| Trump Gun Proposal Probably Won't Include Universal Background Checks Posted: 11 Mar 2018 03:22 PM PDT  Less than two weeks ago, at a bipartisan meeting with lawmakers at the White House, Trump expressed support for the idea. White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah shied away from an embrace of that position during an appearance Sunday on ABC's "This Week." His backtracking was consistent with Wall Street Journal reporting from Saturday and what many skeptics had predicted. Host Jon Karl reminded Shah of what Trump had said at the Feb. 28 meeting ― in particular, the president's support for universal background checks.
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| Officer killed in California after pursuit and standoff Posted: 10 Mar 2018 07:47 AM PST  A reckless driving suspect barricaded himself inside an apartment complex and shot at two officers through the door, leaving one dead. The suspect is now custody.
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| Steve Bannon: 'Let Them Call You Racist; Wear It As A Badge Of Honor' Posted: 10 Mar 2018 04:15 PM PST  Footage of Bannon's remarks shows him predicting "victory after victory" for the far right over the "globalists." The term is one extreme-right groups often use as an anti-Semitic slur, referring to what they see as Jewish control of financial institutions and media around the world. Bannon roused National Front members in Lille, France, to their feet, telling them: "History is on our side.
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| Suspect in Fatal Shooting of Pomona Police Officer Is Arrested Posted: 10 Mar 2018 08:22 AM PST  The suspect remains barricaded inside an apartment
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| Abu Dhabi in the clouds: Otherworldly images of the city's landmarks Posted: 10 Mar 2018 10:29 AM PST ![Abu Dhabi in the clouds: Otherworldly images of the city's landmarks]( "Abu Dhabi in the clouds: Otherworldly images of the city's landmarks") Khalid Alhammadi photographs Abu Dhabi's tallest landmarks rising high above the mist.
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| Putin says grandfather cooked for Stalin and Lenin Posted: 11 Mar 2018 09:46 AM PDT  In the two-hour documentary, called Putin, the president said Spiridon Putin was a valued member of Stalin's staff. The wartime Soviet leader, who died in 1953, conducted extensive purges during his around three decades in power. "(He) was a cook at Lenin's and later at Stalin's, at one of the dachas in the Moscow area," Putin said in the film seen by Reuters.
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| Vet in California attack had trouble after return from war Posted: 10 Mar 2018 07:13 PM PST  YOUNTVILLE, Calif. (AP) — The man who killed three women after a daylong siege at a Northern California veterans home had trouble adjusting to regular life after he returned from the Afghanistan war and had been kicked out of the treatment program designed to help him.
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| Bono sorry after bullying claims at ONE charity Posted: 10 Mar 2018 04:43 PM PST  U2 frontman Bono has apologised after claims emerged Sunday that workers at his ONE charity were subjected to a culture of abuse and bullying. The Irish singer, 57, said he was "deeply sorry" and "furious" about the allegations, which appeared in The Mail on Sunday newspaper, and pledged to meet victims to apologise in person. The British tabloid detailed a string of incidents, including claims from a married woman who said she was demoted after refusing to have sex with a Tanzanian member of parliament.
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| Photograph of Joe Biden talking with homeless man in Washington DC goes viral Posted: 11 Mar 2018 02:30 PM PDT  An image of former Vice President Joe Biden speaking with a homeless man in Washington DC has gone viral, being shared more than 100,000 times on Facebook. The photograph was taken by Caleb Baca on Thursday night, according to local television station Fox 5, but was posted into Facebook businessman Paul Equale, with that post being shared 103,000 times since it was posted on Friday - with more than 148,000 people reacting to it. Speaking about Mr Biden, he added that "character is about what you do when no one is watching".
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| Former Trump Aide Sam Nunberg Says Mueller Probe 'Not A Witch Hunt' Posted: 10 Mar 2018 08:19 PM PST  The probe by Mueller into whether Russia interfered in the U.S. presidential election and possible collusion by the Trump campaign is "warranted," Nunberg told ABC News. He made the comments after testifying for close to six hours before a grand jury on the Mueller probe. "I don't think it's a witch hunt," Nunberg said.
