| Holocaust survivor to ICE director, California sheriff: ‘History is not on your side’ Posted: 29 Mar 2017 09:25 AM PDT  An Auschwitz survivor confronted one of the nation's top immigration officials and a local sheriff at a California town hall Tuesday night. Bernard Marks, 87, addressed Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Thomas Homan and Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones, a supporter of President Trump. Jones had invited Homan to the public forum to discuss address the community's concerns about ICE's collaboration with local law enforcement.
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| Why the Senate Russia Probe Is Trouble for Trump Posted: 29 Mar 2017 12:03 PM PDT  Unlike the House Intelligence committee's Russia investigation that was thrown into chaos by its chairman, the Senate investigation is being taken very seriously by the Republican Chairman and Democratic Vice-Chairman.
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| Eyewitnesses describe deadly airstrike in Iraqi neighborhood Posted: 29 Mar 2017 11:33 AM PDT  MOSUL — In the West Emergency Hospital in Irbil, 30-year-old Lina described the sound and the smell after an airstrike hit a house in the west Mosul neighborhood of Jadida. Lina's voice shook as she described the events to Yahoo News.
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| China says 'no such thing' as man-made islands in South China Sea Posted: 30 Mar 2017 04:16 AM PDT  There was "no such thing" as man-made islands in the disputed South China Sea, China's Defence Ministry said on Thursday, and reiterated that any building work was mainly for civilian purposes. China, which claims most of the resource-rich region, has carried out land reclamation and construction on several islands in the Spratly archipelago, parts of which are also claimed by Brunei, Malaysia, the Philippines, Taiwan and Vietnam. "Most of the building is for civilian purposes, including necessary defensive facilities." The South China Sea is generally stable at present, but some countries outside the region are anxious about this and want to hype things up and create tensions, Wu said, using terminology that normally refers to the United States.
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| Cards Against Humanity Creator Vows To Publish Browsing History Of U.S. Representatives Posted: 30 Mar 2017 11:16 AM PDT  The creator of Cards Against Humanity has promised to purchase and publish the browsing history of members of the United States Congress following a decision to repeal protections that prevented internet service providers from collecting and selling user information without permission.
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| Hiker Who Saved Baby Bear With CPR Has No Regrets Despite Jail Threat: 'He Was Fighting to Survive' Posted: 30 Mar 2017 01:46 PM PDT  Corey Hancock could have been fined $6,000 and even gone to jail for a year for interfering with wildlife.
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| How to Protect Your Online Privacy Now That Congress Sold You Out Posted: 30 Mar 2017 10:13 AM PDT  Congress just cleared your ISP to sell your data, so now it is time to take privacy into your own hands.
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| Holocaust survivor gets standing ovation after confronting ICE director and county sheriff Posted: 29 Mar 2017 09:12 AM PDT  At a public forum on immigration Tuesday in Sacramento, Calif., Holocaust survivor Bernard Marks confronted U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Thomas Homan and County Sheriff Scott Jones. "History is not on your side," he said.
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| UK police, Muslim youths link hands to mark London attack Posted: 29 Mar 2017 10:02 AM PDT  LONDON (AP) — Police officers, Muslim youths and hundreds of others linked hands Wednesday on Westminster Bridge to honor the four people who died in an attack that started on the span a week earlier.
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| Sean Spicer knocks critics of his ‘spirited back-and-forth’ with April Ryan Posted: 29 Mar 2017 10:07 AM PDT  A day after scolding journalist April Ryan during his daily briefing, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said criticism of the now-viral exchange is "demeaning" — to her.
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| 16 Million at Risk As Massive Storms Tear Through the South Posted: 29 Mar 2017 08:38 AM PDT  At least 16 million people are at risk of severe weather, including in Missouri and Arkansas, where strong tornadoes are possible.
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| Clashes in Kashmir: Civilians killed in protests against Indian rule Posted: 30 Mar 2017 05:00 AM PDT ![Clashes in Kashmir: Civilians killed in protests against Indian rule]( "Clashes in Kashmir: Civilians killed in protests against Indian rule") Three civilians were killed and 28 other people were injured in anti-India protests that erupted yesterday following a gunbattle between rebels and government forces that killed a rebel in disputed Kashmir, police and witnesses said. The gunbattle began after police and soldiers cordoned off the southern town of Chadoora following a tip that at least one militant was hiding in a house, said Inspector-General Syed Javaid Mujtaba Gillani. Witnesses said intense clashes between rock-throwing protesters and government forces erupted just a few hundred meters (yards) from the besieged house, with police and paramilitary soldiers firing shotgun pellets and tear gas to stop the protest.
