| Trump's Next National Security Adviser, John Bolton, Is As Dangerous As You Remembered Posted: 22 Mar 2018 03:36 PM PDT  WASHINGTON -- John Bolton, who President Donald Trump said on Thursday will
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| Sources: Former FBI Deputy Director Had Launched a Criminal Probe into Sessions Posted: 20 Mar 2018 09:00 PM PDT  Andrew McCabe was fired by the attorney general two days before retirement.
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| Retired 4-Star General: 'Simply Outrageous' That Jared Kushner Represents America Posted: 22 Mar 2018 02:35 AM PDT  Retired four-star Army Gen. Barry McCaffrey did not mince his words on
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| Miccosukee tribe seizes non-native dad's newborn in hospital Posted: 22 Mar 2018 05:04 PM PDT  MIAMI (AP) — A tribal court for a sovereign Indian nation in Florida ordered the return of an infant Thursday that was taken from her parents, a Miccosukee mother and a white father, at a Miami-area hospital.
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| Mercury Is Entering Retrograde Again. This Is Why So Many People Care Posted: 22 Mar 2018 06:00 AM PDT  Apparent retrograde motion of planets has been seen for centuries, but there's a reason more people have started to care in recent years
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| Sacramento Police release footage of fatal shooting of unarmed black man Posted: 22 Mar 2018 08:26 AM PDT  On Wednesday, the Sacramento Police Department in California released videos of the March 18 fatal shooting of Stephon Clark, an unarmed black man who was shot as many as 20 times by officers.
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| Syrian Kurdish leader condemns Russia for Turkey 'green light' in Afrin Posted: 22 Mar 2018 11:34 AM PDT  A prominent Syrian Kurdish leader on Thursday criticised Russia for giving a "green light" to Turkey to carry out an offensive in Syria's Afrin region, saying it wouldn't have happened without Moscow's approval. Turkish troops and allied Syrian forces seized control of the northwestern city of Afrin from the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG) militia on Sunday. In an interview with AFP during a visit to Stockholm, Saleh Muslim, the former co-chair of the main Syrian Kurdish political movement, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) said Turkey wouldn't have succeeded without Russian backing.
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| Mark Zuckerberg Says He May Never Be 'The Right Person' To Testify Before Congress Posted: 22 Mar 2018 12:09 PM PDT  When will Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg agree to answer questions
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| Trump Doesn’t Get His ‘Great Beautiful Wall’ But Does Get 33 Miles Of Fence Posted: 22 Mar 2018 03:08 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Having failed to get Mexico and then Congress to pay for his
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| 35 People Have Been Killed in a Rocket Attack on the Syrian Capital Posted: 20 Mar 2018 06:38 PM PDT  The government blamed rebels in the eastern suburbs of Damascus for the attack
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| US top court stays execution of murderer with rare illness Posted: 20 Mar 2018 07:47 PM PDT  The US Supreme Court on Tuesday night stayed the execution of a convicted murderer-rapist after lawyers and advocates warned the punishment could subject him to intense suffering because of his rare illness. Russell Bucklew had been scheduled to die by lethal injection in the state of Missouri. "The United States Supreme Court has granted a stay of execution for Russell Bucklew, pending further review of his appeal," the Missouri Department of Corrections said in a statement which gave no reason for the decision.
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| Israel admits bombing suspected Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007, warns Iran Posted: 21 Mar 2018 08:41 AM PDT  By stephen farrell JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel for the first time admitted that it bombed a suspected Syrian nuclear reactor in 2007 and said on Wednesday the strike should be a warning to Iran that it would not be allowed to develop nuclear weapons. The military released previously classified cockpit footage, photographs and intelligence documents about its Sept. 6, 2007, air strike on the Al-Kubar facility near Deir al-Zor in eastern Syria. It said the reactor was being constructed with help from North Korea and had been months away from activation.
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| These are the world's best airports of 2018 Posted: 22 Mar 2018 03:53 AM PDT  With sunflower and butterfly gardens, rooftop swimming pool, free foot massages, and a newly introduced fully automated check-in and boarding process, Singapore's Changi Airport has nabbed the title of world's best airport for the sixth year in a row.
