| Jeff Sessions Says Firing James Comey 'Was The Right Thing To Do' Posted: 14 Jun 2018 03:40 AM PDT  Attorney General Jeff Sessions has strongly defended President Donald Trump's
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| Antarctic Ice Sheet Is Melting Way Faster Than Expected, Scientists Warn Posted: 14 Jun 2018 05:23 AM PDT  The Antarctic ice sheet is melting at a faster rate than at any previously
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| Trump turns his back on Michael Cohen at crucial point in case Posted: 13 Jun 2018 01:44 PM PDT  Emily Jane Fox, senior reporter for Vanity Fair, talks with Rachel Maddow about the betrayal Donald Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen feels at losing the support of Trump, to whom he has devoted so much of his life's work.
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| Mom killed in front of her 3 young children during carjacking: 'I'm sorry. I think I'm about to die' Posted: 14 Jun 2018 07:57 AM PDT  A Missouri mother was shot dead in front of her three young children during a
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| Woman Says Neil Armstrong Gave Her A Vial Of Moon Dust, Sues NASA To Keep It Posted: 13 Jun 2018 01:23 PM PDT  A Tennessee woman is proactively suing NASA to keep what she says is a vial of
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| Bode Miller's Daughter Wandered Off and Fell Into Swimming Pool in Matter of Moments, Authorities Say Posted: 14 Jun 2018 08:20 AM PDT  19-month-old Emeline was not in the pool long when she was discovered Saturday.
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| High-Climbing Raccoon Finally Reaches Top Of St. Paul Skyscraper And America Exhales Posted: 13 Jun 2018 01:19 AM PDT  A raccoon who captured the nation's attention by climbing 20 stories up the
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| Rights group: Israeli lethal force in Gaza may be war crime Posted: 13 Jun 2018 04:01 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — Human Rights Watch said Wednesday that Israel's use of lethal force against Palestinian demonstrators in the Gaza Strip in recent weeks may constitute war crimes.
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| In primaries, Republican candidates can't love Donald Trump enough Posted: 13 Jun 2018 10:08 AM PDT  In South Carolina, the candidate who loved President Trump best, state Rep. Katie Arrington, defeated incumbent Rep. Mark Sanford, who voted with Trump a mere 89 percent of the time and accused him of incompetence and promoting bigotry.
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| Trump's personal lawyer likely to work with federal prosecutors: Sources Posted: 12 Jun 2018 09:00 PM PDT  Word is that Michael Cohen, who is in under incredible pressure, is parting ways with his lawyers, sources said.
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| A look inside Trump immigration facility: 'effectively, these kids are incarcerated' Posted: 13 Jun 2018 01:08 PM PDT  Today, MSNBC correspondent Jacob Soboroff was one of a small group of reporters allowed inside the largest facility for immigrant children in the U.S. – the facility Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-OR) was refused entry to earlier this month.
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| Indonesian students fast, and study, during Ramadan Posted: 14 Jun 2018 10:55 AM PDT ![Indonesian students fast, and study, during Ramadan]( "Indonesian students fast, and study, during Ramadan") For students at one of Indonesia's oldest Islamic boarding schools, the holy month of Ramadan doesn't only mean fasting from dawn till dusk. It also means intensive study of the Koran.
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| NASA rover knocked out as gigantic dust storm envelops Mars Posted: 13 Jun 2018 03:12 PM PDT  CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA's seemingly unstoppable Mars rover Opportunity has been knocked out by a gigantic dust storm that is enveloping the red planet and blotting out the sun.
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| EPA workforce 'disgusted' by Scott Pruitt's scandals and priorities, official says Posted: 13 Jun 2018 05:39 PM PDT  A demoralized workforce watching as its agency is dismantled by the very people charged to lead it: That is the grim state of affairs depicted by John J. O'Grady, a longtime employee in the Chicago field office of the Environmental Protection Agency, which is tasked with protecting the nation's air and water, while preventing the exposure of citizens to harmful chemicals. The agency is doing none of that, in O'Grady's telling, with career officials watching in dismay as EPA administrator Scott Pruitt seemingly lurches from one scandal to another while doing the bidding of oil barons and the chemical lobby. "Morale is not good," O'Grady said of the agency's 14,000 employees.