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| John McCain is not sorry for calling Kim Jong Un ‘fat’ Posted: 29 Mar 2017 01:16 PM PDT  "What, did they want me to call him a crazy skinny kid?" Sen. John McCain quipped via Twitter on Wednesday in response to a report by the Korean Central News Agency that the dignity of North Korea's supreme leadership was hurt by McCain's recent description of Kim Jong Un as the "crazy fat kid that's running North Korea." What, did they want me to call him a crazy skinny kid? https://t.co/Ym3juRfBev
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| Arizona high school athletes arrested in hazing case Posted: 29 Mar 2017 04:17 PM PDT ![Arizona high school athletes arrested in hazing case]( "Arizona high school athletes arrested in hazing case") Six Arizona high school football players were arrested on Wednesday and accused of sexual assault, kidnapping and aggravated assault in connection with a hazing case, police said. Police said the students were current or former members of the team at Hamilton High School in the Phoenix suburb of Chandler. "This is an on-going investigation and there may be other victims out there," said Detective Seth Tyler, a Chandler police spokesman.
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| ‘I’m a strong black woman’: Maxine Waters says she’s not responding to Bill O’Reilly jab Posted: 29 Mar 2017 08:52 AM PDT  Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., responded Tuesday after Fox News host Bill O'Reilly ridiculed her appearance, saying he was unable to focus during a recent speech she gave on the House floor because he was distracted by her "James Brown wig."
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| Completely insane architects are planning to hang a skyscraper from an asteroid Posted: 29 Mar 2017 03:00 PM PDT  Words like "insane," "crazy," and "nuts" get thrown around a lot — I use them more than my fair share, if I'm being honest — but a New York design group just revealed plans for a new type of skyscraper that really can't be described any other way. Their plan is to construct a huge structure on the surface of an asteroid and, believe it or not, that's probably the most rational part of the proposal. Clouds Architecture Office is the firm that wants to build the massive skyscraper, which it calls Analemma Tower. The structure, which at this point is completely conceptual and likely completely impossible, would require that an asteroid be captured and brought into near-Earth orbit. With anchor points on the asteroid, the building is designed to — this is the part where things go completely off the rails — hang completely upside down, using the asteroid like a gravitational balloon to hold the structure in place above the Earth's surface.  The tower would be in eccentric geosynchronous orbit, and would "travel" between hemispheres on a regular daily schedule, and in a figure eight pattern. The architects say the tower would spend much of its time over New York City thanks to its planned trajectory. The building could remain completely disconnected from the surface indefinitely by drawing power from solar panels situated above cloud level. Water would be filtered within the structure in a semi-closed loop, but the tower could also capture its own water while in-flight.  As far as traveling to and from the tower, the concept suggests that people could just parachute down to Earth whenever they needed to leave. As for getting back home, the company doesn't seem to have nailed down exactly how that will work, but by the time the tower is actually built we'll probably have teleportation pads, too.
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| Amal Clooney Calls For Action Against ISIS Posted: 30 Mar 2017 02:40 AM PDT  The human rights lawyer spoke at a discussion Wednesday about international crimes in Iraq and Syria, calling for legal action against the Islamic State group.
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| How to Stop ISPs from Selling Your Private Data Posted: 29 Mar 2017 05:15 AM PDT  The Internet may seem like an apolitical entity, but the fact is, the United States government has a great deal of influence over it. On Thursday (Mar. 23), the U.S. Senate voted to overturn an important broadband privacy rule instituted under the Obama administration. Your ISP will continue to be able to collect and sell your online data with reckless abandon, and frankly, unless you're willing to kneecap your own Internet access, you can't do much about it.
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| US, Turkey strain for deal on key element of anti-IS fight Posted: 30 Mar 2017 11:03 AM PDT  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The Trump administration and Turkey appeared no closer Thursday to resolving a dispute over the Kurds' role in defeating the Islamic State group in Syria, as U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson visited America's often nettlesome NATO ally for the first time.
