| Trump says Obama ‘was very nice to me with words,’ but there has been ‘no relationship’ Posted: 01 May 2017 08:13 AM PDT  President Trump repeated his unsubstantiated claim that former President Obama ordered surveillance of Trump Tower in a somewhat tense, interview-ending exchange with CBS News, released Monday, about his relationship with his predecessor. "Face the Nation" host John Dickerson interviewed Trump in the Oval Office. After asking if the president had received any helpful advice from Obama, Trump broached the topic of surveillance.
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| Extreme Turbulence on Flight Leads to Severe Injuries Posted: 01 May 2017 08:38 AM PDT  At least 27 people suffered fractures and bruises when an Aeroflot Boeing 777 hit an air pocket. The Russian Embassy has blamed injuries on passengers not wearing seatbelts.
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| CNN president: ‘Fox is state-run TV’ Posted: 01 May 2017 09:23 AM PDT  In a radio interview, CNN president Jeff Zucker was asked to give his assessment of cable news in the Trump era. He called out Fox News for "extolling the line out of the White House."
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| Police officers who shot dead Alton Sterling 'will not be charged' Posted: 02 May 2017 02:28 PM PDT  Alton Sterling - in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, according to reports. Police said they were were responding to a call that someone who fit the description of Mr Sterling was illegally selling CDs and threatening people with a gun outside of a convenience store in July 2016. Bystanders' video from the scene appeared to show two white officers on top of Mr Sterling arresting him.
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| Tornado spotted in East Texas, where storms are blamed for deaths of at least 4 people Posted: 30 Apr 2017 07:40 PM PDT  A tornado was spotted near Canton, Texas, east of Dallas, on Saturday, April 29.
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| Mexico captures protégé, turned rival, of drug lord Chapo Guzman Posted: 02 May 2017 09:08 AM PDT  Mexican security forces on Tuesday arrested accused drug kingpin Damaso Lopez, believed to be locked in a bloody struggle for control of the Sinaloa Cartel against the sons of its captured leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman. The attorney general's office announced that its agents with the help of the army had captured Lopez, one of the top-ranking figures in the world's most successful drug cartel, which has been destabilized by "El Chapo's" extradition in January to the United States.
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| Michelle Obama explains her iconic side-eye at Trump's inauguration Posted: 02 May 2017 08:32 AM PDT  Alright, alright internet — settle down. We've had our fun. We've imagined all the things that could have been going through Michelle Obama's head on Trump's inauguration day. We've memed the hell out of the gift-giving photos. Now it's time to accept the truth. The former first lady explained at the American Institute of Architects convention Monday that - though it really, really appeared so (and we loved it) - she actually was not trying to shade the Trump family on inauguration day. Let's quickly take a look at the not shade: SEE ALSO: These Michelle Obama memes are the internet's coping mechanism the only good moment of this inauguration is michelle jim-facing the camera like "why did she give me this box" pic.twitter.com/WoGAWfKS0l — jomny sun (@jonnysun) January 20, 2017 michelle is all of us for the next 4 years pic.twitter.com/jurAn0zMz0 — joshy (@acidictly) January 20, 2017 Michelle's face pic.twitter.com/UYrcfAfm3t — The Office (@OfficeScenes) January 20, 2017 So what was really going on? The former FLOTUS explained that the beginning of the inauguration marked the final moments that her teenage daughters, Sasha and Malia, would have in the White House - the home in which they've largely grown up. Instead of shading Melania Trump's oddly timed gift, Obama was simply trying to hold it together on a tough day for her family. "That moment of transition, right before the doors opened and we welcomed in the new family," Obama explained, "Our kids were leaving out the back door in tears, saying goodbye to people." Taking it in on one last walk through the People's House. A post shared by Michelle Obama (archived) (@michelleobama44) on Jan 18, 2017 at 9:55am PST "I didn't want to have tears in my eyes because people would swear I was crying because of the new president," Obama added. (She's probably not wrong.) Though the family was sad to leave their home of eight years, Obama heartbreakingly reiterated that she has no desire to run for office in 2020. "I wouldn't ask my children to do this again," she said. Michelle, please just let us dream. WATCH: Trump thought being president would be easier than being a reality star businessman
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| Warren calls Obama’s message out of touch with everyday Americans Posted: 01 May 2017 09:26 AM PDT  Sen. Elizabeth Warren criticized former President Barack Obama's economic message for supposedly not aligning with the lived experiences of regular Americans.
