| Brett Kavanaugh Confirmed To Supreme Court As Senate Rejects Me Too Movement Posted: 06 Oct 2018 12:55 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― The Senate confirmed Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court on
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| Girl scout among 34 dead found in Indonesian quake quagmire Posted: 06 Oct 2018 05:13 AM PDT  President Joko Widodo has said all of the victims of the 7.5 magnitude earthquake and tsunami that struck on Sept. 28 must be found. Most of the dead have been found in the region's main urban center, the small city of Palu. No one knows how many people were dragged to their deaths when the quake triggered soil liquefaction, a phenomenon that turns the ground into a roiling quagmire.
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| Amazon Called For Raising The Minimum Wage. Republicans Say It's Fine As It Is, Thanks. Posted: 05 Oct 2018 11:21 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― The second-largest employer in the United States thinks it's time
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| The Latest: Interpol aware officer is reported held in China Posted: 05 Oct 2018 09:27 AM PDT  PARIS (AP) — The Latest on the disappearance of the president of Interpol, Meng Hongwei (all times local):
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| How conspiracy theorists have played the press Posted: 05 Oct 2018 02:00 AM PDT  Charlie Warzel worries that some of his own reporting on conspiracy theorists has been used by them to expand their reach.
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| US indicts seven Russian military intel agents in global hacking conspiracy Posted: 04 Oct 2018 08:12 PM PDT  The US Justice Department Thursday indicted seven agents of Russia's GRU military intelligence agency as part of a joint crackdown with Western allies on a series of major hacking plots attributed to Moscow. The indictments were announced as Dutch security services said they had thwarted a cyber attack on the global chemical weapons watchdog, the OPCW -- expelling four Russian agents -- and after Britain and Australia blamed the GRU for plots that notably targeted the US Democratic Party and global sports bodies. John Demers, US Assistant Attorney General for National Security, confirmed the seven agents were indicted in connection to the attack on the OPCW, on football's governing body FIFA and the US and global anti-doping agencies, and on the US nuclear energy company Westinghouse among others.
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| South Korea jails former president Lee for 15 years on corruption charges Posted: 04 Oct 2018 11:45 PM PDT  A Seoul court on Friday jailed former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak for 15 years for corruption, making him the latest in a string of high-profile political and business leaders ensnared by graft charges. Lee, in office from 2008 to 2013, is the fourth former South Korean president to be jailed, with his successor Park Geun-hye imprisoned for her role in a separate corruption scandal that toppled her from power in early 2017 and also led to jail time for Samsung Group heir Jay Y. Lee.
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| The Kremlin Hates America's 'Malignant Feminism,' Loves Brett Kavanaugh Posted: 05 Oct 2018 09:57 PM PDT  Just like President Donald Trump, the Kremlin-owned media in Russia are wild
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| When Will the Next War Erupt in the Middle East? Posted: 05 Oct 2018 04:49 AM PDT  The Middle East is sitting on a powder keg. No one knows when it will blow up. What is certain is that it's likely to do so sooner rather than later.
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| Yazidis celebrate Murad's Nobel prize as they mark top ritual Posted: 05 Oct 2018 08:46 AM PDT  Yazidi pilgrims trekked up a mountain in northern Iraq barefoot Friday for their most important ritual, their joy doubled on hearing that their "daughter" Nadia Murad had won the Nobel Peace Prize. All around him, pilgrims flocking to Sheikh Adi's shrine are all smiles and proud of the young Nobel peace laureate, the first Iraqi to receive such an honour.
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| Christine Blasey Ford's lawyers speak out on Kavanaugh vote Posted: 05 Oct 2018 03:26 PM PDT  The Kavanaugh accuser's legal team called the FBI investigation a "sham."
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| AP PHOTOS: Editor selections from Latin America, Caribbean Posted: 04 Oct 2018 09:01 PM PDT  This photo gallery highlights some of the top news images made by Associated Press photographers in Latin America and the Caribbean published in the past week.
