| Trump Says He Walked Out on Kim After U.S. Demands Rejected Posted: 28 Feb 2019 05:23 AM PST  Trump said Kim "wanted the sanctions lifted in their entirety, and we couldn't do that." In exchange, the North Korean leader had offered to dismantle its main nuclear facility at Yongbyon. The U.S. presented Kim with evidence of additional secret nuclear sites, surprising the North Koreans, according to Trump. Secretary of State Michael Pompeo said that even without Yongbyon the country would still possess missiles, warheads and other elements of a nuclear program that were unacceptable to the U.S.
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| U.S. top diplomat urges ratcheting down of India, Pakistan tensions Posted: 28 Feb 2019 05:20 AM PST ![U.S. top diplomat urges ratcheting down of India, Pakistan tensions]( "U.S. top diplomat urges ratcheting down of India, Pakistan tensions") MANILA (Reuters) - U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday that he has spoken with the leaders of India and Pakistan amid tensions between the two countries and has urged them to avoid "any action that would escalate and greatly increase risk." India and Pakistan have struck each other with retaliatory airstrikes following a suicide car bombing that killed at least 40 Indian paramilitary police officers in Indian-controlled Kashmir on Feb. 14. Pompeo was speaking to reporters on his plane as he flew from Vietnam to the Philippines. ...
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| PG&E likely started the Camp Fire and expects a $10.5B impact to its bottom line, it tells regulators Posted: 28 Feb 2019 11:59 AM PST ![PG&E likely started the Camp Fire and expects a $10.5B impact to its bottom line, it tells regulators]( "PG&E likely started the Camp Fire and expects a $10.5B impact to its bottom line, it tells regulators") Amid PG&E's bankruptcy, the company notified investors that the evidence points to its transmission equipment, In a regulatory filing.
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| The Latest: Vatican investigates Pell after conviction Posted: 27 Feb 2019 04:27 AM PST  MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — The Latest on Cardinal George Pell (all times local):
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| Ivanka Trump occupies a different reality from most working women Posted: 28 Feb 2019 03:00 AM PST  Responding to a question about Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's proposed Green New Deal and its call for a federal job guarantee, Ivanka Trump this week offered sage wisdom: "I've spent a lot of time traveling around this country over the last four years," she said. In light of this recent controversy, it's worth revisiting Ivanka Trump's views on work through the lens of her now defunct, eponymous website dedicated to building her personal lifestyle brand – think Goop for the recently lobotomized, with fewer jade eggs and a hint of Sheryl Sandberg's Lean In. Judging by the kinds of women highlighted on her site, the working women she has in mind mostly are CEOs for jewelry and wellness companies, including her fellow bootstrapping go-getter Lauren Bush Lauren, niece of George W Bush.
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| UN to vote on dueling US, Russia drafts on Venezuela Posted: 27 Feb 2019 08:52 PM PST  The UN Security Council will vote Thursday on two rival draft resolutions from the United States and Russia aimed at confronting the crisis in Venezuela, but both are expected to fail, according to diplomats. Battered by an economic meltdown, Venezuela descended into a major political crisis when opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president in January and asserted that President Nicolas Maduro was no longer legitimate. On Wednesday, the United States put forward a measure that would call for presidential elections to end the political standoff and unimpeded deliveries of aid to ease shortages of food and medicine in Venezuela.
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| Marine Corps confirms investigation of officers in apparent 'blackface' video Posted: 28 Feb 2019 03:58 PM PST  The Marines have launched an investigation after two of their members appeared on a social media posting appearing to wear blackface.
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| Stick to Marx not 'ghosts and spirits', China warns party members Posted: 27 Feb 2019 03:13 AM PST  China's ruling Communist Party warned party members on Wednesday to stick to Marx and Lenin and not believe in "ghosts and spirits", in the latest effort to root out superstitious practices. China officially guarantees freedom of religion for major belief systems like Christianity, Buddhism and Islam, but party members are meant to be atheists and are especially banned from participating in what China calls superstitious practices like visiting soothsayers. There have been numerous scandals in recent years where senior party members have been accused of involvement in superstition.
