| Israel’s celebration in Jerusalem is marred by deadly violence in Gaza Posted: 14 May 2018 03:30 PM PDT  The ceremony took place 70 years to the day since Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, formally declared the State of Israel an independent nation.
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| Fox News Judicial Analyst Defends Timeline Of Mueller's Probe Posted: 14 May 2018 06:59 PM PDT  During a Fox News segment on various calls for special counsel Robert Mueller
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| Details from grand jury witnesses offers peek at Mueller progress Posted: 14 May 2018 01:25 PM PDT  Robert Costa, national political reporter for The Washington Post, talks about what can be gleaned about Robert Mueller's investigation from what grand jury witnesses describe, and how the Donald Trump White House is trying to fight back.
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| Keyless Cars Have Killed More Than 2 Dozen People Since 2006: Report Posted: 14 May 2018 02:29 PM PDT  A new report is highlighting the risks of keyless car ignitions after more
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| Officials warn largest Hawaii volcano eruption is ‘imminent’ Posted: 14 May 2018 08:54 AM PDT  When the lava lake inside Kilauea drops, a catastrophic explosion could launch ballistic boulders the size of cars into the air and plumes of ash could rise 20,000 feet.
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| Even The Bottom Of The World's Deepest Ocean Trench Is Not Safe From Plastic Bags Posted: 14 May 2018 06:16 AM PDT  Almost 36,000 feet underwater, near the very bottom of the world's deepest
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| Correction: Husband Run Over story Posted: 14 May 2018 08:32 AM PDT  HOUSTON (AP) — In a story May 11 about a woman released from prison after serving 15 years in the death of her husband, The Associated Press reported erroneously that Clara Harris' teenage daughter was in the car with Harris when she struck and killed her husband. The teenager was Harris' stepdaughter.
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| Parents of Paris knife attacker let out of custody Posted: 15 May 2018 11:05 AM PDT  French authorities released the parents of Paris knife attacker Khamzat Azimov from custody on Tuesday, while keeping his closest friend in detention, a judicial source said. Azimov, a naturalised French citizen of Chechen origin who had lived in Strasbourg, was shot dead by police on Saturday night after stabbing a 29-year-old man to death in the Opera district of Paris and wounding four others in an assault claimed by the Islamic State group. Azimov's parents were detained on Sunday morning.
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| Israeli forces kill dozens in Gaza as U.S. Embassy opens in Jerusalem Posted: 14 May 2018 04:10 PM PDT  By Nidal al-Mughrabi and Jeffrey Heller GAZA/JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israeli troops shot dead dozens of Palestinian protesters on the Gaza border on Monday when the high-profile opening of the U.S. embassy to Israel in Jerusalem by the Trump administration raised tension to boiling point after weeks of demonstrations. In the bloodiest single day for Palestinians since 2014, Palestinian Health Ministry officials said 58 protesters were killed and 2,700 injured by live gunfire, tear gas or other means. The White House declined to join in urging Israel to exercise caution and pinned the blame squarely on Gaza's ruling Hamas group, backing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu who described the Israeli military's actions as self-defence of his country's borders.
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| Police release investigation details of boy killed while trapped in van Posted: 14 May 2018 08:56 AM PDT  Cincinnati police revealed officers never left their car to search for 16-year-old Kyle Plush, who suffocated in his van after being trapped under a seat a month ago.
