| Pressure Mounts On Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski To Block Brett Kavanaugh Posted: 12 Sep 2018 11:39 AM PDT  Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) has received 3,000 coat hangers in the mail.
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| Bob Woodward's new book reveals intimate details of President Trump and first lady Melania's relationship Posted: 12 Sep 2018 12:12 PM PDT  Bob Woodward's explosive new novel released on Tuesday provides a glimpse into
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| 44,000 Catholic Women Demand Answers From Pope Francis Over Sex Abuse Crisis Posted: 11 Sep 2018 06:01 PM PDT  More than 44,000 Catholic women have signed a letter pressing Pope Francis to
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| Hurricane Florence Is Probably Going To Cost A Lot Of Money Posted: 11 Sep 2018 03:00 PM PDT  At the risk of stating the obvious, Hurricane Florence is going to hurt.
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| 2 wounded in fatal Cincinnati shooting are back home Posted: 12 Sep 2018 10:37 AM PDT ![2 wounded in fatal Cincinnati shooting are back home]( "2 wounded in fatal Cincinnati shooting are back home") CINCINNATI (AP) — A woman who survived at least 12 gunshots in a downtown Cincinnati attack was back home Wednesday and helped get her two children ready for school, kissing them as she sent them off, a spokeswoman said.
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| Dallas Cop Who Shot Neighbor After Going Into Wrong Apartment Said He Ignored 'Verbal Commands': Affidavit Posted: 11 Sep 2018 04:52 AM PDT  She has been charged with manslaughter.
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| Boeing shuts 787 plant in South Carolina as hurricane approaches Posted: 11 Sep 2018 02:27 PM PDT ![Boeing shuts 787 plant in South Carolina as hurricane approaches]( "Boeing shuts 787 plant in South Carolina as hurricane approaches") In advance of workers evacuating the facility, Boeing flew several 787 Dreamliners from the South Carolina factory across the country to an airport near Boeing's widebody plant in Everett, Washington, north of Seattle, Boeing spokeswoman Libba Holland said. Hurricane Florence grew on Tuesday and was expected to bring days of rain, deadly flooding and power outages lasting weeks after it slams into the U.S. Southeast coast this week. Winds of up to 130 miles per hour (215 km per hour) and massive waves will pound coastal North and South Carolina when Florence makes landfall on Friday, and its rains will take a heavy toll for miles inland, the National Hurricane Center said.
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| Family of man shot by Dallas officer says her version of events is wrong Posted: 11 Sep 2018 04:46 AM PDT  The affidavit says Dallas officer Amber Guyger mistook Botham Jean's apartment for hers and that his front door was ajar when she entered. She also told investigators that she shot Jean after he refused her verbal commands.
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| Trump still can't strike the right note about 9/11 Posted: 11 Sep 2018 08:39 AM PDT  Trump's excited tone seemed at odds with the somber anniversary, but his speech was comparatively dignified.
