| Trump Makes Devastating Hurricane All About Trump Posted: 29 Aug 2017 06:03 PM PDT  Crises like major weather disasters offer presidents the chance to unify the country and rise above partisan politics.
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| Senior citizens in viral photo pose after rescue from Harvey floodwaters Posted: 29 Aug 2017 01:45 PM PDT  A disturbing photo taken Sunday at La Vita Bella nursing home in Dickinson, Texas, showed assisted living patients, some of them in wheelchairs, sitting stone-faced in the rising, murky water as Tropical Storm Harvey caused severe flooding.
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| 10 Extraordinary Animal Rescues In The Aftermath Of Hurricane Harvey Posted: 30 Aug 2017 04:49 AM PDT  As well as helping more than 13,000 people to safety, rescuers across Texas have also plucked a plethora of animals out from the rising floodwaters. Tear-jerking viral videos and photographs show bats, birds, cows, dogs, horses and pigs all being hauled to firmer ground. Evacuation Of Pets This image of Naomi Coto carrying her dog, Simba, on her shoulders as she was forced to evacuate her Houston home on Sunday is just one of hundreds of pictures which show the lengths that many pet owners went to to save their pets.
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| Woman Gets Life In Prison For Killing Husband Whose Parrot Repeated 'Don't Shoot' After His Death Posted: 29 Aug 2017 02:54 PM PDT  A Michigan woman was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of her husband, whose last words may have been repeated by his pet parrot, Bud.
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| J.Lo And A-Rod Will Each Donate $25,000 To Hurricane Harvey Victims Posted: 30 Aug 2017 08:06 AM PDT  Rodriguez adds that it's their "opportunity to come together as one to help all the great families in distress down in Houston. Hurricane Harvey made landfall in Texas on Friday as a Category 4 storm. By Sunday, it had returned to tropical storm status and continues to deliver the record-setting rainfall that has inundated Houston and other cities. At least 30 people have died in relation to the storm and the continuing rainfall poses further risk for those in the region.
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| Hurricane Harvey: Best Buy apologises for selling $43 cases of water in Texas during tropical storm Posted: 30 Aug 2017 06:22 AM PDT  A leading electronics chain has been accused of "price gouging" after one of its shops in Texas was caught selling cases of bottled water for over $42 (£32) as Hurricane Harvey raged in nearby Houston. As its near neighbour suffered from severe flooding, which has claimed th lives of at least 30 people and caused thousands to evacuate their homes, the Best Buy in nearby Cypress, around 30 miles away, put the stock on sale. It offered 24-packs of Dasani water for $42.96 (£33.31), and 12-packs of Smartwater for $29.98 (£23.24).
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| The story behind that inspiring picture of a human chain in Houston Posted: 30 Aug 2017 03:39 AM PDT  In times of crisis, human beings get together and help each other the best way they can. That's one of the uplifting takeaways from the "catastrophic" Tropical Storm Harvey that poured 19 trillion gallons of rain on Texas, bringing floods and devastation on the southern state. The storm produced the most rain of any tropical storm or hurricane in the history of the lower 48 states. SEE ALSO: Tropical Storm Harvey is the strongest to hit the US in 12 years Among the acts of kindness — for strangers, for animals, for local correspondents — is this inspiring picture of a human chain to help rescue someone trapped in a car in Houston. The local ABC channel posted the photo on Twitter, where it went viral, with the caption: "#Harvey has taken a lot, but it will NEVER take our humanity. We have seen so many neighbors helping each other. THANK YOU #HopeForHouston". #Harvey has taken a lot, but it will NEVER take our humanity. We have seen so many neighbors helping each other. THANK YOU #HopeForHouston pic.twitter.com/M8aTACwHhc — ABC13 Houston (@abc13houston) August 30, 2017 Stephanie Edward Mata was driving her car on the other side of the flooded road when she saw the scene and started filming: She told Mashable a group of people spotted an elderly man trapped inside his SUV, which was sinking into the water, and were desperate to help him. But there was a catch: they didn't have a rope with them. So they resorted to forming a human chain. "The people had no rope to get him out so they made a chain holding each other," she said. "They pulled the door open and one gentleman got ahold of him as they held on until they got him safe." Mata said she has no idea of what happened to the man after he was brought to safety. "There was a cop nearby where they took him to get checked out as he was so