| It Only Takes One Trump Tweet To Fall Into North Korea's Trap Posted: 09 Mar 2018 02:51 PM PST  On Thursday, President Donald Trump shocked the world by agreeing to meet Kim Jong-Un in person in Pyongyang, in what would be the first ever face-to-face meeting between a U.S. president and a North Korean leader. It is certainly possible the White House is correct.
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| Ex-police Officer Charged in Beating of Unarmed Black Man Accused of Jaywalking Posted: 08 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PST  It took six months and a leaked video before charges were filed in North Carolina.
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| West Virginia teachers end strike victorious, may serve as model Posted: 09 Mar 2018 01:33 PM PST  Rachel Maddow reports on the teachers of West Virginia ending their record-setting strike after winning the raise they were demanding, and points out that West Virginia isn't the only state with teachers who are overdue raises.
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| 4 Dead As Hostage Standoff Ends At California Veterans Home Posted: 09 Mar 2018 11:36 AM PST  A standoff at a veterans home in Yountville, California, ended Friday night with the deaths of three female employees and the gunman who took them hostage, the California Highway Patrol said. Police identified the shooter as Albert Wong, a military veteran they said was armed with a high-powered rifle. The gunman stormed the Veterans Home of California-Yountville in Napa County midmorning Friday during a farewell party for an employee.
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| Ferry Boat Explosion Sparks Mexico Travel Warning Ahead of Spring Break Posted: 09 Mar 2018 10:29 AM PST  Tourists are urged to use "extreme caution" when visiting the Playa Del Carmen area.
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| Police Officer Takes on Phone Scammer: 'Can I Send a Check?' Posted: 08 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PST  The scammer, posing as an IRS agent, called Daniel Stief of Midland, Texas.
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| Pennsylvania Republican Defends 'Right-To-Work' Laws Before Vote In Union-Heavy District Posted: 10 Mar 2018 09:19 AM PST  PITTSBURGH ― Republican Rick Saccone defended so-called "right-to-work" laws three days before a special election in a Western Pennsylvania district with a high rate of union membership. Saccone, the GOP nominee in Pennsylvania's 18th Congressional District, took reporters' questions at a small campaign event in the offices of the Republican Committee of Allegheny County on Friday evening. Asked whether he would support a national right-to-work law, Saccone would not answer directly.
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| Former George W. Bush White House ethics lawyer eyes run for Senate Posted: 08 Mar 2018 07:30 PM PST  Richard Painter served as chief ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush, and has since become a high-profile critic of the Trump White House and potential conflicts of interest. Painter announced this week that he's forming an exploratory committee for a possible campaign to represent Minnesota in the U.S. Senate. Painter joins "Red and Blue."
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| Trump's Tariffs Could Make These Popular Products More Expensive Posted: 09 Mar 2018 05:00 AM PST  American companies that rely heavily on aluminum and steel have raised alarm that President Donald Trump's tariffs on imports of the metals will raise costs and hurt workers. In two weeks, the U.S. will begin collecting a 25 percent tariff on steel imports and a 10 percent tariff on aluminum imports, Trump announced Thursday. Some U.S. trade partners have already signaled they'll slap retaliatory tariffs on U.S.-made goods ― with consequences that could affect American jobs and retail prices.
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| Turkish forces reach outskirts of Afrin town: monitor Posted: 10 Mar 2018 06:34 AM PST  Turkish forces have reached the outskirts of the town of Afrin after a weeks-long campaign against a Kurdish militia in northwest Syria, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights war monitoring group said on Saturday. Turkey and allied Syrian rebel groups it supports are advancing on the town from the east under intense bombardment, the Britain-based Observatory said. Ankara launched its offensive in the Afrin region on its border in January, aiming to drive out the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia, which it sees as an extension of the PKK group that has fought a three-decade insurgency inside Turkey.