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| Marco Rubio Still Wants 18-Year-Olds To Be Able To Buy Guns Posted: 09 Mar 2018 05:11 PM PST  Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) is really trying to thread that gun control needle. Florida Gov. Rick Scott (R) signed a bill into law on Friday that enacts several restrictions on gun purchases, including a three-day waiting period for long gun purchases, an age requirement of 21 for all firearm sales and some regulation of bump stocks, the after-market accessories that make a semiautomatic rifle fire more like an automatic. Although the National Rifle Association was against the bill, Rubio supported it, which made sense considering he said he backed raising the legal age for purchasing a rifle at a town hall event hosted by CNN last month in the wake of a massacre at a Florida high school.
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| New details about shooting at Yountville veterans' home Posted: 10 Mar 2018 03:49 PM PST  What led a decorated Army rifleman to attack at a safe haven for fellow veterans? Investigators say 36-year-old Albert Wong, a former patient at nation's largest home for elderly and disabled veterans, killed two executives and a psychologist before killing himself. Carter Evans reports from Yountville, California.
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| Yep, Martin Shkreli's 5,000 Percent Drug Price Hike Is Still In Effect Posted: 09 Mar 2018 05:10 PM PST  In a Brooklyn courtroom during his sentence hearing, Shkreli shed tears and appeared to show remorse for his past. Shkreli, a former hedge fund manager and entrepreneur, earned his unflattering nickname by raising the cost of the drug from $13.50 per pill to $750 per pill. After a Bloomberg reporter suggested it cost around $1 to make, Shkreli acknowledged the drug cost "very little money" to make.
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| Missing Teen Girl Told School Older Man Was Her Stepdad, Police Say Posted: 10 Mar 2018 11:38 AM PST  A man who repeatedly signed a girl out of school before the two went missing was listed as her stepfather on documents.
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| Norway's Hydro says Brazil plant made unauthorized spills Posted: 11 Mar 2018 11:20 AM PDT  Norwegian aluminum maker Norsk Hydro's Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil made unauthorized spills of waste water last month, the company said on Sunday, more than two weeks after local authorities first began to raise questions. Authorities in late February ordered the plant, the world's largest alumina refinery, to cut output in half until it addressed concerns, leading Hydro to declare force majeure with no time set to restart production. A Brazilian government-backed research institute on Friday told Reuters it will soon publish evidence of a waste leak from Alunorte, located in the northern state of Para.
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| The rich and the right want to dynamite Dodd-Frank – and Democrats are helping them do it Posted: 11 Mar 2018 03:00 AM PDT  Senators voted with Republicans to cripple banking oversight. The Senate is not on the side of those who elected its members. In an economy hollowed out by the Great Recession, legacy Democrats lurch, occasionally, in a populist direction before retreating to where they are most comfortable: doing favors for the rich in exchange for campaign donations.
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| UN: Some rape victims of Islamic State 'like living corpses' Posted: 09 Mar 2018 06:30 PM PST  UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. envoy for sexual violence in conflict who just returned from Iraq said Friday she found "a gross lack" of support for women and girls who were raped and forced into sexual slavery by Islamic State extremists, and survivors she met "were like living corpses."
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| Srebrenica award to Bosnian Serb leader angers victims' families Posted: 11 Mar 2018 11:34 AM PDT  Authorities in the Bosnian town of Srebrenica angered relatives of the 1995 massacre there by handing its top municipal award on Sunday to the leader of the Bosnian Serbs, local media reported. The town's city hall under its Serb mayor Mladen Grujicic awarded the distinction, the Golden Plaque of Srebrenica, to Milorad Dodik, president of the Serb entity of Bosnia, Republika Srpska, the N1 television channel said. Dodik declines to describe the Srebrenica massacre as genocide.
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| 'This Is U.S.' Is All Tears With Ben, Jared And Sarah In 'SNL' Parody Posted: 10 Mar 2018 10:41 PM PST  "Saturday Night Live" couldn't wait to do a "This Is Us" parody with guest host Sterling K. Brown, who plays grown triplet brother Randall Pearson on the hit NBC series.
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| Top ACLU Voting Rights Lawyer Rips Into Trump Expert's Evidence Of Kansas Voter Fraud Posted: 09 Mar 2018 07:47 PM PST  The ACLU's top voting rights lawyer faced down one of President Donald Trump's voter fraud commissioners in court on Friday, getting him to concede that he had shaky evidence of significant voter fraud in Kansas. The exchange came on the fourth day of a trial over a Kansas law that requires residents to prove they are U.S. citizens when they register to vote. Several residents who were not allowed to vote in the 2016 election are being represented by the American Civil Liberties Union in the suit against Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R). Dale Ho, director of the ACLU's voting rights project, questioned Hans von Spakovsky, a former Justice Department official and member of the Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, who is one of the most prominent people arguing that noncitizen voter registration is a substantial issue.
