| Trump, vowing gang crackdown, urges cops ‘don’t be too nice’ Posted: 28 Jul 2017 12:36 PM PDT  In a speech about the violent MS-13 gang, President Trump encouraged police officers not to be "too nice" with "thugs" when putting them in the back of police vans.
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| Video Shows Actions and Inactions of Border Officers Resulted in Tragic 2013 Incident Posted: 27 Jul 2017 09:00 PM PDT  Investigation finds hundreds of other allegations of misconduct and threats where border officers and agents are rarely prosecuted or even punished.
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| Hamburg attack was by 'failed asylum seeker' who shouted 'Allahu Akbar' Posted: 28 Jul 2017 02:24 PM PDT  A man shouting "Allahu Akbar" stabbed to death one person and wounded six others in a supermarket in the German city of Hamburg on Friday. The attacker, who was born in the United Arab Emirates, was overpowered by passers-by and arrested. Olaf Scholz, the mayor of Hamburg, said the attack had been motivated by "hate" and added that the suspected attacker was a failed asylum seeker whose deportation had been blocked because he lacked identity papers. Map: Hamburg supermarket attack "I am outraged by the vicious attack that killed at least one Hamburger today," he said. "It makes me especially angry that the perpetrator appears to be a person who claimed protection in Germany and then turned his hate against us." Citing security sources, Berlin newspaper Der Tagesspiegel reported that the 26-year-old perpetrator was known to police as an Islamist. News agency DPA reported that security authorities were investigating evidence the man had Salafist ties. The attacker stabbed to death a 50-year-old man believed to be a German citizen Police said that he "struck out wildly" at others, wounding five more in the supermarket - a 50-year-old woman and four men aged 19, 56, 57 and 64. Another 35-year-old man was hurt while overpowering the attacker in the street alongside other passers-by shortly after the killing. All of the wounded were being treated or operated on in hospital, some of them for serious injuries, police said. Police officers secure the area after a knife attack at a supermarket in Hamburg Credit: Paul Weidenbaum/AP A police murder unit and a specialist politically-motivated crime squad are investigating the attack and were able to secure the suspected murder weapon. German daily Bild published a picture of the attacker in the back of a police car with a white, blood-soaked bag over his head, and reported that he cried "Allahu Akbar" (God is Greatest) during the attack. "Suddenly I saw a man smeared with blood running along the other side of the road with a knife," an eyewitness identified as Ralf W. told Bild. "He shouted out 'Allahu Akbar' as he was running." A female witness standing in line at the supermarket till also told NTV rolling news channel that "as he was running out... he held up his arms and shouted 'Allahu Akbar'." "I thought I was in a horror movie, I thought he would kill me," an unnamed woman who had been in the supermarket told rolling news channel NTV. She said she feared she would die, as she was "queueing for the till and couldn't get away". Police investigators work at the crime scene after a knife attack in a supermarket in Hamburg Credit: Morris Mac Matzen/Reuters The suspect fled the supermarket after the attack. But "people were running after him with improvised weapons, chairs and sticks... they ran after him into a side street," Ralf W. told Bild. "People chased after the killer with chairs, they were throwing them at him," bakery worker Shaylin Roettmer told DPA. The witnesses slightly injured the attacker while they were overpowering him, before handing him over to police. Police cars outside the supermarket in Hamburg Credit: @MarcoZitzow Police blocked off the lively and diverse high street dotted with cafes and shops in the northeast of the port city, Germany's second largest and host of the G20 summit of world leaders in early July. Anti-terror officers armed with automatic weapons patrolled the scene and onlookers gathered behind strips of red-and-white police tape. While the attacker's motives remain unknown, Germany has been on high alert about the threat of a jihadist attack, especially since last December's truck rampage through a Berlin Christmas market that killed 12 people. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for the carnage in which a Tunisian rejected asylum seeker and ex-convict, Anis Amri, 24, ploughed the stolen truck through a crowd.
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| 4-Year-Old Girl Asks Colorado Cop To Check New Home For Monsters Posted: 29 Jul 2017 04:27 AM PDT  A 4-year-old Colorado girl who asked a cop to help her hunt monsters in her new home, aspires to become an officer herself and help people search for monsters as well.