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| Target Apologizes For Father's Day 'Baby Daddy' Cards Posted: 14 Jun 2018 08:17 AM PDT  Target apologized and pulled a Father's Day card off its shelves after it drew
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| New Jersey's Tough Gun Laws Just Got Even Stronger Posted: 13 Jun 2018 11:52 AM PDT  New Jersey gun laws, long considered among the nation's strongest, became even
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| 'Like Dominoes.' Brushfire Destroys Homes in Utah Tourist Town as Wildfires Menace U.S. West Posted: 13 Jun 2018 07:11 PM PDT  A fast-moving brush fire destroyed eight homes in the Utah tourist town of Moab, while more than 3,000 people in Colorado and Wyoming fled multiple wildfires scorching the drought-stricken U.S. West on Wednesday.
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| YouTube Stars Shamed by Internet Trolls Over Size of Engagement Ring Posted: 14 Jun 2018 10:20 AM PDT  Among messages of congratulations were comments that mocked the ring presented to Jen Phanomrat by her fiance, Leo Samanamud.
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| Iran arrests human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh after she criticised judiciary Posted: 13 Jun 2018 07:08 AM PDT  One of Iran's most prominent human rights lawyers has been arrested after criticising the country's judiciary, according to her family. Nasrin Sotoudeh, 55, has been a well-known defender of Iranian dissidents, including some of the young women arrested recently for refusing to wear the hijab. Her husband, Reza Khandan, said in Facebook post on Wednesday that police arrested her at home and took her to Tehran's Evin prison. "Of all the functions that governments of the world are expected to do, the Iranian one is only good in arresting and imprisoning innocent people," he wrote. No official charges were announced but the arrest came shortly after Ms Sotoudeh spoke out against efforts by Iran's judiciary to force its own candidates onto the board of Iranian Bar Association. Ms Sotoudeh said the move would make it even more difficult for Iranian lawyers to defend dissidents. Vida Mohaved was arrested in Tehran in December "This action will erode the half-baked defence rights of those who have been accused of political and security offences and means a final farewell to the profession of independent attorney in Iran," she said in an interview with the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran. Ms Sotoudeh was previously arrested in 2010 and accused of spreading propaganda and endangering national security. Western governments protested her detention and she went on several hunger strikes in prison. She was eventually released in 2013, shortly before Hassan Rouhani, Iran's president, was due to speak at the UN. Ms Sotoudeh came to prominence representing defendants sentenced to die for crimes committed when they were children, opposition politicians, and the Nobel Prize winning-Iranian dissident Shirin Ebadi. She recently represented Vida Mohaved, a 31-year-old mother of one who was arrested in Tehran as she stood on top of a telecoms box hoisting a white hijab on a stick in protest at Iran's compulsory veiling laws. Ms Mohaved's protest helped inspire dozens of other women and some men to mount similar protests.
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| Woman Gets Head Stuck In Exhaust Pipe Posted: 13 Jun 2018 04:01 PM PDT  That's trucked up!