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| 'Pharma Bro' Martin Shkreli sheds tears at sentencing hearing, gets 7 years in prison Posted: 09 Mar 2018 10:46 AM PST  Maligned "pharma bro" Marin Shkreli shed tears as he made a final plea to the judge who handed down his 7-year prison sentence in a New York courtroom on Friday afternoon for securities and wire fraud charges. SEE ALSO: Pharma Bro Martin Shkreli trolls journalists in the most menacing way Reporters for Vice, Bloomberg, and WCBS reported Shkreli's remorse for his many, many actions that have led to one of the biggest examples of schadenfreude we've seen in quite some time. shkreli is crying at his sentencing right now — allie conti (@allie_conti) March 9, 2018 #Shkreli: "There is so much more I want to do, and I will do it, the right way." Shkreli breaking down in tears as he says Brafman has mentored and advised him. — Meg Tirrell (@megtirrell) March 9, 2018 Shkreli now sobbing: "Those who looked up to me... reassess my position. This is my fault." #PharmaBro #Shkreli @wcbs880 — Ethan Harp (@EthanHarpNews) March 9, 2018 The Associated Press also confirmed Shkreli's contrite sobs, reporting: U.S. District Judge Kiyo Matsumoto, though saying she believed he was remorseful, mentioned some of his more recent misdeeds, referencing both Shkreli's harassment of journalist Lauren Duca (which got him banned from Twitter), and that time Shkreli offered people money for Hillary Clinton's hair, which Matsumoto previously called a "solicitation of assault." Judge: During remand proceedings, Shkreli made statements about wanting to have non-consensual sex with a journalist, and had solicited violence against Hillary Clinton. #PharmaBro #Shkreli @wcbs880 — Ethan Harp (@EthanHarpNews) March 9, 2018 Ultimately, Shkreli's apology did little to deter Matsumoto from handing down the 7 year sentence, which was a little less than half of what prosecutors had recommended; he reportedly faced a maximum sentence of 45 years. Shkreli first came to incur the world's ire, and earned that derogatory "Pharma Bro" nickname, in 2015 when, as head of Turing Pharmaceuticals, he raised the cost of the drug Daraprim, used to treat parasitic infections in HIV patients, from $13.50-per-pill to $750-per-pill and showed little remorse for it. There's also Shkreli's long, twisted tale involving an extremely rare Wu-Tang Clan album and having a donation made to Bernie Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign rejected by the candidate himself. All that said, Judge Matsumoto said at the sentencing she did not take these into account when deciding Shkreli's sentence, focusing instead on the crimes he was found guilty of. Judge says case is not about his self-created personal, politics or culture, or statements about pricing #PharmaBro #Shkreli @wcbs880 — Ethan Harp (@EthanHarpNews) March 9, 2018 Still, Shkreli leaves a long trail of bad karma and angry people — including his own lawyer — in his wake that aren't sad to see him to go to prison for fraud. Whether or not he'll be changed by his time in prison, we'll just have to wait and see. WATCH: This space heater mines bitcoin while keeping your house warm
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| The Latest: New chief faces "hard truths" at Forest Service Posted: 09 Mar 2018 11:20 AM PST  BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The Latest on the appointment of a female firefighter as interim head of the U.S. Forest Service as the agency struggles to deal with misconduct within its ranks (all times local):
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| 11 Questions You Should Be Able To Answer Before You Get Married Posted: 09 Mar 2018 06:01 AM PST  "If money wasn't a factor and the options were limitless, what would your partner be doing with their life? Do you know what excites them and lights a fire in their heart and soul? Knowing the answer to this question can help you encourage your partner to dabble in things that you know interest them.
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| Three women, suspect dead in California hostage standoff Posted: 09 Mar 2018 10:20 PM PST  A gunman and three women thought to be his hostages were found dead Friday at a California veterans home after an hours-long standoff with police. The assailant struck at 10:20 am (1820 GMT) at the Veterans Home of California-Yountville in the Napa Valley, the largest veterans' home in the United States with around 1,000 former servicemen and women. "Shortly before 6:00 pm this evening law enforcement personnel made entry into the room where we felt the hostages were being held by the suspect and unfortunately made the discovery of three deceased females and one deceased male suspect," Captain Chris Childs of the California Highway Patrol told a news conference.
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| Trump Pennsylvania special election: When is the rally and what will the president say at it? Posted: 09 Mar 2018 02:34 PM PST  Donald Trump will hold a campaign rally this weekend in Pennsylvania, just days before a special congressional election in the Pittsburgh area. The race is being widely watched to see if it's another sign that Democrats may sweep the midterm elections in November. The rally will take place at 7pm in Moon Township, about 12 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.
