| Woman Calls Police On Black Family For BBQing At A Lake In Oakland Posted: 11 May 2018 07:24 AM PDT  A white woman called the police on a black family at Lake Merritt in Oakland,
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| FCC fines Florida man $120 million for robocalls Posted: 10 May 2018 09:05 AM PDT  The FCC says companies Adrian Abramovich controlled were behind almost 100 million robocalls over three months. The Commission has now fined him, accusing him of scamming consumers by offering exclusive vacation deals.
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| Rudy Giuliani Quits Law Firm After Wild Week Of Interviews Posted: 10 May 2018 11:34 AM PDT  Rudy Giuliani, the former New York mayor who has become one of President
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| Australian centenarian commits assisted suicide in Switzerland Posted: 10 May 2018 07:31 AM PDT  A 104-year-old Australian scientist on Thursday committed assisted suicide in Switzerland where he went to die after his home country denied him the right to seek help in taking his own life. David Goodall did not have a terminal illness but said his quality of life had deteriorated significantly and that he wanted to end it. Goodall "died peacefully" in Basel, tweeted Philip Nitschke, founder of Exit International, the organisation which helped Goodall make the journey from Australia.
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| French family narrowly escape cheetahs after getting out of car to take pictures in safari park Posted: 11 May 2018 07:07 AM PDT  A French family of five have been filmed narrowly escaping attack by cheetahs in a Dutch safari park after they left their car to take photographs and were chased by the big cats. Beekse Bergen is a drive-through African wildlife safari park, in the south of the Netherlands, where visitors are under strict instruction not to leave their cars. Apparently blithely unaware they were risking death or injury from the wild beasts who roam free in the park, the tourists were filmed leaving their French-registered car with two young children. The cheetahs can be seen calmly sunning themselves when the family gets out to take snaps. Cheetahs are the fastest animals on land Credit: BBC At first the big cats fail to react. The family can then be seen driving a little further down the road and striding up a small hill within yards of the animals, who suddenly snap into action. Cheetahs are the world's fastest land animal, capable of reaching speeds of up to 70 mph. They are built for speed, grace, and hunting and mainly prey on small antelopes such as Thomson's gazelles and impalas. But they are clearly interested in the humans and appear to start stalking their prey. The clueless tourists only spot the cheetahs at the last minute and make a panic-stricken dash for their vehicle. All, except one woman, who can be seen picking up the youngest child and apparently shooing the cheetahs away before slipping into the car. They then drive off miraculously unscathed. A spokesman for Beekse Bergen park said they make it clear it is strictly forbidden to leave one's vehicle during the safari. 'We inform visitors about the risks in several languages throughout the park,' the spokesman told Dutch broadcaster NOS. Dutch news website VK Mag suggested introducing "mandatory IQ tests" for anyone wanting to do the safari.
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| PHOTOS: Anti-U.S. protesters demonstrate after Friday prayer in Tehran, Iran Posted: 11 May 2018 11:04 AM PDT  Thousands of Iranians took to the streets in Tehran and cities across the country to protest President Trump's decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal. (AP)
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| Navdeep Bains: US apologizes after Canada minister told to remove turban Posted: 11 May 2018 09:17 AM PDT  Officials from the Trump administration issued an apology after a security agent at a Detroit airport repeatedly demanded that a Canadian cabinet minister remove his turban, the minister has revealed.
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| Woman Who Sent 65,000 Texts To First Date Says 'Love Is An Excessive Thing' Posted: 11 May 2018 03:57 PM PDT  A Phoenix woman is facing numerous charges after she allegedly sent more than
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| Meghan Markle's Sister Claims Future Royal Did Not Help Their Dad With Money Problems Posted: 10 May 2018 10:14 AM PDT  Samantha Grant claims Thomas Markle twice asked the "Suits" star for financial help, but she refused.
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| Michael Cohen Reportedly Paid $600,000 To Advise AT&T On Time Warner Merger Posted: 11 May 2018 12:16 AM PDT  AT&T reportedly paid President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Michael
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| Dozens Dead and Hundreds Displaced After a Dam Burst in Western Kenya Posted: 10 May 2018 02:02 AM PDT  Rescue operations are underway but many are feared still trapped
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| The Latest: Scientist: Hawaii lava is magma stored from 1955 Posted: 11 May 2018 03:37 PM PDT  VOLCANO, Hawaii (AP) — The Latest on a Hawaii volcano eruption (all times local):
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| Venezuela angered by ConocoPhillips move on Caribbean oil Posted: 10 May 2018 01:18 PM PDT  Venezuela on Thursday strongly rejected the takeover of its Caribbean oil stocks by ConocoPhillips, after the US company enforced a $2 billion international arbitration award last month. A ConocoPhillips source said the company was enforcing the award at four locations in the Caribbean, without specifying the facilities affected. Press reports said the affected assets are in Curacao, Bonaire and Saint Eustace.