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| Mountain lion killed by Colorado trail runner was a kitten, necropsy report says Posted: 28 Feb 2019 12:36 PM PST  The final necropsy report of the mountain lion killed by Colorado trail runner Travis Kauffman estimates the age of the lion at three to four months.
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| In Hanoi, Trump calls Michael Cohen’s congressional testimony 'shameful' and 'fake' Posted: 28 Feb 2019 01:49 AM PST  President Trump's second meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un this week came as Michael Cohen, a man who was once one of Trump's closest allies, delivered dramatic testimony before Congress, calling the president a "con man."
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| Nuclear Nightmare: India and Pakistan are on the Brink Posted: 27 Feb 2019 03:46 AM PST  Whatever happens next rests in the fates of political decisionmakers in India.
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| J&J resumes production of baby talc in India after tests find no asbestos Posted: 28 Feb 2019 06:08 AM PST  "Johnson & Johnson has resumed production of its Johnson's Baby Powder at plants in Baddi and Mulund, India, after government sanctioned testing reaffirmed that the product does not contain asbestos," J&J said in a statement to Reuters. Reuters reported earlier on Thursday that the federal regulator had not found any asbestos in the company's talc, citing sources familiar with the matter. The federal regulator and its counterparts in Indian states launched an investigation into J&J's Baby Powder following a Reuters report in December that the firm knew for decades that cancer-causing asbestos could be found in the product.
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| Man who bought $540 of Girl Scouts cookies is arrested Posted: 27 Feb 2019 02:00 AM PST ![Man who bought $540 of Girl Scouts cookies is arrested]( "Man who bought $540 of Girl Scouts cookies is arrested") GREENVILLE, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina man who bought more than 120 boxes of Girl Scouts cookies to help the scouts escape the cold has been arrested on drug charges.
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| Netanyahu says graft allegations a 'witch hunt' to topple him Posted: 28 Feb 2019 11:07 AM PST  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday called corruption allegations a "witch hunt" meant to topple him after the attorney general announced plans to indict him. Speaking in a televised statement a couple of hours after the attorney general's announcement, Netanyahu said he planned on being prime minister for a long time to come despite the allegations. "The left knows it cannot beat us at the polling booth, so for the past three years they have been carrying out an unprecedented witch hunt which has one aim: to topple the right-wing government which I lead," he said.
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| Expert: President Trump did the right thing by walking away from the negotiating table with North Korea Posted: 28 Feb 2019 12:13 AM PST  Harry Kazianis, director of Korea studies at the Center for National Interest, predicts a third summit with Kim Jong Un.
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| Univision's Jorge Ramos details detainment, expulsion from Venezuela Posted: 27 Feb 2019 08:53 AM PST  Univision anchor Jorge Ramos shared details in TV interviews Tuesday night on how Venezuelan authorities detained his team during an interview Monday.
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| Michael Cohen: key takeaways from the former Trump lawyer's testimony Posted: 27 Feb 2019 06:01 PM PST  Michael Cohen told the committee he had been with Donald Trump when key events in the investigation into Russia's involvement in the 2016 election were discussed. The first incident, in early June 2016, involved Cohen overhearing Trump's son, Donald Jr, whispering in the elder Trump's ear that "the meeting is all set". Cohen said he took that remark, and Trump's reply to it – "OK good … let me know" – to refer to the Trump Tower meeting that followed between Donald Jr and others in the inner Trump circle and a party of Russians peddling dirt on Hillary Clinton.
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| Woman Says She's Receiving Threats After Posting Photo of What Group Calls `Trophy Kill` Posted: 27 Feb 2019 08:43 AM PST  A Colorado hunter is being blasted on Facebook for hunting a mountain lion. The hunter says her kill was legal, but members of an environmental group are taking her to tasksaying she is nothing more than a gory-hungry trophy hunter.
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| India says 'happy' Pakistan is releasing downed pilot Posted: 28 Feb 2019 07:46 AM PST ![India says 'happy' Pakistan is releasing downed pilot]( "India says 'happy' Pakistan is releasing downed pilot") The Indian government was "happy" that Pakistan had decided to return its captured air force pilot and it looked forward to his return, defense officials told reporters on Thursday. Wing Commander Abhinandan, who was captured by Pakistan's army on Wednesday, will return to India on Friday, Pakistan's Prime Minister Imran Khan told the country's parliament. Asked about the damage caused when India warplanes struck a suspected militant camp in Pakistan, the officials said it was premature to provide details about casualties.
