| Trump to Merkel: ‘Perhaps’ Obama wiretapped us both Posted: 17 Mar 2017 12:11 PM PDT  Recycling an incendiary and unsubstantiated charge, President Trump on Friday joked that he and visiting German Chancellor Angela Merkel may have one thing in common: being spied on by Barack Obama's administration. "As far as wiretapping, I guess, by, you know, this past administration, at least we have something in common perhaps," Trump said at a joint press conference with the German leader. Trump had been asked by a German reporter about his March 4 claim that Obama personally ordered spying on him and Trump Tower.
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| Trump knocks China as Tillerson heads to Beijing Posted: 17 Mar 2017 07:34 AM PDT  President Trump on Friday knocked China for not doing enough to curb North Korea's nuclear and missile programs — even as Secretary of State Rex Tillerson headed to Beijing as part of a high-stakes diplomatic swing through Asia. "North Korea is behaving very badly," Trump said on Twitter. "They have been 'playing' the United States for years.
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| The Latest: Paris airport suspect known to anti-terror force Posted: 18 Mar 2017 06:44 AM PDT  PARIS (AP) — The Latest on incident at Orly Airport in Paris where a man was shot to death after attempting to seize a soldier's weapon (all times local):
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| Study Says Drug Cuts Cholesterol and Reduces Heart Attacks, But It’s Not Cheap Posted: 17 Mar 2017 03:47 PM PDT  A study paid for by the drug maker of Repatha found that it can have huge benefits on patients, but the price tag is steep: $14,000 per year.
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| Aspiring Teenage Model Dies During Texas Railway Photo Shoot Posted: 17 Mar 2017 09:58 AM PDT  Fredzania "Zanie" Thompson died last week.
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| 5 Surprising Ways Being a Redhead Affects Your Health Posted: 17 Mar 2017 07:04 AM PDT  Your hair isn't the only thing that makes you unique. Here's how your DNA may influence your pain sensitivity, how fast you age, and more.
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| U.S. reaches out to Britain to clean up White House’s spying claim Posted: 17 Mar 2017 08:29 AM PDT  The White House has contritely reached out to Britain after infuriating that close ally by recycling a Fox News commentator's charge that the U.K. spied on President Trump in 2016 at Barack Obama's request, officials in Washington and London said Friday. Trump's national security adviser, Lt. Gen. H.R. McMaster, assured his counterpart by telephone that the White House had not meant to endorse the claim. White House press secretary Sean Spicer, who touched off the unusual diplomatic controversy on Thursday, did the same in a conversation with Britain's ambassador to Washington.
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| China to build on disputed shoal in South China Sea Posted: 17 Mar 2017 04:59 PM PDT ![China to build on disputed shoal in South China Sea]( "China to build on disputed shoal in South China Sea") China will begin preparatory work this year for an environmental monitoring station on Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, an official said, as two U.S. senators introduced a bill to impose sanctions on its activities in the disputed waterway. China seized the strategic shoal, which is also claimed by the Philippines, in 2012 and the United States has warned Beijing against carrying out the same land reclamation work there that it has done in other parts of the South China Sea. This week, Xiao Jie, the mayor of what Beijing calls Sansha City, an administrative base for disputed South China Sea islands and reefs it controls, said China planned preparatory work this year to build environmental monitoring stations on a number of islands, including Scarborough Shoal.
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| Abandoned funeral home dies of decay Posted: 18 Mar 2017 09:00 AM PDT ![Abandoned funeral home dies of decay]( "Abandoned funeral home dies of decay") This is a real house of the dead, as forgotten artifacts lie strewn across a 150-year-old abandoned funeral home. The building in Jacksonville, Fla., was once the site of the city's oldest continuously operating funeral parlor. The parlor itself was established by successful businessman Calvin Oak in 1856, and it changed hands several times before moving to another location in 2013. The building was left to rot. (Caters News)
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| Man charged as run-over medic is mourned as job's matriarch Posted: 17 Mar 2017 04:54 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — A man accused of crushing a fire department medic to death under the wheels of a stolen ambulance told reporters Friday he'd done nothing wrong, while his lawyer said he was mentally ill and didn't act intentionally.
