| Trump’s Military Response To Migrant Caravan Foreshadows A Dark Long-Term Climate Policy Posted: 27 Oct 2018 05:00 AM PDT  The Trump administration is preparing to dispatch 800 troops and has
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| Khashoggi killers 'will be prosecuted in Saudi Arabia': Saudi FM Posted: 27 Oct 2018 01:18 AM PDT  Saudi Arabia will prosecute the suspects in the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, Riyadh's foreign minister said Saturday in response to a call by Turkey for their extradition. "On the issue of extradition, the individuals are Saudi nationals.
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| 2 dead at Yosemite National Park after apparent fall: Official Posted: 26 Oct 2018 03:57 AM PDT  A man and a woman were found dead after apparently falling from Taft Point in Yosemite National Park, the park said in a statement Thursday.
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| Democrats could still flip the Senate. Republicans could still keep the House. Here’s how. Posted: 26 Oct 2018 08:31 AM PDT  It's unlikely the GOP will keep the House or the Democrats will take the Senate. But those improbable things can still happen.
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| Twitter Admits Mistake After Fox News Pundit Says They Disregarded Bomb Suspect's Threats Posted: 26 Oct 2018 03:06 PM PDT  Rochelle Ritchie, a Fox News pundit and former press secretary for
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| Rouhani Braces for Sanctions With New Ministers in Key Posts Posted: 27 Oct 2018 02:49 PM PDT ![Rouhani Braces for Sanctions With New Ministers in Key Posts]( "Rouhani Braces for Sanctions With New Ministers in Key Posts") It's drawn its sword from the sheath and points it in the faces of the people of Iran, and we have to battle and we have to fight and we have to be united," Rouhani said in a speech to lawmakers ahead of the parliamentary vote aired on state TV. Rouhani is under mounting pressure to contain a currency crisis brought on by U.S. President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw from the 2015 nuclear deal.
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| Cesar Sayoc: How US authorities used one fingerprint to catch serial pipe bomb suspect Posted: 27 Oct 2018 02:30 AM PDT  It took less than five days for US law enforcement officials to identify the man they believe was responsible for sending at least 13 pipe bombs to political opponents of President Donald Trump. Mobile phone data, DNA records, spelling mistakes and a single fingerprint all played a part in leading to the arrest of Cesar Sayoc at a parking lot in Plantation, Florida. Mr Trump said investigators had done "an incredible job" in bringing in a suspect so quickly after a string of suspicious packages were discovered at homes and offices in New York, Florida and California.
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| 11 days until the midterm elections: Where things stand Posted: 25 Oct 2018 09:01 PM PDT  From Nevada's too-close-to-call Senate race to a contentious governor's race in Florida, the electoral atmosphere remains tense.
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| After deadly Gaza protests, rockets hit southern Israel Posted: 26 Oct 2018 04:05 PM PDT  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli aircraft struck several militant sites across the Gaza Strip early Saturday shortly after militants fired rockets into southern Israel, the Israeli military said.