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| New solutions for the old problem of illegal massage parlors Posted: 27 Feb 2019 07:33 PM PST  BOSTON (AP) — They're nestled amid bustling downtowns and tucked into nondescript strip malls across quiet suburbs. Brothels posing as massage parlors and Asian spas have been part of the American landscape for decades, hidden in plain sight.
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| Tesla's 'mass market' $35k electric car ready to order, online Posted: 28 Feb 2019 04:15 PM PST  Tesla said Thursday its Model 3 -- heralded as an electric car for the masses -- is available for order online only at a price of $35,000, with delivery promised within a month. The announcement fulfills a vision of Tesla founder and chief Elon Musk, who has touted a more affordable electric car as part of his vision of weaning drivers from gasoline-powered vehicles. The Model 3 was to be priced at $35,000 when Tesla first began taking orders in 2016, but the cheapest version before today was about $10,000 more expensive despite price cuts that followed reductions in the US federal tax credit for vehicles not burning fossil fuels.
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| Buhari Triumphs in Nigeria Poll as Opposition Rejects Result Posted: 27 Feb 2019 10:18 AM PST  (Bloomberg) -- Nigeria's Muhammadu Buhari easily won a second term as president of Africa's biggest oil producer with promises to revive an anemic economy and tackle security threats including a devastating insurgency by Islamic State. His main opponent rejected the results.
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| After summit diplomacy collapse, what's Donald Trump's North Korea Plan B? Posted: 28 Feb 2019 12:20 PM PST  In the aftermath of the scrapped Hanoi summit, it's time to formulate a new plan for dealing with the strategic challenge posed by the Kim regime.
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| Hyundai, Kia recall over 500K vehicles as fire risk spreads Posted: 28 Feb 2019 10:09 AM PST  DETROIT (AP) — Hyundai and Kia have added more than a half-million vehicles to 3 ½-year string of U.S. recalls for engine failures and fires.
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| Ocasio-Cortez – 'who actually worked for wages' - rebukes Ivanka Trump Posted: 26 Feb 2019 06:39 PM PST  Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez described her experience 'as a person who actually worked for tips and hourly wages'. Without calling her out outright, the Democratic freshman congresswoman and Twitter wonder Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Tuesday rebuked the first daughter Ivanka Trump for sounding off on something she could never truly understand: working for a living wage. Describing her expertise "as a person who actually worked for tips and hourly wages", Ocasio-Cortez essentially pointed out that Ivanka Trump has never had to work a minimum wage job in her life and that her comments on the Green New Deal jobs guarantee rang hollow.
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| Saved from Pakistani mob, downed Indian pilot becomes face of Kashmir crisis Posted: 27 Feb 2019 09:13 AM PST  With Pakistani villagers and soldiers filming his capture and captivity on Wednesday in clips that have since gone viral on social media, the pilot identified by Islamabad as Indian Wing Commander Abhi Nandan has fast emerged as the human face of the dangerous flare-up between the arch-foes. India has not confirmed the pilot's identity. The pilot and the Indian Air Force (IAF) are at the heart of the crisis between two countries who have conducted air strikes on each other's territory in the last two days.
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| Ellen Page reaffirms hate crimes are 'very real,' despite Jussie Smollett investigation Posted: 27 Feb 2019 05:25 PM PST  In a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter, Ellen Page refocuses attention onto the "very real crimes" that plague the LGBTQ+ community nationwide.
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| The Next-Generation Porsche Macan Will Be Fully Electric Posted: 27 Feb 2019 07:01 AM PST  Due in 2021, the next Macan will ride on an electric platform shared with the second-gen Taycan.