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| Pat Robertson Casts 'Shield Of Protection' Ahead Of Hurricane Florence Posted: 10 Sep 2018 09:35 PM PDT  Televangelist Pat Robertson broke out a prayer that sounded more like a
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| SpaceX President Calls Elon Musk ‘A Brilliant Man,’ Despite Bizarre Behavior Posted: 11 Sep 2018 07:04 PM PDT  The president of SpaceX said Tuesday that Elon Musk, the company's founder and
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| Russia joins forces with China in largest war games since Soviet era Posted: 11 Sep 2018 04:48 AM PDT  Russia began its largest war games since the Cold War on Tuesday, drilling hundreds of thousands of troops alongside forces from its growing ally China. With 300,000 soldiers, 36,000 vehicles, 1,000 aircraft and 80 ships, the Vostok exercises in eastern Russia will be even bigger than the USSR's 1981 Zapad training, according to defence ministry claims. They will last a week and take place across nine training grounds as well as in the Sea of Japan and near the Bering Strait. Defence ministry video showed tanks and missile launchers streaming across dusty fields, rocket launchers and artillery loading onto ships and marines landing on the Arctic coast under the cover of attack helicopters. As their forces began the movements, Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping baked crepes, filled them with caviar and washed them down with vodka shots at the eastern economic forum in Vladivostok. Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin toast on the sidelines of the eastern economic forum in Vladivostok Credit: Sergei Bobylev/TASS/Reuters The manoeuvres are a triumphant moment for Mr Putin, who has made the military modernisation a top priority following post-Soviet stagnation and highlighted fantastic-sounding new nuclear weapons in his state-of-the-nation speech in March. A US spy plane reported over the Sea of Japan hinted at the unease of Western countries with Russia's biggest-ever exercises. Coming a week before a summit between the leaders of North and South Korea, the war games will reiterate Moscow's bid to become a major military and diplomatic player in the region. Tanks roll during the military exercises in the Chita region, Eastern Siberia, on Tuesday Credit: AP/Russia War Games Analysts have speculated the exercises are in part to train a response to a potential nuclear conflict on the Korean peninsula, and ballistic missile units are among those involved. Besides a display of Russia's fighting power, Vostok is a promotion of its warming ties with eastern neighbour and former foe China. During their meeting, Mr Putin praised the trust between the two countries, while Mr Xi said their cooperation was taking on "greater and greater importance" in an oblique reference to tensions with the United States. A Russian soldier guards an area during the military exercises in the Chita region, Eastern Siberia Credit: Russian Defense Ministry Press Service Although China has previously joined Russia for drills like naval games in the Baltic Sea last year, this is the first time it will participate in Moscow's annual strategic exercises, which train far-flung forces for large-scale conflict. Thirty Chinese jets and helicopters and 3,200 troops have been deployed to the Tsugol training grounds east of Lake Baikal. Russia has said it will train methods developed during its Syria intervention, giving Chinese forces, which haven't fought in a war since 1979, a glimpse of real combat skills. Russian military helicopters fly over the Chita region Credit: Russian Defense Ministry Press Service The manoeuvres are being seen as a warning to Washington not to further strain relations with Russia or provoke it militarily. "It's clear that such efforts can be directed at only one country, and that's United States, because they're so massive," said Vasily Kashin, an expert in Russia-China relations at the Higher School of Economics. "At this moment Russia and China both see the United States as the main potential military adversary." In light of Donald Trump's trade war with China and successive waves of US sanctions against Russia, America is now the main political adversary for both countries as well. Future of Europe – defence They have frequently voted together against US resolutions in the United Nations security council in recent years, and Russia has increasingly sought Chinese credit and investment after being cut off from US financing. Having overtaken Saudi Arabia as China's largest oil supplier in 2016, Russia is building the Power of Siberia pipeline in hopes of beginning gas deliveries there by the end of next year. In some ways, Mr Putin's pivot east at the expense of the United States looks like a final reversal of Richard Nixon's 1972 rapprochement with China, which was meant to unsettle the USSR. The unprecedented manoeuvres are being seen as a warning to Washington not to further strain relations with Russia Credit: Russian Defense Ministry Press Service The Kremlin's spokesman said last month the manoeuvres showed the "expansion of cooperation in all spheres between two allies". While the term may be overstated given Moscow and Beijing's stated aversion to binding alliances, the quickening development of relations could eventually lead to a formal agreement, according to Mr Kashin. "Every year steps are taken, and that will continue until it reaches its logical conclusion, probably some military pact that has obligations in case war arises," he said. But independent defence analyst Alexander Golts argued that China's invitation to participate was mainly to allay concerns that these enormous Cold War-style exercises on its border would otherwise raise. The games will last five days and take place across nine training grounds Credit: Russian Defense Ministry Press Service "These manoeuvres aren't just unprecedented for Russia. No one is doing exercises of this size today," he said. The expensive military training comes at the same time as an unpopular reform that will raise the pension age to just a year below average life expectancy for Russian men. More than 1,000 people were arrested protesting the reform in cities around Russia on Sunday. But the Kremlin's spokesman said last month defence spending was "justified, necessary and has no alternative" given the international threats faced by Russia.
