| Chinese space station falling back to Earth Posted: 01 Apr 2018 09:04 AM PDT  Tiangong-1, China's first space station, is spinning out of control and, experts say, will crash to earth soon. The chances of getting hit by the 19,000 pound object? About one in a trillion.
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| White House Walks Back Claim That David Shulkin Resigned Posted: 02 Apr 2018 05:53 AM PDT  The White House on Monday changed its story about David Shulkin's departure
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| Family's Fatal Cliff Car Crash Likely Was Intentional, Police Say Posted: 02 Apr 2018 03:53 AM PDT  A week after a mysterious car crash killed at least six members of a
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| Study: This is the star sign most likely to become a CEO Posted: 02 Apr 2018 12:41 PM PDT  Whether you're a loyal daily horoscope checker or a complete skeptic, it's
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| Paddleboarder Critically Injured In Shark Attack Near Hawaii Beach Posted: 01 Apr 2018 05:40 PM PDT  A 25-year-old man paddleboarding off a beach in Hawaii was rushed to a local
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| Trump Threatens ‘No more DACA Deal’ in Sunday Tweets Posted: 01 Apr 2018 08:57 AM PDT  President Trump claimed people are coming through Mexico to take advantage of DACA, or Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals, when speaking to reporters and later threatened to end the Obama-era policy in a tweet.
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| Older Ford Mustang Hits 150 MPH, Colorado Police End Pursuit Posted: 01 Apr 2018 02:28 PM PDT  Obviously, don't try this at home – or on the highway.
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| Winnie Mandela, former wife of Nelson Mandela, dies at 81 Posted: 02 Apr 2018 10:35 AM PDT ![Winnie Mandela, former wife of Nelson Mandela, dies at 81]( "Winnie Mandela, former wife of Nelson Mandela, dies at 81") Winnie Mandela, the former wife of South African anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela, died on Monday at the age of 81, triggering an outpouring of tributes to one of the country's defining and most divisive figures.
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| Turkey orders arrest of cleric Gulen over killing of Russian envoy Posted: 02 Apr 2018 09:09 AM PDT  Turkey has ordered the arrest of the Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen and seven others over the 2016 assassination of the Russian envoy to Turkey, the Haberturk newspaper said on Monday, a day before Russian President Vladimir Putin visits the country.
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| Kellyanne Conway Is Biggest White House Leaker, Says Author Of New Book Posted: 01 Apr 2018 06:55 PM PDT  The author of the latest book on President Donald Trump's White House claims
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| British and American soldiers killed in Syria were on mission to capture Isil member, Pentagon says Posted: 02 Apr 2018 12:41 PM PDT  A British and an American soldier killed in Syria last week were on a secret mission to kill or capture a member of the Islamic State of Iraq in the Levant (Isil), the Pentagon has confirmed. Master Sgt. Jonathan Dunbar, from Austin, Texas, and Sgt. Matt Tonroe, a SAS sniper from Manchester, died in an improvised explosive devise blast in Manbij, Syria. The pair was killed and five other troops wounded on March 30. Few details have been released about the circumstances, but Major Adrian Rankine-Galloway, a Pentagon spokesman, said on Monday that they died in the top secret mission. The US military has not said whether the IED was in a building, a vehicle or buried in the road. The troops were out of their vehicles at the time of the explosion, according to a US official. There is also no word on whether the target was found and captured or killed. One indicator of the sensitivity of the mission was that Dunbar was identified publicly by the Army only as being "assigned to Headquarters, U.S. Army Special Operations Command, Fort Bragg, N.C." That specific language has been used in the past when troops killed in action have actually been part of the Army's elite Delta Force, a counterterrorism unit that is not publicly identified. CNN reported that Dunbar was assigned to Delta. Delta Force and the Naval Special Warfare Development Group - popularly known as Seal Team Six - are among the so-called Tier One units that specialise in high-risk counterterrorism and hostage rescue missions that are rarely acknowledged. Special operations forces have been in the Manbij area recently looking for high-value Isil operatives that may have fled to the area, the US official said. There are currently around 2,000 US troops in Syria, who mostly work with local allies fighting Isil. On Thursday President Donald Trump said that the US would "be coming out of Syria, like, very soon". It later emerged that he had suspended the funds for a $200 million stabilisation project in the country. His remarks caught military leaders off guard, and were strongly criticised by Lindsey Graham, Republican senator for South Carolina. Mr Graham warned that pulling out of Syria now, with Isil on the run, would be "the single worst decision" that the president could make.