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| French police probe Interpol chief's disappearance on China trip Posted: 06 Oct 2018 07:16 AM PDT ![French police probe Interpol chief's disappearance on China trip]( "French police probe Interpol chief's disappearance on China trip") Meng's wife contacted police in Lyon, the French city where the international police agency is based, after not hearing from him since Sept. 25, and after receiving threats by phone and on social media, France's interior ministry said. A person familiar with the investigation said the initial working assumption was that Meng had antagonized Chinese authorities in some way and had been detained as a result. "France is puzzled about the situation of Interpol's president and concerned about the threats made to his wife," the ministry said, adding that it was in contact with China.
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| A baby elephant pushed Melania Trump during her visit to the Nairobi National Park Posted: 05 Oct 2018 01:30 PM PDT  During First Lady Melania Trump's four-country tour of Africa, she met a somewhat pushy baby elephant. While visiting the Nairobi National Park in Kenya, Trump was introduced to a baby elephant who gave her a forceful push, throwing the first lady off balance momentarily. SEE ALSO: Trump boarded Air Force One with toilet paper stuck to his shoe "When the Republican party and their mascot collide," CBS News tweeted, along with footage of the first lady's elephant encounter. And as much as we want to believe that the wee elephant was channeling our collective rage toward the Republican party and everyone connected to it, journalist Yashar Ali pointed out that the elephant most likely just wanted to play. This baby is doing what baby elephants do...its called a pushing game. They usually do it with other elephants...but sometimes they do it with humans...especially their keepers. Learn More About @DSWT - https://t.co/WSLmqJi4xH https://t.co/b1EFRS3Hbd — Yashar Ali �� (@yashar) October 5, 2018 Trump reportedly visited the national park in an effort to support and bring awareness to wildlife conservation efforts, according to Time. During her visit to the national park, Trump fed baby elephants and went on a safari while wearing questionable headwear. Trump visited Ghana prior to her trip to Kenya, and will head to Malawi next before finishing her tour in Egypt. WATCH: An all-female armed unit is making sure poachers stay away from one of Africa's largest elephant populations
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| Sen. Mazie Hirono Calls FBI Investigation 'A Sham' As Kavanaugh Vote Nears Posted: 05 Oct 2018 06:59 AM PDT  Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) expressed strong opposition to Supreme Court
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| Mike Pence accuses China of meddling in US elections despite lack of evidence Posted: 04 Oct 2018 06:24 PM PDT  Mike Pence speaks at the Hudson Institute in Washington DC on 4 October. Mike Pence has claimed that Russian interference in US elections "pales in comparison" with Chinese meddling, which he said was aimed at ousting Donald Trump. The vice-president's allegation echoes a similar claim made by the president at the UN last week, but it has been contradicted by cybersecurity experts and the administration has yet to provide any supporting evidence, other than to point to instances of overt lobbying.
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| The 10 Best Deals from the Macy's Columbus Day Sale Posted: 05 Oct 2018 11:31 AM PDT |
| Pope orders 'thorough study' of Vatican documents in McCarrick abuse case Posted: 06 Oct 2018 08:54 AM PDT  In a statement, the Vatican appeared to be committing itself to examine the paper trail on the McCarrick case, quoting from speech Francis made in 2015 in which he said "We will follow the path of truth wherever it may lead". The latest crisis began in August when Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the Vatican's former ambassador to the United States, said in a bombshell document that the pope knew for years about sexual misconduct by McCarrick with adult male seminarians but did nothing about it. Vigano accused a long list of current and past Vatican and U.S. Church officials of covering up for 88-year-old McCarrick, the former archbishop of Washington, D.C., and called on the pope to resign.
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| Talking Cars 171: CR Ranks Automated Driving Systems Posted: 05 Oct 2018 12:26 PM PDT   Main themes: This week our panel wades chest-deep into the partially automated driving systems that we're seeing on more of today's new cars. CR for the first time has ranked four of the most com...
