| President Trump addresses 'a nation in grief' on Florida shooting, tells US children they are 'never alone' Posted: 15 Feb 2018 08:12 AM PST  President Trump addressed the American public on Thursday following the deadly high school shooting in Parkland, Fla., speaking of unifying bonds and emphasizing mental health in his remarks. "My fellow Americans, today I speak to a nation in grief," Trump said. Suspected 19-year-old gunman Nikolas Cruz killed at least 17 people when he brought an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle to Stoneman Douglas High School on Wednesday and opened fire.
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| FBI was alerted about suspect in Florida school shooting Posted: 15 Feb 2018 07:51 AM PST  The FBI was alerted about 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz after he left comments on YouTube about wanting to become "a professional school shooter," but the agency was unable to track him down.
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| This Dog Has Comforted Victims Of 3 Devastating Shootings In Less Than 2 Years Posted: 16 Feb 2018 11:39 AM PST  After a tragedy like Wednesday's school shooting in Parkland, Florida, a kind, friendly face is a welcome sight.
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| Amy Schumer Says No Wedding Gifts, Please Give To Gun Safety Group Posted: 15 Feb 2018 01:49 PM PST  Comedian Amy Schumer had a request on Thursday for any friends and followers who might be thinking about sending her wedding gifts: Consider donating to the anti-gun violence organization Everytown for Gun Safety instead.
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| Top Designers Revive Marjorie Merriweather Post's Entertaining Style Posted: 16 Feb 2018 03:08 PM PST |
| Alleged Shooter Stopped at Walmart and McDonald's After School Massacre: Authorities Posted: 14 Feb 2018 09:00 PM PST  Nikolas Cruz was on the run for about an hour before a police officer spotted him, authorities said
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| Florida shooting: Tributes paid to 'hero' teacher who died trying to protect students Posted: 15 Feb 2018 05:03 PM PST  A teacher who died trying to protect students was among the 17 people killed at a Florida school shooting, a survivor has said. Geography instructor Scott Beigel had unlocked the door to his classroom to try and let in students who were fleeing from a rampaging gunman, according to a student, but was shot down before he could close and re-lock the door. As students and staff at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School have begun processing the brutal aftermath, many are hailing Mr Beigel's sacrifice.
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| After Florida, is the tide finally turning on gun control? Posted: 15 Feb 2018 07:38 PM PST  From Governor Rick Scott's suggestion that guns should be kept from the mentally ill to a Florida vigil where chants of "no more guns" erupted, there are signs America may be ready for action.
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| How Congress and Trump stymied Obama's mental-health gun-control rule Posted: 15 Feb 2018 11:29 AM PST  After the school shooting in Florida, President Trump emphasized the importance of mental health. But one of his first actions in the White House was to reverse Barack Obama's recommendation for a new regulation that would prevent people with severe mental health illnesses from purchasing guns.
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| 16 Skeleton Helmets From The Winter Olympics That Are Pure Fire On Ice Posted: 16 Feb 2018 02:39 AM PST  Skeleton athletes are bringing fire to the Winter Olympics with their epic helmet designs.
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| Chicago Cubs’ Anthony Rizzo Tears Up At Vigil For Florida's School Shooting Victims Posted: 15 Feb 2018 08:34 PM PST  Anthony Rizzo, the first baseman for the Chicago Cubs, offered his support while pleading for real change during a vigil for the victims of the horrific Valentine's Day shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
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| Venezuela's Maduro to attend Americas summit, defying host Peru Posted: 15 Feb 2018 10:28 AM PST  Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said Thursday he will attend a summit of Western Hemisphere nations in April despite the host Peru saying he is unwelcome. Peru said on Tuesday that Maduro's "presence will no longer be welcome" after a decision to hold early presidential elections in his crisis-torn country without reaching an agreement with the opposition. Peru's statement followed a meeting of the 14-nation Lima Group, also Tuesday, urging Venezuela to reconsider holding elections on April 22 on the grounds that conditions for a free and fair vote, as demanded by the opposition, did not currently exist.
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| Parkland School Shooting: Here Are the Victims Who Lost Their Lives Posted: 15 Feb 2018 07:59 AM PST  Authorities have begun identifying the dead on the day after 17 were killed in Parkland, Fla., Wednesday.
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| Sen. Chris Murphy: "There's zero evidence...that more guns leads to less gun crime." Posted: 15 Feb 2018 03:24 PM PST  The Connecticut senator responds to Ed. Secretary Betsy DeVos's comment that schools have "option" to arm teachers
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| Student arrested after posting Snapchat threatening 'Round 2' of Florida shooting 'tomorrow' Posted: 15 Feb 2018 12:42 PM PST  A South Carolina student was arrested on Thursday after posting a Snapchat threatening a repeat of Wednesday's deadly mass shooting, which took place at a Florida high school.
