| Here's Why Authorities Aren't Calling The Las Vegas Massacre An Act Of Terrorism Posted: 02 Oct 2017 10:41 AM PDT  A 64-year-old man slaughtered dozens of people late Sunday night, firing hundreds of rounds into a crowd of concertgoers in Las Vegas.
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| Country Star Jason Aldean, Pregnant Wife Unharmed in Las Vegas Attack Posted: 02 Oct 2017 09:12 AM PDT  The musician had just taken the stage as the night's final act when machine gunfire rang out across the venue.
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| 2 Texas inmates set to die this month lose at Supreme Court Posted: 02 Oct 2017 12:08 PM PDT  HOUSTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused appeals from two convicted killers facing execution in Texas this month, including one inmate set to die next week.
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| Donald Trump Helps Suffering Puerto Ricans By Throwing Paper Towels At Them Posted: 03 Oct 2017 12:45 PM PDT  In his first visit to Puerto Rico following the devastation of Hurricane Maria, President Donald Trump tossed paper towels at suffering survivors Tuesday.
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| Tom Petty dead at 66 following cardiac arrest: See his life in photos Posted: 02 Oct 2017 01:07 PM PDT  Tom Petty, the famed and beloved rocker behind hits like "American Girl" and "Free Fallin," had died at the age of 66 following a cardiac arrest.
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| 'The Onion' Has a Simple, Devastating Set Response to U.S. Mass Shootings Posted: 02 Oct 2017 11:46 AM PDT  This is the fifth time 'The Onion' has published the same article.
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| Keith Olbermann: The NRA Should Be Branded A Terrorist Organization Posted: 03 Oct 2017 01:21 AM PDT  Keith Olbermann tore into the National Rifle Association for "enabling such massacres" as the one that took place in Las Vegas on Sunday night.
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| Severed head of eccentric Jeremy Bentham to go on display as scientists test DNA to see if he was autistic Posted: 02 Oct 2017 02:00 PM PDT  The severed head of eccentric philosopher Jeremy Bentham is to go on display for the first time in decades and scientists are using the opportunity to test his DNA to find out if he was autistic. Social reformer Bentham, who died in 1832 insisted that his body be preserved after his death as an 'auto-icon' so that he could be wheeled out at parties if his friends were missing him. He also wished to encourage others to donate their bodies to medical science, believing that individuals should make themselves as useful as possible, both in life and death. And Bentham was a staunch atheist who described church teachings as 'nonsense on stilts' and so was opposed to a Christian burial. The auto-icon which Bentham insisted be made after his death For more than 150 years, his body has been kept on public display in a glass case at University College London, however after a mummification mistake, his head was deemed too distasteful to show, and is now kept in safe where it is removed just once a year to check that skin and hair are not falling off. Now the head will be displayed in a new exhibition looking at death and preservation at UCL, and scientists have taken samples of Bentham's DNA to test theories that he may have had Asperger's or autism, both of which have a strong genetic component. Subhadra Das, Curator of Collections at UCL Culture, said: "I think Bentham would certainly have approved of his head going on public display. It's what he intended. "It has also allowed scientists to test his DNA to see if he was autistic. We have been working with the Natural History Museum who have new techniques of studying ancient DNA. "Studying ancient DNA is like looking at the shredded pages of a book, so much information is missing. And we have found that 99 per cent of the DNA taken has come from bacteria in his mouth. So it may be tricky to come to a firm conclusion. "We want to explore what drove Bentham to donate his body, but also to address the challenges of putting this type of material on display" The head was once displayed in the same case but was deemed to grotesque and is now kept in a safe Credit: UCL Bentham was a leading philosopher and social thinker of the 18th and early 19th century, establishing himself as a leading theorist in social and economic reform. He was pivotal in the establishment of Britain's first police force, the Thames River Police in 1800 which was the precedent for Robert Peel's reforms 30 years later. He also argued for the rights of women, and for homosexuality to be legalised. However he was notably eccentric, reclusive and difficult to get hold of. He called his walking stick Dapple, his teapot Dickey, and kept an elderly cat named The Reverend Sir John Langbourne. The mummified head of Jeremy Bentham Credit: UCL In 2006, researchers Philip Lucas and Anne Sheeran suggested his unique character was driven by Asperger's syndrome, after studying biographies which described a young Bentham as 'having few companions his own age'; and being 'morbidly sensitive.' Now scientist hope to test the theory with science. Recent studies have suggested that autism is around 82 per cent heritable and there are specific regions in the genetic code linked to traits. Other exhibits on display include to new DNA finds from archaeologist Sir Flinders Petrie (1853-1942) who also asked for his head to be preserved, and mammoth tusk, Hair and tooth dating back around 10,000 years. The exhibition What does it mean to be human? Curating Heads is free and runs until February in the Octagon Gallery, Wilkins Building, UCL.
