| ‘American democracy is under attack’: Sanders urges vigilance against Trump’s ‘authoritarianism’ Posted: 22 Jun 2017 11:05 AM PDT  Bernie Sanders delivered his scathing critique of the Trump administration in a speech discussing the threat of authoritarianism in the U.S. and elsewhere.
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| Pelosi On Criticism from Dems: 'I Think I'm Worth the Trouble' Posted: 22 Jun 2017 08:50 AM PDT  Pushing back on criticism from fellow party members after the Democratic loss in a Georgia special election this week, Nancy Pelosi said Thursday that she's "worth the trouble" as Democrats' leader in the House.
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| Philandro Castile Death: Police Dashcam Video Released Posted: 21 Jun 2017 09:00 PM PDT  Officials released the video days after the Minnesota police officer who fatally shot Castile was acquitted in the man's death.
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| 24 Sweet and Spooky Halloween Desserts Posted: 23 Jun 2017 08:59 AM PDT |
| Senate GOP health care bill looks a lot like ‘mean’ House one Posted: 22 Jun 2017 09:43 AM PDT  After weeks of secret negotiations, Senate Republicans on Thursday released their much-anticipated proposal to repeal Obamacare, unveiling a plan that would cut Medicaid and reduce penalties for not buying insurance. The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office said the House plan would result in 23 million fewer people covered than under current law. "From what I understand their bill tracks in many ways along the lines of the House bill," said House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis.
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| Al-Jazeera manager denounces Gulf demands for its shutdown Posted: 23 Jun 2017 10:49 AM PDT  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A top Al-Jazeera official on Friday denounced demands to shut down the network by countries involved in a dispute with its host nation Qatar as an attempt to suppress free expression.
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| Crash that killed teenage siblings so horrific emergency responder went into cardiac arrest Posted: 23 Jun 2017 08:03 AM PDT  An emergency response volunteer went into cardiac arrest while helping to remove bodies from the scene of a "horrific" car accident in which two teenage siblings and a 70-year-old man were killed. Eric Neibaur, 15, and his 13-year-old sister Lauren Neibaur died when their pick-up truck collided with Jay Lanningham's vehicle on a major road in the US state of Idaho. Police said a member of the local search and rescue unit had to be revived with a portable defibrillator after his heart stopped at the scene of the crash, reported the Idaho State Journal.
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| Pew U.S. survey finds agreement on some gun-control proposals Posted: 22 Jun 2017 09:49 AM PDT  The survey of 3,930 U.S. adults, including 1,269 gun owners, in March and April, provided a snapshot of American views on guns and gun policies as the nation grapples with gun violence. Some advocates called for a renewed push for gun control measures, as the Republican-controlled Congress has sought to relax existing gun laws.
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| China's Xi visit to Hong Kong confirmed: report Posted: 22 Jun 2017 11:10 PM PDT  President Xi Jinping will come to Hong Kong next week to mark 20 years since the city was handed back to China by Britain, local media said, in a visit that will be incendiary to activists. Although widely expected, officials have not so far said whether Xi will make the trip, his first to Hong Kong since becoming president in 2013. The South China Morning Post reported for the first time Friday that Xi's visit had been "confirmed", citing unnamed sources with knowledge of the visit.
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| Trump fumes on Twitter after ex-Homeland Security chief testifies about Russian cyberattacks Posted: 22 Jun 2017 08:49 AM PDT  Former U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson testifies about Russian meddling in the 2016 election before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill June 21, 2017. President Trump fired off a barrage of tweets Thursday morning, hammering away at the "big Dem scam" and "big Dem HOAX!" in the aftermath of former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson's testimony the day before about Russian efforts to interfere in the 2016 U.S. election. In particular, Trump seized upon Johnson's comment that the Democratic National Committee was among those who rebuffed his department's offer for assistance during the Russian attack.
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| Lawrence: We May Not Have Heard the End of Tapes and Trump Posted: 22 Jun 2017 12:03 PM PDT  Trump has finally admitted that he does not have recordings of his conversations but hints at conspiracy theories. Lawrence O'Donnell says he only tweeted the initial claim that put him in this messy position because Trump can't keep himself from lying.
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| Body Of Missing Texas Teen Found In Landfill Posted: 23 Jun 2017 07:16 AM PDT  Kaytlynn Cargill disappeared Monday while walking her dog near her family's apartment complex.
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| FCC Regulators Are Now Imposing Record Fines for Robocalls Posted: 22 Jun 2017 08:47 AM PDT  A Miami man is facing a record $120 million fine for what the FCC calls a massive spoofing operation. He allegedly made 96 million robocalls over a three month period.
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| US officials to lift Yellowstone grizzly bear protections Posted: 22 Jun 2017 03:56 PM PDT  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Protections that have been in place for more than 40 years for grizzly bears in the Yellowstone National Park area will be lifted this summer after U.S. government officials ruled Thursday that the population is no longer threatened.
