| CBO score could roil Senate health care negotiations Posted: 23 May 2017 01:38 PM PDT  The Congressional Budget Office will release its prediction of the effects of the House-passed health care overhaul Wednesday afternoon, potentially stirring up more dissent among Senate Republicans who have spent much of this month attempting to hash out their own health care deal. The CBO will likely deliver a similar verdict for the American Health Care Act (AHCA) as it did for an earlier version of the House bill, which the office said would result in 24 million fewer Americans having health care coverage and $150 billion in deficit reduction over 10 years compared with Obamacare.
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| Clinton Calls Trump Budget an 'Unimaginable Level of Cruelty' Posted: 23 May 2017 11:12 AM PDT  Hillary Clinton slammed President Trump's federal budget plan while giving a speech at the Children's Health Fund Annual Benefit.
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| 12-Year-Old Girl Abducted by Teen Boys In 'Imminent Danger' Posted: 23 May 2017 10:50 AM PDT  McKenzie Wilson went missing from her upstate New York home early in the morning.
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| S. Korea tourist numbers hammered by China boycott Posted: 22 May 2017 09:34 PM PDT  Chinese tourist numbers to South Korea plunged by two-thirds in April after Beijing banned tour groups over Seoul's deployment of a US missile defence system, official statistics showed. Beijing imposed a boycott from March 15 on Chinese tour groups visiting the South in a spat over the US Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system. Washington and Seoul say it is purely to defend against threats from nuclear-armed North Korea, but Beijing fears it could undermine its own nuclear deterrent and has reacted with fury, imposing a series of measures seen as economic retaliation.
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| Manchester United: Royal Family, Celebrities Show Support for City After Attack Posted: 23 May 2017 10:02 AM PDT  ISIS is taking credit for the attack, which claimed the lives of 22 people.
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| Four climbers found dead in tents on Everest, identities unknown Posted: 24 May 2017 07:06 AM PDT  By Gopal Sharma KATHMANDU (Reuters) - Nepali sherpas have found four climbers dead in their tents on Mount Everest, officials said on Wednesday, taking the death toll on the world's highest mountain to 10 in the past month. The climbers were found overnight in two tents at Camp Four, at 8,000 meters (26,246 feet), Mingma Sherpa of the Seven Summit Treks group, to which the sherpas belonged, said.
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| Massive slide buries stretch of iconic California highway Posted: 23 May 2017 05:19 PM PDT  A massive rockslide has buried a stretch of California's iconic seaside Highway 1 which had already been hit by a number of road closures caused by severe winter storms, state transportation officials said Tuesday. The slide on one of America's most picturesque highways took place on Saturday morning in a remote and largely uninhabited area known as Mud Creek. The road in that section of the highway had already been shut down before a million tons of earth came tumbling down from a hillside, burying a 1,500-foot (nearly half a kilometer) section of the highway, said Jim Shivers, a spokesman for the state's transportation agency.
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| 2 addiction counselors at halfway house die of drug overdose Posted: 24 May 2017 09:24 AM PDT  WEST CHESTER, Pa. (AP) — Two addiction counselors at a suburban Philadelphia halfway house died of opioid overdoses inside the facility on the same day, authorities said Wednesday.
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| Retirement Savings Is a Bigger Crisis Than Health Care Posted: 24 May 2017 07:12 AM PDT ![Retirement Savings Is a Bigger Crisis Than Health Care]( "Retirement Savings Is a Bigger Crisis Than Health Care") Everyone talks about how health care is the biggest crisis facing retirees, but unfortunately that crisis takes a distant second to another, far more serious issue. A 2015 National Institute on Retirement Security study found that the median working-age household has just $14,500 in retirement savings -- woefully short of the hundreds of thousands in savings truly needed to retire in the first place. One of the authors of the 2015 NIRS study, Ilana Boivie, agrees that the $14,500 figure is startlingly low.
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| The Pope gave Donald Trump a 192-page letter he wrote on climate change Posted: 24 May 2017 02:58 PM PDT  Donald Trump was given a gift during his meeting with Pope Francis at the Vatican: a papal letter detailing why the world should fight against climate change. Pope Francis issued the encyclical in 2015, just months before nearly 200 countries signed the historic Paris Agreement on climate change. The agreement is considered a large part of President Obama's legacy, particularly his work on environmental issues like establishing a protected national park in Hawaii and passing legislation on clean energy.
