| ‘Yellow Jacket’ protests paralyze Paris and threaten Macron’s government Posted: 09 Dec 2018 02:25 PM PST  The fourth weekend of violent protests in France paralyzed the capital, as demonstrators called for the resignation of President Emmanuel Macron.
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| 2 Nuns Accused Of Embezzling $500,000 From Catholic School Posted: 10 Dec 2018 02:46 AM PST  Two Roman Catholic nuns have admitted to embezzling $500,000 from a parochial
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| Neon sea creatures light up ocean with vibrant colors Posted: 10 Dec 2018 05:10 AM PST  Incredible neon sea creatures have been captured lighting up the ocean with their vibrant colors – in what looked like a scene from Avatar. Photographer Simon Pierce, 39, took the images over several months after visiting both Nosy Sakatia in Madagascar and Mafia Island in Tanzania recently. He was thrilled to spot the biofluorescence creatures – which produce their own light – he managed to capture, including fireflies and glow worms. Simon, who is also a marine biologist, from New Plymouth, New Zealand, said: "I felt like I was in the film Avatar capturing these images. ...
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| Cyntoia Brown, Sex-Trafficking Victim, Must Serve 51 Years Before Release, Court Says Posted: 09 Dec 2018 02:56 AM PST  Cyntoia Brown, a Tennessee woman who was convicted as a teenager for shooting
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| Heavy snow batters North Carolina and Virginia, leaving thousands of drivers stranded Posted: 10 Dec 2018 09:26 AM PST  At least four deaths have been blamed on "mammoth" snowstorm in the Southeast, causing drivers to abandon their cars on the road due to dangerous conditions.
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| Camp Fire survivor elated to find dog waiting at their burned down house Posted: 09 Dec 2018 10:18 AM PST ![Camp Fire survivor elated to find dog waiting at their burned down house]( "Camp Fire survivor elated to find dog waiting at their burned down house") When Andrea Gaylord was forced to evacuate the devastating Camp Fire in Northern California in November, she couldn't get back home to take her dog Madison with her to safety as the fires spread. The evacuation order was lifted nearly a month after it was instated in Paradise, California, and Gaylord was beside herself to see Madison waiting for her as she pulled up to her burned down property, Gaylord told the ABC 10 news. Madison miraculously survived the Camp Fire that tore through Northern California throughout November, killing 85 people, displacing thousands, and leaving many, including Gaylord, homeless.
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| EU Said Open to Assurances But Not Renegotiation of Brexit Deal Posted: 10 Dec 2018 08:32 AM PST  The EU is prepared to add wording to the effect it has no wish to force the U.K. into a never-ending "backstop" arrangement in the absence of a broader trade deal and it will do all it can to avoid it, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity citing the sensitivity of the matter. May told U.K. lawmakers on Monday that she would do "everything I possibly can" to secure assurances on the backstop from the EU.
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| Photos from Our Prototype Drive of the 2020 Volkswagen Passat Posted: 10 Dec 2018 05:15 AM PST |
| FBI investigated four Americans on Russia collusion suspicions: Comey Posted: 09 Dec 2018 05:55 AM PST ![FBI investigated four Americans on Russia collusion suspicions: Comey]( "FBI investigated four Americans on Russia collusion suspicions: Comey") Comey also appeared to suggest the investigations were looking into ties between Russia and U.S. President Donald Trump's election campaign. "We opened investigations on four Americans to see if there was any connection between those four Americans and the Russian interference effort," Comey said, according to a transcript of the closed-door hearing held on Friday by the U.S. House Judiciary Committee and the House Oversight Committee. Trump fired Comey in May 2017 after taking office in January of that year.
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| I Drove Drunk And It Cost 6 People Their Lives. Here's How My Own Life Changed Forever. Posted: 10 Dec 2018 06:21 AM PST  On Nov. 1, 2003, I was involved in a drinking and driving accident. I cost six
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| Indian tycoon Mallya to find out extradition fate Posted: 09 Dec 2018 06:18 PM PST  Indian tycoon Vijay Mallya will appear in a London court on Monday to find out whether he will be extradited to his homeland, where he is accused of fraud. Mallya, chairman of the UB Group drinks conglomerate and chief executive of the Force India Formula One team, will discover his fate at Westminster Magistrates' Court. The loans from the state-owned IDBI bank were intended to bail out his failed carrier Kingfisher Airlines.
