| Trump Attacks Dems Amid Reports That GOP Is Restricting Kavanaugh Probe Posted: 30 Sep 2018 03:10 PM PDT  President Donald Trump attacked Democrats on Sunday for calling for a serious
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| Border Patrol Agent To Get Probation For Wildfire Set By Explosive Gender-Reveal Stunt Posted: 01 Oct 2018 04:36 AM PDT  An Arizona man whose explosive gender-reveal party for his baby-to-be set off
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| Group tied to literature prize still under Nobel glare Posted: 30 Sep 2018 06:47 AM PDT  COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — There won't be a Nobel Prize in Literature this year but the Swedish Academy that awards the prestigious prize is still in the limelight.
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| Macedonia: a decades-long quarrel over a name Posted: 29 Sep 2018 07:42 PM PDT  With Sunday's referendum proposing the new name "Republic of North Macedonia", the country hopes to resolve a row poisoning relations with Greece and blocking efforts to join the EU and NATO. The name adopted by Macedonia at independence 27 years ago is also that of a large region in Greece that evokes national pride as the cradle of Alexander the Great's ancient empire. Macedonia proclaims its independence from Yugoslavia in 1991 but its international recognition is immediately stalled by Greece because of its name.
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| North Carolina Has A Massive Mosquito Problem After Hurricane Florence Posted: 30 Sep 2018 02:22 PM PDT  Some of the largest known mosquitoes in the world are creating a buzz across
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| Top Dem: Kavanaugh's 'evident animus' toward Democrats 'should be disqualifying' Posted: 30 Sep 2018 05:39 AM PDT  Ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee Rep. Jerry Nadler is interviewed on "This Week."
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| South Korea Has Begun Removing Mines From the Border and Expects the North to Follow Suit Posted: 30 Sep 2018 08:32 PM PDT  South Korea has begun clearing mines from inside the heavily fortified border with North Korea
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| Sen. Grassley Asks FBI To Investigate Retracted Kavanaugh Allegations Posted: 30 Sep 2018 09:26 AM PDT  Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley is asking the FBI to
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| The Latest: Over 800 dead in Indonesia quake and tsunami Posted: 30 Sep 2018 01:33 PM PDT  PALU, Indonesia (AP) — The Latest on a powerful earthquake and tsunami that hit Indonesia (all times local):
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| Barrett-Jackson to Auction Vehicles from the Burt Reynolds Collection [Update w/ Results] Posted: 30 Sep 2018 11:41 PM PDT ![Barrett-Jackson to Auction Vehicles from the Burt Reynolds Collection [Update w/ Results]](http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/UosnDoi3hX9Liv6Yahq.WA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en-US/homerun/car_and_driver_581/e8b4bca6f495e7a87059de9babda8779 "Barrett-Jackson to Auction Vehicles from the Burt Reynolds Collection [Update w/ Results]") Yes, there's a black and gold Trans Am among them,
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| Mexican officials hail new NAFTA Posted: 30 Sep 2018 09:03 PM PDT  Mexican officials hailed a new North American trade accord Sunday as the US and Canada announced they had reached an agreement to keep a three-country deal and rename the 24-year-old NAFTA. Canada had risked being frozen out of a US-Mexican deal to update the North American Free Trade Agreement reached in August, but 11th-hour talks between Ottawa and Washington finally yielded an agreement to keep all three members in the new version of the trade pact. "It's a good night for Mexico, and for North America," tweeted Mexican Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray.
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| Turkey's Erdogan says to secure east of Euphrates in Syria Posted: 01 Oct 2018 05:09 AM PDT ![Turkey's Erdogan says to secure east of Euphrates in Syria]( "Turkey's Erdogan says to secure east of Euphrates in Syria") ANKARA (Reuters) - Turkey aims to secure control of the region of northern Syria east of the Euphrates river, removing the Syrian Kurdish YPG militia from the area, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Monday. Speaking at the opening of parliament, Erdogan said Turkey also aimed to clear Iraq's Sinjar and Qandil regions of Kurdish militants. Ankara regards the YPG as a terrorist organization, closely tied to the militant PKK which has fought a decades-old insurgency in southeast Turkey. ...