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| Man Wrongly Convicted Of Murder To Be Set Free After 24 Years Posted: 23 May 2017 08:31 AM PDT  Shaurn Thomas was sentenced to life in prison for a murder that occurred when he was just 16.
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| After Maryland student's speech, mockery and anger in China Posted: 24 May 2017 03:21 AM PDT ![After Maryland student's speech, mockery and anger in China]( "After Maryland student's speech, mockery and anger in China") When Chinese student Yang Shuping described how she ditched her five pollution masks upon discovering the "oddly luxurious" air of the United States, she drew a fierce online backlash, indignant newspaper columns and even a rebuttal from her hometown. On Wednesday, the official Xinhua news agency's English-language Twitter account broadcast a live-stream from Kunming, with two reporters interviewing passersby about air quality and whether they wore pollution masks. China's foreign ministry also weighed in, saying it was aware the issue was being widely discussed online, and that any Chinese citizen should "make remarks responsibly".
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| Ben Carson refers to poverty as a ‘state of mind’ Posted: 24 May 2017 03:01 PM PDT  Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson referred to poverty as a "state of mind" during a Sirius XM interview. The former GOP presidential candidate said, "You take somebody that has the right mindset, you can take everything from them and put them on the street, and I guarantee in a little while they'll be right back up there."
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| Homeless Men Who Helped Manchester Attack Victims Receive Outpouring of Support Posted: 24 May 2017 08:41 AM PDT  Stephen Jones, 35, and Chris Parker, 33, rushed to help after the devastating blast was detonated near one of the Manchester Arena's exits.
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| Newark airport reopens after engine fire prompts plane evacuation Posted: 23 May 2017 09:24 PM PDT  Newark Liberty International Airport in New Jersey has reopened after temporarily shutting down late Tuesday, following an engine fire that prompted the evacuation of an airplane, officials said. There were reports of five minor injuries, according to a statement posted on the airport's official Twitter account, with delays expected to persist through the night. "Newark Airport is temporarily closed due to deployment of emergency chutes on a plane with an apparent engine fire," an earlier post on the airport's official Twitter account had said.
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| Women Have More College Debt Than Men And Take Longer To Pay It Off Posted: 24 May 2017 02:34 AM PDT  There's another gender gap in our midst, and it's hurting female graduates, even as they enroll and earn degrees at higher rates than men.
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| Killer whales charge toward blue whale off California coast Posted: 23 May 2017 11:06 PM PDT  A pod of killer whales appears to charge at blue whale off the coast of Monterey, California, in a rare encounter captured by a drone camera on May 18.
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| The only real way to stop atrocities like the Manchester attack is to end the wars which allow extremism to grow Posted: 23 May 2017 11:05 AM PDT  President Trump leaves the Middle East today, having done his bit to make the region even more divided and mired in conflict than it was before. At the same moment that Donald Trump was condemning the suicide bomber in Manchester as "an evil loser in life", he was adding to the chaos in which al-Qaeda and Isis have taken root and flourished. It may be a long distance between the massacre in Manchester and the wars in the Middle East, but the connection is there.
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| The Latest: Death row inmate: Execution drugs won't work Posted: 24 May 2017 10:17 AM PDT  MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — The Latest on the scheduled execution in Alabama (all times local):
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| Venezuela prosecutor decries Maduro plan, unrest worsens Posted: 22 May 2017 06:23 PM PDT  By Alexandra Ulmer and Maria Ramirez CARACAS/PUERTO ORDAZ, Venezuela (Reuters) - Venezuela's state prosecutor has panned unpopular President Nicolas Maduro's plan to create a grassroots congress, deepening a rare public split among the ruling Socialists as the death toll from two months of unrest hit 51. Chief State Prosecutor Luisa Ortega stunned the crisis-hit country in March when she lambasted the Supreme Court for annulling the powers of the opposition-led National Assembly. Since then, she has been a wild card within the publicly homogenous Venezuelan government, whose foes accuse it of seeking to dodge elections by creating a parallel assembly with powers to rewrite the constitution.
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| S. Korea fires warning shots at object flown from N. Korea Posted: 23 May 2017 02:56 AM PDT  South Korea fired warning shots Tuesday at a flying object that entered the country's airspace from North Korea across the Demilitarized Zone, Seoul's military said. One official told AFP it appeared to be a drone. The official gave no details, but previous drones flown across the border have been similar in size to hobby craft.
