| Pompeo shrugs off North Korea’s ‘gangster’ comment, claims progress Posted: 09 Jul 2018 08:52 AM PDT  "If those requests were gangster-like, the world is a gangster," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said, brushing off North Korea's charge that his disarmament demands were "gangster-like."
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| Trump picks Brett Kavanaugh for Supreme Court Posted: 09 Jul 2018 08:49 AM PDT  President Trump announced Monday night that Brett Kavanaugh, a federal appellate court judge in Washington, D.C., is his pick to replace outgoing Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy.
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| Police Search For Suspects In Alleged Racist Attack On 91-Year-Old Mexican Man Posted: 10 Jul 2018 04:30 AM PDT  California police are searching for multiple suspects after an elderly Mexican
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| Australian rangers trap big crocodile near tourist gorge Posted: 10 Jul 2018 03:35 AM PDT  CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — Wildlife rangers said Tuesday that they had trapped a 4.7-meter (15-foot) saltwater crocodile, the largest they had ever caught in the northern Australian Katherine River and in an upstream region popular with tourists that is thought relatively safe from the killer predators.
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| Woman Behind Viral 'Plane Bae' Twitter Thread Deletes It And Apologizes Posted: 10 Jul 2018 03:51 PM PDT  The Dallas woman behind the viral Twitter thread about two people flirting on
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| Newlywed Husband Killed and Wife Injured as They Collide in Freak Zip Line Accident During Honeymoon Posted: 09 Jul 2018 11:44 AM PDT  Egael Tishman, 24, and his wife, Shif Fanken, 27, were on a cruise that had set sail from their native Israel just one day after they were married.
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| Israel plans to land unmanned spacecraft on moon in February Posted: 10 Jul 2018 06:12 AM PDT  By Ari Rabinovitch YEHUD, Israel (Reuters) - An Israeli non-profit group plans to land an unmanned spacecraft on the moon in February in the first landing of its kind since 2013. The craft, which is shaped like a round table with four carbon fiber legs, is set to blast off in December from Florida's Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, said Ido Anteby, chief executive of the SpaceIL non-profit. "Our spacecraft will be the smallest ever to land on the moon," said Anteby.
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| TSA Apologizes To NY Giants Player For Spilling Mom’s Ashes During Bag Search Posted: 10 Jul 2018 02:26 PM PDT  The Transportation Security Administration apologized to New York Giants
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| Thai cave rescue: a timeline Posted: 09 Jul 2018 08:46 AM PDT  The unprecedented mission to evacuate the "Wild Boar" football team and their coach from a flooded Thai cave has gripped Thailand and dominated global headlines. The youngsters, aged between 11 and 16, and their 25-year-old coach enter the Tham Luang cave in northern Thailand during heavy rains after football practice. Thai Navy SEAL divers enter the cave searching for the boys.
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| Twitter Users Eviscerate Trump's Claim Kim Jong Un Will Honor 'Our Handshake' Posted: 09 Jul 2018 01:32 PM PDT  Although it appears that North Korea has no intention of giving up its entire
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| "Everyone is Safe": Daring rescue of Thai soccer team ends Posted: 10 Jul 2018 01:26 PM PDT  MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — "Everyone is safe." With those three words posted on Facebook the daring rescue mission to extricate 12 boys and their soccer coach from the treacherous confines of a flooded cave in Thailand came to a close on Tuesday — a grueling 18-day ordeal that claimed the life of an experienced diver and riveted people worldwide.
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| Women confronted for wearing Puerto Rico shirt in a park begs for help from police Posted: 10 Jul 2018 11:44 AM PDT  An Illinois park is investigating after a woman accused one of its police officers of standing by while a man harassed her for wearing an "un-American" shirt bearing the Puerto Rican flag. 24-year-old Mia Irizarry was wearing a shirt when she rented out a section of the local park for her birthday party. "You should not be wearing that in the United States of America," the man says, walking into the space which Ms Irizarry rented for her party.