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| 2 Palestinians, including teenager, killed in Gaza protest Posted: 05 Oct 2018 10:08 AM PDT  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli troops killed two Palestinians, including a 13-year-old boy, at a protest near the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, Gaza's Health Ministry said on Friday.
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| APNewsBreak: Prison riot defendant pleaded guilty months ago Posted: 05 Oct 2018 02:32 PM PDT ![APNewsBreak: Prison riot defendant pleaded guilty months ago]( "APNewsBreak: Prison riot defendant pleaded guilty months ago") DOVER, Del. (AP) — A Delaware inmate who is a key prosecution witness in a deadly prison riot entered a guilty plea almost a year ago to charges stemming from the uprising, but the plea was not noted in court records until this week.
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| Netanyahu undergoes new graft questioning Posted: 05 Oct 2018 06:36 AM PDT  Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu underwent a new round of questioning on Friday over one of several graft cases that have threatened to topple him, Israeli media reported. The veteran premier's 12th round of questioning as a suspect in various cases comes two days before his wife Sara appears in court on charges of misusing state funds for catering at their official residence. Netanyahu has not been charged in any of the cases and a spokesman on Friday reasserted the prime minister's innocence.
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| Jeff Flake Says He Will Likely Vote Yes On Supreme Court Nominee Brett Kavanaugh Posted: 05 Oct 2018 09:12 AM PDT  Sen. Jeff Flake says he plans to vote for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh "unless something big changed."
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| Google shows progress in addressing competition concerns, says EU's Vestager Posted: 05 Oct 2018 10:28 AM PDT  Google's proposals to increase competition in online shopping are bearing fruit, Europe's antitrust chief said on Friday, suggesting that the company may be able to avoid further fines. Alphabet Inc's Google last year offered to allow price-comparison rivals to bid for advertising space at the top of a search page, giving them the chance to compete on equal terms, seeking to appease regulators after the European Commission fined it a record 2.4 billion euros ($2.8 billion) for favouring its own service. European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said she saw further improvement since Google's first report in June showed some rivals had benefited from the company's action.
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| 'You are not alone': your reaction to Christine Blasey Ford's testimony Posted: 05 Oct 2018 02:00 AM PDT  Christine Blasey Ford is sworn in before testifying to the Senate judiciary committee in Washington DC. Watching Dr Christine Blasey Ford share her traumatic experiences of sexual assault had a profound impact on women and men across the US and the world. For many, Ford's testimony dredged up painful memories of their own experiences of sexual violence, that had often been privately endured for years.
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| Trump, rock star of anger, mesmerizes followers Posted: 04 Oct 2018 06:44 PM PDT  Donald Trump closed his speech with a lofty call against fear and division in next month's midterm elections -- having just spent an hour stirring exactly that. Like an angry rock star, Trump whipped up the crowd of more than 10,000 in Southaven, Mississippi this week with warnings that a Democratic retaking of Congress on November 6 will lead, pretty much, to the United States' collapse. Trump has been repeating that message relentlessly in MAGA, or "Make America Great Again," rallies around the country ahead of the midterms.
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| Double murder suspect captured, ending manhunt in Tennessee Posted: 05 Oct 2018 09:28 AM PDT  The Montgomery County Sheriff's Office announced Friday that Kirby Gene Wallace, 53, who was wanted for killing two people, was in custody.
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| Car blast kills four in Turkey-backed Syrian town: reports Posted: 06 Oct 2018 02:44 PM PDT ![Car blast kills four in Turkey-backed Syrian town: reports]( "Car blast kills four in Turkey-backed Syrian town: reports") A car blast in a town controlled by Turkish-backed Syrian rebel groups near the Turkish border killed at least four people on Saturday, a war monitor and local media reports said. The town of Azaz lies in a part of northern Syria that Turkey's army helped rebels fighting President Bashar al-Assad to capture in 2016. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitor said the explosion happened in an industrial area of Azaz.
