| White supremacists cheer Trump's evolving response to Charlottesville Posted: 18 Aug 2017 06:22 AM PDT  President Trump's comments about violence that erupted in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend have been condemned by Democrats, Republicans, business leaders and even athletes. "I think he's speaking to the fact that a nation should respect its heritage, its identity, its heroes, and we shouldn't engage in antiwhite multicultural political correctness," Matthew Heimbach told Yahoo News on Thursday. Heimbach was scheduled to speak at the event, which attracted supporters from white supremacist, "alt-right" and neo-Nazi groups.
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| Bannon Declares War on Trump, Says 'That Presidency is Over' Posted: 18 Aug 2017 12:01 PM PDT  Just hours after it was announced he was out of the administration, Steve Bannon gave an interview where he said the Trump presidency is "over," and he's already back at Breitbart.
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| Girl found 'brutally murdered' at home after texting mother about someone knocking at door Posted: 19 Aug 2017 07:40 AM PDT  Yhoana Arteaga was found bludgeoned to death in her family's mobile home with her clothing "in disarray", police said. There was no evidence of forced entry to the trailer in Nashville, Tennessee. The girl had suffered blunt force trauma to her body, police spokesman Don Aaron told a press conference.
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| Weather Channel Founder Says Climate Change Isn't Real Posted: 18 Aug 2017 12:13 PM PDT  "I'm just a dumb old skeptic. A denier, as they call me. But you know something? I'm right. So I don't care."
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| Total solar eclipse 2017: When is it, why is it happening and how can I see it in the UK? Posted: 19 Aug 2017 02:32 PM PDT  What's happening? On Monday, August 21, 2017, all of North America will witness an eclipse of the sun for the first time in 99 years, where the Moon will pass in front of the Sun casting darkness across swathes of the Earth's surface. Dubbed the Great American Eclipse, the moment will see the Sun, the Moon and the Earth become perfectly aligned in a once-in-a-lifetime celestial spectacle seen from the Pacific Ocean to the Atlantic Ocean. Although we won't see a perfect alignment in the UK, we will be able to see a partial eclipse (where the moon covers only a part of the sun). 10 amazing places in America to watch the 2017 solar eclipse Who will see it? Everyone in North America, parts of South America, Africa and Europe - including the UK - will see at least a partial solar eclipse, where the moon covers only a part of the sun. However, 14 states across the United States will experience a total solar eclipse with more than two minutes of darkness descending in the middle of the day over the course of 100 minutes. More than 12 million Americans live inside the path of totality and more than half of the nation live within 400 miles of it. Millions more are expected to travel to cities along the path to witness the phenomenon. Where and when to see the eclipse What causes an eclipse? The diameter of the Sun is 400 times that of the Moon but it lies 400 times further away - which means if you are in exactly the right alignment on the surface of the Earth at the right time, you will see the two celestial bodies overlap exactly. What creates a total solar eclipse Where can I see the eclipse in the UK? Sadly Brits won't get a total eclipse like our friends across the pond, but we will be treated to a slight partial eclipse which will still be worth watching. It will be visible in parts of England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland from around 19:35 on August 21 - but make sure you're in a spot where there's no cloud. UK eclipse circumstances for August 21 2017 What areas will see total blackout? Anyone within the path of totality will see the sky become dark for several minutes as the moon completely covers the sun. The path is relatively thin, around 70 miles wide, and stretches from Salem, Oregon to Charleston, South Carolina. It will first be seen at Lincoln Beach, Oregon at 9:05 PDT, with totality beginning at 10:16 PDT. Over the next 90 minutes, it will cross through Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Montana, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, and North and end near Charleston, South Carolina at 14:28 EDT. The lunar shadow will leave the US at 04:09 EDT. Its longest duration will be near Carbondale, Illinois, where the sun will be completely covered for two minutes and 40 seconds. What time can I see the total eclipse? Here are the mid-eclipse times for some of the major towns and cities along the path of totality, according to Nasa. All times are local. Where to see it | The Great American solar eclipse Will there be a