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| Police officer who killed unarmed black man Sam DuBose cleared of murder Posted: 23 Jun 2017 02:37 PM PDT  A mistrial has been declared over the case of a white Ohio police officer shooting an unarmed black man. A jury was unable to come to a consensus on whether Cincinnati officer Ray Tensing, 27, was guilty of charges of murder and voluntary manslaughter after he shot and killed Sam DuBose, 43. It is the fourth time that courts haven't convicted police officers charged with the death of black men.
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| Female Japan politician resigns after attacking male aide Posted: 23 Jun 2017 02:12 AM PDT  Mayuko Toyota, a 42-year-old Harvard graduate and up-and-coming member of the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), can be heard screaming at the unnamed aide, saying he should die as she mocked his thinning hair. "Don't damage my reputation anymore," Toyota screams, apparently in response to a mistake she claims the man had made. Major Japanese media, including public broadcaster NHK, named Toyota as the woman heard on the tape.
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| White House concedes Russia meddled in campaign, but denies it changed the result Posted: 22 Jun 2017 01:10 PM PDT  The White House Thursday addressed the joint intelligence report that found Russia had attempted to interfere with the 2016 presidential election, more than five months after the report's conclusions were made public. First, on Twitter, President Trump dismissed the concerns about Russia as a "big Dem HOAX" and suggested that his predecessor, President Barack Obama, did little to confront the problem. White House aides then clarified Trump's remarks and said he believes there was Russian meddling but is certain it did not affect the outcome of the race.
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| British Schoolboys Wear Skirts During Heatwave in Uniform Protest Posted: 22 Jun 2017 08:54 AM PDT  A group of teenage boys in England wore skirts to school during sweltering heat in defiance of their school's shorts ban.
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| Funeral, vigil reveal depth of sorrow at Muslim girl's death Posted: 22 Jun 2017 12:57 AM PDT  STERLING, Va. (AP) — Whether a mourner in a black robe at a mosque or a soccer mom in a T-shirt and shorts at a community vigil, reaction to 17-year-old Nabra Hassanen's death carried a common refrain: That could have been my daughter.
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| Michelle Carter Spotted First Time In Public After Guilty Verdict Posted: 23 Jun 2017 06:11 AM PDT  Photos of the 20-year-old Massachusetts woman, who encouraged her boyfriend to kill himself, were posted by Daily Mail on Thursday.
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| Bomber planning to attack Mecca's Grand Mosque blows himself up: ministry Posted: 23 Jun 2017 03:05 PM PDT  Saudi security forces on Friday foiled a suicide attack on the Grand Mosque in the Muslim holy city of Mecca, cornering the would-be attacker in an apartment, where he blew himself up, the Interior Ministry said. In a statement read on state television, the ministry said that three cells had planned the attack on worshippers and security forces at the mosque as the Muslim holy month of Ramadan nears its climax. The trapped would-be suicide bomber exchanged fire with the security forces, then set off explosives when he was surrounded in a house in the central Mecca neighborhood of Ajyad al-Masafi near the mosque that had been used as the base for the attack, the ministry said.
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| UAE warns Qatar to take neighbours' demands 'seriously' Posted: 22 Jun 2017 05:11 PM PDT  The UAE on Friday advised Qatar to take a list of stern demands drawn up by its neighbours seriously or the diplomatic crisis in the Gulf would turn into a "divorce" with Doha. Anwar Gargash, the United Arab Emirates state minister for foreign affairs, issued the warning more than two weeks into the oil-rich region's worst diplomatic crisis in years.
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| Russia debacle destroys the last rationale for Trump, the myth of the genius CEO Posted: 22 Jun 2017 02:00 AM PDT  There's nothing wrong with the notion of a CEO president. But what the revelations around Russia prove is that Trump doesn't actually run things well.
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| US Energy Secretary Rick Perry told he lacks 'fundamental understanding' of climate science Posted: 23 Jun 2017 12:57 AM PDT  The American Meteorological Society has told Rick Perry he lacks a 'fundamental understanding' of science after the US Energy Secretary claimed carbon dioxide was not a primary cause of climate change. The former governor of Texas told CNBC TV that "the most likely the primary control knob [for climate change] is the ocean waters and this environment that we live in", rather than greenhouse gas emissions produced by human activity. Becoming the latest of Donald Trump's administration to dispute established science without any attempt at reasoned argument, Mr Perry also said it was "quite all right" to be a sceptic about climate change, suggesting the trait was one held by any "wise, intellectually engaged person".
