Identical Twin Grooms in Joint Ceremony in Twinsburg, Ohio Posted: 06 Aug 2018 11:07 AM PDT  Here come the brides!
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| 28 Cornbread Recipes You Won't Be Able To Stop Eating Posted: 06 Aug 2018 01:55 PM PDT |
| Trump Privately 'Fearful' That Don Jr. 'Wandered Into Legal Jeopardy': Reports Posted: 04 Aug 2018 08:58 PM PDT  If Donald Trump has seemed particularly energized in his recent condemnations
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| Classics for sale: 1988 Lamborghini LM002 Posted: 06 Aug 2018 07:59 AM PDT  The Urus might be in the spotlight now, but it wasn't the raging bull's first attempt at a 4x4. This LM002 is a prime example of the original Lamborghini SUV
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| Chicago police appeal for help after more than 66 shot and 12 killed during weekend of gun violence Posted: 06 Aug 2018 03:07 PM PDT  Police in Chicago have appealed for extra help following a weekend of gang-related gun violence, during which 66 people were shot and 12 of them were killed. The south side of the midwestern city has long a reputation for the ubiquity of gun violence, something that frequently kills innocent bystanders, among them children. At the conclusion of the weekend of violence, police chief Fred Waller vowed that his officers would overcome the violence, but he also appealed for additional help.
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| Henry Golding Of ‘Crazy Rich Asians': From Hairstylist To Cutting It As A Breakout Star Posted: 06 Aug 2018 02:45 AM PDT  It's no secret the "Crazy Rich Asians" cast is stacked with industry titans
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