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| Gaming Stocks Are Worth a Gamble in the Time of Trump Posted: 17 Mar 2017 06:28 AM PDT ![Gaming Stocks Are Worth a Gamble in the Time of Trump]( "Gaming Stocks Are Worth a Gamble in the Time of Trump") The run-up in the U.S. stock market since Donald Trump shocked the world and won the U.S. presidency is one for the history books. "Locally here in Las Vegas, the largest strip players remain MGM ( MGM) and Caesars ( CZR).
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| Texas House ethics chair probes anti-abortion group contract Posted: 17 Mar 2017 02:41 PM PDT  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The head of the Texas House ethics committee says she wants answers about an anti-abortion group that received $1.6 million to bolster women's health clinics after The Associated Press found that promises have come up short.
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| Childhood TV Series Actor Faces Six-Year Sentence Posted: 18 Mar 2017 02:40 AM PDT  TV actor Ricardo Medina actor was most notably known for his role as Cole Evans, the Red Wild Force Ranger, killed his roommate with a sword in 2015.
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| Map Shows How Climate Change Will Affect Health Across US Posted: 17 Mar 2017 08:40 AM PDT  "Doctors in every part of our country see that climate change is making Americans sicker," Dr. Mona Sarfaty, the director of the new group, called the Medical Society Consortium on Climate and Health, said in a statement. But few Americans are aware of the impact climate change has on health, according to the report. Only about a third of Americans can name a specific way climate change affects people's health, according to the report.
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| Suicide attacker targets Bangladesh army camp Posted: 17 Mar 2017 06:19 AM PDT  A man blew himself up on Friday at a camp for Bangladesh's elite security forces, wounding two others, in an apparent botched suicide attack. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan said a man carrying explosives entered the Rapid Action Battalion (RAB) camp near the Dhaka international airport on Friday morning. The explosives went off after he was challenged by two RAB men, wounding them both but causing no other casualties.
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| Sean Spicer spars with White House press corps over alleged wiretapping Posted: 16 Mar 2017 07:07 PM PDT  White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer had a heated exchange with a pair of reporters at his daily briefing on Thursday. The tense back-and-forth began with questions about President Trump's allegation that he was wiretapped by his predecessor, Barack Obama. It devolved into shouting, repeated interruptions and an accusation from Spicer that the media is attempting to "perpetuate a false narrative" about Trump's relationship with Russia.
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| Higher heart risk seen with Abbott dissolving stent after two years: study Posted: 18 Mar 2017 09:26 AM PDT ![Higher heart risk seen with Abbott dissolving stent after two years: study]( "Higher heart risk seen with Abbott dissolving stent after two years: study") By Bill Berkrot WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Patients who received Abbott Laboratories' novel dissolving vascular stent had a significantly higher rate of serious adverse heart events than those treated with the company's widely used Xience drug-coated metal stent two years after implantation, according to data presented on Saturday. New guidelines for blood vessel size and proper implantation techniques put in place for the new Absorb stent since the study began, however, should lead to better results, researchers said. "The difference between Absorb and Xience when they're both implanted in properly-sized vessels with good procedural technique is likely to be quite modest and possibly not clinically important," said Dr. Stephen Ellis, director of interventional cardiology at Cleveland Clinic, who presented the data at the American College of Cardiology scientific meeting in Washington.
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| President Trump and German Chancellor Angela Merkel hold a press conference Posted: 17 Mar 2017 12:41 PM PDT  On Friday, March 17, President Trump holds a press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. The meeting comes after Merkel's trip was delayed due to the snow earlier in the week.
