| Nearly a Week After Irma, Florida Keys Residents Begin Returning Home Posted: 16 Sep 2017 09:06 AM PDT  Hurricane Irma devastated the Florida Keys, overturning boats and toppling hundreds of homes. On Saturday, some residents were allowed to return home to see the damage.
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| Teacher Accused Of Assaulting Student For Sitting During Pledge Of Allegiance Posted: 16 Sep 2017 05:43 PM PDT  A school in eastern Michigan has placed a teacher on leave and launched an investigation after she allegedly "snatched" an 11-year-old student who sat during the Pledge of Allegiance.
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| Kevin Hart publicly apologizes to wife and children after woman threatens to release 'sexually suggestive' video Posted: 17 Sep 2017 10:13 AM PDT  Kevin Hart issued a very public apology on Saturday to his pregnant wife and kids after news broke that the actor is involved in a multimillion-dollar extortion attempt.
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| Donald Trump To Campaign For Luther Strange In Alabama Posted: 17 Sep 2017 08:58 AM PDT  President Donald Trump announced Saturday that he plans to campaign next week for Sen. Luther Strange (R-Ala.),
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| British police arrest second man over London train bomb Posted: 17 Sep 2017 08:07 AM PDT  By Paul Sandle LONDON (Reuters) - British police arrested a second man over the bombing of a London commuter train on Friday that injured 30 people and the security services lowered the threat level for an attack from its highest setting. The 21-year-old man was detained under Britain's terrorism laws in the west London suburb of Hounslow just before midnight on Saturday, London police said in a statement. Police earlier arrested an 18-year-old man in the departure lounge of Dover port in what they called a "significant" step and then raided a property in Sunbury-on-Thames, a town near London and about four miles (six km) from Hounslow.
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| 'Natalee Holloway's Skull Burned In Aruba Cave In 2010' Posted: 17 Sep 2017 12:16 AM PDT  Holloway went missing in Aruba, a Dutch Carribean island off Venezuela. on May 30, 2005. She was officially declared dead in 2012.
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| Full Interview: Tom Brokaw Speaks to Team Behind 'Vietnam War' Documentary Posted: 16 Sep 2017 08:38 AM PDT  Tom Brokaw sat down with "The Vietnam War" co-directors Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, two critically aclaimed documentary filmmakers whose films he said "tell us who we are as Americans."
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| Aunt V, The World's Oldest Person, Dies In Jamaica At 117 Posted: 15 Sep 2017 07:27 PM PDT  Violet Mosse-Brown, the Jamaican woman believed to be the oldest person in the world, died Friday.
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| Raul Castro's surprising response to harmed US diplomats Posted: 16 Sep 2017 11:25 AM PDT  HAVANA (AP) — Raul Castro seemed rattled.
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| British journalist in Sri Lanka croc attack 'drowned' Posted: 16 Sep 2017 04:53 AM PDT  A British journalist believed to have been attacked by a crocodile in Sri Lanka died of drowning, police said Saturday following a post-mortem examination. The body of 24-year-old Paul McClean, who worked for the Financial Times, was found Friday in a coastal village lagoon a day after he went missing. British media reports said McClean was holidaying in Sri Lanka with friends.
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| Blood Leaks Onto Road From Funeral Home Like A Scene From A Horror Movie Posted: 16 Sep 2017 01:55 AM PDT  Residents spotted the disturbing sight of blood seeping out onto a road from a Louisiana undertaker business on Thursday afternoon.
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| California Close To Banning Pet Shop Sales Of Non-Rescue Cats, Dogs And Rabbits Posted: 16 Sep 2017 01:37 PM PDT  California will become the first state to ban pet stores from selling cats, dogs or rabbits that don't come from a shelter or rescue group if Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signs the bill sent to him this week.
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| President Trump Greets Wife Melania With A Handshake Posted: 17 Sep 2017 10:59 AM PDT  At a Friday night event held at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland, Melania gave a speech introducing her husband, after which the president thanked her by firmly shaking her hand
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| Wiener Werkstätte's Designs Are on Display at New York’s Neue Galerie Posted: 17 Sep 2017 05:00 AM PDT |
| Jets strike U.S.-backed forces in eastern Syria Posted: 16 Sep 2017 12:45 PM PDT  By Ellen Francis BEIRUT (Reuters) - U.S.-backed militias in Syria said they came under attack on Saturday from Russian jets and Syrian government forces in Deir al-Zor province, a flashpoint in an increasingly complex battlefield. The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), an alliance of Kurdish and Arab militias fighting with the U.S.-led coalition, said six of its fighters were wounded in the strike. The Pentagon said Russia bombed a position east of the Euphrates river where it knew SDF fighters and coalition advisers were stationed.