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| AI-generated portrait sells for a whopping $432,000 at auction Posted: 26 Oct 2018 12:38 AM PDT  Well, here's another job artificial intelligence can do instead of humans. AI-generated artwork Portrait of Edmond Belamy sold for 45 times its anticipated price at Christie's, going under the hammer for an eye-watering $435,000 in New York. SEE ALSO: A museum without walls: How the Met is bringing its ancient collection online While the painting (of sorts) is done by computers, the project is actually the creation of Obvious, a Parisian collective consisting of Hugo Caselles-Dupré, Pierre Fautrel and Gauthier Vernier. It's the first AI-created artwork that's gone to auction, and was created by an algorithm which uses thousands of portraits to create the image. "The algorithm is composed of two parts," Caselles-Dupré explained in a statement online. "On one side is the Generator, on the other the Discriminator. We fed the system with a data set of 15,000 portraits painted between the 14th century to the 20th. "The Generator makes a new image based on the set, then the Discriminator tries to spot the difference between a human-made image and one created by the Generator. The aim is to fool the Discriminator into thinking that the new images are real-life portraits. Then we have a result." While it resembles a portrait, there is slight distortion in its appearance, which is a result of the AI being not quite there when it comes to aesthetics. "The Discriminator is looking for the features of the image — a face, shoulders — and for now it is more easily fooled than a human eye," Caselles-Dupré added. It's not the first time AI has been used to create art. Last year, Los Angeles artist Matty Mo used the technology to create portraits of factory workers, art dealers, pilots, artists, and taxi drivers, jobs that he believes will be replaced by machines. WATCH: The Met is redefining what it means to be a museum in the digital age — Mashable Originals
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| All The Incendiary Garbage Fox News Has Broadcast About George Soros Since April Posted: 26 Oct 2018 06:00 AM PDT  This week, similar suspicious packages were mailed to frequent targets of
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| Michelle Obama Is Challenging People To Start Voting Squads As Midterms Near Posted: 27 Oct 2018 09:30 AM PDT  Michelle Obama is continuing her efforts to increase voter turnout in the
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| Friday Rewind: Mega Millions jackpot winner Posted: 26 Oct 2018 03:16 AM PDT  A lucky winner in South Carolina is confirmed to be the winner of the nearly $1.6 billion jackpot.
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| Unemployment, danger and violence pushing Hondurans to flee to US Posted: 25 Oct 2018 07:38 PM PDT  Choking back tears, Glenda Lagos laments the departure of her teenage daughter to join the Honduran migrant caravan heading to the United States despite threats from President Donald Trump to turn them back at the border. Like thousands of other Hondurans, Belckys Lagos, 17, fled unemployment, danger and violence in the Central American country, which has one of the highest murder rates in the world. "Here there's no work and a lot of violence," Glenda Lagos told AFP about her gang-plagued "Los Pinos" neighborhood in the east of the Honduran capital, Tegucigalpa.
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| Vatican meeting ends with call for greater role for women in Church Posted: 27 Oct 2018 03:15 PM PDT  The role of women took center stage at the synod, which was focused on reaching out to young people but has been overshadowed by the scandal over sex abuse in the Church and acrimony between social conservatives and reformers. A working paper for the gathering, which began on Oct. 3, had used the acronym LGBT, but this did not appear in the 60-page final document. The document also called for stricter measures to combat sexual abuse, including more transparency in Church structures, and denounced a culture of elitism among some Church leaders which it said can facilitate cover-up and corruption.
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| Trump Wants to Leave a Nuclear-Weapons Treaty. Here’s What Happened When Arms Control Failed in the 1930s Posted: 26 Oct 2018 11:14 AM PDT  Twice in the 20th century, the great powers tried to create a peaceful world for the long run by limiting armaments. And, with recent developments, it appears as if those efforts have twice failed
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| The Latest: Turkey seeking return of Saudi slaying suspects Posted: 26 Oct 2018 09:07 AM PDT  ISTANBUL (AP) — The Latest on the slaying of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi (all times local):
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| A Timeline Of The Week's Mail Bomb Madness Posted: 26 Oct 2018 04:50 PM PDT  On Friday, federal authorities arrested 56-year-old Florida resident Cesar
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| 11 Things We Want from H&M Home's Very Rare Sale This Weekend Posted: 26 Oct 2018 09:43 AM PDT |
| Melissa Harris-Perry Declares Megyn Kelly's 'Today' Slot For Tamron Hall Posted: 26 Oct 2018 08:07 AM PDT  Now that Megyn Kelly is leaving NBC's "Today" show following controversy over
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| Cesar Sayoc's Purported Twitter Accounts Regularly Promoted Right-Wing Conspiracy Theories Posted: 26 Oct 2018 02:01 PM PDT  Cesar Sayoc, the suspect arrested Friday in connection with more than a dozen
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| Hate crime considered in Kentucky grocery shooting Posted: 26 Oct 2018 03:17 PM PDT  JEFFERSONTOWN, Ky. (AP) — The fatal shooting death of two black grocery patrons by a white gunman is being investigated as a possible hate crime, a U.S. official said Friday.
