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Thousands In Utah Protest Trump Plans To Shrink National Monuments

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 10:15 PM PST

Thousands In Utah Protest Trump Plans To Shrink National MonumentsMore than 5,000 angry protesters gathered outside the state capitol in Salt Lake City Saturday to rally against Donald Trump's expected plans to carve up federal public lands in Utah and open up what's left to drilling and mining.


The evangelical professor who turned against 'reparative therapy' for gays

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 09:43 AM PST

The evangelical professor who turned against 'reparative therapy' for gaysWarren Throckmorton, a psychologist and evangelical Christian, once believed gays could turn straight if they wanted to. But science has convinced him otherwise. And direct experience with members of the LGBT community has made him question his religious assumptions about the issue.


Bodies Of Missing California Veteran And Dog Believed Found; Ex-Husband Under Arrest

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 11:26 PM PST

Bodies Of Missing California Veteran And Dog Believed Found; Ex-Husband Under ArrestRemains believed be those of an Army veteran missing for three months from her San Diego home and her dog have been found in a shallow grave in a rural desert area of Riverside County.


Here’s what scientists say a nuclear attack would look like

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 08:04 AM PST

Here's what scientists say a nuclear attack would look likeNBC News' Miguel Almaguer reports from Los Angeles, where America's first responders are preparing for nuclear emergency in case of attack.


Crissy Teigen Dresses Up Her Baby Bump in Curve-Hugging Gown

Posted: 03 Dec 2017 11:42 AM PST

Crissy Teigen Dresses Up Her Baby Bump in Curve-Hugging GownChrissy Teigen's lovin' her bun in the oven!


American tourist killed in Costa Rica shark attack

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 02:51 PM PST

American tourist killed in Costa Rica shark attackSan José (AFP) - A 49-year-old US female tourist was killed by a tiger shark this week while diving off a Costa Rican island in the Pacific Ocean, the government and local media reported. The attack also badly injured the 26-year-old male Costa Rican diving guide leading the group that included the American woman. The shark savaged the two on Thursday as they were surfacing after a dive off Coco Island, a pristine national park located 500 kilometers (300 miles) off the Costa Rican mainland, the environment ministry said in a statement.


Controversial Congressman Once Asked Why Terrorists Don’t Target The IRS and DMVs

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 07:05 PM PST

Controversial Congressman Once Asked Why Terrorists Don't Target The IRS and DMVsRep. Blake Farenthold (R-Texas), who was unmasked Friday as the only congressman to use funds from the now infamous Congressional Office of Compliance to settle a sexual harassment claim, once asked in a tweet, "Why do terrorists hate airplanes?


Kids send more than 600 backpacks of hope to Puerto Rico

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 08:08 AM PST

Kids send more than 600 backpacks of hope to Puerto RicoStudents at a Florida elementary school have sent backpacks to recently reopened schools all around Puerto Rico, each with a note to a child they have never met.


Retirement Community Resident Allegedly Tested Homemade Poison On Neighbors

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 01:07 PM PST

Retirement Community Resident Allegedly Tested Homemade Poison On NeighborsA Vermont woman living in a retirement community has been arrested for allegedly making a deadly poison and testing it out on her fellow residents.


How to Stop North Korea: Use the 'Python' Strategy

Posted: 03 Dec 2017 04:31 PM PST

How to Stop North Korea: Use the 'Python' StrategyOn November 28, North Korea once again defied the international community. In violation of UN resolutions, it launched an ICBM—its third successful ICBM test of the year. This missile flew far higher than Pyongyang's previous missiles.


Brock Turner, Former Stanford Swimmer Convicted Of Sexual Assault, Files Appeal

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 01:13 PM PST

Brock Turner, Former Stanford Swimmer Convicted Of Sexual Assault, Files AppealBrock Turner, a former Stanford University student, sparked nationwide outrage last year when he received a jail sentence of just six months after being convicted for sexually assaulting an unconscious, intoxicated woman beside a dumpster.


