| 'A lot of crooked stuff going on,' Trump says as Republicans' lead shrinks in Florida Posted: 09 Nov 2018 10:31 AM PST  Republicans cry foul over changing vote totals in Broward and Palm Beach counties, while Democrats demand all ballots be counted.
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| Thousand Oaks stirs painful memories for Las Vegas survivor: ‘Why? Why again?’ Posted: 09 Nov 2018 05:45 AM PST  Robert Gaafar, who survived last year's Route 91 Harvest massacre, is reliving seering memories after this week's mass shooting in Thousand Oaks, Calif.
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| Jeff Sessions Dealt Police Reform One Final Blow On His Way Out The Door Posted: 09 Nov 2018 12:31 PM PST  WASHINGTON ― Hours before he resigned as the nation's 84th attorney general,
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| France's Macron to meet Merkel on November 18 over eurozone reform Posted: 09 Nov 2018 10:32 AM PST  PARIS (Reuters) - French President Emmanuel Macron will meet German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin on Nov. 18 to discuss implementation of the so-called Meseberg eurozone reform proposal agreed in June, the Elysee Palace said on Friday. Macron will speak to the German lower-house. French officials have expressed irritation with Germany's reluctance to resolve pending issues over the monetary union's governance. Earlier on Friday, French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire said Germany had to decide in the coming weeks whether to move forward with French proposals on the integration of the ...
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| Photos of the week: 11/2 - 11/9 Posted: 09 Nov 2018 02:00 PM PST  Twelve people were killed in a shooting at a Southern California bar this week
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| Late-breaking races are washing away Trump’s near-'complete victory' in midterms Posted: 09 Nov 2018 02:57 PM PST  As votes continue to be counted, Democrats are inching toward solidifying their control of the House with a pickup of as many as 40 seats, while Republican Senate wins in Arizona and Florida are looking less solid.
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| 100 years on we shall remember them: Britain commemorates its WWI dead Posted: 10 Nov 2018 10:02 AM PST  They may no longer be with us - the last of their number, Harry Patch, died in 2009, aged 111 - but we will remember them. Around the country thousands of people will pay tribute on Sunday to those who died on foreign soil or at sea for their country, and those at home who endured the anguish and hardship of global war. On the 100th anniversary of the Armistice events will take place in every corner of the British Isles to commemorate the sacrifice of a generation during the First World War, which only came to an end at 11am on November 11, 1918, after an almost incalculable loss of life. The numbers still have the power to shock. Between 1914 and 1918, 886,345 UK troops were killed. Another 228,569 troops from the wider British Empire were killed, more than 74,000 of them from India. Each one was a son, father, husband or brother who willingly or not, whether with courage or almost paralysed by fear, died in a conflict whose causes and conclusion were beyond their control. In addition there were 6.32 million civilians killed when total war visited their communities, 109,000 of them in the UK , 300,000 in France and 426,000 in Germany. The acts of remembrance being organised to commemorate this loss will be as varied as they will be moving. They range from the formal state occasion of the National Service of Remembrance at the Cenotaph, where Prime Minister Theresa May and the Prince of Wales will lay wreaths, and a special service at Westminster Abbey being attended by the Queen and other senior members of the Royal family, to the Yorkshire town of Otley, where posters will be hung on more than 100 doors to remember the man who lived there but never returned from the front line. In addition each house in the town will also display a knitted poppy, with another 16,000 installed along the railings outside of All Saints Parish Church. The familiar chimes of Big Ben will mark the centenary of the Armistice, despite the clock tower being covered in scaffolding for conservation works. The 13.7 tonne bell, which hangs in the Elizabeth Tower in Westminster, will sound 11 times at 11am today for the traditional two minutes of remembrance. It will strike a further 11 times at 12.30 with bells ringing across the UK and worldwide as part of a nationwide programme of events to mark the end of the war. Wire Sculptor Jackie Lantelli from Slimbridge in Gloucestershire, England, with her Wire Soldiers installation at St John's Churchyard, Slimbridge, Credit: PAUL NICHOLLS Many of today's commemorative events have been communal efforts, drawing in whole families to remember the dead. In the West Midlands town of Walsall almost 100 houses in one street have been covered with 24,000 red poppies and the