| Mueller probing Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's role in Trump deals Posted: 05 Apr 2018 01:19 PM PDT  Kevin Hall, a senior investigative reporter for McClatchy who broke tonight's story about Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation looking into Michael Cohen and the Trump Organization, joins Lawrence O'Donnell.
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| Protesters Demand Justice For Saheed Vassell, Unarmed Black Man Shot By Cops In NYC Posted: 05 Apr 2018 05:17 PM PDT  Hundreds of people rallied in New York City on Thursday evening to call for
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| Trump makes headlines on another unpredictable day in office Posted: 05 Apr 2018 03:42 PM PDT  The real first sign that Thursday was going to be a particularly tumultuous day for Donald Trump came at the start of what was billed to be a West Virginia roundtable about tax reform.
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| Daughter of ex-Russian spy gives first statement after nerve agent poisoning Posted: 05 Apr 2018 09:04 AM PDT  Yulia Skripal thanked her doctors in a statement, as Russia continues to deny responsibility for the attack on her and her father.
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| Body Of CDC Scientist Missing Since February Found In Georgia River Posted: 05 Apr 2018 02:39 PM PDT  A Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientist who mysteriously
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| Black And Brown Parkland Students Want You To Hear Their 'Stories Untold' Posted: 06 Apr 2018 02:49 PM PDT  > This is an open invitation for those who have been a victim of gun violence.
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| Search for missing children in California crash continues amid new evidence Posted: 05 Apr 2018 09:01 AM PDT  "I'm to the point where I'm no longer calling it an accident," said a Mendocino County Sheriff. "I'm calling it a crime."
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| Democrats hope teacher strikes will mobilize support for midterms Posted: 05 Apr 2018 07:00 AM PDT  With public school teachers taking a stand over low pay and dwindling education budgets in several Republican majority states, Democrats are sensing another opportunity to make inroads in the 2018 midterm elections.
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| Brazil jaguars find safe haven from floods in rainforest trees Posted: 05 Apr 2018 09:19 AM PDT ![Brazil jaguars find safe haven from floods in rainforest trees]( "Brazil jaguars find safe haven from floods in rainforest trees") Brazilian jaguars, imperiled by hunters, ranchers and destruction of their habitat, have learned to survive at least one menace — flooding in the Amazon. They take to the trees!
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| Virgin Galactic tests rocket ship, three years after fatal accident Posted: 05 Apr 2018 11:50 PM PDT  At about 8 a.m. local time, The VMS Eve carrier plane took off from Mojave, California, carrying SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity before releasing it 46,500 feet (14,000 m) above ground, Virgin Galactic said in a statement. "Space feels tantalisingly close now," Branson Tweeted after the test flight.
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| Philippines to close Boracay resort to tourists for six months Posted: 04 Apr 2018 10:27 PM PDT  The Philippines has announced its best-known holiday island Boracay will be closed to tourists for six months over concerns that the once idyllic white-sand resort has become a "cesspool" tainted by dumped sewage. Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the shutdown to start April 26, his spokesman Harry Roque said late Wednesday on Twitter, without providing further detail. Boracay has some 500 tourism-related businesses, which had a combined annual revenue of 56 billion pesos ($1.07 billion) last year.
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| Ghouta evacuation stalls over differences among Syria rebels Posted: 05 Apr 2018 01:16 PM PDT  Al-Wafideen (Syria) (AFP) - Evacuations of rebels and civilians from the last opposition pocket in Syria's Eastern Ghouta stalled on Thursday as divisions continued within the Islamist faction that holds the area, state media said. A convoy of 20 buses organised by the government had entered the former rebel bastion's main town of Douma to prepare for a fourth day of evacuations but later pulled back to the town's outskirts, an AFP correspondent said. Syria's state news agency SANA said the buses left Douma due to "differences between" rebels and "in order to let them sort out by themselves these differences".
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| Trump Resists Mounting Pressure To Fire Scandal-Struck EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Posted: 06 Apr 2018 12:20 PM PDT  President Donald Trump signaled his support for Scott Pruitt on Friday,
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| Woman Who Says Mormon Church Failed To Discipline Her Abuser Files Lawsuit Posted: 05 Apr 2018 06:45 PM PDT  A woman who accused a former Mormon leader of rape filed a civil lawsuit
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| Sheryl Sandberg speaks out on Facebook data breach scandal Posted: 05 Apr 2018 08:58 AM PDT  After the company disclosed that as many as 87 million people could have been impacted, COO Sheryl Sandberg defended the company and echoed CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who said a fix would take at least three years.
