| Interior Department Denies Ryan Zinke Told Staff 'Diversity Isn't Important' Posted: 26 Mar 2018 12:56 PM PDT  The Interior Department is denying a CNN report published Monday that alleged
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| While others march, these teens shoot. At targets. Posted: 24 Mar 2018 06:36 PM PDT  Those at the D.C. rally had come to demand gun control. Those here in Eatonton, Ga., had come to do some shooting.
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| Who’s getting under Trump’s skin today? Lawyers. Posted: 25 Mar 2018 06:24 AM PDT  Judging from his tweets, lawyers were very much on the president's mind Sunday morning. It's no surprise. Along with the ongoing Russia investigation, there's the matter of Stormy Daniels.
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| Russian shopping mall fire Posted: 26 Mar 2018 04:14 AM PDT ![Russian shopping mall fire]( "Russian shopping mall fire") A total of 64 people some of them children perished in a fire that ravaged a busy shopping mall in an industrial city in Siberia, as rescue teams Monday struggled through piles of charred rubble to recover bodies.
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| Pulse Nightclub Shooter's Father Revealed As Former FBI Informant Posted: 26 Mar 2018 05:52 AM PDT  ORLANDO ― Lawyers for Noor Salman called for the case against her to be
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| Gunmaker Remington files for bankruptcy Posted: 25 Mar 2018 08:49 PM PDT  US gunmaker Remington filed for bankruptcy on Sunday, as the more than 200-year-old firearms manufacturer vies to restructure its massive debts. "Directors have determined that it is advisable and in the best interests of the Company that the Company file, or cause to be filed, a Voluntary Petition commencing the Chapter 11 Case," the bankruptcy filing says. Remington had announced it would file for bankruptcy in February, just two days before a shooting at a Parkland, Florida high school killed 17 people and reignited a national debate on gun control.
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| Cambridge Analytica Sent Foreigners To Work On U.S. Elections, Former Employees Say Posted: 25 Mar 2018 10:01 PM PDT  Cambridge Analytica, the data firm at the center of a scandal about misused
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| How rightwingers have attacked Parkland students with lies, hoaxes and smears Posted: 26 Mar 2018 12:54 PM PDT  Emma Gonzalez, a shooting survivor from Parkland, Florida, cries as she addresses the 'March for Our Lives'. The first and most repugnant strategy was to directly attack high-profile campaigners, especially students David Hogg and Emma Gonzalez. Running short of reasoned arguments, many attempted to push conservative buttons with high impact visuals.
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| Malaysia's Answer to 'Fake News'? Proposed Legislation Calls for 10-Year Prison Sentences Posted: 26 Mar 2018 12:30 AM PDT  Critics say the law is meant to crack down on dissent ahead of elections
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| Parent Close To Austin Bomber's Family Lashes Out At Portrayal Of Killer's Bible Study Group Posted: 26 Mar 2018 12:39 PM PDT  AUSTIN, Texas ― In the hours after Mark Anthony Conditt blew himself up,
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| White House responds to claims that Stormy Daniels was threatened Posted: 26 Mar 2018 01:03 PM PDT  During a press briefing at the White House on Monday, March 26, Deputy Press Secretary Raj Shah responded to claims that Stormy Daniels was threatened.
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| Trump and European leaders expel more than 100 Russian diplomats in response to spy poisoning Posted: 26 Mar 2018 07:09 AM PDT  More than 100 Russian diplomats have been hit by a wave of expulsions across Europe and North America in response to the poisoning of a former spy in Salisbury. The Trump administration was among 24 Western governments to order the removal of staff on Monday, with 60 Russian diplomats asked to leave the US alongside the closure of Russia's consulate in Seattle. In the sternest move yet against Russia since he became President, Donald Trump's White House said it was working with Nato allies to punish Russia for its suspected poisoning of Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia and the "unacceptably high" number of Russian spies in the US.