cold," she said. "I really wish I knew what happened to him next." Image: Stephanie mataShe also sent a picture of the SUV after the guy was saved: Image: stephanie mataIt is indeed heartwarming to see all types of people holding hands to help someone in need. People on Twitter noticed it, and responded to the tweet with messages of hope in front of the tragedy: When bad things go down, honestly, you want a bunch of Texans around. #harvey #Texas — Trish (@Trishmil8) August 30, 2017 Houston, you rock. Your community spirit in the face of such great loss has given me back a little hope and some faith in my fellow humans. — WeAreAllTexansToday (@JamieTFox) August 30, 2017 It is just beyond moving to witness all of these people who were initially strangers who have been brought together as neighbors. — J. Edward Griffin (@jcextra) August 30, 2017 I love people. 99% are just good human beings when given the opportunity. — lnordstrom (@lnordstrom123) August 30, 2017 My side of town ❤❤❤ — B (@Bparis88) August 30, 2017 this is THE America I remember! :) — vikilin (@vikilintw) August 30, 2017 The living prof of the land of the free and home of the brave I see the bravest people here — Lucas Diaz (@73Lucasdiaz) August 30, 2017 WATCH: Smiling rescued donkey is so happy to be back on solid ground
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| Donald Trump Keeps Plugging His Own Merchandise During Hurricane Harvey Posted: 29 Aug 2017 12:08 PM PDT  President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump arrived in Texas Tuesday in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, which ripped through the Texas coast and triggered one of the worst floods in U.S. history, causing catastrophic damage to the greater Houston area and claiming at least 10 lives so far.
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| Joy-Anna Duggar announces pregnancy with baby bump photo Posted: 30 Aug 2017 09:13 AM PDT  Joy-Anna Duggar, who wed Austin Forsyth earlier this summer, is already pregnant with her first child, the two announced Wednesday.
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| US airstrikes block evacuation of Islamic State militants Posted: 30 Aug 2017 01:02 PM PDT  BEIRUT (AP) — U.S. airstrikes blocked the advance of an Islamic State convoy carrying militants toward Iraq on Wednesday, derailing a Hezbollah-negotiated deal that removed the extremists from the Lebanon-Syria border, where they have been for years.
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| Chemical Plant Near Houston Warns It's About To Explode Posted: 30 Aug 2017 02:38 PM PDT  A fire or explosion in the next few days at a flooded chemical plant on the outskirts of Houston is virtually inevitable, its CEO warned on a call with reporters Wednesday.
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| Houston Police Chief Breaks Down in Tears as He Death of Officer Responding to Harvey Post Posted: 29 Aug 2017 03:25 PM PDT  The 34-year police veteran's wife tried to convince him to stay home.
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| Life Appears To Have Gotten Much Better For Sean Spicer Posted: 30 Aug 2017 01:24 PM PDT  Sean Spicer's bad year just got a little bit better.
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| Houston's Massive Rafts of Fire Ants Are Even More Dangerous Than Usual Posted: 29 Aug 2017 01:06 PM PDT  Floods make "spicy boys" even spicier.
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| Michigan among U.S. states likely hurt by potential NAFTA changes: Fitch Posted: 30 Aug 2017 02:07 PM PDT  Michigan is likely to be the state most hurt by changes to the NAFTA trade agreement, according to a Fitch Ratings report released on Wednesday, as U.S. President Donald Trump renewed threats to scrap the deal. Trump has threatened three times in the past week to abandon the North American Free Trade Agreement, revisiting his view that the United States would probably have to start the process of exiting the accord to reach a fair deal for his country. A second round of talks starts on Friday in Mexico City to renegotiate the 1994 accord binding the United States, Mexico and Canada.
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| Trevor Noah Defends Melania Trump For Traveling To Texas In Stilettos Posted: 30 Aug 2017 12:54 AM PDT  Trevor Noah wants people online to cut first lady Melania Trump some slack. On "The Daily Show" Tuesday, the host called out everyone who'd earlier criticized her after she was pictured wearing high-heeled, black stilettos before she boarded a flight from the White House to Texas with President Donald Trump.
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| Black MMA Fighter Says He Saved Stranded Harvey Victim With Confederate Flag Posted: 30 Aug 2017 10:21 AM PDT  Hurricane Harvey has affected millions in Texas and Louisiana, leaving many displaced and in desperate need of food, help and shelter.