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| The Best Packing Tips From One-Bag Travel Fanatics Posted: 10 Jul 2018 11:58 AM PDT  If you aren't familiar with one-bagging, it's the practice of packing so light
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| Stop Using Children To Punish Mothers At The Border And At The Hospital Posted: 09 Jul 2018 09:30 AM PDT  The Trump administration's zero tolerance border policy, which removed
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| 5 shot dead in home including 3 kids under 8 years old Posted: 10 Jul 2018 09:18 AM PDT  Five people, including three children younger than 8, were found shot dead in a Delaware home, authorities said.
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| UK PM May appoints Jeremy Hunt as new foreign minister Posted: 09 Jul 2018 02:41 PM PDT  British Prime Minister Theresa May appointed Jeremy Hunt as foreign minister on Monday after predecessor Boris Johnson resigned in protest at the government's plans for a close trading relationship with the European Union. The appointment of Hunt, the long-serving health minister, sees a close May ally replace the maverick Johnson, and could alter the Brexit balance of May's top ministerial team. While Johnson was one of the most high-profile Brexit campaigners, Hunt backed "Remain" during the 2016 referendum campaign.
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| UK police cite 'high dose' in nerve agent death Posted: 09 Jul 2018 05:22 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — British police said Monday they believe the latest victims of poisoning by a nerve agent must have handled the material's container and been subjected to a "high dose" of the lethal poison.
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| Red State Democrats In Hot Seat Over Trump's Supreme Court Pick Posted: 09 Jul 2018 10:29 AM PDT  WASHINGTON ― The fate of President Donald Trump's upcoming Supreme Court
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| The Latest: Australia minister praises doctor assessing kids Posted: 08 Jul 2018 09:56 PM PDT  MAE SAI, Thailand (AP) — The Latest on the rescue of 12 boys and their soccer coach from a cave in northern Thailand (all times local):
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| UK's Harry and Meghan visit Dublin in first trip as married couple Posted: 10 Jul 2018 02:24 PM PDT  Prince Harry paid tribute on Tuesday to Britain's complex and "at times tragic" shared history with Ireland, at the start of a two-day visit to Dublin with his wife Meghan, their first trip abroad since their wedding in May. The pair arrived at Dublin airport, with Harry wearing a green tie and former Hollywood actress Meghan in a dark green Givenchy dress that appeared to have been chosen with Ireland's national color in mind.
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| Head soccer coach says he didn't know team would travel into the Thailand cave Posted: 10 Jul 2018 11:22 AM PDT  ABC News' Matt Gutman spoke with head coach Nopparat Kanthawong about what the team is like and if he knew assistant coach was taking them into cave.
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| Bill and Hillary Clinton Spotted on Commercial Flight Posted: 10 Jul 2018 08:51 AM PDT  The pair was seen on a Delta flight from Washington, D.C., to New York.
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| British man poisoned with Novichok regains consciousness: hospital Posted: 10 Jul 2018 10:12 AM PDT  A British man poisoned with the Novichok nerve agent 10 days ago has regained consciousness and is now in a critical but stable condition, Salisbury District Hospital said on Tuesday. Charlie Rowley, 45, was poisoned along with Dawn Sturgess, who died on Sunday, by the same nerve agent used in the attack on former Russian spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in March. "We have seen a small but significant improvement in the condition of Charlie Rowley," said Lorna Wilkinson, Director of Nursing at Salisbury District Hospital.
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| In Photos: Travel + Leisure readers name the world's best cities 2018 Posted: 10 Jul 2018 08:16 AM PDT ![In Photos: Travel + Leisure readers name the world's best cities 2018]( "In Photos: Travel + Leisure readers name the world's best cities 2018") In this year's edition of the World's Best Awards, readers of Travel + Leisure magazine were particularly enchanted with the Mexico, India and Southeast Asia, with cities from these countries and regions dominating the list of world's best cities 2018.
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| Israel closes Gaza goods crossing over Palestinian arson kites Posted: 09 Jul 2018 09:30 AM PDT  Israel closed its only goods crossing with the Gaza Strip on Monday over weeks of fires at farms caused by kites and balloons carrying firebombs from the Palestinian enclave. The arson attacks have led to increasing alarm among Israeli residents and farmers near the blockaded Gaza Strip and demands that authorities take action. "The crossing will be closed except for humanitarian equipment (including food and medicine) that will be approved on an individual basis," Israel's military said in a statement.
