| DoJ seizes records of NY Times reporter in leak probe: NYT Posted: 07 Jun 2018 11:59 AM PDT  Rachel Maddow shares breaking news from The New York Times that the Justice Deparment seized the records of and surveilled a national security reporter who currently works for The New York Times, in an investigation of leaks of classified material.
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| Not much intelligent life in Washington. Outer space is another story. Posted: 07 Jun 2018 02:00 AM PDT  What's the truth behind that strange aircraft spotted off the coast of San Diego in 2004? Go ahead and laugh. But in the age of entertainment, we can no longer differentiate what's entirely superfluous from what seems superfluous but might really matter.
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| CrossFit Spokesman Fired After Calling LGBTQ Pride A 'Sin' In Homophobic Twitter Rant Posted: 07 Jun 2018 08:28 AM PDT  A CrossFit spokesman is out of a job after firing off a series of homophobic
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| Michael Avenatti Calls For 'Absolute Pig' Rudy Giuliani To Be Fired After Comments Posted: 07 Jun 2018 10:29 AM PDT  Stormy Daniels' lawyer Michael Avenatti went after Rudy Giuliani on Wednesday
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| Hawaii lava evacuee recounts neighborhood shooting near flow Posted: 08 Jun 2018 01:46 PM PDT  HONOLULU (AP) — A woman who evacuated her Hawaii home because of the erupting Kilauea volcano said Thursday she filmed an angry neighbor shooting at a man near a lava flow.
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| The conversation around the Lewinsky affair has evolved – Bill Clinton has not Posted: 08 Jun 2018 04:00 AM PDT  Bill Clinton is currently on a book tour to promote The President is Missing, a thriller he has written with James Patterson. Clinton, 71, has been criticized for responding in a manner many consider to be tone deaf. In an interview Monday on NBC's Today program, Clinton said he doesn't owe Lewinsky a personal apology.
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| Protests erupt at G-7 summit in Quebec Posted: 08 Jun 2018 08:31 AM PDT ![Protests erupt at G-7 summit in Quebec]( "Protests erupt at G-7 summit in Quebec") After a tense standoff between police and anti-G7 protesters Friday morning, officers have peacefully cleared demonstrators and re-opened a road leading to the summit site of La Malbaie. Police in riot gear declared the protest illegal a few minutes after it began and encircled about 100 protesters who had blocked a road leading to the small town north of Québec City where G7 leaders are gathering for a two-day summit. Protesters said they achieved their goals of shutting down Québec City after the legislature was closed down on Friday and many businesses decided to shut their doors.
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| Your Private Facebook Posts May Have Been Public For Days Posted: 07 Jun 2018 04:33 PM PDT  Facebook has had another privacy mishap, this time announcing a recent bug
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| Key White House official advocated for 'limited use of military force' in North Korea Posted: 06 Jun 2018 06:34 PM PDT  Fred Fleitz, the chief of staff of the White House National Security Council, says top officials are considering "regime change" and the so-called bloody nose strike.
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| Mom, boyfriend sentenced in boy's 'beyond animalistic' death Posted: 07 Jun 2018 12:23 PM PDT  LOS ANGELES (AP) — A judge sentenced a California mother to life in prison Thursday and gave her boyfriend the death penalty in the "beyond animalistic" killing of the woman's 8-year-old son, who prosecutors say was punished because the couple believed he was gay.
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| The Latest: Earthquake and ash eruption hit Kilauea volcano Posted: 06 Jun 2018 08:08 PM PDT  HONOLULU (AP) — The Latest on the eruption of Hawaii's Kilauea volcano (all times local):
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| NASA's Mars rover drills up most complex organic matter yet Posted: 07 Jun 2018 12:00 PM PDT  In a breakthrough for the hunt for life on Mars, a NASA robot has detected the most complex organic matter yet from 3.5 billion-year-old rocks on the surface of the Red Planet, scientists said Thursday. The unmanned Curiosity rover has also found increasing evidence for seasonal variations of methane on Mars, indicating the source of the gas is likely the planet itself, or possibly its subsurface water. While not direct evidence of life, the compounds drilled from Mars' Gale Crater are the most diverse array ever drilled from the surface of the planet since the robotic vehicle landed in 2012, experts say.