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| After day-long TV meltdown, ex Trump aide reconsiders subpoena Posted: 09 Mar 2018 01:32 PM PST  Rachel Maddow reports on former Donald Trump aide Sam Nunberg's bizarre performance via successive cable news appearances in which he vowed to defy a Robert Mueller subpoena, only to be reported having second thoughts by day's end.
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| California gunman in veteran center killings was ex-patient Posted: 10 Mar 2018 03:44 AM PST  Three workers for a program that treats veterans for post-traumatic stress disorder were found dead Friday along with the suspect who took them hostage at the largest veterans home in the U.S., officials said.
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| The U.S. Should Not Be Subjecting Refugees To 'Reverse' Abortions Posted: 09 Mar 2018 02:46 AM PST  A January report revealed Trump administration members discussed interfering with a young woman of color's abortion while she was in federal custody. According to VICE News, officials in the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) considered delaying a 17-year-old refugee's abortion procedure and instead engaging in an experimental method to "reverse" the abortion ― a controversial practice that some anti-abortion advocates have campaigned for.
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| Stash house operator pleads guilty in deadly smuggling run Posted: 08 Mar 2018 06:43 PM PST ![Stash house operator pleads guilty in deadly smuggling run]( "Stash house operator pleads guilty in deadly smuggling run") SAN ANTONIO (AP) — The operator of an immigrant stash house in Laredo, Texas, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy in the case of a deadly smuggling run last July that left 10 immigrants dead or dying in a semitrailer in San Antonio.
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| Equifax Wins In Latest Version Of Senate Bank Bill Posted: 09 Mar 2018 11:53 AM PST  WASHINGTON ― Companies that are notorious for mistreating U.S. consumers could benefit from a bipartisan Senate bill that is supposed to protect those consumers. Legislation by Sen. Mike Crapo (R-Idaho) and supported by more than a dozen Democrats would give credit monitoring companies like Equifax a chance to expand their role in the mortgage industry. The bill would require government-backed mortgage companies to solicit applications for credit scoring models for evaluating the creditworthiness of people seeking home loans.
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| Intel casts doubt on report of interest in Broadcom Posted: 09 Mar 2018 03:52 PM PST  The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that Intel's competitive concern about Broadcom's attempt to buy mobile chip rival Qualcomm Inc had led it to consider buying Broadcom, as one of several responses. Responding to an inquiry about the Journal's report, Intel said it does not comment on "rumors or speculation" related to mergers and acquisitions but that it is focused on its previous acquisitions.
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| Oakland coffee shop Hasta Muerte bans uniformed police offers for 'emotional health' of customers Posted: 09 Mar 2018 02:09 PM PST  A coffee shop has banned police officers dressed in uniform in an effort to prevent their customers from becoming upset by their presence. The ban began when Hasta Muerte in Oakland, California, denied a police officer's request to buy a drink last month over fears for the "emotional safety" of other customers.
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| Guns, Trump and steel: Next week's Pennsylvania special election a referendum on 2018's hot-button issues Posted: 09 Mar 2018 11:39 AM PST  The March 13 election has the potential to upend expectations about how safe even the reddest of Republican congressional districts will be in the 2018 midterms.
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| Is Colorectal Cancer Rising in Young Adults? Posted: 09 Mar 2018 06:05 AM PST ![Is Colorectal Cancer Rising in Young Adults?]( "Is Colorectal Cancer Rising in Young Adults?") Over the past two decades, reports have demonstrated a steady decrease of about 2.7 percent per year in new occurrence of colon and rectal cancers, despite an increase in the rate of obesity and meat consumption that have been linked to a greater risk of developing colorectal cancer. Smoking is another factor that increases the risk of precancerous polyps and colorectal cancer. While the percentage of smokers decreased from 21 percent in 2005 to 17 percent in 2014, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it's thought that much of the risk reduction in colorectal cancer is due to improved screening and surveillance of patients who are at risk.
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| With little suspense, Xi to secure lifetime presidency Posted: 10 Mar 2018 01:07 PM PST  China's rubber-stamp parliament is set Sunday to hand President Xi Jinping free rein to rule the rising Asian superpower indefinitely, with potential abstentions offering the only suspense in the historic vote. The National People's Congress is all but certain to approve a constitutional amendment that has stunned many in China, sparking an unusual bout of criticism that censors have scrambled to extinguish. The move reverses the era of "collective" leadership and orderly succession that was promoted by late paramount leader Deng Xiaoping to ensure stability following the turbulent one-man rule of Communist China's founder Mao Zedong.