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| Monica Lewinsky disinvited from Philanthropy Summit because Bill Clinton was going Posted: 10 May 2018 10:20 AM PDT  Monica Lewinsky has described how she was unceremoniously disinvited from a high profile event after the organisers realised Bill Clinton was going to be there. Miss Lewinsky, 44, had accepted an invitation to the fifth annual Philanthropy Summit hosted by Town & Country, the lifestyle magazine, at Hearst Tower in New York. However, her invitation was rescinded by the magazine, which offered her the opportunity to write an article instead. Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky at the White House Credit: Getty Miss Lewinsky, who is now an anti-bullying activist, wrote on Twitter: "Dear world: please don't invite me to an event (esp one about social change) and - then after I've accepted - uninvite me because Bill Clinton then decided to attend/was invited. "It's 2018. Emily post would def not approve," a reference to the etiquette expert Emily Post. She added: "P.S. ...and definitely, please don't try to ameliorate the situation by insulting me with an offer of an article in your mag." dear world: please don't invite me to an event (esp one about social change) and --then after i've accepted-- uninvite me because bill clinton then decided to attend/was invited. it's 2018. emily post would def not approve. ✌��Me— Monica Lewinsky (@MonicaLewinsky) May 9, 2018 Miss Lewinsky's affair with Mr Clinton, when she was a 22-year-old White House intern and he was the US president, became public in 1998, rocking his administration, and leading in part to his impeachment. The summit, which took place on Wednesday, featured "activists, game-changers, and leaders across the field of philanthropy, education, healthcare, and gun control". For a panel discussion Mr Clinton introduced survivors of the Parkland high school shooting in Florida, in which 17 people died. A spokeswoman for Mr Clinton said the former president had not been aware that Miss Lewinsky was scheduled to attend and then disinvited. She said: "President Clinton was invited to address the Town & Country Philanthropy Summit. He gladly accepted. "Neither he nor his staff knew anything about the invitation (to Miss Lewinsky) or it being rescinded." In a statement the magazine said: "We apologise to Ms Lewinsky and regret the way the situation was handled.
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| Australian police find seven dead in rural town, guns seized Posted: 10 May 2018 08:55 PM PDT  By Colin Packham and Jonathan Barrett SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian police found seven dead people on Friday, including four children, in a rural town in the Margaret River wine-growing region, and said guns were involved in the killings. The bodies of four children and three adults were found at or near a property in Osmington near the southwestern tip of Australia, Western Australia's Commissioner of Police Chris Dawson told a news conference.
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| 38 Easy Ways To Eat Eggs For Dinner Posted: 11 May 2018 02:45 AM PDT  Always have eggs in your refrigerator. (Unless you're vegan, in which case you
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| ACLU Says Kris Kobach Is Still Giving Out Incorrect Information About Voter Registration Posted: 10 May 2018 04:01 PM PDT  The American Civil Liberties Union on Thursday requested that Kansas Secretary
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| After North Korea detonated a nuclear bomb inside a mountain, scientists watched it move Posted: 10 May 2018 11:09 AM PDT  When North Korea detonates nuclear bombs, it brings the devices into tunnels dug deep inside Mount Mantap, a granite peak over 7,000 feet tall. Mantap has now sustained six such detonations, with the last of which — set off on September 3, 2017 — moving the mountain more than 11 feet (3.5 meters), according to researchers who used space imaging technology, called synthetic aperture radar, or SAR, to map how much Mantap's surface shifted and then settled back down during the blast. They published their results in the journal Science on Thursday. Although this technique isn't yet used to rapidly detect attempts at secretive nuclear testing today, it could help do so in the future. SEE ALSO: Extreme Arctic heat wave in 2016 wouldn't have happened without climate change "World peace benefits from the adherence to internationally-negotiated nuclear-test-ban treaties that strive to promote the non-proliferation of nuclear weapons," Teng Wang, lead author of the study and a tectonics senior research fellow at Earth Observatory of Singapore, said in an email. "Surveillance of clandestine nuclear tests relies on a global seismic network, but the potential of spaceborne monitoring has been underexploited," Wang added. "This study demonstrates the capability of spaceborne remote sensing to help characterize large underground nuclear tests, if any, in the future." Wang and his team used data captured by the German imaging satellite TerraSAR-X