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| Deputy Suspended For Sleeping On The Job At Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Posted: 21 Mar 2018 08:16 AM PDT  A deputy was suspended this week after he was found sleeping during the time
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| NYT obtains hotel video of Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock Posted: 22 Mar 2018 10:57 AM PDT  In surveillance video obtained by the New York Times, Las Vegas gunman Stephen Paddock's movements at the Mandalay Bay hotel are seen in the days leading up to the Oct. 1 massacre that left 58 dead.
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| John Dowd Resigns As Trump's Lead Lawyer In Russia Probe Posted: 22 Mar 2018 08:37 AM PDT  John Dowd resigned Thursday as President Donald Trump's lead attorney assigned
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| The Latest: Rods were being adjusted when bridge fell Posted: 21 Mar 2018 02:26 PM PDT  MIAMI (AP) — The Latest on the bridge collapse in Florida (all times local):
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| Pacific plastic dump far larger than feared: study Posted: 22 Mar 2018 10:06 AM PDT  The vast dump of plastic waste swirling in the Pacific ocean is now bigger than France, Germany and Spain combined -- far larger than previously feared -- and is growing rapidly, a study published Thursday warned. Researchers based in the Netherlands used a fleet of boats and aircraft to scan the immense accumulation of bottles, containers, fishing nets and microparticles known as the "Great Pacific Garbage Patch" (GPGP) and found an astonishing build-up of plastic waste. "We found about 80,000 tonnes of buoyant plastic currently in the GPGP," Laurent Lebreton, lead author of the study published in the journal Scientific Reports, told AFP.
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| In Turkey's Kurdish heartland, anger over Syria war finds a stage Posted: 21 Mar 2018 09:15 AM PDT  By Daren Butler DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Turkish Kurds turned an annual cultural festival into a rare mass political protest on Wednesday against the government's two-month-old military campaign against a Kurdish militia in neighboring Syria. At a rally to mark the spring festival of Newroz in the southern city of Diyarbakir, demonstrators said Ankara risked provoking violence at home if it pressed on with its Syria offensive. The event was the first major public demonstration against the campaign in Syria, in which the Turkish army has battled a Kurdish militia, the YPG, which Turkey says is an extension of the banned PKK, or Kurdistan Workers Party.
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| Petersen Automotive Museum to host ‘Outlaw’ Porsche Panel Posted: 22 Mar 2018 02:08 PM PDT  Celebrating all things underground Porsche culture with a new 'Outlaw' panel, the Petersen Automotive museum will host craftsmen and icons from the Porsche Hot Rod world during an exclusive event
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| Police Find Recorded 'Confession' On Austin Bomber's Cellphone Posted: 21 Mar 2018 04:35 PM PDT  Police on Wednesday said they had located a recorded "confession" on a
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| Man Dies After Getting Head Stuck In Movie Theater Seat Posted: 21 Mar 2018 11:44 AM PDT  A man who got his head stuck in a reclining movie seat has died as a result of
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| Democrats accuse Ben Carson of misleading public and hiring cronies Posted: 22 Mar 2018 09:52 AM PDT  Ben Carson testifies before a Senate banking committee hearing on Thursday. Ben Carson was accused by Democrats on Thursday of misleading the public and hiring unqualified cronies, after he changed his explanation for ordering pricey furniture and two officials resigned over ethics problems. Carson, Donald Trump's secretary for housing and urban development (Hud), faced sharp criticism at a hearing of the Senate banking committee in Washington.
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| Wreckage of ship blown apart in WWII found, offering closure Posted: 20 Mar 2018 06:38 PM PDT  JUNEAU, Alaska (AP) — The recent discovery of the USS Juneau in the depths of the South Pacific has provided some closure to people with connections to the ship, which was blown apart during World War II. Hundreds died, including the five Sullivan brothers from Waterloo, Iowa, whose story was chronicled in a 1944 movie.
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| The Internet Is Not 'Feeling Satisfied' With Mark Zuckerberg Amid Facebook's Cambridge Analytics Controversy Posted: 21 Mar 2018 03:29 PM PDT  The Internet is telling Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to get Zucked amid its growing crisis.