black silhouette statues of soldiers, symbolising the men from the area who were killed. Geoff Talbot, 74, one of those who decorated his home, said: "Lots of people have put a lot of effort to do this. In those days Aldridge was only a village, but a lot of local young men left and never came back. It is an absolutely nice way to do a tribute for them." A huge wall of 2,500 poppies also festoons the Bell Inn in nearby Willenhall, after locals painstakingly knitted the individual flowers by hand over a 24-month period. The day will not be without the kind of ironic humour one imagines would have been appreciated by the Tommies whose death in their thousands across the Western Front remain embedded in popular memory. Thwaites brewery, in Lancashire, is honouring one of WWI's Victoria Cross winners by naming the Shire horse that deliver its beer around Blackburn after him. The two-year-old gelding is being named 'Drummer' in honour of the East Lancashire Regiment's first WWI Victoria Cross winner, Drummer John Bent, aged 23. Bent was commended after saving a soldier from no-man's land and leading his platoon into action under fire after their officers and NCO's were all killed on 1st November 1914, near Le Gheer, Belgium. Drummer Bent's was the 24th of a total of 628 VCs awarded during WWI. As well as recalling his heroism, the name 'Drummer' also commemorates the role of thousands of horses in the Great War. White van driver Christopher Curtis, 32, from Oldham, who served for 11 years as a Sapper in the Royal Engineers, has sketched the silhouette of a soldier standing over a field of poppies with the words "Lest We Forget" in the dirt on the back of his van. In Bolton, criminals sentenced to unpaid work orders by magistrates were deployed to decorate lamp posts, the town hall and other landmarks in the Lancashire town with 500 giant poppies. The factory in Aylesford, Kent, that makes poppies has worked around the clock for the first time to meet the unprecedented demand for the symbol of Remembrance Day, producing more than 1,500 a day for the past two and a half weeks. Mandy Barker, Head Flower Arranger, and Julia Weston, Volunteer, arrange flowers on the Remembrance Cross for Sunday's Service at York Minster Credit: Charlotte Graham/The Telegraph In a measure of the continuity of the tradition of remembrance a box of poppies believed to be from one of the early Poppy Appeals has been discovered in an old suitcase in Cardiff.. Bernie Axtell, 77, found them while searching for paperwork in his home. They are believed to date from before the Second World War and will be brought to the Cenotaph by Royal British Legion representatives today. Mr Axtell was handed the box of poppies by his friend Vic Luckhurst about 30 years ago, while working for the Legion in Street, Somerset. "I said to Vic that I would find something special to do with them," he said. "Thirty years is a very long time to wait, but now they are doing something extraordinary." In Portsmouth a 24-hour guard of honour was being held at the city's Cenotaph, with 200 people, including schoolchildren, veterans and serving members of the armed forces, working in 15-minute slots to stand by the monument until 10am today. Meanwhile silhouettes of soldiers from the First World War have been projected onto famous landmarks around the country by the There But Not There project to raise money for mental health charities. There include Marble Arch, Tate Modern, HMS Belfast, the Angel of the North, the Tyne Bridge, Titanic Belfast and Edinburgh Castle. In Ilfracombe, Devon, it was the bodies of people that made their mark yesterday, recreating a famous photograph from 100 years ago by spelling out the word 'peace' on nearby Capstone Hill to remember those who died so that we might preserve it. Residents of a Devon town have re-enacted a classic photograph to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One. Locals and members of the public alike helped to recreate the original picture from 1919 by spelling out the word 'PEACE' on Capstone Hill in Ilfracombe. Credit: MARK PASSMORE/APEX The original picture from 1919 in which residents of Ilfracombe spell out the word 'peace' Credit: Apex News and Pictures
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| Florida Will Hold Recounts In Governor And Senate Races Posted: 10 Nov 2018 11:28 AM PST  Election officials in Florida announced Saturday that the state will hold
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| US to stop ‘inflight refuelling’ of Saudi-led coalition jets in Yemen Posted: 10 Nov 2018 07:50 AM PST  The US will stop the "inflight refuelling" of Saudi-led coalition jets in Yemen amid growing anger over civilian casualties from the kingdom's air strikes. The decision by Americans to pull out also comes amid outrage by US politicians from both political parties over the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. The Saudis said it had "requested cessation of inflight refuelling" by the US, which appeared to suggest it was the kingdom was behind the decision.