to view the mountain before and after the explosion. The images aren't actual digital pictures of the mountain; instead, the satellite acts as a radar, bouncing pulses off the land below, which travels back up to the satellite in space, giving scientists detailed measurements — and how they changed after a powerful blast. The TerraSAR-X satellite.Image: dlr/esaThe same satellite technology can be used to measure how the land deforms after earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, moving glaciers and other natural events, said Wang. A great advantage to this space imaging technique is that, unlike digital imaging, SAR can penetrate clouds and weather, to see what's transpired below. The fact that Wang could measure a massive chunk of Earth-bound rock moving horizontally over 11 feet is understandable, when considering how big the September 2017 blast was. Detonated around 1,500 feet below ground, according to researchers, it triggered a 6.3 magnitude earthquake, a strong class of temblor that causes violent shaking near the epicenter. "This one was big enough that we saw it all over," Dale Anderson, a seismologist and specialist in nuclear nonproliferation monitoring at Los Alamos National Laboratory, said in an interview. "It was picked up on the other side of the world." (Above: A simulation of rock damage from a nuclear blast. Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory) Although the international community can't see what North Korea is doing under Mantap, modern detection technology — while not capable of observing the mountain move — can easily spot a large nuclear blast, and pinpoint its location. "It's very, very, very hard to hide one of these," Anderson said. As part of the international ban on testing nukes (which North Korea does not adhere to), an organization called the International Monitoring System (IMS) is measuring seismic waves "24-7," said Anderson. This includes picking up movement in the rock at seismic stations around the world, as well as acoustic pulses the blast sends up into the air. Combining the two detection techniques can give scientists an accurate idea of where the shaking event came from, especially if the blast is big enough. "Every Korean test we've ever heard has been big enough," said Anderson. And confirming that the blast is definitely nuclear, and not say, an earthquake, is also possible. Nuclear blasts release a gas called xenon, which can be picked up by detectors all over the world. Even under a mountain, the gases can seep out, said Anderson. (Above: A simulation of gas moving to the surface. Credit: Los Alamos National Laboratory) Future nuclear blasts underneath Mantap will almost certainly be picked by the IMS, and Wang said space imaging technology can then be used to learn more detail about the event — like how deep it is, and how it affected the mountain. After enduring six nuclear blasts, one wonders how much more a mountain can take. President Donald Trump is meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on June 12, in discussions that might persuade the military commander to denuclearize the secretive, communist nation. Still, Mantap may continue to be used as a test site — if North Korea decides to continue its nuclear testing program. It takes a lot to topple a mountain. After analyzing seismic shockwaves from the blast, the team suggests that some portions inside the mountain may have collapsed, but there's no way to actually confirm this without entering the mountain. "You're talking about a chunk of solid, confident rock that is 800 meters thick," said Anderson. "You can't just break that up with one shock." "You'll eventually find a flaw and it'll crack," he added. "And if you smack it with a sledgehammer — a nuclear explosion — it might break a little quicker." WATCH: It takes absolute precision to construct Earth's largest telescope, which will peak into far-off alien worlds
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| Israel accuses Iranian forces of rocket attack on Golan Posted: 09 May 2018 07:48 PM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — Iranian forces based in Syria fired 20 rockets at Israeli front-line military positions in the Golan Heights early Thursday, the Israeli military said, triggering a heavy Israeli reprisal and escalating already heightened tensions in what appeared to be the most serious violence in years.
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| Indonesia evacuates residents, shuts airport after Java volcano erupts Posted: 10 May 2018 09:54 PM PDT  Indonesian authorities ordered people living near a volcano to leave their homes on Friday and a major city closed its airport after the 5,500 meter (18,000 ft) peak sent a column of steam and ash into the sky. The Mount Merapi volcano on densely populated Java island is one of the most active in Indonesia and a series of eruptions in 2010 killed more than 350 people. A disaster mitigation agency told residents living within a 5 km (3 mile) radius of the mountain to move to shelters, agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said in a statement.