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| Dorian Harris Stole Beer From A Corner Store, So The Clerk Shot Him Dead: Police Posted: 02 Apr 2018 01:26 PM PDT  A corner store clerk in Memphis, Tennessee, shot a black teenager to death
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| Matt Barnes Launches Scholarship Fund For Stephon Clark's Sons Posted: 02 Apr 2018 08:41 AM PDT  Ex-NBA player Matt Barnes announced that he will be launching a scholarship
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| Exclusive: Mexican leftist has 18-point lead as campaign kicks off - poll Posted: 02 Apr 2018 02:49 AM PDT  By Christine Murray MONTERREY (Reuters) - Mexican left-wing presidential candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador has an 18-point lead ahead of the July 1 election, according to a poll published on Monday that showed him with a growing advantage at the start of formal campaigning. Lopez Obrador, who launched his campaign on Sunday, holds 38 percent of the vote, according to the poll by Parametria, published by Reuters on Monday ahead of wider distribution. A Lopez Obrador victory could usher in a Mexican government less accommodating toward the United States, where President Donald Trump has stoked trade tensions with Mexico and aggressively moved to curb immigration.
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| Opioids prescribed less in states where medical marijuana legal, studies find Posted: 02 Apr 2018 11:31 AM PDT  A woman holds the prescribed medical marijuana product used to treat her daughter's epilepsy after making a purchase at a medical marijuana dispensary in Butler, Pennsylvania. The number of opioid prescriptions for the elderly and the poor declined in states where medical marijuana is legal, two new studies have found. In one study, researchers at the University of Georgia, Athens, used data from Medicare Part D, a government-run prescription drug program for people older than 65.
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| Correction: SUV Off Cliff story Posted: 02 Apr 2018 10:50 AM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — In some versions of a story March 30 about a family killed when their SUV went off a cliff, The Associated Press linked an incorrect video. The video was of a different crash.
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| Hearts ache, anger surges after Siberian mall fire kills 64 Posted: 01 Apr 2018 12:38 PM PDT  KEMEROVO, Russia (AP) — Trapped inside a movie theater at a burning shopping center, 11-year-old Vika Pochankina made a panicked phone call to her aunt. "I'm suffocating. Tell Mama that I loved her," the girl said.
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| 2018 White House Easter Egg Roll Posted: 02 Apr 2018 08:30 AM PDT ![2018 White House Easter Egg Roll]( "2018 White House Easter Egg Roll") President Donald Trump and his wife, Melania, are hosting Monday's festivities on the South Lawn for a crowd of nearly 30,000 adults and children. That's larger than last year, Trump's first year in office, when the White House said it expected 21,000 attendees.
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| North Carolina officer shoots, kills man during traffic stop Posted: 02 Apr 2018 11:33 AM PDT  A white North Carolina police officer shot and killed a black passenger who refused orders not to reach for a gun after a late-night traffic stop led to a physical struggle, authorities said Saturday.
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| Winnie Mandela, 'mother', then 'mugger', of new South Africa Posted: 02 Apr 2018 11:32 AM PDT  By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Hailed as mother of the 'new' South Africa, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's legacy as an anti-apartheid heroine was undone when she was revealed to be a ruthless ideologue prepared to sacrifice laws and lives in pursuit of revolution and redress. The contradiction helped kill their marriage and destroyed the esteem in which she was held by many South Africans, although the firebrand activist retained the support of radical black nationalists to the end. In her twilight years, Madikizela-Mandela, who died on Monday aged 81, had frequent run-ins with authority that further undermined her reputation as a fighter against the white-minority regime that ran Africa's most advanced economy from 1948 to 1994.
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| 16 Tweets That Will Make Introverts Nod In Agreement Posted: 02 Apr 2018 12:37 PM PDT  If you're an introvert, you likely value your alone time. You think before you
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| On World Autism Awareness Day, Remember 'The Neglected End Of The Spectrum' Posted: 02 Apr 2018 02:45 AM PDT  When I hear that ping between 7 and 9 p.m., my heart leaps, because I know
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| New York passes bill to strip all guns from domestic abusers Posted: 01 Apr 2018 07:22 AM PDT  New York's governor has condemned the Trump administration's inaction on gun control as the state passed legislation banning anyone convicted of domestic violence from owning a firearm. The law will require domestic abusers to hand over any rifles, shotguns and other firearms and comes after 17 people were killed in a school shooting in Parkland, Florida. It extends gun restrictions from a 2012 bill which prohibits abusers from owning handguns.
