| EPA chief admits climate change is real — but ‘the real issue is how much we contribute to it’ Posted: 02 Apr 2017 10:41 AM PDT  Scott Pruitt, the new chief of the Environmental Protection Agency, says climate change is real, but how much humans are to blame for causing it is up for debate.
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| Gorsuch Nomination Tests Senate Rules Posted: 02 Apr 2017 01:15 AM PDT  MTP Compressed: Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) tells Chuck Todd that he hasn't seen any evidence of surveillance on the Trump campaign, and Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) looks for a deal with Republicans over Judge Gorsuch's nomination.
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| Thousands march in Paris after Chinese man's death by police Posted: 02 Apr 2017 12:46 PM PDT  About 6,000 people took part in angry protests in Paris on Sunday against the death of a Chinese man shot and killed when police responded to a call at his apartment last month, police said. The rally was organised by several Chinese associations in France, and as with previous rallies held over the past week, there were sporadic skirmishes between protesters and security forces. Some of the demonstrators threw bottles, eggs and fruit, prompting the police to respond with tear gas during clashes that lasted more than an hour, according to an AFP photographer.
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| Trump insists GOP talks on replacing Obamacare are ongoing Posted: 02 Apr 2017 08:12 AM PDT  A little more than a week after telling reporters he was moving on after failing to rally enough Republican support to repeal and replace Obamacare — and vowing to let former President Barack Obama's health care law "explode" — President Trump lashed out at the "fake news media" for casting the negotiations as dead. "Anybody (especially Fake News media) who thinks that Repeal & Replace of ObamaCare is dead does not know the love and strength in R Party!" Trump tweeted on Sunday.
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| Atlanta Overpass Collapse and Fire Sparks Traffic Nightmare Posted: 03 Apr 2017 09:49 AM PDT  The fire burned for more than an hour under I-85 northbound.
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| Has a New Image of the Missing Teen and Teacher Emerged? Cops Report 'Possible' Sighting of Duo Posted: 03 Apr 2017 08:04 AM PDT  Tennessee Bureau of Investigation had called the McDonald's sighting unconfirmed.
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| Mexican newspaper closes citing insecurity for journalists Posted: 02 Apr 2017 02:14 PM PDT ![Mexican newspaper closes citing insecurity for journalists]( "Mexican newspaper closes citing insecurity for journalists") MEXICO CITY (AP) — A newspaper in the Mexican border city of Juarez announced Sunday that it is shutting down because the rampant, unpunished killings of journalists in the country have made it too dangerous to go on.
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| LuLaRoe Gets Slammed With Lawsuit for Faulty Leggings Posted: 03 Apr 2017 12:16 PM PDT  Fashion brand LuLa Roe is being slammed with a lawsuit over faulty merchandise.
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| Full McConnell Interview: 'No...Not Yet' Evidence of Wiretapping Claim Posted: 01 Apr 2017 11:05 PM PDT  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) joined Meet the Press to talk about the start of the Senate's investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.
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| Somali pirates seize Indian ship, 11 crew members Posted: 03 Apr 2017 07:01 AM PDT  Somali pirates have seized an Indian cargo ship and 11 crew members, the ship's owner said Monday, as a recent series of hijackings raises fears of a resurgence in piracy. The "Al Kausar" is the third vessel to be hijacked in less than a month off the coast of Somalia as experts warn that ships have lowered their guard in the five years since the height of the piracy crisis. The Indian cargo ship was carrying items such as wheat and sugar from Dubai via Yemen to Somalia's Bossaso port when it came under attack, owner Isaak Them told AFP.
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| Lawmakers Say Too Early To Consider Immunity For Flynn Testimony Posted: 02 Apr 2017 08:47 AM PDT  "Every time we turn around, another shoe drops from this centipede," Sen. John McCain said of the investigation into Russian meddling in the U.S. election.
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| College student dies after choking at pancake-eating contest Posted: 03 Apr 2017 11:26 AM PDT  HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A college student whose father was killed in the Sept. 11 attacks has died after choking during a pancake-eating contest.
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| Ruling party in Armenia leads parliamentary vote Posted: 02 Apr 2017 04:47 PM PDT  By Hasmik Mkrtchyan YEREVAN (Reuters) - President Serzh Sarksyan's ruling Republican Party led in elections in Armenia on Sunday, official preliminary results showed, laying the foundation for a new parliamentary system of government. The Republican Party of Armenia (RPA) had 53.20 percent of the votes, while the opposition Tsarukyan's Alliance led by wealthy businessman Gagik Tsarukyan got 26.56 percent.