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| After back-to-back mass shootings, America grows numb Posted: 09 Nov 2018 06:10 PM PST  When a gunman entered a California music bar this week and started firing, some of the patrons ran out of back doors, they smashed windows to escape, they hid. Unlike some mass shooting victims, they were not paralyzed by fear. Several of those at the Borderline Bar and Grill in Thousand Oaks on Wednesday had been through a mass shooting before -- when a gunman opened fire on a crowd of country music fans in Las Vegas last year, killing 58.
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| Trump, Macron agree on defense after 'insulting' European army spat Posted: 10 Nov 2018 05:13 AM PST  Meeting for talks at the Elysee a day before commemorations to mark the 100th anniversary of the end of World War One, Macron welcomed Trump under rainy Parisian skies with a firm handshake. Seated on gilded chairs in the ornate presidential palace, Macron placed his hand on Trump's knee and referred to him as "my friend", while Trump kept more distance, although he also talked up common ground on an issue that had caused friction. "We want a strong Europe, it's very important to us, and whichever way we can do it the best and more efficient would be something we both want," said Trump.
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| 'She got paid a lot of money to write a book': Trump deflects questions on birtherism in Michelle Obama memoir Posted: 09 Nov 2018 08:45 AM PST  In her upcoming memoir, Michelle Obama writes that she will "never forgive" President Trump for pushing the so-called birther conspiracy that she believes put her family's safety at risk.
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| Passenger stops Utah Greyhound bus after driver passes out Posted: 09 Nov 2018 01:28 PM PST ![Passenger stops Utah Greyhound bus after driver passes out]( "Passenger stops Utah Greyhound bus after driver passes out") SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Greyhound bus passenger got behind the wheel and steered the bus to safety after the driver began passing out on a Utah highway Friday morning, police said.
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| ‘We Are Thousand Oaks Strong’: Community Gathers At Vigil To Mourn Shooting Victims Posted: 08 Nov 2018 07:32 PM PST  THOUSAND OAKS, Calif. ― Hundreds of community members crowded Fred Kavli
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| Malibu evacuated as California Woolsey wildfire rages across beachside communities Posted: 09 Nov 2018 12:09 PM PST  The beachside community of Malibu and at least 75,000 homes in Los Angeles and Ventura counties have been evacuated as multiple wildfires raged across California. Meanwhile, flames have claimed more than 8,000 acres of land and jumped over the south-side of the 101 freeway, effectively shutting down miles of roadway into the Calabasas area. What that means is, you don't have to leave, we want you to leave," Ventura County Fire spokesman Rich Macklan told reporters on Friday.
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| Indonesia calls off the search for Lion Air crash victims Posted: 10 Nov 2018 01:51 AM PST  "Since yesterday afternoon until today we have not found any more victims and therefore I declare the search and rescue operation is over," Muhammad Syaugi, head of the search and rescue agency, told reporters Saturday. Lion Air has begun paying $102,058 compensation money for each passenger to the grieving families. Indonesian National Transportation Safety Committee has retrieved one of the black boxes -- the flight data recorder -- and is still hunting for the cockpit voice recorder, which recorded the last conversation between the pilot and co-pilot before the crash.
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| Rick Scott Claims Fraud, Seeks Florida Law Enforcement Probe Of Election Officials Posted: 08 Nov 2018 08:33 PM PST  Florida Gov. Rick Scott suggested there was "rampant fraud" and called for law
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| Contradicting himself, Trump denies knowing acting AG Matt Whitaker Posted: 09 Nov 2018 11:26 AM PST  President Trump on Friday said he did not know Mark Whitaker before appointing him acting attorney general, despite saying he did less than a month ago.