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| 'It Was a Complete Accident.' Guy Whose Gender Reveal Party Started a Wildfire Will Pay Large Fine Posted: 01 Oct 2018 08:46 AM PDT  "It was a complete accident"
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| Iran fires missiles against 'terrorist' camp in Syria: statement Posted: 30 Sep 2018 10:55 PM PDT  Iran's Revolutionary Guards said Monday they had launched a missile attack against a "terrorist" headquarters in Syria in retaliation for a September attack on the Iranian city of Ahvaz. "The headquarters of those responsible for the terrorist crime in Ahvaz was attacked a few minutes ago east of the Euphrates by several ballistic missiles fired by the aerospace branch of the Guardians of the Revolution," the Guards said on their official website. "Based on preliminary reports, many takfiri terrorists and the leaders responsible for the terrorist crime in Ahvaz have been killed or wounded in this missile attack," the Guards added.
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| Jeff Flake: If Kavanaugh Lied, His Nomination Will Be Over Posted: 01 Oct 2018 03:37 AM PDT  Any proof that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh lied during his Senate
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| Trump: Kim Jong Un And I ‘Fell In Love’ Posted: 29 Sep 2018 09:26 PM PDT  What a difference a year makes.
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| GE Stock Soars After CEO John Flannery Unexpectedly Ousted Posted: 01 Oct 2018 04:56 AM PDT  GE had fallen 35 percent this year through Friday
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| Three people killed in car explosion Posted: 01 Oct 2018 09:34 AM PDT  Police called an explosion in Allentown, Pa. a "criminal incident."
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| Barack Obama Backs Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez In New Round Of Endorsements Posted: 01 Oct 2018 12:58 PM PDT  Former President Barack Obama is putting his name behind 260 more Democratic
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| UK's Brexit minister Raab tells EU: Do not try to bully us Posted: 01 Oct 2018 03:05 AM PDT  Britain's Brexit minister warned the European Union on Monday against trying to bully the United Kingdom into signing a divorce deal that would undermine the unity of the country. "If the only offer from the EU threatens the integrity of our Union then we will be left with no choice but to leave with no deal," Raab told the Conservative Party conference in the English city of Birmingham. "What is unthinkable is that this government, or any British government, could be bullied by the threat of some kind of economic embargo, into signing a one-sided deal against our country's interests," Raab said.
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| Mississippi city: Vigil for 2 officers killed in shootout Posted: 30 Sep 2018 06:11 PM PDT  Residents mourning two officers killed in a weekend shootout in a small Mississippi city left roses, balloons and American flags at police headquarters.
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| Las Vegas pauses but looks ahead a year after mass shooting Posted: 30 Sep 2018 01:37 PM PDT  A small bouquet of dried flowers was wedged inside the padlock on Gate 5 of the killing ground that was the Route 91 Harvest Festival.
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| Brett Kavanaugh confirmation – LIVE: Mitch McConnell hits out at Democrats saying they are ‘untrustworthy’ and wanted ‘media circus’ around Christine Ford Posted: 01 Oct 2018 02:17 PM PDT  Brett Kavanaugh's nomination to the Supreme Court has been delayed as the FBI carry out a "limited" additional background check after Republicans were blind-sided by one of their senators who said his vote for the nominee was dependent on such a probe. Donald Trump later said it "wouldn't bother me at all" if the scope of the investigation was 'expanded' to include interviews of all three of his nominee's accusers and Mr Kavanaugh himself. Last week's explosive testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee of Dr Christine Blasey Ford, who alleges a drunken Mr Kavanaugh sexually abused her at a college party in 1982, was hotly contested by Mr Kavanaugh in his counter-testimony.
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| Trump’s NAFTA Revision Ignores Climate Change, Bolsters Oil And Gas Industries Posted: 01 Oct 2018 10:44 AM PDT  President Donald Trump's deal to tweak the trade agreement among the United
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| Man Pops the Question on Colorado Mountain Top, Then Couple Gets Lost Posted: 01 Oct 2018 10:30 AM PDT  The couple had to be rescued after suffering altitude sickness.
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| Elon Musk to resign as chair of Tesla board but remain CEO Posted: 29 Sep 2018 06:22 PM PDT  Elon Musk has reached a deal over fraud charges that will see him step down as electric automaker Tesla's chairman of the board and pay a $20 million fine but stay on as CEO, US securities regulators said Saturday. The agreement eases pressure on Tesla's embattled CEO, who faced potentially being barred from serving as an officer or board member of a publicly traded company as a result of the charges, which stemmed from a tweet by Musk about taking the company private. "The settlements, which are subject to court approval, will result in comprehensive corporate governance and other reforms at Tesla -- including Musk's removal as chairman of the Tesla board -- and the payment by Musk and Tesla of financial penalties" of $20 million each, the Securities and Exchange Commission said in a statement.