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| Asylum seeker jailed for life in Germany for rape, murder Posted: 22 Mar 2018 04:39 AM PDT  An asylum seeker claiming to be from Afghanistan was Thursday sentenced to life in jail in Germany for the rape and murder of a student that stoked a public backlash against a mass influx of migrants. Hussein Khavari, of uncertain age and origin, was found guilty of the deadly night-time attack on medical student Maria Ladenburger, 19, in October 2016 in the university town of Freiburg. Khavari pushed her off her bicycle as she was riding home alone from a party, then bit, choked and repeatedly raped her and left her on the bank of a river where she drowned.
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| China should prepare for military action over Taiwan: Chinese paper Posted: 22 Mar 2018 10:59 AM PDT  By Ben Blanchard BEIJING (Reuters) - China should prepare for military action over self-ruled Taiwan and pressure Washington over cooperation on North Korea after the United States passed a law to boost ties with Taiwan, a widely read Chinese state-run newspaper said on Thursday. Beijing was infuriated when U.S. President Donald Trump signed legislation last week that encourages the United States to send senior officials to Taiwan to meet Taiwanese counterparts and vice versa. Beijing has also been upset by Trump's threats to impose trade restrictions on China over its huge trade surplus with the United States.
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| Great Pacific Garbage Patch now contains 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic Posted: 22 Mar 2018 09:22 AM PDT  The Great Pacific Garbage Patch now contains 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic, 16 times higher than previous estimates, experts have warned. A three-year mapping project led by the The Ocean Cleanup Foundation, which is based in The Netherlands, has discovered that the problem is far worse than first thought. The 'Garbage Patch' also known as the 'Pacific Trash Vortex' was first noticed by US boat captain Charles Moore in 1997 when he was sailing from Hawaii to southern California and claimed to have stumbled upon 'plastic…as far as the eye could see" Experts said they were surprised about how large some pieces of plastic were Credit: The Ocean Cleanup Foundation Plastic aggregates in the area because of circular ocean currents which pick up rubbish along coastlines and swirl them into the centre. It is estimated that items take around six years to reach the patch from the coast of the USA and around a year from Japan. Previously scientists have used fine-meshed nets to trap the plastic and quantify how much rubbish has accumulated, but the new study, published in the journal Scientific Reports, has found that the method has vastly underestimated the problem. The new study involved traditional trawling with nets, as well as aerial scanning to map plastic in the ocean in 3D. The team used huge nets to trawl for trash Credit: The Ocean Cleanup Foundation The results show that the Garbage Patch is now three times the size of France, with nearly two trillion pieces of plastic, weighing the equivalent of 500 jumbo jets. The figures are four to sixteen times higher than previous estimates. 92 per cent of the mass is represented by larger objects such as fishing nets, while eight per cent of the mass was due to microplastics. "We were surprised by the amount of large plastic objects we encountered,"said Dr. Julia Reisser, Chief Scientist of the expeditions. "We used to think most of the debris consists of small fragments, but this new analysis shines a new light on the scope of the debris." Much of the plastic was marine waste Credit: The Ocean Cleanup Foundation By comparing the amount of microplastics with historical measurements of the Garbage Patch, the team found that plastic pollution levels have been growing exponentially since measurements began in the 1970s. It is estimated that there is now a 1:2 ratio of plastic to plankton and, left unchecked, plastic will outweigh fish by 2050. Plastic in the oceans swallowed by marine animals that cannot digest it. Chemicals leach into the water, and it has been shown that even humans who eat seafood ingest 11,000 pieces of microplastic each year. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch sites between California and Hawaii Boyan Slat, Founder of The Ocean Cleanup Foundation and co-author of the study, elaborated on the relevance of the findings for his organisation's cleanup plans: "To be able to solve a problem, we believe it is essential to first understand it. "These results provide us with key data to develop and test our cleanup technology, but it also underlines the urgency of dealing with the plastic pollution problem. "Since the results indicate that the amount of hazardous microplastics is set to increase more than tenfold if left to fragment, the time to start is now."
