| The resistance is organized and ready in district where Trump is visiting Posted: 18 Jan 2018 11:00 AM PST  Democrats, especially women, have been organizing ever since last year's election. And they think they have a chance to take the seat in this heavily Republican district.
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| Fusion GPS testimony shows potential crimes Posted: 18 Jan 2018 11:46 AM PST  Rachel Maddow reads some of the highlights of the newly released transcript of the House Intelligence Committee testimony of Glenn Simpson of Fusion GPS.
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| Chris Christie Reportedly Turned Away From Airport VIP Entrance Posted: 18 Jan 2018 09:44 PM PST  Chris Christie, no longer the governor of New Jersey, was reportedly denied access to a special VIP entrance at Newark Liberty International Airport on Thursday.
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| Man Surprises Grandfather With Restored 1957 Chevy Bel Air For His 81st Birthday Posted: 17 Jan 2018 09:00 PM PST  Cam Dedman revealed the car to Fred Lamar after a year of restoring it on his own.
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| Sen. Kaine condemns 'unacceptable' expanded U.S. mission in Syria Posted: 18 Jan 2018 11:46 AM PST  Sen. Tim Kaine warned that the expanded mandate outlined by Rex Tillerson was "unacceptable" absent a vote in Congress.
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| Car plows into crowd along Brazil’s Copacabana beach, killing baby Posted: 19 Jan 2018 07:56 AM PST ![Car plows into crowd along Brazil's Copacabana beach, killing baby]( "Car plows into crowd along Brazil's Copacabana beach, killing baby") A car plowed into a crowd on Rio de Janeiro's tourist-packed Copacabana seaside promenade, killing a baby and injuring more than a dozen people.
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| Deported Man's Wife Will Be State Of The Union Guest Posted: 19 Jan 2018 03:15 AM PST  Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) was so moved by the story of Jorge Garcia, a 39-year-old man deported to Mexico this week after living most of his life in the U.S., that she plans to bring his wife Cindy Garcia as her plus-one guest to the 2018 State of the Union address.
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| Helicopter with Zimbabwe opposition leader crashes, kills 5 Posted: 18 Jan 2018 03:52 PM PST  RATON, N.M. (AP) — A group of prominent friends, including a key Zimbabwean opposition leader and a Texas-based investor and philanthropist, was heading to a ranch in the U.S. state of New Mexico when their helicopter crashed and burned in a remote area, killing five people aboard.
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| Parents Charged With Torture And Abuse Of 13 Kids May Face Life In Prison Posted: 18 Jan 2018 11:30 AM PST  A California couple accused of holding their 13 children captive in their home for years face up to life in prison.
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| A free-for-all destroyed the Republican Party. Could Democrats be next? Posted: 18 Jan 2018 02:00 AM PST  Lesson from the GOP in 2016: When a field of candidates is divided 20 different ways, the one who makes a loud, emotional or even outrageous appeal can incite enough of a disenchanted plurality to win.
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| California torture house: 13 siblings allowed to eat once a day, shower once a year Posted: 18 Jan 2018 07:53 AM PST  The 13 starving siblings held captive in a California house hardly ever saw the sun and were allowed, a prosecutor said Thursday, to eat only one rationed meal a day and shower just once a year.
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| House Blocks Trump's Order To Deport Palestinian Man Living In U.S. For 39 Years Posted: 18 Jan 2018 04:02 PM PST  Last month, with a deportation order hanging over his head, Amer Othman Adi, 57, and his family were making preparations to leave their life in Youngstown, Ohio, willingly.
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| Mattis unveils new National Defense strategy Posted: 19 Jan 2018 08:43 AM PST  Defense Secretary Jim Mattis released the National Defense Strategy today that focuses on China and Russia as the biggest challenges to the U.S.
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| US border patrol exposed kicking over water bottles left for migrants Posted: 18 Jan 2018 06:32 AM PST  US border patrol agents are routinely sabotaging water supplies left for migrants in the Arizona desert, condemning them to death, humanitarian groups have said. Travellers attempting to cross into the US from Mexico regularly die of dehydration, as well as exposure to extreme heat or cold, so aid groups leave water bottles and emergency stocks such as blankets at points throughout the Sonoran desert. A video released by the groups showed border patrol agents kicking over water bottles and pouring away their contents.