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| The Latest: Damaged water heater blamed for shooting report Posted: 09 Nov 2018 08:20 AM PST ![The Latest: Damaged water heater blamed for shooting report]( "The Latest: Damaged water heater blamed for shooting report") HAMPSTEAD, N.C. (AP) — The Latest on the active shooter situation in southeast North Carolina (all times local):
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| Driver opened fire at vehicle with teens inside after one of them pulls gun, Harris Co. sheriff says Posted: 09 Nov 2018 01:23 PM PST  Authorities say the suspected shooter opened fire at an 18-year-old who had pulled an apparent weapon in southwest Houston.
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| Melbourne stabbings: Somali-born Australian inspired by Isil, say police, as group claims attack Posted: 09 Nov 2018 05:59 PM PST  A Somali-born Australian who set fire to a gas-laden truck in the centre of Melbourne and fatally stabbed one person before he was shot by police was inspired by Islamic State but did not have direct links with the group, Australian police said on Saturday. In an attack described by the state premier as an "act of evil", the man sped a utility vehicle down Bourke Street, one of the city's busiest thoroughfares, and then stopped and apparently set it alight before randomly stabbing pedestrians. A man aged 74, who had been stabbed in the face, died at the scene. Two other men, aged 26 and 58, are in a hospital with non-life threatening injuries. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) claimed responsibility for the attack. Police identified the man responsible for Friday's attack as 30-year-old Hassan Khalif Shire Ali, 31, whose 21-year-old brother was accused of plotting a mass murder on New Year's Eve at Federation Square last year, a city centre hub and popular tourist spot. He is in jail awaiting trial. A police officer inspects a body at the crime scene following a stabbing incident in Melbourne Credit: AFP Footage taken by witnesses showed the man lunging with a large knife at police, who shot him in the chest and killed him. Bystanders were yelling at police: "Just shoot him, just shoot him". Police said Shire Ali's Australian passport was cancelled in 2015 after an intelligence report he planned to travel to Syria, but an assessment was made that whilst he had radical views, he posed no threat to national security. "I think it is fair to say he (Shire Ali) was inspired. He was radicalised," Australian Federal Police Acting Deputy Commissioner Ian McCartney told reporters in Melbourne. "We're not saying there was direct contact. We're saying it was more from an inspiration perspective." Australian counter-terrorism investigators were searching two properties in suburban Melbourne on Saturday morning. "Joint Counter Terrorism Team investigators are executing search warrants at two addresses in Werribee and Meadows Heights this morning" Victoria police said in a statement. "More information will be provided when it's appropriate to do so." Scott Morrison, the Australian Prime Minister, said the national terrorism advisory remained at "probable", the midpoint of a five-tier system, and told reporters in Sydney that radical Islam was the issue. "I need to call it out. Radical, violent, extremist Islam that opposes our very way of life. I am the first to protect religious freedom in this country, but that also means I must be the first to call out religious extremism," he said. Isil's propaganda channel said the group was behind the attack. "The perpetrator of the operation... in Melbourne... was an Islamic State fighter and carried out the operation... to target nationals of the coalition" fighting Isil, Amaq reported a jihadist security source as saying. Armed security personnel stand near the Bourke Street mall in central Melbourne Credit: AAP/James Ross/via REUTERS The attack began on Friday at about 4.30pm, as streams of people were shopping and heading home. Some pedestrians – including one with a shopping trolley, now labelled "trolley man" – tried to fend off the attacker. When police officers arrived, the attacker punched one through the car window and appeared to show little fear as he repeatedly tried to stab them. Some witnesses claimed the man, who was tall and wearing a long dark coat, was yelling "Allahu akbar", though police said this was not confirmed. "He seemed to be waving something, people around me screamed that he had a knife," a witness told ABC News. "And then I heard one loud bang. It sounded like a gunshot." Another witness, who was taking a stroll during a break from work, said: "It is a very strange