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| Crews recover pilot's body in South Korean fighter jet crash Posted: 05 Apr 2018 06:36 AM PDT  SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Searchers recovered the body of a South Korean pilot who was killed Thursday when his F-15K fighter jet crashed into a mountain in the country's rural south, the air force said. Workers planned to resume their search Friday for the co-pilot, who was also presumed dead.
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| America vs. China in South China Sea: Aircraft Carrier Face-Off Now In the Cards? Posted: 06 Apr 2018 06:28 AM PDT  China's only aircraft carrier in service, the Liaoning, is now in the South China Sea for a six-day drill that began on Thursday, state papers have confirmed. Reuters has also reported that the Liaoning strike group has sailed into waters close to the southern province of Hainan, flanked by 40 other warships and submarines, as seen in a satellite image. Observers believe these vessels may be from the People's Liberation Army Navy's three major fleets, as Beijing wants a variety of vessels from different naval command regions to sail with the Liaoning to hone their inter-fleet interoperability.
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| Bizarre Videos May Provide Clues About YouTube Shooter Nasim Aghdam's Motive Posted: 05 Apr 2018 12:58 AM PDT  Authorities settle on a theory that she was angry about YouTube policies
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| Atlantic Fires Kevin Williamson After Suddenly Realizing He Believes The Things He Says Posted: 05 Apr 2018 11:41 AM PDT  In an email to his staff Thursday afternoon, The Atlantic's editor-in-chief,
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| Stranger finds young girl’s letter to late father, helps her achieve a dream Posted: 05 Apr 2018 09:09 AM PDT  After the death of her father, 11-year-old Emily started writing a yearly letter and sending it skyward to him with a balloon. After one was found miles away, the kindness of a stranger helped Emily accomplish her dream.
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| Trump Claims Without Evidence That Millions Of People Are Voting Illegally In California Posted: 05 Apr 2018 02:08 PM PDT  President Donald Trump claimed Thursday that millions of people were voting
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| Eighty-six US teenagers have been killed by gun violence in the 50 days since Parkland, Florida school shooting Posted: 05 Apr 2018 11:19 AM PDT  At least 86 teenagers have been killed by bullets in America in the 50 days since the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting in Parkland, Florida. Taken together, the stories of the dead paint a tragic portrait of gun violence that threatens teenagers across the United States. Data detailing accidental discharges, domestic violence, robberies gone awry and a number of other events, appears random in its geography and the cultural class affected, but chillingly predictable in the volume year after year.
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| Thunderbirds pilot killed when F-16 crashes during training flight in Nevada, Air Force says Posted: 05 Apr 2018 02:51 AM PDT  Thunderbirds pilot killed when F-16 crashes during training flight in Nevada, Air Force says.
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| Air strikes return to Syria's Ghouta killing 40 as talks sputter Posted: 06 Apr 2018 02:33 PM PDT  Air strikes killed 40 civilians in the last opposition-held town in Syria's Eastern Ghouta on Friday and the army launched a ground offensive on its outskirts after talks sputtered over a rebel withdrawal. Backed by Russia, Syrian troops have captured nearly all of the one-time opposition stronghold of Ghouta with a combination of ferocious bombing raids and negotiated withdrawals. All that remained was its largest town of Douma, held by the Jaish al-Islam Islamist faction and home to tens of thousands of people.
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| 3,000 Google employees 'sign letter protesting company’s work with the Pentagon' Posted: 05 Apr 2018 10:09 AM PDT  More than 3,000 Google employees have reportedly signed a letter protesting the company's work with the Pentagon that could help with drone strikes. The letter, obtained by The New York Times, includes the line: "We believe that Google should not be in the business of war". Dozens of senior engineers have added their name to the letter, which has been circulating internally for weeks. It calls on the company to stop working on Project Maven, a Pentagon pilot programme that uses artificial intelligence to analyse video imagery. Those signing the letter, which is addressed to Sundar Pichai, the Google chief executive, also want a promise that the company will never "build warfare technology". The clash emphasises the challenges Google faces to live up to its motto – "don't be evil" – in a world of rapidly advancing technology. The letter has reportedly garnered more than 3,100 signatures from Google's 70,000-strong workforce. One section quoted by The New York Times warns that embracing military work could put off other customers. "This plan will irreparably damage Google's brand and its ability to compete for talent," the letter says. "Amid growing fears of biased and weaponised AI [artificial intelligence], Google is already struggling to keep the public's trust." Another part reads: "The argument that other firms, like Microsoft and Amazon, are also participating doesn't make this any less risky for Google. "Google's unique history, its motto Don't Be Evil, and its direct reach into the lives of billions of users set it apart." Google said in a statement to The New York Times that Project Maven is using "open-source object recognition software available to any Google Cloud customer". It added: "The technology is used to flag images for human review and is intended to save lives and save people from having to do highly tedious work." The company also said the project was "specifically scoped to be for non-offensive purpose".