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| Tribute in Light Posted: 11 Sep 2018 09:04 PM PDT ![Tribute in Light]( "Tribute in Light") Tribute in Light is a commemorative public art installation first presented six months after 9/11 and then every year thereafter, from dusk to dawn, on the night of September 11. It has become an iconic symbol that both honors those killed and celebrates the unbreakable spirit of New York. (Yahoo News)
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| Best Bites: Weeknight meals one-pot chicken parm pasta Posted: 12 Sep 2018 05:00 AM PDT  Welcome to Best Bites, a twice-weekly video series that aims to satisfy your
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| Pope to meet U.S. Church leaders after archbishop's accusations: Vatican Posted: 11 Sep 2018 11:52 AM PDT  Pope Francis will meet on Thursday with U.S. Catholic Church leaders who want to discuss the fallout from a scandal involving a former American cardinal and demands from an archbishop that the pontiff step down. Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), asked for the meeting after Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano last month accused the pope of knowing for years about sexual misconduct by former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick and of doing nothing about it. The Vatican said in a statement the pope would meet on Thursday with DiNardo, Cardinal Sean Patrick O'Malley of Boston, and two USCCB officials.
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| Joe Scarborough Pens Op-Ed For 9/11: Trump Is Worse For U.S. Than 'Foreign Adversary' Posted: 11 Sep 2018 08:10 AM PDT  Joe Scarborough wrote an op-ed for The Washington Post about the anniversary
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| Ousted EPA head Pruitt denies getting improper gifts, income Posted: 12 Sep 2018 01:26 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Scott Pruitt, the scandal-ridden former Environmental Protection Agency chief, denied on Wednesday that he had obtained any out-of-the-ordinary gifts as a result of his Cabinet-level post, dismissing allegations he received perks in office ranging from much-sought sport tickets to a job for his wife.
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| Omarosa Thinks She Knows Who Wrote That Anonymous New York Times Op-Ed Posted: 12 Sep 2018 09:17 AM PDT  Omarosa Manigault Newman, still hitting the press circuit for her book tour,
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| Hurricane Florence Tracker: Carolinas remain in path of Category 4 storm Posted: 12 Sep 2018 03:28 AM PDT  With mandatory evacuations for Hurricane Florence already issued for parts of three East Coast states, millions of Americans are preparing for what could become one of the most catastrophic hurricanes to hit the Eastern Seaboard in decades.
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| China's Xi calls for Moscow and Beijing to unite to fight protectionism Posted: 11 Sep 2018 08:27 AM PDT  Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Tuesday that Russia and China should work together to oppose trade protectionism and what he called unilateral approaches to international problems, a veiled reference to U.S. foreign policy. Xi made the comments at a news conference in Vladivostok in Russia's far east after holding talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of an economic forum. "In a rapidly changing international situation with growing instability and unpredictability, cooperation between Russia and China takes on even more importance," said Xi, according to a transcript on the Kremlin's website.
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| Ohio Supermarket Calls Cops on Deli Worker Accused of Eating $9,200 Worth of Meat Over 8 Years Posted: 11 Sep 2018 08:13 AM PDT  While many states consider theft of more than $500 worth of goods to be a felony, police said the woman accused in the incident has not been charged with a crime.
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| 50 dead as Indian bus plunges into valley Posted: 10 Sep 2018 05:41 PM PDT  Fifty people died when a bus carrying Hindu pilgrims plunged into a valley in southern India on Tuesday, one of the deadliest accidents on the country's notorious roads in recent years. Road crashes in India claim the lives of more than 150,000 people each year. Most accidents are blamed on poor roads, badly maintained vehicles and reckless driving.
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| Ron DeSantis' Choice Of A Latina Running Mate Is A Pathetic Pandering Attempt Posted: 11 Sep 2018 02:45 AM PDT  In the wake of Andrew Gillum's historic victory in Florida's Democratic
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| International court says it's 'undeterred' by US threats Posted: 11 Sep 2018 10:49 AM PDT  ISLAMABAD (AP) — Afghan rights workers warned Tuesday that a blistering U.S. attack on the International Criminal Court investigating war crimes allegations will strengthen a climate of impunity in Afghanistan, prolong the war and embolden those committing acts of violence.