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| How to Save on Car Transport Posted: 06 Oct 2018 03:01 AM PDT  Saving on car transport is like saving on airline tickets, says Tobie Stanger, senior money editor. Popular car transport routes tend to be less pricey on a dollar-per-mile basis. Reserving car t...
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| One Of You Should Just Leak Me The FBI Report Posted: 05 Oct 2018 02:13 PM PDT  We do not know what was in the FBI's most recent background check into Supreme
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| Social media contributed to my stroke, says Norman Lamb Posted: 05 Oct 2018 02:06 PM PDT  A former health minister has said that "addictive" social media contributed to his stroke, as he warned that websites such as Twitter and Facebook could have a "distorting" effect. Norman Lamb, the Lib Dem MP, suffered a minor stroke in March that was at the time attributed to his high workload. He told The Daily Telegraph that his overuse of technology and social media was one of the causes. "I have addictive tendencies," he said. "I use social media late at night, sometimes lying in bed. It's the first thing I look at in the morning. Twitter is very addictive." Mr Lamb, 61, the MP for North Norfolk and chairman of the Commons science and technology committee that is conducting an inquiry into the effects of social media on young people, served as health minister until 2015. He said technology had increased the "pressure" on MPs, who received "instant feedback" and a "stream of tweets" after public appearances. "You get constituency case work via Facebook, Twitter, Messenger, text messages, emails, phone calls, people turning up at the office," Mr Lamb said. "There's an assumption you'll respond to an email quickly. When you leave it for a few days, there's a pressure of 'Why have you not responded?' "When I had a health shock before Easter, when I discovered I'd had a stroke, I realised I was on a treadmill. I was just struggling to keep on top of it. So I immediately said, 'Someone else can manage my email account'." Mr Lamb's committee's inquiry has heard evidence from young people who spend "all the time on social media". He is sympathetic. "Most people are capable of this drift into obsession," he said. "It's commonplace for teenagers to message each other at two in the morning... You never escape it." Mr Lamb spoke in support of The Daily Telegraph campaign calling for social media companies to have a duty of care towards their users. He said: "These are very powerful organisations making a lot of money, and they have a real moral obligation to safeguard the health and well-being of these generations growing up." However, he urged caution when it comes to regulation. "We mustn't throw the baby out with the bath water – we must be smart and intelligent in how we do this, and work from the basis of evidence," he said. Read more | Social media addiction Mr Lamb also highlighted the positive aspects of social media, which were not available when his son, Archie, was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive disorder in his teens. "The fact that young people can access help, support, guidance on mental health issues and on how you navigate your way through challenges can be of enormous value," Mr Lamb said. "Archie is now thriving and successful in the music business but I remember the moment he was diagnosed with OCD and said 'Dad, why am I the only person going mad?'" "Since nobody else is talking about it, you think you're the only one who is experiencing this. Now, you can go to your room and type in 'OCD', and you realise that actually lots of people are."
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| The Troubling History of the Fight to Honor Leif Erikson—Not Columbus—as the Man Who 'Discovered America' Posted: 05 Oct 2018 12:18 PM PDT  Leif Erikson Day's history is connected to nativist backlash against immigration to the United States
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| Man pleads guilty to stabbing wife 123 times Posted: 05 Oct 2018 08:03 AM PDT  Matthew Phelps pleaded guilty to first-degree murder for the death of his 29-year-old wife, Lauren Hugelmaier Phelps, after an autopsy determined he had stabbed her 123 times.
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| Nadia Murad: from jihadist slave to Nobel laureate Posted: 05 Oct 2018 02:54 AM PDT  Nadia Murad survived the worst cruelties inflicted on her people, the Yazidis of Iraq, before becoming a global champion of their cause and winning the Nobel Peace Prize. On Friday, Murad and Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege were jointly awarded the prize for their "efforts to end the use of sexual violence as a weapon of war," Nobel committee chairwoman Berit Reiss-Andersen said in unveiling the winners in Oslo. The 25-year-old Murad, her thin, pale face framed by her long brown hair, becomes the first Iraqi to win the Nobel Peace Prize.