thing to witness on the streets you walk everyday… People were quite scared. They wanted to know what was going on." Melbourne attack: Bourke street Victoria Police's Chief Commissioner Graham Ashton said the man moved from Somalia to Melbourne's north-west suburbs in the 1990s and was known to state and federal counterterrorism agencies through his "family associations". "His family members are certainly known to us from a terrorism perspective," he said. "From what we know of that individual, we are treating this as a terrorism incident." The scene of the attack in Melbourne on Friday Commissioner Ashton said the man had convictions for cannabis use, theft and driving offences but not for violent offences. He said there was not believed to be an ongoing threat. Melbourne has experienced numerous terror attacks and plots in recent years. In 2009, authorities conducted raids and charged five Somali Australian men in Melbourne suspected of terrorism offences. Three were later convicted of planning to attack an army barracks. Significant fire in Bourke Street - road blocked between Swanston and Russell Streets pic.twitter.com/H6xO1pzy5L— acuriouscook (@loumick3) November 9, 2018 Victoria's state premier Daniel Andrews condemned the latest attack as an "act of evil" and pledged that the city would "go about our business this weekend and every weekend". "This is an evil, terrifying thing that's happened in our city and state today," he said. "We condemn it… We'll not, as a city and a state, be defined by this act of evil." The incident came as the trial began of James Gargasoulas, who is accused of killing six people on Bourke Street last year after allegedly deliberately ploughing through them with a car. Mr Gargasoulas, 28, who was in a drug-induced psychosis at the time, has pleaded not guilty. Police do not believe the attacks were linked.
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| Ice-T Says He’s Never Eaten A Bagel Before And People Are Freaking Out Posted: 09 Nov 2018 12:13 PM PST  Ice-T shook Twitter Friday when he announced he has never eaten a bagel.
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| How California erupted in flames overnight Posted: 09 Nov 2018 12:13 PM PST  Newly-born fires torched bone-dry Northern and Southern California throughout the night of November 8. One deadly blaze in particular, the Camp Fire, ripped through 70,000 acres in just 24 hours. "It's incredible," Michael Gollner, a fire scientist at the University of Maryland, said of the uncontrollable Northern California wildfire. "I don't know if I want to say unprecedented — but it's getting close to that. It's incredibly rare." "That blows your mind," Brenda Belongie, lead meteorologist of the U.S. Forest Service's Predictive Services in Northern California, said in an interview. "That impresses us in the industry." While the Camp Fire nearly burned the entire town of Paradise to the ground, residents in heavily-populated Southern California documented their nighttime escapes from falling embers and glowing hillsides. The Woolsey and Hill fires have now burned through 14,000 acres, with thousands of residents receiving urgent nighttime evacuation messages via text. In both the north and south of the parched Golden State, the rapidly-evolving circumstances are similar: profoundly dried-out land with the arrival of persistently dry, gusty winds. "Then all you need is a spark," said Belongie. Clouds of smoke seen from Hermosa Beach, California.Image: susan kaufmanAlthough fires are complex environmental phenomena driven (and exacerbated) by weather, U.S. fires in the last couple decades have been burning at least twice as much land than in the early 1980s, and they've been burning for weeks — not days — longer. A warmer climate means more dry, flame-susceptible vegetation. "These fires are going to be happening more often," noted Gollner. The California fire season should be nearing its end. Typically, by mid-October the season dies down as the first rains will make the grasses and forests less likely to burn — particularly in Northern California. But not this year. "We are still very much in fire season," said Belongie. "It's just one fire after another." The Camp Fire, barely contained as of Friday morning, is the continuation of a historic fire season in the heavily-forested northern part of the state. In July, the Carr Fire — after jumping the Sacramento River — grew into a towering, spinning vortex of flame. SEE ALSO: The EPA completely axed its climate change websites. But why are NASA's still live? Northern California has now seen a record number of acres burned during a fire season, Belongie said. That's