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| What 31 Air Force Pilots Who Flew the F-35 Really Think Posted: 11 Sep 2018 04:08 AM PDT  A former F-15C pilot said he beat his former fighter in mock dogfights.
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| Tim Cook trolled us all with a fake Twitter DM fail right before the Apple event Posted: 12 Sep 2018 10:26 AM PDT  The 2018 Apple event at Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California has finally arrived, and minutes before it began, CEO Tim Cook didn't seem prepared. Just before the event was set to begin, Cook tweeted a cryptic and confusing message that the world assumed was meant to be a direct message. Image: screengrab/twitterIt happens to the best of us, but unfortunately Cook has 10.9 million followers watching from around the world, so... embarrassing, right? Well, not so fast... SEE ALSO: Live from Apple's 2018 iPhone event The tweet was quickly deleted, but not before people grabbed screenshots and poked fun at the CEO for what they assumed must be a mistake. Tim Cook DM fail just before the Apple event pic.twitter.com/Y6rsd0rgH7 — James Cook (@JamesLiamCook) September 12, 2018 On the same day Apple leaked its entire iPhone lineup naming, CEO Tim Cook made a DM fail on Twitter pic.twitter.com/AgYC7NOTkx — Tom Warren (@tomwarren) September 12, 2018 Even Tim cook accidentally tweets his DMs, huh? pic.twitter.com/u2t4jFZebZ — ⚡️ Owen Williams (@ow) September 12, 2018 But when the event began, it became clear the whole thing was a set-up. The opening video features an Apple employee sprinting across the company's sprawling campus to the Steve Jobs Theater carrying a mysterious box, while the Mission Impossible theme plays in the background. The box, it's revealed in the end, contains Cook's clicker. It seems Cook knew what he was doing all along and just wanted to rattle fans' cages before the big reveal with a fake Twitter DM slip up. Nicely played, dude. WATCH: You can own a fully functional vintage Apple-1 computer — but it'll cost you
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| How To Convince Your Family To Evacuate During Hurricane Florence Posted: 11 Sep 2018 06:00 PM PDT  Hurricane Florence is expected to hit parts of South Carolina, North Carolina
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| EU executive head backs start of punitive action versus Hungary over rule of law Posted: 12 Sep 2018 05:30 AM PDT ![EU executive head backs start of punitive action versus Hungary over rule of law]( "EU executive head backs start of punitive action versus Hungary over rule of law") European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker said he supported the European Parliament's decision on Wednesday to open a punitive procedure against Hungary for persistently flaunting democratic rules. The procedure, called Article 7, can theoretically go as far as suspending of Hungary's voting rights in the EU. "If I was a member of the European Parliament, I would have voted in favor of Article 7," Juncker said in a tweet.
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| Ethiopian, Eritrean leaders officially open their border Posted: 11 Sep 2018 08:16 AM PDT  ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Taking the next step in their dramatic diplomatic thaw, the leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea on Tuesday officially opened the border where a bloody war divided them for decades, with emotional residents embracing after years of separation. Ethiopia later announced that troops on both sides would withdraw.