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| Anti-Semitic Flyers Found In Pittsburgh Synagogue Shooting Neighborhood: Police Posted: 09 Dec 2018 03:27 PM PST  Police are investigating anti-Semitic pamphlets found in Pittsburgh, including
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| Meng Wanzhou: US ambassador told to 'immediately correct' arrest of Huawei CFO as diplomatic row deepens Posted: 09 Dec 2018 03:39 PM PST  China has summoned the US ambassador to Beijing to demand Washington cancel an arrest warrant for a senior executive of telecoms giant Huawei. The arrest of chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou on 1 December has threatened to reignite a trade war between the two powers. Officials reportedly told Ambassador Terry Branstad the detention was "extremely egregious" and said the US must "immediately correct its wrong actions".
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| Teachers union: Tentative deal to end charter schools strike Posted: 09 Dec 2018 03:31 PM PST  CHICAGO (AP) — The nation's first teachers' strike against a charter school operator will end after their union and management struck a tentative deal Sunday that includes protections for students and immigrant families living in the country illegally.
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| Would Taiwan Fight China Without U.S. Support? Posted: 09 Dec 2018 06:32 PM PST  It is in the interests of the United States to send reassuring signals to the public in Taiwan about the U.S. determination to assist and defend Taiwan.
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| Trade Bear David Woo Hasn't Been This Nervous Since 2008 Posted: 10 Dec 2018 09:07 AM PST  The Bank of America strategist is the most worried about volatility in global markets -- particularly in the developing world -- since the 2008 financial crisis. "We'll have a $1 trillion budget deficit, a big fight over the debt ceiling, gridlock and the U.S. economy will be slowing at the same time," Woo said from New York.
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| The Best Green Monday 2018 Deals We've Seen So Far Posted: 10 Dec 2018 11:37 AM PST  Regret missing out on some of those Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals last
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| Armenian acting PM's bloc leads parliamentary vote: election commission Posted: 09 Dec 2018 03:33 PM PST ![Armenian acting PM's bloc leads parliamentary vote: election commission]( "Armenian acting PM's bloc leads parliamentary vote: election commission") YEREVAN (Reuters) - Armenia's acting prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, is on his way to bolstering his authority as his political bloc appeared to have taken a clear lead in elections in the ex-Soviet country on Sunday, the Central Election Commission's (CEC) preliminary results showed. My Step Alliance, which includes Pashinyan's Civil Contract Party, won over 70 percent of the vote based on results from more than 50 percent of the polling stations, the CEC said on its website. ...
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| Jared Kushner Gave Saudi Crown Prince Advice After Khashoggi Slaying: NY Times Posted: 09 Dec 2018 05:21 AM PST  Jared Kushner, President Donald Trump's son-in-law and senior adviser, flouted
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| Social media tops print as news source for Americans: study Posted: 10 Dec 2018 08:03 AM PST  Social media has overtaken print newspapers as a news source for Americans, researchers said Monday, highlighting the growing importance of services such as Facebook and Twitter as well as the troubled state of legacy news organizations. The Pew Research Center report found 20 percent of US adults say they often get news via social media, compared with 16 percent from newspapers. In 2016, newspapers were more important that social networks and in 2017 the percentages were roughly even for both sources, according to Pew surveys.
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| An '(Unintentional) Grinch' Tried To Ban Christmas From The Classroom Posted: 09 Dec 2018 06:37 PM PST  An elementary school principal from Omaha, Nebraska has been placed on
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| Former beauty queen sent nude pictures to 15-year-old student on Snapchat, police say Posted: 10 Dec 2018 01:47 AM PST  A former beauty pageant queen is facing up to 20 years in prison after allegedly sending nude photographs of herself to a 15-year-old boy. Ramsey Bearse, now a teacher at Andrew Jackson Middle School outside Charleston, West Virginia, was arrested and charged with distribution or display of obscene matter to minors after allegedly sending the lewd images to the former student. According to the Kanawha County Sheriff's Office, Ms Bearse sent the teenager at least four topless photos using multimedia messaging app Snapchat over a period of three months.