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| Hillary Clinton masterfully mocks James Comey over his misuse of private email Posted: 14 Jun 2018 04:00 PM PDT  "But her emails." It's become a meme at this point. The Republican party — and Trump campaign — made such a huge stinkin' deal about Clinton's use of a private email server while she was secretary of state, that any time a more serious scandal enveloped the right, people would mock the time and effort spent trying to "lock her up." The phrase has also been used jokingly to insult Trump supporters for latching onto the email scandal for so long, while there's plenty of better things to be concerned about. a man in a MAGA hat stumbles out of his basement, choking on dust and radioactive fallout"but her emails!" he whispers, before dying — tom (@toms_spaghetti) May 15, 2017 So, when it was revealed on Thursday that former FBI director James Comey used a personal email account for official government business by the Justice Department's internal watchdog, many saw the irony. You know, considering it was Comey who issued a statement in October 2016 — just 11 days before the election — saying the FBI was reopening its investigation into Clinton's email use. "But my emails," Clinton tweeted on Thursday in response to a tweet from a Politico reporter highlighting Comey's own email missteps. But my emails. https://t.co/G7TIWDEG0p — Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 14, 2018 The watchdog report also concluded that Comey's handling of Clinton's email investigation was "extraordinary and insubordinate" but was not motivated by political boas. Well, if anything, Clinton has proved once again that she is truly a killer of memes. First the "delete your account" meme, and now "but her emails." Thanks, Hillary. WATCH: These trees have lived for 2,500 years. Now they're suddenly dying
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| 'Melting Away' — Climate change and Greenland's Inuits Posted: 14 Jun 2018 09:59 AM PDT !['Melting Away' — Climate change and Greenland's Inuits]( "'Melting Away' — Climate change and Greenland's Inuits") Over the past five years, photographer Ciril Jazbec has documented the changing lives of the Inuit people in Greenland, the world's largest island, which is covered by the world's largest and fastest-melting ice sheet. This fact, together with the darkening of its surface, mean the changes in Greenland will affect the entire planet and its species, the majority of the scientists have come to agree. Jazbec's long-term project, Melting Away, is about a people at the forefront of climate change, who have an ancient knowledge of hunting and are in search of ways to survive a collapsing ecosystem. Qaanaaq and Siorapaluk, the world's northernmost settlements of roughly 700 Inuits, continues its traditional ways despite several alarming climate, environmental and cultural threats.
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| As North Korea danger recedes ever so slightly, renewed Russian threat looms Posted: 12 Jun 2018 05:44 PM PDT  Senate Judiciary Committee convened a hearing Tuesday that focused on the uneasy realization that Russia will likely try to interfere in the U.S. midterm elections.
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| Jada Pinkett Smith Talks Mental Health After Anthony Bourdain, Kate Spade Suicides Posted: 13 Jun 2018 08:57 AM PDT  Jada Pinkett Smith opened up about her own struggle with mental health in the
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| The FBI Agent Accused of Accidental Shooting During a Backflip Has Been Arrested Posted: 12 Jun 2018 10:14 PM PDT  Video appeared to show him dropping his handgun while doing a backflip
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| New wildfire erupts near Colorado ski resorts, houses Posted: 13 Jun 2018 12:16 AM PDT  DENVER (AP) — A wildfire erupted Tuesday in an area of Colorado known for its ski resorts, forcing the evacuation of more than 1,300 homes and marking the latest in a series of blazes that have ignited in the drought-stricken U.S. West.
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| Yemen forces launch assault on Hodeida port city: field commanders Posted: 13 Jun 2018 04:22 AM PDT  Yemen pro-government forces launched an offensive on Wednesday to seize the key port city of Hodeida from Huthi rebels, field commanders told AFP. Loyalist troops have begun pressing towards Hodeida airport, south of the strategic Red Sea city, the commanders said on condition of anonymity. The assault began at around 1:15 pm (1015 GMT) after Yemeni pro-government forces received a "green light" from the Saudi-led coalition, they said.