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| Zimbabwe arrests journalist over Grace Mugabe 'used' underwear Posted: 03 Oct 2017 06:33 AM PDT  Zimbabwe police have arrested a journalist at a privately-owned daily over a story claiming that President Robert Mugabe's wife, Grace had donated second-hand underwear to supporters, lawyers said Tuesday. Zimbabwe Lawyers for Human Rights (ZLHR) said that Kenneth Nyangani, a NewsDay journalist, was arrested on Monday night "for allegedly writing and publishing a story over the donation of some used undergarments by First Lady Grace Mugabe". Nyangani was being detained in the eastern city of Mutare and is likely to face "criminal defamation" charges, the organisation said in a statement.
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| Brother Of Vegas Shooter: He Wasn't 'An Avid Gun Guy At All’ Posted: 02 Oct 2017 12:19 PM PDT  Stephen Paddock, the 64-year-old man who killed at least 58 people and left more than 500 injured in a shooting at a country music festival on the Las Vegas Strip on Sunday, was "just a guy" who frequented the city's hotels, gambled and attended shows, according to his younger brother.
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| White House: It Is 'Premature' To Talk About Gun Control Laws After Las Vegas Posted: 02 Oct 2017 12:20 PM PDT  President Trump on Monday offered his "warmest condolences and sympathies" after at least 50 people were killed and at least another 200 injured in a mass shooting in Las Vegas on Sunday.
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| Stunning images capture 'UFO' clouds surrounding volcano Posted: 03 Oct 2017 10:11 AM PDT ![Stunning images capture 'UFO' clouds surrounding volcano]( "Stunning images capture 'UFO' clouds surrounding volcano") The Kamchatka peninsula's volcanoes are portrayed in a series of stunning shots by photographer Vladimir Voychuk, 37, from Klin, Russia. It is said that Kamchatka is one of the most picturesque distant corners of Russia and attracts hundreds of photographers with its unique environment.
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| 'Fixer Upper' star Joanna Gaines makes major business announcement Posted: 02 Oct 2017 11:24 AM PDT  We can't keep up with Chip and Joanna Gaines anymore!
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| Iraqi forces seize air base from Islamic state near Hawija Posted: 02 Oct 2017 08:14 AM PDT  Iraqi forces and Shi'ite paramilitaries captured an air base from Islamic State on Monday, the army said, gaining a strategic foothold in the north of the country as they push toward the town of Hawija. Iraq launched an offensive on September 21 to dislodge Islamic State from Hawija, which lies west of the oil city of Kirkuk and is one of two areas of the country still under the control of the militant group. Iraqi army commanders said the Rashad air base, which is around 30 km (20 miles) south of Hawija, was used by the militants as a training camp and logistic base.
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| Jason Aldean Is Afraid To Raise His Children In 'Scary' World After Vegas Shooting Posted: 03 Oct 2017 09:04 AM PDT  Musician Jason Aldean was performing at the Route 91 Harvest Festival in Las Vegas on Sunday night when shots were fired.
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| Why North Korea Might Do the Unthinkable: Test a Nuclear Weapon in the Pacific Ocean Posted: 02 Oct 2017 05:04 PM PDT  The Trump Administration may inadvertently be provoking North Korea into conducting a live-fire test of a nuclear-tipped ballistic missile. While it is clear that North Korea has both ballistic missile technology and a working hydrogen bomb, the U.S. State Department recently suggested in a tweet that Pyongyang does not have such capabilities. While many prominent international relations experts and former U.S. government officials immediately derided the State Department's tweet, similar statements in previous decades prompted China to conduct a risky live-five nuclear missile test on October 27, 1966.