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| Adulthood now begins at 24, say scientists as young people delay work, marriage and families Posted: 19 Jan 2018 07:00 AM PST  Adulthood does not begin until 24, scientists have concluded because young people are continuing their education for longer and delaying marriage and parenthood. The traditional definition for adolescence is currently between and the ages of 10 and 19, which marked the beginnings of puberty and the perceived end of biological growth. But, writing in the Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, scientists from the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne argue the timings needs to be changed. They point to the fact that the brain continues to mature beyond the age of 20, and many people's wisdom teeth do not come through until the age of 25. And people are also getting married and having children later, with the average man entering their first marriage aged 32.5 and women 30.6, an increase of eight years since the 1970s. Families have changed significantly since the 1970s Credit: Fox Photos Lead author Prof Susan Sawyer, said delays in young people leaving education, settling down and becoming parents, showed adolescence was now longer and argued that policies that support youth should be extended beyond teenage years. Countries such as New Zealand already treat children who have been in care as vulnerable until they are 25, allowing them the same rights as youngsters "Age definitions are always arbitrary," she said, but "our current definition of adolescence is overly restricted." "The ages of 10-24 years are a better fit with the development of adolescents nowadays." However other academics argued that just because young people were unmarried or still in education did not mean they were not fully functioning adults. But Dr Jan Macvarish, a parenting sociologist at the University of Kent, told the BBC: "There is nothing inevitably infantilising about spending your early 20s in higher education or experimenting in the world of work. "Society should maintain the highest possible expectations of the next generation." Prof Sawyer also admits there could be downsides to he plan, particularly if youngsters were no longer seen as responsible or capable of full engagement in society until they were 24. "Such a view would risk disenfranchising adolescents and undermines their rights to fully participate in society," she added.
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| Trump Appointee Carl Higbie Resigns Following Offensive Comments Posted: 19 Jan 2018 03:03 AM PST  Carl Higbie, the chief of external affairs for the Corporation for National and Community Service, resigned Thursday after CNN unearthed a litany of offensive and discriminatory remarks he'd made on various radio segments.
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| Phoenix police: Serial killing suspect tied to 9 attacks Posted: 18 Jan 2018 04:21 PM PST  PHOENIX (AP) — A serial killing suspect shot and killed nine people, including his own mother, and used a victim's gun in some of the slayings that unfolded in a three-week span late last year, authorities said Thursday.
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| Trump Is Scrambling To Avoid A Special Election Defeat In This Rust Belt District Posted: 18 Jan 2018 02:46 AM PST  ― Conor Lamb, the Democrat running to represent this district in Congress, was wrapping up an interview with a reporter last week when Ted Skowvron, a 93-year-old veteran in a World War II cap, walked over to shake his hand.
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| Woman Says 12-Year-Old Son Who Died Had Flu-Like Symptoms But Test Came Back Negative Posted: 17 Jan 2018 09:00 PM PST  The CDC said the test can miss the flu up to half the time and doesn't give a complete picture.
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| Fox News Guest Goes Off The Rails: 'White Supremacists Are American Citizens' Posted: 18 Jan 2018 11:55 PM PST  A guest on Fox News defended white supremacists over undocumented immigrants on Thursday evening.
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| Couple’s sexless marriage is ‘weird, weird, weird’ says Yahoo Newsroom Posted: 18 Jan 2018 11:09 AM PST  "People can do what they want. But the marriage is a joke." "Huh? Am I missing something here?" Two friends of Tiffany Trump's are in the spotlight after exchanging "unconditional, unconventional" vows for a sexless marriage. The story jumped to the "top-trending" category on Yahoo Newsroom, sparking thousands of skeptical comments. New York socialites Quentin Esme Brown and Peter Cary Peterson tied the knot in Las Vegas (where first daughter Tiffany served as flower girl). On social media, the best friends turned husband and wife made clear that theirs will be a sexless, open marriage. Brown explained on Instagram, "Peter and I are not romantically involved — in fact we are still dating others and will continue to seek love in all forms — we are just each other's hearts and wish to begin our journey towards evolution." Their nontraditional relationship status raised one question over and over in the Yahoo comments: Why bother? One especially suspicious reader guessed that it's a "business partnership and fraud." What do you think of a sexless marriage? Join the conversation in Yahoo Newsroom.
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| Emirates announces $16 bn deal for 36 A380s Posted: 18 Jan 2018 03:13 AM PST  Emirates Airlines said Thursday it has struck a $16 billion deal to buy 36 Airbus A380 superjumbos just days after the European manufacturer said it would have to halt production without new orders. The company said it had placed firm orders for 20 of the double-decker aircraft with options for a further 16. Emirates is already the world's biggest customer for the A380 with 101 in its fleet and 41 more firm orders previously placed.
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| Senate Advances Judicial Pick Hostile To Voting Rights For Black People Posted: 18 Jan 2018 09:10 AM PST  WASHINGTON ― Despite protests by civil rights leaders, the Senate voted Thursday to advance a judicial nominee who helped draft North Carolina's voter suppression law, defended racially discriminatory gerrymandering and may have lied to the Senate about his role in disenfranchising black voters when he worked for the late Sen. Jesse Helms.