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| A window into the plight of America’s railways: Are Amtrak’s long-distance routes coming to an end? Posted: 30 Mar 2017 09:49 AM PDT ![A window into the plight of America's railways: Are Amtrak's long-distance routes coming to an end?]( "A window into the plight of America's railways: Are Amtrak's long-distance routes coming to an end?") Earlier this month, President Trump proposed $16.2 billion for the Department of Transportation's discretionary budget for fiscal year 2018, a reduction of 13 percent. The budget proposal would affect the California Zephyr and other long-distance rail lines run by national rail operator Amtrak.
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| This is the Safest (And Easiest) Way to Clean Granite Countertops Posted: 29 Mar 2017 11:32 AM PDT  Here's how to avoid breaking down the countertop's sealant.
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| California to seek death penalty in salon massacre Posted: 29 Mar 2017 07:09 PM PDT  California's attorney general said on Wednesday his office would press ahead in seeking the death penalty for a man who pleaded guilty to killing eight people in a 2011 shooting rampage, even though local prosecutors were sanctioned for acting improperly. The state's top elected law enforcement official assumed responsibility for the penalty phase of the case against Scott Dekraai after a California appeals court upheld a lower-court order recusing the Orange County District Attorney's Office over prosecutorial misconduct. Defense lawyers sought to remove local prosecutors and bar them from seeking the death penalty on grounds that jailhouse informants were improperly used to wring a confession from Dekraai.
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| ICE Raids Target Austin, Texas Posted: 29 Mar 2017 09:38 AM PDT  Immigration officials raided the sanctuary city after local officials attempted to preserve current policies welcoming immigrants.
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| Houthi rebels in Yemen threatening strategic strait: US official Posted: 29 Mar 2017 11:37 AM PDT  Houthi rebels in Yemen are threatening free movement into and out of the Red Sea with missiles, mines and other sophisticated defenses on a key strait, a top US general said Wednesday. The Bab el-Mandeb Strait connects the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean, a strategic passage for world trade. Bordering it to the east, Yemen is locked in a deadly civil war between government forces backed by an Arab coalition led by Saudi Arabia and the Iran-supported Houthis.
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| Top Asian News 3:58 a.m. GMT Posted: 28 Mar 2017 08:59 PM PDT ![Top Asian News 3:58 a.m. GMT]( "Top Asian News 3:58 a.m. GMT") BANGKOK (AP) — The Ferrari driver who allegedly slammed into a motorcycle cop, dragged him along the road and then sped away from the mangled body took just hours to find, as investigators followed a drip, drip, drip trail of brake fluid up a street, down an alley, and into the gated estate of one of Thailand's richest families. The prosecution of Red Bull heir Vorayuth "Boss" Yoovidhya, however, has been delayed for close to five years. The times when Vorayuth has been called in on charges, he hasn't shown up, claiming through his attorney that he was sick or out of the country on business.
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| Mysterious carving found at church where John F. Kennedy wed Posted: 29 Mar 2017 01:44 PM PDT  NEWPORT, R.I. (AP) — A mysterious carving of a woman's face has been discovered at the church where John F. Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier married in 1953, the church announced Wednesday.
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| Now I Get It: the Brexit trigger is pulled, now what? Posted: 29 Mar 2017 07:16 AM PDT  The day has arrived: Britain has officially said "Cheerio!" to the European Union. Prime Minister Theresa May has invoked Article 50, notifying the European Council that Britain has made its exit, or Brexit. Yahoo News and Finance Anchor Bianna Golodryga takes a look at what's next for the U.K. and why Article 50 plays an important role in unwinding its four-decade relationship with the European Union.
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| Tesla CEO Elon Musk launches Neuralink venture to merge human brain with AI Posted: 30 Mar 2017 01:00 PM PDT  First it was electric cars, and then came the mission to conquer space exploration and Mars. Now, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has set his sights on yet another lofty venture called Neuralink. According to The Wall Street Journal (subscription required), Neuralink's mission is to help human beings merge with artificial intelligence and software to allow for improved memory, interfacing with computer devices, and even potentially help alleviate those sufferings from various illnesses and diseases.