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| Ex-teacher pleads guilty to fleeing with Tennessee student Posted: 05 Apr 2018 07:43 PM PDT  NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A Tennessee teacher who set off a nationwide manhunt last year after he fled with a 15-year-old student broke down in court after pleading guilty to crossing state lines to have sex with a minor.
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| The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week Posted: 06 Apr 2018 11:53 AM PDT  Kids may say the darndest things, but parents tweet about them in the funniest
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| U.S. military cancels training exercise near Djibouti after aircraft mishaps Posted: 05 Apr 2018 12:32 PM PDT ![U.S. military cancels training exercise near Djibouti after aircraft mishaps]( "U.S. military cancels training exercise near Djibouti after aircraft mishaps") The U.S. military has canceled a training exercise off the coast of Djibouti and paused air operations from the country after two air mishaps this week raised questions about the state of military readiness, U.S. officials said on Thursday. "U.S. air operations in Djibouti are on hold and U.S. Naval Forces Central Command has canceled the remainder of exercise Alligator Dagger in response to two separate aviation incidents in Djibouti," the military said in a statement.
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| Researcher kills four staff at Turkish university Posted: 05 Apr 2018 02:59 PM PDT  A researcher killed four fellow staff members in a shooting Thursday at a university in the western Turkish city of Eskisehir, in one of the deadliest incidents of its kind seen in Turkey. Deadly shootouts -- often caused by arguments that degenerate into violence -- are relatively common in Turkey. The university's rector Hasan Gonen confirmed to CNN-Turk television that four people had been killed.
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| ‘Saheed is no gunman’: hundreds protest in New York against police shooting Posted: 06 Apr 2018 06:18 AM PDT  Hundreds gather in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, to condemn the police shooting of unarmed black man Saheed Vassell. Hundreds of people have marched through the Brooklyn neighbourhood of Crown Heights to protest against police for shooting an unarmed black man. Saheed Vassell, 34, was shot and killed by police on Wednesday afternoon.
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| Pakistani prime minister in Afghanistan to ease tensions Posted: 06 Apr 2018 05:59 AM PDT  KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Pakistan's prime minister arrived in Afghanistan on Friday for a day-long visit many see as an effort to ease strained relations between the two neighbors and revive a push for peace talks with the Taliban.
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| 2018 Ford Expedition | Why Buy? Posted: 05 Apr 2018 06:00 AM PDT  A contemporary take on the hottest segment of the 90s.
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| ‘In A Dogs' World, Humans Are Elves That Routinely Live To Be 500+ Years Old’ Posted: 06 Apr 2018 04:22 AM PDT  The shower isn't just a place to sing. Separated from our cellphones, standing
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| Turkey or Kurdish YPG militia? Pick a side, Turkish minister tells France Posted: 05 Apr 2018 11:21 AM PDT  By John Irish PARIS (Reuters) - Turkey warned France on Thursday that it needed to choose who it wanted as an ally to fight Islamic State in Syria, and urged it to do what is necessary to ensure Kurdish militias leave the northern Manbij region. Relations between Ankara and Paris have been tense in recent weeks, with France increasingly criticizing the two-month-old Turkish military operation against the Kurdish YPG in northern Syria, which Turkey considers a terrorist organization That came to a head on March 30 after President Emmanuel Macron met a Syrian delegation including the YPG and its political arm, the PYD, and gave assurances of French support to help them stabilize northern Syria against Islamic State.