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| Why is America unable to halt this epidemic of deadly gun violence? Posted: 15 Feb 2018 10:45 AM PST  Perhaps the toughest speech he had to deliver was in December 2012, when 20 children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut. Four years later, appearing in the Oval Office with some of the parents of those youngsters who lives were stolen, and appealing for support for gun control measures, he wiped tears from his eyes. Six years later – a period in which at least 400 people have been shot in more than 200 school shootings, and in which 590 individuals died in 346 mass shootings in 2017 alone – another US president is making another speech after yet another mass fatality incident takes its turn to dominate the headlines for a day or two.
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| Tillerson in Beirut wades into Lebanon-Israel border dispute Posted: 15 Feb 2018 07:26 AM PST  BEIRUT (AP) — U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on Thursday said there are "constructive" discussions underway on how to break a "stalemate" between Lebanon and Israel over gas drilling rights along the countries' disputed maritime border and maintain calm along the volatile frontier.
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| ICE arrests dozens in Los Angeles area immigration crackdown Posted: 15 Feb 2018 12:36 PM PST  At least 100 people are believed to have been arrested since Sunday as part of a federal immigration crackdown in the Los Angeles area.
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| Murdoch-Owned NY Post Urges Trump To Act On Gun Control To 'Stop The Slaughter' Posted: 15 Feb 2018 09:47 PM PST  The New York Post, which endorsed Donald Trump for president in 2016, is now urging him to take action on gun control after the mass shooting at a Florida high school.
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| Olympics Commentator Explains 'They All Look The Same' Remark About Chinese Skiers Posted: 16 Feb 2018 04:40 AM PST  An Australian TV commentator caused controversy at the Winter Olympics on Thursday with a remark about Chinese athletes all looking "the same."
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| Violence during Rio carnival 'unacceptable:' minister Posted: 15 Feb 2018 10:42 AM PST  Brazilian Defense Minister Raul Jungmann has called violent crime during Rio de Janeiro's carnival "unacceptable" and promised more security. "It is clear to us that the situation in Rio during the carnival was unfortunate," Jungmann said in comments after meeting President Michel Temer late Wednesday. Jungmann was referring to a rash of robberies and assaults during the biggest event of the year in Rio, which saw massive street parties before culminating earlier this week with the samba parades.
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| Florida high school shooting victim's father: 'Hold your children tight' Posted: 15 Feb 2018 07:46 AM PST  The father of one of the victim's of Wednesday's deadly mass shooting in Florida penned a heartbreaking Facebook post after learning of his daughter's tragic death.
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| Florida shooting: Meet Jacob the comfort dog, the veteran of mass killings helping victims of America's latest massacre Posted: 16 Feb 2018 09:53 AM PST  Golden retriever Jacob, aged four, a specially trained "comfort dog", could be seen lying in the shade, surrounded by a group of children and wearing a harness that simply said "please pet me". Jacob is one of 19 dogs currently in Parkland supporting friends, family and loved ones as they grieve those lost when Nikolas Cruz opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting. The dogs are part of a group of 130 golden retrievers, K9 Comfort Dogs, run by Lutheran Church Charities, which specially trains dogs to act as therapy animals in disaster situations.
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| Russia: 5 citizens probably killed by US strike in Syria Posted: 15 Feb 2018 08:19 AM PST  MOSCOW (AP) — After a week of unanswered questions, Russia acknowledged Thursday that five of its citizens may have been killed by a U.S. strike in Syria, the first time Russians have died at U.S. hands in Syria's chaotic battlefield.
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| Amy Schumer Just Got Married. But She Wants to Talk About Gun Control Instead Posted: 15 Feb 2018 11:35 AM PST  Schumer addressed the Parkland school shooting on Instagram
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| Senate Votes Down Multiple Bills To Help Dreamers After Veto Threat On Bipartisan Proposal Posted: 15 Feb 2018 01:24 PM PST  WASHINGTON ― The Senate was supposed to spend the week discovering what it could pass to help undocumented immigrants who came to the U.S. as children.
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| Adam Levine And Behati Prinsloo Welcome Baby Girl Named Geo Posted: 16 Feb 2018 01:56 PM PST  Maroon 5 frontman Adam Levine and his supermodel wife, Behati Prinsloo, have welcomed their second child together, according to multiple outlets: a baby girl named Geo Grace Levine.
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| There's A New IRS Tax Scam That Comes With A Twist Posted: 16 Feb 2018 02:45 AM PST  With so many Social Security numbers hacked last year, most taxpayers are on high alert to make sure cyber-crooks don't misdirect their tax refunds from the Internal Revenue Service.
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| Mourners gather for first Parkland funeral Posted: 16 Feb 2018 10:04 AM PST  Mourners gathered for the funeral of 14-year-old Alyssa Alhadeff in Parkland, Florida on Friday, the first for a victim since the shooting rampage at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 people dead. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
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| Florida gets failing grade for its gun laws: study Posted: 15 Feb 2018 10:15 AM PST ![Florida gets failing grade for its gun laws: study]( "Florida gets failing grade for its gun laws: study") The findings in an annual survey from the Giffords Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence also said U.S. states with strong gun safety laws have fewer average gun death than states with weaker laws. The study was completed before a 19-year-old man who had been expelled from his Parkland, Florida, high school was charged with 17 counts of murder, after authorities say he opened fire at the school on Wednesday. Florida, which also had one of the worst mass shootings in modern U.S. history when a gunman killed 49 people at the Pulse nightclub in Orlando in 2016, received a failing grade in the study for its gun laws.
