| Trump Uses RNC Funds To Pay For His Russia Defense -- Thanks To Hillary Clinton's Lawyer Posted: 20 Sep 2017 03:43 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― President Donald Trump, a billionaire, is reportedly using money raised by the Republican National Committee to cover legal fees associated with the Department of Justice investigation into his 2016 presidential campaign. Trump has used over $230,000 in money raised by the RNC for his own legal defense, according to Reuters. The president is currently under investigation for potential illegal coordination with Russia ― which is alleged to have hacked the Democratic National Committee and intervened in the election to defeat Hillary Clinton ― and for possible obstruction of justice when he fired James Comey, the former FBI director, in May.
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| Will Barcelona secede from Spain? Catalan independence is up for a vote — and Russia is stirring the pot Posted: 20 Sep 2017 03:21 PM PDT  At issue is a wave of Catalan nationalism culminating in a referendum on secession, scheduled for Oct. 1.
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| Black Cornell Student Allegedly 'Bloodied Up' In Racially Charged Attack Posted: 21 Sep 2017 07:20 AM PDT  Less than two weeks after someone chanted "build a wall, build a wall" near the Latino Living Center on Cornell University's campus, a white student was arrested after allegedly assaulting a black student in front of his home and yelling racial slurs at him.
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| WATCH: Trump cracks joke after South Korea's Moon Jae-in uses the word 'deplorable' Posted: 21 Sep 2017 10:52 AM PDT  President Donald Trump participated in a bilateral meeting with South Korean President Moon Jae-in on Thursday, and took the opportunity to crack a joke when Jae-in used a particularly charged word.
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| 10 Things to Know for Today Posted: 21 Sep 2017 06:05 AM PDT  Your daily look at late-breaking news, upcoming events and the stories that will be talked about today:
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| 3 Ways the New Obamacare Repeal Bill Would Change Women's Access to Health Care Posted: 20 Sep 2017 08:11 AM PDT  Republicans have a new last-ditch effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act
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| Breathtaking shots of king penguins marching in golden sunrise Posted: 21 Sep 2017 07:34 AM PDT ![Breathtaking shots of king penguins marching in golden sunrise]( "Breathtaking shots of king penguins marching in golden sunrise") Wildlife photographer Wim van den Heever, 45, visited the Falkland Islands this year to shoot pictures and scout the area for future tours. Wim's breathtaking images show a small group of king penguins before they head out to sea at sunrise. Wim said: "The sunrise created beautiful vibrant colors and amazing reflections.
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| George W. Bush's Ethics Chief: This 'May Be What Puts An End To This White House' Posted: 20 Sep 2017 09:35 PM PDT  If it turns out it was to block the Russia investigation, that would be obstruction, Painter said on MSNBC on Wednesday. "The president once again has the right to fire the FBI director," Painter said on MSNBC.
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| Greenpeace boards ship in bid to halt delivery of UK-bound VW diesel cars Posted: 21 Sep 2017 08:59 AM PDT  By Costas Pitas LONDON (Reuters) - Greenpeace activists boarded a ship arriving in Britain on Thursday to stop the delivery of more than 1,000 Volkswagen cars from Germany while others sought to immobilise vehicles at a port in anti-diesel protests. VW admitted cheating diesel emissions tests in 2015, triggering political and consumer pressure that has caused a slump in sales of diesel cars in major markets, with governments announcing plans to ban vehicles powered by conventional combustion engines. Greenpeace said its volunteers had boarded the ship in the Thames Estuary in an attempt to stop it unloading at the port of Sheerness in the southeast of England.
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| Air strikes kill 22 in northwest Syria in 48 hours: monitor Posted: 21 Sep 2017 06:08 AM PDT  At least 22 civilians have been killed in 48 hours of heavy air strikes by Syria's regime and its ally Russia in northwestern Syria, a monitor said Thursday. The strikes hit areas in the provinces of Idlib and Hama, where an internationally agreed truce zone is meant to be in place, and come in response to an offensive launched Tuesday by jihadists. Idlib, along with parts of neighbouring Hama and Latakia provinces, forms one of four so-called de-escalation zones agreed last May by regime allies Russia and Iran and rebel backer Turkey.
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| Mexico earthquake: Barack Obama sends a 'big hug for everyone' in Mexico City after devastating quake Posted: 19 Sep 2017 11:10 PM PDT  Barack Obama has tweeted to say he wants to send a "big hug for everyone" affected by the devastating earthquake which struck Mexico. Twenty-two bodies were pulled from rubble at a school in Mexico City. President Enrique Pena Nieto visited the school and said in comments broadcast online by Financiero TV that 30 children and eight adults were still missing.
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| Tiffany Trump faces her father's political adversaries, Sally Yates and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, in law school career Posted: 21 Sep 2017 09:42 AM PDT  In Tiffany Trump's first few weeks at George Law, she's shared the campus with some of the president's most renowned critics -- Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates.