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| Readers write: Reactions to 'Armed in America' book review Posted: 10 Mar 2018 03:00 AM PST ![Readers write: Reactions to 'Armed in America' book review]( "Readers write: Reactions to 'Armed in America' book review") We received a very robust response to our Jan. 26 review of "Armed in America," by Patrick J. Charles, that appeared in the Books section of CSMonitor.com. From the more than 100 reader responses that arrived within a few days of publishing it, we have chosen a few that give some idea of the range of opinion represented.
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| Trump Is Remaking The Courts In His Image: White, Male and Straight Posted: 11 Mar 2018 06:08 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― More than a year into his presidency, Donald Trump is making the nation's courts look a lot more like him: white, male and straight. To date, Trump has nominated 87 people to be judges with lifetime tenure on U.S. district courts, circuit courts or the Supreme Court. Eighty of them are white, or nearly 92 percent.
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| Customers Told to Wash Clothes as Traces of Contamination Found in Russian Spy Attack Posted: 11 Mar 2018 07:25 AM PDT  A Russian ex-spy and his daughter were recently poisoned with a nerve agent
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| IRS scammer calls Texas police officer by mistake Posted: 09 Mar 2018 08:34 PM PST  Many of us have gotten those threatening calls from scammers pretending to be IRS agents. If they call the right number they can steal thousands from an unwitting victim. But one scammer called the wrong number, and got a cop instead.
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| Tillerson 'not feeling well', cancels activities in Kenya Posted: 10 Mar 2018 05:12 AM PST  U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson canceled scheduled events on Saturday on the second day of a visit to Kenya because he had been feeling unwell, a State Department spokesman said, adding that he would resume his program on Sunday. "The secretary is not feeling well after a long couple days working on major issues back home such as North Korea and has canceled his events for the day," spokesman Steve Goldstein told reporters traveling with Tillerson. "Some events will go ahead without him, while they are looking at the possibility of rescheduling others," said Goldstein, under-secretary of state for public diplomacy and public affairs at the State Department.
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| Man arrested in killing of 1 officer, wounding of another Posted: 10 Mar 2018 10:45 PM PST  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man suspected of shooting two California police officers, killing one of them, was arrested Saturday after barricading himself in an apartment and holding a SWAT team at bay for more than 15 hours, authorities said.
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| German energy giant EON to buy RWE subsidiary Innogy Posted: 11 Mar 2018 04:17 AM PDT  German energy giant EON plans to take over Innogy, the renewables subsidiary of competitor RWE, in a complex deal valued at around 20 billion euros ($25 billion), both companies said Sunday. The in-principle agreement involving asset swaps is part of a major restructuring of Germany's energy market as Europe's top economy switches from conventional to renewable power. The aim is for EON to focus on the retail, energy networks and customer solutions business, while RWE would take over the renewables power generation of both companies.
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| Twitter Bans Popular Accounts Accused Of Stealing Jokes And Selling Retweets Posted: 10 Mar 2018 07:44 PM PST  Twitter suspended several popular accounts on Friday in a major crackdown on "tweetdeckers," a secret network of accounts that make tweets go viral by retweeting the same content in exchange for money. The company suspended several notably large accounts in Friday's cleanup, including @GirlPosts, @Dory, @CommonWhiteGirl, @SoDamnTrue and @memeprovider. Some of these accounts, which mostly tweeted jokes and memes, had millions of followers.
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| 2016 heartburn: Dems still wrestling over superdelegates Posted: 09 Mar 2018 08:17 PM PST  WASHINGTON (AP) — Bernie Sanders is back in the Senate minority. Hillary Clinton is selling books and playing with grandchildren. And the Democratic Party is still navigating the fallout from their bitter 2016 presidential nominating fight.
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| This Cholesterol Drug Combination Might Lower Your Risk of Death, Study Finds Posted: 10 Mar 2018 07:40 AM PST  Praluent modestly cuts the risk of death or heart problems
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| Trump to propose arming school staff, raising gun purchase age Posted: 11 Mar 2018 08:43 AM PDT  U.S. President Donald Trump will propose arming school staff and raising the minimum age to 21 to purchase certain firearms in a school safety proposal that the administration will release on Sunday, a White House spokesman said in broadcast comments. A mass shooting in Parkland, Florida last month has renewed a U.S. debate over gun control.