Why the Delaware Earthquake Was a 5.1 Before It Was a 4.4

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 04:00 AM PST

Why the Delaware Earthquake Was a 5.1 Before It Was a 4.4Even experts get confused sometimes.


UAE denies claim of Yemen missile attack against its plant

Posted: 03 Dec 2017 05:12 AM PST

UAE denies claim of Yemen missile attack against its plantDUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The United Arab Emirates on Sunday denied a claim by Yemen's Shiite rebels that they fired a missile toward an under-construction Emirati nuclear plant. The denial came as heavy fighting in Yemen's capital unraveled a rebel alliance that has been at war with a Saudi-led coalition, including the UAE.


Storm chaser captures extraordinary images

Posted: 03 Dec 2017 12:15 PM PST

Storm chaser captures extraordinary imagesWhile most people head for cover at the first sign of a storm, this man runs straight toward it. Storm chaser and father of three Mike Olbinski is addicted to photographing extreme weather and regularly takes on tornadoes and supercell thunderstorms in a bid to capture extraordinary images. The photographer, from Phoenix, often travels hundreds of miles a day to reach the eye of a storm. He first became hooked on the unusual hobby almost a decade ago, following the birth of his daughter. (Caters News)


Hawaii Developer Under Fire For Segregated 'Poor Door' For Renters

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 08:51 PM PST

Hawaii Developer Under Fire For Segregated 'Poor Door' For RentersHONOLULU ― A real estate developer in Hawaii is under scrutiny for its plans to build a residential high-rise that has two separate entrances: one for high-income residents and another for low-income earners.


UAE 'deports' Egypt presidential hopeful Shafiq to Cairo: aides

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 06:10 PM PST

UAE 'deports' Egypt presidential hopeful Shafiq to Cairo: aidesUAE officials on Saturday deported former Egyptian premier and presidential hopeful Ahmed Shafiq from the Gulf country he had been living in since 2012 to Egypt after he announced his candidacy in upcoming elections, two of his aides told AFP. Shafiq landed in Cairo airport on Saturday evening and quickly left to an unknown destination, an airport official said. The move comes days after Shafiq, in exile in the UAE since 2012, announced his candidacy in next year's election and then said he was being prevented from leaving the country, angering his Emirati hosts.


Trump tweet suggests he knew Flynn lied to FBI

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 03:58 AM PST

Trump tweet suggests he knew Flynn lied to FBIA new tweet by President Trump suggests that he knew that Michael Flynn had lied to the FBI at the time of the former National Security Adviser's firing.


Shooter Fires Through Hospital's Emergency Room Window, Police Say

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 07:53 AM PST

Shooter Fires Through Hospital's Emergency Room Window, Police SayNo one was injured before police shot and wounded the gunman


Israel Is Building Its Own Global Hawk Drone

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 06:24 PM PST

Israel Is Building Its Own Global Hawk DroneIsrael is building a giant drone comparable to America's RQ-4 Global Hawk, according to Israeli media. The drone will be an upgrade of Israel's Eitan long-range reconnaissance UAV, the Jerusalem Post reports. Upgrading the range and capabilities of the Eitan "will bring the drone to the scale" of the RQ-4 Global Hawk, the commander of the Israeli Air Force's Eitan squadron told the Post.


In Massachusetts, Protesters Balk At Pipeline Company's Payments To Police

Posted: 03 Dec 2017 04:58 AM PST

In Massachusetts, Protesters Balk At Pipeline Company's Payments To Police― When Karla Colon-Aponte arrived at the Otis State Forest on the morning of Oct. 25, she intended to join her fellow protesters praying beside energy giant Kinder Morgan's Connecticut Expansion Project line, a four-mile-long natural gas pipeline that runs in a loop through the town of Sandisfield in the Berkshire hills of western Massachusetts.


Police: Policy banning guns for legal pot users under review

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 05:16 PM PST

Police: Policy banning guns for legal pot users under reviewHONOLULU (AP) — The Honolulu Police Department is reviewing a policy requiring medical marijuana users to turn over their firearms, police officials say.