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| Interior, EPA chiefs: No plans to pay back charter flights Posted: 03 Oct 2017 03:37 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Two of President Donald Trump's Cabinet members say they do not plan to reimburse the government for charter flights costing tens of thousands of dollars.
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| Australian Authorities Regret the 'Unacceptable' End to MH370 Search Posted: 03 Oct 2017 01:27 AM PDT  The 1,046-day search for the missing Malaysian flight yielded little solid data
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| Friend: Meghan Markle and Prince Harry 'already' engaged, but 'holding the news' until this one thing happens Posted: 03 Oct 2017 08:44 AM PDT  Are Prince Harry and Meghan Markle already engaged?
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| Rock Legend Tom Petty Dead at 66 After Massive Cardiac Arrest Posted: 02 Oct 2017 09:07 PM PDT  Tom Petty died Monday of a cardiac arrest in Los Angeles, PEOPLE confirms
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| Jimmy Kimmel Calls Out Lawmakers By Name, Says They Better Pray For Forgiveness Posted: 03 Oct 2017 12:48 AM PDT  Jimmy Kimmel barely held back his tears on Monday night as he spoke about his hometown of Las Vegas, where a gunman killed at least 50 people and left more than 500 injured on Sunday night.
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| Stephen Paddock set up cameras around his hotel room before carrying out Las Vegas massacre, say police Posted: 03 Oct 2017 01:48 PM PDT  The Las Vegas mass shooter set up cameras around the hotel room used in his deadly attack, police have said. Clark County Sheriff Joseph Lombardo told reporters that the shooter installed the cameras both inside and outside his room at Mandalay Bay Resort and Casino, before opening fire on a country music concert below. The shooter may have installed cameras to watch for anyone approaching, Mr Lombardo said.
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| U.S. Drone Crash in Yemen Captured on Video Posted: 02 Oct 2017 02:16 PM PDT  The drone was shot down by Houthi rebels fighting against the Saudi Arabia-backed government.
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| Defiant Qatar emir meets Iran's Zarif Posted: 03 Oct 2017 06:17 AM PDT  Iran's foreign minister held talks with the emir of Qatar Tuesday aimed at strengthening "co-operation," nearly four months into a Saudi-led blockade against the Gulf emirate. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and Iran's Mohammad Javad Zarif met at a time of heightened Gulf tensions, with Qatari officials warning the ongoing Arab blockade would only drive Doha towards regional powerhouse Iran. Qatar's state news agency said the pair discussed the impasse in the region, which has seen Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt cut ties with Doha over its ties with Iran and accusations that it supports extremists.
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| Indiana woman accused of confining 2 teenage girls for years Posted: 02 Oct 2017 01:23 PM PDT ![Indiana woman accused of confining 2 teenage girls for years]( "Indiana woman accused of confining 2 teenage girls for years") DECATUR, Ind. (AP) — An Indiana woman accused of keeping her two daughters confined at home for years allegedly failed to educate the now teenage youths, who told authorities their mother gave up on them "a long time ago."
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| Russia vs. America in the Sky: Su-35 Fighter vs. F-15C (Who Wins?) Posted: 02 Oct 2017 04:29 AM PDT  Bottom line: unless the F-15 is fighting World War III, the Air Force is probably going to be ok keeping the Eagle in service for another two decades. It might not be the one-sided turkey-shoot the Air Force has gotten used to, but the United States isn't in danger of losing air superiority. The Boeing F-15C Eagle has been in service with the U.S. Air Force for nearly 40 years and will likely serve for decades to come.
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| Legendary Rocker Tom Petty Dead At 66 Posted: 02 Oct 2017 01:13 PM PDT  Tom Petty, lead singer of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, died on Monday, his family announced.