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| Lost Elderly Dog Reunites With Owner After Hunky Firefighter Rescues Him From Lagoon Posted: 28 Jul 2017 01:30 PM PDT  "You okay buddy? Don't do that anymore," the dog's owner Jose Ruiz said in an emotional video of their reunion.
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| Japan: NKorea fires possible missile, could land off Japan Posted: 28 Jul 2017 09:44 AM PDT  Japan's prime minister says North Korea has fired what is believed to be a missile and it may have landed in the sea off Japan.
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| Democrats line up to take on ‘Putin’s favorite congressman’ Posted: 28 Jul 2017 02:00 AM PDT  Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., has won reelection from Orange County 14 times, but he'll face more opponents next year than any other congressman.
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| McCain, expected to save health bill, became the executioner Posted: 28 Jul 2017 05:21 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — John McCain seemed poised to be the savior of the GOP health bill when he returned to the Capitol despite a brain cancer diagnosis.
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| Texas executes man who stabbed woman to death at her home Posted: 27 Jul 2017 07:48 PM PDT ![Texas executes man who stabbed woman to death at her home]( "Texas executes man who stabbed woman to death at her home") Texas executed on Thursday a man convicted of murdering a woman by stabbing her repeatedly after breaking into her San Antonio home in 2004. TaiChin Preyor, 46, died by lethal injection at the state's death chamber in Huntsville, a prisons official said. The execution was delayed for more than three hours to allow the U.S. Supreme Court time to hear an appeal from Preyor's lawyer to spare his life, which the court rejected.
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| Iran rules out halt to missile tests as tension with US rises Posted: 29 Jul 2017 11:17 AM PDT  A defiant Iran vowed on Saturday to press ahead with its missile programme and condemned new US sanctions, as tensions rise after the West hardened its tone against the Islamic republic. In the latest incident, Tehran and Washington accused each other's naval forces of provocative manoeuvres in the Gulf that culminated in a US helicopter firing warning flares. The US Navy said it had reacted to unresponsive vessels belonging to the Revolutionary Guards closing in on American ships at high speed, a charge denied by Iran which described the American move as unprovoked.
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| Indiana Police Officer Fatally Shot While Helping People In Car Crash Posted: 28 Jul 2017 02:10 AM PDT  Lt. Aaron Allan, an Indianapolis police officer, was killed while responding to a car crash. He joined the Southport Police Department six years ago.
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| Review: Detroit Is an Important but Flawed Look at American History Posted: 28 Jul 2017 05:44 AM PDT  This is the type of movie we need right now. But there's no shame in wishing that it were a better one
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| The War Over Who Controls U.S. Foreign Policy Has Begun Posted: 28 Jul 2017 09:12 AM PDT  Sanctions on Russia are just the beginning.
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| Trump replaces chief of staff Reince Priebus with Homeland Security chief John Kelly Posted: 28 Jul 2017 02:12 PM PDT  The news came at the end of a tumultuous week of White House infighting, notably pitting incoming communications director Anthony Scaramucci against Priebus.
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| Man 'murders his wife and tries to throw her body off cruise ship because she would not stop laughing at him' Posted: 28 Jul 2017 08:42 AM PDT  Kenneth Manzanares has been charged with the murder of his wife Kirsty after she was found in their cabin with a severe head wound during the cruise as it was sailing through Alaska on Tuesday night. Medical workers and security personnel were reportedly called to the couple's cabin at around 9pm but the mother of three was pronounced dead at the scene around 20 minutes later. A witness, who arrived at the cabin before the crew said they found Manzanares with blood on his hands and clothes.
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| EU starts action against Poland over judiciary reforms Posted: 29 Jul 2017 07:00 AM PDT  The European Commission launched legal action on Saturday against what it sees as Polish government attempts to undermine the independence of judges. It has given Warsaw a month to respond. EU commissioners decided to launch the "infringement procedure" for violating European Union law at a meeting on Wednesday, the first step in a legal process that may end at the bloc's top court, pending publication of Poland's new law.