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| Austin bombings: Police hunt for motive as they search home of suspect Mark Anthony Conditt - as it happened Posted: 21 Mar 2018 02:53 AM PDT  The suspect thought to be behind a spate of bomb attacks in Austin, Texas, has been killed in an explosion after being cornered by police. Police in Texas are hunting for clues as to what drove the unemployed young man to apparently launch a bombing spree that terrorised the region. While searching for possible accomplices and warning people to be on the alert for suspicious packages, officials said that 23-year-old Mark Anthony Conditt is suspected of posting and triggering the bombs that killed two people and injured six.
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| Trump Having Second Thoughts About Spending Deal Posted: 21 Mar 2018 10:41 AM PDT  President Donald Trump is having second thoughts about supporting the omnibus
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| 2019 Cadillac CT6 V-Sport Puts a V-8 under the Hood Posted: 21 Mar 2018 09:15 AM PDT  New model debuts a Cadillac-exclusive twin-turbo 4.2-liter V-8.
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| Wisconsin Judge Orders Scott Walker To Call Special Elections He Refused To Allow Posted: 22 Mar 2018 10:40 AM PDT  A Wisconsin judge on Thursday ordered Gov. Scott Walker (R) to call the
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| Your Meh Backsplash Needs This Removable “Tile” Upgrade Posted: 21 Mar 2018 02:32 PM PDT  Chasing Paper's new "Tile" collection is inspired by the founder's European travels
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| Mike Pence's Daughter Is 'All For' The Gay Bunny Book That's Trolling Her Dad Posted: 21 Mar 2018 04:35 AM PDT  Charlotte Pence had a surprising response to the new children's book about a
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| Latest: Officer praised in previous encounter with armed man Posted: 21 Mar 2018 02:09 PM PDT  GREAT MILLS, Md. (AP) — The Latest on Tuesday's school shooting in Maryland (all times local):
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| Peru's president offers resignation on eve of impeachment vote Posted: 21 Mar 2018 04:04 PM PDT  Peru's President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski offered to resign on Wednesday after vote-buying allegations ensnared his centre-right government on the eve of an impeachment vote, capping months of political turmoil in one of Latin America's most stable economies. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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| Gaza bomb suspect, two Hamas security officers killed in raid Posted: 22 Mar 2018 10:25 AM PDT  The man Hamas called the main suspect in a bomb attack against the Palestinian prime minister in Gaza was killed in an arrest raid on Thursday that also left two members of the Islamist movement's security forces dead. One of chief suspect Anas Abu Koussa's alleged accomplices in last week's attack was also killed in the raid, according to Hamas. The raid came after Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip, launched a manhunt to search for the perpetrators of a roadside bomb that left prime minister Rami Hamdallah unhurt on March 13.
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| Ex-Minnesota officer charged with murdering Australian a flight risk: prosecutors Posted: 21 Mar 2018 02:08 PM PDT  Prosecutors argued on Wednesday that the former Minnesota police officer charged with murdering an unarmed Australian woman in July represents a flight risk and should face high bail. Ex-Minneapolis police Officer Mohamed Noor, 32, who on Tuesday was charged in the fatal shooting of 40-year-old Justine Damond, did not enter a plea on the third-degree murder and second-degree manslaughter charges. Judge Kathryn Quaintance set his bail at $500,000 without conditions, or $400,000 if he agreed to no contact with the other officer present at the shooting, surrendered his passport and agreed to avoid possession of any firearms.
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| Trump Administration Sued On Elephant Trophy Ban Flip-Flop Posted: 21 Mar 2018 05:03 AM PDT  A coalition of environmental and animal welfare groups has filed an amended
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| Kristin Davis Endorses Cynthia Nixon for Governor of New York Because Friendships Never Go Out of Style Posted: 21 Mar 2018 10:34 AM PDT  "I am thrilled to support her and I know that she cares deeply about the issues facing all of us"
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| Trump's Department Of Homeland Security Is Cruelly Separating Asylum-Seeking Families Posted: 21 Mar 2018 11:02 AM PDT  When the U.S. government removes a child from a mother's custody and puts the
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| BMW X8 Production Decision Coming Later This Year Posted: 21 Mar 2018 12:25 AM PDT  If approved, the production model won't follow the recipe used for the X4 and X6.
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