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| 9 paid iPhone apps on sale for free today Posted: 30 Mar 2017 09:10 AM PDT 
Wednesday's post covering paid iPhone and iPad apps on sale for free for a limited time was a great one, and there are still some freebies in there if you want to go back and check them out. We've got a fresh new list for you on Thursday, of course, and it's packed with nine new app sales for you to flip through. These are paid iPhone and iPad apps that have been made available for free for a limited time by their developers. There is no way to tell how long they will be free. These sales could end an hour from now or a week from now — obviously, the only thing we can guarantee is that they were free at the time this post was written. If you click on a link and see a price listed next to an app instead of the word "get," it is no longer free. The sale has ended. If you download the app, you will be charged. Repost and Save for Instagram 
Normally $2.99. Repost'n'Roll for Instagram let you share and repost your favorite Instagram posts from your friends, including the newly released Stories. Repost'n'Roll is the only app that allows you to repost Instagram Stories! When you login to the app, you will see the latest stories posts made by the people you follow, and you will be able to repost photos and videos while giving credit to the original poster. You can even repost your friends story to your own story, or you can do the classic reposting on your Instagram feed.
Download Repost and Save for Instagram Flash Player 
Normally $1.99. Flash browsing support
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- Read news that require Flash support.
- Press the "Lightning" icon on the bottom right navigation bar when you encounter a Flash website on the iPhone or iPod Touch.
- Combines fast native browsing for normal websites and remote browsing for Flash websites. Switch between the 2 modes using the lightning bolt button (for Flash) or the web globe button (for native browsing).
- Support different mode such as pointer mode for precision that makes your iPhone acts like a mouse pad. Supports touch mode for scrolling and touch/click. Supports drag mode for dragging around game maps.
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Download Flash Player Blyss 
Normally $0.99. Blyss launched on iOS with Editor's Choice in 78 countries and Worldwide feature! "As clever and creative as it is simple and minimalist, Blyss will have you coming back for more time and time again"
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- TouchArcade "If recent releases like Dots & Co, Quell Zen, and klocki weren't enough to whet your appetite, then Blyss is a fine addition to any puzzle game collection"
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Travel through Beautiful mountains, serene valleys and harsh deserts solving Blyss' unique and self-evolving puzzles. The endless puzzle adventure along with musical ambient themes will keep you hooked for hours as you write your own high scoring saga. Features : - Procedurally generated Unqiue and Unlimited Puzzles
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Download Blyss Prompts 
Normally $0.99. The #1 creative writing prompts app for iPhone and iPad just got a whole lot better. "Getting stuck with writer's block is a huge pain. Prompts provides inspiration." - Mashable More than 300,000 unique writing starting lines and creative writing prompts to inspire you and give you ideas for creative writing. Whether it's poetry writing, journal writing, storytelling, or anything else! Prompts is great for students in the classroom, amateur writers, or professionals who want to free write often. ** Part of the Apple Education program, so teachers and schools get a discount when buying this app! ** • Prompts gets you writing, even when you don't know where to start or if you feel blocked
• Access to more than 300,000 unique starting lines and creative prompts like that of Brian Eno
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• Adjustable font size and styling
• Share your writing by email, Twitter, or Facebook, and more Why use Prompts for creativity writing? • Prompts is full of unique writing prompts. Feeling stuck or creatively blocked? Press the lightning bolt at any time and you'll be presented with a prompt to help inspire you. • Even if you don't know where to start writing, just open the app and press the plus button to get a random and totally unique idea in the form of a starting line. There are hundreds of completely original ideas to start from. • On the bus, in the break room, anywhere you are, Prompts helps you become a better writer and build a writing habit with just a few minutes a day. • Share your writing by email, Twitter, Facebook, Evernote, or Day One Write full screen and swipe down to bring the menu back into view. It's a great way to write without distractions, using as much of the screen as possible! Set daily reminders to keep your writing habits healthy, bookmark the projects you're working on, and even monitor your writing stats to see which days and times you're at your best. Adjust font style and size to match your writing style, whatever style that is for you. Whether you want to write more just for fun or if you write for a profession, you are going to love how Prompts helps you write. Prompts is perfect for writers, bloggers, journalists, educators and students (college or kids), copywriters, marketers, or anyone who just likes to write.
Download Prompts Classicalc Music 
Normally $0.99. ### Over 10,000 downloads! Calculator that sounds amazing! ### Classicalc is a unique, the most classy calculator app on the App Store. It's designed to be beautiful and simple, but also… to sound amazing! Each color theme has its own, actual Grand Piano major scale! It's Chopin-awesome! Underneath it beautiful simplicity, there's some serious technology powering Classicalc: ## Instant Calculation calculates the formula as you type, so you never have to use the equals sign. We spare you one unnecessary tap at a time. ## You can start your calculations on your iPhone, then Continue on your Apple Watch, and the other way around. ## Your most recent equation is always saved, even if you shut the app. When you run it again, The formula is instantly there. ## 14 great-looking backgrounds with related actual Grand Piano major scales ## Change colors and major scales on iPhone app to change on Apple Watch ## In case the numbers bore you, you can always play a song. It's Chopin-awesome!