Progressives Enjoy Wealth Of Good Options In Race To Succeed Key Chicago Congressman

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 07:38 AM PST

Progressives Enjoy Wealth Of Good Options In Race To Succeed Key Chicago CongressmanOnce the dust settled after Democratic Rep. Luis Gutiérrez's surprise announcement Tuesday that he would retire from Illinois' 4th Congressional District at the end of his term, something even more unexpected happened.


Twitter Users Troll Donald Trump's Lawyer Over Comical Font Choice

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 01:06 AM PST

Twitter Users Troll Donald Trump's Lawyer Over Comical Font ChoicePresident Donald Trump's attorney Ty Cobb is being mocked on Twitter for using one of the world's most hated fonts.


Corrected: Uber's use of encrypted messaging may set legal precedents

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 07:24 PM PST

Corrected: Uber's use of encrypted messaging may set legal precedentsTop executives at Uber Technologies Inc used the encrypted chat app Wickr to hold secret conversations, current and former workers testified in court this week, setting up what could be the first major legal test of the issues raised by the use of encrypted apps inside companies. The revelations Tuesday and Wednesday about the extensive use of Wickr inside Uber upended the high-stakes legal showdown with Alphabet's Inc Waymo unit, which accuses the ride-hailing firm of stealing its self-driving car secrets.


Orrin Hatch comments on Chip health program at heart of social media storm

Posted: 03 Dec 2017 02:21 PM PST

Orrin Hatch comments on Chip health program at heart of social media stormOrrin Hatch speaks about Chip. A social media storm blew up on Sunday after a TV host suggested the Utah Republican Orrin Hatch thought children and pregnant women who receive federal healthcare assistance did not deserve such help because they "won't lift a finger" to help themselves. Joe Scarborough, the former Republican congressman and TV host who shared Hatch's remarks on Twitter, was accused of taking them out of context.


Half of Yazidis kidnapped by IS still missing

Posted: 03 Dec 2017 07:24 AM PST

Half of Yazidis kidnapped by IS still missingAround half of the Yazidis kidnapped by the Islamic State group three years ago are still missing, Iraqi Kurdish officials said Sunday. In 2014, IS jihadists killed thousands of Yazidis in Sinjar and kidnapped thousands of women and girls from the religious minority to abuse them as sex slaves. Kurdish fighters backed by the US-led coalition against IS captured Sinjar from the jihadists in November 2015 before Iraqi security forces took control of the region in October.


Is This the Battle That Turned the Tide of the Korean War?

Posted: 03 Dec 2017 04:13 AM PST

Is This the Battle That Turned the Tide of the Korean War?Warfare History Network


Final death toll in Somalia's worst attack is 512 people

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 07:36 AM PST

Final death toll in Somalia's worst attack is 512 peopleMOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — The final death toll in October's massive truck bombing in Somalia's capital is 512 people, according to the committee tasked with looking into the country's worst-ever attack.