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| People in the US may soon finally be able to erase themselves from Google Posted: 17 Mar 2017 11:12 AM PDT 
The internet is a fantastic tool for archiving information, but when that information says bad things about your own personal life, character, or past missteps, it can be a huge burden. The "right to be forgotten" concept which took root in Europe about a decade ago seeks to minimize the negative impact the internet's massive wealth of information can have on a person's future by making it easier to have certain private material scrubbed from search engine results. Now, that same idea could be put into practice in the United States.
A bill currently making its way through the New York State Assembly proposes that the right to be forgotten act be implemented as amendments to the state's civil rights and civil practice laws. The proposed changes would put search companies on the hook for removing certain private and personal information within 30 days of receiving a request to do so. The information would need to be "inaccurate, irrelevant, inadequate, or excessive" in order to quality for removal from search indexes. Google has chosen not to comment on the bill's existence or its potential approval, but has taken a stand in the past against the idea of modifying search results based on being asked to do so. For companies like Google, the issue isn't necessarily the legwork involved in removing the requested information, but the likelihood that the request system will be abused by individuals seeking to censor anything and everything that they don't particularly agree with. It's a very real concern, and it will be interesting to see whether this New York proposal leads other lawmakers to consider similar measures.
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| Chief: Apartment building inspected 50 times before blaze Posted: 17 Mar 2017 11:12 AM PDT  RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — An apartment building under construction in North Carolina's capital city had been inspected 50 times, most recently on Monday, before it went up in flames near an entertainment district, the fire chief said Friday.
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| 20,000 leagues beneath the ice Posted: 18 Mar 2017 07:30 AM PDT ![20,000 leagues beneath the ice]( "20,000 leagues beneath the ice") The harmonic sounds of Weddell seals penetrate the thick ice. In fact, a significant part of what we know about underwater life in Antarctica comes from within a two-hour driving radius of the McMurdo Station research base.
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| Wilders remains force to be reckoned with: analysts Posted: 17 Mar 2017 03:52 AM PDT  Geert Wilders may have been beaten into second place in the Dutch elections but the far-right MP will enjoy a magnified role in parliament and remain a force to be reckoned with, analysts said. While he failed in his aim of starting a "patriotic revolution," Wilders has already succeeded in shifting the debate and the tone in Dutch politics on immigration and integration, observers said. Campaigning on an anti-Islam ticket, the peroxide-haired politician saw his hopes wilt from an all-time high in January when opinion polls had said he could win as many as 37 seats in the 150-seat Dutch lower chamber.
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| Israeli Fighter Jet Shoots Down Anti-Aircraft Missile In Syria Posted: 17 Mar 2017 02:18 AM PDT  This is believed to be the most serious incident between Israel and pro-Assad forces since the beginning of the civil war in Syria.
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| Nigeria's Buhari marks return by attending council meeting Posted: 16 Mar 2017 11:08 PM PDT ![Nigeria's Buhari marks return by attending council meeting]( "Nigeria's Buhari marks return by attending council meeting") Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari marked his return from medical leave in London with a rare appearance at a meeting on Thursday of the government's top advisory body. Buhari attended a session of the National Economic Council, which is chaired by Vice President Yemi Osinbajo and whose members include state governors, the central bank governor and the finance minister. Buhari returned on Friday from London, where he had been receiving medical treatment for seven weeks.
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| Trump said Merkel was ruining Germany — now they’re meeting face to face Posted: 17 Mar 2017 07:47 AM PDT  President Trump will come face to face with German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the White House Friday — after relentlessly mocking and criticizing her for months on end during last year's presidential campaign. The new U.S. president and the longtime German stateswoman are expected to discuss the future of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), which Trump has criticized, and the West's relationship with Russia. Trump and Merkel, leaders of two of the world's most powerful and influential countries, are widely seen as diametrically opposed on issues such as immigration and the Syrian refugee crisis.