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| Fatal Baton Rouge Shootings Investigated As Racially Motivated: Police Posted: 17 Sep 2017 12:44 PM PDT  A 23-year-old Louisiana man is reportedly being held as a person of interest in the separate slayings of two black men who police say were gunned down last week in potentially racially motivated attacks.
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| Hillary Clinton: there's a 'game that keeps women in their place' Posted: 16 Sep 2017 09:40 AM PDT  While promoting her newly released memoir, Hillary Clinton has placed blame on several factors for her loss to Donald Trump last November – from her own mistakes, to Russian interference in the US election, and the late intervention by then-FBI director James Comey. In an interview with the New York Times published Saturday, Clinton spoke further about how misogyny is used as a tool to hold women back.
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| Texas clinics offer free abortions to women caught up in Hurricane Harvey Posted: 16 Sep 2017 11:20 AM PDT  Dozens of women who were caught up in Hurricane Harvey are being offered free abortions at Texas clinics. The women's health organisation is working with the Lilith Fund, a pro-choice group in Texas, and others to create a relief fund for the patients. Whole Woman's Health has so far raised $15,000 (£11,000) to help fund the free abortions but said the total cost will be closer to $40,000.
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| Stowaway Koala Survives 10-Mile Ride Hidden Behind Car's Wheel Posted: 17 Sep 2017 10:36 AM PDT  A koala is alive after a driver unknowingly drove for about 10 miles while the animal clung to the inside of his car's wheel arch, animal officials said.
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| Veteran Albuquerque TV reporter killed in helicopter crash Posted: 17 Sep 2017 02:58 PM PDT  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A longtime reporter-videographer at an Albuquerque TV station has died after the news helicopter he was piloting crashed in central New Mexico, authorities said Sunday.
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| Armed and masked men declare war on France’s bears Posted: 16 Sep 2017 07:21 AM PDT  A group of armed and masked men have issued a video in which they vow to start hunting bears in France's Pyrenees mountains following attacks on sheep. Brown bears, a protected species, were blamed for the deaths of about 450 sheep who tumbled over cliffs while being chased by bears in two separate incidents this summer. The threat to hunt them marks an escalation of a bitter dispute between farmers and conservationists over the predators. They were re-introduced into south-western France from Slovenia in the 1990s after hunters had all but wiped out native Pyrenean bears. The video, filmed outdoors at night and sent to news organisations, shows about 30 men holding shotguns or hunting rifles, their faces hidden by balaclavas. Brown bears are a protected species Credit: REUTERS/Gleb Garanich A deliberately distorted voiceover says: "By introducing Slovenian bears and establishing a nursery allowing them to multiply, the French state is implementing land management policies that are gradually restricting access by men and women of the mountains and their freedom to work." The voiceover adds: "The state has remained deaf to the requests of our elected representatives, our citizens' and trade organisations. We have decided to reopen bear hunting in Ariège [the local area] and to conduct active resistance against agents of the state." The video, which concludes with shots fired in the air, comes three weeks after farmers were accused of firing about 50 rounds to intimidate wildlife officials visiting the area to assess how many sheep the bears had killed. The government pays compensation for livestock killed, but many farmers say they can no longer co-exist with a bear population estimated at 39. A local group is campaigning for many of the beasts to be returned to Slovenia, with others restricted to a reserve so that livestock could graze in a "no-bear zone" without fear of attack. The authorities are taking the video seriously and prosecutors have opened an investigation. The local Préfecture described the threat to resume bear hunting as a "pathetic drift into violence and illegality." It added in a statement: "Play-acting as a terrorist organisation is not a joke. It harms all those who defend the development of rural and mountain territories."
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| Iran's Khamenei warns U.S. against 'wrong move' on nuclear deal Posted: 17 Sep 2017 12:42 PM PDT  Iran will not be bullied by the United States and will react strongly to any "wrong move" by Washington on Tehran's nuclear deal, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Sunday. U.S. President Donald Trump said on Thursday that Iran was violating "the spirit" of the 2015 deal under which it got sanctions relief in return for curbing its nuclear program. State television quoted Khamenei as saying Iran was standing firm "and any wrong move by the domineering regime regarding the (nuclear accord) will face the reaction of the Islamic Republic." Washington extended some sanctions relief for Iran on Thursday under the nuclear deal with world powers, but said it had yet to decide whether to maintain the agreement.