How the Siberian tiger was brought back from the brink of extinction

Posted: 01 Dec 2017 11:00 PM PST

How the Siberian tiger was brought back from the brink of extinctionThe forests of Russia's Far East evoke a strange feeling, one that most Europeans have not been forced to consider for centuries. It is the sensation of being watched; of unseen menace lurking between the trees. Ultimately, it is the realisation that you are among predators, and being contemplated as either a rival or prey. A loud roar echoes around as we tread through a valley of volcanic rock formed between a dense canopy of Mongolian oak and Korean pine. My guide, Pavel Fomenko, hands me a flare with the instruction to use it should a bear approach.We creep forward, crunching over fallen leaves while our other guide, the hunting inspector for Primorsky Krai province, Alexander Korneev, peels off into the undergrowth. Ravens shriek about the treetops. If the birds are up, Fomenko warns, it means something has disturbed them. We arrive at a clearing scattered with clumps of fur. A few metres away lie the remains of a black bear, buzzing with flies. This is what we have been searching for: the recently dispatched supper of an Amur tiger. They call this boreal wilderness the taiga in Russian, forests sprawling hundreds of miles from the North Korean border up towards the Arctic. They are home to a vast collection of flora and fauna and, above all, predators.  An estimated 95 per cent of the world's population of Amur (or Siberian) tigers live here. Up to 10ft long, larger, heavier and stronger than their Asian cousins, they are the undisputed rulers of the forest; their orange, black and white pelts enable them to move like ghosts between the trees.   Alexander Korneev, hunting inspector for Primorsky Krai province Credit: Olya Ivanova We have been tracking this particular tiger, Vladik, since my arrival in the Russian port city of Vladivostok three days earlier. A young male around four years old and weighing more than  22st, he first drew attention to himself in October 2016 after wandering into Vladivostok's concrete suburbs and provoking a storm of publicity.  Eventually he was caught and taken to a tiger rehabilitation centre, before being released this May in the Bikin National Park, wearing a GPS collar. Since then, however, Vladik has been steadily heading south, back towards Vladivostok, covering around 450 miles and killing 10 large animals en route, including bear, deer and wild boar. Fomenko, who is WWF Russia's head of rare species conservation, fears that if Vladik continues this trajectory he will end up once again too close to a town and have to be recaptured and sent to a zoo. 'Vladik is a lovely tiger with all the rights and ability to live in the wild,' he says. 'I worry about him and all of Russia's Amur tigers. All of the time.' The Amur tiger is that rarity, an endangered species whose population is increasing. In the 1930s, numbers fell as low as 20 animals, threatened to the point of extinction by poaching and logging. In 1995, there were 330 to 371 adult tigers. In 2015, after a survey of 60,000 square miles of the tigers' habitat, the number had risen to 540 in the wild (including some 100 cubs).  The success story (albeit one cautiously told) of Amur tigers is at the forefront of the WWF's mission to increase the world's tiger population in the wild to more than 6,000 by 2022, the next Chinese year of the tiger (up from the 3,900 counted in 2016).That figure would mark a huge step forward in achieving global security for tigers, whose populations were decimated by 97 per cent in the past century. Much of the progress in Russia is down to men like Fomenko and Korneev, who have spent decades on the front line fighting poachers seeking tiger skins and body parts to supply the voracious Asian market. Like rhinos, tigers are valued for bogus medicinal properties. The taiga, Russia's forests, are home to the Amur tigers Credit: Olya Ivanova One of many prevailing myths is that if you poke a tiger whisker into a decaying tooth it will stop it aching.  The stakes are high. A poacher can pay fines of up to one million roubles (£13,000), while those caught killing a tiger also face 15 years in prison. As a result, poachers are willing to fight to the death. Fomenko can recall at least three occasions on which armed poachers have tried to kill him. A few years ago, Korneev, whose brigade catches around 120 culprits a year, was seriously injured after being run over by a poacher on a snowmobile.  When he first started as a hunting inspector 13 years ago, Korneev tells me, even to find a tiger paw print was big news. 'Now I see the actual animal three times a year,' he grins.  The most recent sighting was four days previously when he spotted a tiger stalking a family of wild boar over a ridge. It paused, contemplating him with unblinking amber eyes before bristling and slowly beginning to advance. To ward it off Korneev fired his hunting rifle into the air. As the report cracked through the stillness, the tiger melted into the forest.  The first time Pavel Fomenko met a tiger, it ate his dog. He tells me the story during lunch one day when we are sitting by a fire in the forest eating cheese and bread, and drinking smoke-infused tea boiled on the open flames. He was barely 20 at the time, out hunting with his dog, Amba, when it suddenly started barking at something rustling in the bushes. 'I was inexperienced and didn't realise what was happening, and suddenly this tiger pounced in front of me.' Fomenko's weather-beaten face takes on a rueful expression, 'I loved that dog.' A great bear of a man prone to long philosophical soliloquies in-between explaining his scientific studies of the tiger, the 54-year-old is a hero in the Tolstoyan mould. Not least in his connection to the land. A watchtower used to keep track of illegal poaching and logging Credit: Olya Ivanova Fomenko spends weeks at a time in the wilderness away from his wife Yulia and two sons, and regards his time there as spiritually cleansing. He grew up in a coal-mining town in south Siberia where, like his father and grandfather before him, he worked in the pits. He recalls operating a digger and looking up at a distant forest on the horizon: 'All the time I knew I was doing something wrong.' Fomenko decided, instead, to study ecology at Irkutsk Agrarian University. After graduating, he moved to Primorsky Krai to continue his studies as a biologist and work as a wildlife game manager. Like some 90,000 others in the province he is a proud hunter and would supplement his income by shooting sable (a small mammal similar to a pine marten, prized for its fur). He still hunts today and says, 'Many people do not understand hunters are the true friends of nature.'    Amur tiger Fomenko revels in such contradictions and insists numerous times while we're together that he doesn't even like tigers. 