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| Family Says Woman Charged With Leaving Daughter in Grocery Store Didn't Do It Intentionally Posted: 17 Mar 2017 02:46 PM PDT  Chiengkham Vilaysane allegedly left her daughter alone in a California store Sunday.
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| St. Patrick’s Day Parade in New York City Posted: 17 Mar 2017 05:00 PM PDT ![St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York City]( "St. Patrick's Day Parade in New York City") New York City's annual St. Patrick's Day Parade turns fashionable Fifth Avenue green in the world's largest Irish heritage celebration. The 256th edition of New York City's parade is expected to draw more than 1 million spectators to watch 200,000 spirited marchers, including more than 100 bands. (AP)
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| Philippines rejects European Parliament's call on senator Posted: 17 Mar 2017 06:20 AM PDT ![Philippines rejects European Parliament's call on senator]( "Philippines rejects European Parliament's call on senator") MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Philippine government on Friday rejected a call by the European Parliament for the release of Sen. Leila de Lima, a leading critic of the president who has been detained on drug charges, and told the international community to refrain from influencing her case.
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| Chelsea Clinton joins expanded Expedia board Posted: 17 Mar 2017 03:03 PM PDT  Travel service Expedia added to its board the daughter of former US president Bill Clinton and former Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, according to a public filing posted Friday. Expedia expanded its board from 13 to 14 members and elected Chelsea Clinton to fill the new position, according to a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission. Expedia is based in the northwestern US state of Washington and is one of the largest online services in the world for booking flights, hotels and car rentals.
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| Everything You Didn't Know About How George and Amal Clooney Fell In Love Posted: 17 Mar 2017 09:45 AM PDT  These two prove that love is worth the wait.
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| Hanging with the stars Posted: 17 Mar 2017 06:52 AM PDT  ABC News' Frank Elaridi gets to know Erika Jayne and Charo before they make their "Dancing With the Stars" debut.
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| Need to avoid civilian deaths weighs on minds of U.S. forces in Mosul battle Posted: 18 Mar 2017 02:14 AM PDT ![Need to avoid civilian deaths weighs on minds of U.S. forces in Mosul battle]( "Need to avoid civilian deaths weighs on minds of U.S. forces in Mosul battle") By Angus MacSwan QAYYARA WEST AIRFIELD, Iraq (Reuters) - As the battle for Mosul moves to the narrow streets and densely packed houses of the Old City, U.S. artillery gunners and helicopter pilots supporting Iraqi forces face an age-old problem – how to avoid killing civilians. The troop is based at this airfield about 60 kms south of Mosul, as is a rocket battery which fires into west Mosul.
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| Senate May Kill Broadband Privacy Rules With Congressional Review Act As Soon As Next Week Posted: 17 Mar 2017 04:18 PM PDT  The U.S. Senate may use the Congressional Review Act to eliminate Broadband Consumer Privacy Rules, which requires internet service providers ask premission before collecting sensitive data, using the Congressional Review Act as soon as next week.
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| Latest: Attorney says man not involved in deaths of 2 girls Posted: 17 Mar 2017 03:24 PM PDT ![Latest: Attorney says man not involved in deaths of 2 girls]( "Latest: Attorney says man not involved in deaths of 2 girls") DELPHI, Ind. (AP) — The Latest on the investigation into the killings of two northern Indiana teenage girls (all times local):
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| Trump Heading to Mar-a-Lago for Fifth Visit Since Taking Office, but What About Camp David? Posted: 17 Mar 2017 02:29 PM PDT  The president appears to prefer his Mar-a-Lago compound over the official presidential retreat located just 20 minutes from the White House.