around 150 percent of the previous record, she noted. The now-raging Camp Fire has exploited exceptionally dried-out forests and grasses. In some portions of Northern California, forests are now as dry as they were during the peak summer fire season, when temperatures were in the triple digits. It's now well into November, and parched forests are at their seasonal records for dryness, with some setting new records. Worse than no rain is negative rain. Evaporative Demand Index (EDDI) is maxing out for some areas for the last 4 weeks. #CAwx pic.twitter.com/AP3ZYjscZt — Rob Elvington (@RobElvington) November 8, 2018 "This is a huge deal," said Belongie. For a few weeks now, California forests have been increasingly dried-out by strong, dry winds, blowing from the north and east — so fire experts expected flames. And through the night, east-blowing winds blew persistent gusts through much of the state. The dry stage was set. "Unfortunately, it's not unexpected," said Gollner. And Westerners can expect similar circumstances in the future. Once these large fires start, there's little that can be done to stop them — even our massive fire-retardant dropping aircraft have little effect. "The airplanes aren't going to do very much once the fire grows to this enormous size," said Gollner. #HillFire [update] at Hill Canyon Rd and Santa Rosa Rd, Santa Rosa Valley (Ventura County) per Ventura County Fire is now 10,000 acres. https://t.co/m9mxnWQh0T pic.twitter.com/MWOXL4vThd — CAL FIRE (@CAL_FIRE) November 9, 2018 With this modern reality, society needs to prepare, emphasized Gollner. For instance, it's now imperative that flame-vulnerable communities reduce vegetation near their homes, so communities aren't met with 100-foot tall walls of flame. We can't stop the flames — but we can make them manageable. "It's not about making it a black-top all around," said Gollner. "It's about reducing the fuel over the land — so we don't have this really high risk next to our homes." But for now, fire managers just want this particular season to just end. "This is an endless fire season," said Belongie. WATCH: Ever wonder how the universe might end?
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| Fly Jamaica: Boeing passenger plane crash lands at Guyana airport after 'technical problem' on way to Toronto Posted: 09 Nov 2018 05:03 AM PST  A Fly Jamaica plane has been forced into a crash landing at a Guyana airport after developing a "technical problem" en route to Toronto, leaving at least six passengers injured. In the emergency landing the aircraft overran the airstrip, crashed through a perimeter fence and came to a rest a few feet in front of a steep ditch. The airline issued a statement saying: "We can confirm that flight OJ256 bound for Toronto has returned to Georgetown with a technical problem and has suffered an accident on landing.
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| Stacey Abrams Holds Strong In Georgia, Despite Intense Pressure To Concede Posted: 09 Nov 2018 01:33 PM PST  Stacey Abrams is facing intense pressure to concede the Georgia governor's
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| Don Lemon Asks Donald Trump: Which Caravan Did Thousand Oaks Shooter Belong To? Posted: 09 Nov 2018 02:53 AM PST  Don Lemon took President Donald Trump to task for his pre-midterm elections
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| Rare Shelby GT350H found in pensioner's garage Posted: 09 Nov 2018 06:37 AM PST  Discovered in an elderly lady's garage, this barn find Shelby GT350H has been hidden away for 30 years. Today these rare muscle cars can be worth $150,000.
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| Facebook stops requiring arbitration of sexual harassment claims Posted: 09 Nov 2018 04:41 PM PST  Facebook on Friday said it will no longer require employees to resolve sexual harassment claims via arbitration, mirroring a move by Google. "Today, we are publishing our updated Workplace Relationships policy and amending our arbitration agreements to make arbitration a choice rather than a requirement in sexual harassment claims," Facebook corporate media relations director Anthony Harrison told AFP. Google on Thursday outlined changes to its handling of sexual misconduct complaints, hoping to calm outrage that triggered a worldwide walkout of workers last week.
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| Is Curbside Grocery Pickup Worth It? Posted: 10 Nov 2018 07:00 AM PST  In a comparison of Instacart Pickup and Walmart curbside grocery services, Consumer Reports found that Walmart provided better value, but Instacart offered more convenience and broader choice. S...