'For me, the tiger is an umbrella. I can protect everything using money intended only for tigers and can conserve the forest where they live. So thank God we have our tigers.' Fomenko joined the WWF in 1994. The Soviet Union had been dissolved three years earlier and with it state funding for nature protection disappeared almost overnight. Chinese prospectors quickly moved in. 'Everything was targeted, from timber to frogs and, of course, tigers,' Fomenko says. 'And so people started to kill.' But in recent years the tiger protectors have found themselves a powerful ally: the Russian president Vladimir Putin, who has come to regard the Amur tiger as a potent symbol of national pride. The Russian government has agreed to restrict logging in Amur tiger habitat and a presidential order in 2011 banned logging of Korean pine (although, over the past five years enough illegal wood from other species was logged to fill 400 miles of railways carriages). Pavel Fomenko, WWF Russia's head of rare species conservation Credit: Olya Ivanova At the same time, it has has also increased penalties for poaching and possession of tiger parts.  Putin nowadays rarely wastes a photo opportunity with a tiger, and a few years ago state media reported he had personally immobilised one with a tranquilliser dart as it charged towards a nearby camera crew – although no footage of the deed exists. Fomenko only raises an eyebrow when I ask him what he thinks.  My visit comes a few weeks before the first snowfall of the year in Primorsky Krai. The silver birches, bent almost double under the weight of last year's drifts, stand testament to the severity  of winter here, when temperatures of -30C are not uncommon. In late autumn, the mercury hovers around freezing in the day and well below at night.  On one such cold afternoon I meet Alexander Primenko who lives in a small clearing in the forest. The 65-year-old has stayed here alone for the past seven years and is part of a network of so-called 'watchmen', established to stay in the forest throughout winter to keep a lookout for poachers. Three tigers roam the forest close to his home and that morning we'd set camera traps nearby – tying them to trees on known routes. We manage to capture an image of one of the beasts. We also come across a paw print in the mud, the size of two fists and unmistakably belonging to a tiger.  Being a watchman is a dangerous occupation. The left side of Primenko's face carries a livid scar from a bear attack five years ago and his nostril is torn in half, whistling during the several shots of home-brewed liquor he drinks in my presence. 'It was only a scratch,' he says. He grew up in a village 120 miles from here, which is now all but abandoned. After his wife died of cancer a decade ago, he decided to move into the forest and live self-sufficiently as a watchman helping to save the tiger. He keeps chickens and bees, has a small generator for electricity  and a wood-fired stove. In total, he has lost 14  dogs to tigers over the years and points out the empty kennels where a tiger recently broke in and ate three. A camera trap to follow the tigers'progress is set by Alexy, Alexander Korneev's son Credit: Olya Ivanova 'I see it like paying rent to them,' he says. 'The only feeling I have for the tiger is one of total respect. When you hear the roar, the noise is loud enough to split your head from your ears.' A four-hour drive away I meet another watchman, Alexei Mitusov, 57, who also lives alone but with a stack of Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie books to see him through the winter. 'The tigers are always present, even when you don't see them,' he says. 'To me, the tiger is the owner of the forest and I am his guest.'  As well as tackling poachers and loggers, Fomenko has placed great emphasis on conserving tigers' habitat and prey. Over the past decade, three major national parks and other protected areas have been established, encompassing a land mass spanning  almost 4,000 square miles and around 20 per cent of the tigers' range. He also works closely with the 90 or so privately leased hunting estates in Primorsky Krai, 10 of which have now been transformed into what Pavel calls 'model estates', where tigers, and the animals they feed on, are thriving.  Increasing their food in the forests means fewer tigers are wandering into villages. But, still, 40 conflicts are recorded each year, resulting in mauling and occasionally death.  At present, roughly one person is killed by a tiger every two years. The most recent came this October when a 43-year-old man was mauled to death gathering pine nuts in Khabarovsk region, which neighbours Primorsky Krai. If caught, Fomenko says, the maneater will most likely end up in permanent captivity. Tiger 'prison', he calls it. With the vast majority of Russia's Amur tigers that come into contact with humans, though, capturing and rehabilitating them before releasing them elsewhere in the wild is key to the national strategy. Not far from Vladivostok is a specialist centre for tigers that have come into conflict with humans. The team fight to keep the habitat safe for the animals to live within Credit: Olya Ivanova Established in 2012 with support from the government and various wildlife groups, so far 10 animals have been released from here back into the wild (including Vladik). The work is overseen by Ekaterina Blidchenko, a 30-year-old zoologist from Moscow.   When I visit, there are two cubs, Saihan and Lazovka, who were bought here the previous winter. Blidchenko explains that the tigers are kept in sealed pens away from humans and slowly taught how to fend for themselves with live prey released once every five days.  She shows me a recent CCTV recording of the tigers taking down a deer. One of the cubs lies in wait while the other chases the deer towards it. At the moment of impact the tiger leaps from its hiding place and catches the deer head on, grabbing its body and mauling its head. The deer is dead in a few seconds. It is both shocking and deeply impressive.  'I love all predators,' she says. 'Sometimes they are prejudged by the people who live close to them but I don't think this is fair. The tiger is part of our legend and fairy tales. If you start to look deeper, you see they are afraid themselves – more frequently than we can imagine.' For days, we wait for news of Vladik's latest movements. He's passed through numerous villages and crossed the Trans-Siberian railway. If he moves any closer to Vladivostok he will have to be caught. One morning towards the end of our trip, Fomenko receives a phone call. Vladik has turned south-west, away from the city, over a vast plateau leading towards the mountains of the Chinese border. A broad smile cracks across Fomenko's face. Vladik is safe – for now. wwf.org.uk/russiantigers