Download Classicalc Music Ninjas Infinity 
Normally $0.99. Here comes an authentic cartoon art style 2D infinity action! Can your fingers catch the infinity arena? Many obstacles, including evil ninjas, ninja dogs, monsters, demi-humans, zombies will prevent your adventure! ▪ Select among four ninjas!
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Normally $2.99. "This game is a home run! I love this [BLEEP] game. In my top 5 all time games. No BS." - Touch Arcade Forums A cloudy moon illuminates the quiet planet. With practiced precision, you carefully navigate mazes of deadly traps to reach your goal: a small landing target outside the dark city. If you survive, you must choose to cash in your points or risk it all on another run. Do you have what it takes to become a leaderboard legend? Thank you all for the wonderful feedback. Here's what people are saying about Rocket Valet! Galaxy Landing Service: "Seriously the most fun game I've played in a while on the iPhone. Love the leaderboards and the disks." "They nailed the controls on this game!" "There should be a warning label on this game." "I'm officially addicted." "Well done. I just played this for an hour straight!" "This game is friggin addicting as all get out!"
Download Rocket Valet! Color Accent 
Normally $0.99. Color Accent lets you add accent / splash effect to your photos in seconds. FEATURES • Powerful image processing engine Lets you tap on a color to add accent effect
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Download Сat stickers for iMessage
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| 'El Chapo' prison conditions worst in U.S., prevent proper defense: lawyers Posted: 30 Mar 2017 01:22 PM PDT  Held without access to sunlight or his relatives, Mexican drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman is under more restrictive captivity than any other U.S. prisoner and it is difficult to mount a defense, his court appointed lawyers said on Thursday. Mexico extradited Guzman, who is the head of Sinaloa Cartel, to New York in January, a few hours before U.S. President Donald Trump took office. Guzman, who escaped from two Mexican prisons and was a key figure in a bloody drug war, is seen as a flight risk by the U.S. government.
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| Austria Refuses To Accept Refugees Posted: 29 Mar 2017 12:47 PM PDT  Austria delivered another blow to the EU's refugee resettlement program.
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| Modified European VW diesels 'undrivable,' say some owners Posted: 29 Mar 2017 06:30 AM PDT  Most of the Volkswagen and Audi diesel cars sold in the U.S. from 2009 through 2015 are likely to be bought back from their owners, probably leaving fewer than 100,000 on U.S. roads. Roughly 11 million cars with TDI diesel engines were sold by VW Group under multiple brands, and some of those will be modified—in some cases only with software updates. DON'T MISS: Which VW diesels can be fixed, and which can't?
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| US-led coalition 'probably' had role in Mosul civilian casualties Posted: 28 Mar 2017 08:09 PM PDT  The US-led anti-jihadist coalition said Tuesday it "probably" played a role in civilian casualties in west Mosul, as the UN and Amnesty International called for greater efforts to protect civilians. Hundreds of thousands of civilians are still inside west Mosul, caught up in deadly fighting between the Islamic State group and Iraqi forces who are backed by coalition air strikes in the battle to retake the area from the jihadists. West Mosul is both smaller and more densely populated than the city's east, meaning that this stage of the battle poses a greater danger to civilians than those that came before.
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| Kansas governor vetoes Medicaid expansion bill Posted: 30 Mar 2017 12:02 PM PDT  The governor of Kansas on Thursday vetoed a bill expanding eligibility for Medicaid for the poor under the federal Affordable Care Act (ACA) because the measure was not fiscally responsible and would still fund Planned Parenthood. State lawmakers in the Republican-controlled senate voted in favor of the measure on Tuesday, just days after President Donald Trump's efforts to repeal and replace the ACA, also known as Obamacare, ended with the bill being pulled from a vote.
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| South Korean ferry saga a tale of government blunders Posted: 29 Mar 2017 02:21 AM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — From a botched rescue job to severely wrong death counts, South Korea's government has been blamed for a series of egregious errors in its handling of the 2014 sinking of the Sewol ferry, which killed 304 people in one of the country's worst disasters.
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| Questions linger as New Jersey bridge case sentencings near Posted: 28 Mar 2017 06:33 PM PDT  NEWARK, N.J. (AP) — The traffic jam that sank Gov. Chris Christie's presidential aspirations is set to conclude with the sentencings Wednesday of the two former aides convicted of creating the gridlock to teach a lesson to a mayor whose endorsement they couldn't obtain.