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| Boy, 13, Identified As Child Killed By Carbon Monoxide at Hotel Pool That Left 6 Other Kids Hospitalized Posted: 02 Apr 2017 07:21 AM PDT  The hotel is shut down until further notice.
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| Desperation sets in as flood death toll in Colombia tops 200 Posted: 02 Apr 2017 04:54 PM PDT  MOCOA, Colombia (AP) — Townspeople desperately searched their ruined homes and the local hospital for loved ones Sunday after a torrent of water, mud and debris swept through a city in southern Colombia, causing more than 200 deaths, many of them children, and leaving hundreds more missing and injured.
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| China to create new economic zone outside Beijing Posted: 02 Apr 2017 04:07 AM PDT  China will create a new special economic zone outside Beijing similar to those established in Shenzhen and Shanghai, the government said, in a bid to boost flagging growth and reduce the strain on the capital. The Xiongan New Area, located some 100 kilometres (62 miles) southwest of downtown Beijing in Hebei province, will rival south China's Shenzhen Special Economic Zone, established in the 1980s, and Shanghai's Pudong New Area, set up in the 1990s. The move was a "major historic and strategic choice made by the CPC Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core" and would be "crucial for millennium to come", the official Xinhua news agency reported late Saturday.
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| The Easy Way to Make Old Luxury Cars Valuable Again Posted: 03 Apr 2017 09:53 AM PDT  The case for big-body buybacks.
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| SitRep: Trump Willing To Go It Alone On North Korea; Egypt Reset; White House Favors Arms Sales Over Human Rights Posted: 03 Apr 2017 04:47 AM PDT  Haley On Russia; NSC Official On The Move; Jared to Iraq; And Lots More
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| Police seek carjacking suspect who was doused with gasoline Posted: 02 Apr 2017 08:25 PM PDT  Surveillance video shows woman spray Massachusetts carjacking suspect with gasoline before he manages to drive away.
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| Wife Of Teacher Accused Of Abducting Student Files For Divorce Posted: 02 Apr 2017 11:28 PM PDT  Jill Cummins filed for divorce from Cummins citing "irreconcilable differences."
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| Bill Cosby returns to court and more: April 3 in photos Posted: 03 Apr 2017 01:22 PM PDT ![Bill Cosby returns to court and more: April 3 in photos]( "Bill Cosby returns to court and more: April 3 in photos") Actor Bill Cosby leaves for a lunch break during a hearing for his upcoming sexual assault trial at Montgomery County Courthouse in Norristown, Pennsylvania; Displaced Iraqis who had fled their homes wait to enter at Hammam al-Alil camp south of Mosul, Iraq; and, A man on stilts points as Travis Gonick, left, and his son T.J., center, both of Nutley N.J., enter Fenway Park for a baseball game between the Boston Red Sox and the Pittsburgh Pirates on opening day in Boston.
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| Leader in Egyptian Islamic State affiliate killed in air raid Posted: 02 Apr 2017 05:07 AM PDT ![Leader in Egyptian Islamic State affiliate killed in air raid]( "Leader in Egyptian Islamic State affiliate killed in air raid") A leader in Islamic State's Egyptian affiliate was killed in an air raid last month, the Egyptian military said on Sunday. "Following the results of the air raid on March 18... and upon the security apparatus's investigation, it was revealed that Salem Salmy al-Hamadeen, Aka Abu Anas al-Ansari, was killed," the military spokesman said in a statement. Hamadeen was one of the founders of the group which was formerly called Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, now called Egypt's Sinai Province, and was responsible for arming and training militants.
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| Southern California rescuers on lookout for tangled whale Posted: 02 Apr 2017 03:52 PM PDT  DANA POINT, Calif. (AP) — Boaters were asked Sunday to be on the lookout for a gray whale tangled in an unknown material heading north along Southern California's coast.
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| Prince Charles visits earthquake-hit Italian town Posted: 02 Apr 2017 06:33 AM PDT ![Prince Charles visits earthquake-hit Italian town]( "Prince Charles visits earthquake-hit Italian town") Britain's Prince Charles paid a visit on Sunday to one of the towns in central Italy devastated by a major earthquake last August, a day after locals protested against the government because of aid delays. The 6.2 magnitude earthquake killed nearly 300 people and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses. More than 45,000 aftershocks have rattled the region, including an even stronger 6.6 magnitude quake in October, the biggest to strike Italy for 36 years.