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| Mom Of Racist-Ranting Alabama Student Says She Didn't Raise Her That Way Posted: 19 Jan 2018 05:13 AM PST  The mother of a University of Alabama student who received national scorn for her racist rants on video said she agreed with the school's decision to expel her daughter.
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| Phoenix Serial Killer Suspect Identified After DNA Allegedly Connects Him to 9 Killings Posted: 18 Jan 2018 02:34 PM PST  Seven men and two women were shot between Nov. 27 and Dec. 17
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| President Trump steps to forefront of anti-abortion movement Posted: 19 Jan 2018 11:05 AM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — He once called himself "pro-choice." But a year into his presidency, Donald Trump is stepping to the forefront of his administration's efforts to roll back abortion rights.
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| Artist Gives Vintage Ads A Feminist Makeover By Swapping Gender Roles Posted: 18 Jan 2018 02:48 PM PST  Eli Rezkallah, a 31-year-old artist and photographer from Beirut, Lebanon, recently created a photo series called "In a Parallel Universe."
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| New photographs of Las Vegas shooter's room show more of Stephen Paddock's deadly arsenal Posted: 19 Jan 2018 02:08 PM PST  The Las Vegas gunman meticulously planned how to carry out the worst mass shooting in modern US history, researching Swat tactics, renting other hotel rooms overlooking outdoor concerts and investigating potential targets in at least four cities, authorities said on Friday. But months after Stephen Paddock killed 58 people and wounded more than 800 others with a barrage of bullets from the Mandalay Bay casino-hotel, investigators still have not answered the key question: Why did he do it? On Friday, Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo released a preliminary report on the October 1 attack and said he did not expect criminal charges to be filed against Paddock's girlfriend, Marilou Danley, who had been previously called a person of interest in the case. The interior of the Mandalay Bay hotel room 32-134 towards bathroom is part of the evidence images included in the report Credit: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department via AP During an interview with investigators, Ms Danley said Paddock had become "distant" in the year before the shooting and their relationship was no longer intimate. When they stayed at the Mandalay Bay together in September 2017, Paddock acted strangely, she told investigators. She remembered him constantly looking out the windows overlooking an area where the concert would be held the next month, moving from window to window to see the site from different angles, the report said. A photograph of Stephen Paddock's vantage point from his Mandalay Bay's room released by Las Vegas Police Credit: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department via AP Mr Paddock's online searches before the shooting included research into Swat tactics and consideration of other potential public targets, including in Chicago, Boston and Santa Monica, California, the sheriff said. His research included the number of attendees at other concerts in Las Vegas and the size of the crowds at Santa Monica's beach. A small sledge hammer, broken glass and bullet casings inside the interior of Stephen Paddock's floor room Credit: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department via AP Paddock, a 64-year-old retired accountant and multimillionaire real estate investor, killed himself with a gunshot to the mouth before police reached him. Authorities have said they found no link to international terrorism. They believe Paddock meticulously prepared his plan to fire assault-style weapons from the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Bay hotel into a crowd of 22,000 people attending the Route 91 Harvest Festival music below. Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock Credit: AP Paddock fired more than 1,100 bullets, mostly from two windows, Sheriff Lombardo has said. That includes about 200 shots fired through his hotel room door into a hallway where an unarmed hotel security guard was wounded in the leg and a maintenance engineer took cover. Several bullets hit fuel storage tanks at nearby McCarran International Airport that did not explode. Authorities reported finding about 4,000 unused bullets in Paddock's two-room suite, including incendiary rounds that Sheriff Lombardo said were not used. The kitchenette in the hotel room of Stephen Paddock's 32nd floor room Credit: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department via AP Investigators found 23 guns in the rooms, including 12 rifles that a federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms official said were fitted with "bump stock" devices that allowed rapid-fire shooting similar to fully automatic weapons. Ms Danley was in the Philippines at the time of the attack. The broken down door to room 32-135 Credit: Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department via AP Sheriff Lombardo and Aaron Rouse, FBI agent in charge in Las Vegas, had described Ms Danley as a person of interest in the investigation but not a suspect. She was questioned by the FBI when she arrived in Los Angeles from overseas, and was described as cooperating with investigators. Las Vegas shooting | Timeline of attack However, a document filed October 6 and recently unsealed by a federal judge in Las Vegas said the FBI considered Ms Danley "the most likely person who aided or abetted Stephen Paddock." Questions have been raised about Ms Danley's receipt in the Philippines of a $10,000 wire transfer from Paddock just days before the shooting. FBI warrant documents also showed that Ms Danley told investigators that they would find her fingerprints on bullets used during the attack because she would sometimes help Paddock load high-volume ammunition magazines.