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| Kentucky man pleads guilty to attacking US Sen. Rand Paul Posted: 09 Mar 2018 12:14 PM PST  U.S. Sen. Rand Paul's neighbor pleaded guilty Friday to a federal charge for tackling the lawmaker in an attack his attorney says was triggered by a dispute over lawn maintenance.
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| Black Girl Magic Is Written In The Pages Of ‘A Wrinkle In Time’ Posted: 10 Mar 2018 06:01 AM PST  Fifty-six years after it's publication, Madeleine L'Engle's beloved children's book A Wrinkle In Time came to the big screen under the direction of Ava DuVernay, the Oscar-nominated black woman filmmaker from Compton. DuVernay's version of the classic story comes with many changes, the most obvious being that the main protagonist Meg looks a lot different than how many readers may have imagined her. DuVernay's creation is a representation of multifaceted black girlhood where positive traits, like love, hope and determination exist alongside anger, stubbornness and impatience.
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| Ageing Japanese towns overrun by wild boars Posted: 10 Mar 2018 08:36 AM PST  Less than 20 years ago, the only challenges for the 100 residents of the tiny island of Kakara, off southwest Japan, were the elements and ensuring the fishermen's catch could get to market on time. Today, the islanders are outnumbered three to one by wild boar who feast on their gardens and are becoming increasingly aggressive and territorial. The problems facing the residents of Kakara are being repeated across Japan, with boar numbers exploding as rural populations decline. Japan's rapidly ageing and shrinking population is part of the reason behind the increase in wild boar, as older rural populations die out, leaving towns and villages empty. Meanwhile, young people are also moving to the cities in search of work. The number of people with shotgun licenses has also fallen sharply in recent years. And as the people leave, the boar are moving in. The first boars apparently swam to Kakara, which covers a mere 1 square mile and sits between Fukuoka and Saga prefectures, but have been in hog heaven ever since. They have found a place with no natural predators and plenty of crops, such as pumpkins and sweet potatoes, that the local people grow in their back gardens. Other than farming and fishing, the island's only other industries were small-scale tourism and growing camellia for use in cosmetics, Kyodo News reported, but the famously aggressive boar have chased the tourists away and eaten the camellia plants. Local children cannot play outdoors for fear of being attacked and residents have stopped walking even relatively short distances for fear of encountering one of the aggressive creatures. Desperate islanders have set countless traps and catch around 50 of their tormentors every year, but that figure is far outstripped by the rapidly breeding boar population – a sow can give birth to as many as six piglets a years. Some residents are even suggesting that they should evacuate the island, abandoning it to the wild pigs. Across Japan, confrontations between boar and man are inevitable as the hog population rises, and rural media are frequently reporting incidents in which humans have come face-to-face with large beasts. In October, a large specimen barrelled into a suburban shopping mall on the island of Shikoku, biting five staff and causing mayhem before it was captured. In December, two boars managed to get into a high school in Kyoto and panicked students had to be evacuated. Elsewhere, they are finding their way out of the forests and fields and into train stations, gardens and school sports grounds. And with few checks on the boars' territory, they are growing larger as well as more numerous. In February, farmers in north-east Japan caught a male that weighed in at 280 pounds, well over the average 220 pounds of boars in Europe. They are also expanding their range into areas that were previously considered too inhospitable, taking over villages with shrinking populations. They are being given even greater licence to roam in areas close to the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant, abandoned in March 2011 in the aftermath of the destruction of three of the plant's reactors and the release of radiation across the surrounding countryside. Local people fled to safety; the wildlife remained and thrived.
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| Parkland Deputy Who Didn't Engage School Shooter Told Other Officers To Stay Away Posted: 09 Mar 2018 09:26 AM PST  A Florida sheriff's deputy who resigned for staying outside Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School during last month's mass shooting also warned other officers to stay away, according to newly released police radio recordings. Peterson, an armed school resource officer hired to protect students on the Parkland, Florida, campus, was forced to resign after it was discovered he did not engage the shooter. Peterson can be heard on the recordings giving commands as he waits outside the school and the first officers arrive.