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| Florida shooting: Suspected gunman Nikolas Cruz stopped at Subway and McDonald's before being arrested, sheriff says Posted: 15 Feb 2018 03:23 PM PST  Police are piecing together the timeline of events before and after the mass shooting at a high school in Florida, saying the suspect stopped at both Subway and McDonald's before being arrested. Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel told reporters that the suspected shooter, 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz, arrived at Marjory Douglas High School via Uber at 2:19pm lcoal time (8:18pm BST) on Wednesday. In total, police say Mr Cruz killed 17 students and staff and injured 14.
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| Turkey, US to 'work together' in Syria after crisis Posted: 16 Feb 2018 01:22 PM PST  Turkey and United States on Friday agreed to work together in Syria after weeks of tensions over Ankara's latest cross-border operation that raised fears of a military confrontation between the two NATO allies. US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and his Turkish counterpart Mevlut Cavusoglu said after talks in Ankara that the two sides would set up working groups to solve key issues that have bedevilled relations. "We are not going to act alone any longer, not US doing one thing, Turkey doing another," Tillerson said after the talks.
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| 'Putin's chef' among Russians indicted by Mueller Posted: 16 Feb 2018 04:14 PM PST  MOSCOW (AP) — He's known as "Putin's chef" — a wealthy Russian businessman and restaurateur who gained favor with Vladimir Putin through his stomach.
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| How to Wish Someone a 'Happy Lunar New Year' in Chinese Posted: 15 Feb 2018 10:00 PM PST  And it's not just "gong hei fat choy"
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| Trump Blasts Dems On DACA. Which He Ended. Posted: 16 Feb 2018 08:24 AM PST  President Donald Trump excoriated congressional Democrats on Friday, accusing them of abandoning young people in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
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| What Does A Sick Bear Really Need? How About A Big Ole Bear Hug Posted: 15 Feb 2018 11:01 PM PST  Jim Kowalczik and his 1,400-pound Kodiak bear Jimbo go way back so he thought nothing of giving the creature a bear hug when the big guy was feeling under the weather.
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| Let's Decode Kylie Jenner And Travis Scott's New Picture Together Posted: 16 Feb 2018 07:46 AM PST  After months of staying out of the public eye, Kylie Jenner and Travis Scott are putting themselves back in the spotlight.
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| 2019 BMW Z4: Der Supraganger Posted: 15 Feb 2018 01:25 PM PST  Will the next Z4 be taken more seriously?
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| On eve of investigation, Vatican says pope meets sex abuse victims often Posted: 15 Feb 2018 09:29 AM PST  By Philip Pullella VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis regularly meets with victims of sexual abuse, the Vatican said on Thursday, a disclosure that follows intense criticism of his defense of a Chilean bishop accused of covering up abuse. Vatican spokesman Greg Burke confirmed comments the pope made in private during a visit to Peru last month which were reported on Thursday by Civilta Cattolica, a journal of the Jesuit religious order. "The Holy Father meets victims of sexual abuse, either individually or in groups, several times a month," Burke said in a statement, adding that the pope "tries to help them heal the grave wounds caused by the abuses they suffered." Remarks the pope made last month have created one of the greatest image crises of his papacy, which marks its fifth anniversary next month.
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| US, Turkey return from brink, aim to 'normalize' ties Posted: 16 Feb 2018 07:09 AM PST  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The United States and Turkey pulled back from the brink of a potentially disastrous crisis on Friday, agreeing to normalize badly strained relations over Syria and other issues that had threatened the NATO allies' longstanding ties.
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| Ramaphosa elected president of South Africa, vows anti-corruption fight Posted: 15 Feb 2018 08:31 AM PST  By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN (Reuters) - Cyril Ramaphosa was elected as South Africa's president in a parliamentary vote on Thursday and pledged to tackle endemic corruption after scandal-ridden Jacob Zuma resigned on orders from the ruling African National Congress. Ramaphosa faces an uphill battle in revitalizing growth, creating jobs and stamping out a culture of graft in a nation still polarized by race and inequality more than two decades after the end of white-minority rule. Ramaphosa, in brief remarks to parliament ahead of his first state of the nation address expected on Friday, said he would work hard "not to disappoint the people of South Africa".
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| Qualcomm rejects $121 bn hostile Broadcom bid, again Posted: 16 Feb 2018 06:45 AM PST  US mobile chipmaking giant Qualcomm on Friday rejected for a second time a hostile $121 billion takeover bid from Singapore's Broadcom, but said it was open to "further discussions" on a tie-up. Two days after a meeting of top executives of the two computer chipmakers, Qualcomm chairman Paul Jacobs said the recently revised bid remained unacceptable. "Our board is open to further discussions with Broadcom to see if a proposal that appropriately reflects the true value of Qualcomm shares, and ensures an appropriate level of deal certainty, can be obtained," Jacobs said in an open letter to Broadcom chief executive Hock Tan.
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