live stream? Yes - Nasa will host an Eclipse Megacast for four hours during the eclipse which will be picked up by local, national and international TV stations. You can also follow all the action via the Telegraph. How can I see it safely? Never look directly at the Sun, even through sunglasses or dark material such as a bin liner or photographic negative. Makeshift filters may not screen out the harmful infrared radiation that can burn the retina of the eye risking permanent eye damage and blindness. Also, viewers must never use binoculars or a telescope. Wear special eclipse viewing glasses - not ordinary sunglasses - or construct a simple pinhole camera which projects an image of the Sun onto a blank piece of paper. Solar eclipse: how to watch the eclipse safely When will Britain next see a solar eclipse? There was a pretty spectacular eclipse in Britain in March 2015, but the last total eclipse in the UK was in August 1999. You might be waiting a while for the next decent one too - it won't take place until August 12, 2026. On that date up to 95 per cent of the Sun will be obscured. Britain will not see a total solar eclipse until September 23, 2090. How we watched the 1999 solar eclipse - in 90 seconds 01:42 Total solar eclipses in history Eclipses have both fascinated and terrified civilisations for centuries. When King Henry I of England, the son of William the Conqueror, died in 1133, his death happened to coincide with a total solar eclipse plummeting the nation into darkness for four minutes and 38 seconds. Historian William of Malmesbury wrote in 1140 that "the darkness was so great that people at first thought the world was ending."
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| Boy, 7, From Australia Is Missing After Barcelona Van Attack Posted: 18 Aug 2017 06:09 AM PDT  Julian Alessandro Cadman is missing after he was separated from his mom, who was seriously injured in Thursday's terrorist attack.
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| Underwater devices look for Army helicopter crew off Hawaii Posted: 18 Aug 2017 06:52 PM PDT  HONOLULU (AP) — Army officials have spent days sifting through chunks of Black Hawk helicopter debris in turbulent Pacific waters off Hawaii but have yet to see any signs of life in their search for five soldiers missing since the aircraft crashed during nighttime training on Tuesday.
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| No Human Remains Found In Search For Natalee Holloway: Prosecutor Posted: 18 Aug 2017 02:58 PM PDT  Dave Holloway, father of missing Alabama teen Natalee Holloway, said on national television this week that he found human bones in Aruba, where his daughter vanished a dozen years ago, and submitted them for DNA testing.
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| Grace Mugabe absent from S.Africa summit as assault claim lingers Posted: 19 Aug 2017 01:14 PM PDT  Zimbabwe's first lady Grace Mugabe failed to appear Saturday at a summit in South Africa attended by her husband, an event overshadowed by her effort to obtain diplomatic immunity over assault allegations. The wife of President Robert Mugabe has not been seen since being accused of attacking a 20-year-old model with a electrical extension cord last weekend in a Johannesburg hotel where the couple's two sons were staying. The alleged assault is a political headache for South Africa and Zimbabwe, close neighbours with deep economic and historical ties.
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| Violence erupts between white nationalists, counterprotestors in Charlottesville: Part 5 Posted: 18 Aug 2017 08:21 PM PDT  White nationalists had gathered in the Virginia city to protest the removal of a statue of Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
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| Former neo-Nazi: Trump’s message parrots my old propaganda Posted: 18 Aug 2017 02:00 AM PDT  A reformed neo-Nazi says President Trump is partly to blame for legitimizing the white nationalism that exploded in Virginia last weekend.
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| German writer critical of Turkey's Erdogan arrested in Spain Posted: 19 Aug 2017 12:47 PM PDT  By Thomas Escritt BERLIN (Reuters) - German-Turkish author Dogan Akhanli was arrested in Spain on Saturday after Turkey issued an Interpol warrant for the writer, a critic of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's government, fanning an already fierce row between the NATO allies. The arrest of the German national in Granada was part of a "targeted hunt against critics of the Turkish government living abroad in Europe," Akhanli's lawyer Ilias Uyar told magazine Der Spiegel, which first reported Akhanli's detention. Any country can issue an Interpol "red notice", but extradition by Spain would only follow if Ankara could convince Spanish courts it had a real case against him.