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| Two Dark American Truths From Las Vegas Posted: 02 Oct 2017 09:58 AM PDT  Beyond the scores of people who have been killed and the hundreds who have been wounded in Las Vegas today, thousands of other people, though not visibly or directly injured, have had their lives changed forever. Children and parents. Husbands and wives. Brothers and sisters. Something is instantly and permanently gone from their lives. Co-workers and friends. Members of churches or sports leagues or the PTA. Customers and clients and students. Neighbors and casual acquaintances at the coffee shop or the bar. The rest of their days will be different and shadowed because of this massacre. "Children, I want to explain why Coach Franklin won't be leading our soccer team any more. Something bad happened, and ..."
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| More daytime images of the Larsen C iceberg have come in, and they're amazing Posted: 02 Oct 2017 11:28 AM PDT  In July, one of the largest icebergs ever recorded — measuring in at about the size of Delaware and containing a volume of ice twice the size of Lake Erie — broke off the Larsen C Ice Shelf in northwest Antarctica. The event, which took place during the frigid blackness of the Antarctic winter, was detected using satellite instruments that could pierce the darkness to sense the ice below. As the austral spring dawns, scientists are now being granted their first glimpses of the new iceberg during the daytime. And the images are incredible. SEE ALSO: Just how big is this new, trillion ton Antarctic iceberg, anyway? The first daytime satellite photo to be released by NASA came on Sept. 11, via an instrument on NASA's Terra satellite, which is known as the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer, or MODIS. It revealed the massive iceberg, which dwarfs Manhattan yet somehow has taken on its shape, in all its glory. Satellite image showing the massive Antarctic iceberg and its smaller sibling on Sept. 16, 2017.Image: nasaSoon after, other NASA satellites, including Landsat 8, captured detailed images that NASA published on Sept. 30. The new data shows how the massive iceberg has split into smaller pieces since it cleaved off from the floating ice shelf last summer, and reveals that it has begun to push away from the ice shelf that birthed it, thanks to offshore winds. The original iceberg weighed about 1 trillion tons, according to a team of researchers affiliated with a U.K.-based research project, known as Project MIDAS. While the iceberg calving event itself is likely mostly natural, it nevertheless threatens to speed up the already quickening pace of ice melt in the region due in large part to global warming. The wider EW footprint of @ESA_EO 's #sentinel1 gives a nice overview of the drift of iceberg #A68 away from #LarsenC. From-rift-2-drift pic.twitter.com/c6j39bWDBt — Stef Lhermitte (@StefLhermitte) September 21, 2017 In its original shape, the iceberg was about 2,200 square miles in area, Project MIDAS researchers said in a blog post on July 12. In late July, the main iceberg, known as A-68A, lost several chunks of ice as it began to slowly drift out to sea. One of those large chunks is now known as A-68B, according to the National Ice Center, which tracks large icebergs because they pose a danger to ships. Around the same time, scientists revealed that new cracks were developing on the Larsen C ice shelf, potentially signaling additional breakup events in the coming months to years. Scientists are closely monitoring the Larsen C Ice Shelf because of the warming occurring in that region, and the unsettling history of other ice shelves in the area. The icebergs in natural color (left). Thermal image (right) reveals where the colder ice ends and warmer water begins.Image: NASAThe Antarctic Peninsula, which is where the Larsen C Ice Shelf is located, is one of the most rapidly warming parts of the Earth. Two of its neighbors, Larsen A and Larsen B, have already collapsed. (The rapid breakup of Larsen B inspired the opening scene in the disaster flick, The Day After Tomorrow.) Because of that history, there is tremendous scientific interest in seeing how Larsen C responds to losing about 12 percent of its area in a single, trillion-ton iceberg. While the iceberg calving event itself is not likely caused specifically by climate change, it nevertheless threatens to speed up the already quickening pace of ice melt in the region by leaving the ice shelf behind it in a weakened state, with new cracks that may develop additional icebergs in the future. The melting of the ice shelf does not affect global sea levels directly, since the ice was already floating, like an ice cube in a glass, before the calving event. However, when ice shelves like Larsen C melt, they can free up land-based ice behind them to flow faster into the sea, which does raise sea levels. WATCH: An iceberg the size of Delaware broke off Antarctica
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| U.S. Interior Secretary investigated over speech to donor's hockey team Posted: 03 Oct 2017 12:31 PM PDT  By Valerie Volcovici WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Office of Special Counsel is investigating whether Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke broke the law when he gave a speech to a professional hockey team owned by a political donor in June, the agency said on Tuesday. Zinke is already being investigated by the Interior Department's inspector general in connection with his travels and the use of private charter flights, amid heightened scrutiny into private plane use by administration officials. The Campaign for Accountability complained last week that a speech Zinke gave on June 26 to the Vegas Golden Knights, a National Hockey League team based in Las Vegas, violated the Hatch Act barring executive branch employees from engaging in political activity.