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| Fox News Co-President Resigns Amid Harassment Scandals Posted: 01 May 2017 09:12 AM PDT  Longtime executive Bill Shine resigned from his position as co-president Monday after being with Fox News since its beginning 20 years ago.
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| 5 Takeaways From Trump’s Call With Putin Posted: 02 May 2017 01:33 PM PDT  What they didn't say reveals as much as what they said.
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| Quadruplets Who All Got Accepted to Ivy League Schools: 'We Pick Yale!' Posted: 01 May 2017 03:14 PM PDT  The Wade brothers are all headed to Yale.
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| This is the stupidest thing on Microsoft’s new laptop Posted: 02 May 2017 12:01 PM PDT 
Microsoft has a new laptop. It's called the Surface Laptop, and it appears to do many things well. It's basically a spiritual successor to the MacBook Air, but more quirky, because it comes in various colors and has fabric on the keyboard. Unfortunately, Microsoft took its rather good-looking laptop out behind the woodshed and murdered it with one particularly dumb choice: there's no USB-C port.
Microsoft chose to go with its proprietary magnetic charger, a USB-A port, a miniDisplayPort, and a headphone jack. Apple was lambasted (and rightly so) for the lack of ports on its new MacBook, but at least it had an explanation: USB-C is the future, therefore we're just going to stick only USB-C ports on our futuristic laptop. Microsoft's approach seems to just be to give a stiff middle finger to common sense. USB-C is the future. It's not the only port you need right now -- chances are you still have a whole bunch of things that use USB-A -- but it is a fantastic standard for the future. The port is tiny, you can connect it both ways, and it's incredibly powerful. You can use it to charge device, you can use it to hook up a laptop to a monitor and charge it with just one cable. You can use the same cable that you use to charge your phone to charge your laptop. Even better, using USB-C for charging gives people choice over chargers. I've been using a tiny USB-C charger for my laptop for months now, and it really does feel like the future. Remember when cellphones used to have proprietary chargers, and then everyone switched to microUSB and the world became a better place? That's what's about to happen with laptops, but Microsoft apparently doesn't want to be a part of it. During the education-focused event, Microsoft said that the Surface Laptop would be "just as good on graduation day as day one." As USB-C infiltrates portable hard drives, projector hookups, flash drives and phone cables, Surface Laptop-toting students are going to be left behind. That's the opposite of what Microsoft wants, and I just don't understand.
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| Gunman kills one, injures others at San Diego pool party Posted: 01 May 2017 01:42 AM PDT  A man holding a gun in one hand and a bottle of beer in the other opened fire on people around a swimming pool in a San Diego apartment complex, killing one and injuring others before police shot him dead on Sunday, media said. The gunman launched his attack during a birthday celebration in the complex in the city's University City section, NBC News' San Diego affiliate reported. The gunman was killed after pointing his weapon at police, San Diego Police Chief Shelley Zimmerman told reporters.
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| Elizabeth Warren says Barack Obama does not understand 'lived experience of most Americans' Posted: 01 May 2017 12:33 PM PDT  Talking about her new book This Fight Is Our Fight, Ms Warren also did not rule out a possible 2020 presidential bid. Senator Bernie Sanders, who ran against Hillary Clinton for the party's nomination in 2016, recently said he supports Democratic candidates who are pro-life.