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| Here’s Why That Harley/Ducati Rumor is BS Posted: 22 Jun 2017 11:13 AM PDT  Here's Why That Harley/Ducati Rumor is BS Combination of brands could be successful but is unlikely to ever occur On Wednesday we posted a story about rumors that Harley-Davidson may be interested in purchasing Italian brand Ducati , the latter being the
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| Sarah Huckabee Sanders Leads Off-Camera White House Briefing Posted: 22 Jun 2017 10:41 AM PDT  Will she take Spicer's job?
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| Protesters to target Gay Pride marches Posted: 23 Jun 2017 01:37 PM PDT  Protesters plan to demonstrate at Gay Pride marches this weekend in order to shine a light on minority groups in the LQBT community.
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| Removing Assad no longer priority in Syria: Macron Posted: 22 Jun 2017 03:01 AM PDT  France no longer sees the departure of President Bashar al-Assad as a priority in the Syrian conflict, President Emmanuel Macron said Thursday, making the policy official for the first time. The new French leader said instead that fighting jihadists such as the Islamic State group had to be the international community's number one goal in a conflict that grew out of protests against the Syrian president in 2011 but has since become increasingly complex and multifaceted. "The real change I've made on this question, is that I haven't said the deposing of Bashar al-Assad is a prerequisite for everything," Macron said in an interview with several European newspapers, including Britain's Guardian, Spain's El Pais and Germany's Sueddeutsche Zeitung.
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| You’d Be Scared if You Were Donald Trump, Too Posted: 22 Jun 2017 03:05 PM PDT  The president is obsessed with the investigation into his relationship with Russia. He should be.
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| Israeli court stands up for woman in airline gender seat swap case Posted: 22 Jun 2017 04:49 AM PDT  A court has told the Israeli airline El Al that it can no longer ask women passengers to switch seats if ultra-Orthodox Jewish men object to sitting next to them, an Israeli advocacy group said on Thursday. A case for damages from the carrier was brought by 83-year-old Renee Rabinowitz, who was asked by a flight attendant, after boarding a flight from Newark to Tel Aviv in 2015, if she would agree to move. The airline has said it tries to accommodate ultra-Orthodox men, who cite religious beliefs in seeking to avoid close proximity to women other than their wives, but never pressures female passengers to accede to a seat swap request.
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| The Latest: Woman killed by bear in Alaska was newly married Posted: 22 Jun 2017 05:49 PM PDT ![The Latest: Woman killed by bear in Alaska was newly married]( "The Latest: Woman killed by bear in Alaska was newly married") ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — The Latest on a fatal black bear attack in Alaska (all times local):
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| Father of missing Chinese scholar: 'Give my daughter back' Posted: 22 Jun 2017 01:53 PM PDT  URBANA, Ill. (AP) — The father of a visiting Chinese scholar missing from the University of Illinois made an emotional appeal on Thursday for his 26-year-old child's safe return, saying in an interview: "Give my daughter back."
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| US Navy to hold Japan memorial for sailors killed in crash Posted: 23 Jun 2017 04:27 AM PDT  The US navy said Friday it will hold a memorial ceremony for seven sailors killed when their destroyer collided with a container ship off Japan's coast last weekend. The service will be held on Tuesday at the naval base in Yokosuka, southwest of Tokyo, where the badly damaged destroyer USS Fitzgerald is based, a navy spokeswoman said. The sailors' relatives, US military officials and some 300 crew members of the guided-missile warship will join the private event, she added, without releasing other details.
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| The 9 funniest lines from a coal kingpin's lawsuit against John Oliver Posted: 22 Jun 2017 05:41 PM PDT  John Oliver is facing the legal wrath of a lawsuit-happy coal baron after a brutal segment in which the host tore into the American coal industry. The document accuses Oliver of a "ruthless character assassination" of Robert Murray, CEO of the nation's largest coal mining operation, Murray Energy. SEE ALSO: Coal company sues John Oliver for being John Oliver It didn't exactly come as a surprise; in fact, Oliver more or less dared the notoriously litigious coal boss by mocking an earlier cease-and-desist letter from his company on the show. And at least one first amendment lawyer has said Murray doesn't have much of a leg to stand on. But that doesn't mean we can't enjoy the absurd spectacle of the legal team for the man Oliver described as a "geriatric Dr. Evil" trying to out-bombast the HBO comedian's signature hyperbolic wit in dry legalese. Here are some of the lawsuit's best moments: Murray's giant squirrel tormenter "Defendants continued their ruthless character assassination and attack on Plaintiffs' business reputations by describing Mr. Murray as someone who 'looks like a geriatric Dr. Evil' and arranging for a staff member to dress up in a squirrel costume and deliver the message 'Eat Shit, Bob!" to Mr. Murray.'" This is one of the lawsuit's several references to a staffer dressed as a giant squirrel whom Oliver brought out to insult Murray. The stunt was a reference