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| Pope summons bishops for sex abuse scandal meeting as thousands of cases emerge in Germany Posted: 12 Sep 2018 11:14 AM PDT  Pope Francis has summoned senior Catholic bishops from around the world to the Vatican to discuss the protection of minors, in his latest attempt to come to grips with a spreading sexual abuse crisis. The heads of the national Catholic bishops' conferences will meet with Francis from February 21-24 next year, a Vatican spokeswoman said. The announcement came at the end of a three-day meeting of the "C-9", a group of nine cardinals from around the world who members meet about four times a year to advise the pope. The spokeswoman said the sexual abuse crisis was a main topic at the meeting, which six of the members attended. The Catholic Church is facing sexual abuse scandals in the United States, Chile, Australia and Germany, among others. Der Spiegel magazine reported on Wednesday that a study commissioned by the German Bishops' Conference had revealed that 1,670 clerics and priests had sexually abused 3,677 minors, mostly males, in Germany over a 70-year period. In the United States, a Grand Jury has found that 301 priests in the state of Pennsylvania sexually abused minors over a similar period. Francis meets on Thursday with US Church leaders to discuss that report as well as a scandal involving a former American cardinal and demands from an Italian archbishop, Carlo Maria Viganò, that the pontiff step down over that case. Cardinal Daniel DiNardo, president of the US bishops' conference, asked for the meeting after Viganò last month accused the pope of knowing for years about sexual misconduct by former US cardinal Theodore McCarrick and doing nothing about it.. Viganò said he had told Francis soon after the pontiff's election in 2013 that McCarrick, former archbishop of Washington D.C., had engaged in sexual misconduct with adult male seminarians. McCarrick resigned in July over separate allegations - which US Church officials said were "credible and substantiated" - that he had abused a 16-year-old boy almost 50 years ago. McCarrick, whom the pope ordered to live a life of seclusion and penitence, has said he has "absolutely no recollection" of such an incident. He has not commented on the allegations of misconduct with the adult seminarians. Hours after Viganò's statement was published, Francis told reporters that he would "not say a word" about it because it "speaks for itself". However, the Vatican is now preparing a response. Cardinal Donald Wuerl, who succeeded McCarrick as archbishop of Washington D.C., told priests on Tuesday that he would travel to Rome to discuss his future with the pope. Wuerl, 77, who was bishop of Pittsburgh between 1988 and 2006, has been under scrutiny over his handling of sexual abuse cases during the period addressed by the Pennsylvania Grand Jury. Wuerl has defended his overall record in Pittsburgh, but has also been accused of knowing about sexual misconduct by McCarrick, which he denies.
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| U.S. Considers Sanctioning Chinese Officials Over Detention Of Muslims: Report Posted: 11 Sep 2018 04:02 AM PDT  The Trump administration may sanction Chinese government officials and
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| Palestinians file war crimes claim over West Bank hamlet Posted: 11 Sep 2018 10:10 AM PDT  RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — A top official said Tuesday the Palestinians have filed a new complaint against Israel with the International Criminal Court, after the United States said it would resort to any means to protect its allies against such actions at the international war crimes body.
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| Aston Martin releases more details of Rapide E electric supercar Posted: 12 Sep 2018 06:51 AM PDT  One of the most exciting electric models currently in development is the upcoming Aston Martin Rapide E, and the British supercar manufacturer has just released new details of what to expect from its first fully-electric luxury sedan. The top speed of 155 mph should therefore be able to be maintained continuously for as long as ten minutes.
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| Alabama Pastor Destroys Own Nike Gear During Anti-Colin Kaepernick Sermon Posted: 12 Sep 2018 07:24 AM PDT  The senior pastor of a church in Alabama destroyed his own Nike gear during a
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| Italy's Salvini wants populists, popular party to guide new EU Commission Posted: 11 Sep 2018 10:44 AM PDT  ROME (Reuters) - Italian Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, who also leads the far-right League party, said on Tuesday he wants the new European Commission to be led by conservatives and populists. "The aim is to cancel the duopoly between the socialists and Christian democrats," Salvini told reporters after taping a talk show in Rome. A new Commission will be seated after a European Parliament election during the first half of 2019. When asked if he wanted populists to ally with the European Popular Party to back the new Commission, he replied: "Yes, that's the goal. ...
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| Minnesota regulators postpone Line 3 meeting after protests Posted: 11 Sep 2018 04:04 PM PDT ![Minnesota regulators postpone Line 3 meeting after protests]( "Minnesota regulators postpone Line 3 meeting after protests") ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota regulators postponed a meeting Tuesday on Enbridge Energy's planned Line 3 replacement after pipeline opponents disrupted the meeting with a bullhorn and a boombox.