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| Cutest nosy neighbor ever is one pouncing pooch Posted: 17 Mar 2017 09:44 AM PDT  Where is this dog located and is science advanced enough to clone it and distribute it worldwide? This planet needs more pups this jumpy. One very nosy pooch just had to know what was going on over its fence. And so it made that happen. While at first it looks like this bouncy dog is on a trampoline, upon closer investigation it becomes apparent that he's probably just jumping. Like, on his own. A good six feet in the air. SEE ALSO: Extremely excited dog adorably fails his Crufts agility competition The video, posted on UK-based dog day care Safe Paws's Facebook page, is worthy of a lot of hard looks: A local woman was walking her dog when she spotted this pup having a rendezvous of his own. The dog in question mostly looks like it's wondering why anyone is paying attention to it. "What, is this unusual? Do dogs not do this? Why are you filming me?" It can be assumed that a small crowd soon gathered, the dog signed to an agent, and it will be appearing on Britain's Got Talent in the upcoming season, possibly as the new host. WATCH: This smart collar will make pet care a walk in the park
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| Civil rights trial over Oklahoma inmate death nears end Posted: 17 Mar 2017 11:45 AM PDT ![Civil rights trial over Oklahoma inmate death nears end]( "Civil rights trial over Oklahoma inmate death nears end") TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A jury soon will decide whether a man's civil rights were violated when his last hours alive were spent lying on the floor of an Oklahoma jail with a broken neck.
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| Popular Saudi cleric banned from Twitter Posted: 17 Mar 2017 02:24 AM PDT  A Saudi Islamic leader with more than two million Twitter followers has been banned from writing by a court that convicted him of jeopardising public order. Awad al-Qarni, previously accused of links to the banned Muslim Brotherhood, was also fined 100,000 riyals ($27,000), Okaz newspaper reported on its website late Thursday. It did not name the "famous preacher" but Qarni himself confirmed the verdict on his @awadalqarni Twitter account late Thursday.
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| A Little-Discussed Part of Aging: Becoming Our Parents Posted: 17 Mar 2017 09:42 AM PDT ![A Little-Discussed Part of Aging: Becoming Our Parents]( "A Little-Discussed Part of Aging: Becoming Our Parents") You know how you go through that phase of life when you look in the mirror and think, I'll never be like my parents? But then, you grow older, and one day, you're shocked to see your mom or dad looking back at you?
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| Ireland commemorates its national saint in a St. Patrick's Day parade Posted: 17 Mar 2017 08:31 AM PDT ![Ireland commemorates its national saint in a St. Patrick's Day parade]( "Ireland commemorates its national saint in a St. Patrick's Day parade") Performers dressed as colorful creatures from Irish myth and legend have danced down the chilly streets of Dublin as Ireland commemorates its national saint in a St. Patrick's Day parade witnessed by hundreds of thousands.
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| U.N. chief wants report on 'apartheid' Israel taken off web Posted: 17 Mar 2017 07:46 AM PDT ![U.N. chief wants report on 'apartheid' Israel taken off web]( "U.N. chief wants report on 'apartheid' Israel taken off web") United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has asked the U.N. regional commission that represents most Arab countries to remove from its website a report accusing Israel of practicing an "apartheid regime" against Palestinians, a U.N. official said on Friday. The report for the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia, which comprises 18 Arab states, concluded that "Israel has established an apartheid regime that dominates the Palestinian people as a whole".
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| Teen Finds 7.44 Carat Diamond In Crater Of Diamonds, Arkansas Posted: 17 Mar 2017 01:51 AM PDT  The officials also said that this was the seventh largest diamond to be discovered since the establishment of the park in 1972.
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| Secret Service laptop stolen in NY, reportedly with Trump info Posted: 17 Mar 2017 02:56 PM PDT  A laptop was stolen from a US Secret Service agent in New York and remains missing, the agency said in a statement Friday, amid reports that the device contained floor plans of Trump Tower. CNN -- citing law enforcement sources in New York -- said that though the computer was highly encrypted, it contained Trump Tower floor plans and other sensitive contents. The Secret Service did not detail the contents of the laptop, but emphasized that such devices "contain multiple layers of security including full disk encryption and are not permitted to contain classified information," adding that an investigation is ongoing.
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