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| Woman critical after shark attack on California beach Posted: 01 May 2017 04:52 PM PDT  CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. (AP) — A woman who lost part of her right leg in a shark attack while wading at a popular Southern California beach was listed in critical condition Monday at a hospital.
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| IS attack kills dozens at Syria camp Posted: 02 May 2017 12:48 PM PDT  A jihadist assault led by suicide bombers killed dozens Tuesday at a camp for the displaced near Syria's border with Iraq, as pressure grows on the Islamic State group in both countries. The violence left at least 46 people dead and came as another surprise IS attack on Tuesday killed 10 soldiers in Iraq, to the south along the border. As the tolls mounted, US President Donald Trump and his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin discussed the need for "safe zones" in Syria in a telephone call, said the White House.
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| The Latest: Campus police defend delay in warning system Posted: 01 May 2017 04:53 PM PDT  AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Latest on the stabbings at the University of Texas (all times local):
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| Clinton discusses North Korea, criticizes Trump Posted: 02 May 2017 01:38 PM PDT  On May 2 during an interview with Christiane Amanpour at the Women for Women International 2017 luncheon, former U.S. Secretary of State and Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton criticized Donald Trump's foreign policy and discussed the conflict in North Korea. She also talked about foreign influence on the 2016 election, saying, "Ask yourself this: Within an hour or two of the 'Hollywood Access' tape being made public, the Russian theft of John Podesta's emails hit WikiLeaks. What a coincidence."
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| 'Humans of New York' captured a precious moment between Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds Posted: 02 May 2017 06:39 AM PDT  Brandon Stanton, the brains behind the popular Humans of New York series, has a magical way of getting folks around the world to open up in ways that even celebrities are not immune to, no matter how many years of media training they've endured. The photographer was on hand during the 2017 Met Gala once again this year, and the first image he's shared with the world is of Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively. Reynolds takes the opportunity to get really personal, and shared an honest side of the couple—married in 2012—that we normally don't get to see of celebrities. SEE ALSO: All the wild looks from the 2017 Met Gala red carpet "She always responds with empathy. She meets anger with empathy. She meets hate with empathy. She'll take the time to imagine what happened to a person when they were five or six years old. And she's made me a more empathetic person," Reynolds told Stanton. "I had a very fractured relationship with my father. Before he died, she made me remember things I didn't want to remember. She made me remember the good times." "She always responds with empathy. She meets anger with empathy. She meets hate with empathy. She'll take the time to imagine what happened to a person when they were five or six years old. And she's made me a more empathetic person. I had a very fractured relationship with my father. Before he died, she made me remember things I didn't want to remember. She made me remember the good times." A post shared by Humans of New York (@humansofny) on May 1, 2017 at 6:33pm PDT Other images from the night have yet to be released, but will probably start trickling in soon—so grab your tissues and buckle up. WATCH: 'Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2' is more of the same good stuff
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| Reality Star Takes Mel B's Side Against Estranged Husband She Claims Assaulted Her Posted: 01 May 2017 01:52 PM PDT  Nicole Contreras is the mother of Stephen Belafonte's 12-year-old daughter.
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| Trump administration relaxes some Obama-era school lunch rules Posted: 01 May 2017 01:42 PM PDT  U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, in one of his first acts after his Senate confirmation last week, signed a proclamation that postpones sodium reductions, makes it easier to serve foods without whole grains, and allows the return of chocolate- and strawberry-flavored milk with fat. "Certain aspects of the standards have gone too far," said Perdue, speaking at an elementary school in Virginia. The change comes as Donald Trump, one of the more fast-food-friendly presidents in recent years, has vowed to slash regulation.
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| US army releases images taken by combat photographer of mortar explosion that killed her Posted: 02 May 2017 07:58 AM PDT  The US Army has released images captured by a combat photographer of the explosion that killed her. Specialist Hilda Clayton, 22, died when a mortar tube blew up in front of her during a training exercise in Afghanistan. A total of five people died in the blast, which also marked the first death of an Army combat documentation and production specialist in Afghanistan, according to the Army Times.