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| Immigrant Faces Deportation After Delivering Pizza To New York Army Base Posted: 07 Jun 2018 09:30 AM PDT  A New York City pizza deliverer who brought a pie to an Army base in Brooklyn
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| Giuliani Speaks, Causes Trouble for Trump Posted: 07 Jun 2018 01:16 PM PDT  Rudy Giuliani made off-the-cuff remarks about North Korea that the Secretary of State had to rebuff. Giuliani also made claims about Melania Trump and Stormy Daniels that the First Lady's spokesperson had to shoot down.
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| Queen Maxima of the Netherlands' Sister, 33, Found Dead in Her Home of Apparent Suicide Posted: 07 Jun 2018 08:00 AM PDT  Queen Maxima of the Netherlands' sister was found dead of an apparent suicide at her apartment in Buenos Aires on Wednesday night, according to reports, including the BBC
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| 'A Pardon Is Unnecessary.' Muhammad Ali's Lawyer Responds to President Trump's Pardon Consideration Posted: 08 Jun 2018 09:35 AM PDT  "There is no conviction from which a pardon is needed"
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| Police: 2-year-old, father believed dead in murder-suicide Posted: 06 Jun 2018 07:54 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — A 2-year-old Long Island boy and the father suspected of abducting him during a bitter custody fight are believed to be dead in Virginia, each with a gunshot wound in an apparent murder-suicide, police said Wednesday. It was a tragic development in a case where authorities declined to issue an Amber Alert and waited more than six hours to ask the public for help.
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| Israeli troops kill four Palestinians as Gaza protest resumes Posted: 08 Jun 2018 03:27 PM PDT  By Nidal al-Mughrabi GAZA (Reuters) - Israeli troops killed four Palestinians and wounded hundreds of others on Friday with live fire and tear gas used against protesters at the Gaza border, medics said. Israel said it was defending the frontier against crowds that threw stones and burned tyres in an attempt to cross. The protests tapered off around sunset when many demonstrators left border camps for the evening meal that breaks their fast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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| New Rental Law Forces Airbnb To Cancel Thousands Of Reservations In Japan Posted: 08 Jun 2018 09:02 AM PDT  Airbnb said on Thursday it's been forced to cancel thousands of bookings in
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| Could China Turn Russia Into an Aircraft Carrier Superpower? Posted: 07 Jun 2018 06:25 AM PDT  The only downside for China would be that a Russian carrier would take up space and industrial capacity in Chinese yards, but this is a small price to pay. The Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov has entered what is expected to be a substantial refit.
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| Taiwan conducting war games simulating repelling Chinese attack amid heighted tensions Posted: 07 Jun 2018 01:18 AM PDT  Fighter jets, helicopters and thousands of troops in Taiwan fought back a simulated Chinese invasion Thursday as the self-ruled island faces increasing military and diplomatic pressure from Beijing. Relations between Taipei and Beijing have deteriorated since President Tsai Ing-wen was elected in 2016, as her government refuses to acknowledge that Taiwan is part of "one China". Live-fire drills began Monday with troops simulating surprise air and coastal assaults to reflect increased military threats from China, which sees Taiwan as a renegade province to be brought back into the fold - by force if necessary. Tsai watched Thursday's session of the ongoing "Han Kuang" (Han Glory) exercise involving 4,100 soldiers, attack helicopters and fighter jets from an air base in Taichung. Thursday's scenario simulated the enemy bombing of an airfield and a paratrooper attack, with air and ground troops deployed to take back the base. A C-130 Hercules aircraft drops supplies during Han Kuang military drill simulating the China's People's Liberation Army (PLA) invading the island Credit: TYRONE SIU/REUTERS An F-16 fighter flew overhead and deployed flares in a defensive move against heat-seeking missiles. Special operations troops were seen moving to secure a building. "I have seen our troops' capabilities and I have faith that our troops can achieve the goal of 'solid defence and multiple deterrence'," Tsai said. China held its own live-fire drills in April in the Taiwan Strait - the narrow waterway separating the Chinese mainland from Taiwan - following weeks of air and naval manoeuvres in the area. Beijing has also stepped up diplomatic pressure on Taipei, luring four countries to switch allegiance from Taiwan to China since Tsai took office. China has been incensed by a recent warming in relations between Taiwan and the United States, which remains the island's most powerful ally and arms supplier even though it has no official diplomatic ties. President Donald Trump recently signed a symbolic bill paving the way for mutual visits by high-level officials and Washington gave long-awaited approval for a licence necessary to sell submarine technology to Taiwan. A defence spending bill currently before congress in Washington calls on the US military to participate in Taiwan's drills, including the annual Han Kuang exercise. "We are optimistic about all exchanges with the US as long as it's about national security, and regional peace and stability," defence ministry spokesman Chen Chung-chi said when asked to comment on American participation in Taiwan's drills. On Monday, the pilot of an F-16 jet involved in the drills was killed after crashing into a mountain in northern Taiwan. The cause of the incident was under investigation.