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| GAP 'extremely sorry' for China map T-shirt which omits Taiwan and the South China Sea Posted: 15 May 2018 01:08 AM PDT  US clothes giant GAP said it was "extremely sorry" for selling a T-shirt with an 'incomplete' map of China, after it was accused of being disrespectful to the country's territorial sovereignty. The company is the latest to publicly express its remorse after being hit with an online backlash from China's often nationalist keyboard warriors. Photographs of a T-shirt that the clothes brand had apparently sold in Canada were circulating on China's Internet, with many online comments saying that southern Tibet, Taiwan and the South China Sea were missing. The Global Times newspaper said that "hundreds of Weibo users (were) protesting the company's act of disrespect to China's territorial sovereignty." "Stupid, rubbish company," said one comment on Sina Weibo, China's Twitter. "Get out of China if you don't recognise its borders." Another post said: "Resist such a rubbish company! And withdraw this T shirt from all markets." American clothing retailer @Gap on Monday apologized for printing incomplete Chinese map on T-shirts for sales outside #China, said the brand respects China's sovereignty and territorial integrity pic.twitter.com/uHJoLnpmr6— People's Daily,China (@PDChina) May 14, 2018 Amid the rising tide of anger, GAP issued a statement on Weibo on Monday evening saying that the company "respects China's sovereignty and territorial integrity". "We have acknowledged that the design of the Chinese map on a T-shirt in some overseas markets is incorrect. We feel extremely sorry for the unintentional mistake," it added. The withdrawn GAP t-shirt "We are now launching an internal investigation to correct mistakes as soon as possible. This product has been withdrawn from China's market and destroyed." Chinese officials and Internet users are often quick to lambast companies who fail to recognise on their websites or with their products Beijing's claims in the South China Sea or over the self-ruled island of Taiwan. At a glance | The One China policy The prestigious Man Booker International Prize changed the nationality of a Taiwanese nominee to Chinese on its website after it was pressured by officials from China's Embassy in the UK. The literary prize eventually backtracked on its decision last month. British Airways also changed its website to list Taiwan as a Chinese territory in its dropdown menus, following German airline Lufthansa in giving in to Beijing's demands. The White House last week harshly criticised China's efforts to require foreign airlines to change how they refer to Taiwan and the former British colony of Hong Kong, labelling the effort "Orwellian nonsense." Q&A | South China Sea dispute Meanwhile, a photo of Chinese tourists wearing T-shirts depicting Beijing's claims to the disputed South China Sea when they arrived at a Vietnamese airport has sparked online anger in Vietnam. The shirts featured a map of China and its 'nine-dash line', which illustrates the sea boundary which Beijing says proves its claim to most of the waterway, despite partial claims from Vietnam and other nations. Photos of the tourists in their nationalist attire were widely shared on Vietnamese social media, with many posts calling for the party to be deported. Additional reporting by Christine Wei
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| Tomi Lahren Gets Owned By Genealogist After Her Remarks On Low-Skilled Immigrants Posted: 14 May 2018 10:46 AM PDT  A genealogist took commentator Tomi Lahren to task on Twitter after she made
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| 10 children rescued from California home after abuse investigation Posted: 14 May 2018 08:55 AM PDT  The mother has been charged with child neglect while her husband has been charged with nine counts of torture and six counts of child abuse. They both deny any abuse took place.
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| The Reason the Navy Is Exploding Bombs Near Its New Nuclear Aircraft Carrier Posted: 14 May 2018 06:51 AM PDT  Will the new USS Ford carrier be able to withstand major underwater explosions? The US Navy is planning to finalize weapons integration on its new USS Ford carrier and explode bombs in various sea conditions near the ship to prepare for major combat on the open seas, service officials said. Service weapons testers will detonate a wide range of bombs, to include a variety of underwater sea mines to assess the carrier's ability to withstand enemy attacks "Shock Trials," as they are called, are typically one of the final stages in the Navy process designed to bring warships from development to operational deployment.
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| Voters cast ballots in 4 states; in Pa., redrawn map in play Posted: 15 May 2018 03:37 AM PDT  Tuesday's primary elections will begin to settle swing state Pennsylvania's chaotic congressional landscape after a court fight ended with redrawn districts just three months ago.
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| #LesterAcrossAmerica: Wrap-up Posted: 15 May 2018 05:10 AM PDT  Lester Holt traveled to five different American cities over the course of five days as part of his #LesterAcrossAmerica tour. Take a look back at where his travels took him.