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| 2018 Lexus RX L First Drive: More To Love Posted: 02 Apr 2018 06:02 AM PDT  Lexus added a third row to its best-selling vehicle, giving buyers even more reason to be excited.
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| Police looking at 'red flags' before California cliff crash Posted: 02 Apr 2018 05:42 PM PDT  SEATTLE (AP) — Investigators said Monday they were examining "red flags" in a Washington state family's past in hopes of explaining why their SUV went off a 100-foot cliff in an apparent suicide plunge.
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| Sinclair Broadcasting Orders Local Anchors To Record Bizarre 'Hostage' Video Posted: 01 Apr 2018 09:03 PM PDT  It's being slammed on Twitter as a "hostage" video.
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| Erdogan calls Netanyahu 'terrorist' over Gaza deaths Posted: 01 Apr 2018 06:22 AM PDT  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan accused Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday of being "a terrorist" after the Israeli prime minister rejected Ankara's "moral lessons" over deadly clashes in Gaza. "Hey Netanyahu! You are an occupier. At the same time, you are a terrorist," Erdogan said in a televised speech in Adana, southern Turkey.
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| South Korea Is Deploying Hyper-Precise Missiles to Protect Seoul from North Korea Posted: 01 Apr 2018 05:08 AM PDT  South Korea's government would like nothing better than a peaceful, no-drama relationship with North Korea, and the administration of President Moon Jae-in clearly hopes that new talks with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un may de-escalate tensions. North Korea maintain hundreds of long-range Koksan 170-millimeter self-propelled guns, and 240- and 300-millimeter multiple rocket launchers capable of striking Seoul.
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| Woman's Dream of Taking Disney Cruise Dashed as She's Turned Away Since She Was Too Pregnant Posted: 02 Apr 2018 11:41 AM PDT  Disney Cruise Lines forbids women more than 25 weeks pregnant from boarding its ships.
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| Chinese space station Tiangong-1 set to crash land on Monday Posted: 01 Apr 2018 01:51 AM PDT  Call it Apocalypse not quite Now. The Chinese space station hurtling uncontrollably towards Earth is estimated to smash into the planet a day later than expected. Tiangong-1, known as "Heavenly Palace", was due to have entered the Earth's atmosphere by Sunday afternoon but now may not arrive until Monday morning. The delay, which offers Easter celebrators a temporary reprieve, was announced by the European Space Agency [ESA}, which is monitoring the station's movements. Yet the timings remain "highly variable" and it is unclear where and in what state the abandoned craft will eventually hit. The space station, placed into orbit in 2011, was due for a controlled re-entry but stopped working in March 2016. Without its engines it is unable to change course. How China lost control of it's space station It is said to be orbiting the Earth 16 times a day and tumbling over every three minutes in a downward spiral towards our planet. Yet experts said the chance of injury from the craft to those on the ground is minimal, given it is likely to break up during re-entry. Nearly 6,000 uncontrolled re-entries of large objects have occurred over the past 60 years without harming anyone, according to the ESA. The Chinese space station Tiangong-1 or 'Heavenly Palace' Credit: Quirky China News/REX/Shutterstock The China Manned Space Engineering Office moved to play down concerns on its WeChat social media account, saying there is "no need for people to worry". A spokesman said that such falling spacecraft do "not crash into the Earth fiercely like in sci-fi movies, but turn into a splendid (meteor shower) and move across the beautiful starry sky as they race towards the Earth". Lu Kang, a spokesman for China's foreign ministry, said the country would step up efforts to coordinate with the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs as the craft approaches. During re-entry, atmospheric drag will rip away solar arrays, antennas and other external components at an altitude of around 100 kilometres (60 miles), according to the Chinese space office. A photo of the giant screen at the Jiuquan space center shows the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft approching Tiangong-1 module for the automatic docking on July 18, 2012 Credit: STR/AFP/GettyImages The intensifying heat and friction will cause the main structure to burn or blow up, and it should disintegrate at an altitude of around 80 kilometres, it said. Most fragments will dissipate in the air and a small amount of debris will fall relatively slowly before landing across hundreds of square kilometres, most likely in the ocean. One expert said the craft would break up into a "series of fireballs", adding it would be a "spectacular show".
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| Namibia president says China not colonizing Africa -China state media Posted: 31 Mar 2018 07:29 PM PDT  Namibia President Hage Geingob said China is not colonizing Africa and that growing cooperation between the world's No. 2 economy and Africa benefits both sides, China's official Xinhua News Agency reported on Saturday. The report said Geingob, currently on a state visit to China, said "comments smearing bilateral cooperation" between China and Namibia are "doomed to fail." "We are mature, we can choose our friends, we can choose what we want for, and what's good for us," Geingob said.