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| ‘New York City Up and Down’ — 4 decades through the lens of photojournalist Jean-Pierre Laffont Posted: 28 Jul 2017 08:41 AM PDT !['New York City Up and Down' — 4 decades through the lens of photojournalist Jean-Pierre Laffont]( "'New York City Up and Down' — 4 decades through the lens of photojournalist Jean-Pierre Laffont") "New York City Up and Down" is an elegant, incisive and unexpected review of 40 years of exploration by one of the most revered documentarians working today.
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| Snake Wraps Around Woman's Neck Posted: 28 Jul 2017 03:25 PM PDT  Firefighters in Ohio were forced to cut off snake's neck to protect a woman.
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| Elon Musk Just Announced a Long Range Tesla Model 3 Posted: 28 Jul 2017 09:37 PM PDT  Bring on the miles, baby.
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| 'The president is a pyromaniac': the week Trump set fire to the White House Posted: 29 Jul 2017 07:39 AM PDT  Donald Trump began the week by turning a national scout jamboree into something resembling a youth rally. "This is certainly the week in which the Trump administration went off the rails," said Bill Galston, a former policy adviser to Bill Clinton.
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| Japan defense minister quits over peacekeepers' cover-up Posted: 28 Jul 2017 01:40 AM PDT  TOKYO (AP) — Japan's defense minister resigned Friday, saying she accepted the responsibility for a cover-up in which her ministry concealed records of Japanese U.N. peacekeepers' activities and dangers they faced in South Sudan.
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| Husband of Woman Murdered on Cruise Ship Weeps in Court as He's Charged With Murder Posted: 28 Jul 2017 01:14 PM PDT  After the murder, one of the couple's daughters was heard saying, "I knew my dad would do this."
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| Hackers to scour voting machines in search for election vulnerabilities Posted: 28 Jul 2017 04:13 AM PDT  By Jim Finkle LAS VEGAS (Reuters) - Hackers attending this weekend's Def Con hacking convention in Las Vegas will have a chance to break into voting machines and voter databases in a bid to uncover vulnerabilities that could be exploited to sway election results. Organizers decided to set up the 25-year-old conference's first "hacker voting village" to raise awareness about the threat of election results being altered through hacking. Such concerns have been growing since the end of last year, when news surfaced that top U.S. intelligence agencies had determined that Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered computer hacks of Democratic Party emails to help Republican Donald Trump win the Nov. 8 election.
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| Boko Haram ambush death toll hits 69 Posted: 29 Jul 2017 10:06 AM PDT  At least 69 people died in a Boko Haram ambush of an oil exploration team in northeast Nigeria, as three men kidnapped by the jihadists made a video appeal. Experts said the attack -- Boko Haram's bloodiest this year -- underscored the persistent threat it poses, despite government claims the group is a spent force. "So far the death toll stands at 69," said an aid agency worker involved in the recovery of bodies after the attack in the Magumeri area of Borno state on Tuesday.
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| Tesla leak hints at truly impressive range for the Model 3 Posted: 28 Jul 2017 08:04 AM PDT 
Tesla will deliver the first Model 3s to eager buyers tonight, but you don't have to wait until supper time on the West Coast to find out new details. While updating the Tesla website in advance of tonight's event, some poor developer leaked the Model 3's power efficiency, which hints at a truly impressive range for the baby Tesla.
Source code on Tesla's website, spotted by Electrek but since removed, points to the Model 3 having an efficiency of 237 Wh per mile, way more efficient than the power draw of the Model S and Model X, which use 344 and 367 Wh respectively. Electric vehicle efficiency is exactly like the miles per gallon of a conventional car: the more efficient, the better. Even though the Model 3 is expected to come with smaller battery options than the Model S and Model X, the far superior efficiency could give it a range of over 300 miles. That efficiency could come at the cost of lower acceleration and fewer heavy gizmos compared to the Model S and X, but Tesla has been saying for a while that the Model 3 won't have all the same bells and whistles. Some of that is for cost reasons, but if it means a crazy-good range with a relatively cheap battery pack, I'm willing to believe that most buyers will take the tradeoff.