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| MH370 captain 'deliberately evaded radar' during final moments of doomed flight Posted: 13 May 2018 11:47 PM PDT  Aviation experts believe they may have solved the mystery of the disappearance of flight MH370, saying the 239 passengers and crew were the victims of a deliberate, criminal act carried out by the plane's captain. The fate of the Boeing 777 has mystified investigators ever since it went missing en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in 2014. However, a panel of experts assembled for the Australian TV programme 60 Minutes says the evidence suggests Captain Zaharie Ahmad Shah executed a careful series of manoeuvres to evade detection and ensure the plane disappeared in a remote location. Martin Dolan, former head of the Australia Transport Safety Bureau, who led the two-year search for the missing plane, said: "This was planned, this was deliberate, and it was done over an extended period of time." The plane was presumed to have flown on autopilot before running out of fuel and plunging into the southern Indian Ocean. However, the wreckage has never been found and the search was suspended in January last year. Zaharie Amad Shah was the captain of Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 when it disappeared in 2014 The panel suggested a more gradual descent could mean the search was concentrated in the wrong area and that the plane could still be found largely intact. Simon Hardy, a Boeing 777 instructor, said Captain Zaharie avoided detection by flying a careful course along the winding border between Malaysian and Thai air space, crossing in and out of radar cover on either side. "So both of the controllers aren't bothered about this mysterious aircraft. Cause it's, 'Oh, it's gone. It's not in our space any more,'" he told the programme, which was broadcast on Sunday. The search for MH370 "If you were commissioning me to do this operation and try and make a 777 disappear, I would do exactly the same thing." He also pointed out the Malaysian captain had made an unexplained turn to fly over his home town of Penang. "Somebody was looking out the window, It might be a long, emotional goodbye or a short, emotional goodbye to his home town," he said. Survey ship HMS Echo and a Lockheed P-3 Orion during the early days of the search in the southern Indian Ocean Credit: Press Association Larry Vance, a veteran air crash investigator, told the programme the public could be confident in a growing consensus about the plane's final moments and that the pilot was intent on killing himself. "Unfortunately, he was killing everybody else on board, and he did it deliberately," he added. The pilot Theories about the plane's disappearance being due to a "rogue pilot" emerged soon after the tragedy. Malaysian officials said they believed the plane went missing after a "deliberate act" and confirmed the last words heard from the cockpit were "good night Malaysian three seven zero". It's unknown whether the sentence was spoken by Captain Zaharie or the co-pilot, 27-year-old Fariq Abdul Hamid. However no conclusive evidence has ever been found that one or both of the pilots deliberately steered the aircraft into the ocean. A Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 plane Credit: STRINGER An initial interim report into the mystery in 2015 looked closely at Captain Zaharie's background and behaviour in the lead-up to the flight, but found his "ability to handle stress at work and home was good". The report also stated: "There was no known history of apathy, anxiety, or irritability. There were no significant changes in his lifestyle, interpersonal conflict or family stresses." Captain Zaharie's wife, Faizah Hanun, was questioned a number of times by the FBI and Malaysian police about her husband's state of mind leading up to the flight. The pair were reported to have split-up before the crash, although they were still living under the same roof in Kuala Lumpur. A modern mystery | Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 Speculation that Captain Zaharie may have brought the plane down as part of an elaborate insurance scam as also ruled out by the report, which found "no record of him having secured a life insurance policy." Footage of the pilots and crew preparing to board the missing Boeing 777 again showed no untoward signs, with them appearing "well groomed and attired". On Zaharie's behaviour investigators concluded: "The gait, posture, facial expressions and mannerism were his normal characteristics." Disappearance MH370 lost contact with Malaysian Airlines less than an hour after it took of from Kuala Lumpur International Airport at 12.41am on 8 March 2014. No distress signal or communication was sent after it disappeared. MH370 flight path The plane's transponder, the instrument that communicates with ground radar, appeared to be shut down as it crossed from Malaysian to Vietnamese airspace over the South China Sea. Initial investigations suggested the plane came down in the Indian Ocean south west of Australia, well out of its designated flight path. When it went down the plane was carrying 12 Malaysian crew members and 227 passengers, including seven children. A woman cries and drops to her knees while praying with MH370 relatives at the Lama Temple in Beijing, on the second anniversary of plane's disappearance Credit: Mark Schiefelbein The majority of those on board were Chinese and Malaysians but it was also carrying passengers from Iran, America, Canada, Indonesia, Australia, India, France, New Zealand, Ukraine, Russia, Taiwan and the Netherlands. Malaysia Airlines said four passengers who checked in for the flight did not show up at the airport on the day. 'Most expensive search in history' The search for MH370 is thought to be the most expensive ever conducted. The mystery over its last location has lead to a vast search area of nearly three million square miles being designated. Since then Malaysian, Australian and Chinese teams have carried out underwater searches spanning 46,000 square miles in the southern Indian Ocean and found nothing. French police officers carry a piece of MH370 debris from a plane in Saint-Andre, Reunion Island, near Madagascar in 2015 Credit: AP/Lucas Marie Debris from MH370 has washed up in beaches along the coastline of Mozambique, Tanzania, Madagascar, Reunion Island and Mauritius. This has been attributed to the strength of the ocean's currents rather than giving any clues as to MH370's final resting place. A report released by the Australian search agency in December advised that if the plane was not found in the existing zone it was most likely to be in a 9,653 square-mile to the north. But after spending an estimated at £90 million, the three countries decided to wind down the investigation earlier this year. Costs of searching for MH370 - D The decision was met with dismay from the families' official support group, Voice 370. In a statement it said: "In our view, extending the search to the new area defined by the experts is an inescapable duty owed to the flying public in the interest of aviation safety."