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| BMW Hints i3, i8 Might Not Live After This Generation Posted: 02 Apr 2018 03:10 AM PDT  A final decision is yet to be taken.
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| Fire destroys historic farm, 2 houses, kills 23 farm animals Posted: 02 Apr 2018 12:52 PM PDT  WATERBURY, Vt. (AP) — A blaze that destroyed a historic family dairy farm, including two homes, and killed 23 cows and calves was an accident, Vermont fire officials said Monday.
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| Don’t Get Married Yet If Your Partner Does These 9 Things Posted: 02 Apr 2018 09:01 AM PDT  For engaged couples with a wedding on the horizon, it's important to take
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| Bahrain makes largest oil discovery in its history Posted: 01 Apr 2018 12:10 PM PDT  Bahrain on Sunday announced it has discovered the largest oil and gas field in the history of the small kingdom, which unlike its Gulf neighbours is not energy-rich. "The new resource is forecast to contain highly significant quantities of tight (light crude) oil and deep gas, dwarfing Bahrain's current reserves," said the country's Higher Committee for Natural Resources, which is chaired by Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad. The find in the Khaleej al-Bahrain, off the west coast, was "the largest discovery of oil in the country's history", it said in a statement.
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| Teen Applies to 20 Colleges, and Gets Full Scholarships to All of Them Posted: 02 Apr 2018 11:01 AM PDT  Michael Brown is expected to make his decision by May 1.
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| Gaza toll rises to 18, Israel rejects excessive force claims Posted: 02 Apr 2018 12:50 PM PDT  GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israel's military rejected new allegations Monday of unlawful use of force against unarmed Palestinians during mass protests in Gaza last week, as the Palestinian death toll rose to 18.
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| Submarine Dog Fight: America's Virginia Class vs. Russia's New Yasen Submarine (Who Wins?) Posted: 02 Apr 2018 04:20 AM PDT  Like its Russian counterpart, a Virginia's main sonar is a spherical, bow-mounted type. Complementing them are arrays on the port and starboard flanks, also known as Light Weight Wide Aperture Arrays, comprising two banks of three fiber-optic acoustic sensors. LWWAA is particularly attuned to detecting diesel electric submarines. Rearward detection is covered by the TB-29(A) towed passive array.
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| India's lower-caste Dalits lead nationwide protests against court judgment Posted: 02 Apr 2018 03:55 AM PDT  By Suchitra Mohanty NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Protesters led by India's lower-caste Dalit community on Monday set fire to police posts and blocked railway tracks as they opposed a Supreme Court ruling that bars immediate arrest of individuals accused of discriminating against them, media said. Dalits are at the bottom of India's ancient caste hierarchy and form about a quarter of the population. Some protesters carried banners demanding a nationwide shutdown, while others held placards saying the judgment was diluting the law.
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| Florida man finds 11-foot alligator swimming in his pool Posted: 01 Apr 2018 10:56 AM PDT  A Florida homeowner found a surprise visitor in his swimming pool Friday night - an 11-foot alligator floating in the water.
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| The 10 Most Popular Instagram Recipes From March 2018 Posted: 02 Apr 2018 02:45 AM PDT  March is supposed to come in like a lion and out like a lamb. But in the world
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| Elon Musk makes light of Tesla's woes in April 1 Twitter prank Posted: 01 Apr 2018 10:00 PM PDT  Elon Musk, the flamboyant boss of Tesla and SpaceX, took to Twitter on April Fool's day to joke the electric car-maker, which has been rocked by bad news, was going bankrupt. "Despite intense efforts to raise money, including a last-ditch mass sale of Easter Eggs, we are sad to report that Tesla has gone completely and totally bankrupt. It has lost about a quarter of its share value since the end of February, and is also currently under investigation by the US National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) following a fatal accident involving one of its cars in California on March 23rd.
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| China fires back at Donald Trump by imposing tariffs on 128 US imports worth a total of $3bn Posted: 02 Apr 2018 04:13 AM PDT  Donald Trump's protectionist measures have sparked fears of an all-out trade war after China retaliated by imposing tariffs of up to 25 per cent on 128 US imports worth a total of $3bn. Hours before US stock markets opened on Monday, the Chinese began enforcing the new tariffs on American imports including pork and scrap aluminium.
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