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| Sea Shepherd pulls plug on Japan whale hunt Posted: 28 Aug 2017 09:45 PM PDT  Activist group Sea Shepherd on Tuesday pulled the plug on its annual campaign to disrupt Japanese whaling, saying it can no longer match the country's military and economic power. The organisation has waged an often violent 12-year high-seas battle against whaling in the Southern Ocean, claiming success for saving thousands of the giant mammals and bringing the slaughter to world attention. "What we discovered is that Japan is now employing military surveillance to watch Sea Shepherd ship movements in real-time by satellite and if they know where our ships are at any given moment, they can easily avoid us," he said in a statement.
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| New Mexico officials: 2 dead, 4 injured in library shooting Posted: 28 Aug 2017 08:04 PM PDT  CLOVIS, N.M. (AP) — Two people were killed and four others were injured when gunfire erupted inside a public library on Monday, throwing an eastern New Mexico community into a panic as officers swarmed the building with their guns drawn.
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| Houston Police Sergeant Drowns Trying To Get To Work During Hurricane Harvey Posted: 29 Aug 2017 12:45 PM PDT  A Houston police sergeant on his way to work to help those affected by Hurricane Harvey drowned after his patrol car got stuck in rain-swollen flooding.
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| Aerial Photos Show True Scale Of Flooding Catastrophe In Houston Posted: 30 Aug 2017 10:18 AM PDT  Plenty of images of heroic rescues and flooded homes have emerged over the past few days, but nothing shows the scale of the devastation caused by Tropical Storm Harvey than a picture from the air.
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| Trump's transgender ban halted by Defense Secretary General Mattis Posted: 29 Aug 2017 06:03 PM PDT  Transgender Americans will be able to continue serving in the military while the Department of Defense reviews Donald Trump's order to ban them, Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis said. In a statement, Mr Mattis said he was convening a panel of experts to examine the implications of prohibiting transgender Americans from serving in the armed forces, seeking to determine "what is best for the military's combat effectiveness leading to victory on the battlefield". "In the interim, current policy with respect to currently serving members will remain in place", Mr Mattis said.
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| U.S. troops risk inflaming clan conflict after deadly Somalia raid Posted: 30 Aug 2017 08:32 AM PDT  By Abdi Sheikh MOGADISHU (Reuters) - A raid involving U.S. troops in Somalia has caused a rift between the precarious U.S.-backed government and a powerful clan that says innocent farmers were massacred, months after President Donald Trump approved stepped-up operations there. The U.S. Africa command, Africom, has acknowledged that U.S. forces participated in a ground operation in support of Somali troops in the village of Bariire last week, and says it is investigating reports of civilian deaths. It did not reply to further questions from Reuters about the incident, the second mission in Somalia this year in which it has acknowledged the participation of U.S. ground troops.
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| GOP Rep Tells Black Attorney She May 'Go Missing' For Protesting Confederate Statues Posted: 30 Aug 2017 12:14 PM PDT  Georgia's Republican state Rep. Jason Spencer told his former colleague on Tuesday that she and others supporting the removal of state-sponsored Confederate monuments and landmarks could "go missing."
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| 2019 Bentley Continental GT: Going Ballistic Posted: 29 Aug 2017 12:45 PM PDT  Technology meets tradition in this all-new, 207-MPH plaything for the few.
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| Wildfire forces half of popular Montana town to evacuate Posted: 29 Aug 2017 05:01 PM PDT  HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Authorities in Montana ordered the evacuation of nearly 600 homes after a fire burning on a mountain ridge suddenly changed direction and threatened a popular destination for boaters, anglers and hikers.
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| Ex-NYPD Cop Charged After Allegedly Living With Her Mom's Corpse in Bed and Breakfast: Police Posted: 30 Aug 2017 09:54 AM PDT  Cops believe the mother may have been dead for months when her body was discovered.
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| Bakery Says No To Same-Sex Weddings Because 'Our Business Is God's Business' Posted: 30 Aug 2017 08:42 AM PDT  In what's become a familiar scenario, a California bakery is facing a backlash after reportedly refusing to prepare same-sex wedding cakes.
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| Trevor Noah: 'Buddy' Email On Russia Deal Could Hit Trump In The 'Trunk' Posted: 30 Aug 2017 11:52 AM PDT  Reports that a Donald Trump associate tried to forge a real estate deal in Russia that he said would help Trump become president got Trevor Noah buzzing Tuesday on "The Daily Show."
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| Poll: Trump approval ratings slump amid Texas trip Posted: 29 Aug 2017 01:00 AM PDT  "HISTORIC rainfall in Houston, and all over Texas.