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| China's parliament puts Xi on course to rule for life Posted: 11 Mar 2018 04:36 AM PDT  China's Xi Jinping on Sunday secured a path to rule indefinitely as parliament abolished presidential term limits, handing him almost total authority to pursue a vision of transforming the nation into an economic and military superpower. 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. The historic constitutional amendment cleared the rubber-stamp parliament with 2,958 in favour, two against, three abstentions and one invalid vote, despite an unusual bout of online criticism that censors have scrambled to extinguish.
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| Chronicling homelessness: don't look to Ben Carson for help with the crisis Posted: 10 Mar 2018 06:50 AM PST  A senior official said she was demoted after rejecting a pricey redecorating plan for Ben Carson's office. Since taking over as housing secretary, the former neurosurgeon Ben Carson has defended drastic cuts to the budget of his own department and proclaimed to the New York Times that public housing shouldn't be too comfortable lest its inhabitants get used to government largesse. To see action on homelessness, you have to look outside Washington.
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| More ways to get $10K off BMW i3 electric car: new utilities add discount Posted: 11 Mar 2018 07:45 AM PDT  How badly do you want to buy a BMW i3 electric car?
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| Jonathan Karl: Trump's unpredictable, risky move on North Korea may prove successful Posted: 11 Mar 2018 10:37 AM PDT  President Donald Trump turned the usual "strategic patience" practice upside down by accepting a meeting with North Korea.
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| US narrows travel alert for Mexico's Playa del Carmen Posted: 10 Mar 2018 12:32 PM PST  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The U.S. Embassy in Mexico has narrowed its travel warning for the Caribbean resort city of Playa del Carmen amid what it calls an unspecified "ongoing security threat" just as the spring holiday season is kicking into high gear.
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| Black Filmmakers Make History At The Box Office This Weekend Posted: 11 Mar 2018 12:56 PM PDT  This weekend marks the first time when two movies directed by black filmmakers, with budgets over $100 million, hold the number one and two spots at the box office. The Ryan Coogler-helmed "Black Panther" continues its fourth week of domination, bringing in another $41.1 million. "A Wrinkle In Time" opens this weekend in second place with $33.3 million.
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| Ford Gives the Transit a Facelift Posted: 11 Mar 2018 07:30 AM PDT  It also gets a diesel engine option.
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| Teen Mom Arrested After Her Baby Was Found Crawling on a Busy Road Posted: 10 Mar 2018 01:30 PM PST  The nine-month-old baby was found crawling in a busy roadway
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| Intel downplays report of interest in Broadcom Posted: 09 Mar 2018 04:48 PM PST ![Intel downplays report of interest in Broadcom]( "Intel downplays report of interest in Broadcom") 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 a range of acquisitions in response, including a bid for Broadcom. In response 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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| Scuffles in Hong Kong at key vote for democrats Posted: 11 Mar 2018 04:45 AM PDT  Hong Kong's best-known young activists were heckled by Chinese nationalists in tense scenes Sunday as the city's pro-democracy camp tries to claw back lost seats in controversial by-elections. Sunday's vote once more exposed the city's deep political divide and comes as China takes an increasingly tough line against any challenges to its sovereignty. High-profile candidate Agnes Chow was barred from standing because her party promotes self-determination for the semi-autonomous city.