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| USS Fitzgerald's Leadership Removed Over Poor Seamanship Posted: 18 Aug 2017 04:25 AM PDT  This is not the first time U.S. Navy took a strict action against the leadership for acting inappropriately in a particular situation.
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| Witness: Cambrils terrorist taunted and smiled at police as they shot him Posted: 18 Aug 2017 12:00 AM PDT  A witness told of how a terrorist responsible for the second attack in Spain yesterday taunted police before they shot him dead. Fitzroy Davies, from Wolverhampton, was caught up in the second attack in Cambrils and described what he saw. He told the BBC he was in Spain for a judo camp and was in a meeting with the coaches when the incident unfolded. "These girls ran into the bar off the street and then people were running up the road. "One of our guys stood up, looked and just said 'run', so we all ran. "This guy came running up the road and was shouting something. "I didn't know what it was, so we said call the police. "Within 30 seconds the police was already there, jumped out of the car, started shouting at the guy, the guy was then saying something else again. "And then they 'pop, pop', did a couple of shots and he fell down. "He stood back up and then he stepped over the fence and he started, he was taunting, smiling and he carried on walking to the police, and then they gave it to him again, a couple more shots and then he fell to the ground." In the early hours of Friday, as the world reeled after the attack in Barcelona, residents of the Spanish seaside resort of Cambrils fled in terror after five terrorists wearing suicide vests launched the second ramming attack in the country in a matter of hours. Suicide-vest wearing terrorists shot dead after second car attack 01:02 At least six people were hurt when the attackers drove into pedestrians before being shot dead by security forces, just hours after a similar attack in nearby Barcelona. Of the six civilians caught up in the Cambrils attack, two were said to be in a serious condition. The Audi A3 car rammed into people on the seaside promenade of the tourist city 74 miles south of Barcelona, where a van had earlier sped into a street packed full of tourists, killing 13 people and injuring around 100 others. Police said the suspects in Cambrils carried bomb belts, which were detonated by a police bomb squad. Media reports said a car crashed into a police vehicle and nearby civilians and police shot the attackers, one brandishing a knife. Police did not immediately say how the attack was being carried out. A police officer and five civilians were injured and two were in serious condition.
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| Muslims fear anti-Islam backlash in tolerant Barcelona Posted: 19 Aug 2017 12:29 PM PDT  Prayer time is approaching but Raja Miah, an imam at a tiny mosque in the heart of Barcelona does not expect a big turnout. Since the twin attacks in Barcelona and the nearby seaside resort of Cambrils claimed by the Islamic State group, the Muslim community in central Barcelona's neighbourhood of Raval fears an anti-Islam backlash. "People are very scared," said Miah, 23, as he sat in a small room at the mosque in Raval as a small group of children in an adjoining room studied the Koran.
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| Several people stabbed in Finnish city of Turku Posted: 18 Aug 2017 09:48 AM PDT ![Several people stabbed in Finnish city of Turku]( "Several people stabbed in Finnish city of Turku") Several people were stabbed in an knife attack in the Finnish city of Turku on Friday but it was not immediately clear if this was a militant action or had some other motive. The Turun Sanomat newspaper reported that at least one person was killed in the attack. Newspaper Helsingin Sanomat said eight people had been taken to hospital following the stabbings, some of them are in critical condition.
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| One Tweet Perfectly Captures Why America Doesn't Need Confederate Statues Posted: 18 Aug 2017 11:16 AM PDT  A tweet about Confederate statues is resonating with hundreds of thousands of people. Jamil Smith, a Los Angeles-based writer who has contributed to The New York Times, the Washington Post and the Daily Beast, had a great response to those who believe the removal of Confederate statues will "erase" history.
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| Father jumps car over open drawbridge in terrifying stunt to save family Posted: 19 Aug 2017 09:19 AM PDT  A father drove his car over an opening drawbridge in a death-defying stunt to avoid plunging into the water below. Terence Naphys was crossing New Jersey's Middle Thorofare Bridge with his family when its steel ramp began to lift beneath them. Mr Naphys was reportedly already near the centre of the bridge and was forced to accelerate his Toyota RAV 4 to jump the 6ft gap out of fear the car would fall 65ft into the deep bay below.