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| May Kicks Brexit Can Down the Road, Raises Risks of No Deal Posted: 10 Dec 2018 01:40 PM PST  Theresa May is playing for time. Faced with a humiliating defeat on her Brexit deal, the embattled U.K. prime minister announced to the House of Commons she would defer a vote and return to Brussels to seek "assurances" from European Union leaders. The pound hit the lowest since April 2017 as the market judged that the risk of no-deal Brexit has increased.
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| How LSAC's GPA Calculation Differs From Your School's Posted: 10 Dec 2018 08:15 AM PST ![How LSAC's GPA Calculation Differs From Your School's]( "How LSAC's GPA Calculation Differs From Your School's") Welcome to the latest installment of Law Admissions Q&A, a feature that provides law school admissions advice to readers who send in questions and admissions profiles. In doing my research for applying to law school I've encountered different versions on how LSAC calculates my GPA. Is it possible my GPA when applying to law school is actually higher than my transcript GPA?
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| China says U.S. should withdraw arrest warrant for Huawei executive Posted: 09 Dec 2018 11:28 AM PST  China called lodged a "strong protest" over the arrest in Canada of Meng Wanzhou, a Huawei executive, and said the U.S. should withdraw its arrest warrant.
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| Twitter Users Troll Trump With Hilariously Awful Chief Of Staff Suggestions Posted: 10 Dec 2018 02:37 AM PST  President Donald Trump seems to be having a hard time filling a key role in
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| 11 Useful Gifts For The Person Who Can't Cook To Save Their Life Posted: 10 Dec 2018 01:54 PM PST  Learning to cook can be intimidating for a lot of people. Maybe they are a
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| Deal Alert: These Gearhead Essentials Are Heavily Discounted Today Posted: 10 Dec 2018 11:00 AM PST |
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| Indian troops kill 3 rebels in 18-hour-long Kashmir fighting Posted: 09 Dec 2018 07:29 AM PST  SRINAGAR, India (AP) — Indian troops killed three rebels on the outskirts of disputed Kashmir's main city on Sunday, ending a nearly 18-hour-long gunbattle, officials said.
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| New Zealand leader apologies for death of British tourist Posted: 09 Dec 2018 09:18 PM PST  WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern made an emotional apology Monday to the family of a 22-year-old British tourist who police say was murdered.
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| Gavin McInness: Proud Boys founder and far-right activist ‘dropped’ by conservative US TV channel Posted: 09 Dec 2018 08:53 AM PST  A far-right activist linked with English Defence League (EDL) founder Tommy Robinson has reportedly been ditched by an American television channel less than a week after he was recruited as a host. Gavin McInnes, the founder of right-wing group Proud Boys, which the FBI labelled an "extremist organisation with ties to white nationalism", is no longer working with BlazeTV, the company announced. An FBI agent later denied having called the group extremist, saying it had been trying to characterise the potential threat from individuals in the Proud Boys.
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| NASA's Voyager 2 reaches interstellar space Posted: 10 Dec 2018 08:47 AM PST ![NASA's Voyager 2 reaches interstellar space]( "NASA's Voyager 2 reaches interstellar space") NASA's Voyager 2 probe has left the protective bubble around the Sun and is flying through interstellar space, becoming the second human-made object to travel so far, the US space agency said Monday. The announcement came six years after its twin spacecraft, Voyager 1, broke the outer boundary of the heliopause, where the hot solar wind meets the cold, dense space between stars, known as the interstellar medium. Voyager 2 is now more than 11 billion miles (18 billion kilometers) from Earth, having passed the boundary on November 5.
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| At least seven officials killed in Sudan helicopter crash: news agency Posted: 09 Dec 2018 04:24 AM PST ![At least seven officials killed in Sudan helicopter crash: news agency]( "At least seven officials killed in Sudan helicopter crash: news agency") At least seven local government officials were killed in a helicopter crash in Sudan's eastern al-Qadarif state on Sunday, state news agency SUNA reported. The state's governor and three security officials were among the dead. A number of people were also injured in the incident, SUNA said.