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| New Data Could Help Give Warning of Catastrophic Solar Storms Posted: 29 Mar 2017 11:30 AM PDT  Solar storms have the potential to destroy or disable satellites, power grids, and most electronics. Now we may finally be able to see them coming.
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| Warning: Don’t believe phone scammers who say your iCloud account was hacked Posted: 30 Mar 2017 08:43 AM PDT 
There's a group of hackers out there that claims it can reset hundreds of millions of iPhones by using stolen iCloud credentials. The attack should occur on April 7th unless Apple pays a ransom, but the iPhone maker denied having its servers breached. If the threat is real, it uses data taken from previous breaches. Information gained from previous hacks might be used to reset iPhones, a report showed, but it's not clear what the scope of the attack would be. So far, the hackers seem to be interested in getting as much publicity as possible. But other scammers have developed a different iCloud con, one that's getting more traction thanks to all the news detailing the potential attack on April 7th. The scammers call unsuspecting iPhone users to tell them their iCloud accounts have been hacked. Whatever you may think, don't believe them — your iCloud account is probably safe. The scammers pretend to call you from Apple's support department, Business Insider explains, and many people posted on Twitter to detail their experiences with this new iCloud con. https://twitter.com/steffartnieee/status/846480180923183104 The callers, who seem to be targeting users at random, will tell you that your iCloud account was hacked, and they will ask for your credentials to verify your identity. The log-in information can then be used by an attacker to sign into the victim's iCloud account, make purchases, access protected messages and backups, and more. Furthermore, Macworld points out that scammers may insist on installing antivirus software on your computer, which is likely malware ready to steal more data from unsuspecting victims. https://twitter.com/HenryKIRO7/status/847238485580718080 If you believe that your iCloud account was hacked, change the password yourself on a machine you know to be secure, and consider enabling two-factor authentication. You can even contact Apple yourself, but don't fall for this scam.
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| Senate kills rule meant to protect family planning funds Posted: 30 Mar 2017 01:53 PM PDT ![Senate kills rule meant to protect family planning funds]( "Senate kills rule meant to protect family planning funds") For the second time on Thursday, Vice President Mike Pence took the rare step of breaking a tie in the U.S. Senate, as he cast the deciding vote in rolling back protections for federal funds for family planning and reproductive health. In a 51-50 vote, senators approved killing a rule intended to keep federal grants flowing to clinics that provide contraception and other services in states that want to block the funding. Earlier in the day, Pence was called upon to end the deadlock over advancing the resolution to a final vote.
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| Tesla Is Almost Worth As Much As Ford, And It's Been Around For A Fraction Of The Time Posted: 29 Mar 2017 02:23 PM PDT  Tesla's innovation is being rewarded, the company is now close to being worth more than Ford.
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| Spicer dodges question about bill allowing Internet providers to sell users’ browsing history Posted: 29 Mar 2017 11:31 AM PDT  At Wednesday's press briefing, press secretary Sean Spicer declined to discuss why the administration supports a bill, passed by Congress on Tuesday, that will allow Internet service providers to sell users' Web data.
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| Family of Chinese man killed by Paris police calls for calm Posted: 29 Mar 2017 08:27 AM PDT  The family of a Chinese man shot dead by French police called for calm Wednesday following two nights of violent protests over his killing. Liu Shaoyo was shot on Sunday by a police team that was called to his apartment in northeast Paris over a suspected domestic dispute. The police said the officer who fired the shots acted in self-defence after the 56-year-old father of five attacked another officer with a knife.
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| California would increase fuel taxes under $52 billion road repair plan Posted: 29 Mar 2017 03:23 PM PDT  California would increase gasoline taxes and other transportation-related fees for the first time in decades to fund an ambitious $52 billion plan to repair the state's sagging infrastructure under a deal announced Wednesday. The deal between fiscally moderate Democratic Governor Jerry Brown and leaders of the majority Democrat legislature would increase the excise tax on gasoline by 12 cents per gallon from the current $0.28, and on diesel fuel by 20 cents per gallon, among other fees, over 10 years to pay for repairs to roads and bridges as well as for anti-congestion projects. "Let's be clear - our roads suck," said Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, who represents blue-collar suburbs south of Los Angeles at a news conference announcing the deal.
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