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| Rift deepens as Europe seeks Trump alternatives Posted: 11 May 2018 08:17 AM PDT  A deepening transatlantic rift as "flattery" fails to sway Donald Trump has left Europeans in search of new answers, including closer dealings with Russia that only recently would have been unpalatable, analysts say. The US president's decision to ignore European pleas to save the Iran nuclear deal is the latest humiliation after his threats to impose trade tariffs, his pull-out from the Paris climate pact, and his demands for NATO allies to pay more. Analysts and officials say Trump threatens to create all by himself the kind of split between allies that Russia and China have tried and failed to foster for years, with Europe now relying on Moscow and Beijing to keep the Iran deal alive.
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| Man kayaks close to great white shark Posted: 10 May 2018 11:14 AM PDT  A great white shark lurked in the water near a kayaker in Santa Cruz County, California.
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| Kilauea volcano erupts on Hawaii's Big Island Posted: 11 May 2018 05:30 AM PDT ![Kilauea volcano erupts on Hawaii's Big Island]( "Kilauea volcano erupts on Hawaii's Big Island") A Hawaii volcano that sputtered lava for a week, forced around 2,000 residents to evacuate, destroyed some two dozen homes and threatened a geothermal plant now threatens to blow its top in the coming days or weeks.
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| Ex-Illinois congressman sentenced to prison on tax charges Posted: 10 May 2018 02:17 PM PDT  Former Illinois U.S. congressman Mel Reynolds was sentenced on Thursday to six months in prison for failing to file federal income tax returns, according to prosecutors. Reynolds, 66, was convicted last September on four counts of failing to file a federal return after not filing in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, prosecutors said. Reynolds will serve four months in prison since he already served two months in custody, prosecutors' spokeswoman Kim Nerheim said by telephone.
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| The Powerful Reason Linda Vester Publicly Accused Tom Brokaw Of Sexual Misconduct Posted: 10 May 2018 08:04 AM PDT  Linda Vester wants to make it clear that she's not accusing iconic NBC
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| Rolls-Royce Unveils the World’s Most Expensive SUV Posted: 10 May 2018 04:00 AM PDT  The $325,000 Rolls-Royce Cullinan is the fabled British automobile maker's first-ever sports utility vehicle
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| 1 dead, dozens hurt by Israeli fire in Gaza border protest Posted: 11 May 2018 12:29 PM PDT  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — A Palestinian was killed and 176 were wounded by Israeli army fire Friday as thousands of Gaza residents protested near their sealed border — part of a weeks-long campaign to end a decade-old blockade of the territory.
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| Russia seeks mediator role between Israel and Iran Posted: 10 May 2018 10:32 AM PDT  Following Israeli strikes on Iranian targets in Syria, Russia has positioned itself as a mediator between the Middle Eastern rivals as it has maintained good relations with both countries. "The Kremlin is sitting on two chairs," Russian analyst Alexei Malashenko told AFP. Israel carried out raids on dozens of Iranian military targets on Thursday after it said around 20 rockets were fired from Syria at its forces in the occupied Golan Heights.
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| Apple helps discover new technique that could make aluminium for iPhones and other products without damaging the environment Posted: 10 May 2018 11:07 AM PDT  Apple has helped find a new way of making aluminium that could revolutionise the way that iPhones and other products are made. The new technique completely eliminates greenhouse gases from the smelting process, in a discovery that it says is a "revolutionary" change in the way the key metal is made. Aluminium is one of the most important materials used by Apple: it is what just about every Apple product's case is made of.
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| SpaceX launches most powerful Falcon 9 yet Posted: 11 May 2018 02:31 PM PDT  The rocket is designed to require far less maintenance and refurbishment between flights, and is certified to carry humans to space later this year when SpaceX launches its Dragon crew capsule to the International Space Station. The Block 5 Falcon 9 rocket's main goal for its maiden mission was to propel a communications satellite for Bangladesh, called Bangabandhu Satellite-1, to a geostationary transfer orbit roughly 22,000 miles (35,000 kilometers) above Earth.
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| Nunes and Gowdy meet with Justice Department officials Posted: 10 May 2018 03:42 PM PDT  Meeting was brokered after Nunes issued a subpoena for records about alleged government surveillance abuse during the 2016 election; chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge reports.