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| Vatican stalls on married Catholic priests Posted: 25 Oct 2018 08:23 PM PDT  A bid by Belgium bishops to allow young married men to take the cloth has fallen flat at a Vatican meet -- though Pope Francis is considering testing out the idea in the Amazon. The suggestion of easing the rules on celibacy was raised by the Auxiliary Bishop of Brussels, Jean Kockerols, during a month-long meeting of the world's bishops. The 330 or so clerics and lay people taking part in the talks, which end Sunday, were tackling the thorny issue of how to make the Roman Catholic Church appeal to youngsters.
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| Ford Is Bringing Seven Modified 2019 Rangers to SEMA Posted: 26 Oct 2018 09:36 AM PDT  Two of the trucks were tuned by Ford's Performance division.
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| The Latest: US praises Saudi decision on slain writer's son Posted: 25 Oct 2018 06:57 PM PDT  ISTANBUL (AP) — The Latest on the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi (all times local):
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| Four-nation Syria summit calls for lasting Idlib ceasefire Posted: 27 Oct 2018 02:02 PM PDT  A joint statement adopted at the end of a major summit in Istanbul said the countries were committed to working "together in order to create conditions for peace and stability in Syria". It also "stressed the importance of a lasting ceasefire" in Idlib, while hailing "progress" following a deal last month between Syrian-regime supporter Russia and rebel-backer Turkey to create a buffer zone around the northwestern province.
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| Tesla's Elon Musk says tweet that led to $20 million fine 'Worth It' Posted: 27 Oct 2018 08:41 AM PDT  The tweet, sent late Friday evening less than an hour before Musk tweeted that he would take a break from Twitter "for a few days," was in response to a question from a Twitter follower. The SEC in September charged Musk, 47, with misleading investors with tweets on Aug. 7 that said he was considering taking Tesla private at $420 a share and had secured funding.
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| How Does Checking My Credit Affect My Credit Score? Posted: 26 Oct 2018 06:39 AM PDT ![How Does Checking My Credit Affect My Credit Score?]( "How Does Checking My Credit Affect My Credit Score?") Credit and credit scores rely on multiple factors, and it's easy to get confused about which actions do and do not impact your credit. You may feel hesitant to check your credit under the misconception that it can hurt your credit score. In fact, regularly checking your credit can help you keep your credit history in good shape.
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| Facebook removes fake accounts tied to Iran that lured over one million followers Posted: 26 Oct 2018 10:13 AM PDT  Facebook Inc said on Friday it had deleted more accounts originating in Iran that attracted more than a million U.S. and British followers, its latest effort to combat disinformation activity on its platform. The social media company removed 82 pages, groups and accounts on Facebook and Instagram that represented themselves as being from American or British citizens, then posted on "politically charged" topics such as race relations, opposition to U.S. President Donald Trump and immigration, Facebook's head of cybersecurity policy, Nathaniel Gleicher, said in a blog post. In total, the removed accounts attracted more than 1 million followers.
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| Newt Gingrich Suggests Kavanaugh Could Block Democratic Bid To Get Trump's Tax Returns Posted: 26 Oct 2018 02:31 AM PDT  Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said Thursday that if Democrats
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| Ex-deputy says he feels 'very bad' about killing unarmed man Posted: 26 Oct 2018 08:06 AM PDT  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — A white former Oklahoma volunteer deputy who fatally shot an unarmed black man says he's sorry for the man's family, but that the shooting also disrupted his own life.
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| Police Reveal Extortion Plot Tied to Killing of Utah Track Star Posted: 26 Oct 2018 10:23 AM PDT  University of Utah Police Chief Dale Brophy revealed new information Thursday about the death of 21-year-old student-athlete Lauren McCluskey, including details of a sexual extortion/blackmail plot against her.