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| California's Net Neutrality Law Could Lead to Protections Nationwide Posted: 30 Sep 2018 07:47 PM PDT  California Gov. Jerry Brown just signed into law the strongest net neutrality protections in the country. When the new law goes into effect on Jan. 1, 2019, residents of the country's most populo...
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| Boeing, Embraer to build KC-390 military cargo jet in U.S.: newspaper Posted: 01 Oct 2018 06:06 AM PDT ![Boeing, Embraer to build KC-390 military cargo jet in U.S.: newspaper]( "Boeing, Embraer to build KC-390 military cargo jet in U.S.: newspaper") U.S. planemaker Boeing and Brazil's Embraer are in talks to set up an assembly line to build KC-390 military cargo jets in the United States, Brazilian newspaper Valor Economico reported on Monday. In July, the two planemakers announced a deal to give Boeing an 80 percent stake in Embraer's commercial aircraft arm, marking the biggest realignment in the global aerospace market in decades. At the time, the companies also announced a deeper sales and services partnership on the new KC-390 military cargo jet through a separate defense venture that they said was likely to eventually receive a joint investment.
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| 10 meme Halloween costumes for people who spend too much time online Posted: 01 Oct 2018 02:25 PM PDT  When you finally log off and head to a Halloween party this October 31, you'll want to let everyone know where you've spent the past 364 days: online. Luckily, while 2018 hasn't given us much in the way of good news, the meme harvest has been bountiful. And a lot of them translate nicely into Halloween costumes. SEE ALSO: Here's how you need to prank your kids this Halloween Here are a few of the best — and, more importantly, the easiest to pull off. 1. Mason Ramsey The Walmart yodel kid is a superstar now, but the getup he wore for his aisle rendition of Hank Williams's "Lovesick Blues" would still make a great costume. You'll just need a white button-down, a red bow tie, a statement belt, and, of course, a pair of cowboy boots. Just be prepared for someone to request a song. 2. Moth and lamp couples on halloween this year smh pic.twitter.com/Fq0WlShiCI — Gabe (@thelittlegracs) September 29, 2018 September's hottest pair was the moth and the lamp, although the romance did seem a bit one-sided. This meme would make an impressive couple's costume if you're headed to a particularly internet-y Halloween party. Bonus: neither look is noticeably better than the other, so you won't argue about who gets to be who. In fact, both costumes look pretty uncomfortable. 3. Sad Howdy Boy hurt by nin vs hurt by johnny cash pic.twitter.com/6HSIsG1X2o — grean day (@misandrism) March 27, 2018 Find a yellow t-shirt. Paint a sad face on it. Wear a cowboy hat. Put on "Space Cowboy." Practice your despondent "yee-haw." 4. Tide Pod What should Tide PODs be used for? DOING LAUNDRY. Nothing else.Eating a Tide POD is a BAD IDEA, and we asked our friend @robgronkowski to help explain. pic.twitter.com/0JnFdhnsWZ — Tide (@tide) January 12, 2018 Sure, you could painstakingly assemble an elaborate cardboard Tide Pod. Or you could just buy this shirt. Or, if you're really feeling low-effort, simply wear one blue item, one white item, and one orange item. 5. Kylo Ren pants View this post on Instagram #kylorenchallenge A post shared by John Mayer �� (@johnmayer) on Dec 30, 2017 at 7:00pm PST A large portion of Instagram already took the #KyloRenChallenge, so why not keep the look going for Halloween? You could even complete the look with one of those weird muscle-shirt-costume-things. Good luck explaining this costume to people who spend a healthy amount of time on the internet. 6. Meghan Markle A GLOW UP: 15-year-old Meghan Markle to The Duchess of Sussex Rachel Meghan Markle #RoyalWedding pic.twitter.com/d6BhHYg9oC — laura ✨ (@daisyrdley) May 19, 2018 The Duchess of Sussex isn't just a meme, of course. But she did star in more than a few viral tweets this year. (Welcome, Meghan, to the meme community.) Plus, a Meghan Markle costume is a great excuse to wear and inevitably ruin a beautiful white dress. And you can do fake freckles! 7. Michaela Coel in Black Mirror your mom on the second house phone eavesdropping on you talking about 7th grade drama pic.twitter.com/UcxU0FR37L — jaboukie young-white (@jaboukie) January 7, 2018 One of the internet's finest reaction images, Michaela Coel's look from the Black Mirror episode "U.S.S. Callister," would make a wonderful costume even without the meme factor. Be sure to perfect your knowing, conspiratorial facial expressions. 8. "Change my mind" guy @scrowder the world deserves this pic.twitter.com/1uCGrJMkir — Diego Martinez (@DiegoLMMartinez) February 21, 2018 Unlike Coel, this guy sucks. But if you can figure out how to make some kind of booth apparatus, he'd make a pretty good Halloween costume. Instead of using his wildly untrue original statement ("Male privilege is a myth"), we'd suggest using a statement from one of the later meme riffs. You don't want to make literally thousands of enemies on Halloween night. 