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| China raises tariff rates for some U.S. optical fiber products, from July 11 Posted: 10 Jul 2018 01:52 AM PDT  BEIJING (Reuters) - China's commerce ministry said on Tuesday it is raising "anti-dumping tariff rates" for some optical fiber products originating from the United States, effective on Wednesday, July 11. The new anti-dumping tariff rates for dispersion unshifted single-mode optical fiber imported from the U.S. range between 33.3 percent to 78.2 percent, compared with 4.7 percent to 18.6 percent as set in 2011. U.S. companies including Corning Inc, OFS Fitel, LLC and Draka Communications Americas Inc are among firms affected by the tariff change, the ministry said on its website. ...
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| Additional ex-wrestlers at Ohio State defend congressman Posted: 10 Jul 2018 02:12 PM PDT  COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Several ex-wrestlers at Ohio State University on Tuesday countered allegations that U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan turned a blind eye to alleged abuse of athletes by a former university team doctor decades ago.
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| California Prosecutor Suspended After Vile Attack On Maxine Waters Posted: 09 Jul 2018 06:32 PM PDT  A San Bernardino County prosecutor has been placed on leave after apparently
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| The F-35 Almost Never Happened: The Story of Boeing's X-32 Stealth Fighter Posted: 09 Jul 2018 07:30 AM PDT  What might have been.
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| Invasive aquatic species in US wreak havoc on ecosystems, cost hundreds of millions of dollars Posted: 10 Jul 2018 08:29 AM PDT  Invasive aquatic species in the United States have caused not just ecological damage, but financial damage as well. In some cases, they can also affect the health of humans.
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| After quitting, Boris Johnson says Brexit 'dream is dying' Posted: 09 Jul 2018 10:45 AM PDT  Boris Johnson warned Monday as he quit as foreign secretary that the Brexit "dream is dying" and Britain is "headed for the status of colony" with its plan to stay close to the EU. "Brexit should be about opportunity and hope. "In that respect we are truly headed for the status of colony -- and many will struggle to see the economic or political advantages of that particular arrangement," he said.
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| Officials recover body of helicopter pilot from deadly crash Posted: 09 Jul 2018 08:01 PM PDT  WILLIAMSBURG, Va. (AP) — Authorities have recovered the body of the pilot of a small helicopter that crashed into a Virginia apartment building and killed a resident, the National Transportation Safety Board said Monday.
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| Rep. Kevin Cramer Told Trump To Avoid 'Affirmative Action' Supreme Court Pick Posted: 10 Jul 2018 01:10 PM PDT  Who should President Donald Trump have nominated to fill retiring Justice
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| Microsoft engineer shares her immigration story and sheds light on a broken system Posted: 10 Jul 2018 11:37 AM PDT  In a heart-wrenching post, a Microsoft software engineer opened up about her personal immigration story. Sri Ponnada shared on Facebook that she must leave the United States in six months because of the nation's current immigration issues that have forced her and her family to wait years for green cards, despite proper documentation. Her post is starting conversations about how the system is also impacting children who came to this country, and those who are now adults still navigating a complex green card process. SEE ALSO: 5 books about immigrant and refugee experiences that you'll want to read with your kids On a page dedicated to support for her case, Ponnada, who is currently residing in Washington, offered a detailed account of her experiences as a child who immigrated to the country with her parents when she was 14 from Jamaica, though she is originally from India. In the post, she discusses the opportunities she seized while a student at University of Iowa, and the contributions she and her family have made — such as her mother's work as "a doctor in an underserved community in Iowa." Ponnada also shared that she has worked with non-profits, encouraging girls to join STEM fields and is involved in social service projects with the city of Seattle outside of her work at Microsoft. "I have had great opportunities in this country so far, but I still face the same anxiety I've had since childhood about my visa status," she explains. "Even though I have lived here practically my whole life and work at Microsoft, I had to apply for a H1B visa — which is a LOTTERY — just to be able to stay in the country because there is no way for kids like me to stay here