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| 16 dead after tornadoes, floods ravage Midwest, South Posted: 01 May 2017 02:17 PM PDT  ST. LOUIS (AP) — Several southern states braced for more severe weather Monday in the wake of storms, tornadoes and flooding that claimed 16 lives and left authorities in Arkansas searching for two children swept away by raging waters.
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| 7 Nutrients That Keep Your Brain Young, According To Science Posted: 01 May 2017 01:00 PM PDT  While genetics and exercise play a large role in your brain health and risk of developing dementia, diet is quite influential, too.
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| Demonstrations against Venezuela's President Maduro's government in Caracas Posted: 02 May 2017 11:25 AM PDT ![Demonstrations against Venezuela's President Maduro's government in Caracas]( "Demonstrations against Venezuela's President Maduro's government in Caracas") Venezuela's opposition blocked streets in Caracas on Tuesday to denounce a decision by unpopular leftist President Nicolas Maduro to create a new super-body known as a "constituent assembly," a move critics say is a veiled attempt to cling to power by avoiding elections.
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| Milwaukee jury: Charge staffers in inmate dehydration death Posted: 01 May 2017 05:25 PM PDT  MILWAUKEE (AP) — A jury on Monday recommended criminal charges against seven Milwaukee County jail staffers in the dehydration death of an inmate who went without water for seven days.
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| N. Korea warns of nuclear test 'at any time' Posted: 01 May 2017 12:19 AM PDT  North Korea warned Monday that it will carry out a nuclear test "at any time and at any location" set by its leadership, in the latest rhetoric to fuel jitters in the region. Tensions on the Korean peninsula have been running high for weeks, with signs that the North might be preparing a long-range missile launch or a sixth nuclear test -- and with Washington refusing to rule out a military strike in response. A spokesman for the North's foreign ministry said Pyongyang was "fully ready to respond to any option taken by the US".
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| The sound of a spacecraft passing between Saturn and its rings is straight out of 'Alien' Posted: 02 May 2017 11:42 AM PDT  On April 26, NASA's Cassini spacecraft shot between Saturn and its innermost ring, going where no human-made object has gone before. Cassini has already made some new discoveries thanks to its dive through the ring plane. One of those insights is that the area between the planet and its rings "sounds" different than other parts of space surrounding Saturn. SEE ALSO: The Cassini spacecraft dove between Saturn and its rings: Here are the photos to prove it According to new audio files released by NASA, the 1,500-mile-wide gap between Saturn and its distinctive rings actually sounds pretty empty. A raw image of Saturn as seen by Cassini not long after its ring dive.Image: NASA/JPL-CaltechOther parts of space around Saturn are filled with particles of dust that can be heard by Cassini's plasma detector. This instrument picks up the signal from dust that vaporizes as it hits the fast-moving spacecraft. But the gap between Saturn and its rings is comparitively, and unexpectedly, silent. "The region between the rings and Saturn is 'the big empty,' apparently," Cassini project manager Earl Maize said in a statement. "Cassini will stay the course, while the scientists work on the mystery of why the dust level is much lower than expected." Scientists compared data picked up from Cassini's ring dive and a previous pass through a faint ring of dust and debris on Dec. 18, 2016. The 2016 data sounds crackly, with a high number of plasma pops heard as Cassini passed through the ring itself. The data taken by the instrument late last month, however, sounds very different. Instead of crackly pops, the April data sounds more like static from a TV screen punctuated by a high whistling noise that, according to NASA, is a type of plasma wave that scientists are planning to investigate further. "It was a bit disorienting — we weren't hearing what we expected to hear," Cassini scientist William Kurth said in the statement. "I've listened to our data from the first dive several times and I can probably count on my hands the number of dust particle impacts I hear." During that first ring dive, the bits of debris Cassini ran into were only about the size of the particles found in smoke, NASA said. Cassini is now in the last phase of its mission at Saturn. The spacecraft will continue to make dives through the gap between Saturn and its rings until the planned end of its mission in September, when it will make its death dive into the world's thick atmosphere. WATCH: Watch clouds move above Saturn's largest moon in new NASA video
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| Hamas softens stance on Israel, drops Muslim Brotherhood link Posted: 01 May 2017 01:53 PM PDT  By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Tom Finn GAZA/DOHA (Reuters) - The Palestinian Islamist group Hamas on Monday dropped its longstanding call for Israel's destruction, but said it still rejected the country's right to exist and backs "armed struggle" against it. In a policy document presented in Doha by its leader Khaled Meshaal, Hamas also said it would end its association with the Muslim Brotherhood, a move apparently aimed at improving ties with Gulf Arab states and Egypt, which view the Brotherhood as a terrorist group. Israel responded to the announcement by accusing Hamas of trying to "fool the world", while the group's main Palestinian political rival, the Fatah faction of President Mahmoud Abbas, also reacted coolly to the policy shift.