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| Macron and May pay tribute to fallen fighters of the Somme Posted: 09 Nov 2018 08:06 AM PST  In a solemn ceremony at the Thiepval memorial in northern France, Macron and May honored allied soldiers who died at the Somme. May said the day's ceremonies were a time to "reflect on our shared history, but also look ahead to our shared future". To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the end of the war this weekend, Macron will welcome world leaders including U.S. President Donald Trump, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and Russia's Vladimir Putin.
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| Man who carjacked 2 women outside church went on all-night crime spree, police say Posted: 09 Nov 2018 10:35 AM PST  Authorities say they found the suspect praying at the second church he drove to after the carjacking, which was part of a larger crime spree.
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| The Latest: Fire captain says wildfire destroys Calif. town Posted: 08 Nov 2018 07:51 PM PST  OROVILLE, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on California wildfires (all times local):
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| Nationwide protests held in support of Mueller probe Posted: 09 Nov 2018 08:53 AM PST ![Nationwide protests held in support of Mueller probe]( "Nationwide protests held in support of Mueller probe") U.S. progressive groups staged hundreds of protests nationwide on Thursday evening to demand that President Trump do nothing to hinder an ongoing investigation into his campaign and Russian meddling during the 2016 U.S. election. The protests, operating under the banner "Nobody Is Above the Law" and led by the activist group MoveOn, called for people to gather in cities at 5 p.m. on Thursday in an effort to protect the investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller. The action was spurred by Trump's move on Wednesday to replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions with Sessions's chief of staff, Matt Whitaker, as acting attorney general.
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| Judge To Hear Arizona Senate Race Vote Count Dispute Posted: 09 Nov 2018 12:41 PM PST  PHOENIX (AP) -- As the Arizona Senate vote count starts to tip into Democratic
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| US to stop refueling planes in Yemen war: report Posted: 09 Nov 2018 03:17 PM PST  The United States will stop refueling aircraft from the Saudi-led coalition that is bombing Yemen, the Washington Post reported Friday. The move comes amid an ongoing international outcry over Saudi actions in Yemen, particularly after a string of high-profile coalition strikes that have killed scores of civilians, many of them children. The Pentagon would not confirm the Post's story.
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| The NRA told doctors to 'stay in their lane.' Doctors aren't having it. Posted: 10 Nov 2018 09:23 AM PST  #ThisisMyLane The National Rifle Association has a bone to pick with "anti-gun doctors" (what) and their collective desire to stop pulling bullets out of patients. They don't know what they're talking about, the NRA contends, when they argue in favor of common sense gun control. "Someone should tell self-important anti-gun doctors to stay in their lane," the Wednesday tweet read. "Half of the articles in Annals of Internal Medicine are pushing for gun control. Most upsetting, however, the medical community seems to have consulted NO ONE but themselves." SEE ALSO: Doctor: Asking Patients About Gun Ownership Is a Healthcare Issue The tweet then links to an NRA website article deriding a position paper from the American College of Physicians (ACP). The paper lays out a number of policy recommendations that, its abstract notes, "the evidence suggests will be effective in reducing deaths and injuries from firearm-related violence." The NRA takes issue with the fact that the paper's authors didn't consult with "firearms experts or lawyers." I'm not personally well-versed enough in these issues to respond to that charge, though I feel like a paper — even a policy paper — from a national health care organization is probably not in the wrong for focusing on what doctors think. What's important here, however, is how doctors responded. Many did not take kindly to the NRA's assertion that health care providers should "stay in their lane." They were quick to remind the NRA that guns and the wounds they cause are very much in a doctor's "lane." And so, a hashtag was born: #ThisisMyLane. I may not have a strong enough grasp of the complexities here to rebuff the specifics of that NRA article. But the health care providers sharing their gun violence horror stories here are all the convincing anyone should need that gun control is an issue that sorely needs to be addressed. Hey @NRA, so a 4 year old comes into the ER with a GSW to the chest, but it hasn't crossed the midline. Please inform me, a pediatric intensive care physician, what is the trauma protocol for this? I'm confused since this is not my lane. #ThisisMyLane — pachec (@pachec) November 10, 2018 .