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| UFC president calls McGregor's actions 'disgusting' Posted: 06 Apr 2018 12:19 AM PDT  'I don't think anybody is going to be huge Conor McGregor fans after this,' White says
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| The Surprising Trend in Rug Design Doesn't Play It Safe Posted: 06 Apr 2018 02:39 PM PDT |
| Mick Mulvaney Doles Out Fat Raises To New CFPB Staffers Amid Push To Cut Costs Posted: 06 Apr 2018 05:06 AM PDT  Mick Mulvaney, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau,
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| The Latest: New Yorkers rally against police shooting Posted: 05 Apr 2018 06:50 PM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — The Latest on the fatal New York City police shooting of a man who was brandishing a metal pipe (all times local):
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| There's a whole meme community that doesn't think Mark Zuckerberg is human Posted: 05 Apr 2018 04:00 AM PDT  There's a whole subreddit poking fun at Mark Zuckerberg's supposed power complex. The Facebook CEO is currently in some hot water for the Cambridge Analytica data mining scandal, and the company has been a PR nightmare as people delete their accounts and flee the social media giant. Overall, there's a pretty universal distrust of Mark Zuckerberg right now. Comment from discussion Zuck memes horribly undervalued.. But a community of Redditors has shared that distrust for a while now — six months ago, Redditor u/SirLotsaLocks created r/ZuckMemes after positive feedback from r/MemeEconomy. According to its description, "Mark Zuckerberg is the human founder of the massive social media website called Facebook." The subreddit, which has just under 19,000 subscribers, mocks Zuckerberg's flowery, sappy posts about how he's just an average guy and instead insists that he's a robot learning to assimilate with humans. Like this post from last July. "If you eat meat, you should know where it comes from," Zuckerberg mused in a live Facebook video. He explained that he challenged himself to be vegetarian for a year unless he was involved in killing and butchering the animal himself. One of the side effects, he said, was that he got really into preparing meats himself, which is how we were blessed with this nice chat with Zuckerberg while he smoked meats in his backyard. In the livestream, Zuckerberg answered questions from commenters, discusses revolutionizing education, charmingly tried to convince his wife Priscilla to join him in the video. In the r/zuckmemes take, Zuckerberg enjoys "charring meat inside of an unpressurized vessel behind my domicile." "Once the animal carcass reaches a temperature sufficient to destroy bacteria and viruses that would pose a threat to my empire," the fake post says, "I will consume the flesh to replenish my stores of energy." In this Zuck meme, the Facebook CEO attempts to order from a food truck. "The animal's flesh was warm." How could he not be a human? Look at him eat normal toast, like a normal human! (Turn your volume up to hear the very human sound effects.) Both of these clips were modified from a video in which Zuck, aka Zucc, showed off his home named AI Jarvis. But the weirdness of the original video was ripe for the Zuck meme community. The memes also make fun of Zuckerberg's "profound" posts about interacting with underrepresented groups, like this one. Last year, Zuckerberg sat down for dinner with a group of Somali refugees in Minneapolis and wrote a poignant post about the meaning of home. "I left impressed by your strength and resilience to build a new life in an unfamiliar place," his caption said, "And you are a powerful reminder of why this country is so great." The Redditors who frequent r/zuckmemes don't see his posts as a sentimental reflection on the real meaning of America. They joke about Zuckerberg's need for power trips. In the highest rated post on r/zuckmemes, the robotic Zuck bullies an elderly Alabaman editor into eating an entire newspaper, threatening to buy out the Selma Times-Journal and turn it into an "anime fanzine." "For 43 minutes I had total power over that man," the fake posts says. "I'd never felt more alive. I bet that's what being president feels like." According to r/zuckmemes, Zuckerberg has a wild god complex. This fake Elon Musk posts talks about both tech billionaires' idea of a fun activity. For Musk, it's a jetpack paint ball fight with "Don't Stop Believing" playing in the background. For Zuckerberg, it was paying off a man's student loans in exchange for beating him. There's even a handy guide to creating Zuck memes, which involves editing Facebook in HTML to make realistic looking posts from the CEO himself. r/zuckmemes peaked in popularity about six months ago, but since the Cambridge Analytica scandal happened, people have been straying away from the usual meme format to joke about Facebook's privacy breaches. Will the god-king Mark Zuckerberg ever learn to assimilate with humans? Or will he always be a secret lizard person? Although there were rumors that Zuckerberg was seeing a behavioral therapist to appear more human, take it with a grain of salt. The Facebook CEO hasn't publicly spoken about the memes or about his public persona. Until then, Zuckerberg will continue to be the lizard robot human philanthropist, innovator and family man he says he is. r/zuckmemes, though, will for sure be keeping an eye on him. WATCH: 5 Instagram pro tips you probably didn't know about
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| Time's Up, Men: More Than 300 Women File For House Races Posted: 05 Apr 2018 07:38 PM PDT  Women serving in the House of Representatives made up only 19.6 percent of
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