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| Clinton's Link To Former KKK Leader, Senator Is Back Posted: 18 Aug 2017 09:15 AM PDT  A prominent actor and Donald Trump supporter resurfaced an old campaign accusation involving late Senator Robert Byrd.
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| Three girls under 10 found slain in Maryland home Posted: 18 Aug 2017 01:26 PM PDT ![Three girls under 10 found slain in Maryland home]( "Three girls under 10 found slain in Maryland home") Three girls under 10 years of age were found slain on Friday in a Maryland home and police have launched an investigation into the killings, officials said. A family member who returned to the home in Clinton, a suburb of Washington, discovered the bodies and called police at about 7:30 a.m. EDT. The girls were pronounced dead by fire department personnel, Prince George's County police spokeswoman Jennifer Donelan said.
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| Children in conflict zones vulnerable to killing, rape: UN draft Posted: 18 Aug 2017 08:56 AM PDT  Children are particularly vulnerable in the conflicts raging around the globe, according to a draft UN report that specifically pointed the finger of blame in Yemen at the Saudi-led coalition. The draft of an annual UN report on the impact of armed conflict on children lists the countries and entities accused of recruiting child soldiers and using children as weapons of war. "I am highly concerned by the scale and severity of the grave violations that were committed against children in 2016, which included alarming levels of killing and maiming, recruitment and use and denial of humanitarian access," Secretary General Antonio Guterres says in the draft seen by AFP.
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| Boston 'free speech' rally dwarfed by thousands of counter-protesters Posted: 19 Aug 2017 09:36 AM PDT  Eight people were arrested at a "Free Speech Rally" in Boston that organisers said "fell apart" after it as dwarfed by a counter-protest against white nationalism. About 30 people attending the rally huddled on Boston Common's bandstand, their words drowned out by more than 10,000 counter-protesters. The two sides were kept more than 50 metres apart by fencing and police. Trouble flared only briefly. At the end of the hour-long rally when the speakers were hustled into a police van that was quickly surrounded by a mob shouting "make them walk". After a tense standoff police cleared a route away with a rolling blockade of motorbikes and bicycles. Police said they made 27 arrests. State and city police inspect people arriving for a "Free Speech" rally on Boston Common Credit: Michael Dwyer/AP American police had feared radical bands of counter-protesters were adding acid to their arsenal of extreme violence as they tried to disrupt far Right rallies and protests. The US has endured a hot week of demonstrations and soul-searching as the country re-examines its troubled racial history and the fall-out from Donald Trump's tumultuous presidency. Counterprotesters hold signs before conservative organizers begin a planned "Free Speech" rally on Boston Common, Saturday Credit: AP Photo/Michael Dwyer As free speech campaigners and counter-protesters gathered in Boston for the latest potential flashpoint on Saturday, officers said they were worried militants were armed with acid. "We think it's what they had in Charlottesville," said one policeman, dressed all in black and equipped with a body camera, referring to violence last weekend in Virginia. "They are using hydrochloric acid or battery acid. "Their tactic now seems to be to cause so much trouble that the event just gets shut down before it can even begin." Counter protesters gather in Roxbury before marching to the 'Free Speech Rally' on Boston Common Credit: Scott Eisen/Getty Images A law enforcement official told the Boston Globe that officers were investigating reports that radical counter-protesters were planning to throw acid. More than 600 officers yesterday patrolled fences and concrete blockades arranged on Boston Common to keep two rival rallies apart as crowds began gathering. Among them were more than 100 so-called antifa Left-wingers, wearing black scarves over their faces who paraded across the common chanting: "Nazi scum, off our streets." Police stand by as thousands of protesters prepare to march in Boston Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images They are becoming a familiar sight as white supremacists assert their right to rally, one side in a bitter summer of discontent. The Boston event had been three months in the planning but took on greater significance after clashes in Charlottesville where a 32-year-old woman, Heather Heyer, died when a car crashed into a crowd. Organisers of a the counter protest in Boston urged people to attend amid fears that members of the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacy groups would be among those at the free speech rally. Although the rally organizers stress that they are not associated with any alt-right or white supremacist groups, the city of Boston and Police Commissioner William Evans are preparing for possible confrontations Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images John Medlar, spokesman for Boston Free Speech which organised the rally, said such groups were not welcome. "We have made sure that one of the groups invited is not coming and have been clear that we are not neo Nazis. This has been misreported. We are only about free speech and have people from Left and Right speaking," he said, referring to the part of the US constitution that guarantees free expression. Charlottesville far-right rally organiser is literally chased out of town 00:59 Among the confirmed guests were Joe Biggs, who used to work for the conspiracy-mongering website Infowars, as well as Shiva Ayyadurai, a scientist who claims to have invented email and is now running for the Senate. Police set strict limits banning protesters carrying anything that can be used as a weapon, as well as dogs and personal protection gear. However, that was not enough to prevent dozens of counter-protesters arriving with scarves over their faces and helmets. "It's for protection," said one man, who asked not to give his name. Charlottesville far-right protest
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| Once homeless, Iraq War veteran moves into unique new home Posted: 18 Aug 2017 11:02 AM PDT  MIDWAY CITY, Calif. (AP) — Vernon Poling was 44 years old when he finally got a home of his own.