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| Scott Pruitt Got 24/7 Security From Day 1 At EPA, New Documents Show Posted: 15 May 2018 04:48 AM PDT  Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt was granted around-
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| Willow Smith Tells A Shocked Jada Pinkett Smith She Self-Harmed As A Preteen Posted: 15 May 2018 08:43 AM PDT  Jada Pinkett Smith and her kin are confronting real issues on the web series
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| Wisconsin police released new surveillance video of an arrest that went viral Posted: 15 May 2018 01:40 PM PDT  Police in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, released new surveillance video of an arrest which stirred outrage when cellphone video first emerged.
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| Golden State Killer latest: Who is Joseph DeAngelo? The former police officer accused of 12 murders Posted: 14 May 2018 02:51 AM PDT  In the decade that he is believed to have terrorised California with a string of rapes and murders, the suspect acquired a roster of nicknames that testified to how large he loomed in the public's nightmares. The longer he thwarted authorities and committed crimes that seemed designed for maximum horror, the more he came to assume the quality of an urban legend: a threat that always lurked at the edge of peoples' consciousness, a reason to keep the doors locked at night. "For us here in Sacramento, it was a time of innocence" before the crimes began, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert said in announcing authorities had arrested a suspect, but then "it all changed".
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| Melania Trump Is Recovering From Kidney Surgery Posted: 14 May 2018 01:12 PM PDT  First lady Melania Trump is recovering from surgery she had on Monday to treat
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| Is the Ring of Fire more active with volcanoes, earthquakes than usual? Posted: 15 May 2018 05:21 AM PDT  Reports of earthquakes and volcano eruptions in regions along the Ring of Fire might lead some to believe that the level of activity in recent months is above average.
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| Coroner: Detained suspect in Louisiana died of asphyxiation Posted: 14 May 2018 07:14 PM PDT  GRETNA, La. (AP) — A black suspect who tussled with white deputies as they detained him in a suburb of New Orleans last week died of asphyxiation and there was evidence of pressure on his neck, a coroner said Monday.
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| Fairy-tale animal scenes Posted: 14 May 2018 02:00 AM PDT ![Fairy-tale animal scenes]( "Fairy-tale animal scenes") The enchanting snaps show the models cuddling up to the deadly animals and even taking naps with the often unpredictable creatures. In true storybook style, the images were taken deep in a forest just outside Moscow and were shot by photographer, Olga Barantseva.
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| Israel faces outcry after 60 killed on Gaza border Posted: 15 May 2018 01:01 PM PDT  Israel came under mounting international pressure amid calls Tuesday for an independent probe after its forces killed 60 Palestinians during protests along the Gaza border as the United States opened an embassy in Jerusalem. Protests and sporadic incidents flared again on the Gaza border, though they were far fewer in number than the previous day, with two Palestinians killed by Israeli fire, Gaza's health ministry said.
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| Firebrand cleric Moqtada al-Sadr takes shock lead in Iraq election Posted: 14 May 2018 01:52 PM PDT  A firebrand cleric who led a militia which fought British and American troops in Iraq is on course to win the country's elections, in what would be a surprise upset for Western-backed incumbent Haider al-Abadi. Moqtada al-Sadr's Sairoon alliance of reformed Shia militants and communists was ahead in eight of Iraq's 18 provinces and second in four others. His Mahdi Army waged a brutal and costly insurgency against coalition troops during the 2006-2008 civil war and offered a reward for any British soldiers captured. Mr Sadr has since disavowed violence against fellow Iraqis and in 2008 ordered his forces to become a humanitarian group. Mr Sadr himself rebranded as a secular nationalist, campaigning against corruption and for reform, a message which seemed to resonate with Iraqis tired of entrenched sectarianism and graft. An Iraqi woman shows her ink-stained finger after casting her vote at a polling station during the parliamentary election in the Sadr city district of Baghdad Credit: Reuters He is one of few Shia leaders to have kept his distance from neighbouring Iran, which has tried to influence Iraq's politics and extend its reach across the region. Mr Sadr, 44, has sought to broaden his regional support. Last year, he met Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia, a major US regional ally that is staunchly opposed to Iran. Crowds of mainly young people waved flags and pictures of Sadr in Sadr City, an impoverished quarter of Baghdad that is home to some 3 million people and is named after the cleric's late father, Ayatollah Mohammad Sadq al-Sadr. A ticket headed by Hadi al-Ameri, a former commander of Iran-backed Popular Mobilisation Units (PMU) that fought Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil), was in second place. Videos of Sadr supporters celebrating in Baghdad show them chanting "Baghdad will be free, Iran out, out!"