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| Seamstress from abruptly bankrupt bridal store reunites brides with wedding gowns Posted: 28 Jul 2017 06:52 AM PDT  An Oklahoma seamstress has saved dozens of panicked brides after one of the world's largest wedding dress retailers abruptly shut its doors. Rose Ellis is a contract seamstress for Alfred Angelo, the wedding dress behemoth that shuttered more than 60 stores last week, after filing for bankruptcy. Brides-to-be were given little warning of the shut-down, meaning many of them lost the dresses waiting for them at the store.
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| Who is the former White House chief of staff replaced by Gen John Kelly following turf war with Anthony Scaramucci? Posted: 28 Jul 2017 04:54 PM PDT  The US president's chief-of-staff is traditionally seen as the Oval Office "gatekeeper", a highly influential figure who oversees the actions of the White House staff, manages the president's schedule, and decides who is allowed to meet with him. But a Donald Trump administration was never going to shirk from shrugging off the constraints of tradition. From the very beginning, Reince Priebus, a veteran of Washington politics, had his work cut out managing a White House helmed by the unpredictable celebrity businessman and filled with a host of anti-establishment figures. It was always a difficult task and it finally became impossible when Mr Trump defied Mr Priebus and brought in Anthony Scaramucci as his communications chief. There was little love between the two men and the ill-feeling was laid bare on Twitter by Mr Scaramucci. The White House was not big enough for the two of them, and it was Mr Priebus who was forced out. Ever since his appointment, when Mr Trump stressed he would work as an equal alongside Washington revolutionary Steve Bannon, it was clear Mr Priebus would hold much less sway with the president than his predecessors enjoyed. Steve Bannon (left) and White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus walk through the colonnade of the White House Credit: AFP Tensions have been building within Mr Trump's inner circle for months, but it was last week's appointment of communications director Anthony Scaramucci, hired over Mr Priebus' objections, that has left Mr Priebus in the tightest spot. It was already known that Mr Priebus had a tense relationship with Mr Scaramucci, who has made it clear that he reports directly to the president. But a private feud erupted into open warfare on Wednesday when the communications chief suggested in a late-night tweet that Mr Priebus was one of the "leakers" that the president has railed against. The New Yorker published an interview on Thursday in which Mr Scaramucci called the chief-of-staff a "paranoid schizophrenic". Mr Scaramucci is the latest top aide to be granted a direct line to the president, and it has become increasingly unclear who actually reports to Mr Priebus. White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci is locked in a feud with Reince Priebus Credit: AP Mr Priebus, 45, has more than a decade of experience in Republican politics and was seen as a safe pair of hands when he was given the role, the preferred choice of most senior Republicans. He was credited with smoothing over some of the rough edges of Mr Trump during the campaign, while charting a careful course between Mr Trump and the wary Republican establishment. But the chief of staff has grown increasingly isolated in the White House, as past Republican National Committee colleagues and other allies have left or been pushed out of the West Wing. Those who have departed include former deputy chief of staff Katie Walsh, outgoing press secretary Sean Spicer and press aide Michael Short. Mr Priebus has felt the brunt of Mr Trump's jokes at the expense of his staff and associates. At a meeting of auto company CEOs in Michigan in March, the president praised the executives and then said, "And then I look at Reince", drawing scattered laughs with a tone that suggested Mr Priebus was a less impressive presence. Mr Trump quickly added that his chief of staff had "done a great job." Profile | Reince Priebus Mr Priebus has been keeper of a gate that is permanently open. Top aides casually pop in constantly to speak with the boss. "They've got all these chiefs running about with or without the title of chief," William Daley, the second chief of staff for President Barack Obama, told the Associated Press. He said that under Mr Obama, there were high-ranking players with direct access to the president, but he was clued in on any policy or governing conversations, noting: "There was a sense that people were working together." Ari Fleischer, who served as press secretary under George W. Bush, said there were multiple ways to effectively run the White House. George H.W. Bush ran a hierarchical West Wing with a powerful chief of staff who controlled access to the Oval Office. When his son came to office, he chose a different model, creating a system under which numerous senior aides were able to walk into the Oval Office and speak to the president, even if, on paper, they technically reported to someone else. .@Scaramucci is an excellent spokesman & fighter for POTUS. But here's some free advice: Beware of how much PR you're generating. #AskIcarus— Ari Fleischer (@AriFleischer) July 27, 2017 The difference now, he said, is that Mr Trump has created a faction-driven White House, noting: "I just think he has too many independent power centres and not enough team players." House Majority Leader Paul Ryan threw his support behind his "close friend" on Tuesday", saying: "I think he's doing a great job as chief of staff." But from within the White House, the silence was deafening. Asked on Fox whether Mr Priebus was in trouble, Ms Conway replied: "You'd have to ask the president that."