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| MIT Creates Psychopath AI By Making It Look At A Reddit Forum Posted: 07 Jun 2018 01:27 PM PDT  Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have truly created a
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| 'Hidden beauty near the shore' — Photography by Toru Kasuya Posted: 08 Jun 2018 10:59 AM PDT !['Hidden beauty near the shore' — Photography by Toru Kasuya]( "'Hidden beauty near the shore' — Photography by Toru Kasuya") One of Japan's emerging stars in the field of marine life photography, Toru Kasuya was the recent Grand Prize Winner of the 6th annual Nikkei National Geographic Photo Prize, whose mission is to raise the profile of promising Japanese photographers globally.
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| Trump-Kim creations on the menu as Singapore chefs mark summit Posted: 08 Jun 2018 01:50 AM PDT  From "El Trumpo" and "Rocket Man" tacos to the "Bromance" cocktail, restaurants and bars in food-crazy Singapore are rolling out weird and wonderful creations to mark the approaching US-North Korea summit. The affluent city-state prides itself on its buzzing culinary scene, and every type of outlet imaginable is jumping on the bandwagon ahead of Tuesday's meeting between US President Donald Trump and the North's Kim Jong Un. At Mexican restaurant Lucha Loco, customers can get stuck into an El Trumpo, a version of a taco that includes a beef patty and pickles.
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| Kamiyah Mobley Case: Gloria Williams Gets 18 Years for Kidnapping Newborn from Hospital, Raising Baby As Her Own Posted: 08 Jun 2018 11:06 AM PDT  Gloria Williams had pleaded guilty to kidnapping a baby girl from a Florida hospital.
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| Fire kites from Gaza a burning issue for Israel Posted: 06 Jun 2018 05:58 PM PDT  Israeli farmer Avner Yona holds up a wooden-framed sheet of plastic almost as large as he is, fitted with a now blackened tail ribbon that shows the kite-maker's malicious intent. The kite that drifted onto land he manages in the kibbutz, or collective farm, of Nahal Oz was launched from the Palestinian Gaza Strip just a kilometre (less than a mile) away over the heavily-guarded border. Like the stones and Molotov cocktails thrown in previous years, the kites have become a potent symbol of a wave of Palestinian protests that broke out on March 30 against Israel's crippling decade-long blockade of Gaza.
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| With nuclear deal under threat, Iran shows off centrifuges Posted: 07 Jun 2018 04:43 AM PDT  DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The star of a live television interview in Iran's new nuclear workshop wasn't the head of the country's atomic agency, but three centrifuges labeled in English in the background, advanced devices Tehran is prohibited from using by the nuclear deal with world powers.
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| Suspected Los Angeles street race ends in massive crash ‘like Armageddon’ Posted: 07 Jun 2018 09:26 AM PDT  A suspected street race in Los Angeles ended in a driver who may have been intoxicated crashing into several parked vehicles, authorities said. Police officers responded to reports of a collision involving street racing in the Reseda section of Los Angeles to find a scene of destruction after the drivers rammed into a number of parked cars. A Los Angeles Police Department official said that two people were in critical condition and local reports said three were injured in total.