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| Some EpiPen, EpiPen Jr. Devices Recalled by Mylan in the U.S. Posted: 02 Apr 2017 01:08 PM PDT  Mylan is expanding a previously announced overseas recall to now include EpiPen and EpiPen Jr. devices distributed in the U.S. over concerns they may not function properly when needed. Like the e...
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| Assange taunts Ecuador opponent after election Posted: 02 Apr 2017 09:17 PM PDT  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange waded into Ecuador's contested presidential election, tweeting his congratulations to the ruling socialist party's candidate and telling his rival he should leave the country. Assange, who has been holed up in Ecuador's London embassy since 2012, had a personal stake in the race: opposition candidate Guillermo Lasso had threatened to kick him out of the embassy within 30 days if he won the election. The 45-year-old Australian buoyantly turned that threat around on Lasso as official results showed the conservative ex-banker on track to lose.
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| Putin, friend or foe? Russia looms over French election Posted: 02 Apr 2017 09:19 AM PDT  Russia looms large over France's presidential election, with candidates on the hard left, right and far right all promising to improve ties with the Kremlin, accused by some of meddling in the vote. As US authorities press their investigation into alleged Russian interference in favour of Donald Trump in America's election, officials on both sides of the Atlantic are warning of possible attempts by Russia to also sway the French vote. This week, the chairman of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence outright accused Russia of an "overt effort" to disrupt France's April 23-May 7 vote.
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| Storms sweep through South; 5 killed Posted: 03 Apr 2017 04:18 PM PDT  JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — A Mississippi woman who desperately tried to direct rescuers to her sinking vehicle after it skidded into a rain-swollen creek was among five people killed in storms across the South.
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| Dog Rescued After Dropping Into 30-Foot Well Posted: 03 Apr 2017 02:24 PM PDT  She wasn't injured.
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| 2017 Porsche 911 Carrera 4S Targa Automatic Posted: 03 Apr 2017 07:55 AM PDT  The Targa adds weight; the turbo shrugs it off.
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| Colombian police seize more than six tonnes of cocaine Posted: 02 Apr 2017 10:27 AM PDT  BOGOTA (Reuters) - Colombian police have seized more than six tonnes of cocaine in the Caribbean city of Barranquilla, the defense minister said on Sunday. The shipment, the third-largest seizure in the history of continental Colombia, was found on Friday and belonged to several drug gangs, among them the so-called Urabenos, Defense Minister Luis Carlos Villegas told journalists. The shipment would have been worth about 200 million euros in Spain, its final destination. Authorities have already confiscated 103 tonnes of cocaine this year, the minister added. Last year a record 378. ...
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| Israel PM warns enemies at missile defense ceremony Posted: 02 Apr 2017 08:07 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — A joint U.S.-Israeli missile interceptor meant to counter the type of medium-range missiles possessed by Iranian-backed Hezbollah militants became operational Sunday, completing Israel's multi-layer defense system amid tensions on its frontiers with Syria and Gaza.
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| North Korean official tells ABC News they want to talk only with U.S. about nuclear weapons Posted: 02 Apr 2017 09:20 AM PDT  ABC News' Bob Woodruff reports from inside the dictator-governed country.
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| Burkina troops tried for arms depot raid claim tortured Posted: 01 Apr 2017 11:32 PM PDT  Some 20 Burkinabe soldiers on trial at a military tribunal over a failed raid on an arms depot last year have said they were tortured to extract their confessions. Almost all of them said they had suffered beatings, humiliation and food deprivation at the police camp where they were held after their arrest following the raid in January 2016, for which they have been on trial since Tuesday. "When I was arrested on January 25, 2016, I was abused by police officers from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm", Sergeant Ollo Stanislas Poda said on Saturday.
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| Nearly 9 months later, Central Park blast remains a mystery Posted: 02 Apr 2017 06:21 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Detective Paul Arroyo and Special Agent Peter D'Antonio are frustrated.