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| Dramatically Redesigned 2018 Honda Accord Goes High-Tech Posted: 01 Oct 2017 09:01 PM PDT   Radical revisions are rare in the popular midsized sedan segment. Yet the 2018 Honda Accord brings wholesale changes—from curvy, coupe-inspired styling to turbocharged engines—in what is a dramat...
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| Trump to Maria survivor: ‘Have a good time’ Posted: 03 Oct 2017 11:46 AM PDT  Social media had a field day on Tuesday after President Trump, touring storm-ravaged Puerto Rico, concluded a conversation with a man whose home was damaged by telling the man to "have a good time."
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| Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner shared private email account that received hundreds of White House messages Posted: 03 Oct 2017 08:11 AM PDT  White House officials are examining a third, previously unknown, email account belonging to Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump during their investigation into the Trump administration's use of personal email servers. In an echo of the scandal which dogged the presidential campaign of Donald Trump's rival Hillary Clinton, hundreds of emails have reportedly been sent from White House addresses to an account the couple and their personal staff had access to for personal scheduling. The emails, which include travel documents, internal scheduling and some official White House materials, were in many cases sent from Ms Trump, her assistant Bridges Lamar and other people who work with the couple in the White House.
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| Assad's Victory in Syria Has Cost Him Control of the Country Posted: 01 Oct 2017 06:28 PM PDT  The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and the Russian military—not the Syrian army or the Syrian political class—are managing Syria's destiny. Four years ago, with Syrian government forces stretched increasingly thin and rebel fighters assaulting some of the regime's most precious and strategic areas, it seemed as if it was only a matter of time before Bashar al-Assad and his extended family were driven into exile. As the violence began creeping closer and closer to Damascus, and as rebel units started launching mortars into the heart of the capital city, rumors abounded about Assad's fate.
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| New Mom Serena Williams Graces Us With Sizzling Instagram Photos Posted: 03 Oct 2017 10:45 AM PDT  Serena Williams is a goddess in all seasons of life, and her post-pregnancy look is no exception.
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| 'Dancing With the Stars' couple allegedly 'fighting a lot' behind-the-scenes Posted: 03 Oct 2017 07:34 AM PDT  There's drama brewing behind-the-scenes on "Dancing With the Stars" this season.
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| New Details Emerge About Vegas Gunman Stephen Paddock's Past, Including Dad's Stint on 'Most Wanted List Posted: 02 Oct 2017 01:53 PM PDT  Paddock was a twice-divorced "gambler by trade" who once owned a plane and had a Texas hunting license.
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| What NASA’s Cassini Spacecraft Saw Before It Died Posted: 02 Oct 2017 02:42 PM PDT  Right before NASA's Cassini spacecraft plunged into Saturn's atmosphere and ended its mission, it sent back photos to Earth of its final moments.
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| The Dangers of Bringing North Korea to Its Knees Posted: 03 Oct 2017 06:45 AM PDT  The risk of escalation is massive. Yielding under pressure would come at a huge cost, as North Korea would no longer be able be to play the role of a potentially suicidal nuclear madman to draw leverage from the international community. Pyongyang would lose its ability to blackmail neighbours and the United States as well as to control tensions on the Korean peninsula.
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| Luke Skywalker Might've Been Hiding In Plain Sight In 'The Force Awakens' Posted: 03 Oct 2017 01:57 PM PDT  Luke Skywalker was missing from most of "The Force Awakens" — but he might've been closer than we'd thought.
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