| Sen. Chuck Grassley: No Need For FBI To Investigate Kavanaugh Allegation Posted: 18 Sep 2018 08:26 PM PDT  Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee,
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| Trumpnado! Tweeting about storms, Trump seizes opportunity to make everything worse Posted: 19 Sep 2018 03:00 AM PDT  Jerry Adler examines the issues with Trump's tweets about the death toll from Hurricane Maria.
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| Gun rights activist Cody Wilson charged with sexual assault of teen Posted: 19 Sep 2018 02:50 PM PDT  Cody Wilson, a guns rights activist, has been charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl. A Texas gun rights activist whose quest to spread the availability of 3D printed guns sparked a legal battle, has been charged with sexually assaulting a 16-year-old girl and appears to have gone on the run. A warrant was issued on Wednesday for the arrest of Cody Wilson.
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| Florence Kills An Estimated 5,500 Pigs, 3.4 Million Chickens And Turkeys In North Carolina Posted: 19 Sep 2018 01:01 PM PDT  As Florence battered the Carolinas this past week, dozens of heartwarming
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| Hurricane Florence: Desperate Woman, Who Is 8 Months Pregnant, Rescued From Rising Floodwaters Posted: 18 Sep 2018 10:40 AM PDT  The family was clinging to a tree in North Carolina amid flooding from the dangerous storm.
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| 2 patients drown as van swept into floodwaters Posted: 19 Sep 2018 05:33 PM PDT  COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — As South Carolina rivers overflowed from Florence's torrential rain, deputies taking two women to a mental health facility drove into floodwaters that swamped their van and trapped the women inside, officials said Wednesday.
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| Lawmakers Judging Kavanaugh Accuser Still Can’t Fix Their Own Harassment Policy Posted: 18 Sep 2018 01:46 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― The Senate is rushing to address a sexual assault allegation
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| Yahoo News explains: Why is the U.S. in a trade war with China? Posted: 18 Sep 2018 03:49 PM PDT  On Monday, President Trump announced tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese imports. This comes on top of the $50 billion to $60 billion in Chinese import tariffs announced this March. China responded Tuesday, threatening to impose tariffs on $60 billion worth of U.S. goods.
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| Netanyahu and Putin defuse crisis after Syria downs Russia warplane Posted: 18 Sep 2018 11:47 AM PDT  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin sought to defuse a crisis on Tuesday after Syrian defences mistakenly downed a Russian warplane after Israeli air strikes. The incident late Monday was the deadliest known case of friendly fire between Syria and its key backer Russia since Moscow's game-changing 2015 military intervention. The Ilyushin plane dropped off the radar over the Mediterranean after Turkey and Russia announced a deal that offered millions of people reprieve from a threatened military assault in northern Syria's Idlib province.
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| Hundreds rescued as river reaches record heights in North Carolina Posted: 18 Sep 2018 10:13 AM PDT  North Carolina rivers may crest higher than they did during Hurricane Matthew in 2016.
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| Immigrant accused of killing Iowa student pleads not guilty Posted: 19 Sep 2018 10:36 AM PDT  Cristhian Bahena Rivera, a 24-year-old farm worker from Mexico accused of stabbing 20-year-old Tibbetts, appeared in a black-and-white striped jumpsuit at his arraignment in Poweshiek County Courthouse in Montezuma, Iowa. "Mr. Rivera pleads not guilty," his lawyer Chad Frese told the judge as Rivera listened through black headphones to a translator.
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| Japanese Billionaire Will Fly To The Moon With SpaceX, Elon Musk Says Posted: 17 Sep 2018 07:00 PM PDT  SpaceX, Elon Musk's ambitious rocket endeavor, said Monday it had signed a
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| Mach 5 Mission: The Air Force Is Going All In on Hypersonic Weapons Posted: 19 Sep 2018 05:32 AM PDT  The Air Force is taking another step in an aggressive plan to prototype, test and deploy hypersonic weapons
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| Teen Abducted by Tad Cummins Recounts Twisted Advances by Ex-Teacher Posted: 19 Sep 2018 10:49 AM PDT  Elizabeth Thomas says she was scared, and didn't want to reveal to her parents and friends that she'd been kissed by a grown man.
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| Leadership in the Oval Office, from FDR to Barack Obama Posted: 18 Sep 2018 02:05 AM PDT  "CBS This Morning" co-anchor John Dickerson's essay on presidential leadership is based on a series of Yahoo News interviews with historians.
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| Trump Tells Hurricane Florence Survivor 'At Least You Got A Nice Boat Out Of The Deal' Posted: 19 Sep 2018 01:11 PM PDT  Hurricane Florence has resulted in at least 37 deaths in three states, but
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| Russia to study Israeli data related to downed plane Posted: 19 Sep 2018 01:27 PM PDT  MOSCOW (AP) — Russian President Vladimir Putin has accepted Israel's offer to share detailed information on the Israeli airstrike in Syria that triggered fire by Syrian forces which downed a Russian reconnaissance plane, the Kremlin said Wednesday.