with our parents who become lawful permanent residents through the green card process." The immigration status of Ponnada's parents is unclear, but we've reached out for additional information. H-1B visas are temporary visas filed by employers. Due to the amount of people seeking the visa, petitions are chosen via lottery. Those who are selected are granted three years of work within the United States. According to the New York Times, many (though not all) visas are granted to software engineers and those working in tech, like, Ponnada. "I haven't been selected for a H1B in the lottery - so when my STEM OPT expires next February, I'll have to leave my family, my friends, and my home in the United States — the only country I've known since I became a teenager," she explains on Facebook. STEM OPT is a program facilitated by the Department of Homeland Security for those who have graduated from a STEM program at an accredited U.S. college or university. "Where should I go? Jamaica - where I came from? Or to India where I was born but haven't lived in since I was 3 years old?," she continued. Ponnada explains that while she is currently working and residing in the country on a STEM OPT extension, she initially came on a dependent children's visa. "Due to the huge green card backlog for individuals from India, I lost my dependent visa status at the age of 21 as I was no longer a minor," she recounted. This meant she had to convert her initial dependent children's visa to a student visa in order to complete her education. When her extension runs out in six months, she will have to "self-deport" because she was unable to obtain a visa, despite having a permanent job. "That makes no sense to me," she wrote. "And I hope it doesn't make sense to you either." In another post, Ponnada shared the ways in which people can support her efforts to stay within the country. Many action items, like calling Congress or sharing personal stories, are similar things one can do if seeking ways to help immigrant children and undocumented youth throughout the country. Within Microsoft, the company's Assistant General Counsel Jack Chen offered his support for Ponnada, along with U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder, (R-Kansas) who met with her in June. I'm proud to call Sri a Microsoft colleague. Thank you @RepKevinYoder for taking the time to hear our employees stories, and for your commitment to eliminating #percountry limits. #HR392 https://t.co/FlFWbwzGI6 — Jack Chen (@jakchen) June 21, 2018 You can read Ponnada's full post here. WATCH: 'We're being used': Rapper Vic Mensa pleads for gun control legislation.
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| Ethiopia and Eritrea say war over, UN hails "wind of hope" in Africa Posted: 09 Jul 2018 08:44 AM PDT  By Aaron Maasho ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) - Ethiopia and Eritrea declared their "state of war" over on Monday and agreed to open embassies, develop ports and resume flights, concrete signs of a rapprochement that has swept away two decades of hostility in a matter of weeks. The announcement promised to end of one of Africa's most intractable military stand-offs, a conflict that has destabilised the region and seen both governments funnel large parts of their budgets into security and soldiers. "The people of our region are joined in common purpose," Ethiopia's new prime minister Abiy Ahmed said, according to a tweet from his chief of staff, after signing a pact on resuming ties with Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki.
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| New Jersey Mom Coping With Loss After Surviving Crash That Killed Husband and 4 Daughters Posted: 09 Jul 2018 08:52 AM PDT  She remains in the hospital.
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| Thieves steal from Apple Store in seconds Posted: 09 Jul 2018 05:43 PM PDT  Crystal clear surveillance video shows how a group of young men made off with a small fortune worth of Apple products.
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| Iranian women post videos of themselves dancing in support of arrested teenager Posted: 09 Jul 2018 03:10 AM PDT  Iranian women are posting videos of themselves dancing, in support of a teenage Instagram star who was arrested. Maedeh Hojabri, an 18-year-old gymnast, was detained by police after she posted a video of her dancing to Western pop music in her bedroom. It shows her without a mandatory headscarf, which is obligatory in the conservative Islamic republic. Social media users have shared their own videos and messages of support for Miss Hojabri using the hashtag #dancing_isn't_a_crime. Some women can be seen without their headscarves, but their faces covered. Others dance in public. "I danced in the artists' park (in Tehran) without my compulsory hijab," wrote one woman. "The person playing the instrument cut my performance short and left the scene because of the fear that his instruments would be confiscated if police saw a woman dancing. I can understand his fear, but I continued dancing to support Maedeh Hojabri." ENGLISH FOLLOWS: #برقص_تا_برقصیم دختر جوانی به اسم مائده، اینستاگرام کلیپهای رقص از خودش میگذاشت، دقت کنید فقط میرقصید وپست میکرد و نه هیچحرف و اقدامدیگه...