| White House official: Roy Moore has 'more explaining' to do Posted: 12 Nov 2017 10:19 AM PST  White House Director of Legislative Affairs Marc Short said on Sunday that if the allegations against Alabama Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore are true, there's a "special place in hell" for him — but cautioned against a rush to judgment.
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| Trump Laughs As Philippine Leader Duterte Calls Journalists 'Spies' Posted: 13 Nov 2017 11:58 AM PST  President Donald Trump laughed on Monday as his counterpart in the Philippines, Rodrigo Duterte, shut down reporters' questions on human rights and referred to journalists as "spies."
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| Take Our Quiz On Gun Violence In America Posted: 13 Nov 2017 12:05 PM PST  Published in partnership with The Trace, a nonprofit, investigative newsroom covering gun violence in America.
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| Race Car Driver, 8, Dies After Slamming Her Car into Cement Barrier Posted: 13 Nov 2017 09:13 AM PST  An 8-year-old drag race driver is dead after he car collided with a cement barrier.
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| Walmart cashier in Mississippi helps calm nervous man paying with change Posted: 13 Nov 2017 11:23 AM PST  A Walmart cashier's simple act of kindness has shown that slowing down and showing patience can sometimes make all the difference.
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| Earthquake hits Iraq near border with Iran, several killed in both countries Posted: 12 Nov 2017 01:47 PM PST  By Raya Jalabi and Ahmed Rasheed BAGHDAD/ERBIL, Iraq (Reuters) - At least four people died in Iraq and several were killed across the border in Iran on Sunday when a strong earthquake hit the region, officials and state media in the two countries said. The US Geological Survey said the quake measured a magnitude of 7.3, while an Iraqi meteorology official put its magnitude at 6.5 with the epicenter in Penjwin in Sulaimaniyah province in the Kurdistan region close to the main border crossing with Iran. Kurdish health officials said as well as at least four people being killed there were 50 injured.
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| Camera Battery Explosion at Orlando Airport Causes Panic and Hours of Delays Posted: 13 Nov 2017 07:56 AM PST  Security footage caught a TSA agent jumping into action when he saw the backpack smoking.
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| Roy Moore Allegations Becoming a 'Test' for Steve Bannon's Strategy Posted: 12 Nov 2017 12:09 AM PST  Kristen Welker, Charlie Cook, Elise Jordan and David Ignatius discuss the impact of allegations that Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore may have made sexual approaches to underage girls.
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| Texas Church Is Transformed Into Poignant Memorial For Mass Shooting Victims Posted: 12 Nov 2017 04:01 PM PST  SUTHERLAND SPRINGS, Texas ― One week after it became the site of the deadliest mass shooting in modern Texas shooting, the First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs reopened to the public on Sunday.
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| Trump Cozies Up To Duterte, Ignores Human Rights Questions Posted: 13 Nov 2017 02:21 AM PST  President Donald Trump used a series of public appearances in the Philippines on Monday to heap praise upon the island nation's strongman president, Rodrigo Duterte, and shut down reporters who tried to press the leaders on the country's human rights abuses.
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| Maduro says Venezuela will 'never' default on its massive debt Posted: 12 Nov 2017 01:43 PM PST  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro insisted on Sunday that his cash-strapped country would "never" default, as he prepared to meet with creditors in Caracas to discuss rescheduling part of the country's massive $150 billion debt. "Never, default will never reach Venezuela," he declared on his weekly television show. Maduro pointed to ongoing negotiations with his allies China and Russia, to which Venezuela owes, respectively, $28 billion and $8 billion.
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| 21 Children, 2 Adults Injured In Gym Stairwell Collapse Posted: 12 Nov 2017 08:14 AM PST  A wooden platform and stairwell at Vault PK, an acrobatic gym in San Diego, collapsed Saturday on Kids Night, sending many children to the hospital to be treated for spinal injuries, scrapes and bruises.
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| Lebanon PM says he will return to seek settlement Posted: 12 Nov 2017 02:22 PM PST  BEIRUT (AP) — In his first TV interview since he announced his surprise resignation last weekend, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri said Sunday he will return to his country from Saudi Arabia "within days" to seek a settlement with the militant group Hezbollah, his rivals in his coalition government.
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| Foul-Mouthed State Prosecutor Berates, Threatens Uber Driver Posted: 13 Nov 2017 03:28 PM PST  A Texas prosecutor identified as the woman heard in an audio clip berating an Uber driver has been fired, The Dallas Morning News reports.