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| Taiwan blocks China flights after route row Posted: 18 Jan 2018 09:34 PM PST  Taiwan has blocked nearly 200 flights by Chinese airlines over the strait that separates the two rivals due to the carriers' use of controversial new travel routes introduced by China. Taipei has repeatedly called for four new flight paths to be cancelled since China launched them earlier in January, but their complaints have fallen on deaf ears on the mainland. China Eastern Airlines and Xiamen Air have since requested to operate 176 additional flights between Taiwan and China during the Lunar New Year period in mid-February.
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| Watch As A Drone Saves Two Teen Swimmers From Heavy Surf In Australia Posted: 18 Jan 2018 09:58 AM PST  An unlikely hero saved two teen swimmers on Thursday when a drone dropped a flotation device as the pair were stranded in heavy surf.
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| Gay Olympian Adam Rippon attacks choice of Mike Pence to lead US Olympic delegation Posted: 18 Jan 2018 04:17 AM PST  Adam Rippon, the 2016 US men's figure skating champion, said he was "not buying" the plan to get the ultra-conservative Republican to head up the prestigious ceremony. Mr Pence, who is known for his profoundly conservative views on marriage equality and LGBT rights, has a record of supporting the widely discredited practice of gay conversion therapy. "You mean Mike Pence, the same Mike Pence that funded gay conversion therapy?
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| 'Watching my family burn': Woman frantic after copter crash Posted: 19 Jan 2018 05:15 PM PST  RATON, N.M. (AP) — Andra Cobb was frantic when she called for help, telling an emergency operator that a helicopter she was riding in with her father, longtime partner and others had crashed in a remote part of New Mexico and that she was watching her "family burn."
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| New York Times Opinion Page To Publish Letters From Trump Supporters Posted: 17 Jan 2018 05:57 PM PST  The New York Times announced online Wednesday that the Thursday print edition would feature a number of letters from supporters of President Donald Trump "in the spirit of open debate."
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| The CDC's Interactive Map Shows How Rapidly Devastating This Flu Season Has Been Posted: 18 Jan 2018 12:32 PM PST  Yeah, you're seeing that right.
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| Texas 'tourniquet killer' set to be first U.S. inmate executed in 2018 Posted: 18 Jan 2018 08:22 AM PST ![Texas 'tourniquet killer' set to be first U.S. inmate executed in 2018]( "Texas 'tourniquet killer' set to be first U.S. inmate executed in 2018") In the first U.S. execution of 2018, Texas was set on Thursday to put to death a man convicted of raping and murdering five girls and young women, using a tourniquet to torture and strangle his victims. Anthony Shore, 55, was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection in the state's death chamber in Huntsville at 6 p.m. If the execution goes ahead, it will be the 546th in the state since the U.S. Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, the most of any state.
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| Last three years hottest on record: UN Posted: 18 Jan 2018 11:53 AM PST  The last three years were the hottest on record, the United Nations weather agency said Thursday, citing fresh global data underscoring the dramatic warming of the planet. Consolidated data from five leading international weather agencies shows that "2015, 2016 and 2017 have been confirmed as the three warmest years on record", the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said. It added that 2016 remains the hottest year ever measured, due to the warming effect of El Nino, while 2017 was the warmest non-El Nino year beating out 2015 by less than one hundredth of a degree.
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| 'Leaning Out': Aerial photography by Jeffrey Milstein Posted: 19 Jan 2018 10:48 AM PST !['Leaning Out': Aerial photography by Jeffrey Milstein]( "'Leaning Out': Aerial photography by Jeffrey Milstein") Jeffrey Milstein's overhead images of ports, train yards, airports, parking lots, and cityscapes, reveal harmonious symmetries invisible during daily life yet still somehow familiar.
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| WH blame possible shutdown on Schumer and Democrats Posted: 19 Jan 2018 09:16 AM PST  The White House tries to lay blame for possible government shutdown on Senator Schumer and Senate Democrats.
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| Turpin family latest: Two healthy Maltese dogs seized from couple whose 13 malnourished children were found 'imprisoned' Posted: 19 Jan 2018 04:35 AM PST  Authorities seized two healthy dogs from the Turpin family after 13 siblings were found malnourished and allegedly tortured. The two Maltese-mix dogs "appear healthy", Perris, California animal control officer Christina Avila said, and will be raffled for adoption. David and Louise Turpin have denied a string of charges relating to their alleged treatment of the children, who are aged between 2 and 29.
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| White House Attorney: Trump Is ’Very Eager’ To Speak With Robert Mueller In Russia Probe Posted: 18 Jan 2018 02:08 AM PST  Donald Trump's lawyer claims the president is "very eager" to sit down with special counsel Robert Mueller and discuss the ongoing Russia investigation.
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| Good dog, bad dog ... Delta wants to know before you board Posted: 19 Jan 2018 11:50 AM PST  DALLAS (AP) — Delta Air Lines will soon require owners of service and support animals to provide more information before their animal can fly in the passenger cabin, including an assurance that it's trained to behave itself.
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