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| 'Mad Mike Hughes' Injured in Crash of Homemade Rocket During Mission to Prove Earth Is Flat Posted: 26 Mar 2018 11:20 AM PDT  He has reportedly spent 10 years building the rocket to prove his longstanding belief that the earth is not round.
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| Parents Threw Hot Oil On Teen For Refusing Forced Marriage, Cops Say Posted: 26 Mar 2018 07:51 AM PDT  A teenager whose disappearance from her San Antonio, Texas, high school
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| As Uber bows out to Grab, drivers and riders bemoan loss of choice Posted: 26 Mar 2018 06:12 AM PDT  A mix of concern and disappointment met Uber Technologies Inc's deal to sell its Southeast Asian business to bigger regional rival Grab, as drivers and users of the ride-hailing firms took in the prospect of sharply reduced competition. Grab said the Uber acquisition accelerated its path to profitability in its core transport business, as it would become the most cost-efficient Southeast Asian platform. Rennu Mahajan, who has driven a combined three-and-a-half years for both companies in Singapore, said some of her driver friends were concerned because now they would not be able to switch to the other app.
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| 6.4 quake off eastern Indonesia, tsunami alert lifted: seismic monitors Posted: 25 Mar 2018 02:32 PM PDT  A 6.4 magnitude earthquake struck off eastern Indonesia in the early hours of Monday, triggering a brief tsunami alert that was swiftly lifted, according to seismic monitoring organisations. The quake struck deep at some 171 kilometres (106 miles) below the surface of the earth in the Banda Sea, the US Geological Survey said. A tsunami alert was initially triggered by the Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning and Mitigation System (IOTWMS).
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| North Korea buying time to develop nuclear weapons, says Trump's new security adviser John Bolton Posted: 26 Mar 2018 01:13 AM PDT  Incoming US national security adviser John Bolton on Sunday vowed to maintain a hardline stance in upcoming negotiations with North Korea, warning that Pyongyang was only coming to the table in an effort to buy time to develop its nuclear weapons programme. In his first interview since his nomination, Mr Bolton told the Cats Roundtable radio show that preparations were already underway for a historic US-North Korea summit, which should take place sooner rather than later to prevent Pyongyang from finalising missiles capable of striking the US. "I think we have to look at what North Korea's motivation is here," he cautioned. "They've got a very limited number of things that they need to do in North Korea to make their nuclear warheads actually deliverable on targets in the United States so they want to try to slow roll the negotiations to buy more time," Mr Bolton said. "Although it's certainly true that the normal route is months and months and months of preparation, that would simply play into the North Korean playbook, what they've done many times before," he continued. The talks should be a "straightforward" discussion, Mr Bolton added. North Korean Hyon Song Wol, left, head of a North Korean art troupe, exchanges documents with her South Korean counterpart Yun Sang after a meeting at the North side of Panmunjom last week "Is North Korea going to give up its nuclear weapons, how are we going to do it, how are we going to take it out of the country? Not a theoretical discussion about these issues, but very concretely how they are going denuclearise North Korea. The sooner we get to it and cut to the chase, the better." The announcement of Mr Bolton's nomination as national security adviser on Friday gave rise to much debate over the weekend about the possible impact of his new role on a future, and unprecedented, summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump. Mr Trump surprised the world, and much of his own administration, earlier this month when he accepted an invitation to meet Mr Kim and said it would take place "by May". Pyongyang, however, has yet to formally confirm its participation. As national security adviser, Mr Bolton will hold huge sway over the White House's preparation for the talks and the tone of the meeting itself. In an interview with Radio Free Asia early last week, Mr Bolton, widely considered to be hawkish on foreign policy, said that discussions at the proposed summit should be similar to those that led to components of Libya's nuclear programme being shipped to the US in 2004. North Korean missile ranges "Let's have this conversation by May, or even before that, and let's see how serious North Korea really is," he said. "If they're not prepared to have that kind of serious discussion, it could actually be a very short meeting." But Mr Bolton's long-time tough approach to foreign policy could lead to a breakdown in the recent diplomatic détente with Pyongyang that was forged during the Winter Olympics, fear some North Korea analysts. In the early 2000s, after a trading of insults between Mr Bolton and Pyongyang, the North Koreans refused to negotiate if he was at the table, pointed out Ankit Panda, senior editor at The Diplomat magazine. In the recent past, Mr Bolton has publicly supported the idea of regime change, and laid out the legal case for striking North Korea first. "Bolton... is a vehement proponent of preventative war. His appointment does not bode well for a successful first US-North Korea summit," Mr Panda told the Telegraph. Others have warned that the failure of the high-stake talks would increase the chances of military action. "People are genuinely nervous," said Robert Kelly, professor of political science at South Korea's Busan University, adding that the North Koreans may be more hesitant to join talks with Mr Bolton in the room. "The North Koreans still haven't technically accepted the summit… I wonder if this is going to deter them from accepting it all."