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| More U.S. Government Workers Are Being Evacuated From China After Mysterious Medical Symptoms Posted: 06 Jun 2018 09:44 PM PDT  Testing revealed they might have been affected by unexplained health incidents similar to those in Cuba
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| But How Feasible Is The 'Ocean's 8' Heist Really? A Blow-By-Blow Examination Posted: 08 Jun 2018 02:45 AM PDT  Warning: This article contains spoilers. So many spoilers. Highly detailed,
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| Scientists find affordable way to recapture CO2 and burn it Posted: 08 Jun 2018 05:00 AM PDT  Scientists at Harvard have developed a new method of scrubbing carbon from the atmosphere, and turning it into hydrocarbon fuels that could be burned in airplanes or even cars. Most importantly, the cost targets are considered affordable, ranging from $1 to $2.50 to remediate carbon dioxide released by burning a gallon of gasoline. Giant collectors resembling industrial cooling towers capture the carbon dioxide from the air in an alkaline liquid.
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| The Latest: Police: Father, son dead in murder-suicide Posted: 06 Jun 2018 07:49 PM PDT NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on missing 2-year-old and father found dead in Virginia (all times local):
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| Target’s New Home Collection Is Going to Transform Your Apartment Posted: 06 Jun 2018 06:18 PM PDT  Finally, affordable essentials that aren't hideous
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| China hacked sensitive U.S. Navy undersea warfare plans: Washington Post Posted: 08 Jun 2018 03:48 PM PDT ![China hacked sensitive U.S. Navy undersea warfare plans: Washington Post]( "China hacked sensitive U.S. Navy undersea warfare plans: Washington Post") Chinese government hackers compromised the computers of a U.S. Navy contractor and stole a large amount of highly sensitive data on undersea warfare, including plans for a supersonic anti-ship missile for use on U.S. submarines, the Washington Post reported on Friday, citing unnamed U.S. officials. The breaches took place in January and February, the officials told the Post, speaking on condition of anonymity about an ongoing investigation led by the Navy and assisted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
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| Canada Senate passes bill legalizing recreational marijuana Posted: 07 Jun 2018 07:39 PM PDT  Canada's Senate passed a bill Thursday legalizing recreational marijuana, moving it closer to becoming the first member of the Group of Seven nations to legalize the production, sale and consumption of the drug. Bill C-45, or the Cannabis Act, passed the Senate with 52 votes for, 30 against and one abstention after months of debate over the ramifications of legalization. The Cannabis Act will now go back to the House of Commons, which passed the bill in November 2017 but needs to sign off on changes made by the Senate.
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| Texas man nearly died after being bitten by venomous snake he decapitated, wife says Posted: 07 Jun 2018 07:37 AM PDT  Jennifer Sutcliffe said she and her husband were doing yard work on Memorial Day weekend – in preparation for a family barbecue – when she spotted a 4-foot long Western diamondback rattlesnake slithering through her flowerbed. Ms Sutcliffe screamed, she told the Washington Post, altering her husband to the snake's presence.
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| Trump's Immigration Policies Are Making It Harder for Foreign Doctors to Work in the U.S. — And That Could Hurt Patients Posted: 08 Jun 2018 12:23 PM PDT  It's only the latest threat to foreign medical graduates
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| The Latest: Hawaii lava destroys more than 600 homes Posted: 07 Jun 2018 08:02 PM PDT  HONOLULU (AP) — The Latest on Kilauea volcano's eruption in Hawaii (all times local):
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| Gator killed woman after dragging her into Florida lake Posted: 08 Jun 2018 02:35 PM PDT  Authorities captured and killed an alligator that they believe fatally attacked a woman while she was out walking her dogs near a Florida lake Friday.
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| What Will House Republicans Do If Trump Pardons Himself? We Asked Them. Posted: 07 Jun 2018 03:00 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― Four days before Richard Nixon resigned in 1974, the Justice
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| Arizona police under scrutiny after beating video surfaces Posted: 07 Jun 2018 07:43 PM PDT  PHOENIX (AP) — The attorneys and a pastor for a suburban Phoenix man seen on video being beaten by police while standing against a wall said Thursday that the officer's claim that their client posed a threat "doesn't pass the smell test."
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