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| Russia's Gigantic New Submarine Has Enormous "Wings" Posted: 24 May 2017 09:53 AM PDT  The submarine will be twice as long as a jumbo jet.
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| Teen Girl Throws Herself In River For 'Blue Whale' Suicide Challenge Posted: 23 May 2017 01:04 PM PDT  The girl reportedly jumped into a turbulent river to complete a suicide challenge referred to "Blue Whale."
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| Man Charged in Death of Girlfriend's Daughter After 'Wrestling Moves': Cops Posted: 24 May 2017 12:30 PM PDT  Richard Gamache, 24, is charged with first-degree child abuse for severely injuring the 2-year-old. She later died.
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| Deadly blast at Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England Posted: 24 May 2017 09:30 AM PDT ![Deadly blast at Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England]( "Deadly blast at Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, England") Photos of the British response to the deadly bombing at a concert arena in Manchester, England, on Monday night.
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| Judge will reconsider ruling blocking sanctuary cities order Posted: 23 May 2017 06:35 PM PDT ![Judge will reconsider ruling blocking sanctuary cities order]( "Judge will reconsider ruling blocking sanctuary cities order") SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — A federal judge Tuesday agreed to reconsider his ruling blocking President Donald Trump's executive order to cut funding from cities that limit cooperation with U.S. immigration authorities.
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| U.S. government sues Fiat Chrysler over excess emissions Posted: 23 May 2017 08:44 PM PDT  By David Shepardson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. government filed a civil lawsuit on Tuesday accusing Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV of illegally using software to bypass emission controls in 104,000 diesel vehicles sold since 2014. The U.S. Justice Department lawsuit, filed in U.S. District court in Detroit, is a procedural step that may ramp up pressure on Fiat Chrysler and comes amid growing scrutiny of diesels by regulators around the world. VW admitted to intentionally cheating while Fiat Chrysler denies wrongdoing.
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| The Latest: Acquitted Tulsa cop receiving back pay Posted: 23 May 2017 02:29 PM PDT  TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The Latest on a white Tulsa police officer who was acquitted of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man (all times local):
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| The Latest Starbucks Secret Menu Drink Is The Prettiest Of Them All Posted: 24 May 2017 09:44 AM PDT  You *have* to try it.
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| Qatar probes 'shameful' hacking as Gulf split exposed Posted: 24 May 2017 08:39 AM PDT  Qatar launched an investigation and went into damage control mode on Wednesday after accusing hackers of putting what it called false remarks by the emir on state media. The four-hour cyber attack, which hit the Qatar News Agency's website and Twitter account, caused ripples in the Gulf state and across the Middle East because of the content of the stories. There were also remarks about alleged "tensions" between Qatar and the administration of US President Donald Trump.
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| Syrian army says senior Islamic State militant killed Posted: 24 May 2017 04:57 AM PDT ![Syrian army says senior Islamic State militant killed]( "Syrian army says senior Islamic State militant killed") The Syrian army said on Wednesday it had killed Islamic State's military commander in Syria during operations in the north of the country, where the Russian-backed government forces are seizing more territory back from the jihadist group. If confirmed, this would represent a major blow against Islamic State (IS) ahead of an attack which the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) - an alliance of Kurdish and Arab fighters - are expected to launch against the jihadists in their stronghold of Raqqa city. A Syrian military source told Reuters the IS commander, Abu Musab al-Masri, had been the group's "minister of war" for Syria.
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| Donald Trump tells Rodrigo Duterte US had nuclear submarines off Korean peninsula Posted: 24 May 2017 09:23 AM PDT  Donald Trump reportedly told the president of the Philippines the United States has "two nuclear submarines" off the coast of North Korea. The US leader was quoted as telling Rodrigo Duterte: "We have two submarines — the best in the world. Part of a leaked telephone transcript between the pair circulated online under a "confidential" cover sheet and comes amid rising tensions between the White House and Pyongyang.