Actual Asian Comic Writers Respond To Marvel Editor-In-Chief's 'Yellowface' Controversy

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 12:27 PM PST

Actual Asian Comic Writers Respond To Marvel Editor-In-Chief's 'Yellowface' ControversyAs the comic industry grapples with the revelation that new Marvel editor-in-chief C.B. Cebulski posed as an Asian writer for a year, real writers of Asian descent are speaking up.


Barack Obama Appears To Zing Donald Trump With Twitter Followers Boast

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 12:18 AM PST

Barack Obama Appears To Zing Donald Trump With Twitter Followers BoastFormer President Barack Obama appeared to throw subtle shade at President Donald Trump for having less Twitter followers than himself during a forum in India on Friday.


Argentina navy concludes ship remains not connected to missing sub

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 06:08 PM PST

Argentina navy concludes ship remains not connected to missing subArgentina's navy on Saturday investigated what appeared to be remains of a ship on the South Atlantic seabed, but concluded they did not correspond to the submarine that disappeared more than two weeks ago with 44 crew members on board. The remains detected at 477 meters (1565 feet) under the ocean had dimensions similar to the missing ARA San Juan, but appeared to be from a sunken fishing vessel, Navy spokesman Enrique Balbi told journalists. The navy's final contact with the ARA San Juan, a 34-year-old German-built diesel-electric sub, came on November 15, when it was sailing in the South Atlantic 450 kilometers (280 miles) from the coast.


Leader of 'Cult-Like' Boarding School Is Arrested In Late 1980s Cold Case Death Of Toddler

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 11:30 AM PST

Leader of 'Cult-Like' Boarding School Is Arrested In Late 1980s Cold Case Death Of ToddlerAnna E. Young once ran a religious boarding house in Florida.