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| Bill Shine is out at Fox News Posted: 01 May 2017 03:58 PM PDT  Bill Shine, Fox News co-president, has resigned from Fox News. The announcement was made by Fox News Chairman Rupert Murdoch. It comes weeks after the ousting of top host Bill O'Reilly following allegations of sexual misconduct and less than a year after former Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes was also pushed out after allegations of sexual harassment, including a lawsuit by former anchor Gretchen Carlson.
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| 15 Easy Father's Day Craft Ideas That Dad Will Love Posted: 02 May 2017 12:38 PM PDT |
| Donald Trump walks out of interview after being asked about Obama wiretap claims Posted: 01 May 2017 07:08 AM PDT  Donald Trump cut short an interview after he was pushed to explain his allegations that former President Barack Obama wiretapped his phone. On CBS "Face The Nation", host John Dickerson pressed Mr Trump on various topics including his first 100 days in the White House and his new health care plans, but Mr Trump stopped when he was asked about the alleged wiretap. Mr Dickerson first asked the President if he stood by his claim that Mr Obama was a "sick and bad guy".
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| Milwaukee County jury recommends dehydration death charges Posted: 01 May 2017 10:11 PM PDT  MILWAUKEE (AP) — A jury recommended criminal charges against seven Milwaukee County jail staffers in the dehydration death of an inmate who went without water for seven days.
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| IS attack in western Iraq kills 10 soldiers Posted: 02 May 2017 04:57 AM PDT  Jihadist fighters killed at least 10 soldiers in the western Iraqi province of Anbar on Tuesday in their latest deadly attack on security forces in the area, officers said. The attack near the remote outpost of Rutba brought to at least 26 the number of members of the Iraqi security forces killed by the Islamic State group in the area in recent days. The army officer said IS fighters attacked a 1st Division base in the Saggar area, east of Rutba, using mortar rounds and rockets before fighters armed with rifles tried to storm it.
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| Boaters stranded 4 miles from land were saved by Siri on an iPhone 7 Posted: 01 May 2017 12:12 PM PDT 
The iPhone's "Hey Siri" feature helped save three fisherman from what could have otherwise been a tragic turn of events. According to Fox 4 News out of Florida, three fisherman were cruising along about 4 miles off the coast when they began encountering a violent spate of waves. Before long, the crew's 18-foot boat proved no match for the waves as water began overtaking the boat.