9. Super Bowl selfie kid Nothing more relatable than this kid trying to pull his phone out to get a selfie is me. #SuperBowlLII #JustinTimberlake pic.twitter.com/1RyQs9jtK2 — Joe K (@kealohajoe) February 5, 2018 Remember that kid who took a selfie with Justin Timberlake Super Bowl halftime show? Get yourself a gray hooded sweatshirt and a bunch of lanyards. Will anyone know who you are? No. But the costume will probably cost $0. 10. "Is This A Pigeon?" pic.twitter.com/P7JKdRgDG3 — Extra Credit (@ExtraCredit) May 14, 2018 It was the screenshot from anime series The Brave Fighter of Sun Fighbird heard 'round the world. At this point, "is this a pigeon" memes have reached peak saturation, but the character's look — he's an android, by the way — is super easy to replicate. Get yourself a nice fake butterfly as an accessory. You'll have a great time. WATCH: 'Stranger Things' will be turning Universal Studios upside down this Halloween
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| The Las Vegas Strip Will Go Dark to Honor the Victims of Last Year's Mass Shooting Posted: 30 Sep 2018 09:21 PM PDT  A gunman's rampage at a country music festival last year was the deadliest shooting in recent U.S. history
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| The Latest: Macedonian PM says vote shows will of people Posted: 30 Sep 2018 02:24 PM PDT  SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) — The Latest on Macedonia's referendum on a name change for the country (all times local):
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| US midterm elections 2018 poll tracker: Who will win the Congress? Posted: 01 Oct 2018 01:45 AM PDT  On November 6, America will go to the polls to elect members for each of the 435 House seats and 35 of the 100 Senate seats in Congress. Donald Trump and the Republicans will hope to maintain their majority in both houses during the midterm elections, but with the Democrats having a healthy lead in the polls, it is believed that they have a decent chance of taking the House of Representatives. A Democrat victory in either chamber would grant powers to open investigations into President Trump, so the stakes are high. The latest polling and forecasts indicate that Donald Trump and the Republicans could hold onto both houses, although the House of Representatives looks the more likely to fall to the Democrats. But the Republican president, who has faced tough weeks after his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was found guilty of eight charges in his fraud trial, is reportedly planning 40 days of campaigning for the elections, and so the polls are likely to move further before election day. US mid term elections header General ballot between Republicans and Democrats The latest polls show that the Democrats are around eight percentage points ahead of the Republicans, standing at an average of 48.2 per cent compared to the Republicans' 40.6 per cent. This is an average of the last eight polls, and has indicated a consistent lead for the Democrats on a national level. While the Democrats are ahead in the general ballot, both the House of Representatives and the Senate are decided by a series of local elections, which means that the Republicans may still hold both houses. The Democrats need 24 seats to flip the House of Representatives, and two to flip the Senate. But to make matters harder, the Democrats are defending 26 of the 35 seats up for election in the Senate this time. US mid term elections poll tracker House of Representatives forecast: Democrats knocking on the door Of the 435 seats up for re-election in the House of Representatives, the Democrats need to flip 24 seats - something that should be within reach for the party. The latest forecast, from the Cook Report, has the Democrats on a likely 204 seats and the Republicans on 201. This means that the remaining 30 "toss-up" seats, which are too close to call, will be incredibly important for the outcome of the election. House of Representatives forecast Senate forecast: A tough Republican nut to crack Only needing two seats to take the Senate, it would at first seem that the Democrats should be able to take control. But there is an issue with this: Of the 35 seats up for election, 26 are currently defended by the Democrats. That means that the Democrats need to claim two seats from the remaining eight Republican-defended seats. According to the Cook Report forecast, this seems unlikely, as there are only 44 seats that are marked as "leaning" Democrat or stronger. To claim a majority, the party would have to pick up a further seven seats that are either toss-ups or leaning towards the Republicans Senate forecast Key seats to watch In the 2016 presidential election, Trump won big in rural and working class communities. This helped him flip - albeit with small margins - traditionally Democrat states in the rust belt, including Wisconsin and Michigan. If the Democrats are to have hope of taking the House of Representatives from the Republicans, they need to ensure that they retain seats in these areas, before moving onto Republican territory in others. US cartogram map - House seat forecasts A series of both Republican and Democrat seats are currently classed as a "toss-up" by the