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| Former Rolls-Royce engineer 'arrested under Official Secrets Act' amid fears China tried to obtain F-35 fighter jet details Posted: 13 Jun 2018 11:30 PM PDT  A man in his 70s has been arrested as part of a probe under the Official Secrets Act, police said on Thursday, amid reports he was a former Rolls-Royce engineer suspected of divulging secrets about Britain's new stealth fighter to China. Scotland Yard said the man was arrested on Tuesday afternoon and taken to a police station in Derbyshire before being released under investigation. A search at an address in Derbyshire was ongoing while a search warrant was also executed at an office address in the West Midlands. The man was named by the Sun as Bryn Jones, a former chief combustion technologist, who it said had been detained in connection with efforts by China to obtain classified information about Britain's new £100million RAF stealth fighter jet. The 73-year-old former Rolls-Royce employee was reportedly held after MI5 received information that classified details were passed to Beijing. Factfile | F-35 Lightning II fighter He was detained in an "ultra-discreet" swoop by officers from Scotland Yard's SO15 counter-terrorism command at his home on Tuesday, it was reported. Mr Jones, who describes himself as a "visiting professor" in "gas turbine combustion" at the Aeronautical University of Xian, central China, denies any wrongdoing, the newspaper reported. The investigation reportedly centres on information about the F-35 Lightning II jet, which arrived in Britain last week. Britain has committed to buying 138 F-35 fighter aircraft and has so far bought 48 at a cost of £9.1 billion. The F-35 programme is the world's largest defence development, worth over $1.3trillion. UK industry provides 15 per cent of each of the 3,000 aircraft currently on the order books and at peak production 25,000 British jobs will be supported throughout the supply chain.
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| People Are Selling Elon Musk's Flamethrowers On eBay for Thousands Posted: 14 Jun 2018 11:25 AM PDT  People Are Selling Elon Musk's Flamethrowers On eBay for Thousands
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| Bodycam Footage From Harrowing First Moments of Police Response to Las Vegas Shooting Is Released Posted: 14 Jun 2018 07:15 AM PDT  Officers huddled with concertgoers, led terrified people to safety and helped the wounded.
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| Jamie Foxx 'Emphatically Denies' Sexual Misconduct Allegation Posted: 13 Jun 2018 04:43 PM PDT  A lawyer representing actor Jamie Foxx put out a statement on the star's
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| American detained in Vietnam after joining protests Posted: 14 Jun 2018 04:59 AM PDT  HANOI, Vietnam (AP) — An American citizen of Vietnamese descent has been detained in Vietnam after joining a protest over a controversial draft law on special economic zones that protesters fear would favor Chinese investors.
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| Soviet Cars Were Weird: Celebrating The 2018 World Cup In Russia Posted: 14 Jun 2018 03:35 AM PDT |
| Trump heaps praise on 'tough guy' Kim Jong Un Posted: 13 Jun 2018 04:47 PM PDT  The president again downplays the North Korean leader's repressive acts.
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| Better late than never: Mexico turtle declared new species Posted: 13 Jun 2018 01:15 AM PDT  Slow and steady wins the race, the saying goes -- and it seems to have worked for a small type of turtle native to western Mexico that has been declared a new species. For 20 years, residents of the area around Puerto Vallarta, a Pacific coast resort town, had been telling scientists about the little turtles native to their area. "They are found only here, in the streams and rivers around Puerto Vallarta," said Fabio German Cupul, a researcher at the University of Guadalajara.
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| Civilians flee bombardment as Arab states pound Yemen port Posted: 14 Jun 2018 03:29 PM PDT  By Mohammed Ghobari and Mohamed Mokashef ADEN (Reuters) - Arab warplanes and warships pounded Houthi positions in Yemen's Hodeidah on Thursday as a Saudi-led alliance tried to seize the main port in the largest battle of a war that has created the world's worst humanitarian crisis. "The fighting is getting close to the al-Manzar area near the airport and people are fleeing in fear," said Mohammed Abdullah, an employee of the Houthi administration in the city. Coalition forces were just 2 km from the airport, the Emirati ambassador to the United Nations, Obeid Salem Al Zaabi, told reporters in Geneva.
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| Ford F-150, Expedition, and Lincoln Navigators Recalled for Potential Fuel Posted: 13 Jun 2018 11:49 AM PDT  Poor fuel-pump welds are the problem.
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