Per the report, one of the fisherman used the "Hey Siri" feature on his iPhone 7 to call 911. Shortly thereafter, a helicopter from the coast guard went out in search of the trio before finding them and bringing them back to safety. "They had an iPhone 7, which I'm learning today is waterproof. However, he couldn't touch the screen with his fingers because they were cold, but he used Siri to call 911," Sgt. James Barrett said. Notably, this isn't the first instance we've seen of iPhone owners utilizing "Hey Siri" in order to call for help when dialing 911 wasn't feasible. Just a few months ago, for example, a four-year old used the feature in order to call 911 after his mom passed out. And this past summer, a mother in Australia used the feature to call for help while she tended to her 1-year-old daughter who had stopped breathing. As the BBC reported a few months back: Stacey Gleeson grabbed her iPhone and ran to the child's room to help her but dropped it as she turned on the light. She shouted at the handset to activate Siri and told it to get the emergency services on speakerphone as she began CPR. Ms Gleeson told the BBC she feels it may have saved her daughter's life.
The "Hey Siri" feature on the iPhone was originally introduced on the iPhone 6s and is made possible by Apple's M9 motion coprocessor. Apple has advertised the feature as a helpful way to use the iPhone's various features hands-free -- with the company's Cookie Monster commercial being a prime example -- but "Hey Siri" appears to be incredibly useful in emergency situations as well.
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| These Apps Are No Longer Available For The Apple Watch Posted: 01 May 2017 03:36 PM PDT  Amazon, eBay and Google removed their apps of the Apple Watch in the past few months.
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| U.S. Supreme Court sides with Venezuela over oil rigs claim Posted: 01 May 2017 09:16 AM PDT  By Lawrence Hurley WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday tossed out a lower court's ruling that had allowed an American oil drilling company to sue Venezuela over the seizure of 11 drilling rigs in 2010 but allowed the business another chance to press its claims. Siding with Venezuela, the justices ruled 8-0 that a lower court that had given the go-ahead for the suit must reconsider whether claims made by Oklahoma-based Helmerich & Payne International Drilling Company can proceed. Writing for the court, Justice Stephen Breyer said the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in 2015 used the wrong standard in denying Venezuela immunity from the lawsuit.
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| Tarek and Christina El Moussa Look Like a Happy Couple At the Daytime Emmys Posted: 02 May 2017 01:10 PM PDT  The exes played nice on the red carpet together at the awards on Sunday.
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| Putin, Merkel struggle to move past differences in tense meeting Posted: 02 May 2017 08:08 AM PDT  By Andreas Rinke and Denis Pinchuk SOCHI, Russia (Reuters) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel, on a rare visit to Russia, said that Berlin and Moscow had to keep talking despite their disagreements, but those same differences overshadowed her talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday. At a news conference following a meeting in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi, diverging positions were aired over Syria, Ukraine, Russian respect for civil rights, and allegations Moscow is interfering in other countries' elections.
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| Key Trump priorities left out of US spending deal Posted: 01 May 2017 04:08 PM PDT  US President Donald Trump is "pleased" with a bipartisan deal to fund government through September, the White House said Monday, even though several of his top priorities were left out of the agreement. The newly-unveiled congressional deal includes Trump's call for increased military spending, but rejects his demand to fund a border wall and maintains spending levels for key government operations including the State Department that he had proposed gutting. The agreement was struck late Sunday after weeks of tense negotiations fueled the threat of a government shutdown just as Trump was marking his 100th day in office.
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| 67 pounds of marijuana found in casket at Arizona checkpoint Posted: 01 May 2017 04:58 PM PDT  TOMBSTONE, Ariz. (AP) — Border Patrol agents have seen numerous ways people try to smuggle drugs across the Arizona border in recent years. They can now add marijuana hidden in a casket to the list.
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| Arizona man on trial for 2 bodies found in mom's backyard Posted: 01 May 2017 03:23 PM PDT  PHOENIX (AP) — Alan Mathew Champagne employed a wrench nearly six years ago to crank up the tension of the noose around the neck of 26-year-old Brandi Nicole Hoffner, who was forced to smoke methamphetamine moments after witnessing Champagne shoot her boyfriend dead with a shot to the face, prosecutor Ellen Dahl told jurors in opening arguments Monday.
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