— Tamer El-Ghobashy (@TamerELG) May 13, 2018 Mr Ameri, an opponent of Saddam Hussein who spent years in exile in Tehran, had also made combating corruption a central plank of his platform. The preliminary results dealt a shock to Prime Minister Mr Abadi, who had been tipped as the favourite and had considerable support cross-sectarian support, particularly in Sunni areas his army liberated from Isil. The British-educated engineer appeared to be third overall and fifth in Baghdad, which holds the largest number of seats. The US had backed Mr Abadi, a consensus figure who promised to keep American troops in the country as part of its stabilisation effort. Who is Moqtada al-Sadr, the radical cleric on course to take power in Iraq? Any victory for Mr Sadr will make the continued presence of US and British soldiers, which currently number in the low thousands and hundreds respectively, an unlikely prospect. While the expected results are not entirely good news for Washington, it will see some comfort that staunchly pro-Iran parties did not do better at a time when relations are worsening with Tehran. "The United States government views Sadr as anti-American. Sadr, however, is a pragmatic and rational actor," said Muhanad Seloom, associate lecturer at the University of Exeter's Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies. "Over the last 13 years, Sadr managed maintain calm relations with Iran and was able to negotiate peace with the US presence in Iraq," he told the Telegraph. "It is also important to remember that Sadr is part of Sairoon coalition which has other secularist parties not necessarily anti-American." An Iraqi man celebrates with a picture of Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr in Baghdad Credit: AFP But the complex electoral arithmetic of the Iraqi system means that no party is likely to win more than half the 329 seats needed to form a majority. There is expected to be weeks of horse-trading as the dominant blocs form a coalition and agree a new parliament and a new prime minister. A senior member of Mr Sadr's party on Monday hinted that they would not enter into a coalition with Mr Ameri's Conquest party because of its strong sectarian allegiance. However, it could look to make up the numbers with Mr Abadi's Nasr bloc. Mr Sadr will not take up the position of premier as he did not run as a candidate, but he will be able to pick a man for the job. He has previously said he supported a second term for Mr Abadi and it could not be ruled out that any new coalition could choose him. The results, and the record low turnout of 45 per cent, point to a population fatigued by the influence of outside countries. "This is a win for Iraq," said Ali Khadar, a student in Baghdad. "This is Iraq waking up to the problems it has been plagued by for years. Corruption is at the centre of all our issues, and this is a rejection of that." Mr Seloom added: "in a region where outcomes of elections are almost known in advance, Iraq's elections surprising results is a positive sign of developing democracy."
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| 10 Frequently Asked Social Security Benefit Questions Posted: 14 May 2018 07:21 AM PDT ![10 Frequently Asked Social Security Benefit Questions]( "10 Frequently Asked Social Security Benefit Questions") The majority of American workers will eventually collect Social Security benefits. Here are the answers to some of the most frequently asked Social Security questions. What is the Social Security retirement age?
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| Trevor Noah: 'I Don’t Watch Fox News' And Neither Should You Posted: 15 May 2018 02:52 AM PDT  Trevor Noah says his fans should not watch Fox News.
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| Innocent Missouri Convict, David Robinson, Released After 18 Years In Prison For Murder He Didn't Commit Posted: 15 May 2018 05:19 AM PDT  David Robinson was released Monday night.
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| Trump Orders Help For Chinese Phone-Maker After China Approves Money For Trump Project Posted: 14 May 2018 02:58 PM PDT  WASHINGTON - A mere 72 hours after the Chinese government agreed to put a
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| STDs Reached a Record High in California Last Year, According to State Health Authorities Posted: 14 May 2018 08:43 PM PDT  Health professionals blame budget shortfall and other factors for the spike
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| Supreme Court puts brakes on police searches of rental cars Posted: 14 May 2018 11:25 AM PDT  By Andrew Chung WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday limited the ability of police to search rental cars driven by someone other than the person who signed the rental agreement, shoring up privacy rights behind the wheel. The nine justices unanimously threw out a lower court ruling that had approved of a search by Pennsylvania police of a Ford Fusion driven by Terrence Byrd, whose girlfriend had rented the car. State troopers told Byrd they could search the car because he was not listed as an authorized driver, and they found heroin and a bulletproof vest in the trunk.