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| Donald Trump Heads to Pennsylvania Steel Country Posted: 10 Mar 2018 10:17 AM PST  Trump will appear at an evening rally for Rick Saccone, a state representative who faces Democrat Conor Lamb in a special election
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| Lloyd Blankfein, Wall Street’s brash survivor, to call time on his leadership of Goldman Sachs Posted: 09 Mar 2018 10:24 AM PST  Goldman Sachs boss Lloyd Blankfein, one of the industry's great survivors, and the institution's longest-serving boss in nearly half a century, is reportedly preparing to step down after 12 years at the top. Rejected by the big names, including Goldman, he found a job with a small trading firm that came to be bought by Goldman where it, and its staff, were seen as the poor relations. The trading business exploded and Blankfein the gambler, who had a fondness for Las Vegas casinos in his legal days, was swept all the way up to the top as a result, assisted by his skill as a salesman, and his ability as a manager of traders.
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| Syrian troops cut major roads in suburbs of Damascus Posted: 10 Mar 2018 09:21 AM PST  BEIRUT (AP) — Syrian government forces succeeded Saturday in their deepest push yet into the eastern suburbs of the capital Damascus, cutting off a major highway that made it hard to move between three parts of the rebel-held area, and inflicting a major blow to opposition fighters who have vowed not to surrender.
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| Surprise summits in history Posted: 09 Mar 2018 08:55 AM PST  The announced meeting between US President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un recalls two other summits between feuding nations that caught the world by surprise. Here is a look back at Richard Nixon's 1972 visit to communist giant China, the first by a US president, and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat's 1977 trip to Israel, unprecedented for an Arab leader. Relations between the US and China stalled after the communist assumption of power in Beijing in 1949 and became critical during the Cold War.
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| Where is Amy Yu? Missing 16-Year-Old Listed Man As 'Stepfather' So He Could Pick Her Up From School Posted: 10 Mar 2018 07:05 AM PST  Her mother eventually informed the school that was incorrect and called police.
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| I Am Dying From Terminal Cancer. Here's What It's Taught Me About Living. Posted: 09 Mar 2018 06:16 AM PST  Sparkling bright and eight months pregnant, my French-speaking surgeon in Montreal, Quebec, was perhaps more direct than she would have been in her native language. She'd just removed my uterus and everything else that I could spare from my abdomen, but she was reporting on what she hadn't been able to remove of the sarcoma that had, in just the weeks waiting for surgery, spread beyond hope in my belly.
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| 2019 Bentley Bentayga V-8 Posted: 09 Mar 2018 12:51 PM PST  Making reductions to produce more.
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| Venezuela's Maduro calls U.N. rights chief a U.S.-backed 'tumor' Posted: 09 Mar 2018 04:24 PM PST  Venezuelan socialist President Nicolas Maduro said on Friday the United Nations human rights chief was a puppet of the United States who had implanted himself like a "tumor" and had no right to criticize Maduro's handling of the crisis-stricken nation. U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein said on Wednesday that crimes against humanity may have been committed by state forces in Venezuela and voiced alarm at "the erosion of democratic institutions" in the country.
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| Trevor Noah Blasts Trump Claim That Video Games Inspire Shootings Posted: 09 Mar 2018 08:30 AM PST  President Donald Trump would have taken no joystick in Trevor Noah's mockery of his suggestion that video games share blame for gun violence like the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida. The president convened a meeting of video game industry leaders on Thursday to explore the possibility, prompting "The Daily Show" host to imagine the conversation. "Why isn't Mario here?" says an imitation Trump, who is reminded that video game characters aren't real.
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| Barack and Michelle Obama Are Reportedly in Talks to Produce Shows For Netflix Posted: 08 Mar 2018 10:42 PM PST  The may take on roles behind and/or in front of the camera
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| Suicide bomber kills 9 in Kabul; Taliban kill 16 in province Posted: 09 Mar 2018 04:19 AM PST  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — An Islamic State suicide bomber targeted Afghanistan's ethnic Hazaras on Friday, blowing himself up at a police checkpoint near a gathering of the minority Shiites in western Kabul, killing nine people and wounding 18, officials said.
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| Shooter takes hostages at Yountville veterans home Posted: 09 Mar 2018 06:18 PM PST  Police are responding to an active shooting situation at a veterans home in Yountville where officials say at least three hostages are being held.
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