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| Tina Fey has a message for all the college-educated white women that voted Posted: 02 Apr 2017 11:20 AM PDT  Tina Fey isn't one to mince words—and she had some very important things to say on Friday night. The comedian took part in the American Civil Liberties (ACLU) Facebook Live telethon, fundraising alongside Amy Poehler, Tom Hanks, and more for the organization. During the nearly four-hour-long broadcast, Fey took the opportunity to speak to Donald Trump supporters—and specifically, to the college-educated white women voters among them. SEE ALSO: Like Tina Fey? And the ACLU? Do we have the livestream for you. "A lot of this election was turned by white, college-educated women who now would like to forget about this election and go back to watching HGTV," the actress said during an interview with Donna Lieberman and Louise Melling of the ACLU. "I would want to urge them to, like — you can't look away because it doesn't affect you this minute, but it's going to affect you eventually." Fey is referring to exit poll numbers from November's election that show Donald Trump's voters were predominantly white female voters in the country— 53 percent to be exact. "I personally would like to make my own pledge to college-educated white women to not look away, not pretend that things that are happening now won't eventually affect me if we don't put a stop to it," she explained. WATCH: The first zero emissions ship looks pretty badass
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| Google Shuts Down Map Maker Posted: 02 Apr 2017 05:28 PM PDT  The feature that previously allowed general users to be part of the Maps app development has been officially terminated.
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| Tulsa cop facing trial for killing black man says race not a factor Posted: 02 Apr 2017 10:19 PM PDT  In an unusual appearance on CBS News' "60 Minutes" on Sunday, officer Betty Shelby insisted her actions, captured on videotape, were driven entirely by the behavior of the man she shot, Terence Crutcher. Although the footage showed Crutcher, 40, had his hands in the air as he stood beside his car in a roadway just before Shelby shot him, she said the video fails to show clearly that he suddenly reached into the vehicle in what she believed was an attempt to grab a weapon. It was that move, and his repeated failure to heed her commands, that led Shelby, 42, to use lethal force.
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| Tesla tops quarterly sales forecast Posted: 02 Apr 2017 06:56 PM PDT  Tesla sold more than 25,000 vehicles in the first quarter, a record that beat analysts' forecasts, the electric carmaker said on Sunday. Tesla produced 25,418 vehicles, a bit above its prior record in the third quarter of 2016. CEO Elon Musk voiced confidence in February that Tesla electric car production would climb to 500,000 next year.
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| Fox News, Ailes face another sexual harassment lawsuit Posted: 03 Apr 2017 03:57 PM PDT  A Democratic political consultant and Fox News contributor on Monday sued the network and its former chairman, Roger Ailes, accusing them of denying her a permanent hosting job after she rebuffed Ailes' sexual advances. Julie Roginsky also said in her lawsuit filed in New York state court that a misogynistic culture at Fox News, a unit of Twenty-First Century Fox Inc , had not changed since Ailes resigned last year after a separate sexual harassment lawsuit by former anchor Gretchen Carlson. Susan Estrich, a lawyer for Ailes, said in a statement that Roginsky's claims were "total hogwash." "This is about someone who wants to pile-on in a massive character assassination in order to achieve what she did not accomplish on the merits," Estrich said.
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| In photos: The best Easter destinations in Europe 2017 Posted: 03 Apr 2017 07:23 AM PDT |
| Egypt's judges, Parliament at sharp odds over bill Posted: 02 Apr 2017 12:34 PM PDT ![Egypt's judges, Parliament at sharp odds over bill]( "Egypt's judges, Parliament at sharp odds over bill") CAIRO (AP) — Egypt's judges are up in arms over a draft law expanding the president's control of the judiciary, explaining on Sunday that the bill would undermine their independence and violate the principal of separation of powers.
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| Israel says not seeking Gaza 'adventures' after killing claim Posted: 02 Apr 2017 07:19 AM PDT  Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman said Sunday Israel did not seek "adventures" in Gaza after Hamas accused it of assassinating an official, and suggested the group itself could have killed him. Hamas, which runs the Gaza Strip, has blamed Israeli intelligence agency Mossad and its "collaborators" for the March 24 killing of Mazen Faqha in the Palestinian territory. Israeli officials had previously not commented on the killing.
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| Creator of rainbow flag, a symbol of gay rights, dies at 65 Posted: 01 Apr 2017 08:46 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Gilbert Baker, the creator of the rainbow flag that has become a widely recognized symbol of gay rights has died. He was 65.
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