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| Marie Kondo Helps Celebs Like Jennifer Garner, Hasan Minhaj Get a Head Start on Spring Cleaning Posted: 27 Feb 2019 12:27 PM PST  The tidying expert has gone viral following the premiere of her Netflix series Tidying Up With Marie Kondo
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| Target, Vineyard Vines team up on new limited edition collaboration for spring Posted: 28 Feb 2019 10:07 AM PST ![Target, Vineyard Vines team up on new limited edition collaboration for spring]( "Target, Vineyard Vines team up on new limited edition collaboration for spring") Target will likely have a whale of a time with its latest limited-edition collaboration with Vineyard Vines that debuts in May.
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| Trump hopeful India-Pakistan crisis will be resolved Posted: 28 Feb 2019 01:11 AM PST  US President Donald Trump was hopeful Thursday of a resolution to an ongoing crisis between nuclear-armed rivals India and Pakistan which has ignited fears of an all-out conflict in South Asia. Trump, speaking at a press conference in Hanoi after a summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said he had had "reasonably attractive news from Pakistan and India". The comments were his first since India and Pakistan both claimed to have shot down each other's fighter planes after a rare aerial engagement in the skies over the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir early Wednesday, with Pakistan capturing one Indian pilot.
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| The Latest: Nigeria's president declared election winner Posted: 26 Feb 2019 07:51 PM PST  ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) — The latest on Nigeria's election (all times local):
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| Apple self-driving car layoffs give hints to division's direction Posted: 27 Feb 2019 07:48 PM PST  The tech firm said in a filing with state regulators that it planned to lay off people from eight different Santa Clara County facilities near its Cupertino, California, headquarters, as of April 16. A company spokesman confirmed that the reduction was from the self-driving car program. Among those laid off were at least two dozen software engineers, including a machine learning engineer, and 40 hardware engineers, according to a letter sent by Apple to California employment regulators earlier this month.
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| Pakistan will free downed pilot to ease India stand off, Imran Khan pledges Posted: 28 Feb 2019 08:30 AM PST  Pakistan will today (FRI) release an Indian airman shot down over Kashmir in what Imran Khan said was a peace gesture to ease tensions in an escalating military crisis with India. The promise to release Wg Cdr Abhinanda Varthaman followed two days of air strikes and clashes which had raised fears the nuclear-armed neighbours were on the brink of war. India on Thursday said it welcomed the return of its officer, but said its troops would remain on high alert as the adversaries traded fire across their disputed frontier in Kashmir. "We have captured a pilot of India. As a gesture of peace we are going to release him to India tomorrow," Mr Khan told the country's parliament. "But this de-escalation effort should not be considered as weakness." India had demanded the immediate safe return of Wg Cdr Varthaman after his MiG-21 was shot down, and protested Pakistan's release of video showing his captivity. India called for the immediate and safe return of Wg Cdr Abhinandan Varthaman Donald Trump said America had been trying to get the two sides to climb down from their confrontation. "I think hopefully that's going to be coming to an end," the US president said in Hanoi where he was holding talks with Kim Jong un. The regional rivals have been brought to their most severe confrontation in nearly two decades after a suicide bombing in Indian-controlled Kashmir killed at least 40 police of February 14. India blames the Pakistan-based militant group Jaish-e-Mohammad and has demanded that Islamabad take action. India's Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged his countrymen on Thursday to "unite, fight, live, work and win as one" against an unnamed enemy "seeking to destabilise India". "In the face of their objective [to destabilise], every Indian should stand like a wall against them" he said while talking to more than 10 million of his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata (BJP) supporters via a mass video conference. Pulwama suicide attack - Map "We have to show the enemy that this nation will neither stop, nor will its development stop" he said, but without naming Pakistan. Jet fighters from both sides clashed on Wednesday. Pakistan said it had shot down two Indian jets, with one landing inside its territory. India said only one of its jets was missing and it had in turn shot down a Pakistani F-16. That was denied by Pakistan. The son of a decorated fighter pilot, 36-year old Wg Cdr Varthaman was hailed in India as a hero. The captured pilot's father, a former air marshal, was a consultant for a film two years ago about an Indian Air Force pilot whose combat aircraft is downed in Pakistan. The senior retired officer had said he hoped his son "does not get tortured and comes home safe and sound in body and mind". Those living close to the disputed line of control dividing Kashmir continued to endure shelling. Habibullah Khan, a 55-year-old in the town of Mendhar just inside Indian territory, said on Thursday shells had landed in wheat fields near his home. Schools and markets had closed as residents were driven indoors. "Everything is in the hands of God. None dies without the will of the Almighty. But at the same time, we are in the line of fire. We are lucky that shells didn't land in our house and instead fell in the fields. But I don't know how long will I and my family survive," he told the Telegraph. Haji Munawar Hussain, a resident of Mankote, said Indian and Pakistani troops traded heavy mortar and gunfire with shells landing in a market and near houses as well. "it is a terrible situation here, the 65-year-old said. "The shells are falling everywhere, in the ravines, in the fields and outside the houses. We are terribly scared." With additional reporting by Ishfaq Naseem in Srinagar
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| Kraft pleads not guilty to solicitation charges Posted: 28 Feb 2019 10:32 AM PST  New England Patriots owner Robert Kraft pleaded not guilty to solicitation of prostitution charges and is requesting a non-jury trial.