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| Green Beret killed by 'two Navy SEALs after he uncovered alleged theft' Posted: 13 Nov 2017 07:39 AM PST  Two Navy SEALs reportedly being investigated over the death of an Army Green Beret in Mali are accused of killing him after he learned they had been allegedly stealing. Two special operations sources who remained unnamed told the Daily Beast the members of the US Navy's elite SEAL team – which stands for "Sea, Air, and Land" – under investigation over the death of Logan J Melgar had been taking money from a fund utilised to pay informants. Mr Melgar was a Special Forces Engineer in the US Army Special Forces which is colloquially referred to as the Green Berets because of their distinctive headwear.
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| Raw: Iraqi Forces Find Mass Graves Posted: 12 Nov 2017 12:46 PM PST  Iraqi officials said Sunday up to 400 bodies of civilians and security forces had been found in an abandoned base near Hawija, a northern town retaken from the Islamic State group in early October. (Nov. 12)
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| 4 Adults Arrested After Fight Caught on Camera Outside Chuck E. Cheese's Restaurant Posted: 13 Nov 2017 10:10 AM PST  Their children had allegedly bumped into one another.
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| Trump's ASEAN Summit Handshake May Be His Most Ridiculous Yet Posted: 13 Nov 2017 12:34 AM PST  President Donald Trump was thrown off by a handshake intended to kick off an international conference in the Philippines on Monday.
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| Pollution spikes in Delhi amid warnings no relief in sight Posted: 12 Nov 2017 09:50 AM PST  Air pollution in New Delhi worsened again Sunday and officials warned of little relief in sight from the smog, which has even caused one airline to cancel flights to the world's most polluted capital. The US embassy website Sunday showed levels of the smallest and most harmful airborne pollutants reached 676, about 27 times the World Health Organization's safe maximum, after falling slightly late last week. Delhi authorities have halted all construction, shut brick kilns and banned lorries from entering the city but pollution levels have remained stubbornly high, hovering around hazardous levels for six days in the city and other parts of north India.
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| 21 Stellar Thanksgiving Side Dishes You Can Make Ahead Of Time Posted: 13 Nov 2017 08:07 AM PST  Thanksgiving can quickly turn from an enjoyable holiday into a hectic cooking marathon if you don't prepare ahead.
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| People Destroy Keurig Coffee Makers After Company Pulls Ads From Sean Hannity Programs Posted: 12 Nov 2017 11:19 PM PST  Conservatives are publicly destroying their Keurig coffee makers in response to the company's decision to pull its advertisements from Sean Hannity's television and radio programs.
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| Lebanese cardinal arrives in Saudi Arabia to meet Hariri Posted: 13 Nov 2017 12:24 PM PST  BEIRUT (AP) — The head of Lebanon's Maronite Catholic community arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday in the first public visit by a Lebanese official since Prime Minister Saad Hariri announced his sudden resignation nine days ago.
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| Lowe's Companies, Inc. (LOW) May Finally Get the Best of Home Depot Inc (HD) Posted: 13 Nov 2017 02:34 AM PST ![Lowe's Companies, Inc. (LOW) May Finally Get the Best of Home Depot Inc (HD)]( "Lowe's Companies, Inc. (LOW) May Finally Get the Best of Home Depot Inc (HD)") Home Depot Inc (NYSE: HD) is expected to report on Wednesday morning, and competitor Lowe's Companies, Inc. ( LOW) will report exactly one week later. Home Depot has also consistently outpaced Lowe's when it comes to same-store sales growth. KeyBanc analyst Bradley Thomas says investors should expect more of the same from best-in-class home improvement retailer Home Depot in the third quarter.
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| Roy Moore: 37% of Alabama evangelical Christians 'more likely to vote for him' after sexual misconduct claims Posted: 13 Nov 2017 05:45 AM PST  More than a third of evangelical Christians in Alabama have said they are more likely to vote for Roy Moore, the Republican candidate for Senate, after claims surfaced that he had sexual contact with a 14-year-old girl. Thirty-seven per cent of people who said they were evangelical Christians would be more likely to pick him over Democratic rival Doug Jones even after details of the allegations were published by The Washington Post, they told pollsters JMC. The claims, relating to events in the late 1970s and early 80s, made 28 per cent of evangelicals less likely to support Mr Moore, while 34 per cent said they made no difference.
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| 2019 Chevrolet Corvette ZR1: Here It Is Posted: 12 Nov 2017 09:13 AM PST  The King of the Hill is back.
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| Photographer travels the world snapping incredibly realistic yet completely fake cities Posted: 13 Nov 2017 06:35 AM PST ![Photographer travels the world snapping incredibly realistic yet completely fake cities]( "Photographer travels the world snapping incredibly realistic yet completely fake cities") For a few years now, an Austrian photographer has been nosing out and photographing places that simulate other places. Examples are a re-creation of Mosul, Iraq, in California's Mojave Desert and a Dutch village in China.