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| Virginian Charters Jet To Rescue 300 Pets Stranded On Virgin Islands After Irma Posted: 20 Sep 2017 09:25 PM PDT  When Hurricane Maria took aim at the U.S. Virgin Islands last week, Sali Gear knew she had to move fast. Gear, the co-founder of Virginia Beach's Island Dog Rescue, grew up in the islands. To make this happen, Gear initially aimed to fly 20 animals to the continental U.S. every day for one week, according to The Virginian-Pilot.
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| Cassini captured mysterious 'glitch' on Saturn's rings before death dive Posted: 21 Sep 2017 12:12 PM PDT  Cassini sent home one last batch of photos from Saturn before plunging to its death Friday and among them was an attempt to record a mysterious object embedded in the planet's rings, otherwise known as "Peggy."
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| Illinois Father Strangled 2 Sons Before Setting House on Fire and Killing Himself While His Wife Slept Posted: 21 Sep 2017 07:20 AM PDT  An Illinois man strangled his two sons to death early Tuesday morning and then set his home on fire before killing himself while his wife slept, PEOPLE confirms
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| John McCain Can Stop This Health Care Bill Posted: 20 Sep 2017 02:51 PM PDT  WASHINGTON ― The fate of health care for millions of Americans may, once again, come down to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.).
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| Views of Hurricane Maria From the International Space Station Posted: 20 Sep 2017 08:49 AM PDT  Video of Hurricane Maria taken Tuesday from aboard the International Space Station
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| Amazon kayak murder: Leader of gang who killed British tourist Emma Kelty is 'shot dead' Posted: 21 Sep 2017 04:28 AM PDT  The ringleader of a gang of pirates suspected of robbing and murdering a British kayaker in the Amazon has been killed, Brazilian police have said. Evanilson Gomes da Costa – a 24-year-old known as Baia – was one of seven gang members who police believe murdered Emma Kelty, a former headteacher from north London. Da Costa was shot twice in the early hours of Wednesday morning at his home in the remote town of Coari and later died in hospital, police said.
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| Presidential paranoia: Does Mueller have a mole in the White House? Posted: 20 Sep 2017 09:37 AM PDT  President Trump has long spoken in conspiratorial terms about a range of topics. It appears this is partly responsible for fostering a culture of distrust and paranoia in the White House.
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| The U.S. Is Giving $32 Million To Assist Rohingya Refugees Posted: 20 Sep 2017 06:20 AM PDT  The United States will dispense about $32 million in humanitarian assistance to the Rohingya ethnic minority facing persecution in Myanmar's Rakhine state, the State Department said Wednesday. "Through this support, the United States will help provide emergency shelter, food security, nutritional assistance, health assistance, psychosocial support, water, sanitation and hygiene, livelihoods, social inclusion, non-food items, disaster and crisis risk reduction, restoring family links, and protection to over 400,000 displaced persons in Burma and in Bangladesh," according to the press release.
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| The Latest: Death toll in Mexican quake rises to 273 Posted: 21 Sep 2017 03:44 PM PDT  MEXICO CITY (AP) — The Latest on the major earthquake that struck Mexico (all times local):
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| WATCH: Video Of Georgia Students Hitting Teacher Goes Viral Posted: 21 Sep 2017 08:34 AM PDT  It was a rough day for this teacher.
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| The Hepatitis Outbreak Has Hit Los Angeles, a Week After the Disease Sickened Hundreds in San Diego Posted: 20 Sep 2017 09:35 AM PDT  Here's how this highly contagious infection is transmitted and what you can do to avoid getting it.
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| 21 Slow Cooker Recipes That'll Inspire You To Pull Out The Crock Pot Posted: 20 Sep 2017 03:01 AM PDT  People who own a slow cooker know that this kitchen appliance is truly great.
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| Obama blasts 'aggravating' GOP plans to repeal Obamacare Posted: 20 Sep 2017 11:33 AM PDT  Former President Barack Obama mocked Republicans in a speech on Wednesday for repeated efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act, his signature health care law also known as Obamacare.
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| Student's Twitter Plea For Free Birthday Drinks Quickly Spirals Out Of Control Posted: 21 Sep 2017 05:12 AM PDT  A student in northern England appealed to strangers over Twitter to send free birthday drinks for his friend on Wednesday afternoon.
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| Powerball Winner Charged With Repeatedly Sexually Assaulting a Child Posted: 20 Sep 2017 04:35 PM PDT  Pedro Quezada won $338 million in 2013
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| How North Korea Plans to Survive a U.S. Attack Posted: 20 Sep 2017 04:59 PM PDT  A so-called preventive military strike would not only fail to resolve the threat to U.S. personnel and U.S. allies, but worsen it. Last Friday National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster emphatically told reporters that despite what many have said to the contrary, "there is a military option" for North Korea. Tuesday afternoon at the United Nations, President Trump went even further, saying that if he felt certain conditions warranted it, then he would have no choice "but to totally destroy North Korea." The president and his national security advisor, however, are wrong.