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| A Man Survived After Caustic Beer Burned Up His Organs. He Just Got $750,000 Posted: 16 Sep 2017 07:15 AM PDT  He just got $750,000
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| Duterte to Human Rights Chief: 'Are You a Pedophile?' Posted: 16 Sep 2017 08:46 AM PDT  Duterte had been challenged over the killing of teenagers in the country's anti-drugs campaign.
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| New Twitter Theories Emerge After Kenneka Jenkins’ Mysterious Death Posted: 16 Sep 2017 04:17 AM PDT  While the autopsy and toxicology test results are still awaited, Twitter has been flooded with conspiracy theories as users speculate about how the teen died.
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| The Powerful Reason Why This Artist Has Been Saving His Urine For The Last 200 Days Posted: 16 Sep 2017 05:07 AM PDT  Cassils spent a good chunk of this week trying to ensure that the 200-gallon tank of urine he was installing at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts didn't leak through the floor and destroy all of the priceless art that currently might be stored in the gallery's basement.
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| Don't Look Now, But Full Obamacare Repeal Is Back On The Table Posted: 16 Sep 2017 05:07 PM PDT  Repeal of the Affordable Care Act is back on the agenda, with Republicans suddenly talking about a bill that, until recently, few people in either party had taken all that seriously.
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| Pot shampoo to cannabis sommeliers: Inside one of America's biggest marijuana business conventions Posted: 17 Sep 2017 07:22 AM PDT  Entrepreneurs looking to cash in on California's new marijuana gold rush flocked to Los Angeles this week for the city's Fourth Annual Cannabis World Congress & Business Exposition, taking in advice and pitches from venture capitalists to a marijuana "sommelier". Workshops were conducted, business cards were swapped with more than 200 bustling booths – exhibiting everything from pot paper, to shampoo and even suppositories – at the LA Convention Centre. It was a spirited free-for-all that anticipated one thing: 1 January 2018 – a date that puts dollar signs in many a Californian's eyes.
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| London Underground terror attack leaves 30 injured Posted: 17 Sep 2017 08:29 AM PDT  George Stephanopoulos reports on the London terror attack which happened just before he sat down to interview the British prime minister.
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| Hamas says ready to hand Gaza to a Palestinian unity government Posted: 17 Sep 2017 09:32 AM PDT  By Mohamed el Sherif and Ali Sawafta CAIRO/RAMALLAH (Reuters) - Hamas has agreed to dissolve the administration that runs Gaza, it said on Sunday, a major step towards handing control of the enclave to a Palestinian unity government after a decade of bitter rivalry with President Mahmoud Abbas. The Islamist group, which has ruled Gaza since a brief Palestinian civil war in 2007, said it had taken "a courageous, serious and patriotic decision to dissolve the administrative committee" that runs the territory of 2 million people, and hand power to some form of unity government. Reunification a decade after Hamas and Abbas's secular Fatah movement battled for control of Gaza may hinge on whether complex issues related to power-sharing - which stymied reconciliation bids in the past - can be resolved.
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| Philippine troops rescue abducted Catholic priest in battle Posted: 17 Sep 2017 04:52 AM PDT ![Philippine troops rescue abducted Catholic priest in battle]( "Philippine troops rescue abducted Catholic priest in battle") MANILA, Philippines (AP) — Philippine troops have rescued a Roman Catholic priest and another civilian who were among dozens of people abducted in May when hundreds of militants aligned with the Islamic State group laid siege on southern Marawi city, officials said Sunday.
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| 911 Caller Said Teen Fatally Shot by Police Had a Bomb Strapped to His Chest Posted: 16 Sep 2017 06:22 AM PDT  The 15-year-old died at the scene
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| Watch What Happened When These Two Men Swapped Grindr Profiles Posted: 17 Sep 2017 05:57 AM PDT  Popular dating app Grindr is using its new web series as a social experiment to take an honest, if lighthearted, look at how racism, ageism and other forms of discrimination play out in the queer community.
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| Trump Should Be Censured, California Lawmakers Say Posted: 16 Sep 2017 11:53 AM PDT  Democrats in the California Assembly passed the resolution 41 to 5.
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| Sanders’ Single-Payer Proposal May Impact 'Healthy California Act' Posted: 16 Sep 2017 02:21 PM PDT  The Vermont senator wants to replace America's health-care system with a public system that doesn't include co-payments — a plan that could directly influence California's system.
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| Will Sharing a Bed With Your Dogs Come Back to Bite You? Investigation Finds What's Lurking Under Your Pup's Paws Posted: 16 Sep 2017 06:26 AM PDT  It could be a dangerous case of "look what the dog dragged in."