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| Honda's SEMA 2018 display lineup includes Ridgeline Overland Concept and a surprise Posted: 26 Oct 2018 09:14 AM PDT  For this year's SEMA, Honda announced an impressively long list of models, from race cars to motorbikes to a secretive concept car, that will be on display at its booth. Let's cut to the chase: the Rugged Open Air Vehicle Concept, which Honda describes as "wild-looking" is definitely piquing interest. As for the rest of the lineup, a number of Honda race cars, some of which have been piloted by Ryan Eversley and Team Honda Research West, will be in Honda's display beside a Ridgeline Overland Project.
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| Emergency declared in typhoon-ravaged Northern Mariana Posted: 27 Oct 2018 07:40 AM PDT  US military aircraft laden with emergency supplies flew in to the Northern Mariana Islands Saturday in the wake of destructive Super Typhoon Yutu which destroyed buildings and cut electricity. Ralph Torres, the governor of the US Pacific territory, said President Donald Trump had approved a request for a "major disaster declaration" after the storm. More than 1,000 were also stranded with the international airport on the main island of Saipan closed to commercial flights to free up space for military aircraft.
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| Syria regime bombardment kills 7 civilians in Idlib: monitor Posted: 26 Oct 2018 10:02 AM PDT  Syrian regime artillery fire Friday killed seven civilians in Idlib, in the highest death toll since a deal last month to prevent a government assault on the province, a monitor said. Three children were among those killed in the country's last major rebel bastion in the northwest of the country, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said. The deal was intended to protect three million inhabitants in the region, more than half of which is held by the Tahrir Hayat al-Sham (HTS) alliance led by jihadists of Al-Qaeda's former Syria affiliate.
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| Plane carrying Harry and Meghan aborts landing, flies around Posted: 26 Oct 2018 01:59 AM PDT  NUKU'ALOFA, Tonga (AP) — A plane carrying the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had to abort its landing at Sydney airport on Friday evening and flew around because there was another aircraft on the runway.
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| Cesar Sayoc Threatened Joe Biden, Maxine Waters, Eric Holder Over Twitter Posted: 26 Oct 2018 05:02 PM PDT  On Friday, authorities arrested Cesar Sayoc, 56, on suspicion of sending
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| Thousands rally to keep Soros-founded university in Hungary Posted: 26 Oct 2018 12:23 PM PDT  Thousands rallied in Budapest on Friday on behalf of a university founded by U.S. financier George Soros which says it is being forced out of Hungary by the nationalist government of Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Orban, who believes that European culture is under threat from migration and multiculturalism, has for years vilified the liberal Soros, who was born in Hungary and backs a number of causes there. The U.S.-registered Central European University (CEU) founded by Soros in 1993 said on Thursday that it would switch to enrolling new students in Vienna if it did not get guarantees of academic freedom by Dec. 1.
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| Judge orders Durst of 'The Jinx' to stand trial in murder case Posted: 25 Oct 2018 05:43 PM PDT ![Judge orders Durst of 'The Jinx' to stand trial in murder case]( "Judge orders Durst of 'The Jinx' to stand trial in murder case") Robert Durst, the subject of an HBO documentary, "The Jinx," must stand trial in the 2000 murder of his longtime friend, a judge ruled on Thursday at a hearing interrupted at times by outbursts from Durst. Durst, a 75-year-old multi-millionaire, was arrested in 2015 and charged with murder in the shooting death of his confidante Susan Berman. Prosecutors say Durst killed Berman because she could implicate him in the murder of his wife, who vanished in 1982 when the couple was living in New York City.
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| Estimated $750M Powerball jackpot would be 4th-largest win Posted: 27 Oct 2018 07:25 AM PDT ![Estimated $750M Powerball jackpot would be 4th-largest win]( "Estimated $750M Powerball jackpot would be 4th-largest win") Lottery players will have a chance at securing an estimated $750 million jackpot in Saturday night's Powerball drawing , which would make it the fourth-largest win in U.S. lottery history.
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