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| President Trump Had Trouble Figuring Out This Awkward Group Handshake with World Leaders Posted: 13 Nov 2017 05:16 AM PST  The awkward moment occurred during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) summit in the Philippines
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| Boy shot by deputy called 911, gave description of himself Posted: 11 Nov 2017 05:36 PM PST ![Boy shot by deputy called 911, gave description of himself]( "Boy shot by deputy called 911, gave description of himself") MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An eighth-grade boy who was fatally shot by a sheriff's deputy in northern Wisconsin called 911 to report a man with a knife, but then gave emergency dispatchers a description of himself, investigators said Saturday.
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| 8 Bad Relationship Habits You Need To Kick Before Getting Married Posted: 13 Nov 2017 09:13 AM PST  When you've been dating someone for a while, it's easy to form bad relationship habits, which, if left unchecked, have the power to crack the very foundation of your partnership.
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| Brand New Cancels Tour Dates Following Sexual Misconduct Claims Against Lead Singer Posted: 12 Nov 2017 05:01 PM PST  Brand New frontman Jesse Lacey issued a lengthy yet vague apology following accusations that he engaged in sexual misconduct with minors when he was in 20s.
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| Lebanese president presses Saudi to say why Hariri has not returned Posted: 12 Nov 2017 05:40 AM PST  By Ellen Francis BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanon's president called on Saudi Arabia on Saturday to clarify why Lebanese Prime Minister Saad al-Hariri could not return home, a week after he stunned his country by resigning while in the kingdom. A senior Lebanese official said President Michel Aoun had told foreign ambassadors Hariri had been "kidnapped" and should have immunity. Hariri's shock resignation has thrust Lebanon back into the frontline of a power struggle between Sunni Saudi Arabia and Shi'ite Iran - a rivalry that has wrought upheaval in Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Bahrain.
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| Emirates orders 40 Boeing 787 Dreamliners for $15.1 bn: chief Posted: 12 Nov 2017 02:07 AM PST  Emirates Airlines on Sunday agreed to purchase 40 Boeing 787-10 Dreamliners for $15.1 billion, its chief Sheikh Ahmed bin Saeed Al-Maktoum said at the opening of the Dubai Air Show. Emirates is already the world's largest client for Boeing's 777, with 165 jets and another 164 on firm order. Sheikh Ahmed said the deal raises total orders from Boeing, the global competitor of Airbus Industries, to as high as $90 billion.
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| Jared Kushner 'told CNN to fire a fifth of its staff' over its presidential election coverage Posted: 12 Nov 2017 07:44 AM PST  Donald Trump's senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, reportedly urged a top executive at CNN's parent company to fire a fifth of its staff over its coverage of the presidential election. Mr Kushner told Time Warner executive Gary Ginsberg that the broadcaster should sack 20 per cent of its employees because their analysis of the outcome of the November's vote had been wrong, according to the Wall Street Journal. A White House official claimed Mr Kushner had been joking but sources at the media company told the newspaper the remark "wasn't taken lightly".
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| Aly Raisman On Larry Nassar Abuse Allegations: I Was 'Brainwashed To Believe I Was Fine' Posted: 13 Nov 2017 10:15 AM PST  Aly Raisman says she believes she was a "textbook victim" of sexual abuse.
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| John McCain says there is 'nothing America First’ about believing Putin on election meddling claims Posted: 12 Nov 2017 03:11 AM PST  Senator John McCain has said there is "nothing 'America First'" about "trusting' President Vladimir Putin, following President Donald Trump's meeting with the Russian leader at the APEC summit in Vietnam on Saturday. The comments follow the recent Robert Mueller probe into the Kremlin's suspected "meddling" in the 2016 US presidential elections, which saw the first charges filed in the case but are sealed under order from a federal judge. In a statement on his official website, McCain said: "There's nothing 'America First' about taking the word of a KGB colonel over that of the American intelligence community.
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| In the Wake of Harvey Weinstein, Bollywood Stars Are Speaking Out About Sexual Harassment Posted: 12 Nov 2017 08:25 PM PST  They say there is still a reluctance to name and shame in India's film industry, the world's largest
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| Myanmar assures ASEAN nations it is attending to Rohingya Posted: 13 Nov 2017 05:59 AM PST  MANILA, Philippines (AP) — The Latest on the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in the Philippines (all times local):
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| Qualcomm rejects Broadcom's $103-billion takeover bid Posted: 13 Nov 2017 10:13 AM PST  Shares of Qualcomm were up 1.8 percent at $65.74 in early afternoon trading, while those of Broadcom were down 0.4 percent at $263.95. Broadcom said it would seek to engage with Qualcomm's board and management, adding that it had received positive feedback from key customers and stockholders. "We continue to believe our proposal represents the most attractive, value-enhancing alternative available to Qualcomm stockholders and we are encouraged by their reaction," the company said.