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| The Clever Way High School Boys Protested Their School's Sexist Dress Code Posted: 18 Aug 2017 12:34 PM PDT  Students from San Benito High School in Hollister, California, are protesting their school's sexist dress code in a pretty awesome way.
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| NASA Wants to Stop a Doomsday Supervolcano by Stealing its Heat Posted: 18 Aug 2017 10:39 AM PDT  NASA is worried about the Yellowstone supervolcano exploding, so instead they're going to harness its energy for good.
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| Confirmed! VW Electric Microbus Coming in 2022 Posted: 19 Aug 2017 12:38 PM PDT  It's finally happening. We can't believe it either.
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| Chicago activist loses US citizenship, will be deported Posted: 18 Aug 2017 02:01 PM PDT  An activist known for helping Arab women in the Chicago area lost her U.S. citizenship Thursday and will be deported for failing to disclose convictions for bombings in Jerusalem decades ago.
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| From Barcelona to Charlottesville: How Trump's responses differed Posted: 17 Aug 2017 06:24 PM PDT  In the aftermath of the attacks in Barcelona, Spain, on Thursday and Charlottesville, Va., five days earlier, President Trump offered very different reactions.
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| Neo-Nazis are taking genetic tests and are deeply upset by the results Posted: 18 Aug 2017 03:01 AM PDT  White supremacists in the US are taking genetic tests to prove their racial identity but are being left bitterly disappointed to learn their genes are not as pure as they presumed. A new study from the University of California examined years' worth of posts on Stormfront, a neo-Nazi forum which is the internet's first major racial hate site, to decipher how members responded to their spit-in-a-cup genetic test results. White nationalists were up in arms to discover they were not 100 per cent white European and instead had African, Jewish or Asian genes.
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| Pakistan holds state funeral for German nun who fought leprosy Posted: 19 Aug 2017 02:22 AM PDT  Pakistani soldiers on Saturday carried the flag-draped coffin of German-born Catholic nun Ruth Pfau to a state funeral where she was honored after devoting her life to eradicating leprosy in the country. Widely known as Pakistan's Mother Teresa, Pfau died last week in the southern city of Karachi at age 87. Mourners paid their last respects as Pfau's coffin was carried to the Marie Adelaide Leprosy Centre that she founded before being taken on to St. Patrick's Cathedral for the official service.
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| Two dead, six injured in Finland stabbing spree Posted: 18 Aug 2017 08:39 PM PDT  Police shot and wounded a suspect after a stabbing spree in which a man killed two people and wounded six others in the Finnish city of Turku. Within hours of the attack on Friday the force had announced increased police patrols across the country. Two dead and six injured," Turku police tweeted after the assault in a market square.
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| Tribes hope for renewal in solar eclipse; not all will watch Posted: 19 Aug 2017 07:30 AM PDT  FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — While much of the country gawks at the solar eclipse, Bobbieann Baldwin will be inside with her children, shades drawn.