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| AP Analysis: North Korea's 2nd ICBM test augurs a new normal Posted: 29 Jul 2017 06:03 AM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — For all its bluster and over-the-top propaganda, North Korea often does just what it says it will do when it comes to its weapons development.
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| 8-Month-Old Baby Dies After Dad Allegedly Leaves Him in 109-Degree Trailer Posted: 29 Jul 2017 08:18 AM PDT  The boy's sister was also in the trailer.
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| Saudi coalition downs Yemen rebel missile near Mecca Posted: 28 Jul 2017 12:58 AM PDT ![Saudi coalition downs Yemen rebel missile near Mecca]( "Saudi coalition downs Yemen rebel missile near Mecca") A ballistic missile fired by Yemen's Houthi rebels toward the Muslim holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia was shot down late on Thursday, said the Saudi-led coalition fighting in Yemen. Air defense forces downed the missile over the Wasaliyah area of Taif province, 69 km from Mecca, without causing any damage, the coalition said in a statement carried by Saudi state news agency SPA. The statement called the missile launch "a desperate attempt to spoil the haj pilgrimage," due to begin next month.
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| Father shot dead 'in the back of the head' by police, claims lawyer Posted: 29 Jul 2017 11:13 AM PDT  Car mechanic Ismael Lopez, 41, was shot dead at his Mississippi home on Sunday. Officers were hunting a man suspected of assault, according to an incident report. The Lopez family did not hear the knock, but their pitbull did and started barking.
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| Romania blocks Russia minister plane to Moldova Posted: 28 Jul 2017 09:45 AM PDT  Romania on Friday sparked fury in Moscow by blocking a Moldova-bound plane carrying a senior Russian minister entering its airspace because of an EU travel ban over the Ukraine crisis. The foreign ministry in Bucharest confirmed to AFP that the passenger jet carrying deputy prime minister Dmitry Rogozin was "not allowed to fly over Romanian airspace".
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| Donald Trump's immigration crackdown 'may have emboldened MS-13 street gang' Posted: 29 Jul 2017 02:13 PM PDT  Donald Trump's crackdown on immigration may be emboldening the transnational street gang MS-13, which the President has vowed to "dismantle, decimate and eradicate". While addressing law enforcement officials on Long Island, New York, the President asserted that previous weak immigration enforcement has allowed the gang to terrorise communities. "And they were all let in here over a relatively short period of time," Mr Trump said.
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| Officials say 7,000 Islamic State affiliates remain in Iraq Posted: 28 Jul 2017 06:06 AM PDT ![Officials say 7,000 Islamic State affiliates remain in Iraq]( "Officials say 7,000 Islamic State affiliates remain in Iraq") BAGHDAD (AP) — High-ranking Iraqi security officials say up to 7,000 Islamic State group affiliates remain in Iraq after the fall of Mosul, where the group's leader declared the self-styled caliphate three years ago.