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| Congress Sours on Saudi Arabia Posted: 26 Mar 2018 12:51 PM PDT  While the White House fetes the kingdom's crown prince, lawmakers are running out of patience with Riyadh's catastrophic war in Yemen.
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| Thousands on March for Our Lives gun control rally sign up to vote for first time: 'We will vote them out' Posted: 25 Mar 2018 04:59 AM PDT  Activists at gun control marches across America have signed up thousands of first-time voters pledging to eject lawmakers who oppose stricter firearms laws. Voter registration advocates were out in force as hundreds of thousands of people took part in more than 800 March for Our Lives rallies held across the US on Saturday. Organisers of the drive were aiming to sign up 25,000 young voters in favour of tougher gun control laws ahead of mid-term Congressional elections in eight months' time.
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| Utah Just Passed America’s First ‘Free-Range Parenting’ Law Posted: 26 Mar 2018 04:33 AM PDT  Utah has legalized a controversial child-rearing method known as "free-range
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| Iowa family died of gas asphyxiation at Mexican resort Posted: 25 Mar 2018 01:26 PM PDT  MEXICO CITY (AP) — Autopsies indicate an Iowa couple and their two children died from inhaling toxic gas at a rented condo on Mexico's Caribbean coast, but there was no sign of foul play or suicide, Mexican authorities said Saturday.
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| Deadliest fires in Russia in the past decade Posted: 26 Mar 2018 02:38 AM PDT  A fire that killed dozens in Siberia is the latest in a number of deadly blazes in Russia, where many buildings are in a poor state and safety measures lax. Here is a list of the deadliest fires in Russia over the past 10 years. The blaze is thought to have been caused by a broken lamp in a room containing large quantities of flammable liquids and paper products.
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| Sen. Mark Warner: Facebook Not Being Fully Forthcoming About Data Leak Posted: 25 Mar 2018 10:42 AM PDT  Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), the senior Democrat on the Senate Intelligence
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| Last Syrian rebels in Ghouta negotiate as others bussed away Posted: 26 Mar 2018 09:44 AM PDT  The last rebel group fighting in Syria's eastern Ghouta said on Monday it was still trying to negotiate an end to the army's assault, dismissing a Russian report that it was ready to leave the stronghold near Damascus. All other insurgent groups there have agreed to surrender their territory in deals mediated by the government's ally Moscow, bringing President Bashar al-Assad to the cusp of his biggest victory over the rebels in more than a year. "The negotiations are still ongoing without reaching a final agreement till this moment," said spokesman Hamza Birqdar in a social media message.
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| Tiffany Haddish Extols Virtues Of Drinking Poisonous Turpentine Posted: 26 Mar 2018 10:25 AM PDT  Tiffany Haddish may be hilarious, but she's apparently not joking about a
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| Toyota announces end of Avensis production Posted: 26 Mar 2018 08:10 AM PDT  It's a big decision for a vehicle manufacturer to call time on a longstanding model in its range, so Toyota's decision to end production of its British-built Avensis could have repercussions for other midsize sedan cars in Europe. Both in Europe and across the Atlantic in America, sedan cars from many brands are struggling to remain relevant in the face of the unrelenting sales onslaught from crossovers and SUVs. In North America the Dodge Dart and Chrysler 200 have already bitten the dust, and the likes of the Ford Fusion could be next in the firing line.