to some apocryphal company lore about a squirrel urging Murray into the coal business — it's a long story. Suffice to say, Mr. Nutterbutter seems to have really gotten under Murray's skin. BTW Murray didn't actually talk to a squirrel, OK? "Specifically, in reference to an absurd story that Mr. Murray claimed a squirrel had told him he should operate his own mines, Defendant Oliver stated 'You know what, I actually believe him on that one.'" At least everyone's in agreement that Murray didn't actually consult a squirrel about his business decisions. Maybe there's hope for an amicable resolution yet! Oliver endorses Mr. Nutterbutter's vulgar harassment "If that were not enough, after the live taping, Defendant Oliver exclaimed to the audience that having someone in a squirrel costume tell Mr. Murray to 'Eat Shit' was a 'dream come true.'" On second thought, he's got a point. Have you no decency, Mr. Nutterbutter? Good faith efforts "Even worse, toward the end of the broadcast, Defendant Oliver confirmed that Defendants intentionally expanded their attack against Mr. Murray and the Plaintiffs as retaliation for Plaintiffs' good faith efforts to ensure the accuracy of the broadcast. Defendant Oliver stated "Bob Murray, I didn't really plan for so much of this piece to be about you, but you kind of forced my hand on that one." Murray's lawyers seem to be working under a loose definition of "good faith efforts" that encompasses cease-and-desist letters. Neither ceasing nor desisting "Intentionally and in obvious retaliation for this humanitarian request, Defendant Oliver boldly announced '[a]s we have been explicitly told to cease and desist, let us do neither of those things, and let's talk about Bob Murray.'" How many lawsuits are able to claim that a defendant explicitly announced their intention to ignore them on national television? Clinton conspiracy "[HBO parent Time Warner] is widely reported as a top ten donor of Hillary Clinton, as tracked by the Center for Responsive Politics at OpenSecrets.org. As a presidential candidate, Mrs. Clinton's agenda was to 'put a lotta coal miners and coal companies outta business.'" Murray's lawyers have connected the dots. This one goes all the way to the top. Anti-Trump agenda "[The defendant's statements] advance their biases against the coal industry and theirdisdain for the coal-related policies of the Trump Administration." What's a controversy these days without a Donald Trump cameo? Oliver's job description "Instead, presumably to boost ratings, line their pockets with profits and advance the show's anti-coal agenda..." The first two items are, after all, Oliver's job. As for the third, it seems pretty fair to say he's not a huge fan of the industry's practices. Public shame and disgrace "The Defamatory Statements are defamatory per se in that, on their face, they reflect upon Plaintiffs' reputation and character in a manner that: injured Plaintiffs' reputation and subject Plaintiffs to public hatred, ridicule, shame, or disgrace." This would actually make a good blurb for Oliver's show. WATCH: John Oliver proves Trump's scandals are way worse than Clinton's with raisins
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| Civilian killed at funeral for slain Kashmir rebels: police Posted: 22 Jun 2017 01:29 AM PDT  A civilian was killed and several wounded Thursday in Indian-administered Kashmir when security forces opened fire on a crowd gathered for the funeral of three rebels slain overnight in clashes with soldiers, police said. Thousands of villagers poured onto the streets for the funeral, chanting slogans against Indian rule and pelting stones at soldiers who responded with bullets and pellet fire, a police officer said. S. P. Vaid, director general of police for the territory, confirmed a protester was killed in the exchange.
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| News outlets 'banned from filming' Jared Kushner during visit to Israel Posted: 23 Jun 2017 07:28 AM PDT  Journalists were ordered not to photograph Jared Kushner while he is in Israel on a quick visit trying to broker a peace deal for father-in-law Donald Trump. It is unclear at this time who gave the order, but reports indicate that an Associated Press cameraman was prevented from filming Mr Kushner's arrival at the office of Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu. Another cameraman was told to delete the memory card in his camera, which reportedly contained images of Mr Kushner's arrival and from Mr Netanyahu's office.
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| 5 Things to Consider When Deciding to Retire Posted: 22 Jun 2017 04:31 AM PDT ![5 Things to Consider When Deciding to Retire]( "5 Things to Consider When Deciding to Retire") While there is not necessarily an easy answer to the question, fully understanding the opportunities and challenges faced in retirement is a critical first step in helping to decide to retire at 55, 65, or beyond. The first and probably the most critical step in determining when to retire is to estimate how much income you will need, and how much income you will have in retirement. Take a look at potential retirement income sources including Social Security benefits.
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| A 2nd mistrial: Jury deadlocks in Ohio cop's murder retrial Posted: 23 Jun 2017 05:18 PM PDT  CINCINNATI (AP) — A second mistrial was declared Friday in the case of a white University of Cincinnati officer who killed an unarmed black motorist during a traffic stop. It's the latest racially charged police shooting case to show the reluctance of U.S. jurors to convict officers.
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