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| The great American total solar eclipse: When is it and how can I see it in the UK and US? Posted: 28 Jul 2017 06:14 AM PDT  What's happening? On Monday, August 21, 2017, all of North America will witness an eclipse of the sun for the first time in 99 years, where the Moon will pass in front of the Sun casting darkness across swathes of the Earth's surface. Dubbed the Great American Eclipse, the moment will see the Sun, the Moon and the Earth become perfectly aligned in a once-in-a-lifetime celestial spectacle seen from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean. 10 amazing places in America to watch the 2017 solar eclipse Who will see it? Everyone in North America, parts of South America, Africa and Europe - including the UK - will see at least a partial solar eclipse, where the moon covers only a part of the sun. However, 14 states across the United States will experience a total solar eclipse with more than two minutes of darkness descending in the middle of the day over the course of 100 minutes. More than 12 million Americans live inside the path of totality and more than half of the nation live within 400 miles of it. Millions more are expected to travel to cities along the path to witness the phenomenon. Eclipse path of totality in black. 14 states across the United States will experience it. Credit: Nasa What areas will see total blackout? Anyone within the path of totality will see the sky become dark for several minutes as the moon completely covers the sun. The path is relatively thin, around 70 miles wide, and stretches from Salem, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. It will first be seen at Lincoln Beach, Oregon at 9:05 PDT, with totality beginning at 10:16 PDT. Over the next 90 minutes, it will cross through Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and North and end near Charleston, South Carolina at 14:28 EDT. The lunar shadow will leave the US at 04:09 EDT. Its longest duration will be near Carbondale, Illinois, where the sun will be completely covered for two minutes and 40 seconds. Solar eclipse 2017, in pictures What time can I see the total eclipse? Here are the mid-eclipse times for some of the major towns and cities along the path of totality, according to Nasa. All times are local. 10:17 - Corvallis, Albany and Lebanon, Oregon 11:34 - Idaho Falls, Idaho 11:44 - Casper, Wyoming 13:00 - Grand Island, Lincoln Nebraska 13:08 - St Joseph, Missouri 13:09 - Kansas City, Missouri 13:14 - Columbia, Jefferson City, Missouri 13:18 - St Louis, Missouri 13:28 - Bowling Green, Kentucky 13:28 - Nashville, Tennessee 14:39 - Greenville, South Carolina 14:43 - Columbia, South Carolina What causes an eclipse? The diameter of the Sun is 400 times that of the Moon but it lies 400 times further away - which means if you are in exactly the right alignment on the surface of the Earth at the right time, you will see the two celestial bodies overlap exactly. Credit: Nasa Where can I see the eclipse in the UK? Sadly Brits won't get a total eclipse like our friends across the pond, but we will be treated to a slight partial eclipse which will still be worth watching. It will be visible in parts of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland from around 19:35 on August 21 - but make sure you're in a spot where there's no cloud. At a glance | Future solar eclipses in the UK Will there be a live stream? Yes - Nasa will host an Eclipse Megacast for four hours during the eclipse which will be picked up by local, national and international TV stations. You can also follow all the action via the Telegraph. How can I see it safely? Never look directly at the Sun, even through sunglasses or dark material such as a bin liner or photographic negative. Makeshift filters may not screen out the harmful infrared radiation that can burn the retina of the eye risking permanent eye damage and blindness. Also, viewers must never use binoculars or a telescope. Wear special eclipse viewing glasses - not ordinary sunglasses - or construct a simple pinhole camera which projects an image of the Sun onto a blank piece of paper. Solar eclipse: how to watch the eclipse safely When will Britain next see a solar eclipse? There was a pretty spectacular eclipse in Britain in March 2015, but the last total eclipse in the UK was in August 1999. You might be waiting a while for the next decent one too - it won't take place until August 12, 2026. On that date up to 95 per cent of the Sun will be obscured. Britain will not see a total solar eclipse until September 23, 2090. How we watched the 1999 solar eclipse - in 90 seconds 01:42 Total solar eclipses in history Eclipses have both fascinated and terrified civilisations for centuries. When King Henry I of England, the son of William the Conqueror, died in 1133, his death happened to coincide with a total solar eclipse plummeting the nation into darkness for four minutes and 38 seconds. Historian William of Malmesbury wrote in 1140 that "the darkness was so great that people at first thought the world was ending."
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| NASA's Cassini Craft Found Molecules In Titan's Atmosphere That May Be The Basis Of Life Posted: 28 Jul 2017 02:40 PM PDT  Cassini has made yet another discovery, molecules that could support life in Titan's upper atmosphere.
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