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| Trump welcomes home 3 U.S. detainees freed by North Korea Posted: 10 May 2018 06:38 AM PDT ![Trump welcomes home 3 U.S. detainees freed by North Korea]( "Trump welcomes home 3 U.S. detainees freed by North Korea") In a made-for-TV ceremony in the dead of night, President Donald Trump on Thursday welcomed home three Americans freed by North Korea and declared their release a sign of promise toward his goal of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula.
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| North Carolina town probing officer seen choking black man in prom attire Posted: 10 May 2018 03:06 PM PDT ![North Carolina town probing officer seen choking black man in prom attire]( "North Carolina town probing officer seen choking black man in prom attire") The incident took place on Saturday outside a Waffle House restaurant in the town of Warsaw. Anthony Wall, the man in the formal wear, posted the video on Facebook on Tuesday and it has been seen over 600,000 times. Wall was charged with resisting arrest and disorderly conduct for arguing with Waffle House employees, local TV station ABC 11 reported.
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| Kim Kardashian Says Tristan Thompson Blocked Her After She Defended Khloe Posted: 10 May 2018 12:53 PM PDT  Don't shoot the messenger: the Kim Kardashian edition.
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| 286-HP Volkswagen GTI TCR Concept Revealed Posted: 10 May 2018 06:30 AM PDT  Though the race-inspired TCR is only a concept for now, VW says it's going into the production - just not for the US.
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| Human remains found near spot where SUV plunged off cliff Posted: 10 May 2018 01:52 PM PDT  MENDOCINO, Calif. (AP) — A Northern California resident found a pair of jeans and human remains inside a girl's shoe on a beach near the spot where a woman drove her large family off a cliff in March, authorities said Thursday.
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| The Latest: UN urges restraint to avoid Mideast flare up Posted: 10 May 2018 06:52 PM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Latest on the war in Syria, where Israel responded to a rocket attack by launching a wave of missile strikes on Iranian positions (all times local):
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| Gisele Bündchen and Tom Brady Have Dropped the Price of Their Sky-High Madison Square Park Apartment Posted: 10 May 2018 02:09 PM PDT  The picturesque couple originally listed the 48th-floor, 3,310-square-foot apartment for $17.25 million and have dropped the price to $13.95 million
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| China sends fighter jets near Taiwan in latest show of force Posted: 11 May 2018 04:44 AM PDT  China sent fighter jets and other military aircraft near Taiwan Friday in the latest of a series of drills which Beijing has said are aimed at the island's "independence forces". Taiwan's defence ministry said multiple H-6K bombers, reconnaissance planes and transport aircraft flew over the Bashi Channel, south of Taiwan, and over the Miyako Strait, near Japan's Okinawa Island, in a drill Friday morning.
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| Donald Glover has spoken about the huge reaction to his 'This Is America' video Posted: 11 May 2018 01:18 AM PDT  If you've been anywhere near the internet over the past few weeks, you'll almost certainly have watched Donald Glover's super powerful new music video "This Is America". Not only has it received a massively positive reaction for the way it tackles gun violence, but it's also been accompanied by a huge amount of analysis breaking down the video's many hidden references. So what does the man who created it think of all the attention it's received? SEE ALSO: Donald Glover gave us the perfect '80s music video during 'Saturday Night Live' Well, apparently he's been steering clear of the internet — for the time being, at least. "I'm very sensitive," jokes Glover in the clip above. So he doesn't like seeing mean things being said about him? "More like, I see one negative thing and I track that person down," says Glover. "I'll like, go into their Instagram and be like, 'You not so great! That baby's not even that cute!"
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| Top Trump aide says protected immigrants need path to citizenship Posted: 11 May 2018 03:49 PM PDT  Immigrants from Honduras, Haiti, El Salvador and other countries who were given protected status to live in the United States should have a path to citizenship, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told National Public Radio on Friday. Kelly said many of those with temporary protected status, or TPS, resulting from natural disasters or conflict have lived in the United States for decades, and that Congress should act.
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| Ex-NFL Player Says Police Knew Gun Charge Was Based on Lie Posted: 10 May 2018 07:42 AM PDT  The Kansas City Chiefs released Greene the day charges against him were reported
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| Cisco pulls all online ads from YouTube Posted: 10 May 2018 04:45 PM PDT  The blog on Thursday seemed to have been removed from Cisco's website. Walker, in the blog, said she would not like the company's ads to "accidentally end up in the wrong place, such as on a streaming video with sensitive content," adding that the network gear maker will continue to use YouTube as a platform to share Cisco's video content.
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