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| Trump Scorched Over Tweet Bashing Obama For Burning Through 'Chief Of Staffs' Posted: 08 Dec 2018 07:57 PM PST  Twitter followers piled on President Donald Trump after unearthing his 2012
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| Delta adds four new routes from Boston as airlines battle for business travelers Posted: 10 Dec 2018 07:33 AM PST  The Atlanta-based carrier plans to offer nonstop flights between Boston and Chicago, Cleveland, Newark and Washington, D.C. in 2019.
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| Be Prepared for a Housing Market Price Dive, OECD Warns Australia Posted: 09 Dec 2018 11:00 AM PST  In its latest survey of Australia, the Paris-based group forecast economic growth of 2.9 percent next year, leading to a gradual pickup in wages and inflation. While it said the housing market's cooling was so far orderly, it warned that high property prices and household debt were potential instabilities. "Risk of an overshoot in the price correction -- a hard landing -- remains," the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development said in its report.
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| In-Depth Photos of the 2018 Ferrari 812 Superfast Posted: 10 Dec 2018 08:54 AM PST |
| Indiana teen charged with killing pregnant schoolmate Posted: 10 Dec 2018 04:53 PM PST  MISHAWAKA, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana high school football player told investigators that he killed a 17-year-old schoolmate because he was angry that she waited so long to tell him she was pregnant with his child that it was too late to get an abortion, authorities said Monday.
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| Controversial Christmas classic 'Baby It's Cold Outside' returns to California airwaves Posted: 10 Dec 2018 10:59 AM PST  IT'S BACK! The controversial Christmas song "Baby It's Cold Outside" is back on the air at 96.5 KOIT after thousands of Bay Area listeners demanded its return.
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| Why Israel Confronted Hezbollah’s Tunnel Threat Posted: 09 Dec 2018 06:35 PM PST  The impact of Israel's operation will have wider regional implications.
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| UK PM May can stay on if parliament rejects Brexit deal: Brexit minister Posted: 09 Dec 2018 02:51 AM PST  British Prime Minister Theresa May can stay on if she loses a crucial vote on her Brexit deal in parliament on Tuesday, her Brexit minister Stephen Barclay said on Sunday. Asked about reports May could delay the vote, which she looks set to lose, and go back to the EU and ask for further concessions, Barclay told the BBC the government was focused on the vote, which would go ahead as planned.
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| Rand Paul Calls Trump's Nomination Of William Barr For Attorney General 'Very Troubling' Posted: 09 Dec 2018 10:07 AM PST  Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Sunday bashed President Donald Trump's nomination of
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| Mexico's new president boosts Pemex budget by $3.7 bn Posted: 09 Dec 2018 05:08 PM PST  Mexico's new President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Sunday he would reverse shrinking investment in the state oil company by pouring $3.7 billion into Pemex in 2019, in a bid to boost crude and refined products' output. "We are going to increase investment in Pemex by 75 billion pesos from what was authorized for 2018," the leftist president said in a speech in his home state of Tabasco. The state oil giant has seen a drop in its production since 2004, when it extracted some 3.4 million barrels per day.
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| Meet the Nissan Skyline GT-R with a single owner since 1972 Posted: 10 Dec 2018 10:28 AM PST  Finding an unmolested Nissan Skyline C10 is difficult enough, yet an S20-powered example boasting only one owner over the last 46 years? Surely impossible…
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| Roger, the internet famous bucket crushing kangaroo, has died Posted: 09 Dec 2018 05:17 PM PST ![Roger, the internet famous bucket crushing kangaroo, has died]( "Roger, the internet famous bucket crushing kangaroo, has died") If you've spent quite a bit of time on the internet, you might've stumbled across Roger. The impressively buff red kangaroo has died aged 12, announced by The Kangaroo Sanctuary — the Australian refuge where he lived — in a Facebook post Saturday morning. "Sadly Roger has passed away of old age," reads the post.
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