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| The Latest: Stormy Daniels now suing Trump's attorney Posted: 26 Mar 2018 02:36 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on adult film star Stormy Daniels and Donald Trump (all times local):
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| Six victories for the gun control movement since the Parkland massacre Posted: 26 Mar 2018 10:55 AM PDT  Two days after the largest demonstration against gun violence in the US, the movement to prevent gun violence continues to build momentum – this time in New Jersey, where lawmakers are voting on a stack of stricter gun control laws on Monday. Teenagers at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school have reinvigorated the movement after 17 people were killed at their school last month. On Monday, New Jersey's governor, Phil Murphy, vowed to sign into law six pieces of gun control legislation, including a ban on armour-piercing bullets and a bill to make it tougher to obtain a handgun permit, if they are passed by the state legislature.
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| Pastor Robert Jeffress shares a Palm Sunday message Posted: 25 Mar 2018 04:37 AM PDT  A message for Americans on Palm Sunday from the senior pastor at First Baptist Dallas.
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| China in military drills to ‘prepare for war’ as British frigate due to sail through contested South China Sea Posted: 26 Mar 2018 01:26 AM PDT  China's air force and navy have announced drills in the South China Sea to help develop preparedness for war, military leaders said, after the British defence secretary indicated the UK would sail a warship through the disputed region. The Chinese military's latest fighters and bombers were involved in the exercises over the disputed region, as China continues to flex its muscles on the world stage. The drills come after Xi Jinping, the Chinese president, gave a nationalist speech last week when he warned of Beijing's willingness to fight a "bloody battle" against its enemies. They also come after Gavin Williamson, British Defence Secretary, said last month that the HMS Sutherland, an anti-submarine frigate, would sail through the South China Sea to assert freedom of navigation rights. The drills took place over the weekend Credit: Barcroft/Xinhua The warship was expected to make the patrol during March. However, Chinese military officials said its recently announced drills were not aimed towards any country. China's airforce carried out a "high-sea training mission" in the West Pacific and a joint combat patrol mission in the South China Sea, according to the airforce's social media account, which did not say when the drills took place. The exercises tested China's latest military hardware, such as its H-6K bombers and Su-30 and Su-35 fighters. Meanwhile, the PLA Navy also said last Friday it was planning to hold drills in the South China Sea to test the navy's "combat readiness". The Air Force said on its social media account that the exercises were "rehearsals for future wars and are the most direct preparation for combat." Meanwhile, Chen Liang, commander of a naval air force, said: "Pilots will all march ahead without fear, no matter how complicated the drill environments are and how unfamiliar the drill regions are. "They always maintain mentally prepared for wars," he told the Chinese language website of the Global Times newspaper. The exercises tested China's latest military hardware, such as its H-6K bombers and Su-30 and Su-35 fighters Credit: Barcroft/Xinhua China claims nearly all of the strategic South China Sea, despite partial counter-claims from Taiwan and several south-east Asian nations including the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia, and Vietnam. Observers say China is developing its military capabilities by fortifying and building infrastructure on what were previously reefs and partially-submerged islets in the sea, where more than $5 trillion (£3.8 trillion) of trade passes every year. The US Navy has conducted a series of freedom of navigation patrols in the region. The latest, last Friday, saw a US Navy destroyer come within 12 nautical miles of an artificial island China has built in the South China Sea, sparking anger from Beijing. Additional reporting by Christine Wei
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| Opposing NBA Teams Unite To Wear Shirts Honoring Stephon Clark Posted: 26 Mar 2018 10:31 AM PDT  The Boston Celtics played the hometown Kings in Sacramento, California, on
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| Israeli interceptors deployed against machine gun fire, not rockets: army Posted: 25 Mar 2018 03:40 PM PDT ![Israeli interceptors deployed against machine gun fire, not rockets: army]( "Israeli interceptors deployed against machine gun fire, not rockets: army") By Ori Lewis JERUSALEM (Reuters) - Israel's Iron Dome anti-missile shield was launched on Sunday against Palestinian machine gun fire originating in the Hamas-dominated Gaza Strip, and not against incoming militant rockets, the Israeli army said. Flaming streams of about 10 Iron Dome rockets could be seen rising into the night sky in a spectacular light show, but there was no indication that Islamist militants in Gaza had fired rockets, a military spokeswoman said.