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| Chi Chi, Golden Retriever With 4 Amputated Legs, Wins American Hero Dog Award Posted: 05 Oct 2018 10:00 AM PDT  Chi Chi has four specially fitted prostheses that allow her to walk despite having amputated legs.
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| India quietly seals missile deal with Russia despite U.S. warning Posted: 05 Oct 2018 05:14 AM PDT  India agreed a deal with Russia to buy S-400 surface to air missile systems on Friday, the two sides said, as New Delhi disregarded U.S. warnings that such a purchase could trigger sanctions under U.S. law. Although there was no public signing, the deal was sealed during President Vladimir Putin's ongoing visit to New Delhi for an annual summit with Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The United States has said countries trading with Russia's defence and intelligence sectors would face automatic sanctions under a sweeping legislation called Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA).
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| The 2018 Alfa Romeo Stelvio Quadrifoglio Thinks It's a Sports Sedan Posted: 05 Oct 2018 01:45 PM PDT  Practicality comes second for this wolf in Italian overalls.
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| Sen. Susan Collins Clears the Way for Brett Kavanaugh's Supreme Court Confirmation Posted: 05 Oct 2018 07:25 AM PDT  The Senate voted to advance Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh by a 51-49 party-line cloture vote on Friday.
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| First SpaceX mission with Nasa astronauts set for June 2019 Posted: 05 Oct 2018 03:39 PM PDT  Nasa has announced the first crewed flight by a SpaceX rocket to the International Space Station (ISS) is expected to take place in June 2019. It will be the first manned US launch to the orbiting research laboratory since the space shuttle program was retired in 2011, forcing US astronauts to hitch costly rides aboard Russian Soyuz spacecraft. A flight on Boeing spacecraft is set to follow in August 2019. The timetable for both launches has already been postponed several times, but Nasa said on Thursday it would now be providing monthly updates on deadlines. "This new process for reporting our schedule is better; nevertheless, launch dates will still have some uncertainty, and we anticipate they may change as we get closer to launch," said Phil McAlister, director of commercial spaceflight development at Nasa headquarters. "These are new spacecraft, and the engineering teams have a lot of work to do before the systems will be ready to fly." SpaceX Crew Dragon simulator used to train NASA astronauts who will travel to the International Space Station aboard Crew Dragon Credit: ROBYN BECK/AFP Both missions are considered tests: the two astronauts transported in each flight will spend two weeks aboard the orbiting ISS before returning to Earth. In the long term, Nasa will use SpaceX and Boeing to take astronauts to the ISS for regular missions, which last about six months. SpaceX will carry out an uncrewed test in January 2019, and Boeing in March 2019. SpaceX will use its Falcon 9 rocket for its launch with a Crew Dragon capsule attached on top. Boeing's Starliner ship will be propelled into space by an Atlas V rocket made by the United Launch Alliance, a joint venture with Lockheed Martin. Nasa is depending on the success of both missions as its contract with the Russian space agency expires in November 2019.
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| Snap to bet on older users, revamped marketing for profitability in 2019: Cheddar Posted: 04 Oct 2018 06:05 PM PDT  In the memo dated Sept. 26, Spiegel admitted that Snapchat had "rushed redesign, solving one problem but creating many others," Cheddar reported. Spiegel said the company would aim to reach the profit goal by attracting older users through revamped marketing, increase active advertisers and better serve emerging markets users with its forthcoming redesign of its Android app, according to a copy of the memo posted by Cheddar.
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| How Trump's language led to a temporary halt to ending TPS Posted: 04 Oct 2018 06:30 PM PDT ![How Trump's language led to a temporary halt to ending TPS]( "How Trump's language led to a temporary halt to ending TPS") Judge cites claims that Trump exhibited bias in comments about nonwhite immigrants
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