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| Carnival worker falls from malfunctioning Ferris wheel Posted: 16 Sep 2017 01:19 PM PDT  A carnival worker fell from a malfunctioning ride in North Carolina on Friday night.
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| Boyfriend Charged With Murder After Pregnant Teacher Found in Shallow Grave Posted: 16 Sep 2017 07:03 AM PDT  Court documents show he was also engaged to another woman
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| The absolute worst pumpkin-related food crimes Posted: 17 Sep 2017 05:00 AM PDT  Some pumpkin foods are delicious: fresh pumpkin cupcakes, for example, frosted with cream cheese icing, or crumbly, barely-sweet pumpkin scones. Pumpkin pie! Others are sick crimes. SEE ALSO: People are mad at Starbucks for its confusing rollout of the Pumpkin Spice Latte While the primary focus of pumpkin-season debate remains the Pumpkin Spice Latte (which is more delicious over ice, by the way), I'd like to posit that there are far more egregious pumpkin products out there. Of course, we can technically blame the PSL for the existence of all these bad, bad foods. So ... maybe the anger is justified? 1. Pumpkin cider I purchased a six-pack of pumpkin cider in the fall of 2013, eager to sip something cold (it was still hot outside) that still tasted like autumn incarnate. Instead, the pumpkin cider tasted exactly like vomit — not just vomit, the noun, but the actual act of vomiting. Image: Totalwine.com2. Pumpkin spice gum This one is doubly offensive: not only must you taste the cloying flavor of the gum, but so must everyone around you when it is on your breath for the rest of the day. Friends, not chewing this gum is a public service. Image: Amazon3. Pumpkin Spice Oreos One Mashable staffer and Pumpkin Spice Oreo survivor compared the specialty cookies to "a Yankee Candle melting in your mouth." Seems bad! Image: Amazon4. Pumpkin pie spice butter A sponsored post about Land O Lakes Pumpkin Pie Spice Butter Spread recommends that you slather it not only on toast and English muffins, but on roasted carrots and pork chops. And a lot of people seem to like the stuff, so it's probably fine, right? Wrong. It is, again, way too sweet. Also, why would you put pumpkin spice butter on toast when cookie butter exists? Image: Land O Lakes5. Pumpkin spice oatmeal Pumpkin spice oatmeal is a bummer because it could have been subtle and nice, even wholesome. Instead, it is sickeningly sweet. A post shared by @doreenas_yums on Jul 22, 2017 at 5:22pm PDT 6. Pumpkin Spice Latte Peeps One of the best parts of fall is that Peeps, which are endorsed by Satan, aren't around to assail us. Unfortunately, Peeps has ruined this with Pumpkin Spice Peeps. To add insult to injury, they are dipped in white fudge. Image: Peeps & Company7. Pumpkin spice candy corn Candy corn is already bad, but pumpkin spice candy corn is truly ghastly. It's an important reminder that life can always get worse! Image: Amazon WATCH: How to respond when your coworker asks you, "How was your weekend?"
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| Kuwait orders North Korea's ambassador to leave within a month Posted: 17 Sep 2017 09:21 AM PDT ![Kuwait orders North Korea's ambassador to leave within a month]( "Kuwait orders North Korea's ambassador to leave within a month") Kuwait has ordered North Korea's ambassador to leave within a month as the Gulf country downgraded diplomatic relations with Pyongyang, a North Korean diplomat in the Gulf region said on Sunday. The United Nations Security Council imposed new sanctions after North Korea's sixth and largest nuclear test this month, and the United States called on countries to sever diplomatic and financial ties with it.
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| Lead carver of Mount Rushmore honored with plaque Posted: 16 Sep 2017 06:59 PM PDT  KEYSTONE, S.D. (AP) — The chief carver of Mount Rushmore who was responsible for refining the expressions on the faces of the monument's four presidents was honored Saturday with a plaque that recognizes his work.
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| Basques march in solidarity with Catalan independence vote Posted: 16 Sep 2017 11:03 AM PDT  Thousands of Basques holding banners that read "we want to decide" marched Saturday in support of Catalonia's independence referendum to separate from Madrid, which Basque separatists have long fought for. Organisers said 35,000 people rallied in the northern city of Bilbao -- a symbolic protest in a region still marked by decades of violence once waged by armed separatist group ETA, and where the desire for independence remains strong. The march comes just two weeks before Catalonia's separatist executive is slated to hold a referendum on October 1 despite a ban by Madrid.
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| Bernie Sanders Responds to Hillary Clinton Criticism Posted: 17 Sep 2017 11:47 AM PDT  The Vermont senator said he backed Clinton after she became the Democrat candidate.
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