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| Twitter Blasts Ex-Google Employee Who Says Being Conservative Is Like Being Gay In The '50s Posted: 18 Aug 2017 07:36 AM PDT  Ex-Google employee James Damore made quite a disturbing false equivalency when he compared being a conservative at the tech company to being gay in the 1950s.
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| Glitch Or Promo? Amazon Echo Dot Is Free Right Now Posted: 18 Aug 2017 12:50 PM PDT  The Amazon Echo Dot is free on Amazon at checkout thanks to an apparently unlisted "Audible Promo" offer.
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| Trump dumps Bannon, who returns to conservative website Posted: 19 Aug 2017 01:03 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Steve Bannon, the blunt-spoken and divisive strategist who went from Donald Trump's victorious campaign to a top White House post, has been pushed out by the president, capping a turbulent seven months that witnessed the departure of much of Trump's original senior staff.
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| Spain hunts suspect over Barcelona carnage Posted: 19 Aug 2017 03:46 PM PDT  Spanish police on Saturday hunted for a Moroccan man suspected of carrying out one of two terror attacks that killed 14 people, injured 120 more and plunged the country into shock and grief. Two days after the assaults that struck Barcelona and the nearby seaside town of Cambrils, Spaniards put on a defiant front while mourning the victims, with crowds out in force to greet King Felipe and Queen Letizia as they arrived to pay homage to the victims. Slogans like "Las Ramblas is crying but alive" were seen on shop windows, while a convoy of taxis with "We're not afraid" plastered on their windows sounded their horns.
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| Thousands of Counter-Protesters March Against White Nationalism in Boston a Week After Charlottesville Posted: 19 Aug 2017 05:54 AM PDT  Thousands of protesters marched through Boston in response to a right-wing free speech rally, one week after clashes in Charlottesville, Va.
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| The Manual Car Is About More Than Shifting Gears Posted: 19 Aug 2017 06:43 AM PDT  Why you should care about turn signals.
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| Judge rejects bid by Polanski's 1977 rape victim to end case Posted: 18 Aug 2017 04:18 PM PDT  A Los Angeles judge on Friday rejected a request by the woman who was raped by director Roman Polanski 40 years ago to have the criminal case against him dismissed. The ruling follows the first appearance in June in the case by Samantha Geimer, who was 13 years old when Polanski sexually assaulted her in Los Angeles in 1977.
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| 2-Week-Old Orphaned Piglet Comforts Kitten Friend as She Suffers Seizure Posted: 18 Aug 2017 02:38 PM PDT  Sriracha the kitten was diagnosed with a neurological disorder called cerebellar hypoplasia and suffers from seizures.
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| Bob Lutz on Why Ford Ousted Mark Fields Posted: 18 Aug 2017 10:34 AM PDT  How could Ford's Mark Fields compete with Elon Musk's tunnels and spaceships?
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| NY subway tiles with Confederate flag look to be altered Posted: 18 Aug 2017 06:21 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Transit officials have decided to alter subway station tiles that have a cross-like design similar to that of the Confederate flag.
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| Betting Odds Predict Trump Might Be Impeached Or Resign Soon Posted: 18 Aug 2017 10:13 AM PDT  At least one betting site said Trump had a greater chance than ever of leaving office.
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| Nearly 600 dead in S. Asia floods Posted: 19 Aug 2017 04:52 AM PDT  Nearly 600 people have died and millions have been affected by monsoon floods in South Asia, officials said Saturday, as relief and rescue operations continued. Indian authorities sought military help in two districts of northern Uttar Pradesh state after fresh heavy rains left hundreds of villages marooned. "We have sought army's help to reach out to the affected people," T P Gupta, a senior official from the state's disaster management authority, told AFP.
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| Breitbart to wage 'war' with Trump over Bannon firing: 'It's now a Democrat White House' Posted: 18 Aug 2017 11:35 AM PDT  An editor at Breitbart says that his publication is going to "war" with the White House now that former chief strategist Steve Bannon is out of the picture. Joel Pollak, an editor for Breitbart in California, made the statement with a simple tweet, after it was announced that Mr Bannon had tendered his resignation to Donald Trump. "#WAR," Mr Pollak wrote, echoing similar sentiments reportedly made by people connected to Breitbart.
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