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| Mugabe's wife Grace under probe for ivory smuggling Posted: 25 Mar 2018 03:59 AM PDT  Zimbabwean police are investigating former ruler Robert Mugabe's wife Grace, accused of smuggling ivory worth millions to underground foreign markets, a state-owned weekly reported Sunday. Police spokeswoman Charity Charamba confirmed receiving a report but declined to elaborate when questioned by AFP. The Sunday Mail said the report accused Grace Mugabe of ordering officials to grant her permits to export the ivory as gifts to the leaders of various countries.
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| BMW iX3 Concept Rumored For Beijing Debut In April Posted: 25 Mar 2018 04:27 PM PDT  The iX3 would be BMW's third offering under its electrified sub-brand.
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| Portraits of Egypt's leader fill iconic Cairo Square Posted: 25 Mar 2018 07:18 AM PDT  CAIRO (AP) — Seven years ago, Cairo's Tahrir Square was filled with tens of thousands of Egyptians demanding change. Now it is plastered with portraits of the president, vowing continuity.
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| Hero Dog Saves Man From Drowning in River Posted: 26 Mar 2018 08:36 AM PDT  The man had already been in the water for nearly an hour.
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| French police investigate possible anti-Semitic murder as elderly woman stabbed and burned Posted: 26 Mar 2018 12:43 PM PDT  French prosecutors on Monday said they were treating the murder of an 85-year-old Jewish woman stabbed and burned in her Paris home as an anti-Semitic attack. Mireille Knoll, a Holocaust survivor who escaped a mass roundup of Jews in Paris in the Second World War, was found dead last Friday in her flat in Paris' eastern 11th arrondissement, where she lived alone. She had been stabbed repeatedly before the apartment was set on fire, the autopsy revealed. Firemen managed to put out the blaze. Two men have been arrested over her killing. They face possible charges of "murder related to the victim's religion, real or imagined" as well as aggravated robbery and destruction of property, a judicial source confirmed. Both have been remanded in custody. "We are really in shock. I don't understand how someone could kill a woman who has no money and who lives in a social housing complex," her son added. The other suspect is a homeless man known to police, Le Parisien reported. Working definition | Anti-Semitism Jean-Yves Le Drian, the French foreign minister who happened to be in Jerusalem on Monday, said it was "plausible" that Mrs Knoll was murdered because of her religion. France, he added, was engaged in a "fundamental and permanent" fight against anti-Semitism. The chief rabbi of Paris, Haim Korsia, wrote on Twitter that he was "horrified" by the killing. Investigators had not mentioned anti-Semitism on Sunday but added that they were "not excluding any hypothesis". The Protection Service for the Jewish Community, SPCJ, a body which keeps close watch an anti-Semitic acts in France, had earlier said: "The investigation does not reveal any anti-Semitic elements, however, this path has not been ruled out to date and needs to be further explored." Mrs Knoll had managed to evade the notorious 1942 roundup of more than 13,000 Jews in Paris by fleeing with her mother to Portugal thanks to her Brazilian passport. All but 100 or so of those seized at the so-called Vel d'Hiv cycling track and then sent to the Nazi death camps survived. Mrs Knoll had returned to Paris after the war and married a Holocaust survivor, who died in the early 2000s. Holocaust Survivors | The stories of those who escaped from Nazi clutches Anti-Semitic violence increased by 26 percent last year in France, which has Europe's biggest Jewish community, and criminal damage to Jewish places of worship and burials increased by 22 percent. Last month, a judge confirmed that the April 2017 murder of Sarah Halimi, a 65-year-old Orthodox Jewish woman who was beaten and thrown out of her window, was motivated by anti-Semitism. Amid shouts of "Allah Akbar", her attacker beat Halimi before throwing her out of the window. There had been an outcry when prosecutors had initially ruled out anti-Semitism. In January an eight-year-old boy wearing the Jewish skullcap was beaten up by two teenagers in the northern Paris suburb of Sarcelles in what prosecutors said appeared to be attack motivated by the child's religion. A record 7,900 French Jews emigrated to Israel in 2015 following the deadly jihadist shooting at a Parisian kosher supermarket two days after the attack on satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo. That exodus has since slowed. The CRIF umbrella grouping of French Jewish organisations called for "the fullest transparency" over Mrs Knoll's murder, which it called a "barbaric crime". At an annual dinner organised by the group last month, President Emmanuel Macron slammed anti-Semitism as "France's dishonour" and pledged never to let up the fight against the phenomenon.
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| Four things that make Symphony of the Seas a truly unique cruise ship Posted: 26 Mar 2018 05:14 AM PDT  Royal Caribbean's latest Oasis-class cruise ship, Symphony of the Seas, left France's Saint-Nazaire shipyard Saturday, March 24, for Spain, where it will homeport for sailing the Mediterranean this summer before heading to the Caribbean. Although the ship is yet to enter service, it already holds the title of world's largest cruise ship ... until another supersized vessel comes along, of course. As the world's largest cruise ship, Symphony of the Seas is obviously unique in size.
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| 'Vote them out!': Thousands register to vote at U.S. gun-control marches Posted: 24 Mar 2018 06:10 PM PDT  By Katanga Johnson WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Voter registration activists fanned out among young Americans who marched for tighter gun laws on Saturday, signing up thousands of first-time voters who vowed to eject lawmakers who oppose gun controls. With mid-term Congressional elections eight months away, the activists flocked to some 800 marches across the country to enroll young voters likely to back Democratic and independent candidates who tend to favor tougher firearms laws. In Washington, volunteers for the HeadCount voter-registration effort raised their fists and chanted "demonstration without registration leads to frustration" before heading out with clipboards to sign up some of the nation's newest voters.
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| Nigerian town awaits release of Christian girl held by Boko Haram Posted: 25 Mar 2018 03:03 AM PDT  Residents of the Nigerian town of Dapchi were hoping Sunday for the release of the last schoolgirl, who is also a Christian, from among a group of more than 100 kidnapped and released by Islamists, following encouraging indications from authorities. "There is so much expectation in the town following the news that the last remaining girl will be released," Kachalla Bukar, father of one of the schoolgirls recently freed, told AFP late Saturday by phone from the town in the northeastern state of Yobe. National police chief Ibrahim Idris told reporters Saturday in Maiduguri, capital of neighbouring Borno State, the girl "may be released today".
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| 2019 Honda Insight revealed, promises 50 MPG or better Posted: 26 Mar 2018 07:00 AM PDT  The Japanese automaker on Monday revealed a handsome redesign for the Insight, whose formal debut takes place Wednesday at the 2018 New York auto show. A thinly veiled prototype was shown in January during the 2018 Detroit auto show. The new Insight, which reaches showrooms in the summer as a 2019 model, represents the third iteration of Honda's hybrid nameplate.
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| What's causing orange snow in parts of Europe? Posted: 26 Mar 2018 08:23 AM PDT  The snow in parts of Europe turned orange due to a sandstorm thousands of miles away in the Sahara Desert of Northern Africa.
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