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| Louise Mensch retweets hoax claims Donald Trump's company is being investigated for sex trafficking Posted: 29 Aug 2017 07:25 AM PDT  False allegations retweeted by Louise Mensch about a criminal inquiry into Donald Trump's former modelling agency were made by a hoaxer claiming to work in New York law enforcement, it has emerged. Writer and former Clinton staffer Claude Taylor tweeted fake details of a criminal inquiry into a fashion modelling agency on possible sex trafficking charges by the New York Attorney General but allegedly did not check whether the details were genuine.
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| US beefs up Baltic air patrol as Russia war games loom Posted: 29 Aug 2017 08:00 AM PDT  The United States on Tuesday sent extra jet fighters to patrol the skies over Baltic states to reinforce its NATO allies as Russia gears up for major major military drills, Lithuania's defence ministry said. Seven US F-15 fighter jets landed at the country's northern Siauliai military air base, where NATO member Poland ran patrols using four jets over the last four-month rotation.
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| Sore at Macron's 'dictatorship' criticism, Venezuela blasts France Posted: 30 Aug 2017 09:22 AM PDT  Venezuela accused France on Wednesday of joining an "imperialist" campaign after President Emmanuel Macron portrayed the widely criticized socialist government as dictatorial. Adding to criticism from Washington, the United Nations and major Latin American nations, Macron on Tuesday called President Nicolas Maduro's administration "a dictatorship trying to survive at the cost of unprecedented humanitarian distress." Many countries are outraged at the Venezuelan government's overriding of the opposition-led congress, crackdown on protests, jailing of hundreds of foes and failure to allow the entry of foreign humanitarian aid to ease a severe economic crisis. Authorities say local opposition leaders want to topple Maduro in a coup with U.S. support, but its new Constituent Assembly will guarantee peace.
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| Chinese migrants lead US agents to San Diego border tunnel Posted: 29 Aug 2017 01:19 PM PDT  Dozens of migrants fleeing from Border Patrol agents led authorities to a surprising discovery over the weekend: A tunnel under the US-Mexico border in San Diego used to bring Chinese nationals illegally into the United States.
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| Montreal police arrest Laotian man on US most-wanted list Posted: 29 Aug 2017 02:37 PM PDT  TORONTO (AP) — Canadian police officers on bicycles chased down and caught a Laotian-born alleged drug smuggler who is on the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement's list of 10 most wanted suspects, authorities said Tuesday.
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| Mom's Heartfelt Post Begs Parents To Not Let Their Kids Be 'Jerks' Posted: 30 Aug 2017 07:21 AM PDT  A Texas mom of three is spreading a simple but important message about inclusion.
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| When Rescues In This Texas City Stopped, Residents Cried Out For Help On Social Media Posted: 30 Aug 2017 06:13 AM PDT  Floodwaters in Texas continue to rise, creating conditions so severe that people trapped in their homes had no chance of being rescued overnight.
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| Military Son Surprises Mom by Popping Out of Car's Trunk After Years Apart: 'It Made Everything Worth It' Posted: 29 Aug 2017 02:11 PM PDT  He hadn't seen his mom in two and a half years.
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| Rohingya men answer call to arms against Myanmar's forces Posted: 28 Aug 2017 11:51 PM PDT  Cox's Bazar (Bangladesh) (AFP) - Heavily pregnant and confined to a squalid Bangladeshi refugee camp, Ayesha Begum does not regret that her husband will miss the imminent birth of their sixth child as he fights alongside Rohingya militants in Myanmar. Begum, 25, joined the exodus of Rohingya fleeing troubled Rakhine State in recent days as fresh violence erupted between Myanmar's security forces and militants fighting for the stateless Muslim minority.
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| Bush's Press Secretary Criticizes Trump's Harvey Response For Lacking Empathy Posted: 29 Aug 2017 11:42 PM PDT  Ari Fleischer, the press secretary for former President George W. Bush, said Tuesday that President Donald Trump's response to the devastation from Hurricane Harvey was lacking one thing: empathy.
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| Will California Become The First State To Decriminalize Psychedelic Mushrooms? Posted: 29 Aug 2017 09:11 AM PDT  Kevin Saunders doesn't believe the state of California should lock up people for offenses related to psychedelic mushrooms, a broad category of fungi that contains the psychoactive compound psilocybin.
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