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| Quit your job and get paid to cuddle cats all day Posted: 24 May 2017 05:19 AM PDT  Imagine a world where you could spend your days cuddling adorable fluffy kittens. A Dublin-based veterinary clinic is making that dream a reality as they're advertising a "cat cuddler" role. It sounds like the best job in the world. SEE ALSO: Stop working like a sucker and get paid to build Lego models instead Just Cats veterinary clinic in Clonsilla, Dublin, is looking for a "crazy cat person" who "loves cats". Among other requirements includes "cattitude" — whatever that means. The ideal candidate will have a track record of feeding stray cats in your locality and they'll feel "warm and fuzzy" when they pet cats. Image: justcats.ieThat's not all you'll need, though... You'll also need to have "gentle hands capable of petting and stroking cats for long periods of time". *Better crack out that hand lotion now, eh?!* You'll also need to be "softly spoke" and "capable of cat whispering" to calm the nerves of more nervous cats. It doesn't end there, though..... You'll also need to possess the rare skill of understanding different types of purring. And, on top of all that? You'll also need a qualification recognised by the veterinary council of Ireland. Wannabe cat cuddlers can apply by sending CVs and cover letters to miaow@justcats.ie . Good luck. WATCH: Watch dogs try cat toys for the first time
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| Police: Man slays neo-Nazi roommates over Islam disrespect Posted: 22 May 2017 07:10 PM PDT  A Florida man told police he killed his two roommates because they were neo-Nazis who disrespected his recent conversion to Islam, and investigators found bomb-making materials and Nazi propaganda after he led them to the bodies.
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| Amazon’s 15 best daily deals: Lowest prices ever on Echo Dot and Beats Solo3, fidget spinners, more Posted: 23 May 2017 06:45 AM PDT |
| WHO reform a top priority for Ethiopia's Tedros Posted: 23 May 2017 10:13 AM PDT  The first African to head the World Health Organization, Ethiopia's Tedros Adhanom, says he aims to replicate his success in turning around his country's healthcare system on the global stage. The 52-year-old's campaign focused on overhauling the UN health agency after its much-criticised handling of the west African Ebola epidemic, and speculation that the United States might cut its funding for the agency. "We live in a changing world, and the WHO must be able to change with it," Tedros said in his vision statement, citing new health threats brought about through globalisation, climate change and unhealthy lifestyles.
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| Chloe, the adorable side-eying little girl, is all grown up Posted: 24 May 2017 12:08 PM PDT  Remember Chloe, the adorable, shade-throwing, side-eyeing little girl whose hilarious reaction won the Internet's heart? Well, as kids tend to do, Chloe grew up, and our hearts just can't handle the cuteness.
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| In photos: The world's top-rated landmarks 2017 on TripAdvisor Posted: 23 May 2017 06:40 AM PDT |
| Tattooed 'Joker' Arrested for Pointing Loaded Gun at Passing Cars: Cops Posted: 24 May 2017 03:01 PM PDT  The Florida man's face was covered in tattoos that made him look like the notorious villain from "The Dark Knight."
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| U.S. delivers patrol boats to Vietnam to deepen security ties Posted: 22 May 2017 09:23 PM PDT  By My Pham HANOI (Reuters) - The United States has transferred six patrol boats to the Vietnam coast guard, to help build security cooperation between the two countries, U.S. embassy in Hanoi said in a statement on Tuesday. U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed his hope for a stronger relationship with Vietnam, after the Obama administration put ties on a stronger footing amid Vietnam's territorial dispute with China in the South China Sea.
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| Jeff Sessions in KKK robe image projected onto Justice Department headquarters Posted: 23 May 2017 10:32 AM PDT  Stunning visuals depicting Attorney General Jeff Sessions in a Ku Klux Klan robe have been projected onto iconic Washington buildings including the Department of Justice building. The projections, created by activist and artist Robin Bell, showed Mr Sessions with the infamous white hood alongside some of his past statements that have been pointed to as insensitive to racist struggles. "I thought the KKK was OK until I learned that they smoked pot," one of the projections reads, a close approximation to a comment Mr Sessions made while investigating a case against Klansmen as a US attorney in Alabama in the 1980s.
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| Fear and disbelief at Manchester bomber's mosque Posted: 24 May 2017 10:14 AM PDT  Worshippers at the mosque that the Manchester suicide bomber is believed to have frequented reacted with disbelief on Wednesday and pointed the finger at online radicalisation. Elders at the Didsbury mosque, a Victorian former Methodist chapel, also voiced concern about reports of Islamophobic attacks since the bombing at a pop concert which killed 22 people. "The horrific atrocity that occurred in Manchester on Monday night shocked us all.
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