Cook Report, indicating that there could be turnovers for both parts in the mid terms. The Republicans will hope to hold onto their under siege seats in places like Tennessee and West Virginia, while making inroads in Democrat areas that Trump claimed with huge majorites in the 2016 presidential election. Seats in Indiana and North Dakota are among those places where the Republicans will hope that Trump's base will help them flip seats. Key seats to watch in the Senate Does President Trump's approval rating matter? Donald Trump's approval ratings are at relatively healthy and stable levels as the mid-terms according to The Telegraph's poll tracker. The tracker, which takes an average of the last eight polls, puts Trump's approval rating on 41 per cent in mid-September. While this level is quite high for Trump, it is relatively low for sitting presidents - and this is important, as presidential approval ratings are a good indicator of net losses at mid term elections. Only two presidents - Truman (1946 and 1950), and Bush (2006) - had a lower approval rating than Trump when going into their respective mid term elections. All three of these ended up losing over 28 seats in the House of Representatives and over five in the Senate. Presidential approval matters, and Trump's is lower than most The Telegraph's poll tracker takes an average of the last eight polls in order to take a full picture of the broad movements in the polling environment and not put too much weight on individual polls. Polls used are nationally representative with adequate sample sizes.
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| At U.S. Marine base, families plead for housing help after Florence Posted: 29 Sep 2018 06:34 PM PDT  Some, like Jennifer Maher, said they feel unsafe in their Camp Lejeune homes but were told they will not be moved because assessment crews determined their houses are habitable. Another 267 suffered sustained damage but were habitable.
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| Nobel-winning therapy weaponises immune system against cancer Posted: 01 Oct 2018 10:59 AM PDT  A revolutionary cancer treatment pioneered by the winners of the 2018 Nobel Prize for Medicine has been hailed as the future of fighting the disease -- and it has fewer devastating side effects than chemotherapy. While chemotherapy destroys cancerous cells along with normal cells -- often with toxic and debilitating effects on a patient -- immunotherapy unleashes the body's immune system to target tumour cells. James Allison of the US and Tasuku Honjo of Japan won the Nobel on Monday for identifying two different brakes on the immune system which, when turned off, allow the body's defence system to attack cancerous cells faster and more effectively.
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| California becomes first state to require women on corporate boards Posted: 01 Oct 2018 05:32 AM PDT  California has become the first state in the US to require publicly traded companies to include women on their board of directors. Governor Jerry Brown signed the new measure – which necessitates at least one female director on the board of each California-based public operation by the end of 2019 – into law on Sunday. A fourth of publicly held corporations with headquarters in California do not have any women on their boards of directors.
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| The 5 Interiors You Loved the Most This September Posted: 01 Oct 2018 10:02 AM PDT  Kitchen renovations, upstate getaways, and more start-of-fall Pinterest fodder
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| One year after Las Vegas massacre, gunman's motive a mystery Posted: 01 Oct 2018 02:12 PM PDT  One year after a heavily armed gunman embarked on the deadliest mass shooting in US history, raining automatic weapons fire from a hotel window down onto a country music concert, Las Vegas is no closer to knowing why. Mynda Smith, whose sister Neysa Tonks was killed at the concert, spoke at the event. In Washington, President Donald Trump marked the anniversary.
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| Kellyanne Conway Reveals Own Sexual Assault While Defending Brett Kavanaugh Posted: 30 Sep 2018 08:12 AM PDT  Top White House adviser Kellyanne Conway disclosed on Sunday that she is a
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| Construction Worker Kept $245 Million Lotto Winnings a Secret and Stayed on the Job Posted: 01 Oct 2018 07:55 AM PDT  He will take a lump sum payment of $100 million.
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| Cadillac Recalls 53,000 CTS Sedans for Heated-Seat Fire Risk Posted: 01 Oct 2018 07:40 AM PDT  Cadillac is recalling 53,586 of its 2014–2016 CTS sedans to address a problem with potentially damaged seat heaters, according to documents filed with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The recall states that it is possible, in cold outdoor temperatures, for the heated seats to turn on automatically when the car's remote-start function is engaged. Excessive heating can occur if the flexible heating mats in the front seats have been worn down over time.
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