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| Chip And Joanna Gaines Head To Italy After Last Episode Of 'Fixer Upper' Posted: 13 Nov 2017 02:44 PM PST  Chip and Joanna Gaines finished filming their final season of "Fixer Upper."
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| Crisis-stricken GE to unveil painful roadmap to recovery Posted: 12 Nov 2017 09:19 AM PST  Iconic American industrial behemoth General Electric, which has lost investor confidence amid bad investment decisions, is preparing to slice up its empire again, selling major business segments and laying off thousands. "There is no sacred cow," newly installed CEO John Flannery has said repeatedly about the need to cut costs and restructure. "They have a crisis of investor confidence," he told AFP.
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| Zimbabwe army chief warns Mugabe's party that military may intervene after sackings Posted: 13 Nov 2017 11:11 AM PST  Zimbabwe's army chief on Monday demanded an end to the purge in the ruling Zanu-PF party, and warned the military could intervene. Following the sacking of vice president, Emmerson Mnangagwa, Zimbabwe armed forces commander, Constantine Chiwenga said the security services would stop those "bent on hijacking the revolution." General Chiwenga spoke at a Harare press conference on the "instability" in Zanu-PF, alongside some 90 senior military figures. Mr Mnangagwa was sacked last week by president Robert Mugabe, along with several other party members. The former vice president was also expelled from Zanu PF, a party he served for more then 40 years, most of them at Mr Mugabe's side. Robert Mugabe addresses party members and officials gathered at his party headquarters to show support to Grace Mugabe becoming the party's next vice president Credit: AFP PHOTO / Jekesai NJIKIZANA "It is with humility and a heavy heart that we come before you to pronounce the indisputable reality that there is instability in Zanu-PF today and as a result anxiety in the country at large," General Chiwenga said. "We must remind those behind the current treacherous shenanigans that when it comes to matters of protecting our revolution, the military will not hesitate to step in." "The current purging which is clearly targeting members of the party with liberation [war] backgrounds must stop forthwith.There is distress, trepidation and despondency within the nation," he said. There were clashes in central Harare in August between the Zimbabwe Republic Police - loyal to first lady Grace Mugabe and her allies in a Zanu-PF faction, G40 - and soldiers who are loyal to Mr Mnangagwa. Later that month, Mr Mnangagwa claimed he was poisoned at a rally addressed by Mr Mugabe, and was airlifted by a military aircraft to South Africa where he spent nearly two weeks in hospital. Mr Mnangagwa, 75, left the country after being dismissed and arrived in Johannesburg last Wednesday. Robert Mugabe profile Under orders from Mr Mugabe, he is accused of organising the murder of thousands of opposition supporters since independence from the UK in 1980. He issued a five page statement when he left Zimbabwe last week saying he would return and would lead resistance to Mr Mugabe. "We will soon control the levers of power in our beautiful party and country," he said. Many veterans of the war against white-ruled Rhodesia have turned against Mr and Mrs Mugabe and the G40 faction. Mrs Mugabe and her supporters, without providing any evidence, claim Mr Mnangagwa planned to take power from Mr Mugabe who is standing for re election next year. Mrs Mugabe told a rally in Harare ten days ago that Mr Mnangagwa had plotted against her husband since independence. General Chiwenga's contract as leader of the armed forces expired in July, and it is not clear whether Mr Mugabe will keep him on in his job. Last weekend, several members of the Zimbabwe National Army told reporters, in confidence, that they could not afford to object to Mr Mnangagwa's sacking as they "needed their jobs."
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| Colin Kaepernick Covers GQ As 'Citizen Of The Year' Posted: 13 Nov 2017 08:18 AM PST  Over a year after the former San Fransisco 49er began kneeling at NFL games during the national anthem, the magazine is celebrating his activism in its annual Men of the Year issue.
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| Advertisers ditch Sean Hannity's show after Roy Moore interview Posted: 12 Nov 2017 01:31 PM PST  Two companies, Realtor.com and Keurig, have pulled advertisements from Fox News host Sean Hannity's programme after he interviewed Alabama Senate candidate Roy Moore. The Republican running the special election on 12 December has come under criticism for allegations of sexual abuse of teenage girls - all of which Mr Moore has denied. "Every single person in this country deserves the presumption of innocence," said Mr Hannity during the programme, which included ad spots from both companies.
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| Woman avoids 10 years in jail for marrying her mother after they 'hit it off' Posted: 13 Nov 2017 03:54 AM PST  A woman who reportedly married her estranged mother after the pair later "hit it off" when they got back in contact has avoided a potential 10-year jail sentence. Misty Velvet Dawn Spann, 25, hadn't seen mother Patricia Spann, 43, since her childhood, when Patricia lost custody of her and two other siblings who were put up for adoption, court records show. Social services officials later discovered the incestuous relationship between the mother and daughter – which is illegal – and the pair were arrested and taken into custody.
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