Germany's far-right AfD chooses nationalist as co-leader

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 12:48 PM PST

Germany's far-right AfD chooses nationalist as co-leaderBy Sabine Ehrhardt HANOVER, Germany (Reuters) - Members of the anti-immigrant Alternative for Germany (AfD) party elected a right-wing nationalist to be their co-leader on Saturday, signaling a possible toughening of tone before regional votes next year. A party congress chose Alexander Gauland - who once defended an AfD member who had said history should be rewritten to focus on German victims of World War Two - to return to the post he had held until 2015. As members deliberated, thousands of anti-AfD protesters marched outside carrying placards reading "Hanover against Nazis" and "Stand up to racism".


Pope Francis On Meeting Rohingya Refugees: 'I Wept'

Posted: 03 Dec 2017 06:40 AM PST

Pope Francis On Meeting Rohingya Refugees: 'I Wept'After facing criticism for not speaking out against Myanmar's treatment of Rohingya Muslims during his visit to the Southeast Asian country last week, Pope Francis defended his silence on Saturday, saying he'd spoken privately about the humanitarian crisis with the nation's leaders and that he believed a more direct approach would have backfired.


Officer who shot, killed unarmed man set to learn sentence

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 10:18 AM PST

Officer who shot, killed unarmed man set to learn sentenceCOLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A former South Carolina police officer will soon learn how long he'll spend in prison for the shooting death - captured on video by a witness - of an unarmed motorist.


Syrian state media: Israeli missiles strike near Damascus

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 03:51 AM PST

Syrian state media: Israeli missiles strike near DamascusBEIRUT (AP) — Israel fired several surface-to-surface missiles at a military post near the Syrian capital of Damascus early on Saturday, causing material damage but no casualties, Syria's state-run news agency reported.


Man stabbed multiple times in fight on CTA bus

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 07:55 PM PST

Man stabbed multiple times in fight on CTA busA man is in serious condition after being stabbed multiple times following an altercation on a CTA bus Thursday night, Chicago police said.


Ryan Reynolds Wished His Brother A Happy Birthday In The Only Way He Knows How

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 03:13 AM PST

Ryan Reynolds Wished His Brother A Happy Birthday In The Only Way He Knows HowRyan Reynolds busted out his grade-A trolling game once again to wish his big brother Jeff a happy birthday on Friday.


A lonely Texas road, a dead border patrol officer. Trump cried murder – but was it?

Posted: 03 Dec 2017 02:00 AM PST

A lonely Texas road, a dead border patrol officer. Trump cried murder – but was it?The FBI is investigating a 'potential assault' but the local sheriff believes Rogelio Martinez's death nearby may have another explanation. Two weeks after two US border patrol agents were found with head injuries by a drainage channel next to a freeway in remote west Texas, how one of them died remains a mystery.


Zimbabwe's former VP returns home after Mugabe ouster

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 03:07 AM PST

Zimbabwe's former VP returns home after Mugabe ousterZimbabwe's former vice president, who was on a trip abroad during last month's military takeover that led to Robert Mugabe's resignation, has returned home, local media reported Saturday. Phelekezela Mphoko was the second deputy appointed in 2014 by longtime strongman Mugabe, along with current President Emmerson Mnangagwa. Mphoko had flown to Japan on official business the day before the army took over the country in an operation that culminated in Mugabe's ouster after a 37-year rule.


Ranking The Best Shows On Amazon You Can Stream Right Now

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 06:03 AM PST

Ranking The Best Shows On Amazon You Can Stream Right NowThe more you stream, the more potential there is for you to click over to buy something on their service.


House GOP Unveils Plan to Avert Government Shutdown

Posted: 02 Dec 2017 08:11 AM PST

House GOP Unveils Plan to Avert Government ShutdownThe move comes despite opposition from some GOP conservatives


Missing Teen Found With Soccer Coach has 'Emotional Reunion' With Family

Posted: 03 Dec 2017 07:20 AM PST

Missing Teen Found With Soccer Coach has 'Emotional Reunion' With FamilyShe had been missing for a week.


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