@NRAsays docs should "stay in [our] lane. My lane is a son shot walking down the street with his mother. I opened his chest and repaired his heart after it stopped, but I couldn't prevent the brain damage from lack of oxygen during CPR#ThisisMyLane . What's yours? — Stephanie Bonne (@scrubbedin) November 8, 2018 @nra This is the chest x-ray of my 15 year old patient shot by an R.I.P. bullet, how many of those fragments could you find and fix? #ThisisMyLane https://t.co/zIUtjA5JG8 pic.twitter.com/i4LG83WUEd — Ellie Curtis (@elliecurtismd) November 10, 2018 Oops @NRA - forgot to consult you on that gunshot victim I treated. Turns out, THEY came into MY lane, and I heard YOU were driving. Next time, what's your number? I'll call you to deliver the bad news, since clearly you claim this lane as YOURS. #Docs4GunSense #ThisISMyLane — Brandon Morshedi, MD, DPT (@bbmorshedi) November 10, 2018 My kids' pediatrician sent me a picture of her altered water bottle in her (parked!) car. Considering that in 2015 alone, 2,824 children died by gunshot and 13,723 others were injured, this is very much her lane. #ThisIsMyLane @NRA @momsdemand #ENOUGH pic.twitter.com/H6mKBCmo0a — Alyson Gilles (@AlysonGilles) November 9, 2018 #ThisisMyLane: 15 yo boy, innocent bystander, shot in the pelvis by a stray bullet. Obliterated iliac vessels, we couldn't save him. His poor mother crumpled and screamed when I told her he died. Her screams haunt me. — Jill Streams (@JCRStreams) November 9, 2018 .@NRA says docs should "stay in [our] lane. My lane: a resident, watching my mentor desperately try to save a 6 year old accidentally shot by his brother. When he knew it over, he stopped, held the boys hand and wept at the OR table as he died.#ThisisMyLane What's yours? — Stephanie Bonne (@scrubbedin) November 9, 2018 I worked in a trauma unit and had to hold together the skull of a young man who was shot in the head, so we could wrap it up enough for his family to see him and say goodbye. #ThisisMyLane — Kelly Pavelec (@kelly_pavelec) November 10, 2018 Moments you always remember. Furious honking in the ambulance bay. Picking up the lifeless 12 yo from the front seat like he weighed nothing. Putting him on the cot, A,B... So many holes. No breathing, finger thoracostomy, so much blood shooting up my arm. He died. #ThisIsMyLane — Dr. Howie Mell (@DrHowieMell) November 10, 2018 I've been reading statements from the trauma surgeons and ED docs about gun carnage. As rehab doc, let me mention lifetimes in wheelchairs with SCI, useless arms from brachial plexus destruction, colostomies from belly destruction and years of dependence with TBI #ThisIsMyLane — Kathleen Bell, MD (@KathleenBellMD) November 10, 2018 Hey @NRA ! Wanna see my lane? Here's the chair I sit in when I tell parents their kids are dead. How dare you tell me I can't research evidence based solutions. #ThisISMyLane #ThisIsOurLane #thequietroom pic.twitter.com/y7tBAuje8O — Stephanie Bonne (@scrubbedin) November 9, 2018 WATCH: 'We're being used': Rapper Vic Mensa pleads for gun control legislation.
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| Melbourne mourns Italian corner cafe owner killed in terror attack Posted: 09 Nov 2018 09:50 PM PST  Customers of a cafe credited with pioneering Melbourne's famous coffee culture piled flowers and condolences outside on Saturday, mourning its well-known co-owner who was stabbed to death in an attack police have called an act of terrorism. Sisto Malaspina, 74, a familiar face behind the coffee machine at the city-center Pellegrini's cafe, was killed in the attack on Friday, his business partner Nino Pangrazio told The Age newspaper. Police have not confirmed his identity, only saying a 74-year-old city worker was killed by a Somali-born man who set fire to a truck laden with gas cylinders just outside the cafe before stabbing three bystanders.
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