این اواخر هم معروف شد در فضای مجازی ...دستگیر شده ظاهرن به جرم اشاعه فحشا و یه مصاحبه ازش پخش کردند مثلمجرم ها.... نوشته از صفحه توییتر: Serpico ENGLISH: This 19-year-old girl, whose name is #MaedehHejrabi, has been arrested by the officials of the Islamic Republic. Her crime? She posted videos of herself dancing in her bedroom on Instagram. She didn't utter any words against the regime in those videos. She was merely enjoying being young and happy. After her arrest, she was forced to confess on state TV as if she's a criminal. A post shared by Masih Alinejad (@masih.alinejad) on Jul 7, 2018 at 3:05am PDT The video has been viewed more than one million times in a day. Blogger Hossein Ronaghi commented: "If you tell people anywhere in the world that 17 and 18-year-old girls are arrested for their dance, happiness and beauty on charges of spreading indecency, while child rapists and others are free, they will laugh! Because for them, it's unbelievable!" Miss Hojbari appeared on state TV and confessed to violating moral conventions, which activists say was made under duress. She had posted around 300 videos on her Instagram account to her some 43,000 followers, many of which showed her dancing. Her account has since been suspended. ENGLISH FOLLOWS; . من اینجا در پارک هنرمندان بدونحجاب اجباری رقصیدم ولی نوازنده از ترس اینکه بساطش جمع شود با عذرخواهی آهنگ را قطع کرد. منم درک کردم اما باز در جایی دیگر از این شهر میرقصم. برای حمایت از #مائده_هژبری که به جرم رقصیدن بازجویی و زندانی شد #برقص_تا_برقصیم ENGLISH: I danced in the artists' park without my compulsory hijab. Yet, the person playing the instrument cut my performance short and left the scene because of the fear that his intruments would be confiscated for seeing a woman dance. I can understand his fear, but I continued dancing to support #MaedehHejrabi, a 19-year-old Iranian girl who's recently been arrested for posting videos of herself dancing in her own bedroom. A post shared by Masih Alinejad (@masih.alinejad) on Jul 7, 2018 at 9:52am PDT Iranian police have said they plan to shut down similar accounts on Instagram, and the judiciary is considering blocking access to the site. Iran already blocks Facebook, Twitter and other social media, though many Iranians access them through proxies and VPNs. Iran's judiciary and security forces are dominated by hard-liners who launch periodic crackdowns on behavior deemed un-Islamic. The latest arrests came amid a series of protests against the government's handling of the economy. Women in Tehran stood in public waving their compulsory hijab in the form of a flag. Credit: Facebook In 2014 authorities sentenced six young men and women to suspended prison terms after they appeared in a video dancing to Pharrell Williams' song "Happy." Activist Shaparak Shajarizadeh was on Sunday sentenced to two years in prison and 18 years suspended sentence for protesting the compulsory veil. Ms Shajarizadeh was arrested in late February 2018 for removing her headscarf and waving it on a stick in the north Tehran neighborhood of Gheytarieh. Dozens of women took part in a movement dubbed White Wednesdays, which saw women flouting regulations by capturing footage and pictures of themselves without their hijabs and posting it online.
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| From Russian spy poisoning to British death: the Novichok affair Posted: 09 Jul 2018 02:10 AM PDT  A British woman has died after being exposed to the same nerve agent that poisoned a Russian ex-spy and his daughter four months ago, a case that caused a major diplomatic fallout between Moscow and the West. Here is a timeline of events since Novichok was identified in the poisoning of the Skripals in the southwestern English city of Salisbury in March, and resurfaced in the same area in July in a British couple. Former double agent Sergei Skripal, 66, and his daughter Yulia, 33, are found unconscious on a bench in Salisbury on March 4.
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| The F-23 Fighter Would Have Been a Killer (But It Never Joined the Air Force) Posted: 08 Jul 2018 05:36 PM PDT  We explain why.
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| Suit alleging bias pulls back curtain on Harvard admissions Posted: 09 Jul 2018 01:36 PM PDT  BOSTON (AP) — Defending itself in a lawsuit alleging bias against Asian-Americans, Harvard University is fighting a push to make public a trove of admissions documents including internal communications, statistics on accepted students and a "dean's interest list."
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| 42 Spooktacularly Simple Halloween Crafts Posted: 10 Jul 2018 01:00 PM PDT |