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| Zoos are rating animals online and it's too good Posted: 10 Mar 2018 03:09 PM PST  Zoos are giving animals Amazon-esque species ratings, and it's honestly kind of great. The trend started Friday with the Oregon Zoo in a tweet hashtagged #rateaspecies. Other animal conservancies got in on the fun – including aquariums – providing informative ratings for people looking to, er, buy the products. SEE ALSO: We're calling 'fake news' on the report that 'Black Panther' caused a surge in black cat adoptions ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ FIRST IMPRESSIONSOverall very good first impressions. Sturdy built, totally winter-ready and waterproof. Only comes in brown but that's actually a plus for me. #rateaspecies pic.twitter.com/IK99ODsTPT — Oregon Zoo (@OregonZoo) March 9, 2018 ⭐️⭐️⭐️ otter be 4 stars butok first of all i'm very satisfied much improved over river edition. extremely warm insulation which adds buoyancy. if u like kelp the UrchinCrusher+ is a must on coastal trips. minus one star because it's actually a weasel lol?! #rateaspecies pic.twitter.com/oCGV3aGlZ0 — Monterey Bay Aquarium (@MontereyAq) March 9, 2018 ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ A+ VINTAGE ROADSTERDespite few major design updates since the Ice Age, a worthy investment for current and future aficionados. Oxygen-processing and sustained land speed unparalleled. Extremely rare, though hopefully not for long.#rateaspecies pic.twitter.com/Dqa0Gp7Q7m — Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Gardens (@LAZoo) March 9, 2018 ⭐ very unsatisfied with the shipping. I ordered a frog and what I got was this big melted pile. #rateaspecies pic.twitter.com/6pj9D2HcED — Slartibartfast (@shtoopy) March 9, 2018 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ POUNCE ON THIS ONEStarted out small but got stretched out over time. Still, even after heavy use in all weather, very tough, very hardy. #rateaspecies pic.twitter.com/lPCLxIfCYi — Woodland Park Zoo (@woodlandparkzoo) March 9, 2018 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐Pleasantly surprised. Thought I had ordered a Roomba, but this did an excellent job of cleaning up my ecosystem. Only downside is the projectile vomiting. Overall 5 stars, would drunkenly purchase again. #rateaspecies pic.twitter.com/5fDfHiaWNq — Katherine O'Reilly (@DrKatfish) March 9, 2018 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ VERY HAPPYNot to be confused with a smiling leaf. Very bouncy and keeps cricket population under control. Offers eye antennas for improved smile signal. #rateaspecies pic.twitter.com/qz4frTnoqL — Josh's Frogs (@JoshsFrogs) March 9, 2018 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ THESE FISH ARE NOT BROKENAnyone who says otherwise didn't read the instructions. A+ globiform, not supposed to swim well just look cute, does as promised. #rateaspecies pic.twitter.com/86q4PFhM83 — CA AcademyOfSciences (@calacademy) March 9, 2018 WATCH: We could see a decline in King Penguins thanks to — you guessed it — climate change
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| Clinton warns of 'diplomatic danger' in N. Korea talks Posted: 10 Mar 2018 05:03 AM PST  Hillary Clinton has warned that the Trump administration "was not recognising the danger" in discussing nuclear disarmament with Pyongyang, and said Washington lacked experienced diplomats to handle the talks. "If you want to talk to Kim Jong Un about his nuclear weapons you need experienced diplomats," Clinton was quoted as telling Dutch tabloid Algemeen Dagblad in an interview published Saturday. "These are people familiar with the dossiers and who know the North Koreans and their language," Trump's presidential rival said in an interview conducted in Amsterdam and published in Dutch.
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| Latest: Brother says shooter obsessed about minor conflicts Posted: 11 Mar 2018 10:35 AM PDT YOUNTVILLE, Calif. (AP) — The Latest on the ex-soldier who killed three people and himself at a California veterans center (all times local):
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| Hundreds urged to wash clothes after UK nerve agent attack Posted: 11 Mar 2018 09:34 AM PDT  By Henry Nicholls and Alex Fraser SALISBURY, England (Reuters) - Hundreds of people who visited the Zizzi restaurant or the Mill pub in the English city of Salisbury were told on Sunday to wash their clothes after traces of nerve agent used to attack a former Russian spy last week were found at both sites. Public Health England said there was no immediate health risk to anyone who may have been in either the restaurant or the pub, but their was a small chance that any of the agent that had come into contact with clothing or belongings could still be present in minute amounts and contaminate skin. Former double agent Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, have been in hospital in a critical condition since March 4, when they were found unconscious on a bench in the southern English cathedral city of Salisbury.
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| Waymo self-driving rigs to haul Google cargo Posted: 10 Mar 2018 12:13 AM PST  Google-owned Waymo on Friday said that its self-driving trucks will haul cargo bound for the internet giant's data centers in Georgia. Rival Uber made a similar announcement on Tuesday, saying it is using self-driving semi trucks to augment human-driven rigs in its on-demand trucking service in the US state of Arizona. Waymo driverless trucks will go to work in the Atlanta area Monday as part of a pilot program intended to help integrate autonomous big rigs with the operations of shippers, ports, terminals, factories, and distribution centers, according to the company.
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| Mennonite investigator will testify in death penalty case Posted: 10 Mar 2018 04:27 PM PST  DENVER (AP) — A Colorado criminal defense investigator jailed for refusing to testify in a death penalty case now plans to take the stand because it might help save the defendant's life.
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