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| North Korea Agrees to Permanently Dismantle Nuclear Complex If U.S. Takes Corresponding Steps Posted: 18 Sep 2018 09:29 PM PDT  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un agreed to permanently dismantle his main nuclear complex at Nyongbyon if the United States takes corresponding measures, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said Wednesday
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| Preacher Franklin Graham Claims Brett Kavanaugh Abuse Allegation Is Irrelevant Posted: 19 Sep 2018 01:34 PM PDT  Franklin Graham, a son of the famed late preacher Billy Graham, has chimed in
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| Two Palestinians killed in Israel strike on Gaza border: Ministry Posted: 17 Sep 2018 10:37 PM PDT  Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli air strike on the Gaza border, the territory's Hamas-run health ministry said.
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| Texas Great-Grandmother Shoots Alligator She Claims Ate Her Horse Posted: 19 Sep 2018 09:57 AM PDT  Judy Cochran had been trying to kill the gator for three years.
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| Trump Boasts About Steel Industry’s ‘New Life' As More Steelworkers Vote To Strike Posted: 19 Sep 2018 04:31 AM PDT  President Donald Trump recently boasted about the U.S. steel industry. "It has
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| Rhode Island town council joins others boycotting Nike Posted: 17 Sep 2018 07:15 PM PDT  PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A Rhode Island town council has voted to ask its departments to refrain from purchasing Nike products, one of a handful of local governments or agencies that have called for boycotts in recent weeks.
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| Volkswagen Golf Adopts Less Powerful 1.4-Liter Engine for 2019 Posted: 18 Sep 2018 11:32 AM PDT  New six-speed manual and eight-speed automatic transmissions should make up for the deficiency.
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| 11 Next-Level Ways To Make Roasted Cauliflower Posted: 18 Sep 2018 10:20 AM PDT |
| Lindsey Graham Suggests GOP Should Confirm Kavanaugh Quickly Before Midterm Elections Posted: 19 Sep 2018 07:23 AM PDT  Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Wednesday argued that the Senate Judiciary
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| 2 Female Mental Health Patients Drown as Van Is Swept Away in Florence Flood Waters Posted: 19 Sep 2018 04:46 AM PDT  A sheriff's department van was swept away in rising South Carolina flood waters
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| Syria's Idlib spared attack, Turkey to send in more troops Posted: 18 Sep 2018 03:42 PM PDT  The deal unveiled on Monday by Russian President Vladimir Putin, Assad's most powerful ally, and Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan will create a demilitarized zone from which "radical" rebels must withdraw by the middle of next month. Damascus also welcomed the agreement but vowed to continue its efforts to recover "every inch" of Syria. Iran, Assad's other main ally, said that "responsible diplomacy" had averted a war in Idlib "with a firm commitment to fight extremist terror".
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| British chips to be 3cm shorter than usual as Belgian potatoes hit by dry, hot summer Posted: 18 Sep 2018 06:00 AM PDT  Britons will be served up shorter chips this year as potato farmers across Europe struggle to cope with the worst summer drought for decades. Britain eats 1.75 million tonnes of frozen chips every year and is, alongside the US, the world's largest importer of the product. Almost all frozen fry imports to Britain, about 750,000 tonnes, come from the Netherlands and Belgium. The hot weather and lack of rain has hit European crop yields, resulting in a drop of about 20% in Northern Europe, and made the potatoes, usually the size of a small brick, smaller. That will mean smaller, shorter chips, potato experts in Britain and Belgium have warned. The remaining million tonnes of frozen fries eaten ever year are made from British potatoes but even British farmers are facing a 10 to 15 percent drop in yield. Britons are one of the biggest potato eaters in the EU, eating a 100kg of potatoes per person ever year. "This was the hottest British summer since 1976, which any potato person will tell you was an almost mythical year," said Cedric Porter, editor of World Potato Markets, "it is still talked about in potato circles." "The chips are down," he said, "You can expect smaller chips in Britain and in Europe." Mr Porter said that Belgian and Dutch farmers had been hit hard and could struggle to fulfil their contracts. Potatoes sold on the open market, rather than under contract, were selling for €10 a ton last year but were now selling for €250 a ton. The squeeze on frites has appalled Belgians, who cherish the chip as their national dish. The traditional Bintje, tuber and the newer Fontane varieties have been much smaller with crop yields dropping by 25 percent in Belgium. Pierre Lebrun is the coordinator of the potato sector of Wallonia, Belgium's French-speaking region. He told local media that the poor crop would mean frites from tubers being shortened by as much as 3 centimetres from their usual length of 8 to 9 cm. "We will all eat small fries", said Mr Lebrun, who added that farmers in Western Germany, France, the Netherlands and the south of Britain "were all in the same boat." "The soils are very dry, it does not make it easy for farmers to work," Mr Lebrun said, "Generally, to have long fries, we work with tubers with a diameter of more than 50mm." "Then you get fries of 8 to 9 cm This time, as the tubers are smaller, the fries will be smaller." Belgium is one of the largest exporters of frozen fries in the world, exporting 2.3 million tonnes of frozen fries every year. In the year ending June 2018, Belgium exported 344,000 tons of frozen frites to the UK, a 9.3 percent increase on the previous year, despite Brexit. The Belgian frozen fry industry has been waging a campaign to boost its exports by using a James Bond style character with a "licence to fry". "James Bint" insists the frites are called Belgian, rather than French, fries.