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| 8 Wellness Travel Destinations You Shouldn’t Miss Posted: 21 Sep 2017 05:00 AM PDT |
| Hurricane Maria left over 15 dead in Dominica: prime minister Posted: 21 Sep 2017 12:00 PM PDT  Hurricane Maria left more than 15 people dead in hard-hit Dominica, the small Caribbean island's Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit announced on Thursday. The toll from Dominica brings the overall number of confirmed deaths caused by Hurricane Maria to 18, including two in Guadeloupe and one in Puerto Rico. "So far, we would have buried in excess of 15 people," Skerrit told a television network of Antigua and Barbuda, a neighboring country.
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| Pope candidly admits Church 'arrived late' in confronting abuse Posted: 21 Sep 2017 08:25 AM PDT  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis, in some of his most candid and personal comments on the sexual abuse of children by priests, said on Thursday that the Catholic Church had "arrived late" in dealing with the problem. Francis, speaking in unscripted remarks to a commission advising him on how to root out sexual abuse, also acknowledged that early in his papacy he had made one bad call in being too lenient with an Italian priest who later went on to abuse again. Francis surprised members of the commission by putting aside his entire prepared speech and chatting to them.
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| Lawrence O'Donnell Lost His Mind Over A Malfunctioning Earpiece Posted: 20 Sep 2017 03:47 PM PDT  On Wednesday, Mediaite published a full eight minutes of outtakes from the MSNBC host's Aug. 29 broadcast of "The Last Word with Lawrence O'Donnell." Apparently O'Donnell's earpiece was acting up that night, a malfunction he repeatedly sounded off about between segments. This has been updated with O'Donnell's comments on Twitter.
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| Kenya electoral officials set Oct.26 as date for new polls Posted: 21 Sep 2017 10:13 AM PDT  NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — The rerun of Kenya's presidential elections has been pushed back to Oct. 26, as President Uhuru Kenyatta strongly criticized the court decision to nullify his re-election calling it "a judicial coup."
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| Take 5: Coconut Shrimp Curry Posted: 21 Sep 2017 07:20 AM PDT  Fast, easy and delicious recipes straight from the People Food test kitchen
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| Utah detective who arrested nurse for refusing to take blood from unconscious patient now wants to apologise Posted: 20 Sep 2017 03:07 AM PDT  The police officer who dragged a screaming nurse to jail after she refused to take blood from an unconscious patient has said he wants to apologise to her, according to his lawyer. Shocking video surfaced earlier this month showing Utah nurse Alex Wubbels calmly stating hospital policy that prevented her from drawing a blood sample without a warrant—before Detective Jeff Payne lost his patience and arrested her.
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| 27 Ways To Reinvent Your Mashed Potatoes Posted: 21 Sep 2017 01:39 PM PDT |
| Preet Bharara, US Attorney Fired By Trump, Joins CNN As Contributor Posted: 20 Sep 2017 07:47 PM PDT  Politico's Michael Calderone reported Preet Bharara, former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York whom Trump fired in March, joined the cable news network as a senior legal analyst. The network also signed a deal with Walter M. Shaub Jr., the former director of the Office of Government Ethics, who resigned in July.
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| Macron says Iran nuclear deal no longer enough Posted: 20 Sep 2017 09:19 PM PDT  France's President Emmanuel Macron declared Wednesday that the Iran nuclear deal is no longer a sufficient safeguard against the growing power that Tehran wields in its region. "We need the 2015 accord," he said of the agreement. Macron was speaking in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly, while ministers from Iran the six world powers that signed the accord met to discuss it.
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| Oil up 2 percent despite U.S. crude build; set for best third quarter since 2004 Posted: 20 Sep 2017 04:50 PM PDT  By Julia Simon NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oil prices settled up 2 percent on Wednesday despite a rise in U.S. crude inventories, with the market heading for its largest third-quarter gain in 13 years after the Iraqi oil minister said OPEC and its partners were considering extending or deepening output cuts. Brent crude futures rose $1.06, or 1.9 percent, to $56.20 a barrel, while U.S. West Texas Intermediate (WTI) crude futures gained 93 cents, or 1.9 percent, to $50.41. U.S. crude oil stockpiles jumped last week as imports and production increased, the U.S. Energy Information Administration said, as operations resumed from the impact of Hurricane Harvey which hit the Gulf Coast on Aug. 25.
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| A Way Forward in the North Korea Crisis Posted: 20 Sep 2017 06:06 PM PDT  There is nothing the US can do to North Korea that will lead to its renunciation of its nuclear weapons program.
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| Captain: Oklahoma City man killed by police was deaf Posted: 20 Sep 2017 05:44 PM PDT  OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma City police officers who opened fire on a man in front of his home as he approached them holding a metal pipe didn't hear witnesses yelling that he was deaf, a department official said Wednesday.
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| Former Arkansas Teacher Accused Of Having Sex With Students Posted: 21 Sep 2017 06:40 AM PDT  A former art teacher at an Arkansas high school is accused of having sexual relationships with four students and reportedly slept with two of them at her apartment on the same day.
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