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| Southwest Airlines wing scrapes runway during aborted landing in Hartford Posted: 27 Feb 2019 05:56 PM PST  A Southwest flight from Orlando to Hartford, Connecticut, ended up diverting to Rhode Island after trying to land three times in high winds.
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| Spring Cleaning Comes Early As Apps See a Donation Boost Thanks to Marie Kondo Posted: 28 Feb 2019 09:38 AM PST  Spark joy — online
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| Will Your Kids Be Able to Retire? Posted: 28 Feb 2019 07:28 AM PST ![Will Your Kids Be Able to Retire?]( "Will Your Kids Be Able to Retire?") Many milllennials are burdened with student debt, suffer from lagging wage growth, probably do not benefit from a company retirement plan and can look forward to rising health care costs. Millennials have approached work a little differently, and they may do retirement their own way as well. Here are seven reasons your children will probably be fine in retirement.
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| Green New Deal: What is it and what does it mean for climate change? Posted: 27 Feb 2019 07:53 AM PST  Democrats are in the process of hammering out their climate change policy ahead of the 2020 elections. One proposal is called the Green New Deal.
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| Upland PD: Mother to face charges after daughter dies, son thrown off balcony Posted: 27 Feb 2019 08:45 AM PST  An Upland mother is expected to face charges for killing her infant girl and throwing her son off a balcony, police say.
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| Trump Was Right to Walk Away From Kim Posted: 28 Feb 2019 06:36 AM PST  On Thursday afternoon, President Donald Trump cut short his summit in Hanoi with North Korea's Kim Jong Un. "Sometimes you have to walk," Trump explained later at a press conference. Trump said Kim demanded a full lifting of sanctions in exchange for only partial denuclearization.
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| China urges India, Pakistan against 'expansion' of tensions Posted: 27 Feb 2019 07:39 PM PST  China's foreign minister has called on Pakistan and India to avoid escalating tensions, expressing to his Pakistani counterpart "deep concern" over the Kashmir crisis amid fears aerial battles could snowball into an all-out conflict. Wang Yi's comments came as Shah Mehmood Qureshi called him on Wednesday to provide an update on the latest developments in the standoff, the Chinese foreign ministry said Thursday. Wang told Qureshi he hoped the nuclear-armed neighbours would "exercise restraint and earnestly fulfil their commitment to preventing the expansion of the situation", a ministry statement said.
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| Thousands stranded in Bangkok as flights affected by India Pakistan tensions Posted: 28 Feb 2019 03:16 AM PST  Thai Airways flights resumed by Thursday afternoon after the airline secured permission to reroute flights over Chinese airspace, but it could take up to three days to clear a backlog of 3,000 passengers, an airline official said. Flights to and from London, Munich, Paris, Brussels, Milan, Vienna, Stockholm, Zurich, Copenhagen, Oslo, Frankfurt and Rome had been scheduled to fly over Pakistani airspace on Thursday, Thai Airways said in a statement. Most of the airline's European flights leave after midnight and the cancellations left scores of passengers stuck at Suvarnabhumi International Airport on the outskirts of Bangkok.
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