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| Tesla confirms criminal probe into Musk talk of going private Posted: 18 Sep 2018 06:12 PM PDT  Tesla confirmed Tuesday that US Justice Department officials were looking into possible criminal aspects of a seemingly spontaneous, and later aborted, announcement by chief executive Elon Musk on taking the electric automaker private. Tesla shares ended the formal Nasdaq trading day down 3.35 percent to $284.96. Tesla said it was confident the matter would be quickly resolved with the Justice Department.
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| Florence's water, not winds, will be the long-term problem Posted: 18 Sep 2018 11:14 AM PDT  Like Hurricanes Harvey and Katrina before it, most of Hurricane Florence's damage will not be from the wind but the water.
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| Celia Barquin Arozamena: Man Accused of Murder of Iowa State Golfer Told Acquaintance He Had 'Urge to Rape and Kill,' Complaint States Posted: 18 Sep 2018 05:35 AM PDT  "We are all devastated," Iowa State women's golf coach Christie Martens said in a statement.
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| The Best Ways to Help in the Aftermath of Hurricane Florence Posted: 18 Sep 2018 12:50 PM PDT  Hurricane Florence has been downgraded to a tropical depression, but flood waters are still a threat. And across the Southeast, especially in the Carolinas and Virginia, residents face a long and...
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| Korea summit economic pledge raises sanctions-busting fears Posted: 19 Sep 2018 02:52 AM PDT  Speaking at a joint news conference in Pyongyang on Wednesday, South Korea's President Moon Jae-in said he and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un agreed to the normalization of the Kaesong joint border industrial park and tours to North Korea's Mount Kumgang. The two projects, which were suspended amid tensions between the rivals under Moon's two conservative predecessors, had been lucrative sources of cash for the impoverished North. Moon said the steps were part of an agreement to turn the Korean peninsula into a "land of peace without nuclear weapons and nuclear threats".
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| Hindu group offended by GOP ad: 'Would you worship a donkey or an elephant?' Posted: 19 Sep 2018 12:54 PM PDT  The Hindu American Foundation is calling on the Fort Bend Republican Party to apologize for the ad about the celebration of Ganesh Chaturthi, a Hindu festival.
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| Cat hiking videos are the wholesome escape you need in your life Posted: 19 Sep 2018 12:45 PM PDT  This post is part of Hard Refresh , a soothing weekly column where we try to cleanse your brain of whatever terrible thing you just witnessed on Twitter. Things you can reasonably expect to see on a hike: trees; rocks; streams. Thing you might not expect to see on a hike: A cat on a leash walking with its owner. Turns out that hiking cats are more common than you might think. These adventurous felines can be found on YouTube and Instagram, where they explore rough mountain terrain, rocky beaches, and green pastures. SEE ALSO: What happens when an animal influencer dies? There's something so delightful about watching these pets explore new terrain with such curiosity. While there are lots of videos of hiking cats online, I recommend you check out some of these seasoned feline hikers first. There's Cezar, the traveling cat who's been to France, El Salvador, and Malta. Then there's Honey Bee, the blind cat who loves to spend time outdoors. And finally, there's Paul the cat, whose high-altitude hiking videos will put your own hiking abilities to shame. While most cats are naturally pretty curious, not every cat is built to explore the outside world, according to the Adventure Cats blog. Felines that possess a playful demeanor and an interest in the outside world — and are willing to wear a harness — might make solid hikers. For cat owners intrigued by the idea of bringing their pets on long hikes (or even just outside for a quick walk,) Adventure Cats has a pretty comprehensive guide to getting your pet more comfortable with the great outdoors. But if you're just looking for 15 minutes of nature footage and cute cats, watch a video or two and then daydream of one day climbing a mountain with Whiskers by your side. WATCH: This smart feeder will stop your pets from mooching off each other
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| May urges fellow EU leaders to drop 'unacceptable' Brexit demands Posted: 19 Sep 2018 02:35 PM PDT  Prime Minister Theresa May was set to appeal directly to fellow European leaders at a summit on Wednesday to drop "unacceptable" Brexit demands that she said could rip Britain apart, and to urge the bloc to respond in kind to her plan, according to a senior British government source.
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| 36 Mini Thanksgiving Desserts For When You're Too Stuffed For Pie Posted: 18 Sep 2018 06:54 PM PDT |
| Police: Border agent targeted victims for vulnerability Posted: 17 Sep 2018 06:18 PM PDT  A U.S. Border Patrol supervisor charged in the killings of four women knew the victims and targeted them for their vulnerability.
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