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| Japan proposes resumption of commercial whaling Posted: 10 Sep 2018 10:00 PM PDT  Governments and animal rights' organisations around the world have condemned a proposal put forward by Japan at the meeting of the International Whaling Commission to resume commercial hunting of whales. Tokyo's motion to lift a global moratorium on whaling that was adopted by the IWC in 1982 was introduced at the commission's biannual meeting in the Brazilian city of Florianopolis on Monday. Japan is chairing this year's conference and its delegation is headed by Joji Morishita, who once described Minke whales as "the cockroaches of the ocean". "Science is clear: there are certain species of whales whose population is healthy enough to be harvested sustainably", the submission reads. "Japan proposes to establish a committee dedicated to sustainable whaling (including commercial whaling and aboriginal subsistence whaling)". A whale is unloaded at a port after a whaling for scientific purposes in Kushiro Credit: AP Tokyo is also seeking to change how the IWC votes and wants the commission to reach agreements based on a simple majority vote of member nations, instead of the three-quarters majority that is required at present. Japan has accused the organisation of being "intolerant" of different opinions on whaling and claims that it is has descended into a "forum for confrontation". Since the moratorium was introduced, Japanese whalers have used a loophole that permits "scientific whaling" to slaughter thousands of the creatures in the Pacific Ocean. You don't need to be a vet to know that firing at a whale with a harpoon... is going to cause appalling and completely unacceptable sufferingClaire Bass, Humane Society International In its most recent hunt, the fleet met a quota set by Tokyo of 333 Minke whales, the meat from which was sold in supermarkets and to restaurants. Critics say the "scientific" hunt is thinly disguised commercial whaling. "Japan could not possibly have advanced a more regressive and reckless proposition, imperiling both the conservation and welfare of whales", said Claire Bass, executive director of the British branch of Humane Society International. "You don't need to be a veterinarian to know that firing at a whale with a harpoon that explodes inside its body, in many cases not killing it immediately, is going to cause appalling and completely unacceptable suffering", she said. "There is no humane way to kill whales at sea, and that fact alone should be enough for countries to reject Japan's proposal". Japan has declined to provide data on how long it takes whales to die after they have been harpooned, although analysis of video footage of Japanese whalers' operations suggests it could be at least 33 minutes. Julie Bishop, the Australian foreign minister, and Josh Frydenberg, Canberra's environment minister, released a statement calling on like-minded nations to resist Japan's proposals. "Australia remains steadfastly opposed to all forms of commercial and so-called 'scientific' whaling and continues to be a leader in seeking to strengthen the International Whaling Commission to protect whales. "We strongly support the 30-year global moratorium on commercial whaling and will vehemently oppose any attempts to undermine the processes that support it, including through changed voting regimes or the establishment of catch-limits for commercial whaling", the statement added. The meeting is scheduled to end on Friday.
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| Drugs ruled out in Paris knife rampage: legal source Posted: 11 Sep 2018 03:55 AM PDT  A man being held after a knife attack that injured seven people along a canal in Paris was not under the influence of drugs at the time, a legal source told AFP on Tuesday. The suspect, believed to be an Afghan citizen in his 30s, was described by witnesses as acting drugged when he began striking people with a knife and iron bar on the Canal de l'Ourcq late Sunday. Two British tourists and an Egyptian visitor were among those injured, and three people were still in hospital as of Monday evening, including one in critical condition, a source close to the inquiry said.
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| As Trump Boasts About Economy, New Data Show Poverty Rate Virtually Unchanged Posted: 12 Sep 2018 03:23 PM PDT  New data from the U.S. Census Bureau show that, despite overall increases in
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| US Coast Guard details Hurricane Florence response plan Posted: 12 Sep 2018 07:36 AM PDT  Rear Admiral Keith Smith working with federal, state and local officials to prepare for when the storm hits land.
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| Putin says Russia's defense ties with China based on trust Posted: 11 Sep 2018 01:38 AM PDT  VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (Reuters) - Russian President Vladimir Putin told Chinese President Xi Jinping that Moscow and Beijing's relations were based on trust in areas ranging from politics to security and defense. Putin made the comments ahead of talks with his Chinese counterpart which are being held on the sidelines of an economic forum in the city of Vladivostok in Russia's far east. The talks coincide with the start of Russia's biggest war games since the fall of the Soviet Union which China will also take part in. ...
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| The Latest: Family of officer charged in killing deny racism Posted: 11 Sep 2018 07:11 PM PDT  DALLAS (AP) — The Latest on a fatal shooting involving an off-duty Dallas police officer (all times local):
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