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| Chile archbishop defends himself as pope's summit opens Posted: 15 May 2018 10:38 AM PDT  VATICAN CITY (AP) — The retired archbishop of Santiago is denying he covered-up for an abusive priest in Chile, but is acknowledging the priest's popularity and ability to produce seminarians weighed on his decision-making.
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| White House blames Hamas over 55 Palestinians shot dead by Israeli troops: 'This is a gruesome propaganda attempt' Posted: 14 May 2018 12:21 PM PDT  The White House has refused to condemn Israel for shooting dead at least 55 Palestinian protesters or even call for restraint, instead seeking to put the blame on Hamas and describing the protests as a "gruesome propaganda attempt". As condemnation poured in from around the world over the latest violence carried out by Israeli forces on the border with Gaza, White House spokesman Raj Shah said the administration believed Israel had the right to defend itself. "We're aware of the reports of continued violence in Gaza today," said Mr Shah, the deputy press secretary.
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| Pakistan's Sharif ignites firestorm with Mumbai attacks interview Posted: 14 May 2018 06:23 AM PDT  Former Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif has sparked a firestorm at home and in India after suggesting Pakistani militants were behind the 2008 Mumbai attacks, with the National Security Council slamming his remarks on Monday. The former premier approached what is seen as a red line in the country by touching on criticism of Pakistan's armed forces, especially their alleged use of proxies in India, in the interview with Dawn newspaper published over the weekend. Call them non-state actors, should we allow them to cross the border and kill 150 people in Mumbai?
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| Adam Rippon Honors His Mom With Stunning 'Dancing With The Stars' Performance Posted: 15 May 2018 10:50 AM PDT  Adam Rippon continued his winning streak with an impeccably graceful
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| Video Hints 2019 Mustang Shelby GT500 Has A Dual-Clutch Gearbox Posted: 14 May 2018 10:47 AM PDT  The upshifts are suspiciously quick.
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| Lawsuit filed to block Obama Center in Chicago park Posted: 15 May 2018 08:37 AM PDT  Public park advocates have filed a lawsuit against the city of Chicago seeking to stop construction of the Obama Presidential Center.
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| North Korea begins dismantling nuclear test site, according to satellite photos Posted: 14 May 2018 05:04 PM PDT  North Korea has begun dismantling facilities at its nuclear test site, according to a satellite survey conducted by American researchers. Analysts at the 38 North website say commercial imagery taken last week reveals that several support buildings have been demolished, railroads have been removed and mining carts overturned. Pyongyang has promised to dismantle the Punggye-ri test site under the gaze of journalists between May 23 and 25. The underground facility has been the site of all six North Korean nuclear tests. The destruction of the site has been offered as an example of the secretive regime's commitment to disarming ahead of a historic meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un next month. Kim Jong-un and Donald Trump are due to meet on June 12 in Singapore Credit: Reuters/KCNA The commitment was praised by Moon Jae-in, the South Korean president, on Monday. "This would be a preliminary step toward complete denuclearisation," he said during a meeting with his aides, according to his office. However, sceptics point out that part of the site is believed to have collapsed, rendering it unsafe, and that North Korean no longer needs a test site, having developed a nuclear arsenal. The analysis suggests that work has already begun on dismantling the site. Kim Jong-un has the USA and South Korea exactly where he wants them "Imagery from May 7 shows that two key buildings (one likely an engineering office building, the other a compressor building) near the portal has been razed along with a shed that might have housed instrumentation equipment and one small outbuilding," reads the analysis. "The rail lines for the mining carts have all apparently been removed and the previously noted train of mining carts appears to have been tipped over and/or disassembled on the spoil pile." At the same time, a number of new structures may be designed to provide access and vantage points for the world's press. However, no tunnel entrances at the test site appear to have been permanently closed yet. North Korea's nuclear progress - estimated yields per test "This may be because on May 12, the official Korean Central News Agency announced that the final dismantlement of the Punggye-ri nuclear test ground would be witnessed by foreign journalists and would involve the 'collapsing all of its tunnels with explosions, blocking its entrances, and removing all observation facilities, research buildings and security posts'," the report concludes.
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| Putin: New weapons will maintain Russia's might for decades Posted: 15 May 2018 01:54 PM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — Russia's new weapons, including an array of new nuclear systems, will ensure the country's security for decades to come, President Vladimir Putin said Tuesday at a meeting with top military brass.
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